Help me!

lulz14
lulz14 Posts: 36 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi,

I've mainly been focusing on getting my calories down, rather than quality.

I feel like my diet is terrible. E.g. there are a couple of times where I want pizza. A pizza, a whole pizza. So I'll just starve for an entire day and then eat a whole pizza. I want to binge and feel like I am close to breaking at any moment.

Should be able to see my diary, any suggestions would be appreciated. I feel like my quantity and portions are way down and I "full" on far less volume of food.

Not on there are drinks: I usually have a can of Pepsi Max each day, around 2 - 4 cups of mint green tea and approx 3L of water.

Me: female, 5'8, approx 105ish kilos, working out around 3 - 5 times a week (weights and treadmill)

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    your diary isnt open
  • ihad
    ihad Posts: 7,463 Member
    Hi!

    Your diary is private. It might help to open it up for people to look at.
  • lulz14
    lulz14 Posts: 36 Member
    Sorry, should work now;
  • ZealousMissJJ
    ZealousMissJJ Posts: 454 Member
    Question one; why do you feel the need to binge? Is this something emotional or do you just not know how to eat healthy yet?

    If you want to binge because of something that is going on inside your mind and heart, you need to sort that out first. You need to understand WHAT it is you are feeling and WHY. Learn to recognise the feeling, which will help you be more smart about your choices.

    Maybe you just binge because you're setting a diet that is too strict and you're too hungry to make good choices (been there, done that). In that case start my upping your calories for a while, and gradually lowering them. Make smart and filling choices.

    Maybe you want to follow some friends with open diaries so you can learn from what they eat. You're welcome to check out mine, although I haven't been very strickt with logging the last few weeks. I eat when I'm emotional or stressed and currently am going though some issues which have thrown me off track. However, I will be on track soon.

    Last but not least; make sure you eat some/all of your calories back from exersizing. It can leave you feeling starved and cause you to make not so smart choices.

    Good luck!
  • ZealousMissJJ
    ZealousMissJJ Posts: 454 Member
    Hi, just looked at your diary. I would be binging too if I were you!! So you're working out 3-5 days a week and eating below 1200? Also, perhaps you could better eat more low calorie snacks than one pizza that will A) use up all of your calories and B) does not offer a whole lot of nutritional value.

    :flowerforyou:
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    eat more... your goal is 1530... so you want to be 100+/- that figure!
  • danigold33
    danigold33 Posts: 1
    Hi lulz,

    my 2 cents:

    Starving yourself is the absolute worst thing you can do to your body if your aim is to lose weight. In fact it is the worst thing to do for any fitness goal out there. It puts all kinds of pressure on your metabolism, blood pressure, and general well being and worst of all it drives the body into a catabolic state which ultimately harms healthy muscle and body tissue as well as INCREASES your body's fat retention processes. Think about it: the more you starve the body the more it will be inclided to store fat as energy once it finaly receives the food.
    What you want to strive for is an anabolic state that will enable muscle tissue to receive energy and drive your metabolism.

    Furthermore you absolutely need to concerntated on the QUALITY of the calories you are taking in. Eating nutrient-dense foods along with regular excersize will go a long way towards reaching your fat loss goals.

    Keep to your daily caloric limit (make sure it's 200-500 less than your maintenance levels) while trying to limit your carbohydrate intakes to before or after you excersize and DO NOT eat starchy (simple) carbs (i.e. pizza, pasta, potatoes, etc.) before going to bed or at least 2-3 hours before if you excersize in the evenings. In fact, starchy carbs should be limited to once if not twice a week at most.
    Hope it helps.

    D

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