best of useful info on my old liverjournal, pt. 1
Every now and then someone inquires as to how I lost that annoying weight back when I did [I lost exactly 75 pounds from August 2003 to August 2004], so here at last for someone is the documentation, combining my personal experience with some stuff this guy at the gym told me, so now you too can marvel at the obviousness of it.
-Figure up how many calories your body uses each day (you can damn well google how yourself), then eat less than that.
-To help - count those calories. Watch serving sizes! Use frozen dinners (I recommend Michelini's: mm-mm!)
-Eat snacks instead of big meals, especially late in the day. Remember, don't feed yourself after midnight.
-Eat your damn 3-5 recommended daily servings of vegetables and get used to them.
-Choose foods high in filling fiber. Basically stay away from foods high in anything else. Never drink that sugary shit.
-For snacks, like raisins, pretzels, granola bars, unbuttered popcorn, or - if you are man enough - fistfuls of raw bran.
-Drink lots of water, then piss most of it back out. Breaking down fat can essentially introduce poisons into your system and, unless you flush yourself regularly, you're liable to get hornery and write extra-jackassy email to the PDP list... or whatever it is you do.
-Take a multi-vitamin to make up for what else you're pissing away.
-Be consistent - if you "cheat", remember your body is starving and is rigged to then hold onto all the extra fat it can get.
-Cross-train. Pumping a little muscle will help knock your system out of its usual routine and burn more calories during the day. (Girls: you don't have to worry about getting "buff" - that only happens if you become a crazy gym-rat; muscle tone usually accentuates your curves.)
-Expect plateaus, then change up your routine to shock your body out of them too.
-In conclusion, slow and steady DOES win this race - aim for about 1-2 lbs a week and it can stay off. And a year of 1-2 lbs a week adds up (or subtracts...) Remember, you're not going on a diet, you're ruining a fat person's life... and replacing it with the life of a thin person. If you're hungry, eat, but like a thin person. When you're getting tired, go just a little further and you'll get there. In other words - listen to your body, but don't quite do everything it says.
-Figure up how many calories your body uses each day (you can damn well google how yourself), then eat less than that.
-To help - count those calories. Watch serving sizes! Use frozen dinners (I recommend Michelini's: mm-mm!)
-Eat snacks instead of big meals, especially late in the day. Remember, don't feed yourself after midnight.
-Eat your damn 3-5 recommended daily servings of vegetables and get used to them.
-Choose foods high in filling fiber. Basically stay away from foods high in anything else. Never drink that sugary shit.
-For snacks, like raisins, pretzels, granola bars, unbuttered popcorn, or - if you are man enough - fistfuls of raw bran.
-Drink lots of water, then piss most of it back out. Breaking down fat can essentially introduce poisons into your system and, unless you flush yourself regularly, you're liable to get hornery and write extra-jackassy email to the PDP list... or whatever it is you do.
-Take a multi-vitamin to make up for what else you're pissing away.
-Be consistent - if you "cheat", remember your body is starving and is rigged to then hold onto all the extra fat it can get.
-Cross-train. Pumping a little muscle will help knock your system out of its usual routine and burn more calories during the day. (Girls: you don't have to worry about getting "buff" - that only happens if you become a crazy gym-rat; muscle tone usually accentuates your curves.)
-Expect plateaus, then change up your routine to shock your body out of them too.
-In conclusion, slow and steady DOES win this race - aim for about 1-2 lbs a week and it can stay off. And a year of 1-2 lbs a week adds up (or subtracts...) Remember, you're not going on a diet, you're ruining a fat person's life... and replacing it with the life of a thin person. If you're hungry, eat, but like a thin person. When you're getting tired, go just a little further and you'll get there. In other words - listen to your body, but don't quite do everything it says.
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