The Intamin Diet

Thanks for the advice KY. Actually I'm staying away from bread all together. I also don't eat breakfast because if I do, I find myself snacking on crap all day long.. so I eat only 2 meals a day.

I'm starting to eat a lot of organic foods, and I enjoy them so much better.

I didn't know about the palm kernal, so thanks for telling me about that. As far as protien goes, the soup I eat for lunch has beans in it, also on occassion I'll have some baked chicken with no skin. So I feel that I'm dieting right, I'm just at a plateau right now for some reason.

Not eating breakfast isn't good for you. Eating breakfast helps your metabolism. It could be something good for you too like yogurt and fruit. So I think you should add breakfast to your diet.

pjp593 said:
Not eating breakfast isn't good for you. Eating breakfast helps your metabolism.

You are exactly right. By skipping breakfast your metabolism doesn't get started in the morning. So true, you may eat less if you skip breakfast but you are burning far fewer calories throughout the day as well.

It is also often good to have small meals with the correct total calorie count throughout the day instead of two (or three) large meals. The trick is that when you do have a snack have something that has good protein that will stay with you longer and not something full of sugars or carbs.

But most important is that you have to find a system that works for you and that you can stick with. It does no good to diet "by the book" but not be able to stick with it.

I tried eating small meals during the day (I heard that's the best way to do it) but it just doesn't work with my system. I found that I end up gaining weight that way, and also I get sick when I eat in the morning, I wait until about 11 a.m. to eat something, I don't eat huge meals during the day, just enough to sustain my system and it seems to be working the way I'm doing it now.

My mom lost 50 pounds in one year and she never ate breakfast either, I think I'm built a lot like her, she's eating how I'm eating and losing weight also.. she is in her 60's.

After weighing myself this morning I lost another 2 1/2 pounds (somewhere between now and Monday). So all together I lost 13 pounds in 3 months. I must be doing something right.

I just hope to lose enough to fit on the Mean Streak this year, it will be worth it :)

Today makes it 17 1/2 pounds total since Jan. 1st. Is anyone else struggling to lose weight to ride some roller coasters at CP this summer?

ladyjerrico said:
Agreed Krafty, it's one's own choice wheather or not to lose wieght, and for myself, yes, it's the rollercoasters, but also for my health, so I'm doing it for both reasons.

It also helps for support to post on this thread. I'm finding a lot of people who are supportive and it helps greatly, so thank you :)

Who gives a s- what the motivation is? Motivations change usually for the better if the behaviour is persistent.

ladyjerrico said:
Today makes it 17 1/2 pounds total since Jan. 1st. Is anyone else struggling to lose weight to ride some roller coasters at CP this summer?

Well, after not getting to the gym all February due mostly to weather, but some to time, I finally got back yesterday. A couple days a week there combined with hockey 3 nights a weeks will surely help. Still need to get the whole healthy eating thing down though.

Who gives a s- what the motivation is? Motivations change usually for the better if the behaviour is persistent.

Sometimes it takes motivation for people like me to lose weight.

Good for you Jugga, eating healthy isn't easy considering there's so much fast food greasy fatty places, on-the-go food to make it easy to eat.

I'm basically just sticking to salad twice a day lately.

I fully support you in your quest. I was simply stating that your motivation to ride was a good motivation.

Thank you kredjet, I appreciate that :)

you really wanna lose weight, then go vegitarian, its the easiest thing in the world and probably one of the healthiest things you can do

But animals are so tasty. :)

That's not even true. Being a vegetarian is hard work because you can't simply stop eating meat. You need to make sure that you're getting everything your body needs. My former wife has been a vegetarian for years, and she's a registered dietitian. She says most people get it wrong and make themselves sick.

my girlfriend is a vegan which is different from a vegetarian and she suffers from celiac disease. she absolutely no problem at all getting everything that she needs. if you think about it, how many things that you eat have meet in them?? how often do you eat a hunk of steak? or fish? when you have breakfast do you usually have meat? lunch could be a nice salad. the recipes are endless. all it takes is a little bit of will power. also, you cant just stop eating meat in one day. you have to ween your self off it. maybe don't eat it for a day. then maybe 3 days, then a week. eventually cutting it from your diet all together. when people get sick doing then that means they are probably have absolutely no clue of what there doing.

I usually eat a piece of baked chicken (no skin) once a week or so, but that's about it for meat. I'm mostly living on soup with beans (for protien, also since chicken has protien in it, I need that). But for the most part I live on lots of veggies and salads. Drink tons of water, maybe a can of Sprite once or twice a week.

I do get chocolate cravings with my medication that I'm on for post-tramatic stress disorder, but I eat that very sparingly.

I still don't eat breakfast, I know I should, but I can't eat in the morning, I feel sick if I do. Other than that, I think I'm doing pretty well considering I can't afford to join a gym or Weight Watchers. Just doing a lot of situps, pushups and walking daily.

the fact is, meat is high in cholesterol. im not so sure id jump on the ( i wont do it because it will make me sick) wagon. because in reality it wont. not only will you realize you body has more energy but you will look a lot healthier too. humans aren't carnivores, and alligator is a carnivore. humans aren't herbivores either. but no where in our diet does it say humans have to eat meat. humans can get everything they need in plant base sources. so why do we eat meat? because we like too, but its not the healthy choice to do, nor is right for the animals that get tortured daily for you and your hunk of steak or chicken.

Humans are most certainly classified as omnivores. That's a widely accepted scientific fact. You're talking out of your ass. If you do or don't want to eat meat, that's your choice, but don't make things up. You're not a dietitian.

i have a question jeff... can you tell me why humans need to eat meat? also, look it up in a book buddy, you'll find that everything i just said is a fact. humans can find every thing they need in plant sources, we just choose not to get them all from there. im pretty sure i know more about vegetarianism than you. read some books on it...i have, i know my ****, do you?

cpfanatic2006 said:
i have a question jeff... can you tell me why humans need to eat meat? also, look it up in a book buddy, you'll find that everything i just said is a fact. humans can find every thing they need in plant sources, we just choose not to get them all from there. im pretty sure i know more about vegetarianism than you. read some books on it...i have, i know my ****, do you?

Jeff said his wife was a vegetarian and dietician I'm sure he picked up just as much knowledge from her as you did from those books, if not more.

It is not easy to get all the essential amino acids from plant sources. Its possible but not easy and it requires way more effort to be a healthy vegetarian than a healthy omnivore. Now this is pure speculation but I would imagine the major health differences between vegetarians and non-vegetarians are caused more by vegetarians following a stricter diet and non-vegetarians eating pretty much whatever they want.