Fattening Up?!
Question: I used to just be pugey, but now I am becoming increasingly heavier. I am 13, 5'0 tall, and 130 pounds. Please watch this youtube video and tell me how many pounds away I am from being a classic fat kid. I am not actually worried about my weight, I enjoy being fat. I just want to know. Other general comments about my weight are appreciaited.
http://www.youtube.com/user/onceafatty
Answers: I used to just be pugey, but now I am becoming increasingly heavier. I am 13, 5'0 tall, and 130 pounds. Please watch this youtube video and tell me how many pounds away I am from being a classic fat kid. I am not actually worried about my weight, I enjoy being fat. I just want to know. Other general comments about my weight are appreciaited.
http://www.youtube.com/user/onceafatty
no offence, but you already are a classic fat kid.
go for a run chubby
A question about calories was asked in another question. I consider my answer the same.
You need a combination of calories from protein, carbs, and fats. The difference is, each gram of protein or carbs contains 4 calories, where each gram of fat contains 9 calories.
You still need fats in very small amounts.
When looking for snack foods, (and if you don't snack, any diet will fail eventually), look for things that have less than 1/3 their calories from fat. Also look for things that have less (or no) processed sugar and things that contain low amounts of sodium.
A good example of this is pretzels. While they do have fat, it is lower than potato chips, and because they are salted on the outside (not mixed and cooked in), they taste salty while using lower amounts of salt. But, ofcourse, the key is moderation. No food plan will survive eating the whole bag instead of a small serving)
Read the label and calculate the calories yourself (the label is allowed to round off, so the calories are not always accurate).
If something claims to contain 100 calories per serving, look at the protein, carbs, and fat. Suppose it has 2 grams of protein, 16 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fat (this is just an example, not real food).
That means we have 8 calories from protein, 64 calories from carbs, and 27 calories from fat, for a total of 99 calories (most of the time, it will work out higher, more like 105 calories counted as 100). This also means that only 27% of our calories are from fats.(27/99)= 0.2727...
Snack foods that contain more than 1/3 of their calories from fats should be avoided (okay, maybe that one piece of pie or cake ONE TIME after you did drop 10 pounds, but not every day).
I also found things that have some fat, but less of it and improve flavor.
I hate fat-free and most low-fat salad dressings, but fell in love with Wish-Bone "Just 2 Good", especially their Ranch salad dressing. Because it still has 2 grams of fat (that would be 18 calories from fat) per serving, it still has flavor. But, it is not as bad as the full calorie counterpart. When I was on a diet, I even used it in tuna fish and as a spread on sandwiches, but it is a little more dry than mayo....that takes some really tough discipline to pull off.
P.S. The rest of your diet should be MUCH lower in fats.
Carbs are not bad, just bad in excess like everything else. You don't want to eat alot of ANY one thing. 1 full-blown cola has the carbs of 3 servings of dressing/stuffing, all from sugars. Because so much food contains large amounts of carbs, many people automatically think they are bad. They are not! Its the 4x25 (100 calories) that does the damage. The calories, not the carbs. Your body actually spends energy processing complex carbs into sugar. Another reason to limit the amount of food that you eat that is processed. Complex carbs are found more in raw foods (fresh potatoes, instead of boxed, etc).
The rest is, burn more calories than you eat, you lose weight. If that weight is fat, you will need to burn 3500 calories more than you eat to lose one pound of fat. That means on average, you need to eat 500 calories less than you burn, or burn 500 calories more than you eat each day, to lose 1 pound per week. Typically, a sucessful weight loss goal is 1-3 pounds per week. More than that is not recommended.
Finally, you need to be looking at size, not just weight. You can gain muscle (that weighs more than fat), not lose much total weight, but still lose inches.
Michael K also brought up an excellent point when he mentioned brown rice. He didn't elaborate on it, but this is good nutrition. Brown rice actually has MORE calories than white rice, but the bran coating on the rice gives you 3 to 3.5 grams of fiber per serving. You not only get the extra fiber you need (15-25 grams per day), but even though the rice has more calories, your body spends more energy to digest it!
Another reason to look at your food from more than one side.
P.S. Sorry that doesn't do it for ya, Big G. You eat bad, you get fat. Eat well, and you treat your body well. So, if you don't like the advice, continue to eat bad, get fat, and die.