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The new Weight Watchers does this, in an attempt to promote “healthy” eating.</p>
<p>However, if you find and look through some of the WW forums, you will find lots of people who took this literally and ate pounds of fruit a day, and then complain that WW isn’t working.</p>
<p>Idad, Thanks. </p>
<p>Here is my dilemma: To lose weight, I am cutting my intake. Direct result is that I am tired all the time, i.e. without any strength to do any thing. </p>
<p>To gain energy, I need to eat. If I eat, I gain weight. To avoid weight gain, I need to avoid eating anything with calories. How do I break this cycle?</p>
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<p>Exactly. BTW, pounds of fruits is not much because they weight a lot. A couple of bananas, a mango, and a couple of peaches will be “pounds of fruits”.</p>
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<p>I do. But I guess that I can understand systems that don’t.</p>
<p>But I could eat a ton of fruit and, as you said, fruit = calories.</p>
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<p>Interesting observation.</p>
<p>Maybe guys don’t go to informational meetings too.</p>
<p>DadII, have you read Gary Taubes’ book How We Get Fat and What To Do About It?</p>
<p>I found it to be a fascinating and very eye opening book.</p>
<p>I am so exhausted that getting up to get a cup of water is a struggle. Yet I know I will gain weight at tomorrow’s weight in because I ate so much fruits today. The only way to avoid the weight gain is to exercise off those calories. But I really really don’t want to move AT ALL. </p>
<p>I think my digest system works too well which extracts every bit of calorie from any intakes.</p>
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<p>1 mile outside. I felt like taking a nap this afternoon so I missed running at the Y. The knee felt fine but I could definitely feel the difference between running on the pavement and the treadmill.</p>
<p>DadII- Maybe you will catch me! Let’s see how you do in your age group, though. 
And not to be competitive or anything (which I am), remember that I have a 1:29 half marathon PR.</p>
<p>If you make good food choices and find things that fill you up, it’s easier. It’s no fun to be weak and starving!</p>
<p>I was only 4 seconds out of 2nd place. I had that in me if I had known. Also, turns out we WERE supposed to get gift cards. They sent out an email. That’s better!</p>
<p>Another night of Show&Go.</p>
<p>Trap Bar Deadlifts, DB Pullovers, Cuban Presses, Hamstring Curls, Bulgarian Split Squats from Deficit.</p>
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<p>I understand that. However, putting it to practice is the problem. I am eating proteins via beans, fish, and nuts. I am eating green veg and fresh fruits. What am I missing. </p>
<p>Photography was my hobby and I have about $30,000 worth of equipment sitting here collecting dusts. because I have no energy to do even the most simple shooting. If I could lay down I will not be sitting. I am just that tired from lack of energy. Yet, most likely, I am gaining weight by tomorrow.</p>
<p>Nrdsb4, thanks. I will try to get a copy from the local library. The reviews on Amazon seems to say this book rocks.</p>
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You are just torturing yourself if you expect your weight to decrease in a nice straight line.</p>
<p>Use MyPlate or something similar to track your weight, and aim for the lowest point each week to be lower than the lowest point from the week before, and stop stressing that your weight doesn’t go down every single day.</p>
<p>Well, today was not a healthy or clean eating day by any stretch of the imagination. I did get in a short run under a gorgeous moon (keeping to my running daily until the 4th). Other exercise included power shopping with D and three walks with sabadog. I’m going to be sad when D moves next weekend.</p>
<p>DadII:</p>
<p>You have perfectly described why severe calorie restricted diets (starvation diets) do not work over the long haul. Sure, you can will yourself into short term weight loss, but at what cost? Hungry all the time. Cannibalizing lean muscle mass. So, when you eventually stop the starvation diet, the weight comes back on almost overnight because of the damage to your metabolism (you burn more calories sitting on the couch if you have more lean muscle mass). From what I read, every cycle of yo-yo dieting (lose weight, regain it), makes the next cycle more difficult.</p>
<p>This is compounded if the starvation diet consists mostly of carbs as you now have short term insulin and blood sugar swings added to the mix.</p>
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<li><p>IMO, slow and steady wins the fat loss race. You never want to try to sustain a diet that is below your resting metabolic rate (the calories you burn just sitting on the sofa). I don’t know how big you are, but very few guys should try to diet below 1750 calories a day. This may mean that you only lose a pound a week. It is what it is.</p></li>
<li><p>If you can trick (coerce, nudge, sweet talk…) your body into burning stored fat, then you will have all that extra energy to burn without having eaten anything. Most of us have at least 100,000 calories stored. If we can tap into that for, say, 500 calories a day, then that’s 500 calories a day to burn, to make us feel energetic, to make us feel like exercising, without eating that 500 calories.</p></li>
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<p>So, the “easy way” to lose weight, is to do things that tend to make your body tap into that stored fat. That’s the secret to eating fewer calories than you burn without feeling hungry or beat down or cannibalizing muscle or hammering your metabolism. That’s where Taubes’ book is such an eye-opener. Turns out that we have a hormone – insulin – whose major job is to regulate whether we are burning stored fat (low insulin) or shunting calories into stored fat (high insulin state). There’s no magic bullet here, but whatever you can do to reduce that time that you spend in a high insulin state will tilt the fat loss odds just a little in your favor – like getting a little edge at the blackjack table in Vegas.</p>
<p>Well, after rest day > hiking day > rest day, it was back to the basement for me, for another one of my same ol’ same 'ol workouts. The little bit of rest suited me just fine as I felt really strong throughout the workout.</p>
<p>Really pleased with the [TRX/Jungle</a> Gym XT fallouts](<a href=“TRX Anti-Extension Fall Outs - YouTube”>TRX Anti-Extension Fall Outs - YouTube) I’ve been doing for core. I was able to hold the extended position for a count of 3. Three sets of ten reps.</p>
<p>Thanks again Idad. the problem is that I am not on a severe calorie restricted diets because I don’t feel hungry at all, and I definitely eat more than 1750 calories a day.</p>
<p>I tried to track my calories per myplate but too much of my diet do not show up on the food list there. But from the simple math alone, I know I am eating about 2000 calories a day and the fruits counts about 500 or more. </p>
<p>Everyday after the Insanity program, I do some additional weight or strength to add my muscle. being I am on the 2nd week of Insanity, I would say I burn less than 500 calories per work out. </p>
<p>Based on the formulation given in the insanity program, my base calories should be at 2500 per day. If I eat about 2000 and burn another 500. the deficiency should be about 1000 calories per day - translating into about 2 lb of fat loss per week. </p>
<p>Starting July 6th, I will begin my full marathon training and I expect to eat a lot more from there on.</p>
<p>Dad II, I’d be careful. You sound like you’re overtraining and suffering that way. You complain of tiredness, lack of appetite, and weight gain. And it just sounds like you’re overtraining. Insanity is not intended to be part of your program; it’s intended to be your program.</p>
<p>Tired and hungry is not a good way to do intense exercise - it can lead to injury as you’re less careful when tired and hungry.</p>
<p>I set a new record today which I’m not very proud of. Ran 14 miles on a treadmill… :)</p>
<p>Congratulations MOWC and BB! </p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core for me.</p>