This is what my dietitian told me once, maybe helpful for you. DIET stands forI have started exercising from March. Reached almost a quintal.
I started as a practice for Bangalore 10K Marathon - which I had somehow completed in 80 minutes, a huge thing for a couch potato like me.
Now continuing the exercise, I had reduces around 4kgs. (In between I went home for 20 days. I suppose I had put on at least 1kilo during those days [emoji14] )
I exercise in the basic gym in my apartment. Run for 7/8 minutes, Some dumbbell exercises, some reps (~50) of sit ups, bench dips etc - for around 30/35 minutes.
It's difficult to change + maintain the food habit. I gave up junk foods (samosa, jalebis etc), deserts, reduced no of teas, switched to roti from rice. But it's difficult to maintain in the weekend whens it's treat/party in somebody's place, or the occasional Biriyani during office lunch time.
D - Discipline
Most important aspect of diet, strict adherence is must. If a social situation is unavoidable try having a fast (skip a subsequent meal with a lean salad) before or after a feast. Have your friend or preferably a spouse to scold you badly in an event of indiscipline & vice versa. Losing weight as a couple helps a lot.
I - ingredients, look carefully what you eat, check for preservatives transfats, MSG etc..
E - Extra foods like Oats, Flakes, Fat loss Fruit juices, Magic weight loss foods etc - clearly avoid. So goes for unnatural food practices like only protein no carbs etc.
T - Keep Trying don't give up, perseverance helps a lot. Its a constant process a journey, changing a lifestyle isn't easy - but not impossible.
This reminds me of a Body builder (my gym instructor) whom I used to see during residency, he used to eat 30 egg whites a day, his dream was to become Mr Kerala. Nearly 18hrs he used to do strenous stuff for the competition. In the 5th attempt he became Mr Kerala, A great achievement. Unfortunately he had a Myocardial infarction (heart attack) 2 months later , luckily survived.good have more fats , I had 8 eggwhites for breakfast today , 135 calories , feels like i ate 3 allo pranthas , can you give 135 calorie fat equivalent that can do the same ?
I don't think eating 8 egg whites in the morning is a natural food habit, unless you're a manual labour you don't need that kind of protein. If your work involves a intellectual domain, you'd need to have some amount of fats & carbs because active brain needs them. There's more to food than calories, your food has a effect on your personality. Which is mostly undermined in a predominantly calorie oriented diet philosophy.
I'd chose a reduced quantity of Alu Paratha over 8 egg whites anyday. Its a choice ; and with lack of evidence telling something is clearly right or wrong is very difficult.
Off late the low carb, high protein theory has been receiving lot of criticism, its back to calorie counting and balanced intake of carbs, fats and proteins. With due apologies & no offense; sometimes it needs to be told that Sky is blue.