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Portion Control
I am an overweight college student, and I hate it. I'm always tired, and seem to be the only one yawning in class. I want to lose weight, and I know a large part of that comes from portion control. However, once, I attempted portion control for an entire week, and I was ALWAYS hungry. I had to literally force myself to put my plate in the sink. Between meals, I would eat small, nutritious snacks like granola, yogurt, protein bars, and a few pretzels. I know how to "fill up" on water, but I can't constantly be leaving class to go to the bathroom. can anyone help?
(FYI, my mom does all the cooking in my house, and she cooks healthfully. I just usually eat too much. Also, as far as my nutrition, I'm healthy, i'm just overweight.)
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I know where you're coming from! Especially about the filling up on water part because it's not practical when us college students have class to sit through!
You should try filling up on protein. However, protein bars tend to have just as much sugar as candy bars, so forget about those...Try: egg whites, almonds and whole wheat products instead.
I find it's easier if I eat food in its simplest form and not something that's been processed because sugar is more addicting than we realize and salt will make us bloated!
I hope I helped!
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Wow. You walk to a bus stop and back. I'm in college and I'm a server. So I walk around campus alot. And we got these neat little "step measurement" thingies at work cause our boss is ridiculous and likes buying gagets, and we found out that we generally walk between six and eight miles on a busy night. I work five nights a week.
I'd still consider myself lazy, and I'm a bit out of shape. It's not about how far you walk (and you don't walk far) it's about the amount of time you exercise in a proper way to get your heart to the target fat burning rate for your body, and about keeping it there for more than 20 minutes multiple times a week.
Also, walking around in heels is stupid. You're causing undue strain on your knees and ankles and getting zero additional health benefits from it.
But yes, based on your now second extremely defensive reaction and the need to modify the question instead of just posting another commentary on the feedback makes me think that you are probably lazy and the fact that you pointed out exercise you get because you do other things (and the fact that you thought that walking around in heels is exercise because you hurt when you're done) kinda confirms it. Thanks for trying though :D
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What are you talking about? A successful weight loser? I didn't even mention your mother, and yes it is a fact that if you exercised more your portions would matter less.
I guess you're just a bit lazy, and the prospect of moving your slightly larger than usual ass off the couch is a prospect that angers you. Sorry, didn't mean to get your chins a-jiggling.
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First, exercise more, and portions will matter less.
Second, if you need to, look into appetite suppressants. They are among the most benign and easily available forms of diet pills.
Those two together should help you out a bit. Also note, if you're having issues with weight and with fatigue, you might want to check into your birth control side effects. It's a random idea, but my wife was depressed, went off BC recently, and it's like she's a whole other person.
Last, this isn't a suggestion so much as information which you can do what you please with.
I used to be the type of person who ate until they were full every meal and never skipped one. I'm a big guy in alot of ways which aren't about being overweight, so I needed more food anyway. Then I hit interim at the house I was living at, which means I was at a student housing facility which provided my meals during the winter break when no food was provided.
I made tuna, ramen, a few loaves of bread, a few misc veggies, and some other things you don't want to contemplate eating last the entire month. Went out to a buffet with zip locks so I could obtain fresh veggies. Was too poor to afford to buy anything.
I went very, very hungry. Ate once a day to give myself fuel and tried to ignore it the rest of the time. Had to ration what I had so that I didn't run out and still went four days with nothing but water at the end of the month.
By the end of the month though, hunger didn't and does not affect me. I'm actually hungry right now. Haven't eaten since two chicken tenders last night. Don't care. It's had the additional side effect of making "feeling empty" a bit normal and feeling full not. I hate feeling completely full now, it's not comfy to feel bloated and stuffed.
Probably wasn't healthy, but when I finally do manage to get the time to get back into working out at the gym, changing my eating habits is mostly done already, just have to eat healthier.
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Well here are some tips that you can try to help:
-Use small plates. If you say use the small salad plates instead of a dinner plate then you won't feel the need to fill it up. Also when you see the small plate filled with food, it'll still make you feel like you ate a lot.
-After you fill your plate with food I would suggest that you eat somewhere where you don't have to see the food as you eat. So you can possibly try going outside and eat say in your backyard or maybe keep all the food in teh kitchen and not on the dining table. This way you won't be tempted by looking at the food.
-Eat slowly. It takes about 10 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is filled. If you eat slow enough then you'll know you're full before you eat more. So chew more throughly, strike conversations with others as you eat, or take smaller bites.
-When you go to a restaurant, immediately ask for a take-out box and put half your food in that. This way you can still enjoy the food without overeating the huge portions restaurants tend to give. And a plus is that you get to enjoy the food for another meal.
-Chew gum. This will only distract you from eating for an hour and at most two. So perhaps use this technique when you get hungry and hour or two before you actually eat lunch or dinner.
-Before you eat a meal, eat the fruits or veggie first. Studies show that people who ate an apple before lunch ate less of their lunch and overall felt fuller when there they were done.
-Eat snacks that are super chewy so they take longer to eat. I find yogart is useless. It never gets me filled because i can eat it super fast. I tend to eat apples because it takes forever to eat.
I have to tell you though, in the beginning you will feel hungry. It's only natural. it takes times for your stomach to shrink. But trust me when it does, it makes eating less so much easier. It's like how when smokers quit, the first couple weeks are the hardest and it gradually gets easier. The reward will easily outweigh the hard times you'll face now.
I hope that helps!!! Best of luck :D
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