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Do eat some wholemeal toast and some fruit too! Just an egg is not enough. Breakfast cereal's aren't really considered good for you, even though they seem healthy. You need to avoid processed foods.
The reason I am stressing wholemeal bread and stuff (for lunch too) is that it's better to eat this kind of carbs than rice or pasta which I assume you eat the white versions of.
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I know I should…I tried brown rice but they tasted horrible. I love white basmati rice and pastas. 
I like wholemeal bread though and I use wholemeal flour for chappatis too. The cereal I take is also sugar free and includes wholemeal oats and raisins. I have organic porridge oats sitting down on the shelf that I haven’t tried out yet. I better start using it before it expires.
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yah, they do taste bleeeh, i don't eat them. but then i only eat pasta and rice once or occasionally twice a week. lunch time is nearly always wholemeal bread sandwiches (have a treat once a week). dinner is always mixed wholemeal roti apart from rice, pasta or fish days.
anything natural like museli's is fine. otherwise it's the processed flakes that are the problem.
i think you will need to be strict with yourself for a while.
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Okay, I'll try to limit my pasta and rice consumption and when I crave for them I'd try some wholemeal pasta.
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No, I’m not. But I’m pretty sure I’ve been asked that before.
The fatter you are, the longer you will survive without food. Fat contains a lot of energy - I don’t understand why you would want to ingest it from a diet (that’s like playing the antagonist role against your own goal)? You can continue doing what you want, but it will just take longer for results to appear.
A normal human body can survive ~2 weeks without any food (after this time, all of the fat is completely burned off). Obese persons can survive for ~1 month.
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No, I'm not. But I'm pretty sure I've been asked that before.
The fatter you are, the longer you will survive without food. Fat contains a lot of energy - I don't understand why you would want to ingest it from a diet (that's like playing the antagonist role against your own goal)? You can continue doing what you want, but it will just take longer for results to appear. A normal human body can survive ~2 weeks without any food (after this time, all of the fat is completely burned off). Obese persons can survive for ~1 month.
again you gave a wrong example, I have no intentions to have no food because I want to tone up my body with the work out, to do exercise you do need energy, and as I mentioned in my first post I'm concentrating more on losing dress size rather losing weight.
You haven't told me how much calories should I take in a day?
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again you gave a wrong example, I have no intentions to have no food because I want to tone up my body with the work out, to do exercise you do need energy, and as I mentioned in my first post I'm concentrating more on losing dress size rather losing weight.
You haven't told me how much calories should I take in a day?
I thought it'd be obvious by now since I mentioned it numerous times already. I didn't say you don't need energy. You just seem to think that the only source of energy is food. You don't need to take any calories in a day (but that is nearly impossible to do). Losing dress size means fat-loss. Here, I'll break it down one last time then I'm out of this thread:
Its a simple concept, and I'm not going to explain it further. I don't like repeating the same thing over & over again.
Good luck with your workouts!
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You basically want her to starve herself. Hareem is a wife and a mother of three who she teaches at home. She doesn't need the headaches and lethargy associated with starving herself.
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hareem, I agree with stoppit, you need to have a decent breakfast, in fact its the one meal where you can go crazy, by that I don't mean have a 1400 calorie breakfast, but breakfast is the best time to eat a large meal. Think of it this way, your body generally craves food because it needs nutrition, although reducing calore intake is a good way to control your eating habits, its also important that you provide your body with the nutrition it needs to function. This means you need to eat balanced meals every time, with a little bit of protein, veggies/fruits, good fats and complex carbs each time. So its better to eat a 500 calorie breakfast which consists of a veggie omelette, wholemeal toast and some yoghurt than a 200 calorie breakfast of processed cereal.
Oatmeal by the way, is a great breakfast, I cook some steel cut oats with milk and top it with some fresh berries maple syrup and I literally don't feel hungry even past lunch time, its so filling. And you definitely need to cut out processed foods and simple carbs. Brown rice and whole wheat pastas and breads are the way to go. If you get bored with just those you can even experiment with different types of grains such as quinoa or amaranth.
Starving yourself will have the opposite effect to what you're looking for so keep your focus on providing your body with the nutrients it needs and your metabolism should start working more efficiently very soon. Definitely do keep a calorie count but don't obsess over it, because its not as simple as the more calories you eat the worse it is, there's also the matter of what kind of calories you're eating.
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You basically want her to starve herself. Hareem is a wife and a mother of three who she teaches at home. She doesn't need the headaches and lethargy associated with starving herself.
I don't remember saying any such thing anywhere. She can do whatever she likes. All I said was that the lower the caloric intake, the quicker the fat burns. Its a ridiculously simple concept!
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Thank you so much stoppit and lafuriaroja for your support and wonderful advice. I’m working on my diet. :k:
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16/06/2011
I had an egg and bread for the breakfast and fish for dinner. It wasn't a brilliant day for the diet because I had some rice (left overs, didn't wanna waste) and late night evening meal. I'm working hard on getting my diet sorted out in next few days.
