Really gotta change my diet =/

[fustercluck]

Diet has been really bad the past few months, and the consequences are showing. Last night I had brownies and licorice for dinner. That was after having taco bell for lunch.

So, I need to eat better. The problem is I'm a picky eater and there's never much of a food choice. And Instead of eating 5 smaller portioned meals a day, I usually eat just one or two giant meals a day. Takes a lot of eating to make me feel full (1 lbs+ of food). I'm not too great at cooking. I won't eat any vegetables. Fruit I like.

I just eat whatever I feel like usually. Don't like to have to put a lot of thought into what I'm going to eat. Don't like long preparations either...just making scrambled cheese eggs is a lot of work. Get all the cookware/ingredients out, wait for oven to heat up, then all of the dishes...damn the dishes.

Doesn't help that I have terrible sleeping problems also. I'm always very much out of energy.

Would like to drop 50-60 lbs. I have done so in the past, so I know I can do it. I can take care of the exercising part, just need help fixing my diet. Any kind of drugs I could take to assist me along the way? No no, not those bad kinds of drugs (unless you got something really good ). Just something to give me energy and help burn fat or make me feel full. Dietary supplements I guess is what I'm thinking of...sounds better than 'drugs' anyways.

Maybe there's some good sites out there to help me change my diet?

cliffs:
I'm a fatty
need to eat better

 

[Vehemence]

Fitday.com is a great tool to track your dieting.

 

[Kirby]

Pics?

 

[Theb]

My advice is have a heart attack and die.

or diabeetus.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: dNor
Fitday.com is a great tool to track your dieting.

Yup. You need to start figuring out exactly what you are eating each day (number of calories, grams of fat, carbs, and protein) and go from there.

 

[polarmystery]

Originally posted by: wankawitz
Diet has been really bad the past few months, and the consequences are showing. Last night I had brownies and licorice for dinner. That was after having taco bell for lunch.

So, I need to eat better. The problem is I'm a picky eater and there's never much of a food choice. And Instead of eating 5 smaller portioned meals a day, I usually eat just one or two giant meals a day. Takes a lot of eating to make me feel full (1 lbs+ of food). I'm not too great at cooking. I won't eat any vegetables. Fruit I like.

I just eat whatever I feel like usually. Don't like to have to put a lot of thought into what I'm going to eat. Don't like long preparations either...just making scrambled cheese eggs is a lot of work. Get all the cookware/ingredients out, wait for oven to heat up, then all of the dishes...damn the dishes.

Doesn't help that I have terrible sleeping problems also. I'm always very much out of energy.

Would like to drop 50-60 lbs. I have done so in the past, so I know I can do it. I can take care of the exercising part, just need help fixing my diet. Any kind of drugs I could take to assist me along the way? No no, not those bad kinds of drugs (unless you got something really good ). Just something to give me energy and help burn fat or make me feel full. Dietary supplements I guess is what I'm thinking of...sounds better than 'drugs' anyways.

Maybe there's some good sites out there to help me change my diet?

cliffs:
I'm a fatty
need to eat better

1) You better start eating veggies. You will be floored by how much eating vegetables can help your body out. They are incredibly nutrient dense and make you feel less full to boot. (which will also help remove toxins in your body to promote fat loss).

2) Rule of thumb. Your abs are made in the kitchen. In order of importance: Diet, Water, Sleep, Exercise. Exercise means nothing if you are not feeding your body what it needs to burn calories.

3) Fat burning pills work with your already existing diet. There is no magic pill. Most of the diet pills contain a LOT of caffeine and you need to have a good diet plan and exercise plan to benefit from them.

The bottom line is people stay fat because they are lazy. It is very hard to change your lifestyle but unless you start you will never reach the finish line. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't lazy sometimes myself, we all are. But the real motivation must come within yourself.

Start by switching out processed grains (white breads) with whole-wheat breads/grains to your diet. It will aid you in your tiredness. You don't have to eliminate coke's/pop/soda's completely if you drink them all the time, but you are going to start having to reduce the frequency. And learn to eat even when you are NOT hungry. That alone will help the most in weight loss. People have a giant misconception that they only need to eat when they are hungry but wonder why they don't lose weight. Eating more often (with less amounts) will be the biggest contributor to weight loss. I guarantee it.

 

[Rudee]

Wrong forum.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: wankawitz


Doesn't help that I have terrible sleeping problems also. I'm always very much out of energy.

Those are a direct result of your poor eating habits.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: polarmystery


1) You better start eating veggies. You will be floored by how much eating vegetables can help your body out. They are incredibly nutrient dense and make you feel less full to boot. (which will also help remove toxins in your body to promote fat loss).

