15-01-2012, 01:34 PM
I've recently started calorie counting and for the first time in a while I am losing weight. I'm a healthy vegetarian in the first place, but I was stuck at 180 pounds for a while. After nearly 3 weeks to a month of calorie cutting, the first 2 weeks being rather extreme -- I'm somewhere in the 165-168 range now.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
This Hacker's "Diet" is a non-bullshit approach to weight loss and weight management from somebody in a similar position as yours -- he does a lot of sitting in front of a computer. He's an engineer, and wrote some of the original AutoCAD software.
You don't have to go extreme, but you do have to eat less for it to work. I cut my calorie intake for a couple of weeks way below my fat burning threshold for my weight (I probably took in 1000-1200 calories at most) when 1500 was considered "fat burning"
At first I felt a lot of hunger pains but I treated this as "My body is dipping into my fat reserves. Each time I had these I let them go on for about a hour and then ate a light snack to curb them. This worked incredibly well for me. Lately I feel constantly full and don't really need to eat much to be satisfied.
Good luck
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
This Hacker's "Diet" is a non-bullshit approach to weight loss and weight management from somebody in a similar position as yours -- he does a lot of sitting in front of a computer. He's an engineer, and wrote some of the original AutoCAD software.
You don't have to go extreme, but you do have to eat less for it to work. I cut my calorie intake for a couple of weeks way below my fat burning threshold for my weight (I probably took in 1000-1200 calories at most) when 1500 was considered "fat burning"
At first I felt a lot of hunger pains but I treated this as "My body is dipping into my fat reserves. Each time I had these I let them go on for about a hour and then ate a light snack to curb them. This worked incredibly well for me. Lately I feel constantly full and don't really need to eat much to be satisfied.
Good luck