Losing Weight - Page 4

Seil · 10-11-2010, 05:57 PM

So here's what I hear from various sources - including my profs; way back when we were cave-men... or cave-ladies, we went out to hunt. Now, I can't get a group of guys to help me move, let alone get a group of guys together to take down a wooly mammoth - they ate mammoths back then, right? Anyways, since we didn't really know where our next meal was coming from, our bodies stored energy as fat, so that when we came out of our cave in the morning, griping that coffee won't be invented for a few hundred years, we had the oomph to run away from the sabre-toothed tiger who was napping at our front.... cave entrance.

Anyways, fast forward to the present and our bodies still store energy as fat. Though, because there's less sabre-toothed creatures running around and more food, we're storing more than we need to.

I've been warned off of things like Atkins, as that does damage to your kidney and liver, diet pills are a cornucopia of fun side-effects and I'm hopefully never going to ingest a tapeworm. (Why is it that weight loss is the one thing people willingly ingest parasites for?) I've looked into the matter through five minutes of intensive internet searching, and found that really, I should eat less calories. Or more. Or something. Really, it's all about calories.

I've been told to look at myself like a bag - the more you put in, the bigger it gets. The more you take out, the smaller it gets. What I have to do if I want to lose weight is to not only decrease what I'm putting into the bag, but to also increase to quality of the stuff that goes in.

As a fairly active person - I bike to school, a half hour ride each way; I do a set number of push-ups and sit-ups three or four times a day, and I jog on the weekends for about twenty minutes. The problem here is that I'm going off of all this information from friends and people and I've got no idea how to piece it all together:

What is the proper caloric intake for someone who wants to lose weight?
What foods should someone eat on a low-cal diet?
Can I still turn to my vices (alcohol/candy) if I'm on the diet?
I try to go for a protein shake instead of a meal, is that okay?

So I'm going to ask you guys if you know or can direct me to any pertinent information that I can use. (I'm at 200lbs, and hoping to drop about 15 - 30lbs.)

10-11-2010, 05:57 PM	#1
Seil Super stressed! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: British Columbia Posts: 8,081	Losing Weight So here's what I hear from various sources - including my profs; way back when we were cave-men... or cave-ladies, we went out to hunt. Now, I can't get a group of guys to help me move, let alone get a group of guys together to take down a wooly mammoth - they ate mammoths back then, right? Anyways, since we didn't really know where our next meal was coming from, our bodies stored energy as fat, so that when we came out of our cave in the morning, griping that coffee won't be invented for a few hundred years, we had the oomph to run away from the sabre-toothed tiger who was napping at our front.... cave entrance. Anyways, fast forward to the present and our bodies still store energy as fat. Though, because there's less sabre-toothed creatures running around and more food, we're storing more than we need to. I've been warned off of things like Atkins, as that does damage to your kidney and liver, diet pills are a cornucopia of fun side-effects and I'm hopefully never going to ingest a tapeworm. (Why is it that weight loss is the one thing people willingly ingest parasites for?) I've looked into the matter through five minutes of intensive internet searching, and found that really, I should eat less calories. Or more. Or something. Really, it's all about calories. I've been told to look at myself like a bag - the more you put in, the bigger it gets. The more you take out, the smaller it gets. What I have to do if I want to lose weight is to not only decrease what I'm putting into the bag, but to also increase to quality of the stuff that goes in. As a fairly active person - I bike to school, a half hour ride each way; I do a set number of push-ups and sit-ups three or four times a day, and I jog on the weekends for about twenty minutes. The problem here is that I'm going off of all this information from friends and people and I've got no idea how to piece it all together: What is the proper caloric intake for someone who wants to lose weight? What foods should someone eat on a low-cal diet? Can I still turn to my vices (alcohol/candy) if I'm on the diet? I try to go for a protein shake instead of a meal, is that okay? So I'm going to ask you guys if you know or can direct me to any pertinent information that I can use. (I'm at 200lbs, and hoping to drop about 15 - 30lbs.)