Diet advice weight loss : how I lost 50 pounds during my first diet ever Diary Notebook

[roseacid]

Respond to this video... eating a certain way is a diet

[prettygirljamie1]

love your videos and i subscribed today...anyhow i was just wondering , how many lbs or kg of food did you consume on a daily basics.

[jackcarpentersax]

@prettygirljamie1

I look at calorie content. Lettuce is heavy by weight but extremely low in calories. Chocolate is not so heavy or watery but it is high in calories so you have to be careful with it.. Look at daily calories.

[Fr3derick]

Great video!!! THanks so much for posting.

Grandma mary

[badday514]

what about athletes ?

they eat a ton of calories for energy

but exercise A LOT and are extremely fit

[jackcarpentersax]

match your calories to your level of activity

[Pierrwa]

You are soooo right! I once lost 54lb in 6 weeks and all i did was count calories. I absolutely hate working out, it bores me incredibly. Before when I forced myself to work out in order to lose the weight, the work out never did much for my weight loss.. only when i realized how little calories i burn out during the day, and therefor only deserve to eat as little calories, was when the weight just dropped off.. I know exercise lovers frown upon this but, to each his own right? it worked for me!

[jackcarpentersax]

And you too are sooo right. It all has to do with how many calories you burn. The problem is we don't always know. But we can count our calories and see whether the scale goes up or down. You are a very wise person. Exercise lovers have the benefit of being able to eat a couple more calories everyday. However, they cannot eat the tones of extra calories they think they can.

[jackcarpentersax]

I am so glad you and I are in agreement. Thanks for the great comment. My videos are primitive but everybody has to find what works for their body. Wow! 54lb is 54 blocks of butter in equivalence. You are amazing.

[Mojoms19]

Congratulations!

[jackcarpentersax]

Dieting is not really fun but once you start losing and people notice and mention it then you become inspired to stick to it. Thanks for your kind and encouraging words also.

[97cr250r]

it makes you feel good wen poeple say itt and makes u work harder on it

[jackcarpentersax]

Yes, the praise of others is the best motivating factor when dieting. Thanks for your nice comment.

[souljargirl1564]

its still good to exercise so ur fit

[jackcarpentersax]

Exercise is good and fun especially if you do it with others. I encourage people to exercise because it tones and builds muscle which burns more fat. My point though is that people get busy and finding time to exercise becomes difficult. Whether we exercise or not we have to match our calories to our activity level. More activity means we need more calories so exercising is a good thing. Excess calories in (no matter our activity) means fat on the body. Ask your mirror and it will agree with me.

[jackcarpentersax]

Exercise is NOT required to lose fat. Watching your calories IS required. Exercise will help and I encourage it but most people just won't exercise and they cannot use it as an excuse to not watch their weight and health.

[ILearn2Hack]

@jackcarpentersax

I completely agree with you guy....because according to my experiece, when i lived in my aunt's house, you know ....economically she was really poor i could say, so almost everyday we ate only little rice and vegetables without meat at all of course sometimes she cooked it with liittle sliced beef or chicken and what happen then? i became skinny and the friends of mine considered me as being depressed ...not happy..and so on...i was also wondering how could it be.