Weight-Loss Plateuing for seemingly MONTHS! Need help on Diet and everything . .
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Mad4Chillas
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I used to teach a class on nutrition, and the fat topic is one that confuses most people, so let me try to help:
For fats, like Mcdonalds, Its mostly saturated fat which is the kind of fat that can clog your arteries and raise your cholesterol etc (saturated fats are hard at room temperature, butter, animal fat, lard)... You want the amount of saturated fat in your diet usually less than 10-15 grams a day.
On a nutrition label, look at the amount of just "fat" it should be listed in grams, a typical person eat from about 20-30% of fat from their diet (Like Steve had mentioned) so if your eating 3,000 calories then the amount of fat you should be having would be about 65g-100g/per day. If you were eating 2,000 calories then your range would be around 45-65g/per day.
Generally Trans fat is a no! I would reccomend not ingesting trans fat at all. This kind of fat is a weird molecule that your body cannot digest, so it literally stays inside the body and wreacks havoc on your arteries, heart, etc.
Other fats on a nutrition label such as unsaturated fats are good fats. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature and these can help your cholesterol, and weight loss in a good way (In moderation at least) Fats such as polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, etc...are very good fats and help with skin, hair, etc. But make sure that you dont go overboard on these kind of fats, because they are still fat---and still only need about 20-30% of your diet.
Good sources of fat like steve had mentioned, would be fish, nuts (any kind of nuts really the best would be unsalted, non-roasted varieties) avocados, canola oil, olive oil, peanut oil, flaxseed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, seeds (pumpkin, sesame, etc).
I hope this helps a little: heres a site that explains more in depth about fats
For fats, like Mcdonalds, Its mostly saturated fat which is the kind of fat that can clog your arteries and raise your cholesterol etc (saturated fats are hard at room temperature, butter, animal fat, lard)... You want the amount of saturated fat in your diet usually less than 10-15 grams a day.
On a nutrition label, look at the amount of just "fat" it should be listed in grams, a typical person eat from about 20-30% of fat from their diet (Like Steve had mentioned) so if your eating 3,000 calories then the amount of fat you should be having would be about 65g-100g/per day. If you were eating 2,000 calories then your range would be around 45-65g/per day.
Generally Trans fat is a no! I would reccomend not ingesting trans fat at all. This kind of fat is a weird molecule that your body cannot digest, so it literally stays inside the body and wreacks havoc on your arteries, heart, etc.
Other fats on a nutrition label such as unsaturated fats are good fats. Unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature and these can help your cholesterol, and weight loss in a good way (In moderation at least) Fats such as polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, etc...are very good fats and help with skin, hair, etc. But make sure that you dont go overboard on these kind of fats, because they are still fat---and still only need about 20-30% of your diet.
Good sources of fat like steve had mentioned, would be fish, nuts (any kind of nuts really the best would be unsalted, non-roasted varieties) avocados, canola oil, olive oil, peanut oil, flaxseed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, seeds (pumpkin, sesame, etc).
I hope this helps a little: heres a site that explains more in depth about fats
dont know much about the master cleans, but what i know is that you dont eat food and instead have a lemonade with pepper in it a few times a day as a meal substitute? and do this for 1 to 2 weeks? but general common knowledge is that not eating = slows down metabolism
now yeah you may loose some weight (probably most of it fat since you are fairly big) but then what happens when you go back to eating normally? you will most likely gain all the weight back that you lost through fasting, and worse case scenerio you may even binge because you have deprived your body of food and put even more weight on than you have lost. i think the person who told you it resets your metabolism was misleading you. good luck though, and wish you all the best on your weight-loss journey.
now yeah you may loose some weight (probably most of it fat since you are fairly big) but then what happens when you go back to eating normally? you will most likely gain all the weight back that you lost through fasting, and worse case scenerio you may even binge because you have deprived your body of food and put even more weight on than you have lost. i think the person who told you it resets your metabolism was misleading you. good luck though, and wish you all the best on your weight-loss journey.
Thanks for all the info everyone . .
Well, between monitoring my exercise and my calorie intake for yesterday . . Fit-Day says I had a calorie deficiency of 1363.
So, I burned 1363 more calories than I took in yesterday. Isn't 2500 a pound?
This isn't abnormal for me, BTW. In fact, before last week I generally ate a little less.
Well, between monitoring my exercise and my calorie intake for yesterday . . Fit-Day says I had a calorie deficiency of 1363.
So, I burned 1363 more calories than I took in yesterday. Isn't 2500 a pound?
This isn't abnormal for me, BTW. In fact, before last week I generally ate a little less.
jeffisbig
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When I first started I didn't realize how vigilant you need to be with calories.
I wasn't being honest with myself on my actual calorie intake. I was snacking (what I thought was just tiny things and so I didn't need to count them.)
When I started to count them I realized how truly off my calories were. Its pretty incredible how off in calorie estimates (or portion estimates) you can be and not realize.
Do you write down all your meals? Do you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? I got a free app Lose It! (it includes that ! in the name, not me=p ) it lets you list all your food for the day and has a tracker for your calories for the day, how many are left, and even accounts for exercise. It has a pretty extensive exercise and food list for a free app. You can add your own foods with your own names and calorie counts. Plus, it stores foods you've entered before for easy re-entry.
If you don't have an iPhone i guess thats useless, but its helped me a lot.
I wasn't being honest with myself on my actual calorie intake. I was snacking (what I thought was just tiny things and so I didn't need to count them.)
When I started to count them I realized how truly off my calories were. Its pretty incredible how off in calorie estimates (or portion estimates) you can be and not realize.
Do you write down all your meals? Do you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? I got a free app Lose It! (it includes that ! in the name, not me=p ) it lets you list all your food for the day and has a tracker for your calories for the day, how many are left, and even accounts for exercise. It has a pretty extensive exercise and food list for a free app. You can add your own foods with your own names and calorie counts. Plus, it stores foods you've entered before for easy re-entry.
If you don't have an iPhone i guess thats useless, but its helped me a lot.
Wow . . somehow I took in 3900 calories yesterday. WTH??
It didn't even seem like I ate that much more. So at the very least, the estimates I make in my head throughout the day aren't very accurate.
Still though, I burned 700 calories according to Fitday.
jeffisbig, Thanks, but I don't have an Iphone. Sounds like a portable Fitday that would be really useful though.
It didn't even seem like I ate that much more. So at the very least, the estimates I make in my head throughout the day aren't very accurate.
Still though, I burned 700 calories according to Fitday.
jeffisbig, Thanks, but I don't have an Iphone. Sounds like a portable Fitday that would be really useful though.
Mad4Chillas
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That sounds completely true, do you know of a lot of people that overestimate their calories?? When working with a lot of ED patients I notice that they tend to overestimate their calories greatly, and then I think "Uh oh" because I do that too...better safe than sorry, but I have strong background in nutrition and have always been pretty vigilent...I guess it just depends on person!
I can count my clients I've worked with who answered their intro questionnaires accurately when it came to knowing how many calories they eat per day. And I've been doing this for a long time.
It's just the way it goes. People don't have a firm grasp on how much they're actually eating. The caloric density of most popular foods today doesn't make the process any simpler.
It's just the way it goes. People don't have a firm grasp on how much they're actually eating. The caloric density of most popular foods today doesn't make the process any simpler.