Ok, now that I have your attention, I'm ready to get back on my soapbox for a minute, so please indulge me.I am seeing another tread that is disturbing. People want to know why they are gaining weight while eating so little. Let me shed some light on this issue.When people don't eat, they lose weight and muscle and muscle and muscle. Those who don't eat starve themselves to death. Last time I checked, death is not a very healthy state to be in. If you eat absolutely nothing at all, you will starve to death. You not only lose fat, you lose muscle, and having no nutrition at all leads to organ failure and death. If you eat very little, your body recognizes the fact that you are eating, but it also recognizes the fact you are not eating enough to maintain not only your body weight, but all organs and bodily functions. Therefore, everything you eat turns straight to fat because the body knows it is in
starvation mode and has to hold on to every little bit of nourishment it can get because it doesn't know when it will get more.However, we still get people coming on this board wanting to know why they are gaining weight. Now granted, in their mind, they say they are eating, and they are, but not enough. So when they eat so little and gain weight, it confuses them. Have you ever heard the phrase "you have to spend money to make money?" Guess what. You have to EAT to LOSE weight.You put logs in your fireplace and start a fire. As the fire starts to go out, you have two choices. Let it go out or put more wood on the fire. How big and hot the fire gets depends on how much more wood you put on the fire. Your body needs food to burn fat. As your body digests the food (wood) you have given it, your metabolism (fire) burns what you have eaten plus fat. As your body runs out of food (wood), your metabolism (fire) slows down. Unless you give your body more food (wood), your fire will go out (metabolism will slow to a crawl).
High metabolism burns fat. Food fuels metabolism. Hence, you have to EAT to LOSE weight.Since muscle burns fat, you need to build muscle. More muscle equals more fat burn. "This is what I eat (not enough to keep a bird alive) and I don't exercise." If you don't eat enough to keep a bird alive, you can not have a high metabolism. If you don't exercise to build muscle, you can not burn fat.So dear friends...want to lose weight?? EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EXERCISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My best advice is not to get caught up in all the numbers (although they do have their place for some people). You don't have to calorie count. You don't have to keep track of how many calories you've burned. Good grief...everything is just an estimate anyway. The time you spend working up and worrying about the numbers is time you can spend eating and exercising.EAT!!!!!!!!!!!Ok, I'm gonna get off my soapbox now.
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