psychadelic90
New member
Hello all
This is my first post on the forum, so let me provide a bit of background information
I've always been slightly overweight from a young age, but it reached obesity in my younger teenage years. I had come acorss a few personal-trainers, but when I reached that part of the weight-loss, where you stop losing weight, it seems they'd always give up on me.
When I got out of high school, i took an entire year to myself, not enrolling in school, or getting a full-time job yet. I met another personal trainer whor eally helped me get back on track, however, my real weightloss began when he became too busy to see me (he did it for free)
So, around that time, I had gone from 350+ (unregistered on the scale), to about 330
Fast foward to a year later, and I'm happy to say I am at 189. My diet was simple, i began to eat organic/vegan, more natural ways of eating, every 3 hours
Recently, I've been put on a medication called Cipro, which prevents me from really pushing it in my cardio work-outs, but I do still push it.
I've began to read about low-carb diets. At the moment, I consume roughly 150, maybe more, carbs a day from whole grains, vegetables, fruit, etc
My research conflicts itself, as I do not fully understand what a low-carb diet DOES to you. I have read it can and will ruin your metabolism, and since i've really trained my metabolism well (I think), I do not want to mess it up at this point in my weight-loss. It intrigued me because I still have a slight bit of fat in the abdomen, sides, hips, thighs, etc, and I am unsure whether to keep on the life-style eating plan I've been on that helped me lose all the weight in the first place, or take a more rapid approach for a "diet", to cut out more carbs temporarily. I have read your body will begin to eat those "trouble-spots" away if you do this.
This is basically a rough graph of what i eat day-to-day
Breakfast: Hemp protein shake w/half banana and almond milk, some berries (a tiny beat of each variety, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, etc) , and a bowl of cereal w/more almond milk (this is probably my largest meal, getting roughly 50-60 carbs, and maybe 300-400 calories)
Lunch: A handful of nuts, and a 6inch (whole-wheat), gutted sub roll, w/green peppers, tomatoe, avacado (sometimes), shredded carrot (sometimes) cucumber, black olive,and a leafy green mix of spinach, aspargus, etc
Dinner: the same exact thing as above
post-dinner snack?: Protein bar, hemp seeds, and some seeded-crackers
And that is basically it, all spaced 3-4 hours apart. I was thinking of simply cutting out the bread, all of it, from my lunch/dinner sandwhiches, and making a salad out of it. it is important to note I am trying to get at least 75% of my intake from raw/live foods
How does this sound to the more advanced/knowledgable people of the forum?
Thanks in advance
P.S. I just noticed I named the topic, low-card diet question, lol
This is my first post on the forum, so let me provide a bit of background information
I've always been slightly overweight from a young age, but it reached obesity in my younger teenage years. I had come acorss a few personal-trainers, but when I reached that part of the weight-loss, where you stop losing weight, it seems they'd always give up on me.
When I got out of high school, i took an entire year to myself, not enrolling in school, or getting a full-time job yet. I met another personal trainer whor eally helped me get back on track, however, my real weightloss began when he became too busy to see me (he did it for free)
So, around that time, I had gone from 350+ (unregistered on the scale), to about 330
Fast foward to a year later, and I'm happy to say I am at 189. My diet was simple, i began to eat organic/vegan, more natural ways of eating, every 3 hours
Recently, I've been put on a medication called Cipro, which prevents me from really pushing it in my cardio work-outs, but I do still push it.
I've began to read about low-carb diets. At the moment, I consume roughly 150, maybe more, carbs a day from whole grains, vegetables, fruit, etc
My research conflicts itself, as I do not fully understand what a low-carb diet DOES to you. I have read it can and will ruin your metabolism, and since i've really trained my metabolism well (I think), I do not want to mess it up at this point in my weight-loss. It intrigued me because I still have a slight bit of fat in the abdomen, sides, hips, thighs, etc, and I am unsure whether to keep on the life-style eating plan I've been on that helped me lose all the weight in the first place, or take a more rapid approach for a "diet", to cut out more carbs temporarily. I have read your body will begin to eat those "trouble-spots" away if you do this.
This is basically a rough graph of what i eat day-to-day
Breakfast: Hemp protein shake w/half banana and almond milk, some berries (a tiny beat of each variety, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, etc) , and a bowl of cereal w/more almond milk (this is probably my largest meal, getting roughly 50-60 carbs, and maybe 300-400 calories)
Lunch: A handful of nuts, and a 6inch (whole-wheat), gutted sub roll, w/green peppers, tomatoe, avacado (sometimes), shredded carrot (sometimes) cucumber, black olive,and a leafy green mix of spinach, aspargus, etc
Dinner: the same exact thing as above
post-dinner snack?: Protein bar, hemp seeds, and some seeded-crackers
And that is basically it, all spaced 3-4 hours apart. I was thinking of simply cutting out the bread, all of it, from my lunch/dinner sandwhiches, and making a salad out of it. it is important to note I am trying to get at least 75% of my intake from raw/live foods
How does this sound to the more advanced/knowledgable people of the forum?
Thanks in advance
P.S. I just noticed I named the topic, low-card diet question, lol
