1st-I am not a Doctor, I am not a Nutritionist. That being said, take it or leave it. This is information I have found throughout the years.
I started in my per-teen years to go on diets. My family didn't call them diets, they didn't want me to feel bad. Not really called diets, more of you shouldn't have those things and maybe cutting back on some junk food. They were suggestions about my weight. So I have had my share of crash diets that seem to go nowhere.
One was a tablet I bought over the phone. It was one of the TV programs that is late at night and states everything promise it can to draw you in. Yea I fell for it more then a few dozen of times over the years. I only took a tablet that you put in your morning cup on coffee once a day. That lead me to gain 20 pounds in 2 weeks. That was unreal to me. I called them up where I order the tablets and was told "you gain weight before you lose weight on this item". I stopped it, that was stupid to me.
Watching calories was a good thing and forever I'm a fan of doing so. I eat bags I made of Negative foods, but don't take the calories away from my daily calories. I just don't add negative calories to my daily calorie intake. And if I have a sweet tooth so I have bags I label. By doing this I know I only get to have so many bags a day, depending on what else I was having that day. I have had days where I get no treat bags. Other times I can have up to 5 bags. This all depends on how many calories each bag ends up being.
This is what I do I buy the normal size of chips, cookies, candy and whatever snacking treat I want. I have a big box of baggies I open. I open everything and based off the calories I place them into each bag, labeling the bags for calories and sugar if any. I try not to buy food with sugar as my own personal rule, but sugar gets added to a lot of things. Somethings you wouldn't think would have sugar, yep it does. I put all in a basket I have, you can put them were ever if you want to try this. I mix the bags and found it to be less boring, when you're not having to eat the same treat everyday.
I use to buy at a normal store my treats, chips and cookies. Things of that nature I would get for making my treat bags. But noticed big time I couldn't shop like that no more. One being it took awhile before different stores started to carry some of what I can have, other then fruit and vegetables. Going to special stores are, I'm not lying EXPENSIVE. Gluten Free to start with, yes you can find deals and I look for those. But I have a hard time paying 3-4 for A burrito, so I make mine. Half the cost and I really know what I'm putting into my body. Times have changed yes we all have busy lives. I am not apart from that statement. There are times I cave and have Frozen Meals, but I try hard not to. Also just because I love to cook and the idea that I can make something healthy for myself.
I hated this one, making a Daily Food Journal. I knew the added benefit of having one. But only really maintained one when my food allergy's started to present themselves. This left me no choice in doing so. I came to find a good list of items that were some of the cause of my worry. That and add in my Doctor at that time had me on over 20 different types of medication. That made my daily life a mess. Walking into walks, falling off of chairs, waking up with muscle spasms. And with all this my headaches never once left me. I had a rash Head to Toe, no joke I was covered all over. I wasn't taken off anything, just given more medication. This was the point when my family stepped in and took me to the Hospital. Which I was took to slowly wing off all the medication. Because they weren't really medications to be taken together. After I started taken a lot of this medication. My body's reactions to food, soap, left me in a dazed mind set. The reactions are still here and am told might always be. No rash when I stay away from different foods, soaps. So I stay away, not throwing up daily. So that is a added bonus to keep me on track, wrong way to stay forced. I know really I know that one very clearly.
A Journal can help you in determining what you were eating, drinking, how you were working out. On a daily bases you keep track of all these things. Giving you a more understanding of how your body. Not someone else body reacts but how your body does. This helps you maintain your weight, lose weight, or gain weight-whichever the goals you have for yourselves.
Dieting is funny, I say that because that word DIET is so not funny. It comes with so much under the label of that one word. I think it's meant to torment the public.
Simple: The more you eat, the more your stomach stretches to maintain your growing appetite to just eat. Learning that you can live, maintain, and enjoy yourselves without that need to eat all the time. Or without all the said rules places in every diet of what you can't, what you can. You need to just change your life style, the viewpoint of which you might have grown accustom too. If you look at it that you are not on a diet, then you're not on a diet. Only you are enjoying a healthier life style in ways that eating aids to.
I've been on some of the Fad Diets out there and stopped do to lack of noticing a difference in my waist size. And the weight scale seemed to forever hated me as a teen and in most of my 20's. I've went on diet pills that never worked, then I found a few but didn't work they way they were said to. I'd lose, but nothing like the 5-15 pounds in a month that was guarantee on the label.
Eating meals that you have to only eat what they give to you. Left me feeling hungry all the time. I found I was missing food, in that sense of the word. I wasn't satisfied on those types of diets. They left me very restricted. And I wasn't big on others telling me how to run my way of thinking. Didn't matter that it was only about food.
I had a co-worker that once went on a diet that she could only eat for hours each day. Anything she wanted, but it had to be within those hours the diet stated. This slows down the metabolism in your body, it might have worked to start with for her. But her health wasn't the goal overall she was striving for.
I was my train wreck, my bad choose left and right. I maintained yes, but never noticed losing anything by crash dieting. That is for myself, I have no clue what others it does to. I just know that it doesn't work for me. I need a life choice, like in school I always got easily distracted by other things. Same with diets, I always wanted what I wasn't allowed.
If you are always changing your eating habits. It's going from one high to the next low. Your body will fight back. Meaning your metabolism won't know what you are doing to it. Also adding to that same thought of your metabolism. If you eat under a number of calories for your body to maintain itself. Your metabolism will become slower the your normal, meaning the normal of what your own metabolism should be. I do get we are all different in so many ways, beauty, health, style, taste, belief. But health isn't a crash course to great health. It's meant to be a lifelong working procession for each individual.
I've seen a teen girl, change her eating habits for 2 weeks. Only eating cottage cheese and apples, maybe a salad without dressing and no meat. This leaves you with only in taking the calories of the cottage cheese. Depending of the brand, the low fat, no fat. You throw your metabolism into wack. Because the very day came of what she wanted to lose the weight for. She went out and over ate to make up for lost time. This means after awhile of your body not getting the calories it needs. Once it starts it will lead to a Fat Calorie Storing mode. Whatever you eat for a time turns into fat, until your body feels as if it won't be starved again.
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