Making changes in life

jacksarcia1 wrote: »

Yes, veggies. But other than that my carb intake is very low. No fruit and almost no sugar unless I'm cheatin' on the weekend.

Cool yeah thanks for the tips 😊

jacksarcia1 wrote: »

Yes, veggies. But other than that my carb intake is very low. No fruit and almost no sugar unless I'm cheatin' on the weekend.

How many meals do you eat per day to lose the weight?

jacksarcia1 wrote: »

Yes, veggies. But other than that my carb intake is very low. No fruit and almost no sugar unless I'm cheatin' on the weekend.

This is the fast way. People hate it but it does work to speed things up. Just be careful when you reintroduce carbs. Go slowwwww. Or the regain is often a shocker.

sflano1783 wrote: »

jacksarcia1 wrote: »

Yes, veggies. But other than that my carb intake is very low. No fruit and almost no sugar unless I'm cheatin' on the weekend.

How many meals do you eat per day to lose the weight?

Meal/snack timing is at most a minor factor for most people in weight loss, from a technical (physiological) standpoint.

Different people find that different eating schedules help them in some way: Some find that one (big!) meal a day helps them control calories, or another intermittent fasting approach like limited eating hours or a couple days with very low calories at different times in the week, with the other days at maintenance. Other people find that eating frequently is more helpful to them in managing appetite while hitting the right number of calories, maybe even all-day grazing on tiny amounts. And there are many options in between those extremes, of course.

Some people find that different eating schedules affect energy level or workout performance in particular ways (some like to work out fasted, saying that it burns more fat; others find their workout performance lags if they don't eat beforehand).

People will argue that one or another of these "revs metabolism" or "controls appetite" or "burns more fat" or "hacks body chemistry" (usually insulin activity) in some major and true-for-all sense. The science, IMO, is ambiguous - i.e., maybe so, maybe not - for most of these ideas, currently, if one evaluates the research neutrally, rather than from a position of advocacy.

For most normal people, IMO, happy compliance with reduced calories is a much bigger practical factor for success than any of these things would amount to, in a metabolic or theoretical calorie-burn/fat-burn sense. Experimenting with your personal eating schedule to see what works best for you personally is a good plan.

If you prefer to start the experiments with some approach that has a persuasive sales job in your opinion, that's fine. I'd just suggest that you keep in mind that if experiment #1 is unpleasant or impractical for you in some way, there are possibly other approaches with will be more helpful for you personally.

It's kind of easy to buy in to a "diet religion", and think it's the only path. In the unfortunate cases where it doesn't work out for a person, sometimes they come to think of themselves as a failure, when it's just that some other adequate method would've suited them better.

Best wishes!