paperiniko

Start Weight:(17 Jul 11) 260.6 lb
Current Weight:(17 Feb 13) 182.5 lb
Goal Weight:156.5 lb
following: paperiniko's own diet
performance: losing 0.7 lb a week

After a few years of sedentary lifestyle I have kept gaining weight. I have always been chubby since teenage years but in the last few years I have become obese. In the past I have followed with temporary success several diets but later managed to regain the weight quite soon after I stopped.

Now after taking the time to study more the main nutritional science theories I am absolutely convinced that almost all diets on the market are very bad for the health and most of all make you fatter because they push you to get an unbalanced nutrition profile that is impossible to maintain long term.

The only approach that can be sustainable is a balanced one that takes into account one's preferences and idiosyncrasies to design a balanced profile within a lifestyle change approach. The only thing that matters in terms of fat loss is to create and maintain a calorie deficit and that is way easier to accomplish long term with a balanced diet that contain foods that we love and need, rather than with fad diets such as Atkins, Scarsdale and the likes of these.

I dislike the idea of food as magic potions that for some strange reason produces different results depending on the nutrient combinations and intake timing. There is absolutely no scientific evidence for this urban myths and I thinks that they are dangerous and ineffective.


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cals: 250kcal | fat: 8.01g | carbs: 40.56g | prot: 4.96g
Banana Oatmeal Muffins
Banana oatmeal muffins are a great light breakfast.
cals: 583kcal | fat: 31.99g | carbs: 16.33g | prot: 54.60g
Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
Just set it and forget it. A great simple but tasty dish.
cals: 207kcal | fat: 5.68g | carbs: 36.80g | prot: 5.86g
Whole Grain Banana Muffins
Healthy muffins with banana, flaxseed and whole wheat flour.
cals: 549kcal | fat: 5.24g | carbs: 60.76g | prot: 59.92g
Chicken and Spanish Rice
A perfectly balanced meal that's high in flavor but low in fat.
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Best Diet Plan??
insuline does not make you fat, excessive calories do. Insuline role is one of the most complex and misunderstood ones in our physiology yet plenty of people keep repeating the same nonsense over and over again.
The best diet is the one you can follow for life, so if a certain approach makes you feel deprived and looking forward to the day when you can finally eat " normally" that is a sign that it might not be right for you. It is way more important for long term success to find a sustainable approach than shedding pounds very quickly, it is the only suggestion I feel comfortable giving to anybody. Then finding out what works for you is part of your personal journey, just avoid fad diets and people trying to sell you their Truth

posted 18 May 2013, 04:56
Gained back all 20 lbs I had lost on Atkins! NOW WHAT?
Theo166 wrote:
I'm thinking what you've proven is your addiction to sugar. Atkins might be better for you because it squeezes out all the bad sugar. On WW, you are more likely to have sugar, and relapse. It takes many tries to quit bad habits, like smoking etc.

DON'T give up.


and yet she failed after doing atkins ! failure rates are high for all diets and do not depend on the carbs or proteins. Atkins is in my opinion a terrible diet because there are very few people who are likely to refrain from eating sugars for ever, it is unsustainable.Of course it works as long as you follow it, all diets do, but that is not the point.

The point is to find a lifestyle change that you can adopt for life, not for 1 week, not for 1 month and not even for 1 year. Can you reasonably follow atkins and other approaches like that for life, I doubt it. I am sure there are a few who can but it is probably even less than the already low number of those who on average can maintain their weight.

Don't look for a diet book, but for a way of eating and monitoring what you eat that you can be happy with the rest is mostly BS repeated over and over again.
posted 15 May 2013, 07:30
The rational and scientific weight loss discussion thread
I think that a lot of the confusion in good or bad faith is caused by this rule of the 3500 kcal per pound of fat.

I have been implementing the calorie counting approach for almost 17 months now and obviously it works, but the progression is never linear and most of all what is most important to monitor is the fat% rather than just weight. This is because weight can be affected by several other aspects that do not affect the success of lack of thereof of a particular fat loss strategy.

What I can tell is that in terms of fat loss calories are just calories and a lot of the nonsense spread around by the usual suspects really annoys me.
Of course in terms of general well being it is important also to monitor the quality of the calories and not only its quantity and composition, but that does not mean that a high protein or high carbs approach is inherently better.
Proteins have several good features that make them particularly useful in a calorie controlled diet, without having to buy all the BS about our ancestors and the supposedly better diet of the hunters gatherers that did not have a lot of strokes or cancers for the simple reason that they died young.
The main positive side is that proteins get digested slowly so along with fiber rich foods such as beans (also rich in proteins) they keep you full for longer which helps when trying to eat less. Other than that for fat loss purposes 2000 kcal of chocolate is almost exactly like 2000 kcal of chicken breast.

Another good feature is that when coupled with resistance training they help to retain and increase muscles.

With regards to my personal strategy I do not weigh in any more at fixed intervals (they used to be 2-4 weeks) but whenever I achieve a calorie deficit goal, generally between 20 and 30000 kcal deficit. When I account for my bodymedia 10% accuracy it always predicts very well my weight/fat trends. Of course there is always some aproximation in the short term.

That is the reason why the weigh in intervals are growing considerably, because it is way harder to generate deficits now that I have lost 70 pounds and I almost never eat less than 2200-2500 kcal (often more). Still monitoring the calories has put me in control and while I eat (and a few times overeat) everything there is one rule that I never break that is to log my food (all).

Doing this has allowed me to basically get rid of the scale in the last 10 months during which I only used it 3-4 times and still loose fat and weight (albeit at a slower pace of course), but at the end of every day I always know where my deficit stands vs the last time I weighed in, so if for instance I have had 1 or 2 days of overeating I just need to budget for them.

Since October I moved my food log to my fitness pal since FS does not sync with bodymedia, although I still prefer FS log in absolute terms, but being able to log and sync calories burnt and eaten make the whole process quite easy and allows me to keep in check.
posted 04 May 2013, 12:41
Insanity
I do not know Insanity but have started P90 and done it for 51 days with a break now of 2 weeks and I will try to resume it next week.

It is very well designed and allow to progress at one's own pace with alternative options depending on the fitness level. It definetly requires commitment since you need to do it 6 times a week, but I think it is way better than a DIY workout as it is balanced and has tons of resources online.
Overall although I was skeptical at the start I think that if you are not already very well versed in training program and do not want to invest in a personal trainer, these BB products are quite a good alternative, but as usual the most important thing is the personal commitment
posted 28 Apr 2013, 02:58
Very funny take on Fad Diets vs Calories in/out for weightloss
sounds about right
posted 27 Apr 2013, 10:31
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23 February 2013

today very bad binge episode, not been good at controlling my sugar cravings this week, not sure why. I started my training program with will but then ...
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17 February 2013

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