Cambridge Diet

Duncan0808

I just received this on an email and thought you may find it amusing, it made me smile.

I love this Doctor !

Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... Don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually.. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.



Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies.. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q:Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit.
Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain.
Bottoms up!

Q:Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!!
.... Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?








Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.


Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A:Are you crazy?
HELLO
Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around!


Q:Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had aboutfood and diets.


And remember:


'Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO, What a Ride'




AND......


For those of you who watch what you eat , here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.


1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.


2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.


3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.


4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.


5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.


CONCLUSION


Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

(Land_of)_Maz

Duncan0808 wrote: »

Wow Maz, I am really impressed with your running.
I think I remember reading you only started last year??? Is that correct? and now you are running 10miles. Thats amazing well done, and if you don't mind me asking, were you reasonably fit before you started running or have you built this up from scratch?

I spent a few hours in the garden yesterday, cutting down overgrown trees, which was hard work, but I would love to be able to run, it always looks so effortless to others, but I just seem to end up like a wreck after about 30 seconds.

I am up to 6 miles hun, which is 10k.... not up to 10miles yet... but one day... maybe!!!

At the risk of taking over the thread with my running history i will try to be brief...

2004 - decided to do a Race for Life 5k, no previous running experience at all.... started by running for 30secs, walking for a minute... then built it up to run a minute walk a minute type of thing...... then walked less and less til it was all running... or maybe a wee 30sec walk after 10 mins.... did the 5k no problem, i am very slow though compared to most folks!! That year i also foolishly entered a 10k race, completed it but it was hellish hard and was under prepared... Stopped after that

2005 - started again from scratch, did another RFL... stopped again

2006 - as above

2008 - as above but determined not to "lose it" so kept training and in October joined a local JogScotland running group... so was able to train thru the winter in a club environment and did a 5k on 28th December at seaside! mad runners!!! it was fffffreezing!! This pic is me, complete with Xmas boppers!!! note the very red face! this was the end! note the big tummy too!!


Have only recently upped my milage again this time with a view to completing a 10km race next week... i have a few lined up for this year actually... can't wait!

All of the above training was done somewhere in the region of 16stones and although i was active and maybe did 1 aerobics class a week type thing, i was never ever ever fit..... even when i did the Xmas race i was probably at 16 and a half stone, so even though i could do it, i guess i couldn't possibly be that fit.... now i have lost some weight my running has improved a lot more and i suppose will only get better....

If you want to try it, just go out one time. make sure you have a second hand on your watch or use your phone.... run/walk/run every 30 secs up to 10 minutes and walk back home.... and see how you feel ... keep a note/spreadsheet and you'll soon see marked improvements and be out the house for longer....

Re the CD and running, i tend to take 4 shakes on days when i am doing a run or a proper swim before work, or a gym session... and i've had no ill effects/lack of energy.. Although i did skip runclub in the first week of CD as felt pretty bleugh.

My CDC says, you'll not lose more weight by combining exercise and CD as you're already losing loads but it does have other health benefits such as toning up saggy areas and so on, cardio health etc... not to mention giving you something to do that does not involve food!!



Sorry for boring everyone else!!!! I'm done now!!!

(Land_of)_Maz

Faye2109 wrote: »

Hey Guys, got weighed today and stayed the same am abit gutted but i wasnt on track i did have a couple of drinks AGAIN and a nibble of a spring roll which was looking at me
Well back on it for good this week so keeping positive
well done on all your weight loses
Week 6 and stone and half off x

Faye, a stone and a half in 6 weeks is great, bang on track!!! Well done, and i'm sure you'll get a good loss this week..... keep us posted!

Duncan0808

Thanks Maz, for the great explanation.
We have a treadmill at home, I think I may well give it a try.
I think it will assist weight loss, certainly long term, the more muscle that you have the better you are at burning the energy you consume, plus as you say the toning benefits will make you feel so much better as the weight keeps coming off - you will have lovely muscle tone underneath and it will look great once it gets to the top!

Love the picture, and your still smiling, so you look like you enjoyed it even if it was freezing,:T

welsh_cake

Oh Maz you make me tired just reading about all your fitness!! I still haven't done any exercise really. Been so busy with little one keeping her entertained that it just totally went out the window this week.

