Becoming Healthy Again

Breakfast: 3 Boiled Eggs with Mayo +3 Lightly Crumbed Chicken Breasts
Lunch: 2 Poached Eggs with Tomotao and Pesto + Full Cream Yogurt
Dinner: Pizza made from chicken breasts as baste with toppings = mushrooms, cheddar, feta, avo and bacon
 
Lino said:
Breakfast: 3 Boiled Eggs with Mayo +3 Lightly Crumbed Chicken Breasts
Lunch: 2 Poached Eggs with Tomotao and Pesto + Full Cream Yogurt
Dinner: Pizza made from chicken breasts as baste with toppings = mushrooms, cheddar, feta, avo and bacon
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How's the stomach?
 
Lino said:
Has been a day filled with food, been quite hungry today. Probably over my daily calorie limit

Breakfast: Pork Sausages with a Pork Chop
Lunch: Biltong and Coke Zero (was out an about)
Dinner: Gem Squash with Chicken and Boerewors
Snack: Egg Mayo
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Your meals are extremely heavy in animal proteins and products. That breakfast would be better imo as a poached/boiled whole egg or two with some lentils and spinach. Is there a reason you're going so ott with meat / animal products in almost every meal?
 
It wasn't sustainable. I just got to my aunts place and she and her husband are quite overweight. They're on this strict diet where are all they eat is yoghurt and vegetables. It's ridiculous. They'll do it for a month and fall right into their old ways.

I'm eating steers while typing this ;)
 
RandomGRK said:
It wasn't sustainable. I just got to my aunts place and she and her husband are quite overweight. They're on this strict diet where are all they eat is yoghurt and vegetables. It's ridiculous. They'll do it for a month and fall right into their old ways.

I'm eating steers while typing this ;)
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I'm lucky/cursed.

I can eat what I want and not gain weight. Problem is when I was gym'ng hard it was insane the amount of food I had to consume to gain a little weight. Roids helped a lot. but once I'm off the weight just goes tits up. I'm not skinny by any means, but gaining weight is a damn mission.
 
saor said:
Your meals are extremely heavy in animal proteins and products. That breakfast would be better imo as a poached/boiled whole egg or two with some lentils and spinach. Is there a reason you're going so ott with meat / animal products in almost every meal?
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BECAUSE ANIMALS ARE DELICIOUS
 
Pitbull said:
I'm lucky/cursed.

I can eat what I want and not gain weight. Problem is when I was gym'ng hard it was insane the amount of food I had to consume to gain a little weight. Roids helped a lot. but once I'm off the weight just goes tits up. I'm not skinny by any means, but gaining weight is a damn mission.
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I'm the opposite. I need to be really disciplined to not pick up any weight but if I gym just a little I get big very quickly. I mean, I only gym twice a week and play soccer once a week and I'm bigger than my mate who runs twice a week and gyms 4 times a week.

If only I had the desire to workout more often I'm pretty sure I could achieve some great results quite easily. Damn my laziness to hell
 
I went through a lot of this and I am a bit surprised that everyone (it seems) thought that not having exercise as part of a weight-loss regime was a good idea? Or not bringing it up at all? Without physical activity, any diet is just a temporary activity; that will ultimately lead to recidivism (a harsh word, but relevant I think).

I need to lose weight. A lot of it. But simply using a diet to do so does not cross my mind for a second. This comes from me being very overweight as a youngster; and then losing it all, without even really trying, just by being physically active. Yes - it's easier when you are young - but dieting is just a bad cycle of weight loss and then gaining more.

You have to exercise, and eat more healthily. The irony of course being that if you exercise enough you will find you eventually can eat more without major consequences.
 
Splinter said:
I went through a lot of this and I am a bit surprised that everyone (it seems) thought that not having exercise as part of a weight-loss regime was a good idea? Or not bringing it up at all? Without physical activity, any diet is just a temporary activity; that will ultimately lead to recidivism (a harsh word, but relevant I think).

I need to lose weight. A lot of it. But simply using a diet to do so does not cross my mind for a second. This comes from me being very overweight as a youngster; and then losing it all, without even really trying, just by being physically active. Yes - it's easier when you are young - but dieting is just a bad cycle of weight loss and then gaining more.

You have to exercise, and eat more healthily. The irony of course being that if you exercise enough you will find you eventually can eat more without major consequences.
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While I agree that exercise is a vital part of an overall healthy lifestyle. It is pretty solidly shown fact that diet alone can take care of 90% of your weight loss needs. This is of course the LCHF type diet I am talking about here. The eating lifestyle is 100% sustainable and the chance of recidivism is pretty low seeing as you are eating really great food, and not starving yourself of calories.

You don't actually have to exercise to lose weight though. There are people that exercise religiously, but eat badly, that might appear good from the outside; but might have a heart attack at 50. Then there are people that eat really healthily and don't break a sweat for decades of their lives; Living to 80 or 90.

