[quote]sarah1 wrote:
Well, I started logging everything on fitday and I don’t understand how you guys say veggies don’t add up. Just 2 cups of cucumbers…4 carbs, broccoli 1 cup 2 carbs, all of these net. What I’ve tried the last few days is something like this:
2 scoops whey
coffee with cream
handfull of nuts
workout (crappy so ate nuts and whey during to get me through)
chicken - 6 oz
cheese - 1 oz
5 eggs with 2 yolks
1 oz cheese
1 cup bell pepper chopped
nuts
few eggs
then started the feeling crappiness…had a red bell pepper, tea with cream, a cup of cucumber
later woke up and couldn’t sleep =
ate broccoli, protein pudding *4 carbs(, cucmber, and red pepper
All this added up to 60 net carbs…totally screwed up. I’ve eaten about 2000 extra cals in the last 2 days since fats have replaced all my veggies.
Prior I was NOT eating a lot of carbs at all - I was eating only a LOT of green veggies and a bit of onion and a lot of protein. I was satisfied at 1600 cals. Now I am shaky at 2200. I’m absolutely freaked to try to go off the diet now though since I have gained probably a pound of FAT in the last 2 days.
I am totally upset and berating myself for leaving my previous lower carb but healthy diet. Now I’ve screwed up my body…I should be thinner due to water loss but I’ve gotten FAT as HELL in the last 2 days. I’m really freaked and don’t really know what I should do…advice???
The diet said it was okay to gain fat at first since your body will lose it…but where my metabolism it at it will NOT lose any of this stuff I’ve gained and futhermore I’m injured so I can’t just go exercise it off. I’m really really upset. I think everything has gone horribly wrong…
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You know what the issue is? You need to chill the fuck out (had to say it, but bear with me). Obsessions always end in personal tragedy. Just remember that food is fuel, not a psychological crutch. Treat it as such.
Whether or not you should’ve eaten 2000 extra calories from fat doesn’t matter anymore (and my guess is it did you more benefit long-term than bad… even if you gained some weight, your body will shift toward fat adaptation, increase metabolism, and increase circulating leptin). However, the fact that you keep telling yourself that you gained 2 pounds of pure bodyfat from 2000 MAYBE excess calories (my hunch is the body compensates in some ways in the face of extra calories via increasing the metabolism and increasing leptin levels) IS a problem.
It is entirely possible that you look fatter, but don’t get that confused with being fatter. You are truly glycogen depleted. And probably for the first time in a LONG time. Without the extra glycogen, your muscles are small and loose.
And, of course, the issue of not eating enough fat on the appearance of the physique. I don’t know what else to tell you. This is a psychological issue. The fact is: eat when you are hungry and eat those foods the good Doc recommends. Personally, I prefer to eat a higher proportion of fat than 60% of my daily cals simply because it FORCES my body to use it instead of the protein I’m eating.
As touched on earlier, we want our bodies to be fat burning. If you train your body to burn protein (and rest uneasy, that’s what you’re doing), you will look smaller than before AND less lean. The ol’ double whammy. My personal opinion is that we don’t need the amounts of protein recommended to us on this site. I think a gram per LB is more than sufficient. Get the rest of your cals from fat.
Finally, quit getting down on yourself, it’s only keeping you from taking our advice. From an outsider’s perspective, we all see what’s happening. We can only provide you with the tools and knowledge. It’s up to you to internalize and apply them.