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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts 
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On May 12, 2015, ZachDavenport wrote: Do you have a reference for that? I'd like to know more.
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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There was a set of twins in the 80's called The Barbarians. I just read a sample of their diet (I think they consumed lots of both simple and complex carbs, and seemed to out-exercising their diet):
They drink a quart before working out and another quart after, adding occasional packets of Hostess Cup Cakes. Counting regular, more or less nutritionally balanced meals, including not quite so many eggs, the twins eat every half hour or so all day long. At night, watching television, they snack on Popsicles, ice cream, cookies, Doritos and Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal, maintaining, withal, a scant 6% body fat, impressive by anybody's count.       
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ZachDavenport Inner circle Last time I posted I had one less than 1196 Posts
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On May 12, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I don't. I am diabetic, so I have learned various things about carb counting.
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Intrepid Inner circle Silver Spring, MD 1183 Posts
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On May 12, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: This is from the Hardard School of Health: "Carbohydrates: quality matters "What's most important is the type of carbohydrate you chose to eat because some sources are healthier than others. The amount of carbohydrate in the diet – high or low – is less important than the type of carbohydrate in the diet. For example, healthy, whole grains such as whole wheat bread, rye, barley and quinoa are better choices than highly refined white bread or French fries." http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On May 12, 2015, Intrepid wrote: Thanks. That is what I suspected.
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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So I'm guessing that the Hostess Cup Cakes are the bad kind?
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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For losing weight carbs are bad.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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ZachDavenport Inner circle Last time I posted I had one less than 1196 Posts
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On May 12, 2015, Starrpower wrote: Yes, but Twinkies are ok.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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From the Harvard School of Public Health link above
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HSPH’s Healthy Eating Plate recommends filling most of your plate with healthy carbohydrates – with vegetables (except potatoes) and fruits taking up about half of your plate, and whole grains filling up about one fourth of your plate. Which I interpret as meaning: Go ahead and eat carbs when you're dieting. Just make sure that you're getting fibre, minerals and other nutrients in them.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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TomKMagic Special user I tripped over 620 Posts
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On May 12, 2015, acesover wrote: Ehhh... Well that's half the problem. People don't understand portion control. They eat too fast, and the signal that they have had enough hasn't reached their brain until 15 to 20 minutes later. You can't honestly tell me that if someone just keeps eating until they are full that they automatically will lose weight. If they eat 4000 calories of non-carb food all day and only burn 2000 calories by their daily activity, the other 2000 calories have to go somewhere. They are converted to fat if they don't get used. To truly lose weight, calories in must be less than calories burned. |
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Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts
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I agree with the eating fast concept. I am a fast eater, mainly because I don't like eating cold food. Slow eater, how do you deal with that? If I had heated plates, I would probably eat more slowly.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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One of the things that amazes me is that I'm still hungry when I'm at the table. But if I go for a walk, I'm full. When I remember this phenomenon, I can control my portion size while enjoying the fresh air.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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My problem isn't that I don't understand portion control, it's that when I'm eating something really good, I'm like, 'Oh man, this is so good, I just gotta have another bite. (And another, and another), until I'm too full to have another bite despite how yummy it is.
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TomKMagic Special user I tripped over 620 Posts
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On May 14, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: One thing that helps me is to lean back and stretch my arms over my head and stretch my torso and stomach. Then when I go back to sitting normal, I start to feel more full a couple of minutes later. But... I've also know the correct portion sizes I need, and even if the food is soooooooo good like rockwall says, I just stop. I know I can enjoy it the next time. |
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Kim Van Weert New user Perth, Australia 19 Posts
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As someone who has lost a great deal of weight (192 lbs / 87 kilos) the question of where it all went also exercised my mind.
After all 56% of my original weight went missing in 14 months...more than half of me was no more! A science program in Australia had the answer a few months back. A science reporter had lost a few pounds and he wanted to know as well. He went to the top scientists in the field who got some students to literally do the maths for the reporter. In a very complicated formula they were able to work out precisely how much of his fat had been converted into carbon monoxide and how much of it had been changed into water. So the answer is that you literally breathe and sweat (and pee) the fat away. As for losing weight...my approach was simple. Get the space between your head right and the rest will follow. When I started to lose weight I knew nothing and followed NO diet. I decided that since I was twice the size I should be that it would be wise to eat half as much. All food was permissable in my scheme...but not all food was helpful. If I ate it - then I owed it...and responsible to exercise the extra off. My rule for exercise was simple. Listen to the body...push but don't break it. When I started exercise all I could manage was a daily ten minute walk...and built it slowly until at the end of my weight loss journey I was swimming for an hour, jogging for an hour and on the exercise bike for an hour each day - and still be up for more exercise. |
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts
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On May 18, 2015, Kim Van Weert wrote: Geez, all that common sense and it actually worked? Who'da thunk it.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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Kim Van Weert New user Perth, Australia 19 Posts
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I know...it is all just good common sense...but as one wit once said, "good sense isn't that common".
There's a multi-million dollar industry out there trying to part fat people from their money. It is in their interest to make it hard and esoteric. The one essential you need to have successful weight loss is getting your head itto the right place. You've got to move yourself from a wish to a want, then a want to a must. That must has to be a life or death drive. Once you have that you will be able to do the thing that people are most relucant to do - change your life and lifestyle permanently. It can be done. Click here to view attached image. |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts
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You rock, Kim!
One of the newfound joys of my somewhat new life with my incredibly sexy and interesting wife is this: her passion about food (which means, paradoxically, that I both eat like a king, but am healthier than ever) has turned my attention to the "science" of the human diet. If there were ever a better example of the Socratic notion of knowing how little we know, then I haven't run into it yet. It is also a perfect example of how poorly we mere mortals pretend to be "scientific". Lets take 2000 babies, separate them into control groups, and control their diets as if they were lab mice, then check their health at yearly intervals for the next several decades, then talk about low-carb,, trans-fat, top-of-the-food chain healthiness. No? We aren't real scientists, then (and who would want to be?), so our beliefs about the human diet are less than scientific. We can make very good guesses, but no more. And yet the whole world "knows" what a healthy diet is. Life in Plato's cave could not be better illustrated. |
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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Kim, were you, (and are you still), actually exercising 3 hours a day? That's more than I do and I'm training for an Ironman!
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Kim Van Weert New user Perth, Australia 19 Posts
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On May 19, 2015, rockwall wrote: No I'm not doing 3 hours now. That was at the pointy end when the body was doing it's darnest to return to "normal" (read super obese) weight. I do 90 minutes per day on the exercise bike (I've found that gives me the most bang for buck). Because I was overweight for such a long time I've basically stuffed up my metabolism. Everybody has what the experts call a "natural set point" which is a weight where the body naturally wants to be at. You gain a few pounds here or lose a few pounds there and the body speeds or slows you metabolism to get you back on track. In overweight people this set point is placed higher (and higher still as you gain more weight). This is why diets don't work in the long term. Once you've stopped the body wants to get back to "normal"...it views the weight loss as starvation and changes your metabolism accordingly. If I don't exercise daily I can easily (even with very moderate eating) put on a kilo a day (over 2 pounds). That is why successful long term weight loss is all about creating a healthy lifestyle that you can live with. I'm happy to pay the price for the new advantages in my life. Research has shown that only 2% of those who have lost a significant amount of weight (20 lbs) manage to keep it off for a year or more. I've got three years under my belt and I intend to continue to be a success story. |
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