Are you having trouble transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle?

kacowgill99

If you have recently started dieting or made a healthy lifestyle change from doing everything wrong and you are having a hard time adjusting, reading the response I gave do another MFPer about getting over the hump might encourage you a bit. Note: This is my testimony from what I have experienced over the past 35 days. I know my suggestions aren't the mecca of "how to get healthy" but for a person like myself who was so used to doing all of the wrong things, this is a glimpse of making that transition in a realistic way.

I went from eating 5000-6000 calories daily to 1200 for two weeks and now I am currently eating 760 calories per day. Now before someone jumps me for eating too few calories, I need to say I am on a medically monitored Very Low Calorie Diet that uses meal replacements for weight loss. It is not a long term solution but will help me to lose the weight I need to become more active while learning to make better eating choices when I transition back to real food. What this has to do with you is, I always thought for years that I would have to continue eating as much as I was to be full and satisfied. These meal replacements have proven me wrong. I have been on this for 35 days, lost 25 lbs so far and I am seldom hungry. I usually have trouble eating all 3 meals, not because of the taste but because I am full.

Here are the important factors of my meal replacements that you may apply to your daily diet:

Limit Carbohydrate Intake to 60 g or less. This is bread, potatoes, soda, sweets, candy, anything that has a lot of sugar/starch. You can monitor this on myfitnesspal.

Your calories should have mainly protein and fat. Yes, fat is OK! Don't go overboard on Fat but in this method it is better than Carbohydrates. I would suggest chicken, lean beef (steak is fine), fish (I don't like fish), pork for your meat. Actually a bigger portion of meat is OK as long as it is within your calorie goal.

With meat being the majority of you calories, you just need to fill in the blanks with green vegetables and some fruit. Be careful with fruit as some as carbohydrates, but if used as a snack you should be OK. I like green beans and asparagus. I also like corn but limited amounts as corn is high in starch. Nuts are great too, again, in small portions. I'm not sure what you like for breakfast, but 2 fried eggs and 2 strips of bacon are perfectly acceptable. That breakfast is high in protein & fat, and very little carbs. It is a total of 260 calories.

As I mentioned above, I was eating 5000-6000 calories a day, and I was doing everything wrong. I ate bread with every meal, I loved pasta with high fat sauces, I loved potatoes and drank a lot of soda. I was in a sugar haze for 10 years, but I snapped out of it finally. The suggestions I have made above will not be easy the first few days, but if you stick with it after your body flushes all of the existing overages of carbohydrates or excess sugar, your cravings will go away and these low-calorie, nutritious foods will leave you feeling satisfied while your body taps in to your excess fat for additional energy.

I am living this right now, and still have a lot of weight to lose. But, I believe if you apply these suggestions it will help you to get over this hump.