Kitty wants to go on diet!

[Star Wonder]

Alright, I am sick and tired of being my current weight and losing very slowly.

The situation:

My metabolism has been tested for speed of my digestion and so on. I have a metabolism that is approximately 13x slower than the average person. Yes, a weird number I know but that's what the results were. A good example for what this means:

You work out an hour doing reps and so on and burn so many calories. To burn about the same, I have to average out about 13 hours of the same or close to the same time and so on to lose whatever an average person would lose.

This is where my issues lay. The hours, time and so on needed for me to lose anything.

I also have stomach issues. I don't drink soda, of any kind, just fruit drinks and water. I am level one vegetarian. I eat veggies, fruits, chicken, eggs and dairy only. I don't drink a lot of milk, only in cereal because it does more bad for you than good. But I love chocolate milk. I don't eat a lot of junk food, which is probably why I haven't GAINED weight. My god am I lucky for that. I eat whole grain, low fat breads, not white or whole wheat.

Anyway. So. I work two jobs, I cannot afford any sort of gym. I eat once a day because
a) I have no time for more than that
b) I don't have the stomach capacity for more than one meal a day
c) I don't usually have the money to eat more than once or twice a day
d) I don't even know what I should be eating because I don't burn a lot of calories and fat
e) I am limited on what I can do for home exercise. (I do have two five pound weights for toning but don't think they work since I can do like 400 reps with them and it gets boring)
f) Between my two jobs I have a hard time scheduling and what not how and when to exercise

So for someone who has issues actually absorbing anything good from good foods, I need help!! I have had about 20 different diets given to me from my doctor. When I start eating more meals I gain more. He started me on a 5 small meal a day program with good foods, but over four months I gained 29 pounds, and it was all fat. Then he pulled me off that, and now I am on one meal a day. It has helped me maintain my weight, so it is working in that fact, but I want to LOSE it. There is diabetes in my family so I want to get rid of it now!!! I am 10lbs more than I was when I was 16. In the past year or so I've dropped from 210lbs to my current 169.5lbs. That was from cutting out soda because my stomach started to react to it anyway. Cutting out soda I dropped 14lbs in about a week. Yeah I drank a shit load of pop. Now I just have fruit juices. And I don't have regular bowl movements either. I have been on high fiber diets that only give me diarrhea and still doesn't regulate me. I go #2 usually every 4 to 7 days. When I eat more, I go less.


Alright, now...............Help? *Kitten eyes of sadness and neediness*

I am open to all suggestions, I have been on many diets, so most might be ones I've been on but we shall see!

[Pat The Fox]

Have you been seeing a GP for the diet or an actual Dietician?

[Star Wonder]

I've had a GP and one of those reps at gyms. She told me different diets to go on. My doctor gave me a list of 7 and she gave me the rest. It's been over the past seven years I've been trying to diet. From 16 I went from 160 ish and when I was about 21 I was 210, I am 23 and I'm at 170. The GP's seemed to work better for a short time before the weight would come back

[Pat The Fox]

Might be an idea to see a Dietitian. They are a little more specialized in nutrition and setting up proper diets.

[Unition]

Here's what I reccomend from personal experience.  Your needs may be different because you are female - notably, you will need more calcium.

The best advice I can give you is to cut sugar out of your diet.  Check the labels of stuff you buy, especially on those fruit drinks...you'd be surprised how much sugar is in that stuff.

Artificial sweeteners rock.  They won't give you cancer.  There are a bunch of different ones out there now, find one you like!  If you're worried about "artificial" sweeteners, look into Stevia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia).

Eat more protein, meat is expensive so try beans, chick peas, lentils.

If you want to cut weight faster, cut carbs down further by cutting out breads, etc.  I've found cutting carbs completely is not a sustainable diet, you will feel tired and your kidneys will be sore after a week or two.  But you will lose a lot of weight fast!

[Star Wonder]

Here's what I reccomend from personal experience.  Your needs may be different because you are female - notably, you will need more calcium.

The best advice I can give you is to cut sugar out of your diet.  Check the labels of stuff you buy, especially on those fruit drinks...you'd be surprised how much sugar is in that stuff.

Artificial sweeteners rock.  They won't give you cancer.  There are a bunch of different ones out there now, find one you like!  If you're worried about "artificial" sweeteners, look into Stevia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia).

Eat more protein, meat is expensive so try beans, chick peas, lentils.

If you want to cut weight faster, cut carbs down further by cutting out breads, etc.  I've found cutting carbs completely is not a sustainable diet, you will feel tired and your kidneys will be sore after a week or two.  But you will lose a lot of weight fast!

