New food style? is it good or bad?
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Hey guys, so I decided to change my food style since I was not losing much weight and was mostly maintaining it, SO I tried the following for 2 days so far.
I ate the following:
Breakfast:
Nestle Canada - Nesquik Cereal With 125ml 2% Milk, 1 cup
Calories 240
Salad- Greek (No Pita) - Tomatoes, Black Olives, Red Pepper, Cucumbers, Onions, Feta, 343 g
Calories:150
Renee's - Half-Fat Caesar Dressing, 86 ml pouch
Calories 260
Grilled Chicken breast
Calories 160
Pepsi - Max 355ml Can, 355 ml
Calories 0
I ate this after coming back from the gym and I am planing to just eat this for all days (except on 1 cheat day every 3-4 weeks)
So I ate a total of 758 calories when it says am supposed to eat 2,134 Calories (after going to the gyn) and 1,260 on normal days.
Your Daily Goal: Calories: 2,284 Carbs: 314 Fats: 76 Protein: 85 Sodium: 2,500 Sugar: 45
My total food : Calories: 828 Carbs: 74 Fats: 38 Protein: 25 Sodium: 1,277 Sugar: 32
Now before jumping into conclusions, I usually go to university in the morning and around 4PM or 5PM I hit the gym and spend from an hour and a half and up to 2 hrs spending mostly 1 hour on the Elliptical trainer. So when I reach home it is about 7PM or so and I eat up the food that I included as my dinner before sleeping at 12 or 1 AM, I actually feel very full after eating these food and I don't feel like wanting to eat something else So does that mean that am actually good? I mean I am not making myself starve to death obviously and I am kinda used to eating 1 meal for the day.
So what do you guys think? If I could should I just go with it? I am actually loving this and I don't feel there is any kind of harm in doing it and again I don't feel hungry but the opposite.
thanks
I ate the following:
Breakfast:
Nestle Canada - Nesquik Cereal With 125ml 2% Milk, 1 cup
Calories 240
Salad- Greek (No Pita) - Tomatoes, Black Olives, Red Pepper, Cucumbers, Onions, Feta, 343 g
Calories:150
Renee's - Half-Fat Caesar Dressing, 86 ml pouch
Calories 260
Grilled Chicken breast
Calories 160
Pepsi - Max 355ml Can, 355 ml
Calories 0
I ate this after coming back from the gym and I am planing to just eat this for all days (except on 1 cheat day every 3-4 weeks)
So I ate a total of 758 calories when it says am supposed to eat 2,134 Calories (after going to the gyn) and 1,260 on normal days.
Your Daily Goal: Calories: 2,284 Carbs: 314 Fats: 76 Protein: 85 Sodium: 2,500 Sugar: 45
My total food : Calories: 828 Carbs: 74 Fats: 38 Protein: 25 Sodium: 1,277 Sugar: 32
Now before jumping into conclusions, I usually go to university in the morning and around 4PM or 5PM I hit the gym and spend from an hour and a half and up to 2 hrs spending mostly 1 hour on the Elliptical trainer. So when I reach home it is about 7PM or so and I eat up the food that I included as my dinner before sleeping at 12 or 1 AM, I actually feel very full after eating these food and I don't feel like wanting to eat something else So does that mean that am actually good? I mean I am not making myself starve to death obviously and I am kinda used to eating 1 meal for the day.
So what do you guys think? If I could should I just go with it? I am actually loving this and I don't feel there is any kind of harm in doing it and again I don't feel hungry but the opposite.
thanks
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What you eat is irrelevant, by and large. I eat McDonald's for breakfast every morning.
Calorie limit is the magic bullet. If you're not losing weight, your calorie accounting is off or your limit is too high. Adjust as necessary, and weight loss will resume.0 -
Let me ask you something. How much protein are you getting in? Fats? Carbs?0
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What you eat is irrelevant, by and large. I eat McDonald's for breakfast every morning.
Calorie limit is the magic bullet. If you're not losing weight, your calorie accounting is off or your limit is too high. Adjust as necessary, and weight loss will resume.
