RE: How would you recommend one go down a few pant sizes
February 26, 2017 at 10:41 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2017 at 11:48 pm by Jenny A.)
Eat less exercise more is not very helpful advice. Since my 40s I've been capable of eating around 1300 calories and putting in an hour of aerobic exercise and gaining weight. Lowering my calorie intake further reduced muscle mass rather than fat.
Recently, after reading The Secret Life Of Fat by Sylvia Tera, a book about what we know about when and how fat accumulates and reduces, I designed a diet for myself on which I have lost 8.5 pounds in 6 weeks while adding to my strength and endurance. And I'm eating closer to 1600 calories a day.
It appears that most fat is burned during sleep and that sleeping well and having your last calories well before bedtime matters. So does reducing carbs and allowing yourself to be hungry before meals. Eating too little does reduce muscle mass and weight lost too quickly returns with a vengence.
Currently, I have my first meal after noon. It is a green salad with raw veggies loaded with meat and cheese. I try to avoid dressings with sugar. If I'm hungry I have a small handfuls of nuts or a mug of broth. For dinner, which we have at about 7:30, I have meat and mostly non starchy vegitables, but eat I high vitamin starchy vegetables in low quantity. I exercise before lunch for thirty minutes and that's just a brisk walk uphill. I make sure to get at least eight hours sleep. When my weight loss levels off, I will tweak this diet until I begin to lose again.
Because weight loss is never guaranteed, I'm rewarding myself for keeping the diet, not for weight lost. Weight loss is its own reward.
It isn't magic, but after trying and failing while eating less and exercising more, it feels like it.
Recently, after reading The Secret Life Of Fat by Sylvia Tera, a book about what we know about when and how fat accumulates and reduces, I designed a diet for myself on which I have lost 8.5 pounds in 6 weeks while adding to my strength and endurance. And I'm eating closer to 1600 calories a day.
It appears that most fat is burned during sleep and that sleeping well and having your last calories well before bedtime matters. So does reducing carbs and allowing yourself to be hungry before meals. Eating too little does reduce muscle mass and weight lost too quickly returns with a vengence.
Currently, I have my first meal after noon. It is a green salad with raw veggies loaded with meat and cheese. I try to avoid dressings with sugar. If I'm hungry I have a small handfuls of nuts or a mug of broth. For dinner, which we have at about 7:30, I have meat and mostly non starchy vegitables, but eat I high vitamin starchy vegetables in low quantity. I exercise before lunch for thirty minutes and that's just a brisk walk uphill. I make sure to get at least eight hours sleep. When my weight loss levels off, I will tweak this diet until I begin to lose again.
Because weight loss is never guaranteed, I'm rewarding myself for keeping the diet, not for weight lost. Weight loss is its own reward.
It isn't magic, but after trying and failing while eating less and exercising more, it feels like it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
