Anyone else on a diet and struggling?

purpleshoes_2

Tink2 wrote: »

Low carbs don't really work for me, been there done that lol

I find carbs more filling than protein

Protein is more filling than carbs. Which surprised me, Im just back from a week away and I had 3 meals a day with the bulk of them being made up of protein. I didnt feel hungry at any time between meals. Ive made protein more of my diet within the last year but over the last few weeks Ive increased my protein intake again and Im not getting hungry between meals.

With carbs you'll get that satisfied feeling and it will wear off quite quickly, particularly if you are eating white carbs such as bread, rice and pasta. That won't happen if you eat more protein. I know there are carbs that are better for you than others, but people dont need to eat as much carbohydrate as they do. The eat well plate I think suggests that people eat around 55-60 per cent of carbs a day, people can manage on much less than that.

I was at a nutrition talk a few weeks ago as Im doing a bootcamp as a participant and the principles we are following are Paleo and the instructor giving the talk said that the eat well plate was introduced at a time when the nation didnt have much money, after the second world war and a lot of people's plates were made up of starchy carbs such as potatoes. But its not been updated much since then if at all and people are now living much more sedentary lives than they did then.

You may think that protein wouldnt fill you up. I certainly didn't. But Im not getting the food cravings I had when I was eating more carbohydrates, even the good carbs.

Sometimes we need to make changes that we are resistant to. I used to eat a lot of carbs because it was just something I did. Bread, potatoes etc. Also, if you shift your focus about it being a "diet" and look at it as just the way you eat, you are more likely to keep weight off and not cave in.

Also, a lot of people are wheat intolerant, people might do well on diets where there's a lot of starchy carbs, but even though its low fat, it might not be that good for you.

purpleshoes_2

3raser wrote: »

Which is totally fine, especially if you are making it with whole wheat pasta, most important things to cut out are your refined carbs, pizza, ready meals, burgers, all the stuff with chemicals in as this will make your insulin rise and fall more times than your body knows what to do with, hence the cravings, try baby steps and cut out a couple of things you can live with out for a bet, my first thing was bread and I was thinking how can I live without bread, it was part of my everyday diet, now I don't think about it and I make wraps for work, the interesting thing is , when I eat bread now, I bloat to the point my loose jeans become tight, I would suggest googling gluten and the effect it has and why it is put into our foods, understanding the stuff we eat can help us make the right decisions.....you can always have a big butty during your power hour

Im on an eating plan just now, nothing processed, based on the paleo principles. I didnt think I would manage it, seemed very restrictive, but its been fine so far.

We were told to avoid margarine, as its really not good for you. If you leave a tub of margarine out of the fridge for a few weeks, it wont go off. The power of marketing makes people think that certain foods are good for us and others not. Milk as well, to lose fat sugar is added in, so full fat milk is better for people than skimmed or semi skimmed (Im sure this has already been said earlier on in the thread).

Nutrition is really important. Not just calories or getting enough fruit and veg, the quality of the food you eat and whether your body can actually tolerate it as well, people often get cravings for food they are actually intolerant to.

First_Trouble

purpleshoes wrote: »

Nutrition is really important. Not just calories or getting enough fruit and veg, the quality of the food you eat and whether your body can actually tolerate it as well, people often get cravings for food they are actually intolerant to.

We are going to start using some of the lacto-free cheese and milk. Believe my husband is intolerant to certain dairy products so thought might as well give these products a try, I will be making the switch with him.

JBD

purpleshoes wrote: »

Im on an eating plan just now, nothing processed, based on the paleo principles. I didnt think I would manage it, seemed very restrictive, but its been fine so far.

We were told to avoid margarine, as its really not good for you. If you leave a tub of margarine out of the fridge for a few weeks, it wont go off. The power of marketing makes people think that certain foods are good for us and others not. Milk as well, to lose fat sugar is added in, so full fat milk is better for people than skimmed or semi skimmed (Im sure this has already been said earlier on in the thread).

Nutrition is really important. Not just calories or getting enough fruit and veg, the quality of the food you eat and whether your body can actually tolerate it as well, people often get cravings for food they are actually intolerant to.

I don't think that is correct about semi skimmed milk. Fat is skimmed off ,making it more watery, but sugar isn't added to it.

sweetme

JBD wrote: »

I don't think that is correct about semi skimmed milk. Fat is skimmed off ,making it more watery, but sugar isn't added to it.

Milk contains lactose, anything ending with 'ose is a sugar, glucose for example. Full fat milk does contain less lactose than semi skimmed milk does. It's not necessarily fat that makes you fat, it's the combination of sugars and fat that make you store weight.

adouglasmhor

sweetme wrote: »

Milk contains lactose, anything ending with 'ose is a sugar, glucose for example. Full fat milk does contain less lactose than semi skimmed milk does. It's not necessarily fat that makes you fat, it's the combination of sugars and fat that make you store weight.

They don't add it though, it just gets to a higher concentration than in FF milk by virtue of being left behind whil the fat is taken away, protien is higher as well.

Anyway I don't use any dairy so it's no skin off my nose.

rash161

purpleshoes wrote: »

Milk as well, to lose fat sugar is added in, so full fat milk is better for people than skimmed or semi skimmed (Im sure this has already been said earlier on in the thread).

They don't add sugar to milk but they add it to a lot of "low fat", "fat free" type junk, fat is flavour, fat fills you up, removing the fat means that these things are replaced by chemicals or sugar, the majority of the western world is addicted to sugar, that's the problem. Sugar, combined with a western lifestyle makes you fat, weak and diseased.

Just don't eat anything that's not naturally available in the form that you're buying it in. If it's in a box or packet, it's more than likely bad for you.

As for dairy, pasteurisation is also bad, get raw milk if you can.

In simple terms, human intervention is not the answer to anything, let nature do its thing and don't support corporations that play god.

lantanna

I always struggle!!! I find though if I plan a treat for like a Saturday night - meal out etc then I am goodish the rest of the time coz I know I have that treat coming up and want to enjoy it.


It is not easy at all - I've futtered about with the same 1lb off and on the last four weeks.


I generally find whatever is going on at my life at the time really affects it and when I'm good I can be really really on it and when I'm bad I'm really really off it!!

purpleshoes_2

JBD wrote: »

I don't think that is correct about semi skimmed milk. Fat is skimmed off ,making it more watery, but sugar isn't added to it.

Well, thats what he said, just repeating it.

He said avoid anything skimmed or semi skimmed.

First_Trouble

Has anyone else noticed how difficult it is to buy normal 'full-fat' yoghurt's? Apart from Activia which can get boring having the same yoghurt all the time. Oh and the really big pots that aren't feasible to take to work.