Weight Loss Thread 2014

I just keep my end goal in mind, that keeps me motivated and gives me the willpower to say no.
I did have a small piece of birthday cake over the weekend.
 
Okay... The Whoosh faerie made a visit at last.

Weighed this morning again and down to 96.5kg.

That is a total loss of 7.5kg in just over 3 weeks. Totally motivated to lose the other 6.5kg now!

Wife is also down 4kg in only 2 weeks and has already reached her target weight. She looks amazing! :love:
 
googoodoll said:
How do you guys stay motivated to stick to your eating plans? I know its delicious and all but flip the sweeties just call me :( The cake too... Also the chocolate and muffins and cappuccino and instant pudding :cry:
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the motivation is linked to the fact that I've got a stable weight, with an acceptable amount of BF, I enjoy what I'm eating and I feel good and don't have to worry about health issues
 
googoodoll said:
How do you guys stay motivated to stick to your eating plans? I know its delicious and all but flip the sweeties just call me :( The cake too... Also the chocolate and muffins and cappuccino and instant pudding :cry:
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S.M.A.R.T goals.

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time based

Build your goals around these principles.

Also when you start waking up and getting more ripped and mirror results that kinda motivates you a lot :D
 
Ok I'm going to start writing in the food diary I bought so that I actually keep track of my goals and progress...
I started walking to work at least, after 2 years of threatening to.

And I'll put my mirror up tonight :D
 
googoodoll said:
How do you guys stay motivated to stick to your eating plans? I know its delicious and all but flip the sweeties just call me :( The cake too... Also the chocolate and muffins and cappuccino and instant pudding :cry:
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When I was doing a weekly carb binge I would just make a list of everything I craved in the week, and ate it all on the weekly binge. I got so sick of garbage that I don't crave the junk anymore.

APoc184 said:
Okay... The Whoosh faerie made a visit at last.
Weighed this morning again and down to 96.5kg.
That is a total loss of 7.5kg in just over 3 weeks. Totally motivated to lose the other 6.5kg now!
Wife is also down 4kg in only 2 weeks and has already reached her target weight. She looks amazing! :love:
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Awesome!

Ol' Mean Bastid said:
the motivation is linked to the fact that I've got a stable weight, with an acceptable amount of BF, I enjoy what I'm eating and I feel good and don't have to worry about health issues
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Yep! I feel so flipping fantastic all day, every day, that I don't want to go back to my old ways. And I love brain octane, butter, and coffee for breakfast so much I would carry on doing it even if you manage to find some research saying you can overdose on MCT!

googoodoll said:
Ok I'm going to start writing in the food diary I bought so that I actually keep track of my goals and progress...
And I'll put my mirror up tonight :D
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The mirror is a hard task master! Put it up with a note on it saying, "I'm watching you!"
 
I'm probably making a huge mistake, but i have not been eating regularly for the last few days... basically just have a banana in the morning.. and then when i get home at 7pm, I have a bit of biltong.. or a small salad. With the absence of carbs, I just don't have an appetite.
 
it's also possible, that my body is finally able to regulate the amount of calories that it requires.. as I lead a fairly sedentary lifestyle.. not getting much exercise at all.. and need much less calories that most others..
 
Minimum calories needed for an average male 1600 per day. Sure you can go extreme and do less, I would only advise that for short stints of time as it can be detrimental to health - liver function, kidney function and hormone production can be negatively impacted.

Doing what you doing for a few days is okay if you have to...but I'd def up your food intake sooner rather than later.
 
Urgh was away on business for a week and it was very tough to eat the right things.
I mostly ended up having a steak and a greek side salad but didnt lose any weight at all during that week.
Back home its much easier to control what I eat so looking forward to results again soon.

Im still finding that Im quite hungry from time to time and while I can skip a lunch here and there Im really hungry by the time evening comes.
Im taking in tons of fats and I have some coffee with coconut oil when the food craving kicks in. I guess it will get better with time though.
 
Right. Question time.

Decent large variety of cooking utensils...where to buy?

Specifically looking for a great slicer ala mandoline style slicer where I can adjust the thickness of the slice and a PROPER cotton straining bag.

EDIT: Straining bag is for making coconut milk and flour from desiccated coconut and currently I'm jippoing it with cheese cloth. The mandoline sliver is for making home made sweet potato oven chips :D
 
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Orihalcon said:
Right. Question time.

Decent large variety of cooking utensils...where to buy?

Specifically looking for a great slicer ala mandoline style slicer where I can adjust the thickness of the slice and a PROPER cotton straining bag.
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I look at stuff on yuppiechef then see if I can source it somewhere else (online or IRL) for cheaper. If not I just order the item from yuppiechef. They're expensive, but they have fantastic service and good products.
 
Randhir said:
I look at stuff on yuppiechef then see if I can source it somewhere else (online or IRL) for cheaper. If not I just order the item from yuppiechef. They're expensive, but they have fantastic service and good products.
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Thanks Randhir!
 
googoodoll said:
How do you guys stay motivated to stick to your eating plans? I know its delicious and all but flip the sweeties just call me :( The cake too... Also the chocolate and muffins and cappuccino and instant pudding :cry:
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When I started this, I just made an all-or-nothing decision. Simple as that. There's no temptation as I simply excised carbs and sugar from my diet, point-blank.

The fact I now weight what I did in my early twenties just strengthens my resolve.
 
Unluckily for me I also fall in the high protein category, I just don't do the fat intake as I find it awful :D

Gonna have to kiss my gains goodbye and chow down on a Big Mac with chips in order to survive!
 
Limpo77 said:
Hi there

I have been following the thread from the beginning of the year and thus far i find it a most interesting read.
When I saw this in the news this morning I just had to post it here:

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/low-protein-diet-may-extend-lifespan

Have at it Ol' Mean Bastid.. :)
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Piesank said:

Lulz about to post the same(ish) story
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It's an interesting read, but not that salient here for those on LCHF diets since they don't advocate high protein, and that mice are primarily grain eaters and not omnivores.
 
Limpo77 said:
Hi there

I have been following the thread from the beginning of the year and thus far i find it a most interesting read.
When I saw this in the news this morning I just had to post it here:

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/low-protein-diet-may-extend-lifespan

Have at it Ol' Mean Bastid.. :)
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yeah, I've seen that and the article in Piesank's post

I think it's great that they can extend the life of mice by putting them on a high carb low protein diet, great for the mouse population of the world, but what relevance does that have to human nutrition?

As I posted elsewhere on this forum today high carbohydrate diets as recommended by the USDA among others is what has lead to the global obesity and diabetes epidemic we are facing today and I think there's potentially worse to come given the in-vitro exposure of the generations of the last 20 years to HCLF diets (especially in the US and other places where the use of high fructose corn syrup has become so prevalent).

just to refresh some facts on human physiology (I won't even go into metabolic pathways)
in order to digest carbohydrate we need insulin (fact)
insulin is considered a fat sparing hormone (fact)
lipase is required to catalyse the hydrolysis of fat (in short allows us to us stored fat for energy) (fact)
insulin suppresses the secretion of lipase (fact)
suppression of lipase leads to excess fat storage (fact)
continued build up of insulin in the system to digest carbohydrates can cause insulin resistance (fact)
insulin resistance increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (fact)
and I could go on...

so given all the above if you want to pursue a high carbohydrate diet, be my guest
 
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