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BORN2SURF92
10/4/07 6:53 P
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Are you eating a lot late at night?
Maybe make your meals a little lighter before bed so you can feel hungrier when you wake up.
We're not kidding when we say breakfast is the most important meal. If you cant hand eating food, make a protein shake or smoothie, those are very easy to get down and theyre healthy!
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COACH_TANYA
10/4/07 12:30 P
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Yep! The more efficient your body becomes at burning off food as energy for all you do in your life, the more if will store it for future fueling needs in fat reserves.
Coach Tanya
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| Wow, I'm glad you said that because I have the same problem. I always eat breakfast, but I never eat more than 1200 calories a day. So I was surprised when a peer told me that you're supposed to eat at least 2000 calories a day. She eats like 2500 and she's only 116 lbs. I couldn't understand it. So what should I do? Eat more frequently too?
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COACH_TANYA
9/24/07 1:58 P
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Unfortunately you have trained your body not to expect food all day. In return it shrinks up your stomach to limit its activity as well as slowing your metabolism to reduce the rate that energy is used for all your activities of daily living (walking from class to class, getting dressed, doing your hair etc.) as well as your body needs (heart beating, muscles contracting, lungs expanding). This is one of the thigs that leads to fat storage and weight gain over time because your body starts storing energy in fat reserves for future energy needs.
If you are wanting to be at a healthy weight then you need to train your body in the other way. Eat nutritious foods every few hours so you are not eating a lot at one time to be over full but also so that your metabolism starts to become very efficient and there is always enough energy for your activities of daily living, daily exercise, and fitness as well as reducing the fat storage that takes place.
Coach Tanya
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I haven't eaten breakfast ever since I was 8 or so. I've tried to eat breakfast, because I know it's important, but it makes me feel really, really sick and I feel like I have no energy at all. Even if it's something really small, like a small yogurt or something, I feel full (and sick) for the rest of the day.
And other thing that was already posted by someone, but I didn't want to hijack their thread -- I, too, can't eat as much calories a day as I'm supposed to. I usually eat around 1000 calories (I eat for the first time when I come home from school, around 3-4p.m.)
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