Eating well + exercising & NO results :/

Question
QUESTION: Hi there,
Wondering if you could please help me, thanks in advance for your time.
I'm 25, 5'6'' 142lbs and eat PERFECTLY except one day a week I allow myself a junk day to keep from feeling deprived. By perfectly, I mean an example of a day includes- latte w/low fat milk and raw sugar, a fruit and/or string cheese, sushi w/light rice or whole grain sandwich, handful nuts or fruit, soup or salad w/protein, and ~30 gm fiber powder (10gm at each meal).
I have been following this for almost a year w/at the VERY most 1-2 lbs weight loss.
On top of this, I started exercising 3 hours a week (including resistance work) for the last month. If anything, I look fatter...no tone, flabby arms, huge belly, and flabby inner thighs. I am only 25 and I look horrific naked and can not fathom getting in a bikini on the beach.
My career is very demanding so I can not exercise much more than these 3 hrs and my diet also has little room for improvement (I can't imagine getting rid of my junk day, it keeps me sane and motivated- my sweet tooth is large).
I am at a loss. I've been doing things right, getting ~7 hrs sleep a night, taking deep breaths, drinking enough water, taking a multivitamin and essential fatty acid pill daily, etc etc.
What gives?
Any clue to this mystery and how to tackle it?
Thanks so much and take care,
Anna

ANSWER: Hi Anna,

Eating perfectly? Obviously not. My dear, the rock in your head weighs a lot. If you feel deprived w/o junk food, you are eating junk food the rest of the week.

Raw fish every day? Get checked for mercury poisoning.

Raw sugar is poison, switch to stevia.

Raw nuts are good, roasted are not.

Try raw fruit. Get real with your refined sugar addiction, it is not a joke.

7 hours might not be enough.

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QUESTION: Eating perfectly? Obviously not. My dear, the rock in your head weighs a lot. If you feel deprived w/o junk food, you are eating junk food the rest of the week.

1. Telling people they have rocks in their head means you are sadistically rude. No one will check out your website when you go out of your way to be mean.

2. I actually do NOT have junk the rest of the week- one day only for the last year, I am strict about this and have followed through well. I stick to a healthy un-processed whole grain organic type diet 6 days a week.

Raw fish every day? Get checked for mercury poisoning.

3. This is ONE example. I do not have it daily. Maybe 2-3 times a week tops. That's why I said OR sandwich.

Raw sugar is poison, switch to stevia.

4. Thanks. How is it poison? I've tried stevia and I hate the taste :/ Please elaborate if you don't mind.

Raw nuts are good, roasted are not.

5. I do have raw, but thank you.

Try raw fruit. Get real with your refined sugar addiction, it is not a joke.

6. I always have raw fruit, I don't know why you are assuming I am a refined sugar junkie. I avoid white simple carbs during my 6 days a week plan. I only allow whole grain or whole wheat, sushi is the only white rice exception and I ask for reduced rice in that.

7 hours might not be enough.

7. True, just hard for me to get more when my career is so demanding. Some days I get 8, but hard to make a habit of it.

ANSWER: How has your perfect eating been working for you? I just held up a mirror, your beliefs with your results, they don't equate. So shoot the messenger. Or get unstuck in your thinking. If I pissed you off enough to think, I have done you a service. Nobody like getting the rug pulled out from under, so go right ahead and feel insulted.

Raw sugar is still refined sugar, clinically proven to be as or more addictive as cocaine and nicotine, and linked clearly to brain loss, bone loss, yeast infections, athlete's foot and a whole range of DISeases in between. Give it up for 30 days and the sweet tooth falls out.

Stevia is the only known sweetener without links to cancer, etc. and has no calories. People make a lot of money by selling you other stuff, esp. refined sugar, and have outlawed it use in products in the U.S.

You may be getting enough sleep. If you are not it tends to contributing to overeating and lower resistance to diseases, like catching a lot of colds, flu, etc.

Stay just the way you are. Keep your career, keep your fat, and your unhealthy dispostion. But please look into mercury poisoning, it has  symptoms similar to chronic fatigue.

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QUESTION: Other people responded that it might be a plateau or that I should increase my exercise intensity. Is it possible that 2 packs raw sugar a day would cause only 2 lbs weight loss after a year of improving my diet (say you are right and my diet is still not great, it still is an improvement from a year back, so the point of the argument has yet to be addressed)? I will buy stevia and try it out regardless. I will also try going to bed earlier. thanks for ure time.

Answer
Calories in refined sugar is the tiny tip of a huge iceberg.
There was no diabetes before refined sugar, yet it is in almost every packaged product, starting with baby formula.

The idea is to go for total health for a whole body, bikini ability is just a mere side effect of being healthy.

Here is a small part of an article in 12/08 Scientific American, it also included info on dental fillings.

Is it plausible to get mercury poisoning from eating sushi or other fish?

There are certain types of fish that can accumulate higher levels of mercury than others. If you exist on a diet of that fish, you can mount some very high levels.

Tuna, depending on the type, may be higher in mercury content. It doesn抰 matter how you cook it; whether raw or by cooking, it's [the levels] going to be similar.

[Shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish may have high levels of mercury, according to a 2004 advisory from the FDA and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The FDA is considering relaxing its recommendations about how much fish is safe for pregnant women to eat.]

Are there herbs that could cause elevated mercury levels?

Yes. Herbal medicines made outside the country can potentially contain toxic quantities; it depends where they're coming from and how they're being made. These products aren抰 controlled by the FDA and don抰 need to adhere to any general standard of purity or potency so you end up with voluntary adherence to what the company says is in the bottle. You're always at risk when taking significant amounts of herbal products or remedies that have decent levels of this and other agents.  

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