losing weight (Read 1095 times)

anyone??

without knowing your gender, age, height --- it's really hard to give you any advice.

Drink heaps of water. And by heaps I mean at least 2.5-3.0 litres a day (sorry...I don't know what the conversation would be from metric). Also, cut out wheat, gluten and dairy as well as substituting meat (steak for example) and eating good quality fish instead, like salmon. I'm a 36 year old female, height approx 5"9" and weighed 65kgs and by cutting out the above things, I lost nearly 4 kgs in a month. I'm ALWAYS well hydrated and not just because I get thirsty a lot. If you're body knows it's getting enough water, it won't retain any extra (ie...it doesn't go into 'starvation/dehydration' mode). Oh, and have several smaller meals during the day to increase your metabolism. I eat at least every couple of hours even if it's only a handful of dried fruit and nuts (not roasted, not salted), or a piece of fruit. Good luck.

It might be normal weight that you've gained. Between my sophmore and junior year i gained about 3-4 lbs and couldn't figure out why or how to lose it. Turns out i had grown about an inch and my body was just matuering. That's probably what's happened to you too...your body is still changing a lot at 16 and weight changes are normal. Just keep training hard and it if comes off that's great if it doesn't it's probably a more permamant change but either way it shouldn't effect your season in any way...in fact my junior season was a lot faster than my sophmore...good luck!!!!

Are you a girl or a guy?

Actually, all the information I've ever read about suggests drinking 2 litres of water everday (if that's 3/4 gallon??)

Wonderful. Please send me links to good randomized controlled trials evaluating this versus real clinical outcomes.

Ask any doctor about Coeliac's Disease and they would probably tell you that for some people wheat/gluten can cause all sorts of problems.

Sure. If you have Coeliac disease. But interestingly, folks with this disease tend to be thin, and you suggested this diet for weight loss. So I am confused. And this elimination diet would only be expected to help somebody with this disease anyway, which is 3% of adults at most anyway. So I would not blindly suggest it for everybody.

And as for dairy, really when you think about it, dairy technically is not a natural food for the human body. It's made by cows for calves....not humans. By cutting out/down (and no, I'm not totally strict with my non dairy diet) the body will only be processing food that is natural and more easily digestable (another reason why I eat more fish than meat).

Well, I actually do think about it. Quite a bit. The argument that it is cow's milk and is designed for calves makes good sense, until you remember that we humans are omnivores, specifically evolved/created to be able to consume nearly anything. Sure, some folks are lactose or milk-protein intolerant, just as some people are allergic to bee stings. But that does not mean everybody has this problem. And folks have been consuming cow-based dairy products for generations to mellenia without problem. Likewise, the argument could be just as easily made that eating meat is unnatural for humans. Or that there is no difference between eating cow meat versus foul meat versus fish meat in terms of human digestability. The real problem with dairy today is likely related to how cow's milk is processed rather than the fact that it comes from a cow. We are omnivores. As a species we have the potential to digest anything. Sure, some folks will not be able to consume or digest some things, but the exceptions should not serve as the rules. AND none of this has anything to do with weight loss unless specifically eliminating these things reduces your overall caloric intake.

The Japanese are on to a good thing too because their diet is very high in fish and low in meat and dairy.

No, the Japanese eat fewer calories per day than we do. So too do the French. And the Italians. And just about every society that has an old food culture. Which is something we do not have. So we instead eat scienced up junk-food-products rather than fresh fruit and veggies, whole grains and natural proteins in moderation.

I merely made a suggestion that has worked for me and other people I've spoken to. If it doesn't work for anyone else, that's okay.

I am glad that you did, and am really delighted that it worked for you. But as my comments should suggest, I wonder if it was the caloric restriction and the focus on eating more wholesome foods rather than the arbitrary elimination of certain enemy foods that worked.

Or that there is no difference between eating cow meat versus foul meat versus fish meat

i think my tummy would notice if i ate foul meat.