Lose weight before the season starts

[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!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

Whouldathunkit that OS is also a medical doctor!

In addition to what?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer

Whouldathunkit that OS is also a medical doctor!

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

In addition to what?

A medical enigma?

[Old School]

Originally Posted by 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!

I am not a medical doctor, however, I'm going to share my medical knowledge from personal experience. I’m going to also address what Rainmaker said later, because she hit on a couple key points I want to expand on.

When I was young and into my playing days, I wanted to jump higher and hit the ball farther, which meant I needed to get stronger. So I hit the weights. Surprisingly, I could not get any stronger. My body reached a point and there was no going past it. I was in great shape athletic wise, but was not reaching my goals. It didn’t matter with eating either. I cold eat like a pig, and not gain a pound.

Now that my days of playing is over and I have retired to the keyboard for activity. My eating habits has not changed. In fact, I have become quit fond of my food intake. Not paying any attention to the way it was prepared but how it tasted in the end was the barometer. Thru-out my career, I didn’t have to worry about how it was prepared, my body would burn it right off no matter what I eat.

Now, got major problems. How do I stop? Turn the food off. Don’t matter if it’s salads, carrot sticks, or snicker bars, if there’s no food around then you can’t eat it. Got to continue to exercise, this is the key. Food, just say no! I think, and this is my opinion, that food is a bad habit, which is why the doctors are saying, continue to eat, continue the habit, just eat more healthy. It’s the frequent things constantly going in your mouth for consumption that’s the problem. Just say NO! Think about it….you are fat and overweight, NOT because you quick exercising! Turn it off, stop the madness. We don't need to constantly feed our faces so that we don't feel hungry later. That's bull and continues the constant crave for food. Just say NO, step away from the table, put your hands in the air and wave like you just don't care.