Tracy Weight Loss

November 29, 2010

Is It Ok to Have Unsweetened Almond Milk on a Weight Loss Diet?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Tracy @ 7:01 am

A tough weight loss question this week. Let’s dive straight in

Question: I normally have fat free milk which is about 90 calories a cup, 13g carbs and 0g fat. I recently tried un sweetened vanilla flavored almond milk, 40 calories a cup, 2g carbs, 3g fat. It tastes really good too! I was wondering if I can have a cup of it per day on my diet…is taking 3g of fat from this a bad idea? How many grams of fat per day are you supposed to eat on a weight loss diet?
Answer: Yes, the almond milk is much better for you. The carbohydrates are what gets converted by your liver into fat that gets stored on your stomach and hips. With this substitution of almond milk for fat free milk, you’re getting 11g fewer carbohydrates and the fats that you get will be much healthier for your body than the casein (milk protein) that you would have gotten from the milk. In addition you’re skipping all the hormones that are naturally and un-naturally added to the milk. Those hormones cause you to grow and store fat too.

A popular diet for weight loss is Zone diet. It has 30 % calories from proteins, 30 % calories from fats and 40 % calories from carbohydrates. Unfortunately, you didn’t give height/weight, so I can’t estimate the number of grams, but here’s an example:

5′ 8" girl is 170 lbs and wants to lose weight. Her starting BMI is 25.9.
If she went down to BMI 22.0 she’d be about 145 lbs. With a bit of light exercise she’d need 2000 calories to maintain her weight at 145, and might need to cut to about 1750 or 1700 calories to lose weight safely at 1 to 2 lbs per week. BMI isn’t always right, but it’s pretty good for average people who are not professional athletes or body builders. Each gram of fat is worth 9 calories, so when losing weight on 1750 calories x 30 % fats / 9 calories/g = 58 g of fat in diet per day. No more than 10 g should be saturated fats according the the US govt suggested diet.

April 26, 2010

Yes, This is a Weight Loss Question. Please Help?

Filed under: weight loss — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Tracy @ 7:01 am

Well here’s a question I just had to answering straight away:

Question: I had a baby almost 2 years ago. before i got pregnant i was a healthy toned 150 pounds, and when i got pregnant i got up to 230. once i had my daughter i had gall stones so i was put on a really rough diet and could only eat 20 grams of fat per day so i basically survived off of saltine crackers and small amounts of veggies. i ended up losing 50 pounds, and then after i had my surgery to remove the gall bladder i blew up to 230 AGAIN in a year.
i had been really pissed off with myself and embarrassed with how i look that i was too embarrassed to even leave the house to exercise! (how pathetic is that?) so i have just recently decided to go on a diet and stick with it! im living overseas with my husband and daughter and we go home in 8 months and i want to lose 70 pounds by then.

is 8 months a reasonable amount of time to lose that much weight?

i work out every other morning and i target different areas on those days in rotation.

an example of what i eat everyday is

breakfast:
2 hard boiled eggs
1 orange
1 piece of toast

Lunch:
a salad with black beans, turkey(or chicken or tuna) cucumbers, carrots, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, grapes and no dressing.

Snack:
is usually some baby carrots or an apple.

Dinner
sometimes i skip dinner, but if i dont i eat fish, grilled chicken or a bowl of soup.

i work out every other morning for 45 minutes.

Does all of this sound like its a good enough plan?

im 20, 5′7 and 230 pounds. how quickly should i start seeing results?

sorry this is so long, but i appreciate the answers.
thank you!
Also, me and my friend are dieting together and we are keeping tabs on each other threw skype. haha. and we have both been thinking about taking diet pills but are going to give it a month to see if we lose weight…would diet pills even work without hurting us?
uh how is that unhealthy? its less than 10 pounds a month……

Answer: Hey :)
Don’t skip meals - it’s not good for you.
Your food sounds healthy though and that’s real good.
You could try smaller more frequent meals a day rather than just three, try six.
8 Months is good - I started weight loss in September 2009 and now I’ve lost 45lbs and I’ve got a few more months to go.
Aim to loose about 1-3 pounds a week, that’s healthy. Some weeks I loose none, some weeks I gain, some weeks I loose 3 but it’s fine. Your body changes according to weather, water and monthly period cycles!
It’s good your friend is helping. I wouldn’t do the pills until at least 3 months later. I don’t even think they work… :( I’ve not touched them, too controversial for me.

Also with your toast have wholemeal toast instead of white ;)
And I was too embarrassed to exercise so I brought a treadmill and it’s AWESOME It really helps.

GOOD LUCK and all the best.
You can do it - I’m a real lazy-butt and I did it too!
:D

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