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victory

beanielou wrote: »

A STS this week.Pah.

There is always next week;)

beanielou

How are things Victory?

alliwantistosave

bettyB wrote: »

Morning all
Had a busy weekend, sorry been awol!

Just done my davina Dvd and came here to tell you (esp alliwant who keeps asking, where is she??!)

Hello :wave: I'm still here just been away Skiing :j and having the time of my life I'm glad you have found davina & you told me to keep pestering

fredsnail wrote: »

Will do - have a great time skiing - and make sure there's more skiing than Aprez skiing

Thanks for that Fred I did a little Aprez Skiing with 40% proof Minttu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minttu
In hot chocolate it is Yummmmmmmm........ and a good way to warm up after being out in the -25 heat :eek::eek::eek:

I must admit we went 1/2 board and so after 2 days I was eating like a little piggy with 3 course dinners but after 6 hours skiing I was starving and cold. I am just hoping that the scales will be kind to me tomorrow as I have been so naughty I cannot believe how much rubbish I ate, but I must admit I liked the Rye Bread as I find I cannot eat normal bread any more.
So I will find out in 24hrs how much damage my week off piste went

I would recommend doing the 30 day shred to anyone thinking of a skiing trip as normally after day 1 I can't feel my knees and my legs are like jelly. But after 5 days the only pain I had was in my shoulders and bingo wings from having to pole on the flat bits :rotfl:
This time the only injuries I have are a bruise on my left knee and a broken fingernail

It was quite funny to look at our luggage and see that I had lost more weight than our baggage added together :eek: I could hardly carry my bag at 19.7 KG :rotfl: What a whimp I am :rotfl:

Victory - still thinking of you

Puddings - Well done on your walks :T do you wear your weight vest too ?

bettyB_2

victory wrote: »

You helped me so much when I was SW, I am surprised to read this from you, I thought SW was your thing, you loved it, you and sary helped so much with getting to grips with it and planning the menus etc...

Yeah i know, I do still like the plan and I know it works but I have struggled so much recently staying on plan and then beating myself for not doing it perfectly that I just took stock and realised u know what I'm never going to be able to keep this up forever, I get complacent too easily and I think doing SW badly will be worse for me than doing my own thing well. if that makes sense...

I will keep an eye on my calories initially but it's going to be more about portion control, exercising and everything in moderation. I am going to try to re-balance my eating habits (I can't eat SW portions if i'm not sticking to it - that is why I have gained recently) however, I have some SW cook books and will def stick to the low fat methods and meals, i really like SW recipes.

I agree with you vix about balancing a big lunch with small dinner, and vice versa.

Looking back, I just feel really messed up about food, like i dont know how to handle it anymore. my whole cognitive behaviour needs altering, my willpower needs to be sorted out and my attitudes need readdressing - I just want to be like my friends you know, not greedy, just normal, who can eat till full and only when huingry. It's going to be a long road but I realise that it will help me in the long run.

sorry if i'm getting a bit deep, just having a reflective day...

alliwantistosave wrote: »

Hello :wave: I'm still here just been away Skiing :j and having the time of my life I'm glad you have found davina & you told me to keep pestering

Glad you had a fun time - I love skiing (well, i'm a snowboarder really) and spending time up the mountains is just bliss. Glad you had a fab time.

Off to the gym tomorrow afternoon, and really looking forward to it!

Feeling positive about the future...:)

On a side note, I watching UK BL tonight and was annoyed that the black team was told off for following angie's orders to eat apples and nuts - she's meant to be an expert! Then they kept going on about how the 'BL way' is to have a healthy diet, but in the ad break there was an advert for the BL diet shake!! Such hypocrisy...

vixarooni

Its taken me ages betty!! I needed to lose my apetite through illness to see how much i was eating and how i didn't need it. Its not been easy and im fighting against myself, and im so weak!! Just steer clear of chocolate and anything chocolatey, i hate that addictive stuff.

You will get there, its like you have to re train your body to think in a different way. Almost like giving up smoking...the change in chemicals from all the food and it is hard.

Have faith girl!!!

Wanna_Bee_Free

Popping in to report a gain of 1/2 lb for me this week.

Sorry for the incoherent ramble that follows, I am sober too!

I think it's because of the large meal I had last night, including dessert. Plus all the beer and wine and other treats this week. And several other going off the plan moments too. Ooops.

So, I am putting last week behind me and moving onwards and upwards. Actually I want it to be downwards and inwards!

I've lost 4 lbs so far and I want to add to that not let it creep back up again. I have lost 9.5 lbs in total. I want it to go in the right direction again next week so need to do things a bit differently than what I did this week.

This week I will track, plan my meals ahead of time, point things before scarfing them down my neck, not say I don't wanna be good in my 3 year old voice and remember that I have the choice to lose weight by doing things each day that will get me the results I need when I step on those scales next week.

