Portion Control
I know the book offers some advice with regard to portion control and
those who want weight loss. How important is portion, expecially
when it come to meat sizes and foods such as nuts, seeds and nut
butters. For the past (4) days I have been on this diet, I have been
eating about 5-8oz of meat per entree and sometimes, at snacks, I
consume a lot of walnuts or pumpkin seeds. However, I do workout
hard 7x per week, 1-2x per day. Weekday mornings I do about 30-60
minutes of cardio, 40 minutes of weight training. Then, 3x per week
I go back in the evenings to teach cycling (spinning). I also teach
cycling classes Sat & Sun. My biggest concern is my total fat intake
for the day has sky rocketed and being that my genes allow me to gain
weight easily (as has been my history before losing 45 pounds and
killing myself these past (3) years simply trying to maintain on a
low-fat, high card, moderate protein diet, I want this to work. What
are some simple guidelines as your folks advice to make this work so
I won’t gain weight?
September 19th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
I know that we should eat them on rare instances, but, my question
comes in I guess for the person who is fairly fit, wants to tone and
tighten up, and one who already has consistently incorporated a
strenous program into his/her routine for several years now? That is
why I had inquired about portion control to begin with. I have
always felt that someone at a higher level of progress with diet &
exercise will not lose as weight as quickly as someone just starting
out from square one. In addition, someone also on that higher level
would most likely need more nutrients than an average person just
trying to lose weight?
September 21st, 2005 at 3:04 am
Portion control and nuts (and fat in general really) aren’t the problem
for Type O’s trying to lose weight. Carbs are much more of a problem.
The most important thing for weight loss is complete avoidance of
avoids. If you want to lose even more weight, I recommend eliminating
all sugar and refined carbs. In other words, your carbs should be
coming from sweet potatoes and other HB tubers, pumpkin, squash, brown
rice, and fruitno spelt or other neutral grains.
Cheers,
Ryan
P.S. Congrats on your awesome workout routine!