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chanmui04
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Posted: 23 April 2008 03:25 pm |
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Here's my daily routine:
6AM-
.wake up
.bathroom
.breakfast [cereal, maybe an orange or apple if i have time, water]
.vitamins [fish oil, daily vitamin]
10-11AM
.eat "lunch"/the rest of breakfast [fish, salad, water, veggie sticks, fruits, veg] I'll have a little something, I don't eat all that up there lol.
1-2PM
.official "lunch" for me/snack [baggy of grapes, an orange, an apple maybe, water]
then I get home at 5, and I'll have a little snack, an orange or some nuts or something.
Around 5-6 is when we have dinner, so I usually don't snack, unless dinner is a while off an I'm starving.
5-6
.whatever my mom makes [usually veg, fruit, and some meat, with water]
I try to incorporate healthy snacks inbetween some of these meals, but my schedule is so hectic, it's literally impossible for me to eat at the EXACT same time every day, you know?
Is this okay? Am I eating too much?Not enough? I feel full, but everyone tells me I'm not eating enough
Last edited on 23 April 2008 03:35 pm by chanmui04
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Tratra
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Posted: 23 April 2008 05:27 pm |
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| Doesn't sound like enough food, but everything was so vague it's hard to tell. We'd need to know your stats to calculate your calorie needs...age, height, weight....or you can calculate them yourself if you go to the 'calories burned calculator' tab up top.
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CodeMonkey
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Posted: 23 April 2008 07:49 pm |
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I have to agree with Tratra, that isn't enough food at all. I found your other post with your stats and took the liberty of calculating your BMI, BMR and RMR for you.
Your BMI is 40.9. Your BMR/RMR is:
1,658 / 1,511 - Resting
1,990 / 1,813 - Sedentary
2,280 / 2,078 - Lightly Active
2,570 / 2,342 - Moderately Active
2,860 / 2,606 - Very Active
3,150 / 2,871 - Extremely Active
Rather than cutting back on everything, why not change what you eat. Don't make drastic cutbacks or your body will go into starvation mode and burn your muscle while hanging on to the fat. Learn about nutrition. Try and eat more fiber. Oatmeal is my favorite. Try and eat more vegetables than fruit.
Something I remember reading somewhere; Increasing the thigh muscles will increase your metabolism by quite a bit since they are so large and require so much energy. So walking, running and cycling would be extremely beneficial.
Don't go totally in 100% your first day; you'll burn yourself out before the end of the day. Just take small baby steps. For example, if you in the past would normally eat a cheeseburger, try without the cheese a few times. Then order it without mayonaise. Later on, order a grilled chicken instead of a hamburger. Eventually you'll find yourself eating some fish with broccoli and snacking on celery without stressing on what you "used to eat". I eat at Subway almost every day for lunch. Before my goal to lose weight I'd order a foot long high calorie sandwich with plenty of cheese and ranch dressing. Today I order a turkey sandwich with no cheese, mustard instead of mayo on wheat. I still order a foot long, but I put half of it in the refrigerator at work for the next day. I lost about 45 pounds doing this. It was all done by baby steps.
Get a walking buddy. It doesn't matter if the person needs to lose weight or not, having the company will help you lose track of how far you've gone. Almost every day while on my way to pick up lunch I walk with my co-workers anywhere between 1.5 to 2.7 miles. It seems to me that people will give up because they are bored. Try and add variety to your walk. If you can visit different parks with walking trails, do it. If you walk around the neighborhood, don't take the same streets. If you can't bring anyone with you, bring an MP3 player or something to keep your mind at work. If you have a dog, grab a leash and bring the pooch!
Of course, I'm open to any challenge since I am still learning myself.
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chanmui04
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Posted: 23 April 2008 09:19 pm |
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CodeMonkey wrote: I have to agree with Tratra, that isn't enough food at all. I found your other post with your stats and took the liberty of calculating your BMI, BMR and RMR for you.
Your BMI is 40.9. Your BMR/RMR is:
1,658 / 1,511 - Resting
1,990 / 1,813 - Sedentary
2,280 / 2,078 - Lightly Active
2,570 / 2,342 - Moderately Active
2,860 / 2,606 - Very Active
3,150 / 2,871 - Extremely Active
Rather than cutting back on everything, why not change what you eat. Don't make drastic cutbacks or your body will go into starvation mode and burn your muscle while hanging on to the fat. Learn about nutrition. Try and eat more fiber. Oatmeal is my favorite. Try and eat more vegetables than fruit.
Something I remember reading somewhere; Increasing the thigh muscles will increase your metabolism by quite a bit since they are so large and require so much energy. So walking, running and cycling would be extremely beneficial.
Don't go totally in 100% your first day; you'll burn yourself out before the end of the day. Just take small baby steps. For example, if you in the past would normally eat a cheeseburger, try without the cheese a few times. Then order it without mayonaise. Later on, order a grilled chicken instead of a hamburger. Eventually you'll find yourself eating some fish with broccoli and snacking on celery without stressing on what you "used to eat". I eat at Subway almost every day for lunch. Before my goal to lose weight I'd order a foot long high calorie sandwich with plenty of cheese and ranch dressing. Today I order a turkey sandwich with no cheese, mustard instead of mayo on wheat. I still order a foot long, but I put half of it in the refrigerator at work for the next day. I lost about 45 pounds doing this. It was all done by baby steps.
Get a walking buddy. It doesn't matter if the person needs to lose weight or not, having the company will help you lose track of how far you've gone. Almost every day while on my way to pick up lunch I walk with my co-workers anywhere between 1.5 to 2.7 miles. It seems to me that people will give up because they are bored. Try and add variety to your walk. If you can visit different parks with walking trails, do it. If you walk around the neighborhood, don't take the same streets. If you can't bring anyone with you, bring an MP3 player or something to keep your mind at work. If you have a dog, grab a leash and bring the pooch!
Of course, I'm open to any challenge since I am still learning myself. Well, I kind of forgot to mention I binge eat. So, cutting back for me is the only choice. I can't allow myself "little bits", because I have no will power whatsoever. I'm actually amazed at myself, and pretty proud. I stopped drinking soda, coffee, and energy drinks, and tea, on march 15th and haven't had a sip sense. I cut out all fast food, besides subway, and MAYBE the occasional pizza, my family eats pizza hardly NEVER so I might let myself..doubt it though). Oh, and I haven't been walking yet, but I've got an exercise bike in the garage, and a treadmil, and I'm going to start doing that. I could only do 15 minutes last night, tonight I'll try for 20, and then see what happens, you know? I seriously can't allow myself some, and then cut back. I have to cut it off cold turkey. And I think I've been doing fine. I really don't understand though, why you two think I should be eating more..I'm not hungry, I'm not starving myself. What I eat, when I eat it, holds me over perfectly fine. I hardly ever get hunger pangs, and if I do, I drink a glass of water, and if I'm still hungry I'll have a snack, like an orange or something. And I only eat and snack on healthy foods, fruits, veg, fish, chicken, nothing smothered in cheese or mayo or anything like that. I think I'm going to move to the "if it doesn't grow from the ground, don't eat it" plan. Aside from meat. I haven't had any withdrawls for chips..amazingly. I think its because of these veggie sticks, they are so good I love them. And even then, I only allow myself like, a handful. Thanks for the advice, but I really don't think eating more is going to work for me. I'm not a calorie counter, and I'm not weighing myself every day. I think the best way, FOR ME, is to just watch what I eat, and weigh myself once every week. I'll judge how I'm doing by how my CLOTHES fit, rather than what the scale says.
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