I'm not looking for a generic answer like "healthy" or "finger foods". I'm working based on the assumption that you are consuming the same weight of food. Can you eat a large quantity of food and produce very little waste. Consequently, can you consume a large quantity of food and the majority of it will be leaving your body instead of being burned as energy or stored as fat?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\nCat Astrophy
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The least amount of waste per pound food consumed will most likely be from very fatty foods with low fiber and water content (like lard, butter, and oil).   The most amount of waste per pound of food would be the opposite - high fiber and water content with low caloric value, this would include things like celery and cucumbers.
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No way...if you ask a nutritionist they'll tell you once or twice a year...no more than that!! Fast food can cause your body serious damage!! At McDonald's, their mc nuggets are better for you than their salads. If it's something you want to eat on that regular of a basis you might want to do the research and check the nutrition fact on their websites first to find out what's good for you and what isn't. The "healthy" foods they offer really aren't that healthy after all. If you really want to know the damage fast food can do on your body, watch the documentary Super Size Me. My husband was a big fan of eating at fast food places, and after watching that and seeing what it does to your body (liver problems, weight gain, and just how it makes you lethargic and gives you zero energy), he hardly eats there anymore.
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Hey buddy!\n\nGreat question!  Here is the deal.  \n\nYou have a metabolism that probably burns about 2000 calories per day, if you just sleep.  Let's call this your resting metabolism.  In sci fi terms it is called your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate).  \n\nNow, when you don't eat 2000 calories for an extended period of time, your body can start to think it is starving (and for good reason); accordingly, it will slow down making your heart rate and system burn less calories, although it will still need to burn them.  So maybe now your BMR drops to 1500 calories/day, so your rate of burning calories drops and is probably why you started to feel pretty depressed.  It seems that heart rate and mood are linked.  Think waking up versus having a good cup of coffee.  Anyways, this is an aside, but should tell you I know what I am talking about. \n\nOK, let's get at your weight loss.  You said you were hardly eating anything, thus, you were creating a calorie deficit for yourself.  If you don't eat anything, yet you burn 1500 calories just living, albeit down from the faster metabolism of 2000, you still need to pull this energy source from somewhere.  Since you weren't eating, by deductive reasoning you can see that it came from your body fat stores.  Voila!  You were burning body fat.  Do starvation diets work?  Heck yes!  However, it is usually short term since who wants to be depressed or asleep the whole time.  As an example, this is exactly what happens to bears when they hibernate.  They stuff their faces with berries and salmon and whatever, then hit the cave and lay low for four months.  There metabolism drops big time since they just need to stay alive (deep sleep), but because they are not eating, they come out of the cave much leaner (six pack abs :) ) because they used their fat to fuel their long deep slumber. \n\nSo the two phenomenon can co-exist.  You can lower your metabolism and lose body fat.  However, as you attest, this isn't a very fun way to do it.  \n\nWithout getting really into it, the better (call in more mentally and physcially healthy) way to lose weight is to eat at your BMR, which keeps your metabolism normal; then stay active doing what you like to do.  Shoot hoops, dance, shop, hunt, golf, etc.  By staying active, your excess NRG over your BMR keeps you burning fat from the deficit.  Moreover, you won't be cranky or depressed the whole time.  The healthy clip you should expect is one to two pounds per week.\n\nKnowledge is more than half the battle.  :)\n\nI also suggest that you find someone knowledgeable to encourage and motivate you to help you reach your goal.  This really helps.  \n\nI believe this answers your question, but if not, you may email me.\n\nGood luck on your diet and fitness goals!\n\nTrainer Gregg\ngregg@leandownsite.com\n"You can achieve anything you set your mind on."
