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by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:52 pm
Forum: diets & dieting
Topic: Advice
Replies: 7
Views: 7935

Re: Advice

Hi Helen, hope you are well! To help you before you get to a dietician, I would completely forget about 'calories'. Calories and calorie counting is almost impossible to do outside of a laboratory. The calorific values assigned to macronutrients (carbs, proteins and fats) are 'averages' - not every ...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:47 pm
Forum: self-esteem & emotional problems
Topic: Success?
Replies: 3
Views: 3717

Re: Success?

Hey O, hope you are well! Check out my post elsewhere titled 'Yo yo dieting'. Diets don't work. And there are strong reasons why, and I touch on just a few of them in that post. It is possible to have a normal relationship with food and get simply to your ideal weight. Unfortunately, there is no 'on...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:43 pm
Forum: related health conditions
Topic: Hypertension and diabetes
Replies: 4
Views: 3990

Re: Hypertension and diabetes

Hi! Just a quick reply, and unfortunately I can't lay my hands on the direct studies here to reference! Genetics do play a role in both hypertension and diabetes. There are genetic predispositions - but please remember genes switch on and off depending on environmental cues. So please don't think th...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:38 pm
Forum: diets & dieting
Topic: PCOS and Weight
Replies: 3
Views: 3553

Re: PCOS and Weight

I feel for you. Google 'Flugal Report' and you'll find some really interesting information that will give you some new understanding. Flugal is nothing more than a statistician, using all of the available information. When she presented the report that she was comissioned for there was a bit of an o...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:28 pm
Forum: diets & dieting
Topic: Yo-yo dieting
Replies: 8
Views: 5792

Re: Yo-yo dieting

Hi Helen! If you listen to your body it won’t go into negative energy balance, because if you eat less the energy you require will be coming from the adipose tissue (fat). The difference here is that the body is telling you what it needs as it allows itself to ‘rebalance’ and hopefully gain a lower ...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:20 pm
Forum: general questions on weight management
Topic: nutrition during exercise
Replies: 5
Views: 3436

Re: nutrition during exercise

Hi Helen! Thanks! Thanks Rosy too! I wouldn’t advise any difference between males or females. The periods of time without food is only for the training in a fasted state – I’m not a fan of fasting generally – I’m referring to training whilst your digestive system is generally at rest. First thing in...
by Gary Turner
Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:25 pm
Forum: general questions on weight management
Topic: maintaining or gaining weight
Replies: 4
Views: 3765

Re: maintaining or gaining weight

Hi Radiohead, congratulations on about to be getting married! Love Adam's advice too. I'd take note ;) To be your perfect weight, eat when hungry, stop eating when no longer hungry, and eat the foods that your body tells ou to eat. Drink water ONLY when thirsty. That will keep you at your perfect ho...
by Gary Turner
Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:14 pm
Forum: diets & dieting
Topic: Yo-yo dieting
Replies: 8
Views: 5792

Re: Yo-yo dieting

Here we go for starters - the programme was a four part series called "the men who made us thin". http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03863jg I think it was Episode 1 that contained the Weight Watchers former director. Hope you find this interesting! Remember it is a journalistic piece though...
by Gary Turner
Wed Jan 15, 2014 5:57 pm
Forum: diets & dieting
Topic: Yo-yo dieting
Replies: 8
Views: 5792

Re: Yo-yo dieting

Ah, actually the ‘eat less and exercise more’ doesn’t work long term at all ;) In fact, look to the systemic reviews such as those by the World Health Organisation and they quite nicely show that over a long term any weight loss is transient – at best. I think the review by Noakes came up with you a...
by Gary Turner
Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:18 pm
Forum: self-esteem & emotional problems
Topic: Emotional overrating
Replies: 4
Views: 4113

Re: Emotional overrating

I am currently peeling a satsuma. I wanted a tangerine, yet Tescos didn't have any earlier! Thanks for the feedback! Yep, Adam will be able to give you good recommendations, AND hopefully add to my post above. Eating carbs, especially simple sugars, gives you a hormonal response that sets you up for...
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