Guest guest Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 >>> whenever i've fasted in the past i always gained wt. afterwards. thanks, laura >>> I agree with and that's the one thing I don't understand about the Warrior Diet. The only times my appetite becomes unnatural is when I screw around with it. For example, I *must* eat three or four equally-weighted equally-spaced meals a day or I gain weight. Flat out. If I ever have to go 6 hours or more between meals, once I finally sit down, I eat about twice or three times as much as I normally would in a day. I just go crazy. It happens every time. I'm 53 years old and am the same weight and shape I've been since high school. Experience tells me that I would quickly gain weight on the Warrior Diet. I would also, I think, be constantly thinking of food! For me, waiting a long time between meals is about the worst thing I can think of to do. The second worse thing for me is to eat a lot of starch at a meal. I haven't done that in a long time but I remember it used to make me want to eat about twice as much when I was ready for another meal (which was often soon after.) The third thing that screws me up is to eat within 2 hours of going to bed. I wake up with an " off " sense of hunger the next morning and it throws me the whole rest of the day. I don't sleep as well that night either. My routine has always been to finish dinner by seven-ish and go to bed by ten or eleven. I try to have a small starchy carb snack before -- usually it's a banana. I wake up with a clean strong fresh hunger. I eat within an hour of rising. Oh, and there's a fourth smaller thing: munching mindlessly between meals -- that always throws things off --I agree with The Warrior on that point! As I've aged and my body metabolism has slowed down (also illness changed things for a time) it's been a little trickier. I've found that through the years I get used to putting a certain volume of food on my plate. Every five or ten years I realize that I've started to tune out what I *need* to eat. I'm not *aware* as I prepare the food and so I fix the same size portions regardless of hunger. Gradually, too late, I find I've eaten too much for awhile and my clothes are (suddenly :-) too tight. So I regroup and, for a couple weeks, I make a point of being *aware* while I'm cooking -- I eat the same meals, just smaller portions. At first it's really hard because my stomach doesn't feel full after eating -- I'm missing those last few bites! Starvation! But the " ordeal " is only 20 minutes long. So my " diet " is only 20 minutes a few times a day that way. My willpower only has to work until the food I've eaten starts doing its magic and making me feel sated and by that time I'm distracted and onto another project. Once I go through that new process for a week or two it just starts becoming my new routine and I don't have to think so much about it anymore. I also try not to ever think of it as trying to lose weight or *needing* to lose weight (otherwise I'm sunk.) I think of it as my new (forever!) eating program. I also try to add an event like herbal tea after dinner to help hide the " loss " . My inner screaming child eventually gets bored with the " tantrum " and eventually I don't even have that after-meal-wanting-more thing.. (To help the process during those changing times I try to remember to have a spoonful of coconut oil (or other fat) about 20 minutes before I eat. It really takes that survival *edge* off the meal. I think it's an enormous help!) So yes, I think to lose weight requires willpower no matter what your weight is to begin with -- people who are thin often work a bit harder than you might think. I hope others will write in with their routines. As people age we all require fewer calories to function and so even a thinish person, to stay the same weight, has to " diet " . It's all relative. That's why, whether it's evenly-spaced, evenly-caloried meals or the Warrior Diet, I think a regular routine is so important: You don't want to have to think about your daily intake of food too much -- thinking too much about cutting back amounts of food in a day probably taps into some ancient caveman urge to stock up on food for survival or something -- and you don't want to mess around with your inner caveman! Just my two pesos in case some people are having trouble with the Warrior Diet, ~Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 Robin, very interesting post... how you eat, is how i was told to eat at www.radiantrecovery,com and i DID lose a little wt. but i got sick of planning and preparing 3 meals per day...i'd rather drink raw milk all day. which is what i do some days. about those 20 minutes after eating...i usually eat as much as i want til i'm satified...then i often feel too full later. if i unintentionally undereat, let's say i'm interupted by an important phone call before i'm done eating, it's like torture for those 20 min. and all i can think about is finishing my meal, while trying to concentrate on the phone conversation, and i'm DYING. then the 20 min. pass and i'm full and i wonder why i wanted the rest of that food... they say it takes 20 min. for the meal to register and to feel full and they are right. BUT WHY????? why does it have to be that way!!! it's as if mother nature programmed us to want more food than we really need, and thus to be fat. how frustrating is that!!!!!!!!! laura > > As I've aged and my body metabolism has slowed down (also illness changed > things for a time) it's been a little trickier. I've found that through the > years I get used to putting a certain volume of food on my plate. Every five > or ten years I realize that I've started to tune out what I *need* to eat. > I'm not *aware* as I prepare the food and so I fix the same size portions > regardless of hunger. Gradually, too late, I find I've eaten too much for > awhile and my clothes are (suddenly :-) too tight. So I regroup and, for a > couple weeks, I make a point of being *aware* while I'm cooking -- I eat the > same meals, just smaller portions. At first it's really hard because my > stomach doesn't feel full after eating -- I'm missing those last few bites! > Starvation! But the " ordeal " is only 20 minutes long. So my " diet " is only > 20 minutes a few times a day that way. My willpower only has to work until > the food I've eaten starts doing its magic and making me feel sated and by > that time I'm distracted and onto another project. Once I go through that > new process for a week or two it just starts becoming my new routine and I > don't have to think so much about it anymore. I also try not to ever think > of it as trying to lose weight or *needing* to lose weight (otherwise I'm > sunk.) I think of it as my new (forever!) eating program. I also try to add > an event like herbal tea after dinner to help hide the " loss " . My inner > screaming child eventually gets bored with the " tantrum " and eventually I > don't even have that after-meal-wanting-more thing.. (To help the process > during those changing times I try to remember to have a spoonful of coconut > oil (or other fat) about 20 minutes before I eat. It really takes that > survival *edge* off the meal. I think it's an enormous help!) > > So yes, I think to lose weight requires willpower no matter what your weight > is to begin with -- people who are thin often work a bit harder than you > might think. I hope others will write in with their routines. As people age > we all require fewer calories to function and so even a thinish person, to > stay the same weight, has to " diet " . It's all relative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 >At first it's really hard because my > stomach doesn't feel full after eating -- I'm missing those last few bites! > Starvation! But the " ordeal " is only 20 minutes long. So my " diet " is only > 20 minutes a few times a day that way. My willpower only has to work until > the food I've eaten starts doing its magic and making me feel sated and by > that time I'm distracted and onto another project....My inner > screaming child eventually gets bored with the " tantrum " and eventually I > don't even have that after-meal-wanting-more thing.. (To help the process > during those changing times I try to remember to have a spoonful of coconut > oil (or other fat) about 20 minutes before I eat. It really takes that > survival *edge* off the meal. I think it's an enormous help!) > > So yes, I think to lose weight requires willpower no matter what your weight > is to begin with -- people who are thin often work a bit harder than you > might think. -- and you don't want to mess > around with your inner caveman! Some great nuggets there, Robin, thanks! I love the idea that the 'diet' is only for 20 minutes three times a day, and the tantruming inner child and not to mess with your inner cavewoman, LOL. I too am forever struggling to lose 20 or 30 pounds since my second was born two years ago. It is dawning on me that naturally thin people still 'watch' what they eat. I wonder if they weren't trained to do that in childhood? I never was and was an overweight kid too (ice cream for breakfast, no problem!) Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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