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Eating only one kind of thing is a dieting DISASTER. You will get bored and abandon the plan. Moreover, you will probably be deficient in nutrients.\n\nCooking does not make food unhealthy. You can eat cooked vegetables just fine and lose weight. The problem most people have is portion control. Many people also don't get enough exercise.\n\nlearn to balance. get enough exercise. eat sensibly and balance your proteins and carbs (that's right, carbs are GOOD for you). Losing weight and maintaining health are all about moderation, but moderation is something that we as a society have forgotten long ago.
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Your body needs the proper mixture of vitamins, minerals, protien, fiber, etc. in order for all of your organs to function properly.  A well balanced diet will result in good, balanced overall health.  Eating too much of one thing and not enough of another isn't recommended, because your body only "needs" a certain amount of any one vitamin or mineral.  It will only use a set amount, and the rest goes to waste.  Meanwhile, you deprive your body of other nutrients it really needs.\n\nLean protiens, whole grains, green leafy vegetables, fruits, and dairy products all form a foundation of a healthy diet.  A balanced diet will provide you with the vitamins, minerals, fats (a small amount of fat is necessary), etc., that someone needs for their body to function properly.
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It's not entirely true that simply maintaining the same caloric intake each day will quickly halt weight loss--if it were, then people who are starving wouldn't look as if they are starving!  However, we each have what's refered to as a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is the amount of calories that are required simply to maintain our bodyweights.  By consuming this amount--while neither going far above or below it--our bodyweights stabilize and refuse to go anywhere.  BMR is actually quite easy to figure out, and follows the formula below.\n\nMEN:  Take your bodyweight and add a zero to the end of it.  Now add double your bodyweight.  For example, a 200lbs man would do the following--2000 + 400 = 2,400.  A 200lbs man's BMR is 2,400 calories per day to maintain that weight.\n\nWOMEN:  Take your bodyweight and add a zero to the end of it.  Now add your bodyweight.  For example, a 120lbs woman would do the following--1200 + 120 = 1,320.  She'd require 1,320 calories a day to maintain her weight.\n\nSince a McDonald's small combo meal can easilly contain 2,000 plus calories depending on the food items and drink, it's little wonder that these calories are easy to get each day.  It's also far too easy to exceed!  And that's why keeping yourself on the losing end (as far as weight's concerned) is so hard in the land of tasty and fast foods.\n\nAs far as excercise goes... we're designed to be fat.  I'm not saying to just give up and grab a bag of chips, though!  I'm saying that our bodies are designed to burn as little energy as possible and store energy to prepare for the next time food's scarce.  In today's world, however... food's abundant, and this threat simply isn't a modern concern for most of us.  So instead of facing famine... we go on to the next feast.  But we're still carrying around millions of years' worth of evolutionary instinct to be as lazy as possible, lest we burn too much of our precious energy reserves.  That's why we have to push ahead with our excercise routines, continually challenging ourselves with new endevors and new goals.  We have to constantly fight against the instinct to put off hard work (how many of us have to force ourselves to work out?  ALL of us!)--we have to stay focused and drive ahead!  Otherwise, yes, the same old workout routine will yeild no results at all.  In fact, we'd soon become disinclined to work out at all, seeing no point to it.  It has to be exciting and challenging--and each time we meet a new goal... we instantly have to set the bar higher, or we lose it all by stagnating.\n\nIt's funny that you mention dieting all week, yet having "free" days on the weekends.  Many--myself included--find it easier to stay on a clean eating routine if we allow ourselves periodic "cheat" days.  I would always allow myself one meal or snack that I ordinarilly wouldn't have had every three or four days of dieting, and have never found that this hurt my endevors.  (As a sidenote, I'd often do photo shoots, for which I would lower my bodyfat percentage to 3-6%.  Ordinarilly, I keep my bodyfat right around 10-15%, depending on what the mirror's telling me.) This is something that one must experiment with until they suit it to their own lifestyle, but does make it easier not to stray completely away from the diet plan.
