Hi. M21 here. Been "trying" to lose weight for three years.
I'll get right to the point. I'm 215 lbs, and I overeat all the time. One of the reasons I overeat so often is, I have no idea what an adequate portion size is. No clue. I literally feel like I'm eating far too little when I reduce my caloric intake by any amount or try to fast at all. I fear that my body is weak, diseased, and incapable handling a reduction of calories in any form.
I'm afraid that if I start eating too little, I will develop an electrolyte imbalance or malnutrition of some sort and die of a cardiac arrest.
My current idea for weight loss is this: I want to fast for ~16-18 hours a day. I've done it dozens of times before. It's just that I don't eat the right amounts afterwards. I want to "make up" for lost calories, and my ballooning meal sizes make it hard for me to comprehend what normal meal sizes look like.
I also want to follow a mostly plant-based diet. But the thing with most plants is that they are quite low-calorie. I don't feel like I could physically eat enough plants to make up any substantial amount of calories, and that eventually I will become underweight, malnourished.
If I sound ignorant it's because I am. I know I am, and that's why I'm here. How do I eat better, smaller, with more plants, without fearing "malnutrition"?
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