Throughout my life, I've been skinny sometimes in my life heavyset at other times but my musculature has remained the same. But I've never been lean and musculature. This I'm trying to change.
I want to be muscular and lean. I want to feel better. I want my clothes to fit better. I don't want to worry about anything else. I've taken all I've learned about nutrition and what I will learn and make myself fit through exercise and diet.
I'm trying to reduce my body fat percentage by eating very low high fiber carbs with a higher ration of fats, and animal protein. I'm only eating about 100-150 grams of carbs a day, and I'm going to try to lower that to 50-100g. I understand the idea of high protein diets because I find myself eating less and I still have my energy levels up.
The idea of the ratio change is to eat in such a satiating way so that I won't want to overeat. I am complimenting the diet with herbal medicines, body weight exercises, and occassional sprinting. Rest is just as important as exercise as lack of sleep and too much stress from exercise or from bad habits actually makes people gain weight.
I have a lot of body fat I could lose so I'm looking forward to the result. The more carbs you have generally the more sugar there is in your blood that tends to store itself as fat if your not burning it.
Have less sugar in my body means has meant that I feel less tired but also I feel calmer. Because I'm eating less, I've allowed myself to have beer at night to relax me and it helps my digestion of meat.
Listening to my body:
Listening to my body is a key part of my strategy. It's not always smooth to maintain this. Sometimes I don't listen and other times, my bodies reaction is strong. The ratio is very new. Very few starches so I'm eating a lot more vegetables, meat, and fat. Sometimes I've eaten too much of something which leaves me feeling stuck. Sometimes I feel sluggish when before I was jumpy. Other times I feel jumpy as a result of withdrawal from the grains in my diet.
Its been difficult to try not to do stuff by old habit and the lessons are hard when I fail. If I eat something too sweet its set me back a little and then a little more protein is needed when I've already had to much. I've had meat hangovers for sure. I've been less apt to repeat the mistakes. I've been pushed by my body to do strength training when I eat meat.
I've learned my lessons by adjusting to the process of my digestion. TO facilitate digestion eating more fat works. I'm avoiding certain foods that will spike my blood sugar and work towards satiating. Also, I'm been trying calmitatives to smooth my digestion teas as well as laxative teas to encourage my digestion as well. Sometimes, I feel like I want to eat just to maintain a habit, but now that I'm satiated I don't have to.
I allow me to have some more beer that I used to, since alcohol does not spike blood sugar and because this transition needs me to try certain things. Though this week I plan on using more teas. Indian traditional medicine is very good for digestive teas. Many of the herbs used in Masala Chai are used in Ayurvedic medicine.
Exercising less and playing more:
Body weight exercises is necessary to gain muscle while I lose weight. Sometimes, I have the energy I do intense cardio. Bodyrock.tv is a great program, but I try to minimize over stressing myself. This has been easier for me to do then when I've been on a high carb diet because I less of a rush of feeling.
Playing sports with my students is more fun and doing the minimum exercises to
The Results:
So far I've lost another 4 pounds from the 12 pounds of fat, I've lost since the winter and contrary to my feeling that my digestion would be a problem, it's actually been better than before. I've gained muscle in exchange for the fat lost so now I feel that I'm at a level of shape and conditioning that is respectable for me.
My body has started to adjust to the low carb situation. It might be unappealing to say but I'm assuming your an adult so I'll say my bowels are regular- important for any dietary change.
We are bioligically designed to crave sugar but when I'm satiated my sugar cravings drop.
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