That is exactly what I did, I was eating homemade food that actually consists of lots of vegetables but was not losing weight and that is why I switched to this food now, and it seems to be working :O0 -
So what are you going to do when your weight loss stalls? Cut calories in half again and eat what, 350 calories? Double your workouts and workout 4 hours a day on 700 calories?
Bad bad idea. Eat more.0 -
Let me ask you something. How much protein are you getting in? Fats? Carbs?
haha, I was totally about to write this information but then I removed it because the post became too long, but I'll re include it again
Your Daily Goal: Calories: 2,284 Carbs: 314 Fats: 76 Protein: 85 Sodium: 2,500 Sugar: 45
My total food : Calories: 828 Carbs: 74 Fats: 38 Protein: 25 Sodium: 1,277 Sugar: 320 -
How can you possibly think that eating a 1/3 of the food you need is a good idea for even a minute? Bad idea.0
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If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.0
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If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.0 -
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it
This is your problem here. You don't know how to calculate the food you eat.
Homemade food is so much easier to calculate than any fast food you buy.
Do you know how much sauce, cheese, and pepperoni the guy at Pizza Hut is putting on your pizza? No. But if you make your own pizza, you know exactly how much is in it.0 -
If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.
Personally, I think home made food is easier to calculate, you have more control over consistency, quantity, and what is going into it, just weigh solids/measure liquids, and input to MFP. That doesn't stop me from grabbing fast food once in a while. I think that 800 cal for a guy in his twenties is an absurd concept. I am a 40 year old female at 5'2" and am losing consistently netting 1200-1700 daily, with an occasional high day (2300-3000). Sounds like your problem is inconsistency with calculating your calorie total, which has caused your stall.
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If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.
Ummm... home-made meals are the EASIEST to track because you have complete control over what you are eating. If you're having rice, measure it. If you're eating veggies, weigh. If you're adding sauce, measure. If you're eating meat, weigh. Simple as that. Add EACH ITEM in your food log by it's individual weight/measurement. And you can still eat the pizza and the home-made stuff. Just add it all and keep at a deficit and the weight will come off. What you sound like you need is a food scale, good measuring cups, and patience to learn to enter all of these things. If you eat in moderation, eat at a deficit, and properly track exercise with a heart rate monitor, barring any medical conditions you should lose. Also, I saw on another thread that you are getting close to your goal. You have to understand that as you get closer to goal you have to watch things closer because losing will be much slower. Also... wanted to warn you that following what the packages say for food and even on take-out, they have a 20% window so even on those items you should weigh. A great example is Tyson Panko Chicken Nuggets. The bag says 5 are 200 cals (85g). That little 85g is what you should pay attention to because when I weighed out the nuggets, instead of 5 being a serving and equaling 85g, those 5 nuggets were well over 100g coming closer to 6.5 nuggets! Which doesn't sound like much but that was an extra 60 cals I hadn't planned on. Now do that over 3 meals and 2 snacks and it all adds up! You can easily be eating 300 to 400 more cals than you thought. So get a food scale, weigh everything, and give it some time.0 -
You both are right, but I am not cooking my own food :S And you know when I ask the person who cooks it kinda gets mad :P
Anyways, even if I knew the food that was being cooked, I can't change it I live with my family so asking to change the food style is kinda rude and she won't do it.
That is why I decided to make grilled chicken and a salad BUT, now that you guys said it I'll start making my own food I guess or atleast eat more from outside?
But I really wanna try this new method for atleast a week XD0 -
If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.
