I am fat

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

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i eat a ton. i mean, literally a ton of food a day. i get crazy and irritable when my portions are only 500-600 calories per meal 6 times a day. i have to sit down and eat a full- on 2000 calorie meal for dinner. 1500 calorie meal for brunch. ive always been this way and i cant deny myself.

but i am not obese. i am not fat-looking either. i am actually, as most people put it, athletic and pretty looking. i attribute it to cardiovascular exercise daily. i do it daily as much as i can between 30 minutes - 1 hour (if time permits and i have the energy to do it) a day if i can. at the end you would think i jumped into a swimming pool. but that is what i got to do. to keep the weight off.

the days when i put off my cardio, when i eat alot and have a month where my schedule doesnt permit exercise as i want, i gain weight, yes, then i get a big abdomen and i look to be a little bigger.
but i m trying my best to make cardio a daily thing. try it, start off with 20 minutes a day or 15 minutes even. go for a quick walk around your block. do it everyday you will see the results in a couple of weeks i guarantee it.

I'm similar to this. I stopped my exercise at the start of the year, and though I could do occasional maintenance, but I put on 5kg (11lbs) in 5 months. All my clothes got tight and I got pissed off. I'm back in the gym now 4 - 5 times a week and I'm noticing change quite quickly. I feel I need to eat large meals, like you were saying too. I've realized, I just have to exercise regularly in order to eat the way I want and to look the way I want.

To the OP, follow the advice already suggested, substitute raw vegies to fill your cravings, and try to tough the cravings a bit more. And increase your cardio. Stick with it, the cravings will subside and you'll be fitter and healthier for it. DO NOT go back to smoking.

I've heard eating celery burns more calories than what is ingested... IDK try that.

Lots of fatties in this thread...

STOP ******* EATING.

And Sho'nuff, there is no ******* way you eat 3500 calories a day and run it off in 30 minutes. You'll be 300lbs in 10 years at the rate you're going.

Now I know why Sho is a flip flopper

Originally Posted by Flambeur

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Lots of fatties in this thread...

STOP ******* EATING.

Awwwww .... But I like eating!

In all seriousness, I think I eat the right things, just too much of them. Portion control is my issue. I've beat it before, I'll beat it again. When I get cravings, I'll just think of my clothes that don't fit and the clothes I want to buy, and I'll get through it!

Psyllium Hust - nature's appetite suppressant. (It's the main ingredient in metamucil.) It'll keep you regular as hell, too.

Take a generic 500mg cap before a meal (two at most) and you'll feel full for hours for not many calories. Pure fiber.

Dan John had an article somewhere about using a glass of actual Metamucil and a few fish oil pills as a quick snack.

Originally Posted by Lachy

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Awwwww .... But I like eating!

In all seriousness, I think I eat the right things, just too much of them. Portion control is my issue. I've beat it before, I'll beat it again. When I get cravings, I'll just think of my clothes that don't fit and the clothes I want to buy, and I'll get through it!


So scoop less goop on your plate or use smaller plates to begin with?

Yep thats it. I know it. I've done it before. I just fell back into bad habits in the first part of the year.

I find if I just tell myself to start off with this small portion, then if I really need it, I can go back for a bit more. And also, to wait half an hour after that first serving to see if the hunger hangs around, often it'll subside.

It comes down to will power, discipline and I find having a goal really helps too. Don't need to starve oneself, just don't overeat.

By the way stop thinking like you need to eat all this food just to get by during the day. Or that you need to eat regularly and god forbid you miss lunch.

When I am exercising regularly I am able to maintain a steady weight. When I'm not, I will gain a pound or two in a month. This is without changing eating habits. It's all about the exercise.

I've eaten nothing but some bread from trader joes for 2 days becuase its too hot to work to the supermarket

Soup. Filling stuff. Soup tricks the mind into thinking you're full.

eat slow digesting proteins, lotsa vegetables, a little bit of polyunsaturated fat. i'd say a handful of white meat or fish, fill the rest of the plate with vegetables with a little bit of oil (nuts or a little vinaigrette) for every meal. casein is pretty filling if you're too lazy to cook. 10x1 normal grocery store fish oil pill (3g of epa+dha daily) helps satiety and mood. exercise (moderate intensity 30, 40 minutes a day, preferably in the morning before anything else) helps satiety ephederine (eg bronkaid) caffeine (coffee or pills) green tea (NSI is recommended) stack also helps satiety (20mg/200mg/200mg egcg three times daily 4 hours apart, last dose 6 hours before bedtime, first dose before morning exercise) avoid sugars and starches (eat unrefined starches if you must, but try to eliminate large consumption of sugars eg switch to diet coke, use sucralose). dont completely break down if you go off one meal. just get back on. drink lots of ice cold water (has to be really cold) with lemon or apple cider vinegar. start with a moderate amount and ramp up to 8 cups or 2 L daily. if you really really can't do any of the above, eat dinner one day, breakfast and lunch the next day and alternate. no food at any other times (ie no snacks no nothing) eat until full, but dont binge eat and try to stick to above guidelines. stick with the above for a month before looking at a scale (or check the scale only once every one or two weeks) if you can't do the above, face it you're going to stay fat. google lyle mcdonald (edit: he says the same thing)

^^^ not a bad article. This speaks to someone like me:

... eventually hunger will rear it's ugly head. At which point every dieter is faced with a fundamental choice which, put simply is this "What's more important to me, losing weight, or eating this food?

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You can suck it up or stay fat.

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Changing what I eat and how much isn't hard, it's not caving into the hunger when it comes, and basically, you just have to power through it.