Becoming Healthy Again

Fair enough, no one wants to find their small intestine in the toilet :)
Good luck with the dieting :) Don't give up
 
Schit Lino, I've never seen this thread....:wtf:
Are you still on on the LCHF train? How much have you lost since starting in August?
 
My journey with banting started last year with a team building exercise where I was too fat to take part in the physical activities and had to take part in a potjie competition. I overate and felt awful afterwards and decided enough now.
That was in August last year, and I decided to give the Noakes diet a go, since then I have now lost 21 kg and I feel like I have a brand new life.
For me the key was to really understand the lifestyle, I don’t try to replace the food that I’m not allowed (like bread & pasta), I simply look at what I’m allowed and work around that. I don’t have full on cheat days, I have cheat moments. I will have the odd beer and I love ice cream. So I will have a small bowl of proper ice cream from time to time, but then on that day I make sure I don’t eat any other carbs.
I walk my dogs for exercise, so they benefit as well.
I still have another 10 kg to lose before I can go into maintenance. I cannot think that I will ever go back to eating the way I did, because the health benefits are just too obvious. I never want to live like I did before again.
At my last Dr’s visit my sugar levels were normal, my cholesterol was spot on, and I stopped taking blood pressure meds, because my BP is normal.
 
Roelie said:
My journey with banting started last year with a team building exercise where I was too fat to take part in the physical activities and had to take part in a potjie competition. I overate and felt awful afterwards and decided enough now.
That was in August last year, and I decided to give the Noakes diet a go, since then I have now lost 21 kg and I feel like I have a brand new life.
For me the key was to really understand the lifestyle, I don’t try to replace the food that I’m not allowed (like bread & pasta), I simply look at what I’m allowed and work around that. I don’t have full on cheat days, I have cheat moments. I will have the odd beer and I love ice cream. So I will have a small bowl of proper ice cream from time to time, but then on that day I make sure I don’t eat any other carbs.
I walk my dogs for exercise, so they benefit as well.
I still have another 10 kg to lose before I can go into maintenance. I cannot think that I will ever go back to eating the way I did, because the health benefits are just too obvious. I never want to live like I did before again.
At my last Dr’s visit my sugar levels were normal, my cholesterol was spot on, and I stopped taking blood pressure meds, because my BP is normal.
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Congrats bud. That is a hefty amount of weight to lose!
 
Roelie said:
My journey with banting started last year with a team building exercise where I was too fat to take part in the physical activities and had to take part in a potjie competition. I overate and felt awful afterwards and decided enough now.
That was in August last year, and I decided to give the Noakes diet a go, since then I have now lost 21 kg and I feel like I have a brand new life.
For me the key was to really understand the lifestyle, I don’t try to replace the food that I’m not allowed (like bread & pasta), I simply look at what I’m allowed and work around that. I don’t have full on cheat days, I have cheat moments. I will have the odd beer and I love ice cream. So I will have a small bowl of proper ice cream from time to time, but then on that day I make sure I don’t eat any other carbs.
I walk my dogs for exercise, so they benefit as well.
I still have another 10 kg to lose before I can go into maintenance. I cannot think that I will ever go back to eating the way I did, because the health benefits are just too obvious. I never want to live like I did before again.
At my last Dr’s visit my sugar levels were normal, my cholesterol was spot on, and I stopped taking blood pressure meds, because my BP is normal.
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Wow that is awesome to hear man! Congrats!
 
Roelie said:
My journey with banting started last year with a team building exercise where I was too fat to take part in the physical activities and had to take part in a potjie competition. I overate and felt awful afterwards and decided enough now.
That was in August last year, and I decided to give the Noakes diet a go, since then I have now lost 21 kg and I feel like I have a brand new life.
For me the key was to really understand the lifestyle, I don’t try to replace the food that I’m not allowed (like bread & pasta), I simply look at what I’m allowed and work around that. I don’t have full on cheat days, I have cheat moments. I will have the odd beer and I love ice cream. So I will have a small bowl of proper ice cream from time to time, but then on that day I make sure I don’t eat any other carbs.
I walk my dogs for exercise, so they benefit as well.
I still have another 10 kg to lose before I can go into maintenance. I cannot think that I will ever go back to eating the way I did, because the health benefits are just too obvious. I never want to live like I did before again.
At my last Dr’s visit my sugar levels were normal, my cholesterol was spot on, and I stopped taking blood pressure meds, because my BP is normal.
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Congrats! Did you do any other exercise besides walking your dogs?

And can you give me an idea as to your daily meal plan. I tried banting several times, but just could not discipline myself to stay away from carbs completely. I've now decided to just limit my food intake every day and try to not eat anything substantial after 6pm. My goal is to lose 20 kg
 
Thank you.
I only walk, but when I do it's a brisk walk and never less than 6km, sometimes as much as 9km. I try to work in 3 walks a week.
Because I leave early in the mornings (5am to miss traffic) I can't eat a very big meal, normally fried eggs with cheese and coffee. I take snacks to work like biltong, nuts, full cream yogurt etc. and a portion of the previous night’s meal. Supper is early (6-ish) and that would be meat and veggies.
I try not to snack after supper, but if I do it will be a bit of yogurt and fruit, or a block of Lindt 70% chocolate.
Over weekends I’ll have a bigger breakfast and less snacks, but then I will allow myself a beer with supper.
The hard thing was finding something to drink, and the best I could do is coffee during the day and sparkling water with a slice of lemon at night.
The trick for me was to understand what I'm allowed and what to avoid. I don't count anything; I just try to eat enough fat and avoid carbs as much as possible and let the scale do the measuring. My advice to anyone that needs to lose weight is to educate yourself and read as much as possible to understand how bad sugar (carbs) could be for someone with insulin resistance (most of us with excess weight around the middle), and how much hidden sugars are in our foods.
The book that finally convinced me was The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teichholds. The other trick is to refrain from preaching to everybody about how easy they could be losing weight.
 
