My Diet (featuring a cameo by JulyZerg.) - Page 3

On August 29 2009 20:07 Starparty wrote:
wow youre way taller than i expected. cool

On August 29 2009 16:23 Energies wrote:
A couple of years ago I felt the same, rock bottom self confidence, severely obese and hated my life, I started to make a very slow changes, I won't go in depth but more info in my two fitness blogs. As I started to lose a bit of weight, started feeling healthy and started feeling better and happier due to the healthier foods I was eating my self confidence started to grow, and it turned into a very amazing cycle. As my confidence went up so did my motivation and as my motivation went up so did my fitness levels. Rinse and repeat.



At one point of time, I would have been your kindred spirit in this remark, but having gone through it. Sweetheart, you are dead wrong, you can have that body and better.

When I started losing weight, I was 5'6" 98kg.. I am unfortunately still the same height . But now weigh 70kg, with a nice deal of muscle mass. When I started I also had no delusions of becoming a mens health cover model, the concept wasn't even in my reality, it just wasn't possible, I just wanted to lose the weight. I am now at a point where I am fitter and healthier than the average citizen and I'm only a couple months away from something I once thought was impossible, by the time summer comes around, I will be walking around the beach with a set of sick-pack abs I could be proud of. So don't threat .

Onto some quick tips, I wouldn't by any means cut out meat. Nothing better than lean chicken! But things like Tuna, Salmon, even some shellfish have a ton of protein and are very healthy for you, you also need red meat in moderation to help maintain your levels of zinc, iron and you also do need some low levels of saturated fats to keep your heart healthy.

Drink tons of water and green tea, and coffee isn't even that bad, a couple of cups a day is ok, it's a great stimulant and arguable the best legal fat burner available.

Your yes foods list is great, just consume out of that list 5-6 times a day, small portions with a massive breakfast.

Exercise is important but not vital for initial fat loss, I lost about 8-12kg without too much exercise, all I was doing was the same as you, stopping one station earlier on the train and walking home, about 2km, and once maybe twice a week I'd attempt a 2-3km run/walk. First time I ever tried to run, I ran for about 40 seconds and nearly passed out. I can now comfortably go for 40 minutes. So any health issues you think you may have now, a great possibility that the problems will solve themselves as you get healthier.

I would incorporate body weight exercises, things like pushups, or knee pushups if you can't do full ones, body weight squats, find a bench or something and do dips, because even though you can lose the weight without too much exercise, it's the exercise that releases those hormones into your body making you feel relaxed, happier and eventually filled with confidence.

Bah! I started rambling on again..

Good luck!

On August 30 2009 03:29 VorcePA wrote:
You seem to be mildly over-reacting, Never, as so many women do. Now, I can understand wanting to lose weight, because your current weight to height ratio is a bit high, although I would have never guessed from the 1-2 pictures I've seen you in.

It's unfortunate that every one here has put in their own advice, and some of it is good, while some of it is bad, so you get this convoluted mess of information mixed with support mixed with misinformation. Everyone has the best of intentions but enough people have some really bad advice along with it, which all the "you can do it!"s and "good luck"s won't fix.

My advice is to learn about food. Just from looking at your list of Yes/No foods I can see you have secondhand information that you don't truly understand. You took out soda but left in low fat yogurt (an unhealthy product taken out, while an unhealthy product left in). You took out cheese, but left in Soy products (both relatively high in fat). Why? You'll lose weight on that diet, but it's a toss up as to whether you'll be healthy or not. So my other question would be: why not do both?

Here are the basics to having a good diet, simply from knowing how and what to eat and why:

- The overwhelming majority of products described as "low fat" are unhealthy, because without whatever chemicals they throw in as an alternative to sugar/fat/salt would taste like dog food.

- High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is poison. Plain and simple. Your body produces more insulin to compensate for how highly refined the sugar is, causing your pancreas to go out sooner (Diabetes). Scientists are up in the air as to how it effects leptin going to the brain, but they're all sure is that it does effect it. Leptin is the protein that regulates how hungry you are, and if you have too little or too much, you're going to get fat. Having too much leptin (one theory is that HFCS causes an overproduction of leptin) is also a sign of early on-set diabetes, as well. Finally, HFCS is empty carbs, which means your body will spend less energy to use it and store it than what you took in from consuming it, causing your fat cells to grow.

- Fat isn't bad for you. You want to lose weight, I know. But fat still isn't bad for you. Saturated fat still isn't terrible, but should be consumed in much lower quantities. You want to avoid unsaturated fat. Do not eat anything with the weird unsaturated fats such as polyunsaturated and monounsaturated.

- Partial Hydrogenation. It's almost as bad as high fructose corn syrup. HFCS will cause diabetes, block leptin, and cause obesity, but partially hydrogenated soybean oil and the like is a more focused chemical. It adds a great flavor to food, but it -will- make you fat. Avoid anything with partial hydrogenation.

- Fruits are good for you, in almost any quantity. The sugars contained in them are less complex than the stuff you'll find in vegetables, but it's a far cry from HFCS. Anti-oxidants, vitamin C, real sugar -- all good for you. Eat fruit like it's the only food left in the world.

- Learn to cook. You didn't mention if you do or not, so I'm just going to toss it in here if you don't. Whether you buy a cookbook, watch shows, look online for recipes, take a class, or whatever -- cooking at home ensures you know what goes in your food (provided you read). I watch Good Eats (from the food network) because it's informative, kind of funny, and available on YouTube.

On August 30 2009 11:34 Saracen wrote:
Slimming up for ForGG, I see omg you're so tall! Give me a few of those inches to add to my height T__T Good luck, though!

On August 31 2009 11:29 ghermination wrote:
From another thread like two days ago
"Insert generic LOL JULY IS FAT HERE joke, while ignoring the fact that he was a promising baseball player in highschool and is still a promising athlete"

Just because he's moderately overweight doesn't mean he isn't in better shape than you.

Considering you've probably met him i don't see why you would get in on the jokes, although its not like you've ever played baseball with him (he's very good)

On August 31 2009 11:22 NeverGG wrote:


Thank you - I'm going to try and research foods more comprehensively in the future. I am not that knowledgeable so it would be good to know which ones are beneficial to me at this stage in my life.

I can cook, but I'm not that good. I'm going to ask my Mum to send me some of the spices and herbs we cannot get here (if possible.) so I can make my dishes a bit more interesting without having to resort to drowning them in ketchup like I usually do.