Although compared to average people I am very health conscious, my life changed dramatically in the last year that made it difficult to keep many of my healthy practices and I had some additional stress. Despite regular exercise (vigorous yoga practice 2-3 hours 4 times a week at least, walking, cycling), I gained weight. So I started a conscious weight-loss. I am just experimenting with adding a few elements, rather a personal flavour to your approach.
I consider eating
– more raw food, less dairy, hardly any bread
– no sweets
– eat when I am hungry, often, as much as I feel without being too much full, but all healthy food
– every day a bit more exercise than I used to (preferably something different from what I already do, calisthenics aerobic sorts)
Well, from the list you can guess sweets are kind of a weakness, that’s why I am radical with it. The rest of the points come from some experience with my body:
I was eating raw for four month before my life changed last year and I felt fantastic with it. After, moving to another country cut me from many of my raw resources, its quite a long time to rebuild them.
Doing physical work I need my muscles, and stamina, so spending even more time with exercise seems a good place to go.
Eating more raw food, less dairy, hardly any bread leaves me with fewer calories than I was supposed to have according to the calculator, so I really should eat as much as I like.
After a week, my experience is that my daily energy usage is somewhere between 2600-2800, and eating when I am hungry, often, as much as I feel without being too much full, but all healthy food, gets me to 1500 calories on average. My protein intake is fairly low, and I am a bit low on carbon-hydrates. These later two needs some investigation, how could be increased with raw foods.
Well, this is what I found out to do if you are already living a fairly healthy life, but wanna loose some weight.
I am really curious of your opinion about it.
All the bests,
Timi
]]>Fan of the blog and the whole idea behind your approach. Here is another interesting study that backs up your point:
16 weeks of 420 cals resulted in much greater short term weight loss but less after 18 months.
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