Eric_Pisch

reporting a +1lb gain this week which i am ok with, i am still feeling very ill (since november) despite being off the drugs for nearly a month, like i am coming down with flu but never getting there, so weak and tired all the time, so i took a week out and feed to see if that was the issue, and it is not ...

scales said i gained 2lb of muscle last week as well

Eric_Pisch

cgk1 wrote: »

Fundamentally that's what I do - I honestly can't follow half of the conversations on here about the benefits of low-carb or this diet or that or eating Xg of fat - it all seems very complex to me.

I simply eat three square (based on healthy eating principles), don't snack in-between and make sure I get to the gym at least three times a week. I think at my heaviest I was 16 stone, whatever I am now, I'm fit and healthy.

Something has changed drastically recently in human evolution that is causing this obesity epidemic, so many people have looked back at how we used to eat (what we evolved to eat) to see where we have gone so drastically wrong. What the research is now telling us in spades is that we never ate anywhere near the amount of carbs that we do now (between 10-25% of our diet typically).

So why are carbs a problem, well it comes down to the hormone insulin that we produce to control them. Insulin in high levels in the blood not only forces spare carbs to be stored as fat it also stops fat from being burnt, not good when you want to loose weight. But uncontrolled insulin has a worse effect, it causes blood sugar levels to spike and crash and this leads to carb cravings, which leads to more insulin, more cravings, more fat storage and more fat blocked from being burnt.....

So we are encouraged to eat a high carb diet (we wont be in 10 years time) but worst of all we are told to avoid fat, which is critical for our survival, cholesterol does not clog arteries (now proven) and a low fat diet leads to depression for many people. Up to 60% of diet came from fat for 2-3 million years of our evolution.

I made some basic rules for my weight loss, In that I would try to as far as possible revert back to how we used to eat but in a modern context. I would eat whole unprocessed foods as much as possible, plenty of meat, fish and fat, lots of veg and a little fruit (fruit would be a seasonal rare treat for humans, and the body does not like fructose, it is metabolised like alcohol). I pretty much avoid grains where I can as we only started eating them extremely recently (my IBS reduced by 90% when I did this :eek:). I do stay within a daily cal allowance as well, currently 2000k a day for me.

The result, 180lbs lost in 11 months and I almost never feel hungry and I have zero carb cravings.

Science aint it wonderful.

I will keep reposting these vids as they are bang on (and fun ) there backed up by a mass of scientific research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE

cgk1

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

Something has changed drastically recently in human evolution that is causing this obesity epidemic, so many people have looked back at how we used to eat (what we evolved to eat) to see where we have gone so drastically wrong. What the research is now telling us in spades is that we never ate anywhere near the amount of carbs that we do now (between 10-25% of our diet typically).

So why are carbs a problem, well it comes down to the hormone insulin that we produce to control them. Insulin in high levels in the blood not only forces spare carbs to be stored as fat it also stops fat from being burnt, not good when you want to loose weight. But uncontrolled insulin has a worse effect, it causes blood sugar levels to spike and crash and this leads to carb cravings, which leads to more insulin, more cravings, more fat storage and more fat blocked from being burnt.....

So we are encouraged to eat a high carb diet (we wont be in 10 years time) but worst of all we are told to avoid fat, which is critical for our survival, cholesterol does not clog arteries (now proven) and a low fat diet leads to depression for many people. Up to 60% of diet came from fat for 2-3 million years of our evolution.

I made some basic rules for my weight loss, In that I would try to as far as possible revert back to how we used to eat but in a modern context. I would eat whole unprocessed foods as much as possible, plenty of meat, fish and fat, lots of veg and a little fruit (fruit would be a seasonal rare treat for humans, and the body does not like fructose, it is metabolised like alcohol). I pretty much avoid grains where I can as we only started eating them extremely recently (my IBS reduced by 90% when I did this :eek:). I do stay within a daily cal allowance as well, currently 2000k a day for me.

The result, 180lbs lost in 11 months and I almost never feel hungry and I have zero carb cravings.

Science aint it wonderful.

I will keep reposting these vids as they are bang on (and fun ) there backed up by a mass of scientific research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE

It's funny you mention scientific research - I looked into all of this after you first starting mentioning low-carb diets, the medical literature (Peer-reviewed rather than popularist stuff) seems to say that low-carb diets are of no particular benefit and what's actually happening is that people who follow low-carb diets lose weight if they are also counting calories and it's the counting of calories that does it (in the short term, the literature also says that in the end most people crack and go back to their own ways).

If it seems to work for you great - but as a way to end obesity? The evidence simply isn't there (or if it is, it's not being published in any medical journals I have access to).

lucinad

sts this week for me i need to hide the chocolate digestives!

i have been doing 15 mins fitness coach and 1/2 hour wii fit plus 5 times this week, but i have eaten about 12 chocolate digestives this week too at least i didnt gain anything!