I stopped right there. That's what most people do and get fat: meal, snack, snack, meal, snack, snack, meal! No! (personal opinion.)
Posted on 01/21/2006 7:21:11 PM PST by RightOnline
ping......as you requested
I stopped right there. That's what most people do and get fat: meal, snack, snack, meal, snack, snack, meal! No! (personal opinion.)
ping......per your request
No. It's all in WHAT you eat.
It really is that simple. I would just offer an addendum to #8. Focus on your breathing and take in as much air as you can. Being better ventilatied well help metabolize more fat quicker.
I have GOT to start drinking more water and less Diet Coke. I have a feeling that would be five pounds right there.
What happened to turning off the tube and going for a walk???
Eat to live; Not live to eat..!
Sumo wrestlers eat up to nine square meals a day...I'm thinking that eating more often would HAVE to mean eating small snacks throughout the day, as opposed to actual meals.
I had it backwards. I eat 6 splurge meals a week.
You're actually very close. These are SMALL meals; more along the lines of what you and I would normally consider a "snack". To me........just me, now...........a protein shake is very filling and I easily count it as one of my "meals". I have one right before and right after each visit to the weight room at the YMCA (5 days a week; not necessary to do that much, though).
Think.........a tuna salad. Tuna on a bed of greens. Lots of folks grill up chicken breasts on the weekend, refrigerate them, and cut them up onto salads for meals during the week. You get the idea. SMALL 'meals'.
Not watching your diet, you could make the same mistake I used to make and go run hardcore, then stuff yourself when you get home. The result....you're still fat, except you can run good.
I found, as I got into my thirties, that making dinner my big meal of the day was a mistake, and have come to believe that anything eaten after, say, 8 PM is going to be stored as fat, because very few calories are burned while asleep.
The same thing struck me! Snacking and picking are surefire weight gainers, IMO. She also forgot to mention that it doesn't hurt a lot of us to cut back on drinking if you want to lose weight. And sodas, for that matter.
What a great idea! Bring along a good portable music player (I'm using a skip-protected CD player nowadays) and listen to music while doing long, long walks. I usually walk about 40-50 minutes a day for good exercise. 
Have you had weight loss success? I have been working out at Curves for the past month, and my resting heart rate has gone from 72 to 60 in that time.
Think of the meals you currently eat and cut it by about half. You could actually eat a little more than that in each meal because eating more meals eventually increases your motabolism.
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