Ummm... home-made meals are the EASIEST to track because you have complete control over what you are eating. If you're having rice, measure it. If you're eating veggies, weigh. If you're adding sauce, measure. If you're eating meat, weigh. Simple as that. Add EACH ITEM in your food log by it's individual weight/measurement. And you can still eat the pizza and the home-made stuff. Just add it all and keep at a deficit and the weight will come off. What you sound like you need is a food scale, good measuring cups, and patience to learn to enter all of these things. If you eat in moderation, eat at a deficit, and properly track exercise with a heart rate monitor, barring any medical conditions you should lose. Also, I saw on another thread that you are getting close to your goal. You have to understand that as you get closer to goal you have to watch things closer because losing will be much slower. Also... wanted to warn you that following what the packages say for food and even on take-out, they have a 20% window so even on those items you should weigh. A great example is Tyson Panko Chicken Nuggets. The bag says 5 are 200 cals (85g). That little 85g is what you should pay attention to because when I weighed out the nuggets, instead of 5 being a serving and equaling 85g, those 5 nuggets were well over 100g coming closer to 6.5 nuggets! Which doesn't sound like much but that was an extra 60 cals I hadn't planned on. Now do that over 3 meals and 2 snacks and it all adds up! You can easily be eating 300 to 400 more cals than you thought. So get a food scale, weigh everything, and give it some time.
hmm, I should do that.
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You both are right, but I am not cooking my own food :S And you know when I ask the person who cooks it kinda gets mad :P
Anyways, even if I knew the food that was being cooked, I can't change it I live with my family so asking to change the food style is kinda rude and she won't do it.
That is why I decided to make grilled chicken and a salad BUT, now that you guys said it I'll start making my own food I guess or atleast eat more from outside?
But I really wanna try this new method for atleast a week XD
Just FYI, eating at that low of a calorie goal and doing cardio will do nothing but burn up your lean body mass along with the muscle. That is why they say not to do them unless you are severely obese and they fear for your life. Losing weight is a great endeavor, but you don't want to lose weight AND muscle. Even if you don't want to look all ripped, muscle is what not only allows you to look good, but it allows you to be active and burn more sitting around than what you do without it. Which means that your calorie goal could be HIGHER for maintenance vs. someone without as much.0 -
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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1122891-9-reasons-fat-loss-is-always-slower-than-you-d-like
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No idea what food style is, but i'm always for style because i am a classy b^5tch.0
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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1122891-9-reasons-fat-loss-is-always-slower-than-you-d-like
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1105036-article-on-flexible-dieting-by-armi-legge?page=1#posts-17068746
THANK YOU!!! I was trying to explain because I'm horrible at remembering links. lol0 -
People who want to eat 800 calories a day to speed up their weight loss generally: A - binge soon into it, or B - have some success and then gain back more than they lost soon after or C - get ill and/or develop an eating disorder.
It's tempting at your age. I get that. I was a teenage girl once for god's sake
But it's really dumb. Sorry. Just no. 0 -
well fudge +_+
What am I supposed to do now?
I definitely can't eat my home made food, do you have any plan in mind? should I eat 2 chicken breasts instead of 1? Again I don't get hungry, I am not starving myself! I eat this meal and am full for the day and want to go to sleep...
Ok how about this? I eat my chicken breast, my salad with the 2 dressings my usual breakfast but something sweet like a chocolate or an ice cream sandwich along? will that do it? XD0 -
Ok, since my calories are very low I'll replace Pepsi Max with fruit juice or Pineapple juice that would probably give me like + 370 calories? how about that? :P
I'll also start eating some sugars I guess since am kind low on it so maybe an ice cream sandwich +210 calories with my meals?
so that is an increase of almost + 600 calories more, does it sound reasonable now? :P
any other suggestions? :O I really appreciate this, I need solutions and straight forward suggestions like Eat this and that along and you should be good.0 -
Ok, since my calories are very low I'll replace Pepsi Max with fruit juice or Pineapple juice that would probably give me like + 370 calories? how about that? :P
I'll also start eating some sugars I guess since am kind low on it so maybe an ice cream sandwich +210 calories with my meals?
so that is an increase of almost + 600 calories more, does it sound reasonable now? :P
any other suggestions? :O I really appreciate this, I need solutions and straight forward suggestions like Eat this and that along and you should be good.
If you absolutely can't live without some sort of pre-planned meal routine...then perhaps either look into working with a registered dietitian or consulting with certain weight loss companies that do the pre-packaged meals (i.e. Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, etc).0 -
Water (or tea) instead of Pepsi and fruit if you want more sugar/carbs?0
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Eat more man, and mix up your exercise routine instead. Get your body in fat burning mode..!