WI tonight for me - I don't feel like I have lost a bean, but we will see.

(Land_of)_Maz

hey welshcake.... (can't call you welshy now as we have two of ya, welshwobble and welshcake!)

I bet you have a decent loss this week... it's not every week that you actually "feel" like you've lost something but the scales can be surprising! fingers crossed hun! Re the kids and getting any fitness time in, it is a case of "right mum's a selfish mare! i will be back in an hour" or maybe that's just me!!


Awww duncs, you never said you had a treadmill, well get on with it missus!!! what are you waiting for! I wish wish wish i had a tready, but then we have no room, so dunno where it would go.... could possibly have it in our room but i'd worry about coming thru the cieling!! lol!! would need a nice downstairs stone floor for me i think!!!

mrs_t_10

Hello, hello, hello. Hope we all had good weekends.

Its my 5th wi tonight but my sp's tell me i'll probably stay the same Bit miffed but i've had really bad bum problems again (sorry if tmi) and it has only been a 6 day week for me. Still, as long as i dont have a gain then its all good i suppose.

welsh_cake

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

hey welshcake.... (can't call you welshy now as we have two of ya, welshwobble and welshcake!)

I bet you have a decent loss this week... it's not every week that you actually "feel" like you've lost something but the scales can be surprising! fingers crossed hun! Re the kids and getting any fitness time in, it is a case of "right mum's a selfish mare! i will be back in an hour" or maybe that's just me!!

Think you are right. I will definately go later and if not, then i WILL go on the wii fit and do the step aerobics thing whilst my soaps are on !

I think I will be doing SS + a couple of times this week. Gotta eat something. I was thinking to myself that this diet isn't getting any easier, but then thought back to week 1 where I was practically crying to my OH begging him to go out and get me some food - we've all come such a long way.

I think what is annoying me the most is that my clothes are still fitting me. Some of my trousers are a bit loose, but nothing major. I just want them to be huge on me and it just isn't happening. Its only been 4 weeks on this diet for me and its been a loooooong 4 weeks - think i am expecting miracles.

(Land_of)_Maz

welsh_cake wrote: »

I think what is annoying me the most is that my clothes are still fitting me. Some of my trousers are a bit loose, but nothing major. I just want them to be huge on me and it just isn't happening. Its only been 4 weeks on this diet for me and its been a loooooong 4 weeks - think i am expecting miracles.

but if you were anything like me, things were pretty tight in the first place... denial of going into the next size up! so in actual fact you've gone down a good size and a bit probably from "too tight but wearing them anyway" to "just right" to "too big but wearable"

i'm still wearing all the same tops to work, anything new i've bought has been in a smaller size but all my old work jumpers are still wearable IYKWIM....

it's a lifetime change... you're emerging gradually hun, not converting instantaneously...!

Duncan0808

Good Luck on your weigh in Mrs T, bum problems don't help on this type of diet but try and hang in there. Don't forget to hold your stomach in when you get on the scales.
Does anyone else do this?? I always do it.

Welshcake, I'm with Maz on this one, I don't feel like my pants are getting any looser yet, but they had gone very tight, I have got a stretchy fitted top on today that was very stretched, and now isn't quite so stretched (except for around my boobs), but I know exactly what you mean.
I had lost 9lbs and expected my jeans to not be quite so uncomfortable at the weekend, when they were I wasn't best pleased!
The diet is sooo restrictive, you do expect miracles, after failing so often I have broken my journey into chunks. I've made a 6 week chart, with starting weights, days and targets. After completing 10.5 days today I have completed 1 quarter of my 6 week chart. That sounds like quite a good chunk, and to only have 3 more of these to do dosent sound so bad as 32 days. I survived the first quarter so there is no reason to fail on the next one, or the next one, until I finish the first 6 weeks.
I have 105 days left to my holiday. I have already completed 10 days, so I have managed to complete almost 1 tenth of my journey.

I know it is only myself I need to convince and its all just mind tricks to keep you going but this is what is helping me at the moment. I do it with a lot of things, when I was swimming I would swim a mile which is 66 lengths, I do the same thing and count down in 11's as I am swimming.

Hope this helps - it really will be worth it in the end.