Originally Posted By: WhizkidTN
That is quite impressive - congratulations! I may need some good advice from you soon.
I've posted at length here in the past about diet details and optimal foods. You can check out nutrionfacts.org for lists of the best foods for specific physical issues. Though they all tend to be work for most maladies/conditions.
Besides diet. Start walking if you're not doing anything. When I started my road back to health in 2002 I was walking/jogging. Started biking 2 miles. By that summer was doing 10-12 miles 3X a week. On days off I'd walk. Jogging is history now because of joints. As long as you get in 5-10 miles of walking or similar activity during the week, you'll do fine. I use biking for a low impact aerobic input...for hearth health.
Mixing foods. How you do that can help burn fat or add fat. Our choice. Mixing sweets/sugars with the rest of your high protein/fatty meal will tend to deposit out fat. For me, I try to keep the meat protein with veggies...and keep hi carbs out of that. Don't mix fruits with your meal as a rule. I have fruit 20-30 minutes before lunch or dinner. If I have a higher carb meal, it might tend to be a mix of beans, quinoa, rice, sweet potato. I try to keep meat out of 2 meals of the day. I got to the point I was only eating red meat a couple times each month. Fish and chicken several times each week. Probably varies for each of us. Just note that how you mix and combine your foods can help deposit fat...or burn it off. High protein is tough to digest when you pile it with heavy carbs and sweets.
Drink lots of water between meals. I was up to 96 oz per day. Started each day with 16-20 oz of water with some lemon juice. 2-3 cups of cool green tea during the day. Rest was water. No soda, fake juices with sugars. You flush out body contaminants via water and exercise.
Sleep. You really do have to get 7-8 hrs to improve weight loss and health. The hrs of 10 pm to 2 am are critical for rebuilding your tissues and cells. If you infringe on that time, you don't get optimal body repair everyday....or so I've read.
I found my weight loss kicked in better as I added each of these building blocks. It was a 1 year process. Figure adding a new good food to your diet each week...and get rid of one junky one.
Garlic, onions, leafy greens, apple cider vinegar, broccoli/cauliflower, humus, celery, carrots, red and green peppers, red cabbage, sweet potato/yams, tumeric/oregano/parsley, italian seasonings, fruits (diabetics have to be careful on this one), flax seeds/meal, quinoa-brown rice, beans of all types, tomatoes/sauce, groats/oats/buckwheat/amaranth/spelt/real grains.
Junk - pastas, breads, most pre-packaged juices loaded with sugars, fried foods, pastries-cakes-cookies-crackers-desserts, mayo, jello...lol.
For chips - I often use red cabbage hunks and dip it in humus. For tuna sandwiches, my mayo is home made...humus and avocado, garlic and onions, extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar. Smooth and with a punch. You'll never want to go back to store mayonnaise. Even the store bought oatmeals and granola's are usually too processed or loaded with sugars. I ended up buying steel cut, oat groats for $2/lb and cooking them. They are as close to the real grain and no sugars as you can get. Then I add flax meal, cinnamon, raisins, banana, some pea protein, soy milk for a breakfast.
