I feel the need to vent because I think it’s important if you are setting weight loss goals, you need to be realistic. You cannot expect to lose a lot of weight in a couple days and keep it off. That’s a fad diet and they NEVER truly work.
I will share a personal story with you….
Someone I briefly dated thought he knew everything…..and everything about how to lose weight. PFFFF! Yea right! We had an argument about how bad carbs are for you…..over text message. LAME! Yea I know - why did I even entertain it?! LOL He had the balls to tell me when I got serious and wanted advice to let him know. BAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Uh no!
I didn’t see Pro Bodybuilder, Doctor of Dietetics, or Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist on his credentials! - Definitely less than qualified to tell me how and what to eat.
There’s a saying, “Never trust a chubby trainer!” Yea, I follow that. I hired a real bodybuilder to train me and tell me how/what to eat. I’m getting pretty great results considering it’s only been two weeks too. I’m happy with my slower progression. Almost 15 lbs lost since 23 December 2012 and that’s with building muscle. Will have measurements this next weekend. J
He sure didn’t know how to lose weight and keep it off….the HEALTHY way. Just because you took a nutrition class once does not mean you know everything about it, dude! His weight had fluctuated the last few years and he had the biggest belly on a man I have ever dated. He had a six-pack when he was in the military so it was a little surprising he let himself go. I don’t know the whole story and I’m not going to judge him for weight fluctuation. I know how that goes because my weight has fluctuated being on/off migraine medications. My problem is the advice he was trying to tell me about how brown rice and other whole grain carbs, like oats, were so bad for you. There are bad carbs, better carbs, and best carbs. Here is a good article, from the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/.
He made himself sick only eating 2 meals, no whole grain carbs, and relying on zero carb protein shakes the rest of the day. If that’s what was happening to him, I surely was NOT going to get on that same rollercoaster ride. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY! Don’t do that! I’m not stupid and I have yet to take an adult education nutrition class but I will be majoring in nutrition this Fall. I do know that depriving yourself of certain food groups can be detrimental to your weight loss progress or even a healthy lifestyle at all.
Protein shakes, especially zero carb shakes, are not for weight loss meal replacements! You will starve your body of important nutrients and you may lose weight but you will gain it back once you start eating. You will probably eat all of the wrong things when you do start to eat at a more regular pace again. He didn’t work out on a regular basis either. I can understand a busy schedule but you make the time and stop making excuses. There’s a reason you put half the weight back on you previously lost, buddy! You may think you are doing miraculous things by losing 10 lbs in 3 days but really? What does that sound like? STUPIDITY! You’re sick because you starve yourself. You’re getting migraines because you starve yourself. You have NO energy because you starve yourself. You don’t sleep probably because you starve yourself. And then you eat ridiculous things late at night when you can’t sleep because you starved yourself. Nothing healthy is open in the middle of the night – huh?! Lots of excuses.
I am a chronic migraine sufferer. I usually get them 1-2 times a week! Once I started eating clean, I would get them, maybe, once a week. I even went 2 weeks without getting one recently. Diet is truly important when it comes to weight loss and muscle gain/maintenance. You can’t starve yourself or deprive your body of what it needs or it will start to use the healthy muscle you worked so hard in the gym to get.
Moral of the story, eat clean. Eat enough. Don’t overdo and don’t under-do it. Lose weight responsibly. Don’t expect drastic results overnight, or in only 3 days! You will be rewarded when you put the real work in. I promise you. I’m a lazy ass and if I can do it, you can too. You just have to believe in yourself. If you don’t, no one else will. As always, if you have a nutrition question, ask a real expert.
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