Advice on Weightloss

November 9, 2013 by No Comments

Advice on Weightloss
Hey guys, I am 18 years old, and I’ve struggled with my weight my whole life, being the largest person in the year for quite a few years, I’d tried everything, except I hadn’t reached the point where I had matured and got to the “**** you mother****er, you ain’t going to keep being a ****y about your weight no more, you’re going to change.” and I have, I use to be 117kg’s and went onto a harsh diet (eating 1 meal a day for dinner) while doing ALOT of cardio, getting to the stage where daily, I was vomiting 2-3 times, I wasn’t stopping until I knew I would wake up the next day and be happy about the workout i’d done the day before. I am now at 93kg’s but I am trying to drop body fat and get to 80-85kg’s. I was working out at roughly 4pm each afternoon and then having dinner. I know that it’s not a good way to be doing it, it’s not exactly healthy I know this, but it’s working for me. But, that being said, I was talking to someone the other day that said that they did what I was doing, but they ate heaps for breakfast, and then nothing for the rest of the day and worked out of a morning after eating. In your opinion (and I know that you will probably tell me that what i’m doing is ridiculous) what do you believe the best combination would be to be eating 1 meal a day? Workout of a morning and eat a big healthy breakfast, or eat dinner, workout morning, or eat dinner workout of a afternoon?
Kind regards, and many thanks.
Jack
As someone who openly admits some of the things I do are stupid I am not going to say what you are doing is ridiculous. Less effective than it could be but most of us are guilty of that.
Neither of the methods you are looking at will be more or less effective, the time of day argument for eating has been proven irrelevant.
The idea of 1 meal a day is what will be delaying your progress now. Regular small meals adding up to the same calorific intake as you consuming now will be better for making your body think there is plenty of food available and better for training so will aid weight loss.
If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re probably right – Henry Ford
Thankyou very much Crazyoldman!
I guess one of the main reasons I am thinking of changing, is because of sort of what you said about time of the day eating, mixed with a bit of confused logic I believe. (No carbs after 6pm). My line of thought was along the lines of, if I don’t eat throughout the day, and then workout, I won’t have any actual energy to take from recently eaten foods, so my body will burn through fat. (That was my thinking any way). Then it occurred to me that then when I eat, I’m not using the energy that the food gives me throughout the night which is probably hindering my progress somewhat. I figured if I started eating breakfast after I workout in the morning, I would go through the day using the energy I got from breakfast, but by the time it got to the following morning workout, I would have used most of the energy from the previous breakfast and then again burn through fat faster. (Again this is just my train of thought at the moment). What I was sort of looking for is if either of those trains of thought are even remotely accurate.
I do understand that regular smalls meals are by far a much healthier option, but I struggle with counting calories, any tips on that side of things?
I guess it also helps to add that I have a severe hunger issue, I take a medication for an unrelated issue which has had a side affect of reducing appetite, which I have utilised recently to stop me eating. (When I say eating problem, I will eat, and eat, and eat. I literally will vomit before I actually feel ‘full’.)
Thankyou for your input!
Calorie counting wise no real big ideas. Just know what you are currently eating and split that up into smaller batches. Simple to type, not always easy for people to do.
Timing of eating, the debate has been all over the place and there is a strong chance that new discoveries have been made since I last checked and even some that one will be made by the time you read this, they are that varied.
There are some posts on http://training.fitness.com/articles…les-55308.html regarding the truth about carbs, diet and training that are worth a look. The truth is that some of the things used there to bust myths may well become them in years to come, that’s progress for you. The carbs are bad m’kay section is worth a look for sure.
Eating late in the day makes you fat, shouted from the rooftops years ago, and I was convinced when I saw the data. Recently they have confessed the late food was in addition to the normal diet not just same diet shifted later, so they proved eating more meant gaining more weight on average. Since then loads have been done and the timing for non-trainers has been proven largely irrelevant as long as eating at least daily.
When training the story is different again. You want a regular intake of food, to give optimum energy throughout the day. There is a short window post training when the body absorbs and processes food more effectively but that is more relevant to performance chasing than weight loss.
If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re probably right – Henry Ford