Debt Free & Fat Free Wannabees??

ms_london

Hey Amos - is that all you eat in one day? 1 small meal?

I didnt realise you were a fella, sorry!! ((It suddenly dawned on me yesterday!!)) - is there pressure for men to be stick thin too then? (just curious!!).

xx

Pigeongirl

Right, you've all inspired me now! I'm going to stop feeling sorry for myself for overeating yesterday and just start afresh. Have had loads of raspberries for breakfast (as were on offer in Sainsburys) and glass of water. Can't really exercise cos of bad chest at moment but feel better already for the fresh fruit.

COME ON!!!!! :j

Oooh...far too much enthusiasm before midday...

freebird65

Hey Amos.....only one small meal a day will make your body shut down and go into starvation mode..i.e. conserving every bit of energy it can. Have something healthy for breakfast and something like fish as you mentioned for lunch or dinner and it'll speed up your metabolism and you'll lose weight easier that way. Being a bloke and needing more calories than us girlies, you should probably have 3 meals a day to be healthy...but one step at a time eh! :-)

freebird65

Go Pidgeongirl!! :T Very motivating this thread isn't it? I'm all raring to go too!:j

Mind you, I should be working....I did nothing yesterday - self employment is great until you allow yourself to be distracted!

Just noticed the bottom of this text box says "Increase Size" and "Decrease Size"....guess which one I couldn't resist clicking on!

devils_nose

Sorry to say this but it needs to be said.. eating too little can be just as detrimental to your weight loss plans as too much food. Not intaking enough calories each day can cause your metabolism to slow - making weight loss much more difficult

Dieting

Yes, one of the main causes of weight gain is dieting. Dieting makes you fat. As you reduce your food intake to lose weight, your body put itself on 'famine alert'. It gets the impression that food is scarce and therefore it slows down your metabolism to get the best use of the small amount of food it is receiving.

When you say you want to lose weight, what you actually want to lose is fat. If you lose weight rapidly, almost 25 percent of that weight loss can be made up of water, muscle and other lean tissue.

The reason for this is that your body is actually programmed to hold on to fat. So in times of what your body considers to be a 'famine', it will actually go as far as breaking down muscle and losing water in order to hold on to its fat reserves. Faddy diets suggest that you can lose up to 10 pounds in a week, but remember this: it is physically impossible to lose more than 900g (2lb) of body fat in a week.

Furthermore, if you lose weight quickly by restricting your intake and then go back to eating normally, a much higher percentage of the food you eat is laid down as fat. Why? Because your body wants to build up extra fat stores, in case this type of famine occurs again. There's also the question of metabolism. When you crash diet, your metabolism slows down to conserve energy and make the most out of the small amounts you are eating. What happens when you go back to eating normally? Well, everything you eat is being dealt with at a much slower rate and more fat is stored.

http://www.marilynglenville.com/dieting.htm <<--- my source (ok I knew it anyway but thought it would carry more weight (excuse pun) from an internet source, even though I've never heard of her)

I hate to sound preachy but I hope everyone can see this post comes only in order to help you achieve your goals If you've reached a plateau in your diet and have tried everything else.. maybe this will help restart the weight-loss?

edit: I see someone beat me to it :rolleyes:

Broken_hearted

Well done everyone who is managing to do both. I think it would send me into meltdown. Keep it up and don't forget to post your sucesses to keep others motivated. :T

amosworks

ms_london wrote:

Hey Amos - is that all you eat in one day? 1 small meal?
I didnt realise you were a fella, sorry!! ((It suddenly dawned on me yesterday!!)) - is there pressure for men to be stick thin too then? (just curious!!).
xx

Hey ho, yeah sometimes 1-2 meals a day. I can't eat big meals (I feel bloated and it just makes me feel sick and sluggish Uuuh) and I'm usually not that hungry anyway. I rarely actually eat my meal until tea time anyway, and if I have a second it's something very small in the wee hours of the morning whilst I'm working away at stuff. Atkins does that to you when you're well in to Induction - no will power required lol - you simply just don't want to eat so you don't really feel the need to eat. That's in contrast to the early stages when people usually have 5-7 meals a day (and still lose weight!) Don't get me wrong though, when in ketosis (fat burning mode where you use up your flab stores) you're kind of always eating on the inside, but I was just talking about actually making a meal. I drink lots of water (and coke :rolleyes:) too though - that's essential

I don't think there's as much pressure for men to be stick thin as probably for women, but at some of the fashionable places where the cool kids hang around, definitely. If you're the fatty you get things thrown at you or spat at and stuff. It's just kind of how it goes. Weight and size are all relative, whether you're fat or thin, big or small, depends entirely on who, where, when, etc. etc. I can think of few A-list celebs who are portly, you're simply not allowed to be as it's just not acceptable in that particular scene.

freebird65 wrote:

Hey Amos.....only one small meal a day will make your body shut down and go into starvation mode..i.e. conserving every bit of energy it can. Have something healthy for breakfast and something like fish as you mentioned for lunch or dinner and it'll speed up your metabolism and you'll lose weight easier that way. Being a bloke and needing more calories than us girlies, you should probably have 3 meals a day to be healthy...but one step at a time eh! :-)

Yes I agree, if somebody is eating too little their body think's there's a food shortage in the outside world and it does the exact opposite to what you want. But on Atkins this is different, it's all turned on it's head. My body is fed all it wants and is happy - you have to remember burning fat stores means that the body has an abundent supply of food - love handles and flabby buttocks are particularly tasty apparently When my body burns its fat stored, it produces a chemical called ketones. You usually pass these in water (and that's what can give you "Atkins breath" if you're not careful :-O lol). I use a product called Ketostix which I pass through the water and it changes colour to show me the level of ketones leaving my body. The darker the colour = the more ketones. I test twice a day and use it as a guide as to whether to drink more water, eat more fat or do more exercise.

As mentioned, in the early stage of the diet people eat A LOT of food. Hey, if you're hungry, eat! You stil lose weight though as you burn fat and your body doesn't think there's a food shortage. In fact, with all those meals, quite the opposite actually There's method in the madness

charitygirl

I want to join this! I have about 12lb to lose, before I go on holiday, but I also am measuring myself as I am going to the gym regularly, and muscle weighs more than fat!

I am on weightwatchers, full choice, lost 2 stone on it so far!

fairylights_2

thanks all! finally got my shorts on and on the rower this morning. Only seven and a half minutes today, but still ... it's a move in the right direction. If only OH hadn't bought a big box of mini eggs, I'd be safe for the day!

freebird65

amosworks wrote:

........ but at some of the fashionable places where the cool kids hang around, definitely. If you're the fatty you get things thrown at you or spat at and stuff. It's just kind of how it goes. .......

WOW that's awful......anyone who does that to another human being really isn't worth knowing. That, to me, is seriously uncool! :mad:

Is it worth hanging out in so-called cool places if that's the kind of treatment you have to put up with - surely you should be accepted for who you are and not what you look like? Hmmmm maybe that's why I've never been cool!

If you lose weight, then you should be doing it for health reasons and to feel good in yourself, and NOT to please other people. You look fab as you are Amos....I'm sure anyone who saw your pics yesterday will agree with me!