Both exercise and eating well, when put together, will always give you the best levels of health and wellbeing. But to say that Exercise is specifically needed is not true. It is the healthy eating that is the necessity. If someone is finding it hard to commit to both at once, in their lifestyle revamp. Eating should always be the first one to get right.
I have seen so many overweight people, hit the gym to get thin. Then never get anywhere because their go to meals are high in carbs, and because their bodies are reliant on sugars to function, they end up binging to fight the training exhaustion and lethargy. It is a vicious cycle that usually ends up in them abandoning gym altogether.
 
SoulTax said:
While I agree that exercise is a vital part of an overall healthy lifestyle. It is pretty solidly shown fact that diet alone can take care of 90% of your weight loss needs. This is of course the LCHF type diet I am talking about here. The eating lifestyle is 100% sustainable and the chance of recidivism is pretty low seeing as you are eating really great food, and not starving yourself of calories.

You don't actually have to exercise to lose weight though. There are people that exercise religiously, but eat badly, that might appear good from the outside; but might have a heart attack at 50. Then there are people that eat really healthily and don't break a sweat for decades of their lives; Living to 80 or 90.

Both exercise and eating well, when put together, will always give you the best levels of health and wellbeing. But to say that Exercise is specifically needed is not true. It is the healthy eating that is the necessity. If someone is finding it hard to commit to both at once, in their lifestyle revamp. Eating should always be the first one to get right.
I have seen so many overweight people, hit the gym to get thin. Then never get anywhere because their go to meals are high in carbs, and because their bodies are reliant on sugars to function, they end up binging to fight the training exhaustion and lethargy. It is a vicious cycle that usually ends up in them abandoning gym altogether.
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Ok - I disagree. But only in that we are talking about two different things perhaps. A "diet" is popularly known as something you undertake to lose weight by reducing your caloric intake significantly. You appear to be talking about a balanced/scientific dietary consumption. A lifestyle change. I'm sure "scientific fact" can show what you are talking about, and of course it is "100% sustainable". So is anorexia, in it's own way.

I could quote examples of fat, bad-eating people who live to 80/90 as well (my departed gran at age of 90 being one). Not sure why you arguing with me about the fact that most people who go on diets lose weight, and then gain more on the rebound. Exercise is extremely beneficial, and when combined with the dietary lifestyle you are talking about is even more beneficial.
 
Splinter said:
Ok - I disagree. But only in that we are talking about two different things perhaps. A "diet" is popularly known as something you undertake to lose weight by reducing your caloric intake significantly. You appear to be talking about a balanced/scientific dietary consumption. A lifestyle change. I'm sure "scientific fact" can show what you are talking about, and of course it is "100% sustainable". So is anorexia, in it's own way.

I could quote examples of fat, bad-eating people who live to 80/90 as well (my departed gran at age of 90 being one). Not sure why you arguing with me about the fact that most people who go on diets lose weight, and then gain more on the rebound. Exercise is extremely beneficial, and when combined with the dietary lifestyle you are talking about is even more beneficial.
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Ye no. I am using the correct definition of a diet, not the layman's definition. A diet is to food, as climate is to weather.

Most people who go on Calorie deficit diets, will rebound and gain weight though. That is true, if only because a calorie deficit is infeasible in the long run. And also because those diets are usually high in Carbs, which are the things that make you fat in the first place. So the moment you crack and start binge eating you pack on the weight again.

In LCHF you never eat at a calorie deficit, yet you lose tons of weight. It has to do with the body's interaction with insulin and fat stores. Without insulin to inhibit your fat cells, your body is free to use it's own fat and regulates your hunger far better. You don't have relapses or rebounds.
 
DrewChan said:
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I for one am sick of all these fad diets, I believe banting/noakes/LCHF will suffer that fate of many before it,
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Not really a "fad diet". Banting lived in the 1800s.

DrewChan said:
Eat in moderation with balanced macros and drink water,

Don't starve yourself
Don't limit yourself to a tiny portion of the food spectrum - you will be miserable,

My opinon anyway
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Well, with LCHF you don't starve yourself or limit yourself to a tiny portion of the food spectrum.
 
DrewChan said:
I for one am sick of all these fad diets, I believe banting/noakes/LCHF will suffer that fate of many before it,
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Says the intermittent fasting guy :p We think you are as crazy as what you think we are

And I'll echo orbitaldawn, I'm never starved, and I'd hardly say I'm limiting myself to a tiny portion of the food spectrum. Just following the food trapezoid instead of the silly pyramid, with the odd ventures into so called cheat foods
 
Archer said:
Says the intermittent fasting guy :p We think you are as crazy as what you think we are

And I'll echo orbitaldawn, I'm never starved, and I'd hardly say I'm limiting myself to a tiny portion of the food spectrum. Just following the food trapezoid instead of the silly pyramid, with the odd ventures into so called cheat foods
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I am most definitely not advocating intermittant fasting, seems to work, but its more of an experiment from my side
 
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