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One of THE most confusing things for me is knowing what to eat/not eat while a) training and b) trying to lose weight. For some reason, eating to train and eating to lose weight seem mutually exclusive. I’ve been doing South Beach for a while, but I’m not losing weight. The friends I’m doing it with are firmly convinced it’s because I have sugar in my coffee. Please…if sugar in my coffee negates the whole diet, then something about it is seriously flawed. Please don’t tell me to try Splenda. I’ve tried it and I don’t like it. I honestly think I feel worse when I eat it plus I can taste it in coffee and ice cream and anything else you put it in.
I read an article in this months Bicycling Magazine about eating to train, and it was actually a pretty good article. It showed some sample menus for a week and they were pretty similar to what I’d eat on SB, but without Splenda. It also talked about eating low glycemic index foods, which I’ve heard is also good. Unfortunately, the article assumes a 165lb rider eating 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day and says to adjust based on your weight. OK, first, I haven’t been near 165 since I was in high school and second, how do you adjust? Do I take my weight, figure out percentage-wise how different I am from 165 then increase the calories by that percentage?
I guess I’m just frustrated with the whole thing because I can’t figure out the right way to approach eating. I’m afraid to cut carbs because I don’t want to get wiped out while exercising, but I don’t want to eat too many because I’ll gain. And then there’s the whole “count calories, don’t count calories” side of the argument. Anyway…if you’ve got any suggestions or comments, they’d be much appreciated. Bottom line is I need to drop about 40lbs.
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Last year at this time, I adopted the Zone Diet at the suggestion of my trainer. At the time, I weight 195, having lost 5 lbs due to the insane workouts he was putting us through.
Since then, and through a combination of working out and watching my eating, I’m now just a touch under 180. I’ve dropped 2 inches from around my waist. These results are fairly common amongst his clientelle.
The Zone Diet focuses on some basics, principally the balance of your macronutrients (fat, protein, carbs) consumed at any given meal; eating so you don’t have glycemic spikes; and eating an appropriate amount of balanced food for the given meal.
The book, “The Zone Diet”, contains most of the info you need to get rolling (they even have a process for you to go through to estimated your lean body mass, which is key to understanding your daily caloric intake).
As with all diets, there is some controversy around this diet, though I tend to think of it as science continuing to evolve our understanding of food and fueling our bodies. For instance: Is a potato bad for you or not? What if you combine it w/appropriate amounts of fat & protein?
The one thing I really noticed is that when I cut out the sugar and white stuff from my diet, I went through a fairly dramatic transition. It’s AMAZING how much of our caloric intake from common foods is through sugars and white flour and rice. Also, something I’ve recently read about is how low-cal sweeteners act in the same way on your body as regular sugar does, so they are almost as bad for you as the real stuff!
I also think that others on Sweat365 have commented on food in the past, and I’m sure they’ll have other ideas as well. Lisa Sabin comes to mind…
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