How is this topic divisive? Serious question. I’ve found it extremely helpful and encouraging.
Who has Been Successful Losing Weight and Keeping It Off?
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Thank you. Life sometimes demands you take breaks from nonessential pleasures. My time away was one of those times. Thanks for the welcome back & A Very Merry Christmas
to you & yours. 
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Same to you!Thank you. Life sometimes demands you take breaks from nonessential pleasures. My time away was one of those times. Thanks for the welcome back & A Very Merry Christmas
Wait. A thread on weight loss is divisive and inappropriate? Sorry but that is a ridiculous take.
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It’s a forum. When you post something people react.
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I'm trying to GAIN weight (muscle mass) so I'm in a different boat than most. I feel like I'm always eating something, however, I try to make "healthy" choices whenever possible.
I do a 40 min hardcore workout 5 days a week, and my job keeps me moving pretty much all day. My endgame goal is to look like The Rock, but I don't think I'll ever get there
still fun to try!
I do a 40 min hardcore workout 5 days a week, and my job keeps me moving pretty much all day. My endgame goal is to look like The Rock, but I don't think I'll ever get there
still fun to try!I agree with a little of what you're preaching. However, I think the above stuff in moderation wouldn't hurt an active, healthy individual.
What do you do when someone invites you over for dinner?! Bring your own food?
You’ve still not provided any grounds or evidence for your original comments which deserve to be addressed. How is this topic divisive, etc? You’ve contributed nothing of value to this discussion.
This thread was doing just fine until someone decided to go all huffy
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If you don’t like a thread just move on.
.If you don’t like a thread just move on.
I think everyone will have a different opinion on what foods to eat and what kind of excersising to do, all depending on their goals and/or physical/medical condition.
To say that you'll NEVER touch this or that..... I don't think that's sustainable for life. So you should probably use a different term like "I'll rarely ever eat this or that".
All the saints in here with the ultra strict diets, how long have you been sustaining this 100% of the time?
To say that you'll NEVER touch this or that..... I don't think that's sustainable for life. So you should probably use a different term like "I'll rarely ever eat this or that".
All the saints in here with the ultra strict diets, how long have you been sustaining this 100% of the time?
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I'm not preaching. Eat what you like, it doesn't effect me. What I am saying is, if you want to lose weight, you need to control your blood sugar before you start looking at fat or calories, otherwise, short of starvation, calorie counting won't make any difference.
If you don't need to lose weight, yes eat what you like in balance and moderation. And when I go to other people's houses I eat what's put in front of me. I'd never demand special treatment, though I rarely eat deserts because I don't have a sweet tooth anyway.
For context, I watched my father take a year to die very painfully from renal failure caused by type 2 diabetes, so I knew a little bit about blood sugar (though not how it related to weight gain) and I've been very conscious ever since about suffering the same fate myself.
This was brought home a year or so ago I was in poor health. I wasn't seriously overweight though I needed to lose a good inch off my waist and a stone in weight. But I couldn't sleep. I'd wake in the middle of the night with a racing metabolism, a pounding heart and a mouth full of blood. I felt weak and shaky and I had a blotchy face. Bearing in mind what happened to my dad, it was alarming. The tipping point came when I started getting massive blood pressure spikes. As in really dangerous ones like 200 over 100. At one point I had to go to casualty for observation because those figures are stroke or heart attack territory.
That's when I was asked questions about diet and lifestyle and I was directed towards the nutritionalist I mentioned earlier.
I'd recently been through a family bereavement and a major life change. I was stressed to the point of being mentally ill, drinking far too much alcohol and far too much caffeine. taking a step back it wasn't hard to see how these had combined.
So on medical advice I changed my diet, mainly to address my immediate health issues rather than my weight (which I just put down to too much beer). Initially I just cut out things that raised blood pressure and inflammation and increased intake of things that reduced it. The turnaround in how I felt and what I weighed was so dramatic I started looking into it more deeply, purely out of interest, and that's when I learned about the link between raised blood sugar and weight gain and the effects of ultra processed food on the immune system, cellular inflammation, the metabolism and the brain, and so much started making sense.
This whole subject has really taken off just recently in the UK and I've been amazed how far our collective understanding of basic nutrition has fallen in the last forty or fifty years since supermarkets established their monopoly and kids stopped being taught about cooking at school.
The fact that my "diet" - which is simply eating seasonally the natural foods my body was designed for rather than what the food industry wants to sell me - could be considered strict or extreme only reinforces this.
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