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So if you know that, why let yourself put on weight?

If you think some app is going to motivate you to lose weight then there is a long road ahead.

pinkboy

 

Don't cheat yourself of cheat days! They're great psychologically. Can help you reach your goals, and it's always good to throw a spanner in the works if you're sticking to a clean diet.

 

Everyone with a caloric deficit is already "outrunning" their diet by burning more than they consume.

I meant people who are trying to lose weight with their current lifestyle will find it much easier to eat fewer calories than exercise more. Eating less takes minutes, exercising to burn off the excess calories takes much longer. I'll be clearer next time

 

Worked very well for me. Taught me the fundamentals and now I haven't used the app in years. I'm not world class athlete, but I'm a lot smaller than I used to be just because I punched everything I ate into the app and it only took a week to realize I'll never change at what I thought was a good rate.

Digital scales and the app were my magic bullets.

 

Serious question, I have started to eat a jar of peanut butter a week with bananas and am addicted, is peanut butter fattening?

 

I have read peanut butter is actually very good for you, it has good oils like avo and fish

 

You too....answer the first question.

If you know how to not put on weight, then why in the first place?

We are ALL equipped with the knowledge already.

pinkboy

 

Also I read sugar is an inflammatory as well as stress, gives you pot belly

 

Im naturally fairly thin and have always struggled to put weight on. Till I hit 30. I then became soft and squishy bit not really 'big'. I was just incredibly unfit.
In my 20s I was always very active, and when Im not at work I live an active life. At work though I spend 12hours+ a day/7days a week at a desk. Add in 3x cooked meals and I had no energy to exercise. I became a skinny blob.

I first looked at my diet. I never realised how much sugar I was actually eating. 4-5cups of coffee a day with 2x spoons of sugar, often a cake for morning tea, and a sweet snack to get me over the mid arvo snooze. Add to that all the added sugar is supposedly 'healthy' foods and I hate to think how much I was consuming. So that was the first thing to go. No more sugar.

Throw more meat into the diet and less carbs (especially pasta). Add in a dose of exercise at least 3-4times/week plus walking further and I have dropped 8kgs (10+% of my body weight). Not really hard.

Sure - Im still a twig, but at least Im nearly a hard twig. Not a floppy droopy squishy waterlogged type of twig.

Blacky

 

It's a very caloric dense food.
Doesn't take much to get the calories up with PB.
However, it will only make you fat if it contributes to you exceeding your daily calorie intake level for maintenance.

 

I disagree.

I remember reading a website a good 10 years back, I think it's this:
http://www.theloseweightdiet.com/

I grew up bigger, in a family where everyone had to finish their large servings of high carb food before leaving the table. Bad habits instilled and I carried on not knowing any better. Eventually I decided I wasn't happy and then I started researching how to change. I learned and did it. Now I know. Back then I didn't put two and two together.

I understand how people struggle getting a new diet into their lifestyle to lose weight, old eating habits can be difficult to break.

I NOW have the knowledge. I didn't when I was a younger adult.

 

I have upped my training to 5 days a week and my diet now mainly consists of

Bananas
Green leafy veg stirfrys with chilli mushrooms and eggs
Cans of tuna and brown rice
Biodynamic "bread" with avo
Tofu and some chicken
Acai bowls
Black coffee no sugar
Low fat cheeses
Also pbutter

Not sure how good this is, but I basically researched a heap of diets and combined what I thought seemed good.

I also read no need for protein shakes as you get enough protein from a regular diet but who knows

 

No such thing as a fattening food or non fattening food. It's just calories in vs calories out.

 

"It's no joke that people dig their graves with their teeth"
James J Jeffries

World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1899-1904
Unbeaten from 1895 -1904
He came out of retirement 6 years later as a 40 year old and went 15 rounds with Jack Johnson.

 

Yep. I could train a full week on just a diet of Zinger burgers.

Unhealthy yes, but I have the knowledge and capacity to burn it and not get fat.

pinkboy

 

Sounds like he has the capacity to eat a lot (and burn it) because he has some muscle. You could exercise "hard" but unless you starting "training" once you stop you'll just gain weight. When you exercise you burn calories (and there is usually some form of cardiovascular improvement), when you train (e.g. strength training) you can be putting on muscle, which will increase your ability to burn cals @ rest.

Improving your cardio is quick to improve and quick to reverse once you stop.
Improving your strength is slow, but also slow to reverse once you stop.
People should focus on improving their body composition rather than loosing weight.
MFP is a great app for doing this.

 

Operative work being....."easier".
You can apply this problem to your whole life and lack of success in most things....taking the easier route.

Here's an analogy; I spent 30 years teaching golf. It is a difficult game to master.

Who were the players you'd always see on the practice fairway, grinding away, working on their game?

The good players.

The rest?

Didn't practice (enough), and tried to find ways to become good via shortcuts - buying a new putter, driver - trying to "buy" a golf game.

And; always made excuses for not doing the practice work they should have, wanted to - but didn't.

Many simply give up eventually, and resign themselves to their level they are at for the rest of their life.

Apply that to losing weight (diet and exercise). Diet alone won't get you there...you have to hit the practice fairway and stop looking for excuses and shortcuts.

 

What are the stats these days, 60% obese in Australia I think.

 

And; depending where you live; the stats will be higher for that area, I believe from observations.

That's scary.

Other areas; way lower of course...it seems to be demographically driven for some reason.

 

concentration of fast food stores in lower demo???