Sources: one dude with a diet book to sell.

Look, no-one's going to deny that you shouldn't eat lots of refined carbs (i.e.: sugar). But stuffing yourself full of fatty food is hardly going to help you is it.

With diet, it really is easy, mainly because humans can eat bloody anything. Just eat fresh stuff, and keep sugary, fatty things to a sensible minimum, and don't eat too much.

For many this is too difficult, so they come up with low-carb, or fasting, or whatever helps them get through the day.

I'm not fat, and I've lost weight, through simply not eating too much, and making sure I don't eat too many:

chips, cakes, chocolate, sweets, fizzy drinks, cheese, booze, crisps, pizzas.

Everything in balance, that's the secret.

@Jaco
I think so, I don't for a second believe any fad diets or extreme denial of things can result in long term weight loss.

Positives I have noticed this week:
I fall asleep a lot easier
My temperament is much better
I feel more confident in my own skin and actually believe I am slimmer despite the reality being that I likely look no different.

Next week will be easy it is week 3 that I will struggle I think.

Funkstain wrote:

Sources: one dude with a diet book to sell. Look, no-one's going to deny that you shouldn't eat lots of refined carbs (i.e.: sugar). But stuffing yourself full of fatty food is hardly going to help you is it. With diet, it really is easy, mainly because humans can eat bloody anything. Just eat fresh stuff, and keep sugary, fatty things to a sensible minimum, and don't eat too much. For many this is too difficult, so they come up with low-carb, or fasting, or whatever helps them get through the day. I'm not fat, and I've lost weight, through simply not eating too much, and making sure I don't eat too many: chips, cakes, chocolate, sweets, fizzy drinks, cheese, booze, crisps, pizzas.

The key there is sugary, as that is effectively what carbs are, sugar molecules strung together into starch, which form carbs. The problem is people have been sold on carbs being healthy as it is a cheap way to make a lot of profit for food companies.

This thread is so good. I had a pizza last night and I'm gonna have a curry tonight, then a few bourbons.

Jaco wrote:

People think carbs are just bread and tatties. People are wrong.

Aren't they just, they're in pretty everything!

They are in virtually everything that is processed, so much so that I think if I'd been educated to this years ago I wouldn't have found myself in the position I was in 6 weeks ago.

I have been told that 1lb a week weight loss is considered good but I want to be ahead of that, I was anticipating double that but my problem is that I am now developing muscle and losing fat so my weight isn't dropping that much.

Still it's not a sprint so as long as I keep it up (but it is fucking hard work!) I should eventually reach my goal.

I have done some bartering so I have 1-to-1 training on Tue/Wed but I said to the bloke that I can't see me ever getting where I would like to be. He posted this on my Facebook yesterday to show me that being 43 doesn't matter!

How many calories does dust have?

Anyone?

Dust..

Anyone?

Dust...

I haven't had time to do a food shop this week so everything's completely ballsed up. Just grabbing things as and when I can, didn't even eat dinner last night and haven't eaten properly today either. Wah.

Tricking your brain into helping you lose weight

(scroll down to relevant section)

I won't go into it here (because it's rather involved/complex) but this book also contains a great deal more detailed information on exactly how the brain works in relation to metabolism etc and dispels many of the myths around dieting and weight-control. The main thrust of it though is that dieting - especially extremely low-calorie dieting - is really not an effective way to make a permanent change to your weight.

What's instead required is a complete change of lifestyle and diet, permanently.

Why is this thread in the Games section btw?

Is it still the case that dodging the shite carbs is considered a luxury diet position?

I've lost FIVE POUNDS this week.

Yay Rev

Me too.

Cant run anymore, my knee is fucked. Going to regularly go swimming instead, which is far better exercise anyway, but being able to get up stick on some gear and music and get away from everything for 30/45 mins was so nice.

I enjoy swimming immensely but was perturbed to be told that it can be really bad for your heart, because working your heart hard when you're in a horizontal position puts pressure/stress on parts of the heart that really aren't designed to take it. Heart attacks in swimming pools are more common than heart attacks in gyms, as a result.

No idea whether or not this is true or whether it's only a concern for those with preexisting heart conditions anyway, it's just something that I was told by a swimming instructor.

The reason it caused me perturberance is because there's a significant history of heart problems in my family. My grandfather, father, uncle and several other male members of my family all died of heart attacks, most at the age of 60. I'm considerably healthier (in lifestyle) than most of them but it's a concern.