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What I'm going to say will sound counterintuitive. Stop working out for at least a week, maybe 2. At all. Your body naturally retains roughly 5 lbs in water and glycogen storage for energy and muscle repair when you work out that hard. Allowing your body to rest for a week or two will allow it to release that extra water.…
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It's a little different though. You can't really control how tall you are. You have great deal more control over how much you weigh. Which I think is what scares people - I know it does me - the number on the scale to a great degree depict our own successes or failures, which in turn can both make us complacent and make us…
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From my research, a fruitarian diet, in order to give you all the proper nutrients, would need to be extremely high in calories - in the range of 3000 Cal/day or higher. Even if you could stand eating that amount of fruit, it's only suited for endurance athletes who train at that level, otherwise, you will just end up…
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Well, I used to be someone who couldn't just eat one. But I can now. A treat is a treat, and I log it before I eat it. I savor it, and eat it more slowly than I used to. By the time I'm done, I don't have craving for anymore.
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I was that kid. Not at 13, but at 15 or 16. Let me ask you a few questions: - Has he always been large? - Does he experience teasing or other forms of humiliation at school or with friends for his weight? If the answer to either of the above is a yes, it is probably the reason why he isn't interested in sports or activity.…
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As a few others have said, I also drink diet soda. But I also actually like plain, still water. I would cut down on meals you need to "wash down" with soda - that's your first hint that you are eating too much - if you are doing any of that. Drink water with your meals instead. You'll get used to it. There's nothing wrong…
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If you don't eat out often, I would say treat yourself for a meal and don't worry about it. If you eat out on a regular basis, you have to be mindful of what you eat. I just came back from a vacation (3 nights cruise plus 2 nights in Miami) where the food was great and I ate what I wanted. To my surprise, I came home not…
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At a 1,000 calorie deficit, what is your daily calorie allotment? When you say you have been successful the first 2 months, does that mean you have been satisfied with your food or have you found yourself hungry or craving and having to forcibly deny yourself things? If it's the latter, your body will find a way to give in…
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This would be the only way. The work done against gravity is greater if you run because you are for small fractions of time completely lifted and because your legs lift further for a run than a walk (i.e. requiring greater force for the lift). But speaking of the work done against horizontal forces (wind resistance,…
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During the activity itself, as pointed out above, the work done (i.e. calories spent) is exactly the same for the same mass and distance. Time is not a factor in work. However, because the run requires you to spend those calories in a shorter period of time, the "after effect" is better with the run - that is, your body…
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This. Shop sales, eat seasonal fruits and vegetables on sale, stock up on staples and meats when they are on sale. And if you can possibly hobble together $55, a Costco membership will save you a lot of money in the long run. Gas, for one! Costco's organic frozen vegetables are constantly rated as higher quality for lower…
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I love Starbucks, although I don't get to go there as often anymore. Surprising, considering there's one across from work. But when I do go, I'll most often get a dark roast hot coffee or an iced coffee. Sweetened if iced. Once in a while I will get then blended caramel mocha (mmmmm), but I usually end up just eating the…
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Umm. If you weren't counting calories, how did you know you were eating "close to 2000 calories"?
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Yeah, I'm always skeptical of sites that make you sit through a half hour video to get you to buy a "groundbreaking" product. No thanks.
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The after burn may be "better" with lifting than with HIIT (or any cardio that's not steady state, really), but only proportionally so. But you also burn more during the workout with high intensity interval endurance training than you do with lifting, so the total math may or may not work the same. In any case, the point I…
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But hiking, walking the dog, gardening ARE cardio. You can't separate "workout cardio" from your everyday activity cardio - to the body it's the same thing. Now, as others have said, yes, you *can* have results without additional cardio. I could never do it though. I love high intensity interval training too much, and I'm…
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Try replacing your fruit juices with actual fruits. You will feel fuller on fewer sugars and get fibers.
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Man oh man can I relate. I used to do that. Here's how *I* stopped: * Eat a little something before your workout. It will both provide you energy to burn and not make you as hungry after. * If you are doing cardio, or especially intensity training, stay hydrated. * After intensity training or cardio, eat some fruits and…
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Oh, I'm not at all saying that moderate calorie restrictions are bad for recovering from injury (although if OP's diary is correct, his restrictions are anything but moderate). I had intended to offer that piece of advice as a psychological relief, not weight loss advice. It's possible to be too focused on the weight loss…
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A few things. First, celebrate the fact that you have lost 18 lbs in about a month and a half. That's a great accomplishment. BUT it is actually a bit too fast. Second, taking care of your injured ankle should be your priority right now, not losing weight. I'd even recommend going to maintenance right now until you're…
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What you are on is a roller coaster of weight gain and loss. That is worse than being overweight. Do you need 2000 calories? At your current rate of activity, that is low. Take it from someone who's done the roller coaster before. Sure it's fun to look at the scale going down fast, but you cannot deny your body things you…
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Do you log AS you eat or after, at the end of the day? For example, most of Friday is past, yet I don't see anything on your diary for today? Estimates afterwards are often badly inaccurate. Are there foods you are not logging? Are you grabbing an "energy" drink with your workouts and not logging it? Do you drink soda?…
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Can you elaborate a little as to exactly what you mean that your friends are encouraging bad habits? Is it just "hey you don't have to go to the gym EVERY DAY, come hang out with us!" Or is it "the gym is bad for you?" Is it "live a little" at the dinner table or is it "OMG I can't believe you've become a food snob?"
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You can see her specific exercises in her diary? Because I can't. How do I do that? If you are looking at her calorie goals and subtracting 1400 form it and looking at what she says she does in terms of working out, I read it as about 60 mins of activity daily (30 mins walk + 30 mix crosstraining). You may indeed be…
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Yes, you can, because science, especially for a physically active person. The issue here is not total intake. It's the size of the deficit. And eating too little can cause one to be more lethargic and burn fewer calories during a workout. If a 200 calorie boost in your diet allows you to burn 300 calories extra during your…
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Well, if we are going to get super technical about the word, then diet is actually the sum of food consumed by an organism - ANY sum of food (Wikipedia). Your diet may cause you to gain weight, lose weight, or remain at the same weight. Similarly, "dieting" technically is a term for supervised, regulated food intake, and…
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I don't like the term 'cheat day'. You can't cheat your body. Period. You can, however, reward yourself. So have a Reward Day - or more specifically, a Reward Meal. Very few of us, given a mix of foods rather than the most calorie loaded drink you can find at Starbucks or drinking chocolate syrup out of the container - can…
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Don't. Don't start a diet. Start a lifestyle change. Diets are about fixing a "problem" - excess weight in this case - and as soon as it is "fixed", we tend to move on back to our old habits. So don't diet. Change how you eat and how you move in a way that you like so you can keep it up forever!
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If you are getting hungry at night, and if by then you have already met your calorie quota, you may wish to do two things: 1. See if you have room to increase your calorie quota. Did you choose too restrictive a plan? If so, pick a more moderate one. 2. Secondly, rework your meals. There is nothing wrong with snacking at…
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And just because a patient doesn't like a physician does not give the patient some special medical knowledge. If you are going to go around lecturing people that they should read before they reply, you should do the same. Not once have I said that just because they are an MD means that they are never wrong. I said…
