What is your diet like.
Cutting sugar is the first thing. If you have a sweet tooth there are facts out there that might make you utterly disgusted with sugar… especially what it does to the blood stream and brain. Inflammation. The body should be able to process mild amounts of sugar quickly… but too much and the body gets gummed up. Inflammation of the brain can lead to depression, headaches, and a stressful state of being. AKA the crash. Also when the body is running off of sugar it isn’t using stored energy or otherwise burning fat.
Sugars, sucrose(glucose) and fructose(fruit sugar) are the easiest chemicals for the body to turn into energy and so it likes to burn them first. If it has more available than needed it starts to store them as fat. So sugar is pretty bad.
Also fat itself in the form of oil or lard can be found all throughout the diet. Oils are hard to avoid but heavy forms of unsaturated fat like fried food are a heavy load of fat directly into the body… easier for the body to store than burn right away. Especially in the presence of sugars… sweet sauces or whatever you are dipping your fries in.
So avoid sugars and fats as much as possible.
Carbohydrates are given a bad wrap… that adkins diet can be pulled off but it fails to really do one thing. It fails to train the body to burn ketogenic sources of energy. Which are carbohydrates and proteins. If you get your body used to breaking those down instead of sugar… you are going to burn that weight off without doing a thing. Really it is sugar you need to avoid… the body with start burning fat and get used to using fat as a resources until it’s gone… and then once you are there you want your body to burn carbs… at that point you can eat pretty freely so long as you avoid excessive sugar and maintain more of a ketogenic state.
Again let me emphasize… Sodas, brownies, cake, a lot of prepackaged sweets. Avoid them. A bag of doritos will be better for losing weight than a bag of m&ms… calories are probably comparable regarding single servings… chemistry is not.
You don’t have to go above and beyond and start eating salads every meal. Or starve yourself.
Wine is sugary, liquor is as well. Light beers and pale ales are a decent way to keep sugar consumption down.
Get good hearty snacks like individual packages of almonds… if you are hungry between meals eat a package. Avoid sugars lol… just avoid sugars.
Exercise is a hard thing to pick up and maintain. Riding a bicycle is a casual way of getting good exercise without noticing the effort. Jogging and running are hard on the knees… and walking doesn’t really do anything at all… just takes a long time.
lifting weights can build muscle but you gotta be backing that up with protein intake. I’d suggest chicken, fish, beans, and plenty of nuts… these are all low in fat and there is virtually no sugar.
Are you a binge eater? Are you a smoker? There is a lot to be said for those who live outside the constantly need for consumption… whether it is this or that… Some folk simply just are and then eat occasionally for sustenance. They don’t eat when they are mildly hungry… they live with that when it sets in… they eat when it’s meal time and have no drugs or smokes in the mix at all. Really puts one in a position to have a lot of self control to escape the tendency to be indulgent.
Love to keep talking about this. I’ve done a lot of research into nutrition and only plan to do more.
I’m a ketogenic who is about to go vegan with an emphasis on getting my nutrition from grains, beans, and a few other sources of oil (olives, canola, flax)…
It should pan out to be a whole lot cheaper to eat and my body should be very much still ketogenic and also ready to build muscle mass… as well as have all the vitamins and minerals needed in the diet itself. I should also be able to eat just about as much as I want of the stuff… and probably should… without gaining too much in weight.
I’d strongly advise you sink 15$ into getting an omega 3 supplement and complete multivitamin from your local grocer… they have off brand bottles that last 3+ months for less than 10 bucks and the omegas… whether you go with just the 3 or a “3, 6, 9” combo… you’ll have a good basis of nutrition which will allow for a lot more of the dynamics in your metabolism to start taking effect.
Also citric acid and other strongly acidic foods will really offset the proper absorption of nutrients. Save that glass of OJ for a snack between meals.