Weight loss help? Diet pills?
I've been overweight for my entire life, i was the heaviest baby my mom had. I'm now a teenager, and i am getting depressed because of this, i used to be okay with it but i keep thinking about going back to anorexia.
but i was thinking about going on the weight loss pill "alli" or anything else that anyone suggests. i just want to know if they're safe to take for me. I'm about 5' 4" and 180, its getting obnoxious.
So i just need to know if these weight loss pills will hurt me. Or any suggestions any one has.
Also, I have been on a diet for about a month or two, where i don't eat white flour or sugar, and I am a year round athlete. I row in the fall and spring and I am on winter track in the winter, in the summer i run four days a week.
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Also, I have been on a diet for about a month or two, where i don't eat white flour or sugar, and I am a year round athlete. I row in the fall and spring and I am on winter track in the winter, in the summer i run four days a week.
Oh, and I'm a vegetarian.
December 18th, 2010 - 17:03
If you are very active, you may not be getting enough calories for your body to feel comfortable enough releasing it’s fat stores. If you are doing a low carb way of eating you need to have higher fat. You will lose more body fat eating protein and fat (don’t eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast eat all you want but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter and half an avocado a day (you’ll need added potassium). Keep the calories high and the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Adding in green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace.
If you starve yourself by lowering calories lower than are needed for the body to function, your body will freak out and will want to store every ounce in case it doesn’t get nourished again. You need to give it adequate nourishment so it doesn’t slow your metabolism down to adjust for lower calories.
Simple carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice) triggers insulin which can store the calories you eat into fat. The more protein you eat the more the fat burning hormone glucagon is released. The more carbohydrate you eat the more the fat storage hormone insulin is released.
Carbs are addictive and can be disastrous to our health. The best way to break the addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a huge batch of deviled eggs and eat one every time you want "something" have huge omelets for breakfast, with bacon, a lil onion, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops for lunch. Get pork rinds and eat them with tuna salad. Steak for dinner. Make a huge sugar free cheese cake for dessert. Eat so much you won’t feel deprived of anything. By the fourth day, your addiction will be gone and you can start making healthy choices.
High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Controlling your insulin level will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so you will gain lean muscle even without exercise. Any exercise will greatly increase your muscle mass with high HGH levels.
Dr.Atkins was a cardiologist, low carb was a health plan easier sold as a "diet" Read any of his books for easily understandable science. Lutz "Life without Bread" & Taubes "Good calorie, bad calorie" are excellent books that dispel all the nutrition myths.
Reducing body fat and increasing muscle mass will have you in awesome shape in no time. Good luck!