What meal plan should I follow to lose weight?
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TavistockToad wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »Can't wait until Jan 2nd!
I think I'll have the week month off the forums :laugh:
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I wouldn't last that long :laugh:
I get most of my warning points in the first couple of months of the year :laugh:2 -
Any diet plan that you can stick to that will make staying in a caloric deficit practical for your life style will work. Whether that's eating one meal a day or 6 or 3 or 4, going whole foods dietary vegan, eating clean, doing keto -- whatever you need to do to keep the weight off without starving yourself will work.
For me, personally, I tend to eat whatever I want and I just make sure that I'm staying as close to my caloric goal as possible (no more than 100 calories beneath my goal because if I don't eat enough I eventually binge). Some people like restricting their foods and cutting out entire food groups (like the keto diet) while others like to eat at specific times.
Find something that works and if you can stick to it without feeling too hungry then you should be good.1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »Can't wait until Jan 2nd!
I think I'll have the week off the forums :laugh:
Would this be a good time to do the all the foodz road trip. Somewhere warm please. I’m getting a unsightly coat of rust.
Cheers, h.
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In general, your best chance of success is to NOT listen to all the people yelling on social media. That way lies madness.
Eat food you like. Log accurately and consistently. Make note of how you feel, how easy or hard it is to stick to your deficit, which foods fill you up and which leave you hungry. Tweak and learn as you go.
You can follow any meal plan and have a healthy diet. You can follow any meal plan and have an unhealthy diet. You need to find a way of eating that will make you happy and keep you satisfied at the right calorie level for the rest of your life. For most people, it's a process and isn't following someone else's plan 100%.6 -
msworkerbee wrote: »
A lot of people on facebook or youtube are going veganTavistockToad wrote: »msworkerbee wrote: »Duck_Puddle wrote: »msworkerbee wrote: »
I understand that I need to eat healthy but in a calorie deficit. So I can do that as a veganTavistockToad wrote: »natishacurry wrote: »Thank you. I think I'm going to try to go Vegan. I want to eat healthy as possible
That's what you got from the above posts?! :huh:
You can do it as a non-vegan too. Are you already vegan? If not, and you don’t feel a strong ethical draw to veganism, you’re just upping the level of difficulty on this process by a factor of a million.
Are you thinking vegan because you’re not sure what to eat so it seems easier to pick a method that already has stringent guidelines for what is/isn’t allowed?
No, I'm not vegan at all. I tried veganism a few months ago and failed. None of the dishes I prepared were good at all. But I thought I'd give it another try since everyone is shouting that veganism is the way to go to be healthy and stay young.
Who is 'everyone'?
A piece of advice: If your goal is weight loss, prefer advice from people who've actually lost weight and kept it off for a good period of time, and you have more proof of that than a few IG photos. Also prefer advice from people who don't get $$ or clicks from their advice. (Sometimes peoples who are still overweight give good advice, but you need some way to narrow things down; success is a good narrower.) Most click-y advice is trendy, but inaccurate.
Look, I've been vegetarian (not vegan) and eating lots of nice whole foods for years. I was thin eating that way, got fat eating that way, then obese, then thin again . . . all of it eating that way. I even got very active (working out most days of the week, competing as a masters athlete) and stayed obese for another decade while being active.
The magic was mostly in how much I ate, not what. (The "what" matters insofar as smart people want good nutrition; and insofar as certain foods are more filling for different people, and feeling full and satisfied helps one stick with eating fewer calories.)
Try this:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm
It won't make you trendy, but it will make you thinner if you follow it. Many of us have been successful with some version of that plan, me included. I lost nearly 1/3 of my body weight in just under a year, and am still at a healthy weight 3 years later.Duck_Puddle wrote: »
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And I hate to burst your bubble, but we can’t stay young. That’s pretty much the only guarantee in life is that each year that passes, we’ll be a year older.
And speaking as a strong, active, independent 63-year-old suvivor (for 18+ years now) of advanced-stage cancer, each year is a wonderful, wonderful gift.
Don't fear aging. Fear the only actual alternative if you wish, because only the lucky among us get older; or fear ill health and weakness enough to do what you can to avoid it.
Proper calories for weight management + well-rounded, balance eating for nutrition + exercise for fitness = best odds of long-term good health.5
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