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Definitely eating better too - but I've always found that far easier than reducing volume. My 'born again' moment was three months of touring Europe and arriving home 2 1/2 stone lighter. I've gone back up half a stone or more and just know it's going to take a real sustained hard effort to undo all the bad eating habits that allowed my weight to creep back up.
I lost 12kg's in 2012 by simply doing the following:
1. Cut out the latte's at work completely and changed to green tea, black coffee and water during working day. Drank beer in the evenings as usual.
2. aT lunch time, drastically reduced the starch and carbs from sandwiches and had a small soup and small roll. Different soup every day, but stuck to soup Mon-Fri
3. Ate as normal in the evenings
4. Increased MTB bike riding from zero to 2-3 night rides a week and a 3-4 hour ride on a sat/sun morning.
simples 🙂
The main thing to do is to reduce carbs, starch, not too much sugar for reasons above. We all tend over over eat, so limiting portion size can really help some people also.
If my hazy sports science memory recalls correctly, aspartame contains phenylalanine. This is found naturally in the body and is used to create energy (in the Krebs cycle?), however, excessive amounts are not recommended, especially for children, because they can cause mental retardation.
That gem comes from Tortora - Essentials of anatomy and physiology.
Hmmm, now make your milk/diet coke choice!
If my hazy sports science memory recalls correctly, aspartame contains phenylalanine.
Yep aspartame does get broken down and one of the by products is phenylalanine, another by product can be increased appetite 😯
However, for me, whilst there is a controversy regarding aspartame being a carcinogenic or not I'll be giving it a miss. Although as I said before I don't like the taste anyway.
The fizzy drinks causes mental retardation thing rings true, I used to drink 2 litres of Irn-Bru a day as a kid! 😆 Can't refute that fact!
If I am doing turbo sessions and core work during the week and rides at weekend is the milk not the best choice to help muscle rebuilding etc?
Thought it also contained minerals for bones etc? It is like QI in here, you say the obvious and expect a gong! 
Still thinking milk edges it. Not wanting to drink fruit juice as I eat enough fruit during the day and always read fruit juice was too concentrated so full of sugar and that fruit should only be eaten as a good tip.
Yes, it has lots more than just the proteins and BCAAs I mentioned,
If you add whey protein to milk and use post exercise it makes a fantastic recovery drink.
I'd go with the milk at lunch but not drink a pint, I'd drink 250-300ml.
Sent to hades in a hand cart in our modern era when fruit is piled high on super market shelves all year round.
Yeah, cos all those fat biffers you see wandering around, they're all pigging out on readily available fresh fruit, right? Like all the overweight people on here, they're overweight because they eat too many mangoes? Or bananas? Or strawberries? Ban the stuff...
IME too much fruit won't make you fat but it might stop you getting thin.
[i]Yeah, cos all those fat biffers you see wandering around, they're all pigging out on readily available fresh fruit, right? Like all the overweight people on here, they're overweight because they eat too many mangoes? Or bananas? Or strawberries? Ban the stuff...[/i]
*yawns*
Chippy tea.
Yeah, cos all those fat biffers you see wandering around, they're all pigging out on readily available fresh fruit, right? Like all the overweight people on here, they're overweight because they eat too many mangoes? Or bananas? Or strawberries? Ban the stuff...*yawns*
Do you genuinely think people eating too much fruit is an issue then?
If they eat enough of it (I.e too much) then the suger content could become a problem just like anything else... I mean a can of coke a day ain't going to be too harmful, but drink enough of it and it will be. I suppose what I'm trying to say is, just because it is fruit doesn't mean you can go mad.
[i]Do you genuinely think people eating too much fruit is an issue then?[/i]
What I think, my opinion, [b]isn't[/b] FACT, and doesn't matter to anyone but me.
🙂
I have opinions, which have been formed through discussions I've had and reading I've done.
My feelings are that everyone is free to look into, or not to look into anything that interests them and I'm not here to [i]convince[/i] anyone that I'm [i]right[/i] about anything.
Each to their own innit.
Theres no need to argue, and I certainly do not wish to argue.
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I'm not arguing, I'm just wondering. I like the idea that Brits are pigging out on fruit, but it seems unlikely. I'd suspect that beer and junk food are probably more culpable, but that's just my impression. Anyway, it's worse than a diet magazine on here, I'm off to eat a banana... 😉
Getting a kidney infection worked well for me losing weight...
Yep BWD I reckon you're right, anyway I'm having fruit salad with geek yogurt 😉