Thank you Uni for the suggestion, however;
I refuse to actually cut carbs. Because it's the good carbs you're getting rid of that make you lose weight. The Atkins diet was based on cutting carbs and people developed kidney, liver and brain damage from the diet. I don't eat a lot of carbs either way, I have low fat, whole grain breads high in fiber. I don't eat anything but chicken, and eggs usually when it comes to meat. The canned beans are so high in fat it's retarded. Lol. As far as peas and what not go, they are expensive too. I know Legumes are good and what not, but it's hard for me to even get a hold of them, or even think about them. If you could write me a list that would be cool.

Carb cutting hurts anyone very very negatively.  You actually need carbs to live. It's whether or not you are eating good or bad carbs. Good carbs: Fruits, veggies, whole grain breads etc. Bad carbs: Cookies, cakes, etc etc

Anyway, no good carb cutting - is bad! XD  I don't eat much in the way of bad carbs anyway. ^^

[Unition]

Beans are very low fat, high carb, high protein:

http://www.great-workout.com/nutrition/vegetables/bean-nutrition-facts.cfm

And I wasn't reccomending cutting carbs for a long period of time, not at all - just sugar.

Chicken and eggs are great for you!

[Star Wonder]

Beans are very low fat, high carb, high protein:

http://www.great-workout.com/nutrition/vegetables/bean-nutrition-facts.cfm

And I wasn't reccomending cutting carbs for a long period of time, not at all - just sugar.

Chicken and eggs are great for you!

Ah okay. I don't consume a lot of sugar most of it is naturally in the fruit juice I drink. And it's not sugar it's like, sucralose which is a zero-calorie artificial sweetener. ^^

[Mayhem]

i have to lose 25lbs or go blind x.x
im currently on wheight watchers, which works  wonders when im comitted. Thier focus is on awareness and portion control, rather than abstaining from bad foods.
like at my age, height, sex, activity level, wheight, ect im allowed 36 points a day that cant roll over, and 25 bonus points a week that can be used whenever, but within that weeks. Some things like broccoli and cardboard dont cost points, where your still allowed food, but it costs you. like a small mcflurry is 12ish if i remember, and a timmies donut is 6. but also they cost money and im getting family support/extra disabilties funds for this, so =\

if your metabolism is that messed up, id highly sudgest you focus on that problem first and foremost

[Star Wonder]

i have to lose 25lbs or go blind x.x
im currently on wheight watchers, which works  wonders when im comitted. Thier focus is on awareness and portion control, rather than abstaining from bad foods.
like at my age, height, sex, activity level, wheight, ect im allowed 36 points a day that cant roll over, and 25 bonus points a week that can be used whenever, but within that weeks. Some things like broccoli and cardboard dont cost points, where your still allowed food, but it costs you. like a small mcflurry is 12ish if i remember, and a timmies donut is 6. but also they cost money and im getting family support/extra disabilties funds for this, so =\

if your metabolism is that messed up, id highly sudgest you focus on that problem first and foremost

Heh...thank you Mayhem. I have tried different things to get my metabolism going, and today I ate two meals instead of one. And got some *cough* excersize XD

[Vanilla Skunk]

Speaking of excersize, my sister just stopped talking to her workout partnerm due to trust issues, and though it wasn't mentioned, there's a good chance she may be looking for another.  Her schedule is mostly wide open these days because she runs her own business doing web design and graphic art.

If you two could work out some sort of plan, you could go swimming and gymming at the fleetwood rec center with her pass.

Just a thought.

[Star Wonder]

Speaking of excersize, my sister just stopped talking to her workout partnerm due to trust issues, and though it wasn't mentioned, there's a good chance she may be looking for another.  Her schedule is mostly wide open these days because she runs her own business doing web design and graphic art.

If you two could work out some sort of plan, you could go swimming and gymming at the fleetwood rec center with her pass.

Just a thought.

Thank you felix, maybe you can let her know I might be interested? That would be nice!

[Tony Greyfox]

The food side of things has been covered, it looks like, but exercise-wise, do you do a lot of walking? I found when I started changing my routines and started walking more that started things moving - with your metabolism, you could definitely benefit from any kind of added exercise, and walking is a great way to start that.
It's tough to lose weight. I've been working on it forever, and it's finally starting to pay off. Hope you can get it going!

[Vanilla Skunk]

I spoke to my sister today, and she is definately needing a workout partner.

I texted you her number, Star.  The rest is up to you. 

Best of luck.

[Star Wonder]

The food side of things has been covered, it looks like, but exercise-wise, do you do a lot of walking? I found when I started changing my routines and started walking more that started things moving - with your metabolism, you could definitely benefit from any kind of added exercise, and walking is a great way to start that.
It's tough to lose weight. I've been working on it forever, and it's finally starting to pay off. Hope you can get it going!

Yeah I walk a lot. Both my jobs I have to be on my feet all day. Weekends are the worst because usually I work 11-13 hours on saturday and 9-10 hours on sundays, all on my feet between both my jobs. Weekdays are walk walk walk too. I like to go for random walks at like 1 in the morning too. Walking isn't my issue I get lots of that XD