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blitzkrieg
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03 Nov 2023, 11:03 am

Sugar is a culprit in terms of weight gain, for a lot of people.



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03 Nov 2023, 11:04 am

Oh yeah sugar. It's in everything as well. Plus people sometimes have sugar in coffee and tea and they drink cups of that all day long.


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03 Nov 2023, 11:14 am

Drinking a pint of lager like bud light or fosters the equivalent of eating bread I think?



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03 Nov 2023, 6:46 pm

Jamesy wrote:
Drinking a pint of lager like bud light or fosters the equivalent of eating bread I think?

yes, as much as 2 slices of bread, actually (depending on the bread and the lager).



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03 Nov 2023, 6:51 pm

Load up on protein and healthy fats.

Skip the carbs, especially refined sugars but also most carb-heavy veg.


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04 Nov 2023, 6:58 am

^that.

Plus intermittent fasting. In fact if you do nothing else do intermittent fasting.

Basically restrict your eating to a window of time in the day. I don't eat after 6pm and I don't breakfast until 11am. No need to start that restrictive though - work up to it. And though I use the word restrictive, it doesn't necessarily feel restrictive.


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05 Nov 2023, 10:22 am

I wolf my food so it's hard for me to feel full up. So a little trick I learned is to put loads of black pepper on everything. It slows me right down and then it registers with my brain to let me know I'm full up.


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05 Nov 2023, 10:34 am

Every year I give up all drinks except water during Lent -- 40 days.

No tea, coffee, soda, juice, milk, alcohol etc.

I always drop about a stone.

I don't normally drink a lot of other stuff - but it's enough of a reduction in sugar to do the trick.


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05 Nov 2023, 10:42 am

I used to do a similar thing once a year but mine was chips, cheese and chocolate.

It made me shed the weight. I called it "the 3 C's diet".


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05 Nov 2023, 11:28 am

babybird wrote:
I wolf my food so it's hard for me to feel full up. So a little trick I learned is to put loads of black pepper on everything. It slows me right down and then it registers with my brain to let me know I'm full up.


I tried similar with chili peppers for awhile. All that happened is that my tolerance for spice went through the roof. :lol:


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05 Nov 2023, 11:31 am

:lol:


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05 Nov 2023, 1:05 pm

Wear tight fitting clothes to remind you when you are gaining weight.
I have an accurate scale in the dining room to check up on my weight.
Exercise helps reduce my appetite and make it easier to lose weight.

I found that simply eating less wasn't enough to get a thin waistline.
I dropped three inches by exercising and keeping the same weight.



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05 Nov 2023, 4:07 pm

How hard is it to reach a bmi of 25 with a lot of muscle and low body fat?



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05 Nov 2023, 6:23 pm

Jamesy wrote:
How hard is it to reach a bmi of 25 with a lot of muscle and low body fat?


BMI doesn't distinguish between types of mass or the percentage of body fat only the total mass. A person with a low percentage of fat but heavily muscled will sill show an "unhealthy" BMI even they are not.



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20 Nov 2023, 3:46 pm

Got an en tire process of sticking to certian foods, logging everything to keep down to a certain level of calories a day, exercise every other day, running its is own procedure, weighing every day etc. This was at a time i was 5 foot 7 inches and 267LBS after being diagnosed with fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes. Something needing changes because my diat and alochol intake after 10 years of picky eating and drinking caused some harm. I'd lost 117LBS over 4 years and maintained now for about 13 years.


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