2) Rule of thumb. Your abs are made in the kitchen. In order of importance: Diet, Water, Sleep, Exercise. Exercise means nothing if you are not feeding your body what it needs to burn calories.

3) Fat burning pills work with your already existing diet. There is no magic pill. Most of the diet pills contain a LOT of caffeine and you need to have a good diet plan and exercise plan to benefit from them.

The bottom line is people stay fat because they are lazy. It is very hard to change your lifestyle but unless you start you will never reach the finish line. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't lazy sometimes myself, we all are. But the real motivation must come within yourself.

Start by switching out processed grains (white breads) with whole-wheat breads/grains to your diet. It will aid you in your tiredness. You don't have to eliminate coke's/pop/soda's completely if you drink them all the time, but you are going to start having to reduce the frequency. And learn to eat even when you are NOT hungry. That alone will help the most in weight loss. People have a giant misconception that they only need to eat when they are hungry but wonder why they don't lose weight. Eating more often (with less amounts) will be the biggest contributor to weight loss. I guarantee it.

Well said, 4-6 smaller meals per day for the win.

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: Theb
My advice is have a heart attack and die.

or diabeetus.

Hilarious. Maybe you should follow your own advice?

Originally posted by: polarmystery


1) You better start eating veggies. You will be floored by how much eating vegetables can help your body out. They are incredibly nutrient dense and make you feel less full to boot. (which will also help remove toxins in your body to promote fat loss).

2) Rule of thumb. Your abs are made in the kitchen. In order of importance: Diet, Water, Sleep, Exercise. Exercise means nothing if you are not feeding your body what it needs to burn calories.

3) Fat burning pills work with your already existing diet. There is no magic pill. Most of the diet pills contain a LOT of caffeine and you need to have a good diet plan and exercise plan to benefit from them.

.

This is a good start. You need that mentality first that you are going to accept change. Some people feel that it's too much work and become despondent. Those people remain fat. Your diet should include a variety of fruits as well as vegetables and exercise is key. Going for a jog/walk in the early morning (when the air is freshest generally) can do wonders, too.

 

[dullard]

You don't need or even want a diet change. All that will do is to give you a very short-term weight loss that you end with a massive binge in a couple of months (if you make it that long). You'll end up heavier, less energetic, less healthy, and more pessimistic than you are now. Diets don't work. Never have, never will.

What you really need is a lifestyle change. If you make a permanent change to the way you approach life, then you can lose the weight, you can feel and actually be healthier. You have to care much more about yourself. You have to tackle the difficult problems you face (You might have to wash a pot! The horror!). You have to face this head-on and decide that you will fix the fundamental problems. Yes it'll take more effort. Yes, you'll have to do some things differently. Its a lifestyle change. But, in the end, you'll be eating tastier food, you'll look and feel good, and you'll be happy. Isn't maximizing happiness what life is about?

Magic pills won't do it either. No pill will clean a dirty pot. You will have to do it. If you aren't willing to do it, then leave here now and go back to your old fat lifestyle. No diet or pill will help. Stop reading this thread, it isn't for you.




Ok, you are still reading. Now, there are simple things to start with.

1) Determine that you will make yourself better. Now and forever. If not, just stop trying and stop reading this post.

2) Determine that you will tackle the difficult work. You will wash a few dishes (although a healthy meal can be just one pot and a spoon). You will purchase and prepare healthy food. You will stop buying unhealthy food. You will eat vegetables. You will solve your problems rather than look for a bandaid to cover a gushing wound.

3) Start small but think big.

4) Frist things first, add in fiber. Fiber is food that you can eat as much of as you want but your body can't digest it. In fact, bad foods (fat and calories) stick to fiber and get flushed out with it. Meaning that you lose weight without even trying. Start by adding in a high-fiber cereal if you like cereal, or high-fiber bread if you like sandwhiches, or toss in one spoonful of Benefiber per drink (whatever you drink as Benefiber has no flavor), or if you are lazy try the Fiber One Oats and Peanut Butter bars. Those bars are so tasty, you'll crave them every day. And the more of those bars you eat, the more you'll lose. Fiber has been shown again and again to be the best long term diet. But do it slowly, one bar a day or one bowl a day or one spoonful of fiber. If you don't go slowly, you'll have bad gas. After a few weeks, you can go up to two per day and eventually three.

