Low Fat vs Low Carb
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[quote name='Nepia']I can't stand that type of stuff for breakfast - which is why I eat toast. I can't stand oats. Shame, seemed I'm doomed to tubbyness <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />.<br />
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Is that to get rid of Bart?[/QUOTE]<br />
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what about a couple of eggs ion the morning nepia? A great way to start the day my friend! -
[QUOTE]I have lost 7.5kgs in 8 weeks eating low carb with minimal exercise, once I hit my goal weight [B]I will start introducing back some complex carbs and add some exercise[/B] (MRT) and see how I go. [/QUOTE]<br />
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Which is why diets don't work. <br />
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Diet, lose weight, go back to eating normal, (which is why the person was overweight to start with), gain the weight back. You need to change lifetime habits to lose weight and retain the new weight you get to. <br />
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Not saying YOU Deep Blue, but that seems to be the recurring theme for people who do special diets and then get to their goal and resume eating normal again.<br />
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If everyone just ate less, plain and simple, they would start to lose weight. Don't supersize your McD meal, have one sugar in your tea instead of two, trim milk instead of the full cream stuff. Reduce your carbs at night with dinner, snack healthy. It's not hard when you make a conscious effort, but all too easy to back slide!! -
Yeah, I've been a yoyo dieter for years. This time the changes I've made are permanent, so it's been less extreme. Basically how can i eat what I like in moderation, what should I be eating but aren't, and topping it up with exercise. <br />
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Lots of gradual changes. -
[quote name='BartMan']Which is why diets don't work. <br />
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Diet, lose weight, go back to eating normal, (which is why the person was overweight to start with), gain the weight back. You need to change lifetime habits to lose weight and retain the new weight you get to. <br />
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Not saying YOU Deep Blue, but that seems to be the recurring theme for people who do special diets and then get to their goal and resume eating normal again.<br />
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If everyone just ate less, plain and simple, they would start to lose weight. Don't supersize your McD meal, have one sugar in your tea instead of two, trim milk instead of the full cream stuff. Reduce your carbs at night with dinner, snack healthy. It's not hard when you make a conscious effort, but all too easy to back slide!![/QUOTE]<br />
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Emphasis on the "see how I go" part, if I introduce something back in and start to gain weight that is obviously the level I can handle, "eating normal" may never come. At the moment the way I'm eating now I can't really think of much I really feel deprived of. The only problem I have with the idea of eating the same as when you were fat just smaller amounts is I do think those foods effect you psychologically "once you pop, you just can't stop". I'm at week 13 and down 10kgs, various health conditions I had have cleared up or reduced in severity, comparing the way I feel now to before I have very little urge to go back to that way of eating. -
that's true - sometimes better to go without as it is tough to just have a little bit of something!!<br />
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health improvements - yup, that's a great byproduct - me from 120kg to now, no comparison!<br />
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And mindset - 'normal eating' - that's what you're doing NOW, what you used to do is abnormal!! -
What I like about eating right is that I can still eat heaps but don't have to worry about the consequences. I pretty much have to eat every 2-3 hours or I starve. Oats with protein powder for breakfast is the bomb. Never used to eat breakfast but now its the meal I look forward to the most. <br />
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I used to be well over 95kgs which is alot for someone who is barely 175cm. All I did was cut out eating shit. No more chips, ice cream, coke, cake etc. Its amazing how the kind of things I used to inhale taste like shæt now. <br />
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Obviously a major factor these days is the types of jobs we have. I don't believe the food people ate back in the day was all that much better. Fish and chips with a sav in batter is hardly better than a Maccas meal. The difference is people did physical work and pretty much burnt off anything they ate.
