HighTide2
02-11-2006, 06:25 PM
Look. There's nothing safe or healthy about crash dieting, and you know what I mean, exercise, exercise, exercise with a slight mix of starvation by avoiding full meals when you're hungry. The big issue with weight gain, weight loss, and maintenance of a health weight really has to do with how physically active you are during the day. Being active will boost not only your ability to cope with rough social situations, but as well your ability to think more clearly, and of coarse, improve your self-image. And if you aren't very active at all, it's never too late to start, I mean never, no matter your age. It really does come down to what you consume during the day when it comes to foods, beverages, and what you see and hear coming out of the media. For one thing, ladies, I don't care what they say is in; being as thin as possible isn't attractive. Ribs to me are only sexy when they're on a platter. So exercise, but for the love of what's holy in you life, if anything or not, eat. Like I'm speaking from experience here, I crash dieted and it just ended up making me sick, it lowered my immunity to catching colds and I just ended up gaining back all that I lost, plus. So what I'm suggesting is keep a high level of all forms of nutrition in your system. For one thing protein increases muscle, which weighs more than fat, so don’t get freaked out if you're jumping on the scale once a week and think, what the..., I'm gaining weight. That's healthy weight gain, so no matter what the media says about obesity and being over weight, well frankly as far as that goes, they do not know what the... they're talking about. So of coarse limit yourselves in certain areas especially as far as sweets go, but everything as far as protein to carbohydrates go, they both are important, so absolute depravation shouldn't even cross your mind.