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[isamu]

I have been cutting down on how much I eat during the day and have reduced eating sugery foods almost altogether. Sometimes I can go through the whole day with only a ham sandwich and a couple bananas in the morning, and some grapes in the afternoon, with the main dinner being my excuse to grub down the fatty fried good stuff(I'm afraid this WON'T change ).

Anyway I am prone to headaches like a muthafucker. Get'em at least once a week. Many people speculate it's because of how much you don't eat or not eating for long periods of time especially when waking up in the morning.

What I'd like to know is, is it possible to train/discipline your mind/body to become less hungry each day, without triggering headaches? If I continue to keep up the same diet and eat barely anything throughout the day will my body/appetite adjust to this?

I know a guy who claims he went on a serious crash diet a few years ago and only drank tea and maybe a couple crackers during THE ENTIRE day! Says at first he got headaches but after a while they went away and his appetite adjusted to this and didn't crave food hardly at all. He's now skinny as a number 2 pencil!

Can I discipline my body this way or is this something you don't recommend? And how much weight will I loose if I keep my food intake down to small portions like this('cept for dinner) and without excercising? My current daily schedule prohibits me from excercising ATM

 

[kumanoki]

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[kumanoki]

Yes, you can diet and reduce the frequency of headaches.

Your current diet is not healthy. Your body is trying to tell you that. The object isn't 'going the whole day without', although that always seems like the way to go. No, you need to adjust your diet so you can eat a healthy amount of food and continue to lose the weight you want to lose. What you are doing now is shocking your body into starving itself. That might be the cause of the headaches. It could also be from going cold turkey on caffiene.

I suggest spreading out smaller meals throughout the day. Eat yogurt or an egg or two for breakfast. You need the energy. Then, in a few hours when you begin to feel hungry, listen to what you body wants and eat a granola bar, or a bananna. Then, eat your sandwich for lunch. Have another bananna or small cup of popcorn as a snack, and then later on, have dinner. Try to cut back on portions. Have your greasy fried chicken, but refrain from eating three or four pieces. You don't feel full right away, but your body slowly will tell you it is satisfied with what it's eaten.

This will increase your metabolism, basically keeping your coal furnace burning all day, and you will burn calories faster.

Listen to your body. Dieting isn't starving yourself. It's setting up a regimen that will slowly change the way you eat, and the way your body reacts to food. Find a healthy routine and stick to it.

 

[isamu]

Yes, you can diet and reduce the frequency of headaches.

Your current diet is not healthy. Your body is trying to tell you that. The object isn't 'going the whole day without', although that always seems like the way to go. No, you need to adjust your diet so you can eat a healthy amount of food and continue to lose the weight you want to lose. What you are doing now is shocking your body into starving itself. That might be the cause of the headaches. It could also be from going cold turkey on caffiene.

I suggest spreading out smaller meals throughout the day. Eat yogurt or an egg or two for breakfast. You need the energy. Then, in a few hours when you begin to feel hungry, listen to what you body wants and eat a granola bar, or a bananna. Then, eat your sandwich for lunch. Have another bananna or small cup of popcorn as a snack, and then later on, have dinner. Try to cut back on portions. Have your greasy fried chicken, but refrain from eating three or four pieces. You don't feel full right away, but your body slowly will tell you it is satisfied with what it's eaten.

This will increase your metabolism, basically keeping your coal furnace burning all day, and you will burn calories faster.

Listen to your body. Dieting isn't starving yourself. It's setting up a regimen that will slowly change the way you eat, and the way your body reacts to food. Find a healthy routine and stick to it.

Thanks Kuma. But wouldn't increasing your intake from 2 square meals a day to three dramatically increase your weight gain?

 

[Mike]

Kum knows what he's talking about. Eat more frequently, with less calories per meal. If you constantly are getting headaches, you're either not eating enough or you're eating the wrong stuff.

 

[isamu]

Kum knows what he's talking about. Eat more frequently, with less calories per meal. If you constantly are getting headaches, you're either not eating enough or you're eating the wrong stuff.

How do you explain people who fast?

 

[kumanoki]

The reason people who fast don't dies is because, if they do it long enough, their bodies go into a state of suspended activity. Just like when you go to bed and wake up, it takes your digestive tract a little while to gear up and be ready to digest. It's the opposite with people who fast over long periods of time. Digestion essentially shuts down, and the body requires very little energy because it is trying not to burn out and die.

 

[teh_pwn]

Not eating at all puts your body in a state of conservation, and you'll burn less calories per day and your health is going to be compromised.

I don't understand the headaches. Try changing your diet. Are you even getting enough fats? Eat peanuts and fish and stuff.

If that doesn't work, maybe you should try a dietary supplement? Centriums really don't do shit, but they're better than nothing....i guess. I'd look elsewhere if you'd want a real one.


The key to dieting is to eat a couple hundred calories less than you need a day and to do plenty of cardio. Once you size up, don't overeate and still do some cardio, otherwise you'll just get fat again.