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5 Responses to “A Matter of Appearance”

1. Jon says:

   January 11, 2005 at 6:34 pm

   With me it’s, “Eat right and exercise.” Slowly replace the bad stuff with the good stuff, and the actual amount of stuff can increase.

2. Toby says:

   January 11, 2005 at 11:56 pm

   I agree with Jon. Eat right. Though, in the end calories or calories, and if you consume 7000 calories of good stuff, it’s still going to make you gain weight. Have you considered multiple smaller meals, or the small meals broken up with snacks? Basically, you eat about 6 times a day, with your caloric intake at the end of the day being around 1500 to 2000 (this depends on your goals, I’m an active guy who wants to add more muscle, so I get to eat 4000 just to maintain, assuming I keep up my activity levels). My wife is trying it and she seems to be doing well with it. One of the benefits she likes is that she never has time to get starving (eating once every three hours or so), which would cause her to eat too much in a sitting. I’ve heard this whole eating concept explained as ” you don’t wait for your car to run out of gas before you refill the tank.” Makes sense to keep your metabolism going and whatnot.

   I suppose I should add that I’m in no way a nutritionist, just throwing some ideas your way to help you out if I can.

   Monkeys.

3. toby says:

   January 11, 2005 at 11:59 pm

   Oh, and if you find yourself hungry, munch something with protein in it. It doesn’t make you full, but it curbs the hunger pangs caused by carbs.

   Again, not a nutritionist.

   Monkeys.

4. Jon says:

   January 12, 2005 at 10:34 pm

   I find fruit to be the big important thing. It’s more likely to fill you up (fiber makes you feel fuller longer apparantly) with fewer calories.

   But, as the song goes, “We are monkeys”

5. Mitch says:

   January 12, 2005 at 10:38 pm

   If this helps: my mother had to lose 60 lbs. before she could get her hip replaced, and of course she couldn’t exercise *until* she got her hip replaced.

   She took the weight off using a diabetic diet.

   Another tactic she has was to eat the same lunch every day. No novelty, less appetite.