My Diet

[Prince Rilian]

Every day I eat
- flaxseed, 1 tbsp, for omega 3
- carrots, 75 grams, for vitamin A
- Total, 30 grams, for the 12 vitamins and minerals it has 100% of
- brazilnut, ~5 grams, for selenium

Then for protein
- chili beans, or
- soynuts

Then I eat fruits and vegetables such as
- apples
- bananas
- pears
- watermelon
- corn
- broccoli
- peas
- green beans
- cauliflower
- black-eyed peas
- radishes

And sometimes I eat this thing called "cranberry nut crunch" from Central Market (hippie store) that has cranberries, raisins, nuts, and pumpkins seeds in it.

I measure out the portions and write down what I eat and the calories every day. I started this diet on Sunday 11-27, 6 days ago. The first two days, I only ate like 500 calories because this healthy food is .really. filling. But on the third day, I took my blood pressure and it was going crazy. At one point it was 84/66 and my heart rate was 122. I didn't feel sick at all but, blood pressure is not supposed to be that low and the systolic and diastolic numbers are not supposed to be that close together, so since then I've been trying to get 1000 calories every day. More would probably be better, but I've been having to stuff myself right before going to bed just to get up to 1000. My blood pressure has been normal since then.

I started this kind of crazily strict diet for two reasons. One, I'm overweight, and I've been overweight for 7 years now and I'm fucking sick of it. Two, I need to break my addiction to food, which is part of why I've stayed overweight for 7 years. So I'm only eating the kinds of things that don't make me go crazy and want to eat 12 servings. I love rice, but rice is one of those foods I always over-ate on.

Thinking, "I can never have rice/pizza/whatever again," is horrible, so that's not what I'm doing. I'm letting myself have one thing not on my diet once a week. This week, since it was my dad's birthday, it was a tiny 1 in. by 1 in. piece of cake. I am going to eat junk food at xmas, but I'm going to plan ahead of time how much so that it will be controlled.

There's always Dr Pepper in my house, because my dad drinks it all the time, and I love Dr Pepper. Whenever I see it in the fridge, I want it... but I just think, "It's OK, I can have some at xmas."

I've been feeling really great. I feel good just not being stuffed with junkfood all the time. I don't feel horribly deprived all the time. The cravings are getting less often and less intense and it's only been 6 days. And, dude, I think my skin looks better... though that might just be my imagination.

Also, I drink water and black tea. Tea is yummie.

Oh, also, I walk 10 miles every day. I don't have a job or school or anything, so I have plenty of time for that. After xmas, I'm going to apply for jobs, so IDK how that will affect my exercise.

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

this sucks. Good luck counting calories and restricting.

Just beware, and hope you don't get an eating disorder like I did.

[Prince Rilian]

(12-04-2011 05:58 AM)SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT Wrote:  this sucks. Good luck counting calories

Weighing the portions doesn't bother me.

Quote:and restricting.

Obviously I need to restrict what I eat because the whole "eat whatever I want" thing led me to be obese.

Quote:Just beware, and hope you don't get an eating disorder like I did.

What kind of eating disorder?

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

(12-04-2011 06:27 AM)Prince Rilian Wrote:  

(12-04-2011 05:58 AM)SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT Wrote:  this sucks. Good luck counting calories

Weighing the portions doesn't bother me.

Quote:and restricting.

Obviously I need to restrict what I eat because the whole "eat whatever I want" thing led me to be obese.

Quote:Just beware, and hope you don't get an eating disorder like I did.

What kind of eating disorder?

Bullmia.

Basically breaking out into huge fits of eating, from restriction, and then feeling guilty and purging.

[Prince Rilian]

Oh. Well, I'll watch out for that. Also my mom knows everything I eat.

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Also, since I apparently didn't make this clear in the first post, I'm not restricting the number of calories I eat. I'm just not eating shit anymore. And healthy food is more filling per calorie.

[magikarp]

Eventually even 1000 calories a day is probably going to make you feel like shit, but as long as you don't go much under that it's manageable.

