Debt Free & Fat Free Wannabees??

Glitterari

beanie - you will need to find some sort of exercise that will work with you being disabled (sorry for stating the obvious). Maybe a work out video that you can copy the bits you can do - don't know your situation but say if you're in a wheel chair you could do the arm movements, or whatever - lift weights, you know not to get muscly just toned.

MinnieSpender

kathfisch wrote:

Ooh yes, me too please!!

We'll be skinny before we know it :rotfl:

Room for two more!

Quick smart, chaps!

ZTD

steffzi wrote:

Sorry - I just had to to say White bread is not "VERY BAD" for a healthy diet, it does contain fibre and is part of a vital food group.

Sorry to disagree with this, but I would say that white bread is bad for a healthy diet. In fact, I would say that most refined "white" foods (i.e. white rice) are bad for a healthy diet. They contain starch - which is a bulking ingredient (cornflour anyone?) - but the nutrients are lacking. In fact I would say that by "crowding out" more nutritous food, they are worse than eating nothing.

steffzi wrote:

At the end of the day weight loss is all about calories, what go in versuis what goes out.

That would be true if we were machines - but we are not. One of the greatest questions in weight loss is not "What am I eating?" but "Why am I eating?". Hunger - real, genuine hunger is very low down on that scale.

Hands up if you've eaten because:

• You're bored
• You're depressed
• It's meal time and you always eat now
• You're drunk and you have the "munchies"
• Comfort

Food also has a psychological component.

The "sugar rush" is one part of that. This has recently been enshrined in the Glycemic Index - which is a sort of measure of how "rushed" your sugar is. If it goes in fast, it leaves fast and you get hungry again fast.

Artificial sweeters. There is some evidence, that when you taste sweetness, your body dumps insulin into the blood, expecting sugar. Of course this lowers your blood sugar level. If the sweetness came from an artificial sweetner, then that sugar is never going to come. At this point, your body notices the low blood sugar level - and gives you a sugar craving! :eek: You can try the artificial sweetner again, but the same will happen again. This is a cycle that can only be ended with real sugar. That's real sugar that you would not have consumed if it hadn't have been for the artificial sweetner.

"Flavour enhancers" such as MSG (hydrolyzed vegetable protein) have been blamed for suppressing the saiety signal that tells you to stop eating.

steffzi wrote:

Anything that resticts certain food groups is not healthy in my view.

So why do eskimos live for so long and so healthily on the five food groups of small fish, small seals, cariboo, big fish and big seals?

steffzi wrote:

(I used to work as a weight loss consultant)

Hope this doesnt offend anyone!

Likewise.

ZTD

LookingAhead wrote:

urgh white bread....within 10 minutes of eating white bread I always feel sick.

This may be the starch converting to sugar and raising your blood sugar level.

LookingAhead wrote:

And the fibre content......? Has opposite effect on me :eek: :rotfl:

There isn't a great deal of fibre in white bread, but if it is your main source of fibre - drink more.

Otherwise it'll dry out into a obstructive fibrous plug. Which is quite inconvenient, when you consider where it is.

You'll not get the drain rods up there...:rotfl:

LittleL_4

In think it's all about energy going in and out.

It's similar to the money secret ie never spend more than you earn. :T

But in dietary terms, never consume more than you expend.

Gawd am I making sense? I've had a few wines tonight...

L
xx

MinnieSpender

Looking Ahead started a fantastic thread on this subject a while back:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=176840

If any of you would care to join us, please do. We're a very supportive bunch and while a lot of the thread is very funny, there are loads of great tips on there too.

And a stack of us have managed to lose weight over there too!

Willsnarf1983

looking for anyone to do the gym with me

stats

male
22
14st 4lbs
aim:to lose weight and gain a bit of muscle for sport

i ahve lost about 5 stone but have lost the motivation to do the other two stone and am currently maintaining. Am looking for someone to help me progress and preferably around my age

i can do Bournemouth, Southampton or Portsmouth

PM if u can

Will

MinnieSpender

Nice one Will - I'm sure you'll find a buddy soon. Great idea, by the way.

PeachPickle

ZTD wrote:

Artificial sweeters. There is some evidence, that when you taste sweetness, your body dumps insulin into the blood, expecting sugar. Of course this lowers your blood sugar level. If the sweetness came from an artificial sweetner, then that sugar is never going to come. At this point, your body notices the low blood sugar level - and gives you a sugar craving! :eek: You can try the artificial sweetner again, but the same will happen again. This is a cycle that can only be ended with real sugar. That's real sugar that you would not have consumed if it hadn't have been for the artificial sweetner.

Man. Does that mean I should stop drinking 'flavoured mineral water' ? That's all I drink! That and milk. Hate hot drinks, fizzy drinks, pure fruit juice - and it always tastes weird mixed with water! Water on its own is pretty disgusting. I must drink at least 2L 'sugar free' mineral water a day. Is that bad?

LookingAhead

Hello! A number 1 enrolling for duty SIR!! <salutes>

Wish I could find someone in this city (I use that word loosely) to go to a self defence class or a dance class with. :rolleyes:

Can't get motivated on my own.

Just watched Strictly Ballroom - fantastic. Makes me want to DO SOMETHING!!!!