My Operalosing weight...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:07:55 AM
Although I've always had a reasonably good BMI (body mass index), I was never really completely happy with my shape. The BMI doesn't tell everything, it's just a simple arhytmic formula. I've always felt I had to much fat at my belly and stomach, which is scientifically proven the most dangerous fat, as it goes togheter with a greater risk for cardiac desease.
I've always wanted to lose some weight, but not through excessive dieting. Actually I was more looking for a permanent change of life style, to something more healthier than I have now. I figured out that there were two essential things. The first one is doing sports and the second one is healthy food. They both go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.
As I'm at an important phase of my life now, with a lot of things changing, I thought this might be the time to change this too. I'd start with sports/excercising (can't remember when I had the time for this, I've been soooo busy past years) and with healthy food. But what is healthy? Up till now I've eaten reasonably healthy, but I had no real guidance to help me in the right direction. Maybe that's why the last year I've gained so much weight again?
And than, by accident, I found this book in our library about The Abs Diet (by David Zinczenko). I've read it completely through and I was amazed. It's certainly absolutely not like any other typical diet which is based on eating less, counting calories, eating fat free, ... This book says: more food = more muscle = more fat that will be burned. Although I was sceptical against 6 meals a day (which is from dental point of view not good), his theories seem right. That fact that he also combines excersising (fitness) with the right food, is also good for me, because I wanted to do some more sports!
It's all too much to explain the book here, but I have the feeling this might work, because it seems like a way of life, not like a diet. I've done the diet the past two days, and despite the six meals a day I haven't gained any weight yet. I've lost a little of weight, but since this is only after two days, this can just be normal fluctuation.
We'll see what the future brings. I'll keep you all updated.
Riene # Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:20:08 AM
I've read that several small meals scattered throughout the day as opposed to a few large ones is more in line with our ancestral eating habits, and therefore probably healthier. It also works to prevent blood sugar spikes/drops.
What kind of exercising or sports are you doing?
Let us know how it goes!
kerrykerrykait # Friday, August 31, 2007 6:39:52 PM
I agree with Riene: the bottom line, at least for me, is MORE exercise and LESS food.
RobbyStuk Chocolat # Sunday, September 2, 2007 8:38:44 AM
The exercising knows some variation. Most of it is not really sports, but I would describe it as power training. So no running, cycling, ... (which is optional though) but actually training abdominal muscles and other larger muscle groups (by doing sit-ups, crunches, lift-ups, lifting not-really-heavy weights, ...). The idea is of doing only 3 sessions of half an hour per week, not more. The other days you can go running, cycling and so on, but there are also limits as you're not allowed to "over-sport" your muscles.
The general idea here is that more developped/larger muscles burn more fat. The more muscle you have, the more fat you burn. So the idea is not burning fat during sports, but burning more fat thanks to the muscles you've built up with sports. Acutally it's even more than that, but I'm trying to keep it symplistic: it's hard to summerize 50 pages in a few lines.
After a week I've lost 1kg (2,20 lbs). That's really nice knowing I've eaten 6 times a day delicious meals, I've never been hungry, and I haven't started with the excercises yet. At the moment I'm fairly positive about it