I mean, I'm not going to pretend like it's the end of the world to restrict calories for a while to lose weight, but in the long-term eating healthy also means eating enough. I know shit depends on your metabolism or whatever, but I'm very short, have a small frame, and can only go like a week on a thousand calories a day before I start to feel weak and get tired easily. (For some reason it usually improves my mood somewhat, but it also makes me not really able to get anything done.) But honestly you'll probably have trouble consistently eating enough calories with just the things you said.

[Prince Rilian]

If that happens, then I'll add some other stuff.

[gore goroth]

Are you a vegetarian???

[LOON_ATTIC]

(12-04-2011 05:38 PM)gore goroth Wrote:  Are you a vegetarian???

OP is.

Also good luck.

[Efs]

How about you just eat whatever you want, but burn the calories by running. I eat like a pig, but I workout so I don't gain a lot of fat.

[gore goroth]

Meh, as long as OP isn't one of those white knight doushebag "don't hurt the animals" vegetarians.

[LOON_ATTIC]

(12-04-2011 07:01 PM)gore goroth Wrote:  Meh, as long as OP isn't one of those white knight doushebag "don't hurt the animals" vegetarians.

Nah AFAIK

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

(12-04-2011 06:11 PM)Efs Wrote:  How about you just eat whatever you want, but burn the calories by running. I eat like a pig, but I workout so I don't gain a lot of fat.

Just don't eat any grains, or sugary high carbohydrate starches

Don't eat:
Grains
Sugar
potatoes


People get fat from eating grains, without even going over the calorie limit. It increases body fat. Because it causes your body to produce too much insulin.

[Sunbourn]

(12-04-2011 06:11 PM)Efs Wrote:  How about you just eat whatever you want, but burn the calories by running. I eat like a pig, but I workout so I don't gain a lot of fat.

No, this is fucking retarded. Diet is the MAIN FACTOR in whether or not you gain weight. Working out is only a contributing factor. Use running to shave off some of the extra calories but you can't rely solely on running.

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

Here's my change in diet:

Just eat meats, green leafy vegetables and root vegetables ( potatoes excluded), and dairy ( just heavy cream, cheese, and butter), fats and oils, coconut oil, olive oil, NO VEGETABLE OILS.

[Prince Rilian]

(12-05-2011 02:39 AM)SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT Wrote:  NO VEGETABLE OILS.

Why?

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

(12-05-2011 03:30 AM)Prince Rilian Wrote:  

(12-05-2011 02:39 AM)SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT Wrote:  NO VEGETABLE OILS.

Why?

Because they aren't high in saturated fats. Like vegetable oil that come in a container isn't good for us.

Humans need saturated fats to feed the brain.

For instance if you choose to make eggs, fry those eggs in coconut oil, butter, or olive oil, just not these vegetable oil or palm oil.

You'l loose rapid weight loss because of lack of carbohydrates. But this is good because you'll have more energy.

Yeah carbs are really not good for us at all, they make are bodies produce so much insulin that regardless of how much we eat the energy automatically stores to fat, because your body is only working off the sugar. It ruins you pancreas, leads to heart disease, diabetes.

You should watch a documentary called Fat Head where I guy eats at fast-food places, but he only eats meats and sales from their and he looses like 7 pounds in three weeks.

If you tried to do this with carbs you'd loos like 2 pounds in 3 weeks.

Infact you eating however the much fuck you want and still loose weight.

[Prince Rilian]

A nurse told me that humans don't need saturated fat at all. And your brain works on glucose.

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(12-04-2011 07:02 PM)Lunatic Wrote:  

(12-04-2011 07:01 PM)gore goroth Wrote:  Meh, as long as OP isn't one of those white knight doushebag "don't hurt the animals" vegetarians.

Nah AFAIK

I think eating animal products is morally questionable. I'm not sure if it's actually evil. I mainly decided not to eat meat anymore for health reasons.

[Spiritus_Raptor]

(12-05-2011 07:05 AM)Prince Rilian Wrote:  A nurse told me that humans don't need saturated fat at all. And your brain works on glucose.

