Is my weightloss plan safe?

Question

okay, about seven months ago I stopped eating meat. Mainly cause I don't like meat, but it has also helped with weight loss. =) Then about a week ago I got up the guts to cut soda out of my diet. so its all water, crystal light flavored water, and gatorade. So I feel pretty good and everything and I go running whenever I have time off work, and Im a waitress so I get a good amount of walking in every day at work. So My goal Is to lose 3 dress sizes by prom this year. thats like eight months, so I feel this is pretty realistic, but I have been told on multiple occasions that because I dont eat meat, and because I have a history of blood sugar problems that it isnt healthy for me to run three miles at a time, or to workout every other day. Personally I feel fine, I get a little sore, but thats about it. But I just want to make sure Im being safe and realistic here. I have had a bad weightloss past that Included crash diets and even bulemia, but I feel I am over all of that now, so am I on the right track?

Answer 1

You're doing good. Make sure you get complete proteins, as the other person mentioned. Very important. Make sure you're getting plenty of IRON - esp important for a girl. You'll know it if you become anemic...

Keep in mind that the body changes in 6-week intervals. Don't weigh or measure any more frequently or you'll get discouraged. Just mark the calendar and then don't do anything unusual on or before that day. You want a true read of how you're doing.

Weigh and measure - and then adjust your intake and workouts for the next six weeks.

You're going to succeed.

Answer 2

OK so 3 dress sizes is normally going to be about 30 lbs!  And that i am happy to say is very doable in 8 months!!  People told you that you should not run 3 miles or work out every other day because of blood sugar problems?  That my friend is NOT true!!  There are tons of athletes and runners and people who are work out nuts that have blood sugar problems or even diabetes.  You need to have this checked by a Dr. if you have not already.  One thing that non meet eaters sometimes have a problem with is not getting enough protein and iron...and protein is necessary for healthy weight loss.  So do some research about what proteins are going to fit into your eating lifestyle.  SInce you said you have sugar problems, make sure that you carry things with you to eat when you feel like you might be getting low (fruit, protein bars ect..)  And FYI, everyone gets sore after a workout..especially if they do not do it on a regular basis.  The walking you do while waiting tables is not normally enough.  Believe me, cause i know. I thought that until one day i got on the scale and realized i was at 198lbs!!  waiting tables a good work out? not a chance!!  I have since lost almost 50lbs and i could not be happier.  Good luck and do some major research on how to lead a healthy vegetarian lifestyle!!!

Answer 3

Not eating meat shouldn't be a problem as long as you make sure you add in other complete proteins, for example eggs or dairy, or have combinations of incomplete proteins that make up a complete protein, for example rice and beans, peanut butter and jelly or corn and beans.

Blood sugar should also not be a problem (n.b you didn't mention whether you became hyper or hypo glycemic, but i assume you mean hypoglycemic). However you should be sure to take with you some form of simple carbohydrate when going running. A diabetic friend of mine found that lucozade and mars bars worked well (or possibly she just liked them...).

Of course, you should always visit your doctor or, if you have one, your nutritionist to check that this is ok for you, however if you feel fine then you will probably be ok.

Also, if you get hypoglycemic it might be useful to get a medical tag in case you loose consciousness when out running.

Answer 4

The easiest and fastest way to lose 10 pounds in 10 days is not by starving yourself or exercising but by eating more. Am I crazy? Did I just say eat more? Yes I did and through a special dieting technique called calorie shifting the more you eat will = to more pounds you lose! So if you're still wondering how to lose 10 pounds in 10 days, look no further because the answer is calorie shifting!

You're probably thinking if this diet is so amazing then it has to be difficult to accomplish, right? Wrong! Calorie shifting does not force you to change your lifestyle or torture yourself. It's main purpose is to naturally enhance your body's fat burning system which will cause you to lose weight fast. The only thing you have to know is how to do calorie shifting and weight loss will follow automatically.

All that you have to do is eat 4 or more meals a day and mix up the amounts of calories they contain. Basically just eat 4 meals with different calorie values in each meal. When you do this, weight loss will happen VERY rapidly. How is that possible?

Well here's a little secret very few people know: The body has a natural way of knowing what you will eat. This is because it's used to an eating routine that you've created over eating in a certain way for a long time and because of that it's always used to burning the same number of calories.

So even if you try normal dieting and eat less, your body will adapt to this change and burn less calories to keep the routine in check. Therefore you will not lose weight. Anyone who has ever tried losing weight by eating less found out very slowly how ineffective it really is!

But calorie shifting will give the opposite effect. How? Calorie shifting main purpose is to manipulate your body's fat burning routine, which is why you will be eating 4 but every meal will have different calorie values. And when your body will feel this sudden change, it will once again try to keep a routine going BUT instead of burning less calories like last time, it will instead burn more! Why?

For 2 major reasons:

1. The first is that you will be eating more forcing your body's fat burning system to work more often to burn calories.

2. The second reason is that every meal will have different calorie values so it will constantly catch your body's fat burning system off guard (remember it expects a routine) which will trigger it to increase your metabolism and fat burning process. These two things will cause extreme weight loss to occur. As a result you can lose 10 pounds in 10 days. Plus it's completely safe.

And it doesn't matter what your weight and age is. It doesn't even matter if you have bad genes either. The calorie shifting technique does not discriminate and works for absolutely everyone. So once again if you're still wondering how to lose 10 pounds in 10 days, you've just found the answer (calorie shifting)!