[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-25-02 AT 06:46AM (Est)[/font][p]That's great! Congratulations.
The interesting thing is, it gets easier and easier as you get into it, and you'll find that once you reach a goal weight, as long as you keep up the workouts and water, you can eat way more than you'd ever believe calorie-wise and still gain nothing. I probably eat 2000 - 2500 calories a day now and weigh myself every day.
If you go several months without eating that stuff and then go back and try it, you'll be amazed at (i) how "yucky" and overly sweet some of it is, and (ii) how cruddy it makes you feel afterward. I can't say I never ever eat anything. Sometimes I eat an oatmeal cookie or a piece of gingerbread but I don't crave the stuff.
Dumping refined carbs from your diet also helps your mental acuity. I can't think of one bad thing that comes from it.
And really, isn't it easier to just boot the stuff and be able to eat more calorie wise and still lose weight rather than trying to shoehorn the carb calories into a 1200 - 1400 calorie diet and being hungry all the time? I thought so.
Great going. Keep it up.
The interesting thing is, it gets easier and easier as you get into it, and you'll find that once you reach a goal weight, as long as you keep up the workouts and water, you can eat way more than you'd ever believe calorie-wise and still gain nothing. I probably eat 2000 - 2500 calories a day now and weigh myself every day.
If you go several months without eating that stuff and then go back and try it, you'll be amazed at (i) how "yucky" and overly sweet some of it is, and (ii) how cruddy it makes you feel afterward. I can't say I never ever eat anything. Sometimes I eat an oatmeal cookie or a piece of gingerbread but I don't crave the stuff.
Dumping refined carbs from your diet also helps your mental acuity. I can't think of one bad thing that comes from it.
And really, isn't it easier to just boot the stuff and be able to eat more calorie wise and still lose weight rather than trying to shoehorn the carb calories into a 1200 - 1400 calorie diet and being hungry all the time? I thought so.
Great going. Keep it up.