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(12-04-2011 07:02 PM)Lunatic Wrote:  

(12-04-2011 07:01 PM)gore goroth Wrote:  Meh, as long as OP isn't one of those white knight doushebag "don't hurt the animals" vegetarians.

Nah AFAIK

I think eating animal products is morally questionable. I'm not sure if it's actually evil. I mainly decided not to eat meat anymore for health reasons.

I will be going to a steakhouse tonight and I will be enjoying a steak. Is that morally questionable? PL0X RILIAN, I MUST KNOW!

[gore goroth]

[SH☮TGUNHEⒶRT]

Quote:A nurse told me that humans don't need saturated fat at all. And your brain works on glucose.

fuck that nurse



Watch on YouTube

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Quote:A nurse told me that humans don't need saturated fat at all. And your brain works on glucose.

fuck that nurse

http://youtu.be/iCVo8HbDpXI

[Prince Rilian]

(12-05-2011 08:18 AM)Spiritus_Raptor Wrote:  

(12-05-2011 07:05 AM)Prince Rilian Wrote:  A nurse told me that humans don't need saturated fat at all. And your brain works on glucose.

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(12-04-2011 07:02 PM)Lunatic Wrote:  

(12-04-2011 07:01 PM)gore goroth Wrote:  Meh, as long as OP isn't one of those white knight doushebag "don't hurt the animals" vegetarians.

Nah AFAIK

I think eating animal products is morally questionable. I'm not sure if it's actually evil. I mainly decided not to eat meat anymore for health reasons.

I will be going to a steakhouse tonight and I will be enjoying a steak. Is that morally questionable? PL0X RILIAN, I MUST KNOW!

I get the feeling you think you're being clever.

[aCol]

I just eat whats there (which is erm... pizza, bread, different kinds of sausage [real sausages like salami and stuff], noodels, some spinach-meat mixure filled noodle pockets, tortilini...come to think of it actually quite healthy) when I am hungry. Also, I try to eat what I feel like if I have the choice (which I mostly do). To drink almost only water, tea or juice (and from time to time a mass of energy drink ...) and, ofc, coffee. And I hold myself steady at 80Kg being 180 cm. I try to go swimming every Tuesday and I often do, but atm, school stresses me out. However, still steady

You just have to look a little bit what you eat and how much you "train". I think measuring everything up is pure overkill.

Ever tried to go to McDonalds with a scale and a friend and measure out your daily needed calories and only eating those? Now I know you will probably not eat junky fast food (because of that a friend who does, we don't want to waste anything), but it would be hilarious. I'd love to see the reactions on the people around you.

[Prince Rilian]

When I go to a fastfood place, I just go by the nutrition information they provide.

[aCol]

How can you be sure the nutrition information if right?

[gore goroth]

FIXXXXX THE TAGGGGGGG!!!!!

[SoulRiser]

I am totally clueless about nutrition and calories and whatnot.

But I've been riding my bike on average every second day now, and eating 33% less food, but making up for it by piling extra tomato/lettuce/cucumber on top of just about everything I eat.

The bike riding thing has been helping because pants that were horribly tight before now actually fit me. We'll see how the salad thing goes (just started doing that recently).

There is no way in hell I'm counting calories. xD

[Prince Rilian]

I don't feel like it's even that hard to count calories. The foods that come with a nutrition label, you go by that, and I have a food scale, it's not difficult to put the food on the scale.

The foods that don't come with nutrition information, like apples and bananas, I just look up online. That's going to be less accurate, I suppose, but it's not that big of a deal.

[Alucard483]

vegetarian. Lol. You know that shit makes you soooo weak right? Eat some fucking bacon.

[Prince Rilian]

(12-08-2011 06:37 AM)Alucard483 Wrote:  vegetarian. Lol. You know that shit makes you soooo weak right?

No, because it doesn't.

Quote:Eat some fucking bacon.

I love bacon. But I don't eat it anymore.