I was under eating @ 6.5-7.5k kj's, needed to atleast 9k to loose 1 kg. However when I upped it to the 9kg I found I got better results. Just work harder. I feel i'm not as hungry as well after a gym sesh or B.Ball0 -
After reading your last 2 posts i have a feeling you will do what you want anyway and don't do something with advices so not worth my time anymore.
Hopefully i am wrong and you will take some of the advice putted out here. Do what you pleases and have a nice life
No no, well I explained to you my situation, but on normal days without going to the gym my counter suggests that I eat 1200 calories, and I already eat around 800 so it is kinda close. But on days where I go to the gym it is low and I am honestly thinking what I should be eating more since I am low and asked you if you think these ones that I suggested are good option :O I am not making fun of your suggestion or anything!!0 -
will do
Thanks man 0 -
Um no. It's not a new food style, it's starving yourself and not a good idea.
So you can't make yourself some real meals, but you can make yourself some salad and chicken breasts? I'm very confused. And how do you know how many calories are in your chicken breast unless you weigh it?0 -
my counter suggests that I eat 1200 calories, and I already eat around 800 so it is kinda close.
Ummmm, no..... 800 calories is NOT kinda close to 1200. And I fooled around with a calorie needs calculator, and even inputting your height at 4 ft tall, it said you need more than 1200 calories per day. I'd be VERY interested to know what settings you entered to get MFP to tell you you eat 1200 calories per day.0 -
If you weren't losing before, I have a hard time believing you weren't losing due to WHAT you were eating. More than likely, you were estimating intake too low and over-estimating calories burned. Are you weighing all of your food and measuring all of your liquids other than water? Are you using a heart rate monitor for your cardio workouts? Normally I don't think you need these things right away, but if you weren't losing and think you were eating at a certain level, better to check that rather than drop down to a very low calorie diet. I'm not saying it won't work for some, but why do it unless you have to? Seems to me you need to up your cals, really check your calculations and then adjust from there.
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.
I gained over 40 pounds from that " half plate of rice " I ate often twice a day. I never measured it and once I did ( the day before I started MFP) I realized that it was more than 2 cups. This means I ate my daily calories in rice alone....just with lunch and dinner.0 -
my counter suggests that I eat 1200 calories, and I already eat around 800 so it is kinda close.
Ummmm, no..... 800 calories is NOT kinda close to 1200. And I fooled around with a calorie needs calculator, and even inputting your height at 4 ft tall, it said you need more than 1200 calories per day. I'd be VERY interested to know what settings you entered to get MFP to tell you you eat 1200 calories per day.
For someone 4 feet tall the base amount is almost always under 1200. Not much ( the average is 1147 ) and for a person like me ( 5 feet tall) it is usually 50-70 calories a day more, which means it's right around 1200 calories, based on light activity. Even exercising every day does not give hundreds and hundreds of calories more on a daily basis unless the person exercises several hours. And I am talking about the average weight loss beginner now, not about those people who live in the gym and can eat 12 doughnuts a day and brag about it. The bad thing with MFP is that if someone choses to lose 2 pounds a week they are told to eat 1200 calories, which is foolish, because a very heavy person can lose 2 pounds a week by eating more than 1200 calories. It seems that the starting weight of a person, be it 400 pounds or 149 really does not seem to matter for the MFP calculator.....that is wrong. I would not blame a newcomer if they follow what MFP tells them to do.0 -
Well I tried multiple ideas, the easiest one was that I'd stop fast food for 2-4 weeks straight (I used to eat once every week consisting of 1 medium pizza or so) so then I tried home made food, thats the hard thing about home made food though, you can't really calculate it, but again I was only eating 1 meal for the day (just like now) and it mostly consisted of half a plate of rice and the other half was mostly vegetables (leafs or beans or you know anything veggie) with a very small bit of raw cooked meet. and that would be my meal for the day as well.
when I tried the routine I did not drink but diet coke as well so it is not something that I drink or eat beside this food.
How can you not really calculate home made food? Homemade food is what I make and imo it's the easiest to calculate. Weigh the ingredients, build the recipe on MFP and divide by number of servings. Easy peasy.0
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