What do swimmers use for electrolyte replacement and/or meal replacement shakes, etc? I am trying to loose weight but despite all my swimming, it's not happening. I think it's got to be because I'm hungrier, but have a hard time gauging my calories, so I'm looking for a meal replacement system that will help me meep track but that will also have adequqate protein and vitamins for maintaining training. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Non processed food is probably healthier. But diet and weight is about CALORIES. We eat way more calories than other people that is why we are fat.
Never doubted that. My point is just that if you eat 5000 kcal of crap every day, month after month, year after year, you will be giving your body loads of food but not the amount of nutrients the body needs. Over a long course of time people on crap diets will be craving more and more calories because they eat but don't get enough nutrients so they are still starving. That's why they're always hungry.
If a person eats mainly healthy food, he gives his body the nutrients it needs. If he always eats healthy his body will adjust to the right amount of calories. Long term this works.
What you're suggesting is that a person should eat a low amount of calories and feel like crap, and then he will shed the pounds which is true but then what? He will most likely start to eat more food again and gain more weight than before.
The healthy eating version won't shed weight within 4 weeks but long term a person who is used to eating 5000 kcal on a junk food diet will start to adjust his calorie intake to the natural calorie intake he needs.
People don't have to believe me. It's just MY experience. Maybe if you're a bodybuilder who needs to lose body fat really fast for a specific competition where he needs a really low body fat percentage, the "starve yourself and feel like crap method" works because he only needs to do this for a competition but for the person who wants to stay lean all his life this method sucks because no one can stay on this method without feeling miserable...sorry.
Non processed food is probably healthier. But diet and weight is about CALORIES. We eat way more calories than other people that is why we are fat.
Never doubted that. My point is just that if you eat 5000 kcal of crap every day, month after month, year after year, you will be giving your body loads of food but not the amount of nutrients the body needs. Over a long course of time people on crap diets will be craving more and more calories because they eat but don't get enough nutrients so they are still starving. That's why they're always hungry.
If a person eats mainly healthy food, he gives his body the nutrients it needs. If he always eats healthy his body will adjust to the right amount of calories. Long term this works.
What you're suggesting is that a person should eat a low amount of calories and feel like crap, and then he will shed the pounds which is true but then what? He will most likely start to eat more food again and gain more weight than before.
The healthy eating version won't shed weight within 4 weeks but long term a person who is used to eating 5000 kcal on a junk food diet will start to adjust his calorie intake to the natural calorie intake he needs.
People don't have to believe me. It's just MY experience. Maybe if you're a bodybuilder who needs to lose body fat really fast for a specific competition where he needs a really low body fat percentage, the "starve yourself and feel like crap method" works because he only needs to do this for a competition but for the person who wants to stay lean all his life this method sucks because no one can stay on this method without feeling miserable...sorry.
