New Here! Need Some Help.

[PatriciaAllen]

Hi everyone! So I am one of those girls who is over the weight that a girl like age should be (this is how I consider situation). And the worse of this is that I really have this big tummy which makes other friends laugh when they see it. I don't get insulted, but I am really bothered with this since I don't have fats some years ago. What should I do to loss this and gain the body I have before?

Please, Really need your advice!

[Boss Man]

I can empathise with your situation and you certainly are not alone in your plight as so many young females like yourself, go through these worries and criticism every year.

What I can say is, that you have taken such a wonderful and important step, to making this a thing of the past, by addressing it and expressing publicly a need to change, because we are strangers to you and talking to strangers about what you feel, is to some extent courageous and beautiful and I applaud you for it and stress that whatever we can reasonably do, we will try to do for you .

I would like to firstly address your eating behaviours, so what foods do you eat and what times do you eat?

Hopefully we as a community can address this aspect of your life and help you realise some positive good from it.

Good luck to you and thank you for letting us know about how you feel. We really do appreciate how hard it must be, when people discuss things they don't like about themselves and your circumstances are important to us and so are you .

[PatriciaAllen]

Hi Boss Man! Thank you so much with the encouragement that you gave me. I am really inspired by the words that you have for me. I can feel that I have someone who understands me.

For the foods, I have a 3 times a day meals. Then, sometimes, I sneak at around 3 or 4 in the afternoon to have some little eat because I can feel emptiness in stomach during that time. But I am constant in exercise. Do some cardio everyday and 2 to 3 miles of running because I beleive it will help me. Can you give me more suggestions on what I ought to do? Thanks a lot.

Hope I can get more advice here.

[Boss Man]

When I said foods, I meant what actual food choices .

If I know what things you are actually eating and what times of the day, I can understand the quality of eating habits, as eating 3 times a day and snacking in the afternoon, doesn't tell me if your meals and snacks are good, average or poor.

Hopefully I'm making myself a bit clearer .

[PatriciaAllen]

Yes Boss Man, you did make yourself clear. Hmm, here are the list of foods I am eating now since I started dieting.

Morning - bread and a cup of tea
Lunch - oath and 2 cups of water
Evening - fruits and water
for the sneak - 1 to 2 bread and coffee.

I am not sure if this foods really help me with problem, but one of friend told me that they are. What do you think?

[ObesityOverload]

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Sometimes it can be a little bit overwhelming. I felt the same way you did.
I am working through own weight loss as I still have a muffin top myself.
methods have worked and I know they can help you as well.

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I know that we may not like to think of ourselves as obese, but it is the facts.

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[Boss Man]

Basically your diet is way too low on calories, os I would suggest bumping it up.

Morning - bread and a cup of tea
(Add in another slicde of Bread and then have some Eggs, Chicken, Turkey or Ham, for more protein.)

Lunch - oath and 2 cups of water

(More protein here as well would help.)

Evening - fruits and water

(I'd perhaps reduce the oat portion at Lunch and add some Fruit in as well. Then replace the Fruit at Dinner and have Veggies instead and add protein in there as well.)

for the sneak - 1 to 2 bread and coffee.

(Have 2 snacks, one between Breakfast and Lunch and one between Lunch and Dinner. This means your meals are 5 a day with much more calories, as this should help you more I think.)

[PatriciaAllen]

Boss man, I think we find some confusion here. I am looking for ways to loss fats. Do you think gaining calories will help me with this goal?

[Boss Man]

Yes. If you under eat, your body goes into something called starvation mode and refuses to shed fat. If you eat a more sensible amount of calories, some of which can be burned through exercise, that's okay.

1lb of added muscle burns an exta 45-50 calories, but conversely if you reduced your calories to the point, that you significantly cut previous protein intake, you could lose some muscle and potentially replace it with fat. I've seen some people purport to eat healthy food, but in small portions and wonder why their weight went down, but then actually went back up, even though their diet had remained good and that could have been the reason.

Muscle loss contributing to fat gain.

Also the extra calories come with extra nutrients. If you under eat and then lose a lot of bone healthy nutrients from your diet, like Calcium, Vit K2, Phosphorous, Vit D, Copper, Vit C, Magnesium etc etc, that play either a direct or indirect role in bone formation, you could thin the bones, to a point that certain exercise patterns or types, could become intolerant to your bones and you could then encourage fractures or possibly bone damage of some other kind.

I'm not advocating you suddenly increase calories by 2,000 a day, as that would be encouraging the opposite of what you want to happen, but you look like you're potentially eating 1,000 or less calories a day, which won't help.

What I have proposed is what I think will help and therefore if you eat how I suggested, I'm sure after a month, you'll notice a positive difference .

[PatriciaAllen]

Boss man, very well said. I do understand your point so much, and I will do best to increase calorie counts. Thank you for making things clear for me. I never thought that what I am doing can sooner cause harm to me. Thank you again.

[theoffseason]

Patricia,

It sounds like you may be in starvation mode like boss man said. I would encourage you to eat more protein and slowly increase your caloric intake each week to try and bring your metabolosm back up. There may be some metabolic damage done if you've ever tried crash dieting or "yo-yo" dieting. Add a serving of fat free cottage cheese in your meal plan each day for the first week, or even 3-4 egg whites. If your weight does not increase, then add another serving of cottage cheese in for the next week or another 3-4 egg whites. OR you could replace 6-8 egg whites for the day with a skinless chicken breast. Keep your eye on the scale, but I'd encourage you to slowly start adding calories back in your diet, a majority coming from protein as it looks like you eat a lot of carbohydrates-looks to be about 80% of your eating. Let me know if you need me to explain this further. Good luck with your goal! Keep working hard!

Joe