weight loss

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congrats to our SoTW world_of_tights.

Well done to all our losers and STSers, and commiserations to the gainers.

Here's this weeks chart for East v West challenge:



Congratulation to the Easties for this week - it's not too late to join this challenge, just post below and I'll add you to the teams.

Here's the final chart for the Eurovision challenge:



Congratulations to Matryoshka, jess444,alliwantistosave, Eric, world_of_tights and me for passing our target, well done to everyone who took part.

Here's the first chart for the Burj Jhalkfa challenge:



Off we go for another month :T

This weeks quote is by Edward Eggleston
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

fredsnail

czerniacha wrote: »

Thanks fred
I'll do all of them then
This morning my weight was 82.9kg(sorry but don't know kow to convert it )
I'll do the distance on the Burj Jhalkfa one(can you add 5 miles from the gym crosstrainer and bike today please? )
And I'll join lolly too

Will add you to those in a few mins - back in a tick :j

lolly101

czerniacha wrote: »

And I'll join lolly too

Yay! I didn't fancy the thought of going it alone this month!

lolly101

Fred, thanks for the charts. I'm a bit confused about the distances for the challenge though as that link ( http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/the-tower/fact-figures.aspx ) gives the total height as 2716.5 ft, is that the height we are doing, or are we climbing to the observation deck or something?

fredsnail

That is the height we're doing - it's 0.5144 miles high - I've mis titled the heading with the distance to go - will amend that now and it should make more sense

lolly101

Ahh, yes I understand it now I've looked at it again :doh:, thanks Fred.

lolly101

OK, I've just figured out what I have to do for the Burj Khalifa challenge. My stairs measure 100 inches, so to do 4 climbs I'll have to go up and down the stairs around 43 times a day - if I've worked it out correctly? It sounds about right.

I've logged 26 flights today (it is more, but I kept forgetting to count them!), so that's 216 feet - only another 10650 to go!!!

misstamsilakanwal_2

fredsnail wrote: »

Here are the teams so far for the East v West challenge - as you can see Lolly is very lonely on the Eastern side so if anyone wants to join in for either team let me know. Also the team names are temporary so if anyone has better suggestions let me know.


Chart is in progress :j:j

hi fred my weight is exact 71 kg will you please add me in 5lbs in a month challenge and in west team please i didnt understand the other challenges so can you help me to understand the challenges and i can walk every day twice 1 mile can i add this in distance challenge so according to this i will walk 4 mile every day.

Eric_Pisch

lolly101 wrote: »

That's what I've been doing - avoiding carbs. Was probably on 50-60g a day, so no wonder I found it so difficult!

I've tried those Nature Valley bars before but would never have thought of buying them as, if I remember correctly, one of the main ingredients is sugar... I have so much to learn! I'm assuming that the oats, as they are the majority, kind of slow down the effects of the sugar, which lowers the overall gl of the bar? if that makes sense?

How do you figure out what is low gi and what isn't with foods like that? Is it a case of trial and error, or is there any way of working it out using the ingredients and/or nutritional info?

a lot of research has shown that atkins type diets are just too hardcore to be sustainable long term for most people, it does work and there's science behind why it works, but for most humans over our evolution we did eat a reasonable amount of carb

the rate at which sugar is released is affected by the amount and types of sugars that you eat, so eating a little of a fast release sugar (say choccy) with a large meal will slow the rate that the sugars released as your body mixes everything together, this is called GI load, i do not ever bother to work out GI load

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_load

For me I work out how a carb affects me by fasting, then eating the food and measuring my blood glucose level every 30 mins for 3 hours after eating it, a bit OTT for sure I dont do it for most things especially if its things like fruit and veg which are already worked out.

Eric_Pisch

ajaxgeezer wrote: »

I think WW is for those of us who are lazy about the science - the plan is a sort of line of best fit. I've not been around this board for a couple of years so don't know you Eric but from the couple of posts I've read, it seems like you are remarkably clued up about the science of food and have made it work for you because you know what is in what and how it fits your routine.

I got feed up constantly yo-yo'ing, of spending the best part of 15 years going through the cycle of feeling starving hungry then putting on more weight than i had lost just like 99% of everybody who trys to loose weight.

I wanted to know why the advice given to us just didnt work, so I applied my functioning brain to the problem. I looked at what's changed in the modern diet over the last 60 years to cause the obesity epidemic (400% increase in carb intake, the majority from refined carbs) and I then looked at how we used to eat, ie what we evolved to eat. You soon realise that the low fat diet is basically a lie (no scientific research to support it) and that animal fats rather than being bad for us are in fact very good for us (as long a your not eating refined sugars).

So I came up with my own diet which eventually I realised was being done by many people and its best described as a modified paleo diet.