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well /fit/, I've been told here that I'm practically starving myself with the way I eat. This has been my typical diet the past week:

morning - serving of Total with skim milk
lunch - bag of baked Lays and water
snack - changes, but usually around 100 calories
dinner - various rice recipes

I'm not entirely sure about dinner's calories. Calorie-Count says a cup of white, medium grain, cooked rice is 242 calories, and I assume whatever I put on it is at least 150 calories, it's usually a stew or something. So, I'm willing to say it's around 400 calories.

So, the total amount I eat in a day can be around 850-1100 calories. Yes, I've heard this is pretty much anorexia levels and starvation levels. But I don't understand it, because I'm usually full or not hungry until the meal comes. But now, I've noticed something. For the past week, I have not dropped a pound. I run on my treadmill for 30-40 minutes a day, too. But, my weight isn't moving. I've have a diet similar to this for about two months, and have dropped 20 lb so far. But as I mentioned, nothing has happened in the passed week. Whats up with it?
>> Anonymous
Your body is now thinking that you're starving and holds onto the fat.

Solution: Eat healthy and exercise.
>> Anonymous
>lunch - bag of baked Lays

Change that, make it something healthier.

Also, in general, eat food more fiber and protein heavy. It's not enough to lower calories.
>> Anonymous
>>25025
But... I'm not starving at all. I don't want to eat more either, simply because I'd be full, and would feel guilty for eating when I'm not even hungry.
>> Anonymous
eat more
>> Anonymous
Pounds come off fast at first but once you hit a certain point they begin to come off much slower.

It would be a lot more helpful if you gave us some sort of idea of where you started and where you're at right now. It's hard to come up with an answer without any sort of stats.
>> Anonymous
>>25030
started at 196, 175 right now typically, but I get to 174 in the morning. Goes up to 175 by the time I get home from school and goes to 176 from eating dinner. I didn't poop last night, but I doubt poop weighs much at all. I am pretty damn short, being 5'3.5". I'm still in high school, I'll admit it.

I eat a multivitamin during dinner. I probably should increase my protein and fiber, though. The only source of fiber I can think of are about ten celery sticks I eat at night usually after running. What do you guys suggest?
>> Anonymous
>>25034

Essentially I think you need to change your meal plan. The way you're eating now looks like it causes your body to go into storage mode more than burning mode. It's fine to eat small meals but generally you want to stretch it over 5-6 meals a day almost every 3 hours or so. This keeps your body burning instead of storing because it knows it's going to get food again within a couple hours. Essentially it raises your metabolism rate.

Practically starving yourself doesn't help the situation at all either. You simply need to eat more and balance your meals better. A bag of chips and water is not sufficient for lunch.
>> Anonymous
>>25045
I hear this a lot, but there's something else I'm afraid of.

See, I hear a lot about the whole "eat less calories than you burn to lose weight". Essentially, I believe I am. But I've heard that the way I am eating has screwed up my metabolism to burn less calories. If this is true, changing the way I eat to be more healthy would essentially make me eat more calories than I burn because of my metabolism. I heard this somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure how it works.

Also, how does this sound for lunch:

whole wheat bread
two tablespoons of peanut butter
10 calorie jell-o pack
half an orange

Only thing I can really think up than I can make and keep until lunch at school.
>> Anonymous
>two tablespoons of peanut butter
>10 calorie jell-o pack

No. Make tuna/turkey breast sandwiches instead.
>> Anonymous
>>25115
peanut butter has good protein, no?
>> Anonymous
>>25154
Organic peanut butter is good for you.
>> Anonymous
apples are yummy!
>> Anonymous
Organic raw almond butter is a million times better for you than peanut butter
>> Anonymous
>>25169
but moar calories :(

can anyone answer the problem I was thinking of here>>25053?
>> Anonymous
>>25193
It tastes gross to me, compared to peanut butter.
>> Anonymous
>>25053
That sounds like a nothing lunch. Better than what you've been eating, but still nothing.

Since you're basically eating garbage as it is, maybe you should think about fixing that before you try to lose weight.
>> Anonymous
>>25197

whole wheat bread (good! Is it really whole wheat though? Check to make sure? Look at the ingredients. Does it say "whole wheat"? )

two tablespoons of peanut butter (Try raw almond butter)


10 calorie jell-o pack (Be wary of sugar substitutes. I'd skip this entirely and just add some defrosted frozen berries to your sandwich.)


half an orange (Eat a whole apple instead. Oranges are good for you but and apple is better for weight loss. Apples are full of fiber which will trick your body into feeling full.)
>> Anonymous
Holy fuck. I am amazed that you aren't dead.

