I just found a whole new level of irony.
If any of you have met me, you know I’m a big guy. Actually, ‘big’ may not be the word for it. And like most people, I want to lose weight. I’ve tried all the different diets, etc. A year back my brother tried the Atkins – Low Carb diet and that worked well for him. I tried it and really didn’t have that much success. I had some mind you, but not nearly the level he had. I wondered if I was doing it wrong. I knew I hadn’t cheated so maybe something I thought was okay on the diet wasn’t. I really had no idea. I even read the books and couldn’t figure it out.
Well, I’m going to try it again, but this time I have a bit of information my wife discovered that might just help me. Many of you know that you body has a starvation mode that it goes into where it assumes it’s not getting the calories it needs and doesn’t burn as much. Basically if you don’t eat enough food in a day, your body thinks you are starving yourself and it protects you. The amount of calories you need to eat a day is supposed to be calculated by your weight times twelve (I’ve also heard by ten). So for someone 240 lbs they need to be eating around 3,000 calories a day to keep their body from going into starvation mode.
Now, as odd as it may sounds, I really don’t each much. I tend to skip meals a lot and grab bad food when I do eat. And one of the side effects of Atkins for me is I lose my appetite. So for someone who really doesn’t eat much in the first place, losing my appetite means that I maybe want to eat one meal a day. Now this is bad on any diet because they say you should eat frequent small meals a day to keep your metabolism up. So even thought I go on a low carb diet and cut out everything bad (sodas, bread, sodas) I’m not eating enough times a day to keep my metabolism going and I’m not eating enough calories to keep my body burning calories.
The realization here is that I have to start eating MORE to lose weight. Crazy eh? Now I can’t just eat junk. But for me to make Atkins or any other diet work I need to eat four or five times a day. And I’m not going to say exactly how many calories a day I need to take in to keep my body from starvation mode… but lets just say it’s WAY more than 3,000. So I need to plan out my days now so I can eat meat, meat and more meat with the occasional salad thrown in. So tonight’s dinner was at an all you can eat Brazilian BBQ. I am completely full… but I think I still need to eat once more before I go to bed.
If this isn’t ironic, then I just don’t understand the meaning of the word.
If any of you have met me, you know I’m a big guy. Actually, ‘big’ may not be the word for it. And like most people, I want to lose weight. I’ve tried all the different diets, etc. A year back my brother tried the Atkins – Low Carb diet and that worked well for him. I tried it and really didn’t have that much success. I had some mind you, but not nearly the level he had. I wondered if I was doing it wrong. I knew I hadn’t cheated so maybe something I thought was okay on the diet wasn’t. I really had no idea. I even read the books and couldn’t figure it out.
Well, I’m going to try it again, but this time I have a bit of information my wife discovered that might just help me. Many of you know that you body has a starvation mode that it goes into where it assumes it’s not getting the calories it needs and doesn’t burn as much. Basically if you don’t eat enough food in a day, your body thinks you are starving yourself and it protects you. The amount of calories you need to eat a day is supposed to be calculated by your weight times twelve (I’ve also heard by ten). So for someone 240 lbs they need to be eating around 3,000 calories a day to keep their body from going into starvation mode.
Now, as odd as it may sounds, I really don’t each much. I tend to skip meals a lot and grab bad food when I do eat. And one of the side effects of Atkins for me is I lose my appetite. So for someone who really doesn’t eat much in the first place, losing my appetite means that I maybe want to eat one meal a day. Now this is bad on any diet because they say you should eat frequent small meals a day to keep your metabolism up. So even thought I go on a low carb diet and cut out everything bad (sodas, bread, sodas) I’m not eating enough times a day to keep my metabolism going and I’m not eating enough calories to keep my body burning calories.
The realization here is that I have to start eating MORE to lose weight. Crazy eh? Now I can’t just eat junk. But for me to make Atkins or any other diet work I need to eat four or five times a day. And I’m not going to say exactly how many calories a day I need to take in to keep my body from starvation mode… but lets just say it’s WAY more than 3,000. So I need to plan out my days now so I can eat meat, meat and more meat with the occasional salad thrown in. So tonight’s dinner was at an all you can eat Brazilian BBQ. I am completely full… but I think I still need to eat once more before I go to bed.
If this isn’t ironic, then I just don’t understand the meaning of the word.
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