What are the other benefits to this diet apart from weight loss?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Other benefits - you gradually add in low GI complex carbs to build up a fully healthy diet with things like white bread/crunchy nut cornflakes and processed foods no longer an option. Oh bugger......
Doing it out of curiosity but seen some benefits already.
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What are the other benefits to this diet apart from weight loss?
I'm not qualified in anyway on this subject, I'm just suffering from a bit of enthusiasm for it.
Have Kitchen, Will Cook !.
However, I would suggest that should you reduce the quantity of fat you have in your body, then you might expect to benefit from all those aspects of owning and enjoying a leaner body, that being lighter is thought to bring.
Quicker on the bike, less likely perhaps to suffer from excess weight related health issues, etc.
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the diet is not about calories, but insulin, and the affect that certain food has on your insulin levels, hence fat metabolism and storage.
there is a growing weight of evidence that processed simple carbs are behind the obesity epidemic, rather than fatty food. ie it's the bun not the burger that makes you fat.
the main advantage the diet brings to me is that I'm eating exceptionally healthy fresh food, not getting sugar rushes, steady energy levels through the day and not fat.
it's not a 'diet' in the sense of a way to eat to lose weight, but a diet as a way of eating now and forever more.
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Easy peasy dhal I found in a toddler cookbook:
Sweat an onion with a little butter if wanted or olive oil
Chuck in a couple of carrots finely diced.
Allow about 3 minutes more
200g of red lentils (come dried in a pack, about 80p a Kg) in with curry powder or garam masal and chilli powder to taste.
Stir well to get everything coated.
Pour on around .5L of water (I am naughty an often use a little veg stock)
It'll look like drowned sick - give it about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally and it turns into a lovely dhal / lentil sludge.
Handful of frozen peas or a other greens few minutes before serving.Filling and pretty tasty though YMMV - I'm veggie and ex smoker gave up on taste other than hot or salty years ago
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But still, there must be loads of fat in all of that stuff?
This isn't about avoiding fat in your daily diet, this is low GI.
And being sensible by having a good balance.
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But still, there must be loads of fat in all of that stuff?
Not all fat is bad! You NEED fat in your diet.
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there is a growing weight of evidence that processed simple carbs are behind the obesity epidemic, rather than fatty food. ie it's the bun not the burger that makes you fat.
Pun intended I hope?
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Don Simon, TrickyDisco. Agreed.
Brassneck.
Wow, how close is that recipe to one I kind of Free-styled up myself a few weeks ago !.
Sweat down a few chunked onions, carrots, bacon, as per my earlier post.
Then add 1/3 Schwartz Bombay potato mix and let it all sweat for 5-10 mins taking care not to burn the schwartz mix, then add maybe 30-50ml of water and do it for a few minutes more.Then add that to 500g of lentils and cook for 20 odd mins, adding the rest of the schwartz mix, which is essentially just a type of garam masala.
Curry lentils with bacon and onion.
I even derived my own garam masala, but it did appear to have quite a windy effect the next day, so I went with the Schwartz mix as its quicker, easier, and a fair bit less windy.
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idave, have you got any thoughts on intermittent fasting? reading up on it, it implies its actually good for the body to do this. different methods, either 2 days a week and eat normally the rest, or use 'eating windows' each day.
theres also some pretty impressive stats on the 'leangains' and 'eatstopeat' sites. for those who struggle with diets and having to watch what they eat and not really enjoying it, it seems worth a shot, no?
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Well it appears to be working. 72.2kg this morning. Lowest i've ever seen! (normally fluctuate between 74-75)
Jeans feel looser. I haven't touched bread,pasta or potato since sunday. I'm training the same amount and i don't seem to lack any energy.
I've been reading the 4 hour body book avidly the past few days.
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Weigh-ins over a two week period and back to a 500g loss of fat per week without even looking at the bikes. I guess there will be more if I can be arsed riding.
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I ain't fasting for no one fool.
I love my food.
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snake oil eh? Is that extra virgin viper or snake oil lite?
it must be hard going through life lacking any understanding....
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Who are you talking to Dave?
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See the thing is. I've been putting loads of hours on the bike and gym since December (up from 2 hours a week to over 8 - 12 ) and not seen any difference in weight or fat loss. Nothing has changed apart from being a bit fitter.
I've now changed what I eat in the morning and lunch and i can see a real difference.
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Who are you talking to Dave?
the idiot tagger (who i expect hasn't tried the idave way of eating)
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I've now changed what I eat in the morning and lunch and i can see a real difference.
6-Packs are made in the kitchen and not in the gym a wise man once said......or the internet....I forget.
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Cereal as breakfast is a marketing driven thing from just the last 40 years or so.
driven by religious vegetarians who wanted to take society off bacon and sausages!!
for meal ideas:
chilli, refried beans, green beans.
vegetable soup
curry (no rice bread) veg on side.I am going shopping this afternoon, cooking at the weekend and starting on sunday. looking forward to it.
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Oh !, the tags.
You know what ?, I rarely look at them. I hadn't noticed.
Dave.
You shouldn't even bother. Just let the nay sayers keep on bleating, its their loss, or not, if you see what I mean.
Did you get to ride the bike last night ?.
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Yes he did but he was a bit knackered at the end, poor diet probably
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