Do you even poop every day eating that little? It must look like toxic sludge.
>> Anonymous
>>25264
Why do people keep saying that? Damn it, I don't get hungry. I dunno if it's something wrong or what, but yeah.

Ok, someone try to fix up my lunch. It's the weakest part of my diet for a reason: I'm at school and I can't really make a meal that would go bad by morning to lunch time (e.g. tuna).
>> Anonymous
add in nuts/avocado etc, nutritionally great but have calories.
>> Anonymous
>>25294
everything has calories.

Nuts fill you up.

that sounded so perverted.
>> Anonymous
>>25299
I meant are dense in calories
>> Anonymous
>>25304
isn't op looking to gain weight anyways?
>> Anonymous
>>25307
Yes, that's why I suggested them - op said they weren't hungry, so eating something small but calorie rich and good for you is best.
>> Anonymous
Your fat intake is almost nil. Don't be afraid of dietary fats. Without any fat intake, you would die.

Buy a can of mixed nuts (planter's NUTrition is pretty nice) and forcefeed yourself a quarter cup a day. That's a nice mix of EFAs that will also go a long way towards satisfying your caloric needs.
>> Guil
http://www.amazon.com/Udos-Choice-Oil-Blend-32/dp/B0003TQZBQ
>> Anonymous
at lunch, go for avocado with cottage cheese, or make shrimp and avocado salad etc. avocado is great both taste and for your health.
>> Anonymous
>>25307
what the hell? I'm trying to looooose weight.
>> Anonymous
>>25293
You don't get hungry because you're used to not eating enough.
>> Anonymous
>>25021
morning looks ok, i'd suggest some type of fruit with it though.
lunch... thats not food. grilled tempeh with, say, squash or maybe some nice broiled whitefish and a veg of your choice would be better. eat some bread/grains here, too.
snack: more fruit, maybe a strawberry+walnut concoction would be nice?
dinner: don't be afraid to eat a nice portion here. get enough so that you're not gonna go rooting around the fridge at midnight. your choice of protien, grain, some roughage, maybe a nice sweet afterwards. feelin bad about it? go for a bike ride in the evening.

the way you're doing it now is gonna shut down your bodys metabolism O_O
>> noko Anonymous
Posting pictures of fast food should be a bannable offense in /fit/
>> Anonymous
>>25028
You sound like a jackass, OP. What you're eating isn't enough. Your body is going to think you're starving. Metabolism slows down massively, and tries to hold on to any fat it can get.

If you keep up it up, you might even gain weight.
>> Anonymous
>>25582
He came here for help, he knows what he's doing isn't too good. Help him out.
>>25053
Can someone answer this? I'm curious.
>> metabolism Anonymous
>>25028
your METABOLISM increases when you eat more. METABOLISM is like a fiery factory inside you, burning foods and converting to energy. It will take getting used to eating more, you cannot just change this in 1 meal. My experience took me a week or two of eating heavier breakfasts. The first few times your body will just go WTF is all this extra food. My motivation came from 35+ hours of nutrition class. I now eat kingly breakfasts, when I need to, but the initial week changeover will be weird.

with the extra burning, probably you want to increase your energy demands too to stimulate it's needs? I don't mean burnout immediately after heavier meals, just be careful not to get cramps.

tl;rd: too bad, you have to understand what metabolism is to get what everyone's saying in very short answer.
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>>25602

Fuck yes english breakfast
>> Anonymous
>>25587
He came here asking "BAAAWW why haven't I lost any weight this week?" and showing no knowledge of what he's doing is wrong. We DID help him by telling him "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG".
>> Anonymous
>>25621
op here. well, you guys weren't really explaining why, but I know now anyway.

