weight loss

Eric_Pisch

victory wrote: »

Eric Is it bad to have a penchant for reduced fat creme fraiche morrisons 50ml serving 83 cals sugars 1.9 fats 7.4 sats 4.6 and salt trace, I have eaten the whole pot not sure it is a slimming world allowed but I had to buy a pot for a recipe (1 tbsp) and now love it on fruit etc and have nearly eaten the whole pot to myself:D

if you can work it into your cal allowance then its not a problem, sat fats are good for you so there not an issue

if your eating it with a tonne of fruit it could be carb craving related

and sorry for ignoring you it was 5am

Eric_Pisch

lolly101 wrote: »

Huge post alert!!!



Yes, I remember DS's dietician explaining this to me as one of the reasons why we should only eat sugary foods with meals.

That method is pretty OTT Eric, lol! Although I guess it is worth it if it is a food that you eat often. I've probably done my blood sugars 30 times in the last 18 months or so, and no matter when I do it (before or after food) they have always been between 5.1 and 5.9 - apart from xmas day when it reached 6.5 after a huge meal. That really suprises me (knowing how much DS's readings vary), do you think that such a small variation means that I'd struggle to measure the effects of foods? As it would be quite interesting to test out a few foods that I eat (or would eat) quite often.

those are normal to low BS readings which is excellent which should mean you have good insulin control, however its not possible to tell how much insulin the body is using to keep the readings like that, all i can surmise is that if the figures get high then your going to be making a lot more insulin, however in reality its far more complicated than this but since its the only method we can use to check blood sugars its probably a reasonable rule of thumb.

Eric_Pisch

margaretclare wrote: »

Vixarooni, you're right, we knew little about food 60 years ago and, for most people, it was a question of getting enough food rather than too much/wrong kinds. The big difference was activity. People walked or cycled. Few people had cars. Normal life had enough activity built into it. If you think of the 'paleo' diet, people way way back, our remote ancestors in fact, would have used up as much energy searching for food and preparing it as they gained in energy when they'd eaten it.

well my local supermarket is 7 miles away so if i walked there and back with my 6 large bags of shopping i think i would beat them for energy expenditure lol thank goodness for the car

margaretclare

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

well my local supermarket is 7 miles away so if i walked there and back with my 6 large bags of shopping i think i would beat them for energy expenditure lol thank goodness for the car

That's another difference. There were no supermarkets!

Eric_Pisch

margaretclare wrote: »

That's another difference. There were no supermarkets!

nature doesn't take credit cards

Matryoshka

There is a lady at my gym. She is 5'11" and quite slim. Today, she paid me a compliment saying I had lost a lot of weight. I replied yeah. I weighed in this morning at 9 stones 10 Ibs. Told her only 3 Ibs left to hit my target weight. She said, "Wow"! She is 12 stones. I mean, when I was 12 stones, I looked hugh/fat but I am 5' 4".

How can she be 12 stones and look slim?

Matryoshka

Matryoshka wrote: »

There's a doctor's surgery next to my work so I popped in this morning and used their scales.

It recorded me as 61kg :eek: I had on jeans and my jumper as have a cold and couldn't be bothered to take it off. If it's accurate, I am 1kg away from my target weight of 60kg :eek:

What do you all reckon? Should I take this reading? :rotfl:

I usually weigh on a Friday at the gym. I weighed in this morning at 9 stones 10 Ibs. Only 3 Ibs left to hit my target weight. I think the doctor's surgery scales are near accurate so will use that every Wednesday morning, if I'm at work :j

vixarooni

Matroyshka: Those extra inches make A LOT of difference, plus body shape. If you looked at my top half im a good 10, but my bottom half carries all of my weight so i look really fat. My friend looks really thin and weighs more than i do, but she's taller and more of an apple shape.

lolly101

Matryoshka wrote: »

There is a lady at my gym. She is 5'11" and quite slim. Today, she paid me a compliment saying I had lost a lot of weight. I replied yeah. I weighed in this morning at 9 stones 10 Ibs. Told her only 3 Ibs left to hit my target weight. She said, "Wow"! She is 12 stones. I mean, when I was 12 stones, I looked hugh/fat but I am 5' 4".

How can she be 12 stones and look slim?

When I was a size 10 I weighed just under 11 stone! And even at that weight I looked too thin, I'm 5'7, but I also have a large frame, so being too thin just doesn't suit me.

Imagine enlarging a photo, to keep it in proportion you have to increase both the height and the width, so someone as tall as that woman would have to weigh a lot more - she'd probably look ill if she didn't!

bettyB_2

hello gang! forgot to weigh in again this week, sorry! feel a bit lighter but i might just be imagining it! (or wishful thinking!)

Victory if i were you i'd call it Scooty the scooter but i am not very creative haha!