Gillian Mckeith diet woes

goonlord

I've been seeing a nutritionist for the past couple of months and she gave me a brilliant bit of advice the first time I went....to eat a healthy, balanced diet, all you need to do is eat and drink what your great grandmother would have.

I.e. organic, nothing processed, cooking from scratch using basic ingredients etc.

I don't think this needs to be more expensive - I would have thought it was the ultimate in Old Style!

thriftlady_2

goonlord wrote:

to eat a healthy, balanced diet, all you need to do is eat and drink what your great grandmother would have.

Brilliant :T

comping_cat

goonlord wrote:

I've been seeing a nutritionist for the past couple of months and she gave me a brilliant bit of advice the first time I went....to eat a healthy, balanced diet, all you need to do is eat and drink what your great grandmother would have.

I.e. organic, nothing processed, cooking from scratch using basic ingredients etc.

I don't think this needs to be more expensive - I would have thought it was the ultimate in Old Style!

Also bare in mind, that great grandmother wouldve walked a lot more as cars 'back then' were few and far between.
As with most things, a balanced diet, exercise and maybe a little of what you fancy, does you good!!!!!!

Austin_Allegro

All these diet gurus are basically just trying to make a living out of their books, tv appearances etc.

I agree with Anne Widdecombe, who when asked if she would write a book on how to lose weight after her success on Celebrity Fat Club, answered 'no, because it would consist of only four words: eat less, exercise more'.

Eating a proper balanced diet is important but you don't need fancy foreign foods or anything expensive. I am suspicious of those who peddle the line that healthy eating is expensive, because they are usually either trying to sell something or are making a tax grab of some sort (National Five a Day Coordinators etc etc).

However the main reason people are obese IMO is lack of exercise, not poor diet. Up until about 40 years ago, most people worked in manual occupations or as housewives, and walked or cycled everywhere. They ate full English breakfasts, pies and lard with everything but didn't put on much weight as they burned it off.

I know exercise is difficult for some people - the important thing is to it gradually. A colleague of mine lost 3 stone in a year by doing this: instead of getting the bus to the station in the morning, then the bus from the station to the office, and repeating the process the other way going home, he gradually substituted walking for the bus on each leg of the journey over a period of several months, and now only takes the train, which gives him a four mile walk every day which is just part of his normal routine.

Exercise does not need to involve gyms, special equipment, fancy clothes, videos, etc etc, again this is all just people trying to make money out us!

thriftlady_2

Austin_Allegro wrote:

I agree with Anne Widdecombe, who when asked if she would write a book on how to lose weight after her success on Celebrity Fat Club, answered 'no, because it would consist of only four words: eat less, exercise more'.

Well, I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with Anne Widdecombe:D

lynzpower

goonlord wrote:

I've been seeing a nutritionist for the past couple of months and she gave me a brilliant bit of advice the first time I went....to eat a healthy, balanced diet, all you need to do is eat and drink what your great grandmother would have.

I.e. organic, nothing processed, cooking from scratch using basic ingredients etc.

I don't think this needs to be more expensive - I would have thought it was the ultimate in Old Style!

I might leave the boiled brains and the aspic, but otherwise, you cant argue on the principle can you!

EDIT- actually in retrospect you can, diseased like rickets and other terrible deficiency based diseases were MUCH more prevalent in my GGMs generation than nowadays

goonlord

I think the health problems were probably caused by problems of availablility (i.e. especially for people who were poor) but we have no such excuse these days with the wealth of foods available to us - food is getting cheaper and easier to access all the time. And we know so much more about nutrition.

We have different diet-related health problem now - obesity, diabetes etc. Don't forget that today's children are the first generation where it is likely the average life expectancy will DECREASE.

I think the basic principle is sound - just combine it with what we now know about nutrition and the better availablility of food.

mikeywills

Just a possible variation to the current thread, it is easy to look back with nostalgia at the good old days, where life expectancy was so much younger, hospitals were non existant, and medicine came in a bottle with a spoon.

Our lifes are not like that anymore, so many of us do not have the means to walk to work, or to do without the car for our work. Our lunch break are less in time and many eat while they work. We travel home and have little energy to prepare food, let alone the inclination to cook an elaborate evening meal.

What we need to find are new ways of bringing the best elements from the past and intergrate them in to our lives today. We do not spend enough time teaching our children how to cook for themselves anymore, and can't rely on the schools they don't have the funding. Cookery in schools is 75% theory these days, because equipment costs to much to buy and maintain, to carry out the practical.

We need a radical shake up in a lot that we do, but we can't take forward all the OS ways.

climbgirl

It kind of worries me a bit that people keep referring to historic eating patterns, they didn't have the greatest life expectancy back then!

One thing to note about Gillian McKeith's diet which I don't think has been said yet, is that it's a detox diet to be done for 8 weeks. Extreme yes, but after the damage these people have been doing to their bodies, they need a good flush-out! Morgan Spurlock did a similar diet after eating McD's for a month (blech!). The whole point is not to eat this way for the rest of your life, but to use it as a detox and slowly introduce things back in afterwards (obviously not to the same levels or the same types of junk!).

They don't really stress this enough on the show though.

climbgirl

mikeywills wrote:

Just a possible variation to the current thread, it is easy to look back with nostalgia at the good old days, where life expectancy was so much younger, hospitals were non existant, and medicine came in a bottle with a spoon.

You read my mind!