Weight Loss Thread 2014

copacetic said:
I have been absolutely STUFFING myself for the last couple of weeks.
My appetite is prodigious and I don't understand why.
Stress perhaps?
Weight is slowly coming back...
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What are you stuffing yourself with?

I'm cold and hungry all the time. They seem to go hand in hand for me.
 
mister said:
My caps were because I'm actually furious with woolworths. I never eat peanut butter and the other day I decided to gorge on it a bit without reading the ****ing bottle. Needless to say I discovered AFTERwards that it has GM rapeseed, conola, and soy oils in it! AND TO MAKE MATTERS ****ING WORSE - THE PRICKS have hydrogenated the oil - so you get a heart stopping dose of trans fats to go.

This was woolies crunchy. The organic peanut butter has no such garbage in it. But geesh you have to be like a bloody hawk.
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I feel your pain, I've had that experience a couple times where post-consumption reading turned to dismay. And I think always with WW products.

FuLL_MeT4L said:
I've noticed that they do this across a wide variety of Woolworths products. In places where they could use pure olive or coconut oil, they go ahead cut it with some vegetable oil. As a trend this bothers me far more than the 1% in this particular macadamia butter.
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This is the real issue. It's a very pervasive trend and it really does mean you gotta give everything the eagle eye.

Ignorance is bliss?
 
I assume that the inclusion of these vegetable fats is related to a mix of cost-cutting and fitting in with existing production processes. The real question is whether they're making or losing money in doing this, given that they alienate us alternative diet consumers who likely make up a decent number of potential buyers of these niche products. I reckon they're losing out here.
 
Wonder why this sugar free choc has so much carbs?

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Deadmanza said:
Unfortunately from what I understand we should resign ourselves to the idea that we arent going to have any more sugar/ very little sweet things in our diet. *Quoting Scottulusmaximus.
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Yeah, that is pretty much it. If we want to eat sweet things, we will put on weight or weight loss will at least stall. Stick to real food, LCHF approved, and one should lose weight / stay at body's ideal weight.
 
I must admit finding LCHF quite expensive to maintain. Bacon is not cheap :p My monthly spend will be over R1000 for 1 person (SO is not interested in joining me...)
 
Deadmanza said:
I must admit finding LCHF quite expensive to maintain. Bacon is not cheap :p My monthly spend will be over R1000 for 1 person (SO is not interested in joining me...)
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Look out for bacon specials and buy in bulk

The reason why meat has become so expensive is because the high carb dogma changed the focus of farmers from meat to grain to make money
 
Deadmanza said:
I must admit finding LCHF quite expensive to maintain. Bacon is not cheap :p My monthly spend will be over R1000 for 1 person (SO is not interested in joining me...)
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I find that, compared to the amount of money I used to spend every month on drive-through's and pies during the working day between clients, my spend has almost halved on Low carb.

Yesterday, I bought R100 of biltong and cabonossi (about R50 of each) and R100 for 8 150g hamburger patties from a trusted butcher who promises me no cereal.

The patties and biltong will last until the weeked for lunches and dinners (not hungry for breakfast). That is only R200 whereas I could easily normally spend R500 between Monday and Friday.

Then there is trips to Wimpy on Saturday or Sunday morning for brunch. Where I usually eat a Mega breakfast for R60 + juice for another R20-odd, now a R30 streaky bacon breakfast without the fries or toast fills me up and i don't need a drink (water always in cooled centre console in car).

I definitely save money on Low Carb.
 
Deadmanza said:
I must admit finding LCHF quite expensive to maintain. Bacon is not cheap :p My monthly spend will be over R1000 for 1 person (SO is not interested in joining me...)
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If you are in Pretoria area. There is an Eskort store in Silverton. They sell 1Kg Bacon at R49.99 and 1KG diced bacon at R54.99.

EDIT: Yes, it is not grass fed or free range but good luck finding those at affordable prices anyway
 
FuLL_MeT4L said:
I assume that the inclusion of these vegetable fats is related to a mix of cost-cutting and fitting in with existing production processes. The real question is whether they're making or losing money in doing this, given that they alienate us alternative diet consumers who likely make up a decent number of potential buyers of these niche products. I reckon they're losing out here.
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I think the vegetable oils are added to create homogenized uniform products, every bottle with the same colouring and texture, since consumers are well-trained (by the likes of WW) to expect such uniformity. They're also added as stabilisers, to ensure even spreading at whatever temperature and prevent (natural) oil separation. Take a bottle of Skippy/Black cat/ any store brand peanut butter in summer and you can almost mold it. Natural peanut butter will definitely have some oil separated at the top (especially in warmer weather), which confuses consumers who think it's gone bad. It just needs to be stirred.

Since nut butters are obviously not household staples and cater toward more health-conscious shoppers, yeah I'd agree that in this case WW are probably shooting themselves in the foot since the type of shopper who'd buy almond butter is increasingly likely to also be a shopper who would not purchase soya/canola etc. soiled products.

Deadmanza said:
I must admit finding LCHF quite expensive to maintain. Bacon is not cheap :p My monthly spend will be over R1000 for 1 person (SO is not interested in joining me...)
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Ain't that the truth. Until Monsanto starts creating fatty wheat and rice LCHF is a diet for the haves... have-nots are stuck with their high-carb cheap-ass crap... :(
 
Ol' Mean Bastid said:
Look out for bacon specials and buy in bulk

The reason why meat has become so expensive is because the high carb dogma changed the focus of farmers from meat to grain to make money
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I will definitely be doing that, figured 4 packs of bacon would suffice... Little did I know I would be going through 2 a week.

My problem is I am not 100% sure what to buy and what not to buy, I need to read Tim Noakes book finished as well as do some more research online. At the moment I am eating a lot of eggs, bacon, chicken, Chops.

Really need some variety.
 
Deadmanza said:
I will definitely be doing that, figured 4 packs of bacon would suffice... Little did I know I would be going through 2 a week.

My problem is I am not 100% sure what to buy and what not to buy, I need to read Tim Noakes book finished as well as do some more research online. At the moment I am eating a lot of eggs, bacon, chicken, Chops.

Really need some variety.
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More veggies... Lots more veggies.

Add some avo and almonds as well.
 
tRoN said:
So is this ok for occasional crave or a total no-no
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That chocolate has no place in a low carb diet EVER, unless it is on a designated cheat day. The problem with occasional cheating is that it soon becomes the norm again. I have absolutely nothing against designated cheat days, and from what I've read a carb binge every 7 to 10 days is highly beneficial - provided you can actually stick to keeping that one cheat day. If you do decide to have a cheat day I would stay low-carb in the day time, and then cheat your heart out in the evening.

When I had a craving for something I found it incredibly satisfying to know I could buy it, and put it away until cheat day. It is a lot easier to say "later", than "never" :)
 
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