If your interested in a bit of background reading on this, a lot of its covered in a book, "Four hour body" by tim ferriss.
iDave consulted on that book.
Also - re 'needing to eat' when hungry. Your gut is actually part of your brain, so when you get hungry, it can have a very profound effect on you. That's why it can be such a problem.
Body and brain aren't as separate as some people make out.
If you then don't eat dinner then yes, that process will start to happen.
[i]Your gut is actually part of your brain[/i]
Not really. But I can't be arsed arguing, and it gets away from the point of the thread
[i]If you then don't eat dinner [/i]
Easily solved that then.
Not really.
Ok so it was badly worded.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-brain
when you get hungry, it can have a very profound effect on you
like what?
I'm sorry nickc, you're comment came across to me as: ignore hunger pangs, ie don't eat, as a good weight loss strategy.
Your bluntness may contribute to people misunderstanding your posts.
Your gut is actually part of your brain
Massively linked and I'd agree with this statement 100%. My guess is that molgrips was speaking figuratively rather than literally.
Molly's well researched interests aside for a minute, lots of people gain weight because its easy to do so, and some modern food is calorie ( yes, I know, Mol) dense, especially the stuff that is yummy.
Lots can be done very simply by not eating between meals and drinking plenty of water. Your grandfather would scoff at the idea of a mid-morning snack. Eating normal food for breakfast lunch and dinner, and avoiding snaking goes a long way.
I am now on week four of changing my eating habits and have lost in the region of 4.5/5kg (sorry gone metric but you can work that out).
At 103/4kg and 180cm the motivation to change was twofold, improve my road fitness and feel less lardy in general.
With absolutely no scientific insight I have done the following-
Bought some digital scales, weighed myself morning and night and record the results.
Reduced alcohol to a couple of glasses of red on a Friday night, none through the week.
Cycled to and from work everyday, 6 miles,ish.
Done my regular week night and weekend rides.
Drink loads of that posh sparkling water,
Eaten a mix of-
Salad leaves various types inc spinach.
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Salad croutons
Boiled egg
couscous(dont even know what that is)
roast chicken(in the salad)
smoked mackeral(in the salad)
toast with butter and lashings of marmite. (on a morning usually when i get to work).
Couple of cups of nice coffee no sugar in the morning.
Bananas as snacks on rides or late afternoon.
Theres also been a couple of occasions I have had piece of pizza or a rib at a BBQ and maybe the occasional biscuit with a cup of tea in the afternoon.
The outcome of this so far is I,m down to 97kg this morning and that'll probably be nearer 98kg this evening.
My jeans are all feeling pretty slack and the difference is notable even according to my hard to impress GF.
Lastly and of course most importantly last night on a short local road ride I set 10 personal records for the segments(thats all of them) which included 2 top 3's.
So no science but it seems to work and no energy problems so far.
I have been on the Herbalife diet since 11th February when I weighed in at 96 kgs.
As of this morning I weigh 84.4 kgs
Typical weekly weight loss of 1 kg.
Feel much better, would like to get to around 82 kgs.
Eating normal food for breakfast lunch and dinner, and avoiding snaking goes a long way.
Yes it does, of course. There's a bit of confusion here as to what people are talking about.
If you stuff your face with pies all day, then you start eating normally, of course you'll lose weight. No-one's saying that's not true.
However there are lots of other situations. For example, if you already eat normally but are 5kg heavier than you'd like, what's the most effective way of losing that without making yourself feel too miserable? If you always try to cut calories but always fail - why? What different approach may make it easier to continue eating healthily? If you are a fit cyclist who already eats well but can't somehow manage to get down to racing weight, what can you do?
Etc etc.
Too many carbs was my downfall.
Eat much more protein now - NO snacking.
Mrs Grips just lost 5kg in 4 weeks on the iDave diet.
Nick,
I will donate the £5/lb to your site after my weigh in on 15th June.
Will be so embarrassing when you only get a tenner from me!
Orm and Cheep
Ormancheep - any and every donation is hugely appreciated!
Good luck with the diet - feel free to drop me a line if I can help (not sure how!)
Cheers, and thanks in advance,
Nick
