If you want to make one simple change, just add 1 protein shake in the morning, with whatever you would normally have. Choke it down with your vitamins.
Your vitamin cocktail should always include an omega 3/6/9/, a b-12, alpha lipoic acid, A vitamin D (if you don’t get much sun) and possibly a glutamine.
You can never have enough omega 3/6/9 or Glutamine. As long as some of our 3/6/9 comes from fish oil. There are a lot of omega 3/6/9 pills out there that substitute pumpkin seed oil for fish oil, but in my opinion, that isn’t as good.
That alone will help a huge, huge amount. And ingesting the extra 3/6/9, and a “Tonalin” (a.k.a Conjugated linoleic acid [CLA]) will really curb your appetite, and speed up your metabolism.
k/calories alone, are not the be all and end all. It’s like saying a 400 horsepower corvette is better then a 350 hp mercedez. There are a lot of options to consider.
k/calories (or what everyone calls Calories) are just one factor š
Either way, I am really glad you are keeping track of your food intake, it’s a very tough process for certain.
I have ingested about 1800 calories in food today, and about 1,300 in vodka..not a great day..but its friday!! š
Again, just because I know what you need to do to lose weight, doesn’t mean I am capable of doing it š
I still need to lose another 30 pounds, then I will consider myself an “expert” :P.
Just keep in mind, that you shouldn’t try to lose more than 1-2 pounds per week at the most. Crash diets are evil, and they suck away muscle. Muscle is the only component in your body that burns super amounts of k/calories while just sitting there doing nothing. The more muscle you have, the more k/calories you will burn while being inactive.