Lose weight before the season starts

[Smitty]

Nope, you certainly don't need to go on a plan to lose weight. But some of us need that structure to stick with it and make it work. I don't have the patience to look at food labels and count calories and carbs for everything I eat. It's great if you can lose weight on your own, and certainly cheaper.

I was told at camp I'd get better games if I lost weight. So I did. However I got here, it feels great and my knees no longer hurt. It was worth every penny.

[Texas Aggie]

just quite eating, simple

If you mean quit, that's the worst thing you can do. Undereating eventually leads to overeating. Plus, it slows the body's metabolism down and your fat burning goes to zero.

Frequent, healthy meals are the answer. The problem for many of us is our game schedule makes that tough. I don't like to eat before games, but I've made myself eat a light lunch followed by a light snack a couple of hours before the game. I'm still hungry afterwards, but it isn't like I went from lunch to 10:00pm without eating -- as I've done in the past.

You can eat all the vegis you want. Calories in those foods are next to nothing. Fill up on broccoli even if you have to dip it in a little ranch.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

If you mean quit, that's the worst thing you can do.

Are you kidding? Quitting would be the best thing for Old School to do. Oh. You were talking about eating? I thought we were talking about officiating. Never mind.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Are you kidding? Quitting would be the best thing for Old School to do. Oh. You were talking about eating? I thought we were talking about officiating. Never mind.

Good one, Scrap-meister!!

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Texas Aggie

If you mean quit, that's the worst thing you can do. Undereating eventually leads to overeating. Plus, it slows the body's metabolism down and your fat burning goes to zero..

Disagree, and here's why. Your fat burning and metabolism is going to slow down with age. So, if you continue to eat like you did when you where young and athletic, you're going to have some problems.

Frequent, healthy meals are the answer.

I don't know if I agree with this either. If you eat healthy meals frequently, like after a evening game, you're still in the same boat. It's the frequent part I have a problem with which is why I suggest to break the habit altogether. Eating is a habit that we all feel we need to do, over and over. We don't need to eat near as much as we do. To break it down for you, it's overeating is the problem. To make it more simple, stop the eating habit. It is a bad habit and when your career rests on your appearance. You're going to have to let something go. Step away from the table! Just say NO to drugs and food.

To be truthful, there's only so much brocoli I can take in a day but the more of this type of food, the better. If you're going to eat after 8pm, try to just make it a salad meal. I now have the pizza under control, now all i have to do is break the Burger Kings and KFC's and I'm in control. That dollar double cheeseburger is hard to pass on when i'm hungry.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by Old School

If you're going to eat after 8pm,

That worked for me. I stopped eating anything after 6 p.m.....lost 20 lbs. I was so proud of myself, I gained it back. Pizza and Burger King at 5:59 didn't help!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by CoachP

That worked for me. I stopped eating anything after 6 p.m.....lost 20 lbs. I was so proud of myself, I gained it back. Pizza and Burger King at 5:59 didn't help!

ROTFLMAO!

[Mark Padgett]

A few years ago, I decided to ride a bike to try and lose weight. Didn't work. Maybe it was because I would ride it to Baskin Robbins.

[Mountaineer]

I find it funny that OS doesn't agree that frequent healthy meals is better for you . . . every doc I've talked to and most of your weight-loss programs want you to eat 5 smaller meals rather than 3 normal or larger ones. Whouldathunkit that OS is also a medical doctor!