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What is your definition of fat?  Te best way to lose five pounds it to eat healthy and exercise.  You will lose it that way if you really need to lose it.   When you starve yourself or eat less your body takes the excess fat to supply it with what it is missing.  I know that some people miss a meal now and then hell I do it but I would never starve myself.   Let me tell you I moved to California and during the summer I was so hot I could not eat but I ate atleast one a day.  Bad on my part.  Not only that but I sweated in places I never sweat before and I did not lose any weight.  I think I gained it.  Anyway listen to your friends.
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best things to eat....\n- water\n- healthy fat\n- fruit\n- veggies\n- be sure that you are eating enough, and not starving yourself....\n-if you limit portion sizes (how much you are eating), you can pretty much eat anything.  What you have to avoid is based on your own body...
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its just like pasta, bread and potatoes, if you eat too much, it could give you extra weight, especially if your not moving around too much.
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Well define right. If you mean eating sugary foods and sodas once a week, i'm doing great. i think one of the hardest reasons is that people confuse LIGHT with REDUCED FAT. You see reduced fat maybe  a litle less "fattty" than the regular brand. But light has, by law, to be under 0.5% far as fat or sugar. Me am i healthy? i usually get salad once a week and love, LOVE, LOVE fruit salad!! Yum!!
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This is not a completely wrong answer.\n\nIf you insist on taking in so few calories per day, perhaps you can eat only vegetables, absolutely no flour, refined sugar, or sugar substitutes.  No animal products either, except for plain yogurt with live cultures.\n\nYou can even juice the vegetables, and drink only the FRESH raw juice.  \n\nMy suggestions are meant to help you find the most healthy, ultra low calorie diet possible, in order to delay your impending death.  Perhaps, if I can help buy you some time, you will tire of anorexia, and start eating again.\n\nPlease also try to find a support group in your area for people who have eating disorders.  I am sure that you would find that you all have very similar problems, and self opinions.\n\nMay you come to know the Lord Jesus, and have peace.\n\nedited to add:  a 100% raw, 100% vegan diet (vegan means no animal products, not even eggs or milk), will never cause a person to become overweight.  You can pretty much stuff yourself daily on raw vegetables and their fresh raw juice, raw fruit and their fresh raw juice, nuts, greens, and any other edible plant parts in their natural raw unprocessed forms, and you will never get fat.  Plus, it is the healthiest way for humans to eat.\n\nI hope also that you are taking at least a vitamin/mineral supplement.  There is a powdered vitamin/mineral supplement that you mix in water.  It is called 'Alive Effervescent'.  Tastes good, lemon lime flavor, almost zero calories.  You can order it off the internet, or you can find similar products in your local healthfood store.
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OK, if you were to just eat your choice of calories up to 1200 you need to consider some things. Yes, you will lose weight, but you may gain body fat. \n\nTake pies for example. They contain about 400 calories. You could eat 3 pies per day and be within 1200 calories. But, what you need to consider is that there is about 30g of fat in each pie so you will be consuming 90g fat. Carbs is about 120g, protein is 60g. In all you can't get all your nutrients so it's not a great diet. \n\nIf you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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I know, every time I turn on the TV or read an article it's about how something that was once good for you can now cause cancer, right? I think most of it is exaggerated though. I believe if you eat in moderation and stay away from eating out too much, you're gonna be just fine. And even if you don't, you're gonna be just fine. Just remember , food is fuel and whatever we eat should make our bodies feel good. Always remember what might taste really good, is not always good for us. But I think you already know this.
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The temperature of the food you put in your mouth has no effect on your digestion.  It's all the same once it reaches your tummy.\n\nIf you want to lose weight by eating less during mealtimes, I have a recommendation ... start your meals with fruit (like 1 mango, etc.) and eat slowly.  Fructose is easy to digest and is filling.  By the time you finish eating your fruit you will already feel a little full so your food intake should decrease accordingly.\n\nAlso, once you feel full, do not force yourself to eat more.  Stop right there.  If need be, eat again a few hours later, when you feel hungry again.  The important thing is, you don't eat more than you need to.
