Lose Weight 31

lolly101

pollocmc wrote: »

Did any of catch a program called "10 things you need to know about losing weight" that was on last night? It was most likely a repeat but had Michael Mosley (you'd recognise him if you saw him) presenting. He's listed as a medical journalist. It was all based on new/not so new medical/scientific research rather than hocus pocus diet plans.

Hi Pollomc,

I watched it not long ago on BT Vision (on the 'TV' section, think it's still there if anyone has 'Vision'). I remember watching it a couple of years ago but watched it again anyway as I found it really interesting, It's nice to see someone actually testing dieting theories before recommending them!

Just logging my day's efforts before I try for an early night (not likely, but I definitely need to try and catch up on my sleep).

Breakfast - Porridge with sultanas
Snack - Banana
Lunch - Chinese chicken stir fry
Snack - Another graze box section (limiting myself to one a day!).
Dinner - Tortilla basket with chicken and spinach salad, two 'celebrations' chocs.

That comes to 1734 cals. Although over target food wise, I'm happy with it as I've been pretty active today, a lot of housework and I've walked for around an hour and a half in total (briskly, in the pouring rain ), I've also managed another exercise session on the bike that came to 400 cals.
So, another good day; I'm trying to resist the urge to weigh myself as I want a nice suprise at the end of the week, although it is tempting, especially as I'm using my Wii balance board as scales which encourages you to do it everyday.

Right, I'm off to bed. Night everyone!

pollocmc

vixarooni wrote: »

Im 25 this year ... I havent done enough in my youth what so ever!!!

puddings_2

Pollo - cos this is mse i reckon you'd be better with this one instead!

fredsnail

neilersmc wrote: »

eric have you been able to track down Biggest loser S11Ep01? My normal site hasnt got it yet - normally its up the next day.

Fredsnail please put my starting weight as 16 stone 9

Google BL - there are a few around but I've not downloaded any of them.

Are you North or South?

puddings_2

kksweety - i hope that flat tyre isnt an omen for you too. if you need a spare you are welcome to take mine ... the enormous one around my waist!

purple skies - big hi to you :-) welcome to the gang

purdita - everlean pills? never heard of them! what do they claim to do? I'm quite sceptical about all diet pills! Also just wondered about the alpen - do you eat that because its your breakfast of choice (if so then thats fair enough) or is it because it's muesli and so it must therefore be the healthy option? (its not!)

pollo if the lodger ever puts down the tv remote then i'll make sure i put that top 10 programme on planner.

mazza sleeping at work! i have a photo on my phone of a postie parked up in a van fast asleep! it must be tough starting work every day so very very early. I cant even work tradional hours without having to stop for a nap. Thats one of the main reasons i have to be self employed!

Big Hi to any newer newbies that I've missed and "thanks for coming back" to any older newbies too.

7 days to go until the end of North vs South week 1.
Come on beauties we can win this if we all put the pies down :-)

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congrats to our SoTW Eric.

Well done to everyone who lost or STS this week, and commiserations to the gainers - next week is a new week.

I think I've picked up everyone's results this week - if I've missed you please let me know and I'll correct the chart.

I'm still waiting for some info for North v South so will post the starting weights for the teams next week.

2010-11 Awards
I've toted up the votes and the results are as follows:

Most friendly member - Everyone
Most helpful member - Everyone
Funniest member - Puddings/Vix
Most missed member - Suggs/Pet/Missy

This weeks quote is from Dolly Parton:

"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets."

neilersmc

no worries tracked it down - had to go old school torrents to get it.

Fredsnail - I have no preference which team so if one team has fewer members put me in that one.

Eric_Pisch

pollocmc wrote: »

Here's another similar thing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12068595

the first four things wouldnt work on me in a million years :rotfl:

this was interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11158546


just downloading the 10 things prog atm

Eric_Pisch

purdita wrote: »

had a large bowl of Alpen mid morning. 4 onion rings,

I've also taken two lots ( 4 in total) of the EAS Everlean pills I bought a while back from Approved foods!!....Has anyone here tried them?

I normally eat breakfast earlier, and would have a snack at lunchtime but after the christmas hols,

Do you think I will lose weight by eating these type of meals and cutting out the rubbish....or should I be following some type of set meal plan?

Alpen - you have to be careful with it has a mass of added sugar, even the reduced sugar one has a lot of added sugar, i believe jordans does not have any added sugar

http://www.jordanscereals.co.uk/products/cereals/muesli/natural-muesli

The EAS pills contain

· Both fast and slow release caffeine and other ingredients for sustained energy and fat burning
· Cayenne pepper to raise the body’s metabolism
· Theobromine – a special fat-burning ingredient derived from chocolate

caffeine messes with your blood sugar levels big time and can cause carb cravings, i avoid it completely, the pepper you can buy for pennys and use to taste as you like, too much theobromine is poisonous apparently, typically these types of pills thou only have small amounts of the active ingredient to prevent the company from being sued in case of bad side effects and you would be lucky to get 30-50 cals extra a day burnt from eating them especially if you drink tea and coffee anyway. Chilli and Green tea also have a small calorie overhead. Personally I wouldnt waste my money on any of these "magic bullet" solutions they are not needed.

The amount of theobromine found in chocolate is small enough that chocolate can, in general, be safely consumed by humans. However, theobromine poisoning may result from the chronic or acute consumption of large quantities, especially in the elderly

The best and safest way to speed up your metabolism is too exercise, this not only increases lean muscle mass which increases your resting metabolic rate (you burn more calories sitting on your bum) but resistance type training actually accelerates it for up to 48 hours as the body "repairs" (whilst sitting on your bum lol)

It has been shown in trials that eating fires up the metabolism and eating little and often keeps it working at its optimum level, so it would appear to be a good idea to eat early and have a mid morning snack.

Its not necessary to follow a meal plan but it is critical imo to keep a food diary otherwise you just guessing at how much you eat, and just about all of us underestimate how much we eat.

puddings_2

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

Alpen - you have to be careful with it has a mass of added sugar, even the reduced sugar one has a lot of added sugar, i believe jordans does not have any added sugar

Alpen is delicious. I used to eat it all the time. Jordans,the low sugar alpen and shop own brand varieties just dont taste the same... so although they are all described as mueslis, to me, they are as different as having a bowl of pudding compared to a bowl of acorns.
Im not saying alpen is right and the others are wrong, if anything muesli should be more like the acorns than the pudding and so its alpen that should really describe itself as something else.

maybe if i covered them in custard?