Health & Family Always Hungry ?

Some of my colleagues absolutely love the 5/2.

I tend to have a soy latte in the morning and then unintentionally "fast" until dinner (usually trying to drink 1.5 to 2L of water through the day plus green tea/peppermint tea if I'm cold). I've been criticised regularly that it's unhealthy, but it works for me, I'm usually busy through lunch time and I feel better as a result.

As I work a desk job and detest exercise (working on it ha) it doesn't make sense to me to be eating much through the day. My metabolism has always been slow - even when I ate small regular meals a lot.

We home cook pretty much everything and go out for dinner maybe once a week or once a fortnight. The issue I have is my partner has a particular love for unhealthy foods - chips, cakes, etc. She eats vegan as well, but of course there's plenty of vegan junk food. While she stays naturally very slim and is just more of an active person generally (desk job as well but fidgets a LOT and is always up and about doing things, whereas I can sit with a book for hours on end), I certainly do not. I think healthy eating is best done as a partnership - especially given I do the bulk of the cooking!

 

A month after the initial post, was wondering who had read and applied the learnings off the book? Feedback?

 

Two weeks in , going well .

Wife is loosing more weight than me which is good . I normally can loose weight , while she struggles . Weigh in tomorrow .

Feeling more energetic during the day . Not getting to the mid afternoon and feeling flat . No sugar cravings . Dark chocolate is allowed

Supportive members only ( you just have to ask ) facebook page .

The food is time consuming to prepare ( most is very nice , but a couple of recipies we'll substitute ) . There are plans for a stand alone cook book . Once you're familiar it's easy to do substitutes , but we decided to stick with it religiously ( apart from a night out for my daughters birthday ) .

Cliff

 

I picked up the book and started implementing this (straight to phase 2 as sadly work is too busy to concentrate that much on food),
Iv mainly focused on increasing my fat intake.
So far (2-3weeks in) I feel much more satisfied and almost never hungry however I noticed my bloating remained even without carbs. I relaxed my rules around carbs but just consciously maintained a higher level of fat and the bloating frequency has decreased.
The biggest change I have noticed is a reduction or complete lack of hunger. So kudos to the doctor regarding the book name.
However I kept eating at meal times due to habit.
Starting last weekend, I'm trying to only eat when my stomach tells me I'm hungry (rather than my mind or my habit) - did this all weekend and felt pretty good.

 

Calorie counting and using My Fitness Pal worked for me, I dropped 10 kilos and kept them off. I started doing it because of the results my wife got on this method also.

It takes a little bit of willpower but it's really not that hard to stick to. It almost gamifies it which in my opinion makes anything easier .

I still haven't figured out why they don't develop a device that clips to your exercise machine and plugs into your nintendo wii or xbox or playstation, if I were on an exercise bike in the tour de france, I would be more inclined to use it.

 

www.zwift.com

pinkboy

 

Or this:
http://www.virtuix.com/videos/

 

At least they tell users to put the bike on an indoor trainer.

 

I broke my lifestime habit of overeating at meal times a couple of years ago. It is a very hard habit to break. Something that helped me was simply switching to a smaller plate size.

I saw an interesting article on Embarrasing Bodies where they took two groups of people and measured their eating. Both groups were asked to fill a plate with the amount they could comfortably eat. Then half were blindfolded. They were all asked to eat until they felt comfortably full. The group without blindfolds finished all or most of the food on their plate and the blindfolded people ate 30% less. Interesting.

 

Calorie counting has been around for a while and while it works for individuals , it takes will power and the issue is sticking to it .

What David Ludwig demonstrates in this book is scientifically why dietary advice for the last 50-60 years has lead to an ever increasing weight issue in the western world and what to do about it in a way that it doesn't take will power and is easy to stick to it .

My main observation so far is that their particular recipes they provide can be time consuming in particular if you are following it strictly " by the book , as we are .

I'm sure there will be spin off cook books or an " always hungry for dummies " which address these issues or people will simply adapt the current recipes

Cliff

 

I've given up on the whole "eat less" scenario but have given up refined sugar as much as possible and am much more conscious (than I used to be) of what I put in my mouth, as I get older. Main difference I'm finding in losing weight and feeling better overall is exercise. Tennis, gym and walking as often as possible and when I can fit it in. Cutting down on food is great but if you don't move your body sufficiently it's going to be an uphill battle to feel healthy overall.

 

Personally I find the time and effort that eating healthy requires in comparison to not by far the most difficult element. Eating healthy costs a lot of time and in particular sleep, I find the 40 minutes extra sleep in the morning to be far more rewarding and put me in a far better mood than a healthy breakfast ever could.

Social eating is the other big one, it's just hard to have an active social life and eat healthy because healthy food is so particularly unavailable in social situations.

 

What's breakfast?

I am about to go back on overnight oats. Get 1/2 up rolled oats, put in a jar, cover in milk, in the fridge overnight. I eat them after I get to work. I like them like that. No salt, no sugar, no honey. Just plain for me. That's the most I will ever eat for breakfast.

Depends where you eat and how you order. It can be done but not easily I agree.

 

I never really eat breakfast which is a major factor in being over weight. I started Adam mcdougalls "the man shake" for breakfast and lunch and eat mixed nuts in between the shakes and have a healthy dinner. In the week since I started I have lost 4kgs and I feel great already. I dont feel as lazy and I have more energy to do things.

Looking forward to the coming months to see how I go. The hardest part is cutting out the chips, lollies and soft drinks.

 

My book arrived the day before I left for overseas. I decided not to start anything till I get back.

 

Liking the look of this and the positive feedback. Would this be suitable for non-sugar, non-wheat, non-flour eaters?
(Though have eaten all the above in excess for the past 2-3 years).

 

I did 10 kilos just from diet but then plateaued, had to introduce some exercise to get further and Tennis was our weapon of choice, it doesn't feel like exercise if you enjoy it

To be honest this being posted on this forum surprises me, it takes willpower to invest and not go an buy those shiny pretty toys that most people buy all the time and be wasteful with money .

My recent health issues have taught me a lot about willpower, I quit smoking cold turkey after 24 years on Sept 11 (Day I found out about the cancer), I upped my mortgage payments by a grand a month and stopped being so wasteful, shortly after I reached out to someone on here to help me with an investment journey and we put together a plan for me to retire in 10 years time.

All of this takes willpower and none of it is difficult, the only thing that has changed is not how hard these things are, it is how i approach and view them.

You are an investor, you clearly have plenty of willpower, the only thing you need to find is how to apply it to this particular scenario .

 

Do your self a favour and read the book . The first part of the book is on the reasoning / concepts and the scientific evidence to back those up . Second part is their plan .

If you're serious about loosing weight , at least read the first section and make up your mind . We read that on kindle, but to do the plan you really need the book , so you can jump around the pages when you're referencing different things .

Cliff