re: Health Etiquette: how to tell someone their diet sucks

See the thread on Food Board


I was at 232 at the start of Feb and now 219 and I run a ton plus eat a lot of protein. If I have up drinking completely it would help

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If you flush your system too quickly, completely and too often, your stomach and intestines do not get the time to absorb the nutrients in your food.
It just washes on through

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I searched and searched and have been unable to find any shred of evidence for this claim. As long as you're not having the hershey squirts every time you visit the bathroom, you're absorbing nutrients.

I did find this, however:

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Keep in mind that while your stomach is certainly a hotbed of digestive activity, virtually nothing (except alcohol) is absorbed there. Your small intestine, the next stop, is the site of virtually all nutrient absorption, including proteins, carbohydrates, fats and water, as well as vitamins and minerals.

There are two primary ways that nutrients cross through the walls of the small intestine and enter the bloodstream: passive diffusion and active transport absorption. “Think of passive diffusion as pouring liquid through a cheesecloth,” says Volpe. It’s a simple process where nutrients move from an area of high concentration (from inside the intestine) to an area of low concentration (the bloodstream). Active transport absorption means that the nutrient requires a helper or carrier molecule to get it through the intestinal wall out into general circulation.

Although some nutrients are more prone to one type of absorption than the other, all vitamins – including fat-soluble ones (like A, D, E, and K), and water-soluble ones (like B and C) – are absorbed through passive diffusion, according to Bill Wheeler, BS, MS, PhD, ACSM, a nutritional consultant for professional and Olympic athletes. Minerals like calcium and magnesium, on the other hand, are transported actively. Yet many nutrients can be absorbed more readily than others, depending on what kind of food they’re coming from, and also on the body’s current nutritional status and relative need for that nutrient.

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Hulkklogan

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Thank you for backing up my position.

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1. Consume 2200 calories/day

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With my workout program, I would be a stick figure with that little calorie intake.

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a 350 lber eating all the bacon he wants just no carbs is a fricking terrible idea anyway

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It's a bit more complex than that.

I've gone from 337 to 252 in 16 months going low carb - breakfast is one of the shakes or egg beaters omelette with a protein, usually deli meat in the eggs, occasionally bacon/sausage. Lunch is a salad 90% of the time with a protein that's left over from dinner and a light amount of dressing, sometimes even a can of tuna on top of lettuce and pickles. Dinner is a mix of grilled/baked chicken, porkchops, shrimp, steak (usually one ribeye per week), etc - whatever is leftover I'll mix with the salads for lunch the next day at work. Snacks - pork rinds, beef jerky, pistachios, etc.

It's not that hard of a diet, and if your friend really wants to lose weight it's an easy way to do it. Just make sure to keep count of the calories from the proteins and hit the treadmill to burn it off, and don't get crazy with the beefs/bacon/ultra cholesterol meats.

I also cut out soda's completely. Haven't had one in over a year. I drink exclusively water, black coffee, the Nestea bottled diet green tea (not the sparkling bc that's carbonated), the occasional powerade zero.

I'm running now as well instead of walking on the treadmill for the first time in a decade or two. Burning 500+ calories in a comfortable jog in 25 minutes is rad.

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tduecen

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He already knows his diet sucks. He just wants to be the guy that can eat what he wants and still lose weight. He wants a shortcut. He'll wise up and figure out that it doesn't work like that.

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Anyway to actually get through to him?

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No getting through to someone who isn't really willing to change. Abs are born in the mind and then nurtured with the diet. He's trying to create something that really isn't alive yet.

If he is really willing, he'll listen. If not, he won't. Tell him the truth and then it's his decision.