Balancing food types
September 16th 2006 05:38
If you look at what I was eating (in post 1), you will see after analysing it that most of wYour text goes herehat I ate was processed carbohydrate (unprocessed carbs are things like fruit and veges, processed is something that is ‘made’, such as bread or chocolate). For those of you who have minds like mine and jump ahead to a false conclusion, I didn’t go on a low carb diet. Bare with me here.
My breakfast consisted of muesli or some other cereal – carbohydrate with a dash of protein in the form of milk. Morning tea was a biscuit and a cup of tea – all carbohydrate again. Lunch was a salad roll or sandwich which consists mostly of carbohydrates in the form of bread and salad. Some protein was present in the form of whatever meat I had on the sandwich. Afternoon tea was a biscuit or sausage roll – some poor quality protein in the sausage roll, and carbohydrate in the biscuits. Dinner was a mixture of protein (cooked meat) and carbohydrates in the form of bread and vegetables. During this time I suffered from tiredness constantly, with mood highs and lows thrown in for added fun. I noticed the ‘high’ would come after eating foods high in sugar content. Remember this for later.
The process of weight gain occurs simply when energy (food) in is more than energy out. Some other things occur in the body but this isn’t the time or place to chat about these. When excess carbohydrates are not burnt in the form of exercise or activity, they are stored as fats in the body. This is fine if you’re a North American Brown Bear planning on hibernating for the winter in an extended sleep, but if you’re the average human being who works 8 or so hours a day and doesn’t sleep their life away, you will need a healthy body to allow you to do the basics in life without the unnecessary burden of carrying extra weight.
In my next post we will commence to look at the plan of action in combating unhealthy weight gain. I say unhealthy because it is totally that, as well as being totally optional (unless you have a medical condition that causes weight gain such as problems with the thyroid). I was eating foods that contained a lot of good qualities, but most of the time I was eating the wrong portion sizes and getting the balance wrong between carbohydrates, protein and good quality fats, which I did not touch upon here. Till next time, DietDog
My breakfast consisted of muesli or some other cereal – carbohydrate with a dash of protein in the form of milk. Morning tea was a biscuit and a cup of tea – all carbohydrate again. Lunch was a salad roll or sandwich which consists mostly of carbohydrates in the form of bread and salad. Some protein was present in the form of whatever meat I had on the sandwich. Afternoon tea was a biscuit or sausage roll – some poor quality protein in the sausage roll, and carbohydrate in the biscuits. Dinner was a mixture of protein (cooked meat) and carbohydrates in the form of bread and vegetables. During this time I suffered from tiredness constantly, with mood highs and lows thrown in for added fun. I noticed the ‘high’ would come after eating foods high in sugar content. Remember this for later.
The process of weight gain occurs simply when energy (food) in is more than energy out. Some other things occur in the body but this isn’t the time or place to chat about these. When excess carbohydrates are not burnt in the form of exercise or activity, they are stored as fats in the body. This is fine if you’re a North American Brown Bear planning on hibernating for the winter in an extended sleep, but if you’re the average human being who works 8 or so hours a day and doesn’t sleep their life away, you will need a healthy body to allow you to do the basics in life without the unnecessary burden of carrying extra weight.
In my next post we will commence to look at the plan of action in combating unhealthy weight gain. I say unhealthy because it is totally that, as well as being totally optional (unless you have a medical condition that causes weight gain such as problems with the thyroid). I was eating foods that contained a lot of good qualities, but most of the time I was eating the wrong portion sizes and getting the balance wrong between carbohydrates, protein and good quality fats, which I did not touch upon here. Till next time, DietDog
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