I work night shift (about 14 hours a night) at the home of a 92 year old woman. I find it hard to stick to foods that are healthy, because she does shopping and gets her feelings hurt when I don't eat the food she buys for me.
POPCORN is my love and enemy! I keep telling myself to stop eating it (because I'm slightly a binge eater) but I do every time and sometimes o go for a second bag. How do I overcome this binge eating and stop wanting to shove my face full of carbs and salt?!
The above post explains this when it says to avoid simple carbs as much as possible -- they may be lower in calories than, say, salmon, but they metabolize quickly into sugar. Your diet sounds pretty good (I'm not sure why you need a protein bar, but hopefully it's one of the healthier ones -- and most are most assuredly not healthful. Are you weight training?
Carbs raise BG so restricting carbs will help BG.
when you say 6 units I assume you mean 6 exchanges which is 90 gr of carbs. If you take 250 mg at each meal that is 750 mg a day, the limit is 2400mg a day so you have room to go up on the Met.
It can take 6 to 8 weeks for met to become fully effective.
d have to drop 500 calories from your BMR each day (1 lb is equal to 3500 calories, so 500 calories X 7 days = 3500 calories or 1 lb). OR you can drop 250 calories from your diet and increase exercise to use an additional 250 calories.
Changing up calorie counts and exercises will help prevent plateau.
if you can stick to it for 3-7 days, you will feel a noticeable change in your body. If you have to have carbs, do the healthy kind, but really give it a try, just for a couple of weeks. It is a great jump start for any diet and you will feel your belly seem instantly less bloated and feel less hungry and munchy all of the time. Eat lots of fiber to stay full. Good luck!
Hello and welcome to our community. Unfortunately, you can't really "spot reduce", as it appears you'd like to do. When we lose weight, we lose from the whole body.
It's important to note, that losing weight, isn't always just a matter of "calories in/calories out"; however, we do have to make sure we don't take in more calories than we need as they will be stored as fat. What those calories consist of, it equally important.
I'm not allowed to eat beans as they r too high in carbs :/ I would love to eat beans lol. Popcorn spikes my sugar belive it or not, ***** cuz I love it. I also have to be careful of the carbs in nuts! And I'm only 24 weeks and dr says its going to keep getting worse til I have the baby.
s the type of carbs. Simple carbs, such as sugar and white flour, metabolize into sugar in your body very quickly and store as fat if not burned very quickly. Complex carbs burn more slowly and provide a long-lasting energy and provide us with our most important nutrients. High protein diets are a current fad, and some of them might one day prove out -- we just have to see what happens when we have a lot of years of people eating this way and see what happens to them.
s physical activities (play, dance, sports) to lose weight, and not lower calorie intake due to the need of calories for growth. For your age you need approximately 1800-2000 calories a day to grow. Limit time in front of the TV or non-active-video games. There have been studies showing the longer the length of time a child sit in front of the TV, the greater the weight gain. Limit high sugar drinks/snacks, and try replacing with low fat milk/yogurt, fruit, air popped popcorn, or low-fat cheese.
Some good advice posted above. Since your favorite foods are veggies, you should have 1/2 the battle won, since those are foods to eat the most of. AvaG is right about the 1/2 plate of veggies and the 1/4 plate of lean protein and complex carbs/starches. Be aware that can destroy all benefit of eating veggies, if you put the wrong things on them.
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