my nightmare

Recently this past week i cut way back on smoking. Problem i didn't realize that i was eating only sugars and carbs. The carbs and sugars were just like putting a dollar in your gas tank. Only gets you to the next point. So when i cut way back on my smoking I didn't eat as much. Not eating as many carbs or sugars my energy level went way down. Then every morning i looked in the mirror it looked like i was getting smaller. Saw a doctor today and this is what he told me " Your diet lacked protein for so long that your body burned the food as energy then you put more in. When you cut back the amount you were eating your body still needs energy and with out the protien in my diet my body started using my lean muscle for energy. Meaning my body's eating it's muscles for energy." on the scale i weight 112 lbs. I'm 5'7"
Now I have to aim to drink 5 of these nasty ass protien shakes a day till i get to a healty weight. Just letting you all know as I'm sure I'm not the only stoner who has horrible eating habits.

it sounds like you had a horrible diet to begin with, I hope all goes well for you and when your finally at a healthy wieght, make sure you get your 5 food groups :thumbsup:

yea no more microwavable foods or anything that comes in a wrapper for me. I thought that rapid muscle loss was only an addicts problem but it's not it's eating habits and junkies have horrible eating habits. Sorry for being a broken record on this one but i feel this is very serious. Eating habits are important not just making sure you eat, but making sure you eat RIGHT

you dont sound like a broken record, not enough people eat a balanced diet and with all the fast food, were just getting more carbs, sugars, and fats than we need. and you can still eat your 711 burrito, just like alcohol, food, always in moderation

yech i'm more of a keep my cabs stocked with 2 min or less ready meals unhealty now i need a new approach

well, dont drink soda or eat fast food, stop eating cocoa puffs and start eating cheerios, eat more fruit, its not that hard, its just that healthier foods are more expensive, if you must have your 2 minute meals, try some lean cuisine, and just buy everything else sugar free, fat free, low fat, low sodium

hah soundz like your yelling at me for being fat

thanks for the advice much appreciated

You should start working-out, because drinking those protein shakes aren't going to do much good if you don't build your muscle. I'm sorta like you in a way I have a tendency to get only carbs, I not really that fond of sugar, and have to eat a lot to gain weight.

Work out, and then munch out, eat a lot of steak, fish, what not. You'll be more beefy that way and still able to eat the carbs, sugars.

slowly but surely i had to see the doc cause i was walking like 20 feet then needed to sit down my legs lost so much muscle they can barely hold my weight. I'm doing a lap every couple mins around my apartment. Thanks for looking out. I'd give you probs if i knew how.

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Originally Posted by pass the chicken

hah soundz like your yelling at me for being fat

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nah, I really should be following my own advice,;)

lean cuisine are the best tasting healthy frozen meals

Pass, I don't know if you know me or not, but think of me as your "Granny". You need to start thinking more like a primitive man! If it didn't grow or live, you shouldn't eat it. If it is unrecognizable as a "once living thing", think twice before eating it. If its ingredients are words that you don't normally hear, don't eat it (an exception are the "B" vitamins thiamine, folic acid, niacin, etc.). Want something sweet? Eat fruit. Get some of those bulk, unsalted, in the shell peanuts. Avoid "white foods"- sugar, white rice, white flour. They add nothing but calories. (In China, the ancient nobility ate only white rice and were plagued with health problems. The poor ate brown rice and thrived!) Cheese is a good snack with a few whole grain crackers (Rye Crisp is good). Try a ripe peach someday when you're stoned!

Get some exercise! I'm overweight, but I walk about one hour a day (I work at a school and get yard duty). Ive lost 60 pounds in the last couple of years. I know your problem is the opposite, but exercise is good--humans (as animals) were meant to live off the land traveling miles each day. Our modern lifestyle is almost totally in opposition to what thousands and thousands of years of evolution has made us into as an organism. Modern chemicals may make food brighter colored, less likely to go bad, and make a better "mouth-feel", BUT it is NOT what our bodies require for health!

Get a subscription to "Prevention" magazine, get some vitamin pills, throw out the junk food and get some mild exercise. And as the song says....

"Throw out the TV, Eat a lot of peaches, Try to find Jesus, on your own"

Granny:hippy: