Started Atkins last July. Lost 30 # and my blood sugar is perfect. Used their candy products when I was desperate, but otherwise, just real food. No sugar or starch (wine is allowed), and 20 minutes every day on the treadmill. Life is good.
Diet successes
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My diet Ned's to get better, I have known that for a while. I want to make an effort to eat better and get my body to a healthier state. As for excercising, I want to concentrate on running, but do 2-3 lifting excercising after running to gain some muscle to lose weight. Hopefully that will work.
As for food, need to eat more fruit and expand my vegetables. I always eat salads, but need to expand my horizon. Also need to eat better carbs like brown rice.
As for food, need to eat more fruit and expand my vegetables. I always eat salads, but need to expand my horizon. Also need to eat better carbs like brown rice.
Six years ago I did the Advocare 24 day challenge and went from 233 to 210. I was able to maintain there but wasn't yet happy. What that helped me do was focus on eating the right foods, like someone else said "fuel not an event." Since then I've gotten down to 200 and am quite consistent there; sometimes down to 190 and as high as 205. I no longer use Advocare but instead use Yoli. This isn't trying to get anyone to use the products for either company, but it's what I used in the past and what I currently use.
Agreed.
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The things that "work" are not NEW diets. These are principles that have been known for decades but the research on the ability of these things to greatly improve health are only now getting traction due to waning influence from the sugar and corn and "lite" food processors.
And I'm not ON a diet. I have changed my lifestyle and eating habits 6 months ago for long-term health not short-term gain. Huge difference.
Anyone into paleo, ketogenic, or low carb diets, I would suggest looking into NSNG. Just stands for No Sugars, No Grains. Pretty much it. Guy named Vinny Tortorich is the one who "invented" it. I did it last yr and started working out. Went Fromm 200 lbs to 175ish. If you like meat and eggs, it's not that bad. High fat diet that allows you to eat less because your body isn't hungry. I'm starting again tomorrow because I fell off the wagon after another shoulder injury.
Featuring such activities as eating foods that are literally healthy, not eating foods that are literally not healthy, and moving around several times a day for several minutes at a time....all in one plan?
Is there a reliable source for autoimmune disorders in connection to the overall consumption of processed/bad foods?
Maybe it just comes with being older but I feel like I'm finding more people in my life that have autoimmune stuff of varying degrees, myself included, and I wonder if it was that way even 20-30 years ago.
I'll also add that I feel much better since focusing on eating less-processed foods. Occasionally I'll have a quick frozen meal or something like a Knorr Pasta package and feel like poop after (and usually have to poo soon after). Veggies, a few fruits (need to expand there), chicken or beef, and dairy. Other than rice and pasta, I pretty much only venture into aisles for seasonings and sauces.
I've been in the same boat...eating the occasional pizza or whatever isn't a bad thing but I feel like a very different person compared to when I'm in the habit of a sustainable diet.
Making my own smoothies/fruit-veggie drinks, albeit not great, has also been rewarding. I do frozen berries, carrots, with cinnamon/ginger and water and it's fine.
I started the year slightly overweight. I made moderate sustainable changes to my diet and started exercising some more. Kept a weekly calorie budget. I steadily lost 25 lbs over the year. No specialized diets are necessary. Counting calories works if you are honest about it.
No need to count calories. Cut sugar. Cut grain. Eat your heart out. #NSNG
Yeah, but I like sugars and grains. I would rather count and eat and drink what I like in moderation.
That's the key. A lot of people (myself included) have a hard time eating some things in moderation, though, so a No sugar, no grain type of diet works better because when they go to the grocery store, they just don't buy those things. Personally, I've found changing buying habits is easier than consumption habits. If you don't buy it, you can't eat it.
I would agree with the previous poster, though, in the simplest, most effective way to become more healthy is sugars and grain while watching salt. You cut that out, you'll lose weight.
I also think that at least since I've been alive, the wrong message has been sent out in terms of healthy foods. You can blame whoever but this whole "fat-free" and "diet" labeling has given people the idea that those things are good. They aren't good. When I get into discussions with people, they also believe things like eggs and potatoes and bacon are just awful. That's not necessarily true.
Research is showing a larger percent of the population are more carb sensitive than others. 100grams of carbs for one person could be WAY too much for another guy. All my successes are linked to carb restriction and not calorie restriction.
When I quit eating the bad carbs I quickly lost the taste for them. No cravings other than some psychological remnants I've short-circuited like treating stress with pizza or sugar cereal or self mutilation. I still cut myself (I'm not a 16 year old girl) but it doesn't impact my blood sugar!
Keto one week every three months, but mainly paleo food choices. Weight fluctuates in winter up 15 lbs and then back down during warm months.
Oh - the "science" lobby has done an incredible dis-service to this county throughout the years. Sugar lobby, corn lobby use the same tactics as the tobacco lobby did. Lots of money at stake.
Science is pretty settled that calories are not the same. Carbs impact different metabolic pathways than fats. WAY different impacts on things like insulin... A diet of all carbs will give you a completely different outcome than a diet of all fats or all proteins with some individual differences to be sure. I'm less interested in the weight loss and WAY more interested and invested in the bio marker successes. I do not respond to a higher carb diet regardless of the number of calories.
We do those, actually just started one today. Usually only do 10-14 days bc after that there's not much change IMO. But no added sugars, carbs, beer and dairy and I usually lose around 1 lb a day. 1st time, 2 summers ago I started at 210, went down to 185 in 24 days. 4 months later got down 172, which is frail for me IMO at 6' tall. I'm at 189 now, added some holiday fat. Too much beer while off work. My wife has lost 65 lbs, it's great.
Does take a lot of discipline, but the results are worth it. I don't do the pills or supplements from advocare, just the diet plan and a Sparq in the morning.
I enjoy seeing people adjust their set points after their lifestyle change. Sad and alternative part is, they'll lose the weight...but didn't allow the body to adjust and Baaaaaalooooooon! goes their body right back up.