5) Add in spices and herbs. Remember, fat and sugar taste good. But so do spices and herbs. Guess which one is better for you. Go overboard. Make it taste REALLY good by having LOTS of herbs and spices. If you like hot foods (like jalepenos) then add in as much of that as you want. Salsa is virtually calorie free and very healthy. Hot peppers make you eat far less and still be full.

6) Find simple receipes. At least once a week I put a pot on the stove, poor in noodles and a bag of frozen vegetables. Turn on the stove and in 10-15 minutes, you have the healthiest meal you've ever eaten. Sprinkle on herbs and spices that you REALLY like and you have your meal in one pot to clean. Skip the bowl and eat it right from the pot if you don't like doing dishes. It is even easier to make than Mac & Cheese. If you put on enough good herbs/spices, you'll think it tastes better too.

7) Look for satisfying foods. Foods that make you feel full for a long time, not foods that make you feel full just for a few minutes. Consider baked potatoes, eat the skin, and covered with all the spices you love. That will keep you full for hours. The exact same taste (same spices) with the exact same amount of calories (same serving size) in french fries won't fill you up more than a few minutes.

I could go on and on. You have to choose to make a change. A permanent change. A change that you won't abandon even if you do have one binge on say Thanksgiving day or on a day that you are feeling blue. A lifestyle change.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

do not eat until you feel full.

what's your height and weight?

 

[pac1085]

This sounds exactly like me a few months back. I don't eat many vegetables and I posted a thread on AT and got the same replies. I didn't make any changes to my diet until my doctor scared the crap out of me for having high blood pressure, etc. I was 22 yrs old / 265 lbs in June. I'm down to 218 lbs now, without any exercise, pills or anything, just a diet / lifestyle change. I used to eat like you, big meals and brownies at night etc. I still don't eat that great at dinner, but I think the most important part is breakfast. I never ate breakfast before, and went out to lunch every day. Now I eat breakfast and bring my lunch to work. I try to eat better at dinner, but don't always. I was pretty strict about it when I first started but I've relaxed that a bit (and stopped losing weight)

To give you an idea here's what I eat every day...

breakfast -
1 serving of some sort of cereal around 100 calories (bran flakes, corn flakes, even captn crunch, but bran flakes has way more fiber) - i usually put a packet of splenda in there so it doesn't taste so plain.
low fat / skim milk (about 1/2 cup)
1 english muffin with either butter or light cream cheese
1 glass of orange juice (8 oz)

lunch:
sandwich with 3 oz of meat - i've been doing turkey lately, but ill throw a little roast beef in to mix things up. tuna is good too (I ate tons of tuna when I first started)
2 slices of light wheat bread
1 tbps of low fat mayo - you can use mustaard too but no cheese.
6 vanilla wafers or saltine crackers
1 apple

when I first started I tried to eat fish for dinner (tilapia / haddock) baked in the oven w/ lemon pepper seasoning. id have a serving of instant mashed potatoes and brocooli with them. i made sure not to snack in between meals and drank a lot of water.

Since I don't eat many vegetables I drank the V8 fusion juice which is a serving of fruit / vegetables, it's not bad.


it doesn't sound like a lot but it definitely fills me up. i think the biggest changes are:
1) eating breakfest
2) I don't stuff my self or snack inbetween meals
3) eating more fiber
4) low fat foods

i never really looked at food labels before but now i do and its like holy crap, I can't believe I used to eat so much of that stuff.

there's a lot more that i could/should do, but this worked for me, i need to get back on track to get down to 190 lbs or so (my goal) but the first 50 lbs were easy. it made me realize how bad I ate before, and I can't eat like I used to, it makes me sick

 

[Chryso]

Eat vegetables. Nobody said you have to like them.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Try thinking of food in terms of calories and the amount of physical work it will take to burn them. That brownie? Thats an mile on the tread mill. That candy? Thats 2 hours on the bike.

High Calorie foods will start to look a little less attractive if you can associate them with extra hours of elevated heart rate.

But you'll also need to follow through with a regular workout. Join a gym and hire a trainer and join work out classes (spin, cardio, etc...) to keep you there on a regular basis

 

[ed21x]

exercising in general provides motivation to eat healthy because you don't want all that work to go to waste. Also, long walks are good for speeding up the metabolism, as well as wearing slightly fewer layers. This forces your body to a higher metabolic state by expending more calories for you to keep warm.

