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Originally Posted by worth
I'm curious as to why people need or feel they need nutritionists and doctors and all this stuff to eat healthy.
I mean, it's not really that hard. It's easy to tell what is good and what is bad. Eat good things and exercise.
I suppose people wanting more in depth and specific diets and athletes would use nutritionists. Seems like kind of a waste of money to me for a doctor to tell me what to eat and to exercise. Maybe thats just me.
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Well, basically my wife and I discovered that we were living a lifestyle that had us consuming much less than what was required in terms of a daily caloric intake. We started paying more attention to what we were eating, how much, etc and found that it seemed like 'too much' to eat. The weird thing was that we both started losing weight (esp body fat).
So... yeah, it wasn't exactly straight forward for us.
So now that I vaugely know how much I need to eat, I'd like to verify that this is correct from someone who is trained in the matter. I'd also like to know what sort of breakdown between carbs, fats and proteins I need to get my calories from to help achieve my goals.
So basically I am trying to lose body fat and gain lean muscle weight. How much do I need to be eating everyday? How will this change as my weight changes? What % comes from fat, carbs, proteins? How much more do I have to eat while on a weight lifting regiment? Will the foods I need to eat be different?
As you can see, I have a lot of questions, and there is only so much self research I can do before I prefer consulting someone who does it for a living.