Trying to lose weight.....what exercise.....

Rikki

There_Goes_Trouble wrote: »

I'm finding it useful! Please keep going!

Ditto

...Think of a different breakfast for me I hate shredded wheat.

murphydog999

There_Goes_Trouble wrote: »

I'm finding it useful! Please keep going!

Oh , well the thread started about fitness, not food, and I think/hope the OP is on his way now.........unless he wants to continue?

Rikki

murphydog999 wrote: »

Oh , well the thread started about fitness, not food, and I think/hope the OP is on his way now.........unless he wants to continue?

I didn't mean to make it about food but I am interested in which foods are bet suited to weight loss along with exercise.

There_Goes_Trouble

Fitness and food go together don't they? No point focussing on fitness if you're stuffing yourself with the wrong foods.

Katexx

Rikki wrote: »

Ditto

...Think of a different breakfast for me I hate shredded wheat.

Well, low carb works best for me to maintain/lose weight, and I usually have 1-2 fried eggs (with a couple of sprays of 1-calorie-spray olive oil) and 2 extra thick bacon medallions or turkey rashers. Once a week I have porridge with sultanas and cinnamon in for a bit of fibre and to mix it up a bit, I get bored of the same thing every day! Sometimes I'll have plain greek yoghurt with various stuff mixed in (seeds/nuts/sultanas/oats/other dried fruit/etc).

murphydog999

This is a huge subject, a lot down to personal circumstances, so what not to eat is easier to start off with. As I was saying to the OP, from his menu it is based around grains, sugars and starch, all of which convert to glucose/sugar very quickly. These not only make you hungry again very quickly, they will also increase your insulin responses and - esp. without exercise - make you fat. So........

If you avoid......
Anything made with flour as a main ingredient (white or wholemeal).
Anything with sugar as an ingredient.
Sugar!
Most fruits, the exception is berries - low in carbs, high in anti-oxidents, vits and mins and fibre.
Limit tuber veg i.e. potatoes/parsnips/carrots.
Anything made from a grain. Def cereals and cereal bars!
Fizzy drinks.
Beer/lager/dark spirits/liquers/baileys-type drinks.
Anything labelled 'low-fat,' 'no-fat,' 'no/low-sugar,' pretty much anything made for the 'diet' industry/made for people specifically on a 'diet!' They are generally full of sugar (or/and it's derivatives), chemicals and artificial gunk!
Processed or pre-made/manufactured food.
Fats that have been chemically altered, which includes 'spreads,' canola/vegetable/sunflower oils - most fats, except animal fat, become unstable at high temperatures, and are all high in damaging and inflammatory omega 6.

I've got a feeling you are going to say what's left! But there is plenty of lovely, healthy fresh meats, fish, cheese, eggs, veggies, nuts, herbs and spices to choose from. Foods that are as close in form when purchased as nature intended.

Does that help?

There_Goes_Trouble

murphydog999 wrote: »

Does that help?

YES!!! Massively! I was getting a bit lost in the low carb stuff I've been reading, and I just needed an easy summary I can print out and stick on the kitchen cupboard to glance at!! This is perfect!

Thank you!

margaretclare

Start the day with protein. So-called breakfast cereals, 99% of which are loaded with sugar, have been 'sold' to us, but really, they are no good for a busy morning and result in hunger at coffee-time, so the habit of snacking in the office has become the norm!

A boiled egg is dead simple to start the day.

We have been brainwashed into thinking fat is the baddie. Watch the programme series that started last week on BBC2 'The Men who made us Fat', the second this Thursday. It's an absolute revelation.

Rikki

What is your suggestion to eat before exercise?

I normally eat about an hour before going for a swim and eat carbohydrates rather than protein based foods.

baby_frogmella

Rikki wrote: »

What is your suggestion to eat before exercise?
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Take one of these and i guarantee you'll swim all day