Weight Loss Thread 2014

Archer said:
How many calories should I be aiming for? Depending on what site I go to, my daily requirement is anywhere from 2100 - 2900 calories. I've tried looking at what I used to eat, and according to that I was around 1800 calories (not counting snacks and drinks). And I know I was quite hungry when I woke up, around 11h00, and 18h00 again. So I'm guessing I should try aim a bit higher? My breakfast today was around 700 cal, and I'm a bit hungry already (after 2 glasses of water). Should I aim for a larger breakfast even though I was reasonably full this morning?
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Rule of thumb. Eat breakfast like a king, Lunch like a Duke and Dinner like a pauper.

So eat a large breakfast that'll tide you over till lunch.

Or what I am doing is 7 Meals a day. Works well, feels like I am always full.
 
I have my biggest meal after working out, at like 3-4pm. I get by on coffee in the morning and come supper time, it's a very small/light meal.
 
Deadmanza said:
It's what I have always heard, why would you eat your largest meal when giving your body so little time to burn up the calories?
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Eating (especially carbs) makes me sleepy. I have dinner at 6pm and usually snack until 10pm and then I'm fasted until lunch at 2pm the next day nearly every day. What do you think my body is using for fuel during the fasted state? :D
 
Deadmanza said:
Rule of thumb. Eat breakfast like a king, Lunch like a Duke and Dinner like a pauper.

So eat a large breakfast that'll tide you over till lunch.

Or what I am doing is 7 Meals a day. Works well, feels like I am always full.
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There's a whole diet/movement that actually does the opposite of that, as someone else mentioned, skipping breakfast and eating your largest meal in the evening. The rest happens while you sleep until you break "FAST" . There's at least 12 hours that goes between dinner and the morning...that's alot of time...

Either way, the short story is, there's no conclusive evidence that eating 6 meals or 1 meal or any specific time of day makes ANY difference. It's all about how much you take in and you how much you use up, period. Whether you eat it all in 1 sitting or spread out in 6 sittings doesn't matter. The only reason they say certain meal arrangements works are because it either limit your portion sizes or prevent unhealthy snacking etc etc.

So i'd say whatever meal setup works for someone is fine as long as the total kilojoule intake is related to what you expend (or what your weight goals are) . In my case, there's no way in hell i'm making 6 meals or buying ingredients for so many meals, that is snacking/overeating territory for me. The less meals i eat , in the fact the less i touch any food the better, other people obviously struggle with this, so they need to eat constantly, but i don't agree that it's the only way, nor that metabolism are influenced by whether you eat breakfast or skip it.
 
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mister said:
Eating (especially carbs) makes me sleepy. I have dinner at 6pm and usually snack until 10pm and then I'm fasted until lunch at 2pm the next day nearly every day. What do you think my body is using for fuel during the fasted state? :D
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I guess with this sort of thing its always dependent on the type of metabolism you have, I am sure I would end up picking up weight the way you do it :p
 
This morning I was running late so didn't have time to go to the tracker so i just jumped on the gym's bathroom scale, it said I was 86.4kg which is about a kg less than what I expected for last week's gains.

I spoke to a friend's sister who is a dietician and she isn't a big fan of the LCHF diet, she said that Tim Noakes has got some health problem (insulin or something) she did not shun carbs away just said that you must keep it low gi, so that sorta clears brown rice for me (even though I bought lentils yesterday to give it a go) still gonna stay away from potatoes and white bread, gonna eat (in moderation) those low gi breads.

Please I don't know anymore just had a 10 minute chat with her while we were celebrating my mates gf's birthday.
 
Piesank said:
This morning I was running late so didn't have time to go to the tracker so i just jumped on the gym's bathroom scale, it said I was 86.4kg which is about a kg less than what I expected for last week's gains.

I spoke to a friend's sister who is a dietician and she isn't a big fan of the LCHF diet, she said that Tim Noakes has got some health problem (insulin or something) she did not shun carbs away just said that you must keep it low gi, so that sorta clears brown rice for me (even though I bought lentils yesterday to give it a go) still gonna stay away from potatoes and white bread, gonna eat (in moderation) those low gi breads.

Please I don't know anymore just had a 10 minute chat with her while we were celebrating my mates gf's birthday.
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a lot of nutritionists are as misinformed as GP's when it comes to nutrition because they have been trained under the existing dogma

when it comes to insulin she's possibly referring to insulin resistance which is very common these days due to the amount of carbs consumed in a "normal" diet, cutting out carbs is the best way to regulate insulin and the effects thereof (she's also missing the fact that it's not just Tim Noakes, this is a global movement)
 
Suggestions on braai salt alternatives? I have a suspicion that the one I currently use has too much sugar in it :( No nutritional info for it anywhere, but the fact that it has sugar and veg oil as ingredients makes me want to rather find an alternative
 
Ol' Mean Bastid said:
a lot of nutritionists are as misinformed as GP's when it comes to nutrition because they have been trained under the existing dogma

when it comes to insulin she's possibly referring to insulin resistance which is very common these days due to the amount of carbs consumed in a "normal" diet, cutting out carbs is the best way to regulate insulin and the effects thereof (she's also missing the fact that it's not just Tim Noakes, this is a global movement)
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Doesn't Tim Noakes have Type 2 Diabetes?
 
copacetic said:
Doesn't Tim Noakes have Type 2 Diabetes?
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I'd have to check, even so the evidence is showing that a diet of excessive carbs is what leads to the development of Type 2 (in effect it is the extreme form of insulin resistance)
 
Ol' Mean Bastid said:
I'd have to check, even so the evidence is showing that a diet of excessive carbs is what leads to the development of Type 2 (in effect it is the extreme form of insulin resistance)
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I'm sure he says something about it, at the end of the Real Meal Revolution, and yes, I think that's part of what he was pointing out.
 
I've been feeling sick lately and dropped from 66.7kg down to 63.3kg.

Also started on a primal 21 day challenge and started to jog again just to get the body going, my main problem is cutting out the sugars, especially because I have a sweet tooth.

Also my body water % is apparently 60%, is that good/bad?
 
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