Loosing weight as an Aspie

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www.bodyrock.tv and www.scoobysworkshop.com
Great places to find workouts and routines. Also they each have their own diet sections. I'v lost over 40pnds =) Great for building self confidence and can really shut down depression!

I know what you mean. I have to avoid bread due to fructose malabsorbtion and suspected yeast intolerance. I love fresh bread and butter more than anything. Also love cakes, muffins etc. I stopped dairy without too many hassles - I do miss cheese but its nothing like the desire to eat bread. Funny enough, I've lost weight since going gluten free again (seriously this time)

On eat less exercise more....

You should eat for the weight you want to be. Find out how many calories some one at that weight should eat and eat that amount of calories in a day. I eat for a man weighing 220lbs. I used to weigh 325lbs now I weigh 274lbs. Find out your BMR and the BMR for the weight you want to be. That way you will know how many calories you can have in a day.

And the following is going to sound completely wrong:

If you plateau and stop losing weight, you may need to eat more! Why? Because your body thinks it is starving and starts to retain the food to keep from starving!

Remember, losing weight is a balancing act between calories in and calories out. Slightly too many calories in and you gain weight. Slightly too few calories in and your body thinks you are starving and you gain weight.

And putting weight on even though you are eating less and exercising more...

You may have just put on some MUSCLE weight that is more weight than you lost in FAT! Remember the scale lies! Check your Fat percentage instead of your weight you might be surprised. I was. I have lost 66lbs of FAT and Gained 16.7 lbs of Muscle since I started losing weight. My wife has lost 24 lbs of fat and put on 22 lbs of muscle!


And yes exercise. I work out with a trainer. But you just need to do it.

And yes, if you have Thyroid problems it can be hard to lose weight. I knew a girl who was 6'4 and 400 lbs! She worked out harder than the football players and could outlift them as well. She also ran in races 5k and 10k. and finished in top 20. However, her weight never went down! She did both Cardio and weight lifting. Nothing worked. Why? She had a HypoThyroid! But she kept fighting it. Her cholesterol levels were fantastic and her blood sugar was right where it was supposed to be at.

I would recommend Lose It app if you have an iPhone or Ipod to help track your calories in and out. They do have a website as well. Highly recommended.

i would also recommend a food log. It is surprising how many calories we do eat when we aren't looking.

I second that.

I third it. I lost 55 lbs with the help of that ap.

I used this website: www.weightlossresources.co.uk. No diets or points or that kind of thing; just a great tracking system for everything you eat and all the exercise you do. (The site also has lots of articles, and a discussion forum area.) If you like managing data and viewing charts and calculating things, this is the site for you! It played right into my love for all those things.

Ultimately, the trick is to eat fewer calories than you expend. This site is all about tracking that, and nothing more (though the articles do have some nutrition advice, exercise tips, and so forth). It's no-nonsense, and a lot of people have lost a lot of weight using it. I lost several kilos last year over a three-month period, and I've since used it just to keep track of my weight (because I luuuuuuuuuvvvvvv visual charts and number crunching ).

One thing I learned there is just how small a portion actually is (I took the tip to weigh my food for a while, to learn to recognize portion sizes). That was a big eye-opener.

You can sign up for a free trial (24 hours, I think) to see if it's your thing; after that, there is a membership fee if you continue.

It seems to be fashionable nowadays for people to declare themselves allergic to things without even knowing what the term actually means.

The growing trend for people to diagnose themselves as "allergic" to this or that is idiotic. It's insulting and frustrating for those who have genuine, life-threatening allergies. It is not possible to have a genuine allergy and not know about it. The only way you wouldn't know about it is if you've not yet come into contact with the thing you're allergic to. Example: I have never been stung by a bee. I do not know if I am allergic to bee stings. Hopefully I am not. If I am, just one sting from a bee, and I could end up dead.

If you've been eating yeast all your life and never had any adverse reactions, then you are not allergic to it.

An allergy is NOT the same thing as an intolerance. An allergy is an extremely severe reaction. Symptoms may include: struggling to breathe, going into shock, massive swelling, developing a rash, passing out, etc. When you have an allergic reaction, it can be life-threatening and require hospitalisation and urgent medical intervention.

An intolerance is something different. It is not life-threatening. It doesn't sound like you have one. Symptoms do not include a runny nose. A runny nose is far more likely to be a sign of nonallergic rhinitis. In your case, since you've said it happens when you go outside (significantly, not when you eat yeast) it sounds like it's caused by a change of temperature or environment. (That's nonallergic rhinitis). It could also be hayfever. (That's allergic rhinitis). Whatever it is, it sounds like you've got a mild version of it, not severe enough to require medication. Be thankful you don't have severe hayfever. It can be horrific to live with. I get a drippy nose in colder weather, too. So does my father. I just deal with it. It's mild enough not to be a major concern.

Intolerance symptoms tend to be gastrointestinal. Example: I am genuinely lactose intolerant. If I drink milk, I experience bloating so bad that I literally look pregnant. Nine months' pregnant with twins. My body goes into spasm. I get constipated diarrhea. Yes, conspipated diahorrea. Go figure. I have a genuine intolerance. It's not imaginary or due to the power of suggestion. It is one that I figured out for myself years ago, due to my crippling pain, not due to some article I read. I figured it out long before self-diagnosing non-existent allergies or intolerances on a whim became fashionable.

Like eating disorders, imaginary "intolerances" to food appear to be a rich man's disease. Not the genuine ones, though. People in all countries of the world have genuine intolerances. It's the imaginary ones that tend to only crop up in rich countries, where people are looking for the latest way to lose weight / get attention / declare themselves different or special. People in Third World countries (where food is scarce, people can't afford to be fussy eaters, and don't need to figure out how to lose a few extra pounds) would gobble up the bread and milk that many Westerners are now suddenly declaring makes them ill just because they've read some book. Funny how they had been surviving on it just fine for generations until all those books came along, isn't it?

Even those of us who suffer from genuine intolerances (such as myself) know that, in a life-and-death situation, if we were on the point of starvation, we would doubtless gobble down the food that makes our body go into spasm if it was all that was on offer. Would I down a glass of milk if I was about to die of thirst? Heck, yeah! It might make me feel like crap, but hey, it won't kill me. It will keep me alive. I would rather be alive (albeit with consipation, diahorrea, severe pain and bloating, and spinal pain) than be, er, dead. The exception is the allergy sufferer. A person with a nut allergy who was on the verge of starvation would back away terrified if offered a nut. They know that even just touching that nut will kill them faster than the starvation will.

So yeah, don't insult your own intelligence (or genuine allergy sufferers) by believing all the rubbish you read nowadays about "allergies." An allergy is not something vague that can go undiagnosed for years. An allergy can kill.

In the last few years I've developed an intolerance to soy . Since I'm mostly vegetarian, this is worse than it might otherwise be - and it's pretty damn frustrating, because soy lechithin or soybean oil is in just about every processed food on the planet. It took me a while to figure out what the problem was, because my gut generally riots the day after I eat the offending food. I didn't have a problem when I was younger (I used to love tofu), and I wonder a little bit if the GM thing is a problem; supposedly, pretty much all soy produced in the US is GM, now.

Loseit! Is the same thing, only entirely free.

No, I'm sure it isn't exactly the same thing, but it may be what suits your needs. I mention what I used so that the person who originally asked the question has a variety of options to look at and consider. How he/she determines the best fit between cost and functionality is up to him/her.

My meds make me not gain weight. Then, I never been a stress eater. I only gain weight when I'm pms-ing.