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06-12-2007 07:10 PM |
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Originally Posted by mike295
(Post 69948)
basicly i really dont eat breakfast, maby i will have a corn muffin in the morning. always have coffee. Lunch is usually a sub, doing wraps now, but wheat bread, and depends on what i am int eh mood for. usually go with ice tea or leamonaid for drink. am now starting to not do the chips. dinner is something home cooked. chicken or something of that nature. Snack at home. for now its been sunflower seeds. I am about 200 depending on the time i weight my self. I would like to get to 185. Nothing too drastic.
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Breakfest which I'm sure you've heard a billion times before really is the most important meal of the day. Try getting up a little early to make some toast and eggs instead of having a corn muffin or just coffee.
Instead of eating a sub again try packing lunch with whole grain rolls or bread and lay off of the heavy dressing.
As for the Iced tea or lemonade you are drinking empty sugar calories. When your body notices that the sugar level is elevated, it is a sign that you have more sugar than you need right now, your body is not burning it and therefore it is accumulating in your body. What then happens is that the insulin in you body is then released to take that sugar and store it. How does it store it? As Glycogen. Your body stores very little glycogen at any one time. All the glycogen stored in your liver and muscles would not last you through 1 active day. Once you have filled up your glycogen stores, that sugar is stored as saturated fat.
So the idea of medical professionals recommending a high complex-carbohydrate, low-saturated-fat diet is absolutely a mistake. A high complex-carbohydrate diet is nothing more than a high-glucose diet, or a high-sugar diet. Your body is just going to store it as saturated fat, and the body makes it into saturated fat quite readily.
Your body's principal way of getting rid of sugar, because it is toxic, is to burn it. The sugar which your body can't burn will be rid of by storing it as glycogen, and when those glycogen reserves are full, sugar gets stored as fat. If you eat sugar your body will burn it and you stop burning fat. Another major effect of insulin on fat is it prevents you from burning it.
Crystal Light is a great replacement only 5 calories and not loaded with sucrose. I drink it all the time and tastes just as good!
Just by changing little things will help greatly in your quest for weight loss and ultimatly a healthier lifestyle. You could even try replacing your snack of sunflower seeds (high in sodium) with mixed nuts(yea yea).
Hope this helps.......If you really want try making a list of what you ate in one day and post it up...then we can really tear into ya ;)
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