Search for iDiet here. Lots of sensible advice to be found. Mostly sugar and high-glycemic index carbs.
have you kept a food diary ? and an excercise diary to go with it? this will point out the flaw better than anything
the thing that catches me out is the snacks and unhealthy crap in the office
Our entire household lost 10% of their weight when we stopped eating red meat. It took a few months which was fine as we weren't trying to lose weight, just change of diet.
Abel and Cole - swapped our veg box for the light recipe box. It's not cheap but nothing gets wasted. It's quite instructive how much veg you can eat in a meal if you have only have minimal carbs. Just had a big plate of shredded Spring greens with cod arrabiata - 329 calories. Don't do it every day - just try and eat healthily the rest of the time and not too many calories from carbs except when training.
eat more good fats, eat less carbs, don't eat any processed carbs (bread, pasta etc) or sugar. You will lose weight.
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Sugar.
JimJam to the rescue. Why is the thread still open?
sweets cakes chocolate crisps
any drink with calories*
bread potatoes pasta cheese
after that cutting portion sizes and you are a small step from existing on boiled fish and all but raw green veg
*alcohol contains essential oils
Have a search for 'ketogenic diet'. It basically focuses on adapting your body to burn fat as its primary fuel instead of carbohydrate/glycogen. Basically, how man was designed to be, eating fatty meat as a caveman instead of ground up indigestible grains (wheat) and processed sugar.
It would also allow you to eat loads of peanut butter too 🙂
Fat doesn't make you fat. iDiet advice is pretty good and allows you to have the odd glass of wine which is realistic for those who enjoy alcohol (cutting out beer is easy for me would miss red wine)
As above your diet will dictate your weight less so your activity level, unless you are extreme. I used to run 4 miles before work then 7-8 in the evening, all a good pace. I ate whatever wasn't nailed down just to maintain my weight. I am 51 now so even running every day requires changes to my diet to keep my weight down (although I like to stay at quite a low weight)
Binders is on the money. 3 packets of sausage rolls instead of 4. Extreme I know
Make food, avoid drinking calories, avoid cake crisps biscuits etc. Do more.
Don't fixate on weight but body shape etc.
Nothing wrong with pasta and bread if your using them.
Best thing is understand a bit more.
...less so your activity level, unless you are extreme.
A few people have made comments like this, so it is maybe worth pointing out that (as I understand it) the weight-loss benefit doesn't just come from burning a few calories during the activity.
Your body responds to regular exercise by increasing the number of mitochondria you have. That speeds up your metabolism, which helps weight loss.
Is thread still open?
Losing fat isn't complicated.
Eat less sugar and other refined carbs. (Also fruit isn't necessarily your friend)
Eat more healthy fats and protein.
Cut out/back on alcohol.
Lift weights.
Throw out the scales, stupid bloody measurement. Take waist, thigh, chest measurements instead.
Sugar and foods that you body easily turns into sugar
So that's pretty much all junk like sweets and crisps and chocolate.
But also
Pasta, white rice, potatoes and bread and juice.
Alcohol is also basically sugar once your liver has dealt with it
Fat isn't really the enemy - unless you are eating far too much of it sugar and refined carbs are where most of us get most of our calories from so is the easiest place to remove them.
I does'nt have to be totally drastic - simple stuff like if you make a curry or a spag-bol or a chilli then fill the plate with meat and sauce rather than rice or pasta. This goes a long way to cutting down the portion size and the amount of calories
completely cutt anything that contains white sugar. eat plenty fruit 5 a day is good start
So cut sugar intake, and increase sugar intake?
Got it.
Basically, how man was designed to be
Myth afaik. Hunter-gatherers eat lots of starchy foods.
Don't fixate on weight but body shape etc
Not much use if you want to race bikes.
Hunter-gatherers eat lots of starchy foods.
Really? Like to share any examples?
You could try the Twinkie diet...
