critique my nutrition

Freebase Dali · 09-07-2012, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

Just filled out the MyFitnessPal registration thing. This certainly makes me feel a bit more confident, considering it's suggesting I burn 1390 cals/week and eat 1900 cals/day when I already burn at minimum 2200 cals/week.
For some reason, it's suggesting I eat 270 grams of carbs and 66 grams of fat a day though.

Anyway, thanks for all the advice. Must appreciated.

I don't know how different the site is from the app, as I only use the app, but I never pay attention to anything but the calorie part. I simply told it my height, weight, and activity level, then it calculated my BMR, then asked me my weight goal, then how much a week I wanted to lose. After that, it gave me my calorie goal for each day, which is around 1,320 in order to lose around 1.5 pounds a week. After that, I just enter what I eat, and it tells me how many calories I have left. When it's not a weekend where I'm drinking, I stop when I hit 0. lol.

I would think the site works the same way.

gunnels · 09-07-2012, 10:48 PM

It works the same way, I just thought the carb and fat intake suggestions were funny. I'll only pay attention to calories as well, really.

Rjinn · 09-09-2012, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Diets do work. It's just about the kind of diet you choose.
Me, I went from 182 to 166 in 3 months simply by doing this weird new "not drinking beer every day" diet and cutting out sodas. But I think that sorta thing should be obvious.
Dieting just means manipulating the way you consume. Whether it's portioning, calorie tracking, changing habits, or whatever, that is a diet as long as you are doing something different for a specific goal.
I think that people probably need to focus more on eating and living normally, and not the normal that our cultures are making us believe is normal, be it through convenient food availability or image enforcement.

I definitely agree that eating regularly is good if you want to maintain a constant metabolism and not put your body into starvation mode, but it's not out of the realm of nature for your body to actually need to use reserves for its fuel. It's the purpose of fat storage, and very much a natural thing for a human being, among many other animals. If a person wishes to lose weight, however, they will need to purposely intake fewer calories than they burn, pure and simple, so that fat storage can be utilized instead of new caloric energy.

Back in the days where we had to scavenge and hunt for our food, surplus caloric material was a matter of survival. These days, not so much, obviously. And in the kind of world we live in where food is as abundant as it is, it's hard not to be the envy of every caveman that ever lived. But at the same time, it's not natural for us to have as much as we have. Our systems were evolved from such that expects us to not always have everything we desire.
When we pour surplus into our bodies, the body just says "hey, I'll be able to use this later!". And of course, there's never any "later" now days.

So, I think that the best course of action would be to not fear hunger. Let it tell you when you should eat, and eat when it tells you. Sate it with natural food, but not mounds of it every time. Think of the hunger response not as a sign that you are deprived, but that your body is functioning as it should be, and sate the response as necessary.

And, above all, exercise like a hunter-gatherer.

Once you stick to it yea. I kinda meant dieting like cutting out the sorta thing that cause weight loss, instead of generally eating healthy (which is what is expected for the body). Generally when people lose weight from a diet like cutting out carbs/fat and eating protein they put it on just as fast, sometimes faster when they stop or revert back. Especially when weight loss becomes slow because there isn't as much fat to lose. Some people who eat as little as possible shoot their metabolism so bad it doesn't quite became the same ever again. It of course depending on the person reacts the body in many different ways.

So really here the "diet" key is finding a regime that works for you. If you want to get results and not cause lack of nutrition.

I've been having to figure that one for ages, not because of weight loss (since I'm diabetic and have to find an appropriate "diet" that won't send my blood sugars high, which pretty much means mostly all low gi foods and little portion carbs). I still can't figure out how to constitute one without feeling tired. I can't even drink juice mostly because of the high sugar content. If I could eat food or find drinks that are healthy and somewhat high in sugar (fructose or glucose instead of sucrose) then it could work out great. So sometimes high content sugar is good for you.