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Dan
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October 24, 1960
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Georgia, USA
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Can't lose the weight? It could be the nuts
What you say is exactly what I think. I don't want to offend anyone, but I lost my weight while still eating meat- I was raised eating meat, and this made it a deeply ingrained habit. I don't think my parents really believed strongly in eating meat, but it was habitual for them as well. If I hadn't continued counting calories, I wouldn't have been able to give up meat. This helped me quit because writing down everything I eat makes me much more mindful of what I eat. I mainly stopped eating meat and most other animal products for ethical reasons since losing my weight. Plant foods helped me lose weight by their fiber content. The point is, that when a person counts calories, nothing has to be completely forbidden in order to lose weight. A person can eat nuts and still lose weight, if they cut back on something else and the nuts don't make them go over their allotted weight loss calories for the day. Since I always budget the calories for the nuts, I don't gain weight from them. And remember, my exercise gives me a higher overall calorie budget. Even when I was still eating meat, I budgeted the calories for that and still lost weight. I have also been able to lose weight even eating sweets, but I am not able to eat every sweet I want to eat. Remember the man who lost weight eating twinkies? He just made sure he had a calorie deficit and he still lost weight. If some people can lose weight still eating meat and twinkies, then certainly most people can lose weight while eating nuts, which are far healthier, if they budget their calories for them. So, no particular food that is portion controlled makes me gain weight, but eating too many overall calories does. The only time I begin to gain weight is when I go out to eat and lose track of the number of calories I am eating, and not even by eating some nuts or some sweets. The restaurants I go to are salad bar restaurants, so I eat a lot of vegetables, no meat, but higher calorie breads as well.
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I totally agree with Sheryl. I eat a plant based diet as well. It is mainly about calories. Of course, each gram of fat has more calories than each gram of carbohydrate. Therefore, the actual portions of fat has to be smaller than that of starches. Starches can be measured in measuring cups. Fats, such as oils have to be measured with spoons and not cups. One cannot eat as many ounces of nuts as of vegetables or fruits. The way to lose weight by exercise is to increase the number of calories burned by activity, without increasing the number of calories consumed. Really increasing one's exercise enables many to lose weight without cutting, while not increasing caloric consumption. I have been far more successful losing weight (95 pounds lower than my highest) than I ever have and I would credit counting calories and exercising as well as eating a lot of fiber rich plant food. The daily exercise enables me to maintain my weight on a higher calorie level than I would have been able to otherwise. Figuring out the calorie level that maintains my weight and continuing to count calories has enabled me to keep my weight steady without even one pound of regain for two straight years now. Fiber rich plant foods control hunger.