I'll be honest I usually can't stomach the high protein / low carb stuff, I'm not a veggie eater also and I don't eat beef or pork.
Let me ask a simple question. If you were put in a large room where you had 1 minute to grab & bag as much money as you could....would you grab at the coins & $1 bills, or would you head for the $20's, $50's and $100's???
So in the same darn sense, who the hell wants to gnaw on a frickin' carrot or grind a radish when you can bite into a tasty slice of double-crust pizza or bag of Doritos?
Look Dude (can I call ya Dude, Dude?
)....it comes down to choices, do ya want the flab or the cut body? Nobody said it's easy and we all know how accessible, available and affordable fattening food is. Been there, ate that.
Aside from my kids pet rabbit, nothing gleefully eats veggies, but most foods, ESPECIALLY PROCESSED foods are pretty much loaded with calories. Restaurants & manufacturers want your mouth to explode in delight so as to ensure your continued patronage & consumption; it's not about your health, it's about their wealth. BUT I'm gonna offer you a solution below....(after I have some fun with these other quotes
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I read you can't spot reduce
I've got a sharp knife & shop-vac that suggest otherwise!
I set the machine to "fat burn" which is just level 1
My experience is that many of these machines auto-start at Resistance 1....it's upto you to kick it up to 12, 14 or even 18. My Elliptical on Weight-Loss mode starts at L1 too, but I have it at 14 for the low-cycle and 18 on the high cycle.....it's a bit tough, but that's what it takes. Next time you're on that machine, use the arrow buttons to discover a new realm of pain. L1 is what my 5 year old uses when she's playing on it.
lol, everytime I hit 180 the machine keeps telling me to slow down.
Yeah, when you hit 190 it auto-dials 911 for an ambulence. But seriously, the HR-monitor is probably accurate, it merely measures electrical beats of your heart; dude, your revved like a rabbit to hit 180 so easily! It'll be interesting to see how you do at higher resistance levels....let us know.
I couldn't find ANYTHING that looked healthy (SO many carbs in everything, and hardly anything else! What's with that?)
I'm hoping some people out there can offer decent food suggestions that I can get a hold of myself!
I hate cottage cheese, but I eat it. I hate asparagus with a dedicated passion, but I eat it too..
We have to recycle the liposuctioned cellulite in some manner, and everyone loves that dynamic odor that only asparagus offers!
you need to buck up and decide what your priorities are.
Good point!!!!
Okay, onto the solution. Honestly, if we're lucky Derwyddon wll post-up on this matter, but I'm gonna offer my goofy perspective.
We don't need NEARLY as much protein as many diets suggest, nor do we really need all that much vege's...the reason it's pushed is simple: these foods offer relatively (ounce per ounce) few calories and they require a fair amount of energy to digest & convert into energy....their ineffiency is the draw. Fats & Carbs have the juice...so we minimize them.
We're surrounded by delicious food, and most of it is rich in calories and not conducive to someone looking to be lean and/or lose weight. Our bodies were also designed to eat food when it was plentiful and store it for perids of famine.....but we don't have famines, we instead have refigerators, mini-marts, fast-food and an abundance of delicious food that has been chemically & culinarily designed to impart a joygasm in our mouths. Who's gonna turn that down???? Well...we are, and here's how:
Learn to make the most of what is low-calorie and eat it regularly, then, when you do indulge, eat much less and over time you'd be surprised how only 1 or 2 slices of pizza can be as rewarding at it used to take a whole pizza to do. When I was a kid $20 was a lot of money, today it's relatively little (key word, relatively). Well, if I were to fall entirely bankrupt, I'm sure $20 would mean a whole lot more to me then it does today. That's the key: you can eat the rich food, but in moderation and in a manner that won't destroy your overall effort to be a hard-body.
If you do the work and get a body you're proud of...suddenly you'll find a new reason to not crave that rich food, and (thankfully) over time you'll find it doesn't taste that good, almost makes you feel sick and, in short....your body will adapt.
So in short....take it from me: you can wait till you face health risk, maybe survive a heart-attack or find some kind of intense inspiration, but when you finally do make it happen, you're only regret is that you didn't do it sooner.
Tell ya what....eat right, eat healthy, lose that weight and get in shape....and if in the end you feel it wasn't worth it, I'll refund you all the calories you missed out on.
If you make an effort but fall back to where you started....you've wasted that initial effort; so it's all the way or you've just wasted your time. It's a mental thing...you decide and once you get your mind set, the body will follow.
