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ms_night_ryder

hi fred, i did ask if i could be allowed back on the 5lb, you prob missed it am i allowed? i'm missing from the list.

vixarooni

franby64 wrote: »

Hi

Can I come back please?

I weighed in this morning and was 13st 1lb. I would like this to be my new starting weight please Fred. I won't join any challenges this month but will log my exercise.

Sadly, I can't claim any real acheivement as this weight loss is due to spending two days last week in bed with a migraine (throwing up, the lot), and one of these days was my birthday .

I have not had a migraine for ages though I was plagued with them when I was at school (some time ago!). Now I'm worrying why I had one which is making me even more tense! Hope I'm not going to get menopausal migraines:(:(.

Anyway, I'm back to normal now, feeling positive, and quite pleased with being a little bit lighter. My new target is 9st 8lb (3.5st to lose) and I'm trying to lose the first stone by 1 Sept when my little brother is getting married! So I do have an incentive as he's invited everybody!!

Well done to the losers this week and good luck to everybody else.

Happy birthday, shame you were in bed for all of it un well Good luck with the weight loss, you'll make that stone i'm sure of it!

I wish i knew someone who's getting married. I never dress up Last wedding i went to was my brothers, almost 12 years ago!

fredsnail

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

hi fred, i did ask if i could be allowed back on the 5lb, you prob missed it am i allowed? i'm missing from the list.

You did ask and I have added you - but you didn't post a result this week (or I missed it) so you don't show on the chart.

ms_night_ryder

fredsnail wrote: »

You did ask and I have added you - but you didn't post a result this week (or I missed it) so you don't show on the chart.

My bad fred. i forgot to put it in red bold as normal, will post saturdays results hopefully it will be a loss.

Not too sure though as i have been up and down on food, but have exercised, so i am at least hoping for a sts on sat *gulp*

margaretclare

Everyone should see a BBC2 programme (part of a series) aired last evening: 'The Men who made us Fat'.

Very, very interesting and very relevant.

fredsnail

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

My bad fred. i forgot to put it in red bold as normal, will post saturdays results hopefully it will be a loss.

Not too sure though as i have been up and down on food, but have exercised, so i am at least hoping for a sts on sat *gulp*

Sorry I missed it - I saw the bit to add you on the 5lb challenge and missed the result

Can you add it to Saturdays weigh in and I'll add it on to next week?

Lois_Lane

margaretclare wrote: »

Everyone should see a BBC2 programme (part of a series) aired last evening: 'The Men who made us Fat'.

Very, very interesting and very relevant.

Hi Margaret

I've just watched this on iPlayer and I was shocked, especially about how much power the food industry has and how much they've influenced the way we eat.

OH and I were talking earlier about how eating habits have changed since we were children, when we only ate white bread, sometimes with dripping, had chips cooked in lard and were much less conscious of 'healthy' eating than we are now. Yet obesity was far less common then.

Of course, that was before the advent of fast food outlets and the snacking culture that we've talked about here before.

We had sweets, but only now and again - if I ran an errand to the shop for my Mum she would let me have 3d for going, and I used to spend half my pocket money on sweets and save the other half for other things, so I only had sweets 2 or 3 times a week at most.

Nowadays I see children being given sweets all the time as well as fizzy drinks and crisps and eating fastfood on a regular basis.

But what's the answer? How can we turn this around, especially when any move to educate people to stop eating so much will be blocked by the food industry, arguing that it isn't their fault.

Hmmm :think:

LL

margaretclare

But what's the answer? How can we turn this around, especially when any move to educate people to stop eating so much will be blocked by the food industry, arguing that it isn't their fault.

Lois, I don't know what the answer is. That BBC2 programme (first of a series) was an 'eureka' moment for me. It explained so many things. Even then, the idea of the 'obesity epidemic' and what to do about it is not new. There have been other TV programmes which I've watched - 'Supersize vs Superskinny' and 'Secret Eaters' both of which talk of being a 'crusade' against the obesity epidemic. What was new to me was the explanation about fructose - that was the artificial kind of fructose made from corn syrup. For some time now I've been very careful about reading the percentage amount of added sugar in various items - low-fat yogurts, for instance. Muller light and Perle de Lait, which I've chosen because they have less sugar than many of the others, both contain fructose, Muller Light more than Perle de Lait. I will not eat them ever again! I'm going back to Yeo Valley: https://www.yeovalley.co.uk/ I emailed them to clarify: they do not use any fructose at all apart from that which occurs naturally in the fruit they add to some of their products. They use organic sugar or honey but no fructose. Methinks closer reading of labels is called for!

Apart from that, it's personal. I have a rooted and long-lasting objection to being controlled, stereotyped or manipulated by anybody at all, and the advertising depicted on the BBC2 programme is manipulation and control. Yes, we were taught not to eat between meals, not to eat in the street, especially in school uniform, but the whole idea of eating 'meals' as such seems to have gone out of the window. Even eating at a table rather than on your lap while watching TV seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

We're the older generation and it's no good saying 'we did it this way' because we grew up in a different world. There's a thread running elsewhere on Martin's site headed 'What people ate in the 50s' and if you read that you get an idea of how things have changed in a few short decades and it has been the result of business decisions as much as political decisions, probably more so.

The current series on ITV1 'Secret Eaters' highlights the fact that people eat in a kind of mindless way and have no idea, until the evidence is put before them collected by CCTV and private detectives, how much they eat, what, when and where. One other 'eureka' moment came when someone said that 'fast food contains no fibre'. No, it doesn't, and that explains how it can be so easily swallowed and digested almost without being noticed, resulting in the 'feeling full' mechanisms in the stomach, liver and brain being bypassed. There is the emotional pleasure from high flavour and because there is no 'full' feeling, people want to carry on with the pleasure without noticing that they've taken in huge amounts of calories.

DH just went down to our local baker who produces what he calls a GI loaf. Word has got around, you have to be there soon after they open at 7 am or he's sold out of the night's baking - yesterday there was only one small loaf left at 10 am. DH was there at 8 am and there were 4 loaves left - he bought 3 and put them into the freezer. This bread will have been baked fresh overnight/early hours of the morning, has no additives or preservatives for 'shelf life' and hasn't been trucked halfway around the kingdom before it gets to the consumer.

So we are just going to have to be a lot more careful reading food labels in supermarkets. DH and I don't eat between meals at all, we weren't brought up to it and we've never bought into the 'snacking' or 'grazing' habit. He knows the effect on health - before he was diagnosed Type II diabetic in 1980 he spent hours behind the wheel, eating and drinking unsuitable things as and when he could, probably drinking coca-cola, which has been shown to be a baddie!! And that was after he'd been a very fit, active, sporty young guy in his younger days. Just shows what an unhealthy diet and inactive lifestyle can do.

ms_night_ryder

im well pleased with my STS I have pigged out this week, must try better next week, have exercised i think thats why i sts, onwards and upwards and all that

Frodobaggins

Forgot to post yesterday 30 mins gymophobics.