But I'm too scared to try to eat more now to try to fix my metabolism. Taking a week for it to fix again sounds damn frightening.
>> Anonymous
Eat something better than Lays chips. Seriously. How about a ham, cheese, lettuce and tomato sandwich on whole grain bread? Also, I hope your snack, whatever it is, is a fruit of some kind because your diet, as it is, doesn't seem very balanced. And I wouldn't say you're starving yourself yet really, but that cuz I eat about 500 calories and work that off each day, so I'm probably a bit biased. Make sure you drink lots and lots of water and take your vitamins.
>> Anonymous
>>25642
I eat a multivitamin everyday. Also, I eat baked Lays because I'm at school, and I don't have anything else to buy. I want to start taking my lunch, but there's some problems:

1. people are saying I should take a tuna sandwich. problem with this is that it might go bad by the time I can eat it, and I don't like soggy bread, which is what will happen.

2. i want to eat peanut butter, people say no.

3. I want to try to get my metabolism higher slowly, and not just start eating a ton so I can burn everything off.
>> Anonymous
>>25647

If you're going to eat something just to get your metabolism going, just eat celery. If you don't quite like the taste of celery, spray a couple sprays of Wish-Bone salad spritzer on it (1 cal per spray = awesome). Lays is like the antithesis of weight loss lol.
>> Anonymous
>>25650
I actually like celery. I eat about sticks a night. eat moar?

how does it help the metabolism, by the way?
>> Anonymous
>>25660

Well I've heard conflicting opinions about celery and metabolism unfortunately. Some websites and books say it increases your overall metabolism, and some say that's just a myth. All I know for sure is that it will fill you up and get your body digesting stuff for a bit.

As for the amount of celery you eat, as long as you don't put anything fattening on them, I'm pretty sure you can eat as much as you want. They have practically no calories after all. Just snack until you're full I guess.
>> Anonymous
>>25676
made a small fail in that post, meant to say I eat about 10 sticks a night. sounds cool that you can eat as much as you want though, they're delicious.
>> Anonymous
>>25676
celery will result in negative calories after digestion.. an 8 inch stalk of celery has about 6 calories, we can't break down the cell walls of it so most of its energy is wasted on us
>> Anonymous
If you want to build metabolism really quickly, then you should wake up, eat a banana, and exercise. Something to get your stuff kickstarted.

But yeah, if you cut yourself to less than like, 1500 calories, your body will go starvation mode, and weight lose is almost impossible.

There are things you could do to bump up caloric intake without taking in too much food. Cook an egg (90 calories) and use butter to cook it (calories depending on amount of butter used).

If you really do choose to eat nothing but rice for dinner, you ought to consider adding something to it, and cutting the rice portion down. Or just drop the rice thing altogether. Switch to a vegetable and a small portion of meat.

Why do you eat so little anyways? (Too many posts to read through, so I'm sorry if this question was asked and answered already)
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>>25640
metab anon here. damn scary, eh? hmm.. not sure what I can say about that. I did that, and I am definitely alive now. Actually I feel more alive, because busy days when I have high responsibilities, I make sure I have the energy I need with a big breakfast.

Haven't you eaten 'til your stuffed, so full you need extra time to get moving? That's all this is. It's not you're going to explode or anything. If you're interested to do this, it's just a few mornings of eating more than you are used to.

>>25603
Don't eat just this, put some god damn salad and fruits in there, and consider deducting some of those heaviest meats. I'd MUCH rather have baked salmon most mornings than that.

tl;dr: Don't eat 'til bursting, just stop when you think you have to. It's simple, really.
>> Anonymous
>>25700
It's not pure rice. In my Iranian culture, we probably have thousands of different recipes to rice... I actually do not believe I've ever ate just white rice. One time I eat is a stew that is poured on the rice, which is basically water, celery, and meat, all cooked together. It doesn't sounds as amazingling delicious as it is, but oh well.

Last night, I had some another recipe. Basically lentils, raisins, and rice cooked together. rice turns sort of like a gray color. shit's delicious.
>> Anonymous
>>25754

Oh that reminds me, do you like daal? It's basically lentils with spices and it's delicious, and it isn't that many calories. I could eat it every. single. day. Apparently my Indian friends do eat it every single day; I think that is awesome.
>> Anonymous
>>25765
daal? I don't really eat much Indian food. anything to the east of Iran is usually too spicy for me...

I do eat lentils at times by themselves. though, they can really add up.
>> Anonymous
>>25770

oh baby, i love all kinds of daal. (britfag of paki heritage). VERY healthy, and provides good protein. mmm.
>> Anonymous
(not OP)i did this.

was 320 and now im about 210.

I reached a plateau. Starving myself gets me nowhere. it came off fucking fast, but the weight loss is like an asymptote.

eventually you will have to move to normal eating + excercise.