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Yes you can. Some people want to know how much weight per week is safe to lose. Others want to know how much weight they will lose sticking to a certain program. There are lots of people who repeat what they have heard but no reliable sources say that only a certain amount is safe to lose. You can drink too much water, eat too much, exercise too much and fast too long (an MD fasted a fat guy for 8 months and he died). But you can not sleep too much!  Why? Because you do not control how much you get only how little you get. You cannot force yourself to sleep if you do not need it.\n\nSo you do not choose how quickly you lose weight. Your body decides that. So only your body knows how much you will lose. It will only allow you to lose what is safe. One guy under an MD's care lost 180 pounds in a year fasting on weekends. So some lose quickly on a bad weight loss plan  and others lose slowly on a great weight loss plan. Make sure to eat foods with nutrients for skin, like omega-3 fatty acids, to avoid loose skin, when you lose weight.\n\nDiets do not work. 99% of people gain the weight back. Here is how it works. No one teaches the animal what to eat and what not to eat. He knows instinctively what to eat. Humans also have the same instinct. The way it works is just eat whatever tastes good and that will be healthy for you and non-fattening. That is why a baby tastes everything. So again whatever tastes good, is good for you. This is why you will spit out spoiled milk.\n\nBut wait!!! Man has the technology to create rat poison. It tastes like healthy food (good taste) but kills the rat. So man has done that to you. Note- any food unaltered by man (uncooked) that tastes good, is good for you. So if you are stranded in the woods, that is how you  know what to eat (cooking changes that). So man has created fake fruit. It tastes like fruit that exists in nature but it is terrrible for health, addictive and fattening called sweets.\n\nSo it is natural  to like real sweets called fruit, like a baby does, but they have fooled you just like the rat. But they do not want to kill you. They want you to become obese so you will buy lots of their foods. This is called GOOD BUSINESS. Remember the above (not on site) and see site below to re-learn how to eat so you can be thin and fit for life.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org
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I can assure you that the reason you started to gain and have "never before and been able to eat anything you want to" results in the fact that you exhert less energy now then before.  Here is a good rule of thumb when eating food: 80% of weight loss is the foods you are eating, if you can't hit it on the head or pull it out of the ground, you should not be eating it. (ie,meats and vegetables are good for you).  The greener the vegetable the better it is for you.  Eat sweet potatoes instead of white, whole wheat grains, instead of processed white bread, rice and so forth.  But remember this above all else. . .YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
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I am assuming you are talking bout weight-loss dieting.  There really isn't any such thing as a "best" diet, as each person's metabolism and make up is different.  Generally, consuming 25% or less of your calories from fat, avoiding animal fats, limiting use of sugar and refined products (sugar, flour, etc.), consuming a high level of grains and legumes, small percentage of meats vs. vegetables and fruit, freshly prepared foods vs. canned or frozen ones, drinking 8-10 glasses of water daily, and exercise help keep most people fit and trim, and eating several small meals a day (instead of 1-to-3 large ones) helps regulate the metabolism.  Your biggest meal of the day should actually be breakfast, and keep dinner light and eat it at least 3 hours before you go to bed.  Check out www.eDiets.com where you can peruse just about every diet plan available, and decide which one(s)  will work best for you based on your lifestyle and where your body fat is distributed.  If you are considerably overweight and find nothing helps, it would be worth it to have a doctor check out your thyroid, and pituitary etc., to make sure there isn't some physical problem that is preventing you from losing weight, or is making you gain weight.  As for not eating...that is frequently a way for people to put on a LOT weight, as the body thinks there is a food shortage and begins to store fat  and increase the number of fat cells for survival. In these types of cases, very little weight loss is experienced, and when the person gives up starving themselves, all those stored fat cells bulk up even more, making it harder to lose weight the next time around.   Good luck.