Want to get fit, shead stones and eat healthy for the new year

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supermassive wrote: »

The problem is, and this is scientifically proven, that people don't have an 'off' switch for certain foods. I'm a food addict and could eat fatty, sugary foods until the cows come home (or until I turn into one), but the way to make it easier not to overindulge, it to just not indulge. Any step that's not a step forward is, indeed, a step back.

The way I looked at it back then was that flour absorbs and expands, so what's it going to do inside me?

There are no foods that aid weight loss in a healthy and effective manner that contain a large percentage of flour, potato or refined sugar. None at all.

I'd say allowing yourself these things every now and then (and I stress NOW AND THEN, not daily or weekly) is brilliant if you want to maintain your weight for the rest of your life, but in terms of losing the weight in the first place, it's only ever going to hold you back and never propel you forwards to a position at which you'll be happy maintaining. It'll always slow you down.

Ive lost 4 stones in 18 months with the occasional bit of junk food and alcohol.

Im not so good with an off filter either which is why I don't buy it and have it in the house, however if I want to go out for a meal and have a glass of wine or a dessert, I'll have it.

However, there are people who if they didn't have that splurge now and then, when they were faced with junk, they'd just eat any they could get their hands on.

I promote clean eating in the fitness classes I teach, however if someone comes to me and says oops I managed to work my way through a pack of crisps/sweets/bottle of wine last night Id just say don't beat yourself up over it and get back on it.

There are people who feel guilty eating any amount of junk food. I don't, there's no point.

Id say my diet is probably 90 per cent clean and 10 per cent not, it works for me, people need to find the balance they can maintain.