Yeah. I have not yet developed the habit of eating responsibly when I'm not fasting. I tend to eat like a horse, for pleasure.
It really isn't about how much one eats, it's about WHAT you're eating. If you eat healthy, you can eat until you're stuffed, and you will never gain weight. I used to obsess over food. I lived to eat, but had to work out all the time just so I could eat whatever I wanted. It was too much work for someone eating junk.
I don't actually fast to lose weight. I fast for spiritual reasons.
Doesn't matter why you're fasting. Your body will instantly go into famine mode, and turn as much of what it can into fat after you resume eating.
But I don't like being overweight for my size (I'm 5'10" and 230).
I'm 6'1", and used to be over 300 lbs. I lost 150 lbs. in less than seven months, and I did it without working out, running, etc. I just stopped eating garbage, and started eating wholesome food. The first week is the worst, but it gets easier after that until I wouldn't go back to eating that crap if you paid me.
I consider it to be undisciplined. I do plan on getting there, however. I just have some other things I've been concentrating on lately.
It's addiction. It's the exact same receptors in the brain that are affected with any and all drugs. It has nothing to do with discipline. That's just the addictive mind talking. I used to be hooked on just about everything, and I would tell myself the EXACT same things. I did that for over a decade.
God bless on this. I do need the encouragement to keep going in the right direction.
If you can cut out wheat, corn, flour, dairy, white rice, fruit juices, any dehydrated fruits, or anything that has been processed, or refined, then you can eat as much as you please, and you will lose weight effortlessly. There's a learning curve, but the simplest rule of thumb is to simply stick to the produce section of the grocery store. Don't eat anything that has an ingredient you don't know exactly what it is, or what it does.
Yep. I still eat fast food, oversized meals, etc. For me, the power to fast is directly tied to how much time I'm spending with God, and I've been caught up in some house projects that needed getting done. But I'm hoping to go on another long fast after the new year starts.
Convenience is a huge factor. I cook large quantities of food at one time which allows me to get all sorts of big jobs done, and eat responsibly all the time because I can simply take it out of the fridge, and heat it up while I'm taking a shower, taking out the trash, etc. A few minutes later my breakfast, lunch, or dinner is ready. This is a life saver if you're beat from working all day long, and just want to get something quick and easy. I eat my own homemade fast food.
Believe me, I know exactly where you're at right now. The hardest part is just getting some simple recipes copied down, and buying the ingredients. I've got it down to a science.
Here's just a sample of what I do:
Breakfast: Beat a dozen eggs in bowl; then add 1 cup of rolled oats; 1 cup of oat bran; 1/2 cup of nonfat dry milk; one can of crushed pineapple in water (NOT heavy syrup); a tablespoon of cinnamon; mix, pour into corningware dish, and cook at 350 for 30 minutes. Top with coconut oil Feeds 4, or four meals.
It takes me about five minutes to mix that stuff up and get it into the oven, then I'm out working in the yard for the next 30 minutes. It tastes just like a thick stack of pancakes. The first couple of weeks I added saccharine to the mix. About 10 drops of this stuff that is seriously potent. I weened myself off it in about a month. It's seriously bad stuff, but it's not addictive like sugar.
Here's dinner: 4 of those cheap frozen spinach, or broccoli boxes; a 2 lbs. bag of frozen cod, tilapia, salmon, etc. place in broaster pan, and cook at 400 for 20 minutes, pull out and add 20 beat eggs, a few cans of whatever you got in the fridge or panty. I usually toss in a few cans of mushroom, olives, beans, a jar of pasta sauce, and cook for an hour. I scoop out enough to fill one of those 3" high 6" x 6" corningware bowls, and top with cut up iceberg lettuce that I"ve mixed with a couple spoonsful of Dukes mayo, and Pace chunky salsa. It tastes just like a crunchy Mexican dish. if I run out of the lettuce toping, I just mix in some Duke's mayo and salsa, and eat it cold. That usually lasts a couple weeks.
Right before bed: I open a 1.5 lbs. container of Friendship brand nonfat cottage cheese, and scoop out half to put into an empty Friendship cottage cheese container, then I add half a can of chilled pineapple chunks to each container, mix, and eat right before going to bed.
Friendship is the only brand that I know of that doesn't include whey in their cottage cheese. Whey is sugar. As counterintuitive as it may seem, this delicious concoction jump starts your metabolism, and actually causes your body to burn fat all night long.
In between these pre-prepared meals, I will cook chicken thighs, or breasts one night, then refrigerate for left overs. A couple thighs or one good sized breast goes well with a few crowns of broccoli. I mix up a jar of Duke's mayo with mustard and lemon juice. 2/3 mayo; 1/3 mustard, and the rest is lemon juice. When it's the consistency of paint is the best imo. I pour that over the broccoli. just lightly enough to cover half the broccoli, or it can overpower it.
Everybody raves about it.
If you don't have a garden, I recommend one of those big bags of ready to eat spinach. I will empty about half a bag into a large mixing bowl, add tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, and then slice up one of those chicken breasts for a meal. I eat the whole thing in one sitting. Braggs makes some apple cider vinegar that is really good for digestion, especially if you're coming off of a bad diet. Use that as salad dressing. They also have a soy sauce that is excellent, and super healthy, also good on salads. Don't mess around with olive oil unless you're sure it's the real deal. Most are fake, and add canola oil, sunflower oil, etc. They will say "cold pressed", or "first press" but this is fraud, especially when they're from Italy. The best stuff is from Australia or California.
You are probably heating a high caloric, low nutrition diet. The best is a HIGH VOLUME, high nutrition food plan. This gives the body what it needs to energize you. Don't snack between meals. Give the stomach time to rest. This is why you need to eat A LOT. It keeps the stomach full long enough for the nutrition you need to do its work. Don't drink anything while you're eating. Drink a large glass of water half an hour before you eat anything. This isn't to fill you up before you eat, but to help keep yourself hydrated and help with digestion.
I'm never hungry, even if I go on a fast for two weeks. I routinely can get up, and the next thing I know, I've spent the whole day working, and forgot to eat anything all day. I don't really think about it anymore. I eat when my body tells me to.
Here's another thing to try: Start eating breakfast half an hour later than normal until you get to where you're eating breakfast at 10 am. Start eating dinner half an hour earlier until you're eating dinner no later than 5 pm. I eat two meals a day now. The rest is intermittent fasting between dinner and breakfast. This will eventually force your body into a ketogenic mode which will begin to cleanse your system of dead cells. The diet you're on right now is causing dead cells to stick which just leads to disease, joint pain, etc.
Sometimes I just eat one meal in the afternoon, and I actually have to add oil, and grains to my diet to keep my weight from getting too low.
Sweet potatoes are also great with just some Braggs aminos sprayed over them. I like to slice them up before I cook them. This cooks them a lot quicker and they're just like Sweet potato French fries.
Don't cook anything in oil. You can toss a bunch of veggies into a skillet and just add some water. People always ask me for the recipe, and can't believe there's nothing in the skillet other than just a little water.
This may sound complicated, but once you do it a few times, you'll see that it's stupid simple. I have a small skillet that has a steamer that I toss whatever vegetable I want to eat. Then I set a couple of cod or tilapia or salmon fillets into the oven. I used to use some of that kosher salt because you can use all the natural salt you want because it doesn't get into your system like sodium does. Now I rarely use salt at all anymore because my taste buds have adapted to being sugar free. Carrots taste like Kandy Korn. A few slices of watermelon will give me a hangover, and a ripe pineapple tastes like brandy to me.
There's also nothing more simple than grabbing some pears, blueberries, strawberries, or apples and just eating them till you're full.
