Body image? i have been workin out and doin cardio for 3 years..?!
Question:
Body image? i have been workin out and doin cardio for 3 years..?
2&1/2 of these years i ate what ever i wanted ..i consumed around 4,500 calories a day with no problem ( i ate lots of fast food.. 2 - 2 liters of coca cola a day...fried food...desserts...everything!) i wasa small framed nerdy guy but eating this way and working out let me put on 80 lbs people could not believe how i dramatically increased in size they thought i was takin steriods..this past 1/2 year i have cut down calories to 1000 /day.. and no more than 28 grams of fat a day.. no salt ..only water to drink...only baked or grilled no seasoning..i really took it to the extreme to get washboard abs..i never was fat or even chubby i did have a lil stomach but not a gut.. i miss all the tasty food and having a bulky muscular body that everyone noticed..now i looked ripped but i have lost alot of size..is it normal for a 18 year old to constantly worry about what he eats.. when he eats..and counting calories and carbs and everything else.. i lost 43 lbs in 2 months. opinion? im miserable
Answers:
~It doesn't sound like you ate that way before you purposely ate that crap to gain weight. It's okay to concern yourself with your size and calories. It's your body, be aware.
43 pounds in a month is very extreme. You should lose and gain slower than that. No wonder you're miserable.
I think you should increase to at least 2,500 calories and eat some of the things you like sometimes. Don't reward yourself by eating those fatty foods, but depriving yourself of them will only make you gain weight trying to replace it with other foods.
Water is good for you, don't give that up. Only drink pop once in a while, same as the food.
Just be careful, because if you eat too much of that kind of food, it will cause problems with cholesterol and heart problems later on. Men have heart attacks more often then women.
Maybe calorie counting shouldn't be an issue at all, since you're not overweight. Either way, you can't keep doing what you've been doing.
Good luck.~