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- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...