Bob Feeser
05-23-2007, 04:29 PM
This is interesting, and helps explain the crazy fluctuations in weight loss. You practically starve, then weigh yourself, and you gained 1/2 pound, then you say the heck with it, and go out an pig out on your favorite fattening food, and lose 2 when you step on the scale the following morning. So here it goes;
We eat 3 times.
The first time we eat is when we put the food in our mouths, chew it up and swallow it. That is what most people refer to as eating. The food makes it down to our stomachs, where it is broken down, and digested.
The second time we eat is when the food passes from the stomach into the intestine, where the nutrients are absorbed by the blood stream. The blood stream gets full, then moves throughout the body to the individual cells.
Then the cells eat it. Each cell in your body eats and excretes. I'm not a macro biologist, but I understand that a certain amount of food is ingested into the cell, and a certain amount of reserve is parked outside of the cell, and once that limit is achieved, the remainder is passed on to manufacture fat.So why is this so important?
One reason is that you can see that eating larger portions of food, creates a bloat of excess calories that are not immediately usable, and so we start to manufacture fat. So instead of taking one step forward, we are taking 3 steps back. (One for the weight gain, another day to get it back off, and another day to make up for the fact that day one should have been a weight loss instead of a weight gain. ) Staying on the diet without cheating is easy, because we are loading up on lots of fruit in the mornings, and lot of salads plus a mostly salad based sandwich at lunch, and steamed veggies at night, with a meat entree.
This post is wrapped around the "Glycemic Index" which is fodder for another post. That is where eating a lot of small meals really makes sense, and not only small meals, but less fattening, lower caloric foods, or should I say, foods that don't move as quickly into the blood stream, stretching out their absorption, thereby reducing the possiblity of fat creation and storage.
Let me say something here. I don't profess to be a doctor or a nurse, or any sort of professional medical practitioner. If anyone is a specialist in areas related to weight loss, diet, or nutrition, please feel free to chime in here, even if you are criticizing some of my approaches to weight loss. Criticizing all of them, well that is a different story. :)
All I can say is that I have learned the hard way, what works, and what doesn't work. I know eating without exercising results in muscle loss, and that makes losing weight in your later years harder to do. So then we get into weight lifting, which is another topic worthy of many posts. Their is an easy way to do that also.
Instead of going from a book read approach to weight loss, even though I am a book reading nut, I have gone from a try a lot of different methods approach. All I know is that what I am doing really works. Wait until I tell you some of the really dumb ways I lost weight when I was younger. :eek: I lost a lot of weight fast, but at what cost? Enough for now, I am going to keep posting in this forum, the Plain Folks Diet forum, immediately accessible at www.PlainFolksDiet.com (http://www.PlainFolksDiet.com) or by clicking on the category at www.Funums.com (http://www.Funums.com)
Hope you chime in. All are welcome. Thanks for your time. Bob
We eat 3 times.
The first time we eat is when we put the food in our mouths, chew it up and swallow it. That is what most people refer to as eating. The food makes it down to our stomachs, where it is broken down, and digested.
The second time we eat is when the food passes from the stomach into the intestine, where the nutrients are absorbed by the blood stream. The blood stream gets full, then moves throughout the body to the individual cells.
Then the cells eat it. Each cell in your body eats and excretes. I'm not a macro biologist, but I understand that a certain amount of food is ingested into the cell, and a certain amount of reserve is parked outside of the cell, and once that limit is achieved, the remainder is passed on to manufacture fat.So why is this so important?
One reason is that you can see that eating larger portions of food, creates a bloat of excess calories that are not immediately usable, and so we start to manufacture fat. So instead of taking one step forward, we are taking 3 steps back. (One for the weight gain, another day to get it back off, and another day to make up for the fact that day one should have been a weight loss instead of a weight gain. ) Staying on the diet without cheating is easy, because we are loading up on lots of fruit in the mornings, and lot of salads plus a mostly salad based sandwich at lunch, and steamed veggies at night, with a meat entree.
This post is wrapped around the "Glycemic Index" which is fodder for another post. That is where eating a lot of small meals really makes sense, and not only small meals, but less fattening, lower caloric foods, or should I say, foods that don't move as quickly into the blood stream, stretching out their absorption, thereby reducing the possiblity of fat creation and storage.
Let me say something here. I don't profess to be a doctor or a nurse, or any sort of professional medical practitioner. If anyone is a specialist in areas related to weight loss, diet, or nutrition, please feel free to chime in here, even if you are criticizing some of my approaches to weight loss. Criticizing all of them, well that is a different story. :)
All I can say is that I have learned the hard way, what works, and what doesn't work. I know eating without exercising results in muscle loss, and that makes losing weight in your later years harder to do. So then we get into weight lifting, which is another topic worthy of many posts. Their is an easy way to do that also.
Instead of going from a book read approach to weight loss, even though I am a book reading nut, I have gone from a try a lot of different methods approach. All I know is that what I am doing really works. Wait until I tell you some of the really dumb ways I lost weight when I was younger. :eek: I lost a lot of weight fast, but at what cost? Enough for now, I am going to keep posting in this forum, the Plain Folks Diet forum, immediately accessible at www.PlainFolksDiet.com (http://www.PlainFolksDiet.com) or by clicking on the category at www.Funums.com (http://www.Funums.com)
Hope you chime in. All are welcome. Thanks for your time. Bob