Calorie intake in total = 1200
Working out: It was a brilliant day for working out though, I did 20 minutes jog in the morning. And then after lunch 30 minutes (10 min jog+10min brisk walk+10min skipping non stop), was planning to do pilates in the evening but had to go out.
working out = 50 minutes
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I don't remember saying any such thing anywhere. She can do whatever she likes. All I said was that the lower the caloric intake, the quicker the fat burns. Its a ridiculously simple concept!
yes it is quite simple and obvious but some of us cannot take that route, specially someone like me who's been anorexic and bulimic in past.
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hey hareem,
i think lafuriaroja’s breakfast idea is great.
my dad’s alt. medicine doctor told him some time to eat two eggs a day. i found that really interesting as some time later, the university of surrey published this study (i was actually studying there when they were looking for volunteers for it):
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2009/2840_twoegg_diet_cracks_cholesterol_issue.htm
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Haven't you seen those anorexic-skinny Africans who always win the marathons in the olympics? How do you think they last so long? Its because they ingest a fat-rich diet prior to running and the fat alone yields more than 80% the energy they require to run. 1 pound of fat contains enough energy to keep you running at a moderate pace for 7 hours non-stop. They hardly have any fat on their bones though.
I have never heard of fat loading, yes I've heard of carb loading in athletes but fat nope. 1lb fat = 3500 calories. As far as I know if someone is running a quick short distance as they do in Olympics they need carb loading because the higher the intensity of exercise the more carbs are burned.
Its a simple concept, and I'm not going to explain it further. I don't like repeating the same thing over & over again. Good luck with your workouts!
No, it really isn't as simple as 'energy in' and 'energy out'. When 'energy in' goes down the body reacts by decreasing metabolic rate. This means now the body is using less energy to function on. The person may lose wt but once they start eating normally again they will gain all the wt back and more.
No, I'm not. But I'm pretty sure I've been asked that before.
A normal human body can survive ~2 weeks without any food (after this time, all of the fat is completely burned off). Obese persons can survive for ~1 month.
Where did you hear that? A person will die of loss of essential protein structures but not by using up all the fat stores. The body doesn't just use up stored fat but also protein.
Hareem, eat a healthy diet with 3 proper meals and snacks in between. The healthier you eat the more you can eat because fruits/veggies are very energy dense but they are nutrient dense. If you don't mind pming me your ht, wt, and age so I can determine what your caloric needs although seems like you have already done that. Best of Luck with your plan!
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The whole thing behind eggs is that it was thought eggs (dietary cholesterol) will increase cholesterol in the body. Now studies show that when dietary cholesterol is high the body produces less so it balances out. It only negatively affects certain people whose bodies cannot handle dietary cholesterol. If some one has a history of high cholesterol in the family they should be careful but other people can enjoy the eggs because they are an excellent source of protein.
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^thanks.
17/06/2011
I was feeling sick so couldn't eat properly, I tried eating the porridge and that was the most difficult part of the task yesterday. yuck
but I'm gonna carry on trying.
Calorie intake in total = 1000
Working out: 15 minutes jogging but then the rain started pouring. 20 minutes pilates.
working out = 35 minutes
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a question
i'm eating plain fat free yoghurt for breakfast, should i eat fat free or full fat. i see it has lots of carbs in it, i don't know if there're simple or complex. so please i need your advice.
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Stick to fat free. As adults we don’t need the fats in milk and yogurt. Also, it should say on the label if its sugar or carbs. Under the carb section there are subheadings which breaks down the components into fiber, sugar and whatever is leftover is complex carbs.
In the example above there are 26gs of complex carbs, 5 gs of sugar and 0 of fiber.
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I have never heard of fat loading, yes I've heard of carb loading in athletes but fat nope. 1lb fat = 3500 calories. As far as I know if someone is running a quick short distance as they do in Olympics they need carb loading because the higher the intensity of exercise the more carbs are burned.
You don't seem to know much, apparently. Marathon = long distance running. A short distance (sprinting) dash does not even use aerobic respiration.
No, it really isn't as simple as 'energy in' and 'energy out'. When 'energy in' goes down the body reacts by decreasing metabolic rate. This means now the body is using less energy to function on. The person may lose wt but once they start eating normally again they will gain all the wt back and more.
Actually it is just that simple. Once you lose weight, you can maintain it by exercising daily and eating healthy. Peripheral metabolic rate is decreased only to accommodate the increased metabolic rate of the digestive tract.
Where did you hear that? A person will die of loss of essential protein structures but not by using up all the fat stores. The body doesn't just use up stored fat but also protein.
Hydrolysis and oxidation of protein is prioritized as a last source of energy (after hydrolysis of fat).
It seems as if you don't even know the basic concepts of biology.