In fact, as long as that deficit exists, you can eat anything you want (not recommended, just making a point) and you’d still lose weight just fine.Yes, you can literally eat a diet comprised almost entirely of junk food – for example, Twinkies – and you’d still lose weight just fine as long as that caloric deficit exists.
Don’t believe me? Look no further than Mark Haub, the professor of nutrition at Kansas State University who followed a diet just like this (The Twinkie Diet) to prove this exact point, and lost 27lbs in 2 months.
Does this mean Twinkies are a superfood? No. It means a deficit alone is what causes fat loss, regardless of the foods being eaten.
Remember “The Twinkie Diet” from the example I gave earlier? The point-proving junk-food-filled diet that professor Mark Haub ate for 2 months to show that a caloric deficit was the sole cause of fat loss, regardless of the foods providing those calories?Remember how he lost 27lbs during that time?
I bet you’re wondering what else happened during that time… in terms of his overall health.
Well…
Haub’s “bad” cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his “good” cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.
So, let’s see.
He ate Twinkies. He lost weight. A variety of his health markers improved.
http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/superfoods/
I'd read articles in the past describing the different types of food that would have been eaten in different environments. Basically, humans ate whatever was around - in some areas, that was starchy food (stuff like cat-tail roots), in some areas that was mostly meat (like Eskimos). We're adaptable, we can handle lots of different foods.
This article explains that there's no such thing as an 'original' diet:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/71/3/665.long
However it does suggest that highly energy dense foods can cause problems ( obviously) and that's something I've been saying in the thread. But this has nothing to do with the concept of people having been 'designed' or evolved to eat a specific diet.
This article explains that there's no such thing as an 'original' diet:
Coming on here with your referenced articles, pissing on the Paleo diet fad. You should be ashamed. Everyone knows that red meat and ben & jerrys is the ultimate healthy diet.
Nothing wrong with white rice, pasta, potatoes etc.
No need to count calories, just eat good stuff and exercise 😀
I would say high GI foods. Don't need to cut them out completely, but don't ever use them to fill up - you'll get a blood sugar then insulin spike and then feel hungry again as your blood sugar plummets.
I am very active, eat a tonne and am not fat. But I certainly could counteract my exercise with overeating (oddly this wasn't the case when I started exercising this amount - I ate as much as I physically could and lost significant weight over the first few months).
No Booze. No processed carbs. No Sugar.
More protein. More Veg. More water. More exercise.
Work, sitting behind a ****ing desk all day is doing for me!
Sorry, I should have said GL rather than GI. In other words, a small helping of high GI food is better than a massive plateful of medium GI food.
I eat lots of bread (5-6 slices of cheap white a day) lots of potatoes,crisps cake and cereal. I've been 75Kg for the last 25 years.
Just saying it's not what you eat.
Outdated "low fat diet" advice still pollutes most people's thinking about what healthy eating is.
Most people in the UK could do with upping their protein intake and reducing their carb intake, and worrying less about their fat intake.
I went from 92kg to 75kg doing the following:
Cut baked goods, pasta, rice, fruit, beer, and sugary snacks.
Eat more eggs, meat, seafood, leafy greens.
Log your macros on MFP. Ignore their "recommended" macro proportions and aim for 1g of protein per kg of body weight while staying within their daily calorie limit. Easy if you weigh/log everything on the app. Log your exercise on MFP and eat back half of the calories you use exercising.
Get out of the "low fat" mindset and into the "low carb" mindset. Porridge is not more "slimming" than toast for breakfast. Have 2 scrambled eggs and a double espresso instead 🙂
Don't eat after 8pm.
Exercise: Lift heavy. See Stronglifts 5x5 for a beginner plan. Cut back on the squats if you still want to ride your bike. Personally I find I still need to do cardio as well as lifting so I run/cycle on alternate days, even if it's only an hour session.
I've lost 2kg in 3 weeks by limiting myself to 1 portion of cake/biscuits per day.
I'm not sure what that says about my diet.
