01-17-2016, 05:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2016, 05:35 PM by GreatSpirit.)
I love to eat food, especially fast food and sugary baked goods. I love chicken wing pizza or fried chicken with a dip. Burgers dripping with grease coming from fattened cattle who were slaughtered for my enjoyment.
So when you switch to a more "health conscious lifestyle" (which in reality is a diet) and count calories as the base of your health, the temptation of eating junk food is experienced more intensely for me because its been both outlawed and allowed into my diet. An even harder part is trying to keep the junk food that I eat within my allotted calorie ranges.
Not only do I eat and love junk food and will never fully give it up, I may eat 2000 calories of it after work sometimes, when I've already eaten my allotted 1400-1700. I just get those cravings! So that's potentially 3700 calories I've consumed in one day. My body will only burn a little over 1650 calories on its own with no exercise at all (basal metabolic rate). I generally don't exercise after I break my law too. Whats even sexier is that I don't know when I want to break it. It just happens. Oolala.
So I gain 1/2 a pound or less most likely of fat whenever I do this. And I may do this for like up to 4 days. I'll know when its time to stop eventually. I ate an entire big package of duplex cookies from Walgreens the other day, not to mention a pack of these other duplex cookies I get at work that I ate the next day (650 calories and full of fat and sugar).
I allow this to happen under the agreement that it is "paid for", so I go into my weight loss mental state of eating 1300 calories or less and going to the gym for 45 minutes/3 miles on the treadmill or just walking 3 miles a few times a week. I do pushups/squats and my abs. Just so I try to maximize fat loss and not muscle. I don't go all out trust me. And as long as I weigh in around 170 pounds or less, I'll be fine in clothes and mentally be ok knowing I'm not fat anymore.
Its just the way it is.
So when you switch to a more "health conscious lifestyle" (which in reality is a diet) and count calories as the base of your health, the temptation of eating junk food is experienced more intensely for me because its been both outlawed and allowed into my diet. An even harder part is trying to keep the junk food that I eat within my allotted calorie ranges.
Not only do I eat and love junk food and will never fully give it up, I may eat 2000 calories of it after work sometimes, when I've already eaten my allotted 1400-1700. I just get those cravings! So that's potentially 3700 calories I've consumed in one day. My body will only burn a little over 1650 calories on its own with no exercise at all (basal metabolic rate). I generally don't exercise after I break my law too. Whats even sexier is that I don't know when I want to break it. It just happens. Oolala.
So I gain 1/2 a pound or less most likely of fat whenever I do this. And I may do this for like up to 4 days. I'll know when its time to stop eventually. I ate an entire big package of duplex cookies from Walgreens the other day, not to mention a pack of these other duplex cookies I get at work that I ate the next day (650 calories and full of fat and sugar).
I allow this to happen under the agreement that it is "paid for", so I go into my weight loss mental state of eating 1300 calories or less and going to the gym for 45 minutes/3 miles on the treadmill or just walking 3 miles a few times a week. I do pushups/squats and my abs. Just so I try to maximize fat loss and not muscle. I don't go all out trust me. And as long as I weigh in around 170 pounds or less, I'll be fine in clothes and mentally be ok knowing I'm not fat anymore.
Its just the way it is.