Lastly, get up early, eat, and go to sleep at the correct time. Eat all your meals at the time they should be designated (8am, 12 pm, 7pm), with a 3 o'clock snack if necessary.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: pac1085
breakfast -
good - 1 serving of some sort of cereal around 100 calories (bran flakes, corn flakes, even captn crunch, but bran flakes has way more fiber) - i usually put a packet of splenda in there so it doesn't taste so plain.
good - low fat / skim milk (about 1/2 cup)
bad, too much carbs and fat - 1 english muffin with either butter or light cream cheese
bad, all sugar - 1 glass of orange juice (8 oz)

lunch:
very good - sandwich with 3 oz of meat - i've been doing turkey lately, but ill throw a little roast beef in to mix things up. tuna is good too (I ate tons of tuna when I first started)
good - 2 slices of light wheat bread
good - 1 tbps of low fat mayo - you can use mustaard too but no cheese.
ok - 6 vanilla wafers or saltine crackers
very good - 1 apple

when I first started I tried to eat fish for dinner (tilapia / haddock) baked in the oven w/ lemon pepper seasoning. id have a serving of instant mashed potatoes and brocooli with them. i made sure not to snack in between meals and drank a lot of water.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: dullard
You don't need or even want a diet change. All that will do is to give you a very short-term weight loss that you end with a massive binge in a couple of months (if you make it that long). You'll end up heavier, less energetic, less healthy, and more pessimistic than you are now. Diets don't work. Never have, never will.

What you really need is a lifestyle change. If you make a permanent change to the way you approach life, then you can lose the weight, you can feel and actually be healthier. You have to care much more about yourself. You have to tackle the difficult problems you face (You might have to wash a pot! The horror!). You have to face this head-on and decide that you will fix the fundamental problems. Yes it'll take more effort. Yes, you'll have to do some things differently. Its a lifestyle change. But, in the end, you'll be eating tastier food, you'll look and feel good, and you'll be happy. Isn't maximizing happiness what life is about?

Magic pills won't do it either. No pill will clean a dirty pot. You will have to do it. If you aren't willing to do it, then leave here now and go back to your old fat lifestyle. No diet or pill will help. Stop reading this thread, it isn't for you.




Ok, you are still reading. Now, there are simple things to start with.

1) Determine that you will make yourself better. Now and forever. If not, just stop trying and stop reading this post.

2) Determine that you will tackle the difficult work. You will wash a few dishes (although a healthy meal can be just one pot and a spoon). You will purchase and prepare healthy food. You will stop buying unhealthy food. You will eat vegetables. You will solve your problems rather than look for a bandaid to cover a gushing wound.

3) Start small but think big.

4) Frist things first, add in fiber. Fiber is food that you can eat as much of as you want but your body can't digest it. In fact, bad foods (fat and calories) stick to fiber and get flushed out with it. Meaning that you lose weight without even trying. Start by adding in a high-fiber cereal if you like cereal, or high-fiber bread if you like sandwhiches, or toss in one spoonful of Benefiber per drink (whatever you drink as Benefiber has no flavor), or if you are lazy try the Fiber One Oats and Peanut Butter bars. Those bars are so tasty, you'll crave them every day. And the more of those bars you eat, the more you'll lose. Fiber has been shown again and again to be the best long term diet. But do it slowly, one bar a day or one bowl a day or one spoonful of fiber. If you don't go slowly, you'll have bad gas. After a few weeks, you can go up to two per day and eventually three.

5) Add in spices and herbs. Remember, fat and sugar taste good. But so do spices and herbs. Guess which one is better for you. Go overboard. Make it taste REALLY good by having LOTS of herbs and spices. If you like hot foods (like jalepenos) then add in as much of that as you want. Salsa is virtually calorie free and very healthy. Hot peppers make you eat far less and still be full.

6) Find simple receipes. At least once a week I put a pot on the stove, poor in noodles and a bag of frozen vegetables. Turn on the stove and in 10-15 minutes, you have the healthiest meal you've ever eaten. Sprinkle on herbs and spices that you REALLY like and you have your meal in one pot to clean. Skip the bowl and eat it right from the pot if you don't like doing dishes. It is even easier to make than Mac & Cheese. If you put on enough good herbs/spices, you'll think it tastes better too.

7) Look for satisfying foods. Foods that make you feel full for a long time, not foods that make you feel full just for a few minutes. Consider baked potatoes, eat the skin, and covered with all the spices you love. That will keep you full for hours. The exact same taste (same spices) with the exact same amount of calories (same serving size) in french fries won't fill you up more than a few minutes.

I could go on and on. You have to choose to make a change. A permanent change. A change that you won't abandon even if you do have one binge on say Thanksgiving day or on a day that you are feeling blue. A lifestyle change.

