Im on a psuedo-diet, but with my erratic schedule, I tend to eat just one small meal a day.
I'm lucky to get two meals a day but I usually end up only having one meal...I'm so busy (even while I'm posting on AD, I'm doing IEPs, curriculum reports, and other things at the same time). I'm so freaking busy these days to the point that I don't even know what day it is half the time.
My doctor made me do a food diary which I was faithful about recording everything - and he was shocked at my very low calorie intake. He said that my metabolism is literally starved to death - and that's why it is not burning anything. He said that I must eat small meals throughout the day (and the meals of course need to be healthy, blah blah blah)...I'm like, "sure" (sarcastic tone).
Sorry but your doctor is right because behind what he is saying is that the idea is speeding up your metabolism, and improving the functioning of your body and also it will (not overnight) let your body generate more energy because your body is not speeding time on the extracting 'reserve' energy that some says pulling out from the body fat - well it doesnt work like that, the body always ends up fuel-starved, hence you get tired - you DO need carbonhydrates.
Avoid low carb diet too, you'd feel dragged on and soon give up. Just eat a avacodoe/cheese slice (not processed cheese) or whatever
there are another extreme, saying high carbs diet is good, I disagree, it is best to stick with 'normal' balanced diet just a few tricks , like drinking water, eat fruit, and break up to smaller snacks, - EASY !
mixes/compliment well with the avocadoes (thing is; I use it instead of butter) spread on your toast in the morning, take a banana or apple with you to work, (actually apple supposed to be the best brekkie you can have - but i dont eat apple im apple-phobic strangely anyway......)
coffee in mid morning will speed up your shitting and pissing and give a your head a focusing boost too
dont have coffee after 5-6 pm you'd end up with insommia
try drink 4 glasses of water spread out through the day, best aim for 6-8 glases a day but this is unrealistic for most people so start of 2 or 3 glasses a day and stay on that for like 6 months or so. It is easy to adjust and get used to drinking water , water is the BEST drink there is. it helps scavege and flush your body out toxins, and provides fresh fluids for the body too, althought body is like 70% water, get the picture?
A magic vegetable to get, and its damn good, - brocolli - easy to cook and tastes good. it has some of the best properties of all vegetable, it keeps boils away too just like silverbeet
I dont bother buying cereal, waste of money instead i have toasts and a fruit and coffee (coffee is dear now but if in moderation it's still cheap provided you're strict with youerself on when to have it)
Pek1 got good suggestions - id read his post again, yeah he's right forget diet sodas, in fact- many diet drinks have aspartame, which is an artifical sweetener so called designed to replace sugar, it is actually toxic, so stay away from it !!
and one last thing, the best exercise to lose wieght is simple, - walking!
Do this at least a 15 mins walk every day, ideally 30 mins-40 mins so start of with a 15 for say a month so you get used to know when you can go walking, then once you into a routine like after 2 months or so you would find you can bump it up 20-30 mins before you know it, you are walking in a daily basis, the trick is to find that best time slot, go easy on yourself forget when others do it, find the best time for yourself, but certainly not after the time you just ate.
Walking have three major advantage over doing nothing,
1) you get some cardiovascular excercises and air into your lungs
2) it tones down your hips and thighs, lower back and stomuch area
3) it gets you to be more alert and freshed-up for that you have been pumping oxgyen around the body and in to your brain
It really works.
With Plenty Water and Stop eat 5 p.m. dinner
