stalkingbear's Notizen, 25 Jun 15

6 - 5oz steaks is only 1994 calories. and as long as you keep your fats and proteins above the carb intake, it won't cause a gain, if that's all you ate for the day with a lot of water throughout the day of course, you're most likely going to drop from just eating the steak as a dinner, I've done it. So saying eating that much meat is bad, it's ridiculous! The only way it would cause a gain is if you had enough carbs to overwhelm the body on picking what to store, and if you're a small person who doesn't naturally burn 3000 cals just sitting on the couch. Now, you CAN'T do it everyday because you'll likely get gallstones of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The body doesn't use everything after a certain amount or if you're eating various types of foods at once, it picks what types of calories to work on (types of calories you're eating DO matter), so if you overwhelm it with different types, then it's going to focus on the simple grain and sugar carbs first because they're sugar and the body doesn't want any of that mess, which leads to the storing as fat. If you can keep fats and protein above bad carbs, the the calories really don't matter as long as your daily makeup is high on those two and low on carbs. (you're only going to go into ketosis if most of your intake is fat, 75%+. We're not talking about ketosis here because that's not an option for a permanent lifestyle change, you shouldn't do ketosis for more than 3 days to a week tops) With carbs from vegetables, you're going to have to eat a hella lot more just to make the calorie and carb count go up enough to matter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're already pre-diabetic (type 2) from having extra weight, you want to stay away from non-veg carbs and limit high carb fruits anyways because it's going to push you over the edge. Probably the biggest thing that's saved me from that fate is having to live with diabetic (type 1) friends and because of that I had to change the way I ate and what I cooked in order to keep them from losing control and DYING. After they moved out and I was able to eat SAD is when I put all of this excess weight on in the first place. A good thing to look at is a list of allowed foods for diabetic people, especially if you're pre-d already, it will get you more in the mindset if you don't end up changing your fate. NTM it's a lot healthier all around. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This isn't directed at you Stalkingbear, you're doing GREAT! You've been in this game longer than most of us and you know what you're doing, in the end, we all do what works for us personally and what we've gone through trial and error to figure out. Work it! My dad is 6'1" or 6'2" as well and I told you about him already. When I get back down to his weight now I'll take a picture of us together and send it to you haha!  

oh and good job on the 10lbs! 

It's becoming extremely difficult to stick rigidly to my diet as I have a lot on my plate in regards to personal life right now. I am feeding 2 extra people that wasn't contributing until last week. My soon to be ex girlfriend has malignant cancer in her leg (rare form of soft tissue sarcoma) and hasn't been able to work for 3 months. I understand that but when her son got kicked out I let him move up here and have been supporting him and buying anything they needed. She went back to work after all the radiation treatments but is going to have to take off again as of the 16th to get tumor removed. The company I retired from very recently sent me a letter saying guess what? Instead of the 1,622$ per month we've been paying you we have been overpaying you so your pension was only supposed to be 800$ per month. Then about 2 weeks later I got a letter saying they're garnishing my pension for the supposed 49K overpayment so it's now only 381$ per month + my social insecurity! Then about 2 weeks ago her son got into an argument with me, tried to get me to fight him, and told me he's going to kill me! I'm not about to go to jail for hurting him, also out of respect for her. Anyway he took off, and she asked me if he could come back that night and I said yeah. The very next night he pulled the same stuff again so I called 911 domestic disturbance. The deputys that showed up said I couldn't legally make him leave since her name is on lease too. I told her either he leaves or I do and she said BYE without hesitation! So I filed a terroristic threatening (felony) complaint at the county attorney but declined to press charges at that time. Anyway I told the landlord about it and he said he's not even supposed to be there, and he mainly rented it to me anyway & definitely wants me to stay. All he's waiting on is a word from me and he's going to legally kick him out. Hopefully she'll go with him. After her taking up for him that's it between us! I'm not about to kick them out until they have some money to get a place, and she can drive again after tumor removal surgery. I just hope he don't pull anything & force me to defend myself in the meantime! I'd really hate to hurt him. After they leave I won't be out the money to pay her 2 loans, cell phones for both, their food, gas, car & life insurance for her, etc. I'll be able to make it easily on just me with what I draw. Also I just found out I have tear in abdominal wall, internal bleeding, and ulcer all the way through my stomach. The surgeon wanted to operate to fix those issues this week but I told him it would have to be after her surgery. So yeah I'm having trouble trying to focus on my diet! 

I want to thank yall for not only bolstering my self confidence, but also propping me up & the tips! 

Hang in there Stalkingbear! You've got this! I totally understand how hard it is to stick to dieting and such when you have a lot going on. I wish you the best and am sending positivity your way. :) 

I'm doing my best! If I had the time, knew how to, and could afford it, I'd have a nervous breakdown LOL! 

Aw man! That's some straight up BS! I totally would have gone with the pressing charged, in the least for assault (because personal threats -here anyways- are assault) I'm having issues with some neighbors like that, landlord says he can't evict them unless the girl (the guys not on the lease) gets charged with something. I know you're close to her and everything but I think you're being wayy too nice! Also, what did the dr say when you said you'd have to hold off on the surgery? I hope it will be ok for that amount of time? Don't worry about your diet right now, just mainly eat healthy and don't worry about the weight until you get the internal stuff fixed!! Gahh I can't stand moochers, especially with her friggen delinquent asshole son treating you that way. Hope that landlord gets the dude evicted ASAP. Before either one of you hurts one another you know? That's some straight BS though. I know what it's like to get taken advantage of. My husband has a weak spot for helping people that always eff us over! 

Yeah I guess you're right. They wouldn't think twice about kicking me out with nowhere to go & disabled & broke and no food money. I'm not close to her anymore, it's flat out OVER! I didn't press charges because it's filed & on paper that he threatened my life but I'm not too worried, I've gotten a lot of experience in the past between actual combat, lethal force justified self defense, I practiced martial arts for about 25 years, and I'm not exactly weak LOL. I've learned it's better to be single, than to wish I was! I couldn't live with myself if I kicked them out without money to go somewhere & food money, and she has to be able to drive again so she can take both him & herself to work & back. I just hope he don't force me to defend myself during this time, cause if self defense, I don't hold back! Not bragging or anything but I haven't always been exactly led a sheltered life in the past LOL! I've been slipping some but still trying to consume no more than about 1,600-1,700 calories a day MAX, if that much. Sometimes it's cheaper to eat higher calorie foods than it is to buy a bunch of fresh fruits & veggies.  

Woohoo! Good job! 👏🏼