You still need to track what you eat on Fitday each day. You can still get fat from eating healthy foods. Ultimately it comes down to calories in vs. calories out. Given that it's near impossible to calculate calories out, the most methodical way to approach the problem is to measure calories in each day, and your weight first thing each morning.

 

[pac1085]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: pac1085
breakfast -
good - 1 serving of some sort of cereal around 100 calories (bran flakes, corn flakes, even captn crunch, but bran flakes has way more fiber) - i usually put a packet of splenda in there so it doesn't taste so plain.
good - low fat / skim milk (about 1/2 cup)
bad, too much carbs and fat - 1 english muffin with either butter or light cream cheese
bad, all sugar - 1 glass of orange juice (8 oz)

lunch:
very good - sandwich with 3 oz of meat - i've been doing turkey lately, but ill throw a little roast beef in to mix things up. tuna is good too (I ate tons of tuna when I first started)
good - 2 slices of light wheat bread
good - 1 tbps of low fat mayo - you can use mustaard too but no cheese.
ok - 6 vanilla wafers or saltine crackers
very good - 1 apple

when I first started I tried to eat fish for dinner (tilapia / haddock) baked in the oven w/ lemon pepper seasoning. id have a serving of instant mashed potatoes and brocooli with them. i made sure not to snack in between meals and drank a lot of water.

this is based on an 1800 calorie / day diet that my doctor put me on; you are allowed a certain number of fats / carbs every day. for example, the glass of orange juice (100% juice) counts as a fruit for the morning. the english muffin and cereal count towards my 3 breads for the morning. it's worked well, i need to tweak it a bit and add exercise in to lose more weight though.

one question though, why would you say that the apple is very good but a glass of 100% orange juice (with orange juice being the only ingredient) as bad?

 

[MaxDepth]

carrots, celery, fresh fruit, anything like raw veggies carry zero points in Weight Watchers. Try carrying fresh veg or fruit snacks with you. YOU GOTTA TRY AND EAT THESE THINGS!
And if you really don't like them, then maybe puking it up will help you lose a few pounds.

Also, smaller portions. And just once try to go to bed with just eating half of your dinner. I bet if you can go a night with less and stick to it, the hunger pains will grow less.

As for pills or things you can do to avoid exercise, no such luck. You want a better bod, you gotta work on it. Although...you could go to an asian market and buy their "diet tea."

 

[rasczak]

I'm 5'4 388 lbs and run a 4.14 40 yard dash. why do you need to lose weight? Just be an exceptional athlete like me and you don't have to worry about anything

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rasczak
I'm 5'4 388 lbs and run a 4.14 40 yard dash. why do you need to lose weight? Just be an exceptional athlete like me and you don't have to worry about anything

40 yards rolling downhill?


also saying FatassMcBlobicus outloud makes me LOL IRL

 

[Rufus12]

Originally posted by: rasczak
I'm 5'4 388 lbs and run a 4.14 40 yard dash. why do you need to lose weight? Just be an exceptional athlete like me and you don't have to worry about anything

Can you fit into an airplane seat?

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: pac1085
breakfast -
good - 1 serving of some sort of cereal around 100 calories (bran flakes, corn flakes, even captn crunch, but bran flakes has way more fiber) - i usually put a packet of splenda in there so it doesn't taste so plain.
good - low fat / skim milk (about 1/2 cup)
bad, too much carbs and fat - 1 english muffin with either butter or light cream cheese
bad, all sugar - 1 glass of orange juice (8 oz)

lunch:
very good - sandwich with 3 oz of meat - i've been doing turkey lately, but ill throw a little roast beef in to mix things up. tuna is good too (I ate tons of tuna when I first started)
good - 2 slices of light wheat bread
good - 1 tbps of low fat mayo - you can use mustaard too but no cheese.
ok - 6 vanilla wafers or saltine crackers
very good - 1 apple

when I first started I tried to eat fish for dinner (tilapia / haddock) baked in the oven w/ lemon pepper seasoning. id have a serving of instant mashed potatoes and brocooli with them. i made sure not to snack in between meals and drank a lot of water.

there's nothing wrong with having a little bad now and then. If nothing else, it keeps you happy. Nothing worse than trying to lose weight and feeling depressed, bored or down about it.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: rasczak
I'm 5'4 388 lbs and run a 4.14 40 yard dash. why do you need to lose weight? Just be an exceptional athlete like me and you don't have to worry about anything

40 yards rolling downhill?


also saying FatassMcBlobicus outloud makes me LOL IRL

Not rolling necessarily. more like gliding.

Originally posted by: Rufus12


Can you fit into an airplane seat?

What's an airplane? i do all of my traveling by aircraft carrier.