Adding your diet

[Nooney]

If your diet isn't listed here just drop us a line and we'll get it added on. Diets are only being added if there is at least one person here on that particular diet, so don't be discouraged if it's not here yet.

[Minu]

I'm not really on a 'diet' perse, just restricting my cals. to 1500 daily, eating protein with each meal, limiting carbs (nothing white, like breads and pastas and rice 'n such--and only eating good, natural sources of them), omitting the bad fats, drinking H20 o'plenty, eating 5 wee meals/day and getting in daily cardio.

Once I reach my target, things won't change much, aside from an increase in calories by about 5-700/day depending on activity levels, and likely 2L's of water a day as opposed to what has become close to 4.

[blackadder]

I'm currently doing the South Beach diet. It sort like what Minu is doing, only having some of the carbs if they are whole grain.

[Minu]

Ahhhh--so I'm sorta south beachin' it seems? That's cool, I got my plan from reading, and from slightly augmenting a plan my mom was put on by a personal trainer she hired for a while, (and HOLY EXPENSIVE!. Me thinks that's one SMART job to get into, if one is into health anyway). I'm eating more protein than she, but I'm much more active, so I gotta keep the musclies alive.

It's really just a good sense thing to me more than a 'diet'. I've trimmed my cals down to 1200/day, as I hit a plateau for a week there, merde.

[mago]

body science says that if you limit, you need to vary your minimum some, or your body will adapt to the new diet and go back to its usual thing. Just FYI, so that way you know that you can and probably should fudge a point or two up or down, just to vary.

[Minu]

Cheers, G.

Every 2-3 days I through a wrench in the regime-wheels by upping the calorie levels to maintenance, (about 2000), and increasing the carbs while decreasing the proteins/fats, just enough to throw my metbolism off enough to get back to losing. It's a body-builder's trick often employed for pre-competition bulking and leaning, as you may already know.

As I'm pretty new to this school of practice, I'm still ascertaining what levels are best for me. I gather that I'll learn plenty on Monday after not weighing in for a week of trimming the cals to around 1200.

I really like this, "Body Science".