I find that slow and steady is the best for long term weight loss.

As a previous poster said "canned tuna". This is one of the best foods for replacing a meal, low in fat and high in protein.

What always works for me is, low fat low card high protein meals, lotsa water, lotsa activity; i.e., mountain biking, running, swimming and climbing.

Eat most of your carbs in the morning. Stay away from sugar, beer, bread, butter, salt and fast food.

Try to eat at least 4 - 6 meals a day, keeping them small.

Sorry if I repeated anything anyone has already mentioned.

im practising something like that. the only problem is i LOVE pizza. so i try to make it low fat.

JT,

Yet another followup question or two for you:

1) Soy Protein powder - is there any problem to consuming this every day? After taking a dose of it, I find it's a great hunger inhibitor. I was thinking of using it for that, as well as to increase protein intake.

2) Carbs - What are your thoughts on white rice? Everybody tells me not to eat that, as it's high in carbs, but it's *white rice*! That's a main staple of asian diets (often eaten with every meal, and yes, I spent time in Japan), and asians aren't known for being fat.

Carbs are not fattening, no matter what the current diet faddists tell you.

Carbs can become fat very easily, especially if they have a high glycemic index (GI). Gi is a measure of how quickly a food will cause an increase in blood glucose levels.

Instead, nearly all the carbohydrate is burned for energy. The low-carb faddists conveniently overlook the fact that insulin promotes glucose uptake by muscle cells, where it is burned for energy. Contrast this with dietary fat, almost all of which goes directly into fat cells.

-Jay

Please explain this process a little more. If I eat carbs, you're telling me this will be burned off as energy. Is this something like slightly increasing my normal metabolic rate, or will I burn this extra carb-energy only if I'm excercising?

Or to make my question easier: If I eat lots of carbs but don't excercise (ie, take in more calories than I burn), will I gain more weight if that intake is carbs, as opposed to low-carb foods?

we're getting closer to agreeing i think. something you are leaving out is that if you eat high GI food (many high carb foods are high GI), then your body is flooded with calories(glucose), and you may not be able to burn them at a hogh enough rate to keep them from getting converted into fat...

Buy the cheap soy-protein powder. Let the muscle heads waste their money on designer whey peptides.
-Jay

I'm not too terribly up on my scientific nutrition, but somewhere recently, I heard that soybeans contain protein uptake inhibitors, as well as some nutrient uptake inhibitors, probably as a defense mechanism. This, if true, would suggest that soybeans themselves wouldn't be the best source of protein. I'm not sure whether that would carry over to soy-based protein powders, as I know essentially nothing about the process by which that stuff is made.

I think I have already answered that question. A calorie is a calorie. It doesn't matter what the source of the calorie is. You'll gain ~1 lb of fat for every 3500 calories you consume in excess of what you burn, regardless of the fat-carbohydrate composition of your diet. I hate to resort to macronutrient balance calculations, but here goes: Let's say you burn 2500 calories/day but consume 3000 calories, of which 2000 is carbohydrate and 1000 is fat (we'll conveniently ignore protein). To a first approximation, all the carbohydrate you consume will be burned. In addition, you will burn 500 calories of fat. That leaves 500 calories of fat unburned, which will be added to your body fat stores.

Is that why Rocky ate all the raw eggs, because it is high protein content while he was burning fat? Apollo Creed was no slouch. I am going to start drinking raw eggs all the time while i work out.