Roelie said:
Thank you.
I only walk, but when I do it's a brisk walk and never less than 6km, sometimes as much as 9km. I try to work in 3 walks a week.
Because I leave early in the mornings (5am to miss traffic) I can't eat a very big meal, normally fried eggs with cheese and coffee. I take snacks to work like biltong, nuts, full cream yogurt etc. and a portion of the previous night’s meal. Supper is early (6-ish) and that would be meat and veggies.
I try not to snack after supper, but if I do it will be a bit of yogurt and fruit, or a block of Lindt 70% chocolate.
Over weekends I’ll have a bigger breakfast and less snacks, but then I will allow myself a beer with supper.
The hard thing was finding something to drink, and the best I could do is coffee during the day and sparkling water with a slice of lemon at night.
The trick for me was to understand what I'm allowed and what to avoid. I don't count anything; I just try to eat enough fat and avoid carbs as much as possible and let the scale do the measuring. My advice to anyone that needs to lose weight is to educate yourself and read as much as possible to understand how bad sugar (carbs) could be for someone with insulin resistance (most of us with excess weight around the middle), and how much hidden sugars are in our foods.
The book that finally convinced me was The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teichholds. The other trick is to refrain from preaching to everybody about how easy they could be losing weight.
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Totally agree with you on that last part.. When I first started banting I lost 10 kg in the first month and I told everybody about it and encouraged them to try it out as well. When I eventually fell off the wagon and put the weight back on again, I felt quite embarrassed and defeated in a way. Self confidence and self worth really takes a knock in those cases.
 
KingBel said:
Totally agree with you on that last part.. When I first started banting I lost 10 kg in the first month and I told everybody about it and encouraged them to try it out as well. When I eventually fell off the wagon and put the weight back on again, I felt quite embarrassed and defeated in a way. Self confidence and self worth really takes a knock in those cases.
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So get back on the horse. You know how easy it is to start, just remind yourself that the real difficulty is staying the course and prepare yourself for that.
 
Randhir said:
So get back on the horse. You know how easy it is to start, just remind yourself that the real difficulty is staying the course and prepare yourself for that.
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For me it's a mind thing, I had to convince myself that it's the right thing to do, and like when I stopped smoking many years ago, once I understood how bad it it is for me, the easier it became to give it up. Just being able to do a full day of physical work around the house as opposed to 2 hours before makes it totaly worth it. I don't even crave bread anymore.
 
Roelie said:
For me it's a mind thing, I had to convince myself that it's the right thing to do, and like when I stopped smoking many years ago, once I understood how bad it it is for me, the easier it became to give it up. Just being able to do a full day of physical work around the house as opposed to 2 hours before makes it totaly worth it. I don't even crave bread anymore.
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It's definitely a mind thing. That's why you got to prepare you mind for it. Once you stop seeing it as a sacrifice and see it as a blessing you can reframe getting healthy.
 
Roelie said:
Thank you.
I only walk, but when I do it's a brisk walk and never less than 6km, sometimes as much as 9km. I try to work in 3 walks a week.
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Believe him when he says 'brisk'. I am relatively fit, and I was completely exhausted after a 7km walk we did a few weeks back. Plus keeping the dogs in check gives you an upper body workout :) He really is a different man since the weight loss

Ons is baie trots op pa.
 
Roxi_B4b3 said:
Believe him when he says 'brisk'. I am relatively fit, and I was completely exhausted after a 7km walk we did a few weeks back. Plus keeping the dogs in check gives you an upper body workout :) He really is a different man since the weight loss

Ons is baie trots op pa.
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:)
 
KingBel said:
Congrats! Did you do any other exercise besides walking your dogs?

And can you give me an idea as to your daily meal plan. I tried banting several times, but just could not discipline myself to stay away from carbs completely. I've now decided to just limit my food intake every day and try to not eat anything substantial after 6pm. My goal is to lose 20 kg
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Exercise more. I'll never understand why people want a silver bullet and think that only eating right will get them all of the way. It's a combination of good diet / good exercise that make the most difference.
 
jsheed_sa said:
Exercise more. I'll never understand why people want a silver bullet and think that only eating right will get them all of the way. It's a combination of good diet / good exercise that make the most difference.
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Diet is 90%.
 
jsheed_sa said:
Exercise more. I'll never understand why people want a silver bullet and think that only eating right will get them all of the way. It's a combination of good diet / good exercise that make the most difference.
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Diet really is the majority there though. And once you get diet right, exercise can just be an easy natural progression. Because your energy levels are higher and your body is running more smoothly.
Trying to do it the other way around often leads to utter exhaustion and bombing off the wagon really hard.
Trying to do them both at the same time is also rough because your body needs time to adjust to a new eating plan. You might fall into extreme exhaustion as above.
 
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