What I've been told is pretty much this - if you wait until you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. If you wait until you are hungry, chances are your body already thinks it's starving. It is far better to eat small quantities of food throughout the day, just as it is better to drink water throughout the day. The whole three meals a day thing isn't a great plan. You do need to keep an eye on how much you eat throughout the day though, especially portion size. The nutritionist that I'm seeing pretty much eschews all the fad diets that are out there, including the high protein, low carboyhdrate diets. Carboyhdrates attract and hold water, so a lot of the weight one loses is water weight. I was pretty shocked to learn that 3 oz of protein is a steak or chicken or fish piece that is as big as my palm. Not my hand, my palm. And I'm only to have 2-3 portions of that size a day.
In terms of the breakfast thing, I never ate it because I never felt hungry. But I've discovered that when I have a bowl of cereal in the morning, I'm actively hungry by lunch time and actively hungry in the mornings when I wake up.
Everyone's mileage varies and one can always fool one's body into weight loss, but I have found more often than not that the weight cycles back up again once the trick is figured out ... and the body has a way of playing tricks right back atcha. A friend of mine did the whole high protein low carbs diet for over a year and lost a HUGE amount of weight ... but as soon as she tried to eat normally again, the weight started pouring back on. According again to my nutritionist (so I'm taking this on faith here that she's not a ding-dong ... mmMmmmmmm ding-dongs .... laaaaaaaal! Oh, what? Ahem!!) natural healthy "keep it off" weight loss should only be 1-2 pounds a week. You also want to concentrate on aerobic exercise, which brings your metabolism up to it's highest burning point. Weight training is good too, cause muscle burns more calories no matter what you're doing, but the most important thing is to get your heart rate up from normal levels for at least 20 minutes a day. Ideally, 20 minutes twice a day - once in the morning and once in the afternoon/evening.
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Date: 2002-07-28 12:24 pm (UTC)In terms of the breakfast thing, I never ate it because I never felt hungry. But I've discovered that when I have a bowl of cereal in the morning, I'm actively hungry by lunch time and actively hungry in the mornings when I wake up.
Everyone's mileage varies and one can always fool one's body into weight loss, but I have found more often than not that the weight cycles back up again once the trick is figured out ... and the body has a way of playing tricks right back atcha. A friend of mine did the whole high protein low carbs diet for over a year and lost a HUGE amount of weight ... but as soon as she tried to eat normally again, the weight started pouring back on. According again to my nutritionist (so I'm taking this on faith here that she's not a ding-dong ... mmMmmmmmm ding-dongs .... laaaaaaaal! Oh, what? Ahem!!) natural healthy "keep it off" weight loss should only be 1-2 pounds a week. You also want to concentrate on aerobic exercise, which brings your metabolism up to it's highest burning point. Weight training is good too, cause muscle burns more calories no matter what you're doing, but the most important thing is to get your heart rate up from normal levels for at least 20 minutes a day. Ideally, 20 minutes twice a day - once in the morning and once in the afternoon/evening.