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Steelrails
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To get in on the whole portion size and sensible eating thing, for fun times sake stand outside a buffet (my pastor recommended this one day). Watch the people coming out. I'd say a good 60% of them, at least, look completely miserable from overindulgence (and the low quality often found at buffets).
I used to be a hog at the buffet "5th plate! 5th plate!". After that bit in the sermon I thought on it and realized that yeah, I always felt miserable in a way. There's still 5 plates, but on all 5 plates now is the mass of 1 plate before. My coworkers were talking about how little I was getting on the plates at the Samsung buffet during our teacher's trip. I explained the bit to my English co-teacher with the promise of explaining things after the meal was over. The look around the room at the faces of overindulgence and the "ah-ha" moment suddenly had me looking like Old Wise Man.
But a big part of stuff I think is genetic or from childhood. At the pizza store people subsisted on the same kind of food and drank, smoked, and didn't exercise a lot. One would have two Cruiser Cups of soda each day and some pizza and be as thin and scrawny as ever. Another would be 30 pounds overweight. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
To get in on the whole portion size and sensible eating thing, for fun times sake stand outside a buffet (my pastor recommended this one day). Watch the people coming out. I'd say a good 60% of them, at least, look completely miserable from overindulgence (and the low quality often found at buffets).
I used to be a hog at the buffet "5th plate! 5th plate!". After that bit in the sermon I thought on it and realized that yeah, I always felt miserable in a way. There's still 5 plates, but on all 5 plates now is the mass of 1 plate before. My coworkers were talking about how little I was getting on the plates at the Samsung buffet during our teacher's trip. I explained the bit to my English co-teacher with the promise of explaining things after the meal was over. The look around the room at the faces of overindulgence and the "ah-ha" moment suddenly had me looking like Old Wise Man.
But a big part of stuff I think is genetic or from childhood. At the pizza store people subsisted on the same kind of food and drank, smoked, and didn't exercise a lot. One would have two Cruiser Cups of soda each day and some pizza and be as thin and scrawny as ever. Another would be 30 pounds overweight. |
I used to do buffets when I was young and not very health conscious. I still fondly remember going to El Toro Mexican Restaurant in Austin, Texas for an all-you-can-eat very inexpensive meal. They didn't even serve it buffet style. They just kept taking your order and bringing more food until you said enough. Wow. That was fun.
But, yeah, I never get excited about buffets anymore. Regarding genetics, I haven't actually read some scientific proof for the concept yet, but Dr. Mercola (and some others) do suggest that there are different nutritional types -- protein types, mixed types, and carb types with some different nutritional guidelines depending on type which would perhaps explain some of those differences you observed.
In any event, I'm assuming that I'm a mixed type (took his free nutritional survey to determine that), and I'm eating a very well rounded low-carb diet and losing lots of fat. That translates to more than 10 cm off my waist measured at the bellybutton in the past couple of months. But my weight hasn't changed at all. That's because I've been working out quite consistently at a health club at the same time and adding muscle mass -- 3 kg. of it. Since muscle weighs 5 times as much as fat, my weight has remained constant while my pot belly has been disappearing. So, I NEVER say to myself or anyone else that I'm trying to lose weight. Since I'm working on adding muscle mass, I don't really know what would be the "right" weight for me. I do say that I'm trying to lose fat and I do know that a healthier fat percentage for me is somewhere around 10 to 15% fat. I think I'll recognize the right fat % when I get there.
Still got a little ways to go there, but I'm making perfectly satisfactory progress. |
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