Cutting out meat is always helpful...(flameproof undies on)
Posted on 01/21/2006 7:21:11 PM PST by RightOnline
Cutting out meat is always helpful...(flameproof undies on)
Again.......see above. It's all in WHAT you eat.
This is almost identical to the Zone diet (it is not a low carb diet like Atkins), which is not really a diet but a permanent change in eating habits. Sears' books have some helpful tables that show the amount of grams of protein, carbs (both good and bad types), and fat in various types of food and how much you should be eating a day based on your lean body mass. After a few weeks it all becomes second nature and completely changes how you eat. I went from 180 to 160 in a matter of weeks while eating more and better foods. But this wan't the whole story. I added close to 10 pounds of lean body mass (through exercise and weight training), which means that I lost 30 pounds of fat, for a net loss of 20 pounds
I have a friend from high school who is going to be shooting what he calls "a pro-animal rights terrorism" flick this summer. He eats blocks of tofu all of the time. (We're friends, he's just a kook.)
Now, if this were buffalo mozzarella, well, that is another thing entirely.
Aye, but do I havta gev oop kayk?
I cut it in cubes and put in on salads
Or this is yummy too
Cut in cubes cut up some tomatoes, red onion, some garlic, olive oil and Italian seasoning
I do eat chicken but I try to buy organic
However every once and a while there's nothing like a good steak (rare)! (sorry)
The one part of the email that I really agree with is where it says not to stuff yourself. I do believe it's fairly key to stop eating as soon as you're not hungry anymore. And don't eat again until you are hungry, which shouldn't be for some hours unless you ate just carbs, then hunger comes faster.
I've also noticed that when you are really busy and concentrating on and consumed by the job at hand that you won't eat until you truly get hungry. And then the desire to stuff oneself seems absent.
Enough protein is the only way to reduce calorie intake without rampant hunger which will bust the diet. In fact the key determiner of whether a diet is sustainable is whether it gives a person at least 75 grams of protein a day. Lean meat is the best way to get it.
GET IN MY BELLY!!!
Tofu is the most misunderstood food; It's so versatile and tasty!
Its versatile just you say!
I'd post a pic if I could upload it to a server somewhere..........
However, meat is not an essential part of each meal. Veggies and grains are much healthier than having bacon for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, and meatloaf for dinner. I don't think our bodies can process that much meat in a day.
Tofu is no substitute for meat, I know. ;-) But it can be prepared so many ways, and is so tasty in it's own right...
Well, I like the taste of raw tofu, but you're right, it's much better seasoned. It's also the perfect kid food, if you get them started on it early.
A merely unfat person's diet is not appropriate for someone trying to lose weight, that is what people never understand in these things. They think, I'm healthy, eat what I eat and you'll be a healthy weight too. No. If your diet leaves your weight stable, and a fat person eats it, they will stay fat.
To lose significant amounts of weight, caloric intact has to be 3/4 to 1/2 sustaining levels. If you eat that little with lots of carbs, you will be starving 8 hours out of every 24, and nobody keeps it up.
A fat person needs to cut calories drastically, way below what thin people consume, and needs to do so without feeling hungry all the time. The right way to do that is as the article says, to up protein intake (especially - it mentions time to digest fat but that is not nearly as critical, since inadequate protein intake will trigger hunger to get enough) - and also relatively narrowly spaced but quite small meals.
There is no way to eat 1500 calories a day in only 3 meals without hours of hunger. There is no way to eat 1500 calories a day with a calories to grams of protein ratio of 30 or 40 without hunger, because the body will immediately demand 75 grams and tell you to keep eating until it gets them.
But you can readily eat just 250 to 300 calories at a time and feel full enough to stem hunger. And if you include enough meat and the like, you can get calorie to protein gram ratios of 15 or 20 (10 and under from the protein sources themselves, but balanced with other foods). If you get 1500 calories and 75 grams of protein or more and can eat something small every 3-4 hours, you will not feel hungry.
Lean people give the worse advice on this stuff because they assume anyone acting as they act will have a weight like theirs, but it is not remotely true. To beat a real weight problem takes a massive caloric restriction sustained enjoyably for 6, 9, 12 months. The ways of doing that are much narrower than the fools giving the advice based on some non-losing norm can grok. They always bring in their ulterior motives and break the people they are advising out of the only patterns that can actually do it.
If you simply don't eat........as so many try.........your body falls back into "starvation mode"; it thinks you are in a famine period and actually STORES fat. You can't do that. You MUST stimulate your metabolism.......especially important in the morning; breakfast.
People who just "stop eating" are always flustered at either their lack of weight loss or hitting that dreaded "plateau"...........that is why.
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