loosing the bulk!

Today I ran for 90 minutes. Then I went to taco bell and ate a chicken cheese quesadilla and 7 soft tacos. Is this bad?

Eat very small meals and eat them frequently. Small healthy sandwiches (whole grain breads) and fruit really are terrific at almost any time of day. Soft drinks can be addicting (I have one next to me right now).

Cook less food at dinner-time or just put less on your plate. The slower you eat (and the more water you drink at each meal) will help your body discover when it is actually full. Otherwise you'll often overeat by not giving your body enough time to process just how much food you've eaten.

Don't combine eating with work, television, computer use, or other things to distract you. Habits like these breed eating more than you're actually hungry for.

Don't cut out sweets for the sake of cutting out sweets. That doesn't work and while they're not especially healthy for you, food is fuel (cookies are fuel too, just far less efficient and healthy fuel than asparagus or broccoli). If you cut junkier food out completely you'll miss it and crave it, which will serve you no good. This is partly why diets don't work. People adopt this attitude that they (as people) are good or naughty based on what they eat and the whole mess is disastrous. Introduce healthier foods into your diet (fruits as snacks, vegetables, beans, lentils, whole grains etc) and allow your body to react to those in comparision with the junk foods. I eat almost no fried food now because my stomach finds I can go running sooner after other foods and is in fewer knots. Teach yourself slowly and you'll find yourself eating foods that are healthier for you.

Ok...this is very hard for the letsrun group to talk about because 99% of us have been skinny since birth and dont understand other people's problems about weight gain.

My personal opinion is to stay away from fad diets, even thuogh there is a mentality that Atkins for 2 weeks is good because you will see results and then that will motivate you. If you do atkins, make it your decision (not someone else's recommendation) and quit after the 2 month period.

Actually, I would recommend this, becasue when you lose 10 lbs or so, you will find running much easier, and then you will find it easier to increase time and intensity of your runs.

After that, NO FAST FOOD....NEVER...the amount of calories in that stuff is amazing (In N Out is ok once in a while). Cooking at home, or going to restaraunts where things are made from scratch is a good rule of thumb. Sodas must go, and maybe substitute the morning coffee for a glass of "Mate tea" Mate is an appetite suppressant and really wakes you up even though it doesnt ahve as much caffeine.

www.yerbamate.com

makes good tea.

Best of luck

I normally eat terrible, so when i clean up my diet I have about 2-3 weeks of insane cravings for total junk food, like jenny craig fat girl style. but, after that, i feel better than i did before.

first, no i am not christian hesch. i checked out some photos of him and he seems to look like the normal running guy so is he some sort of crash dieter or something?

thanks for the advice on calorie counting and all. i really do watch what i eat. i don't necessarily count the calories but i take smaller portions and don't pig out. i might eat fast food once a month, if that. my problem was like i said. i'll sit down for dinner after a 7 mile run and feel like i can eat plate after plate of broccoli, carrots, peas, etc. i enjoy the steamed vegetables and protein such as chicken breast. the vegetables mores so in that after a longer run i feel like i could eat them for hours and not feel full. i throw in some fish now and then but the biggest craving i get by far is for chocolate. just the regular hershey bar kind of chocolate. i have oftened wondered if this could be some sort of iron or other mineral deficiency that i am having?

i have read other threads about runners craving all kinds of junk food and wondered if there is something in junk food, other then bulk calories, that causes this?

the_truth wrote:

(In N Out is ok once in a while)

I like a little In-N-Out a couple times a week...if you know what I mean.

Yeah, I know what you mean. You mean the biggest cock in the history of the world.