Anyone Dieting?

In many cases, when people here are diagnosed with gluten intolerance, what they actually have is a sensitivity to the ultra processed flour that we make here. That and the chemicals that find their way into our flour. Europe doesn’t have that problem so their products made from flour don’t affect people adversely.

 

Hovering at 210lbs for last few years. Been as low as 206 and high as 215 but pretty sure I've found my happy spot. Contemplating a self induced therapy program for my shoulders using a gym and tethered weight machines. The joints are worn. Thinking if I add some more muscle around them they may hold up for another decade to what I put them through. Probably wishful thinking.

For anyone trying to lose weight...do you always 'earn' a supper via physical activity? I go most nights without supper. I sit for a full shift at a desk, most days. If hungry a reasonable snack. I do eat a substantial lunch that I would describe as 'neutral healthy'. Next 'food' is usually at 5 am following morning where I enjoy a glass of milk and one of those 'old people' Ensure drinks for breakfast. Been doing this for years now.

Caloric intake vs Caloric use.

 

I keep it simple by thinking of it as a calories in, calories out endeavor. To maintain my current weight, I need (about) 2300 calories a day. Less than that, I'm in a deficit and slowly losing weight, more than that, and I'm slowly gaining it back. It doesn't matter so much what form the calories come in, just as long as the math adds up at the end of the day. I can scarf down a doughnut at 11:30pm as long as I planned for it earlier in the day. The biggest variable here is daily activity. If I'm walking a lot or riding a bicycle, I can consume more calories and not store excess calories as fat. I tend to make dinner my largest calorie meal, because for most people the hunger hormone (ghrelin) is elevated the most at night. When I break my fast midday (literally break-fast) its fairly high in calories, and my lunch is relatively light. Then when dinner comes, I can consume a bit more to hold me over until the following day. One thing to keep in mind is that there's about 3500 calories in a single pound of body fat, so to gain a pound you've got to be overconsuming day after day for it to happen, either a few hundred calories a day or one seriously disgusting eating binge in a short amount of time.

 

You can never outexercise a bad diet. Or maybe put a better way, you can always outeat the most extreme exercise plan. Losing weight is 90% eating less and 10% burning more calories. Put the fork down. Exercise is absolutely not required to lose weight, look at all those starving prisoners that are skin and bones. It's really just about eating less.

I'm also a big fan of eating less times per day and giving yourself the chance to get hungry in between feedings. This all0ws your insulin levels to drop and so allows your body access to your stored fat for fuel. Because to be honest, we aren't trying to lose weight but to lose fat.

 

Yep, got home from our 5 day cruise and 3 days in FLA. The scale wasn't my friend......back to 213lbs...back to eating normal at home...208lbs now

 

Wanted to give everyone an update on my progress . This has definitely been a journey but one worth taking. I’ve lost sixty-five pounds. I thought that was something out of reach at times. I knew i needed to do something. Back in April I weighed about 292 lbs. way too big for my body frame and my body was telling me that in little ways. Constant back pain, feet would hurt and be swollen at night. If I could give anyone any advice that helped me was quitting the fast food, processed carbs and soda, that made all the difference. There is food everywhere you go now and it so easy to grab the quick stuff. I mainly try to eat of evening after work. Basically one meal a day. It took some time to accomplish that but it’s working so far.

 

Congratulations! Great to hear you stuck with it

 

Freaking awesome. Keep up the great work

 

Amen, I can't stress enough to people how awful this garbage is for us and yet we've been spoon fed it for decades by society. If not for losing weight, just for your overall health and life longevity.

 

Cutting out heavily processed food that have salt, sugar and fat and eating mainly fresh fruit, veggies and simple meats makes a big difference to a diet. The more processed food is, the more is added to it.

Congratulations on losing the weight, Perry long jr

 

That's fantastic. Keep up the good work!

 

Without question the most effective method.
Also seems to be the most challenging to enforce.
3 meals a day without feeling hungry between is the standard these days. Even if you live a sedentary lifestyle. Amazingly unhealthy IMO.

 

I've seen flour mentioned multiple times and how it's different in Europe, so true. We've been getting stuff from Azure Standard for years now and one thing we've found out is that there's multiple friends that can't have gluten but can have anything we make just fine.

 

We love ice cream and have been flabbergasted by the results of what the US allows to be added to our ice cream. Lots of publicity lately, it doesn't even melt it has so much gum added.

 

Yeah it's disgusting. We make most of our own food.

 

I would've thunk it made the ice cream chewer.

 

Do you have a nation wide brand you recommend?
Huge ice cream fan here!

 

It does. The ice cream no longer melts in your mouth where you can eat it with your tongue. It's so bad now. The used to do it so that during shipping when the product warms it doesn't melt and cause a texture issue. Now it's just cheaper than using actual dairy. I don't like to eat play dough ice cream.

 

Yes, we love hagen daz however you spell it. Huge brand but no gums in the ingredient list. A close second is a safeway select homestyle vanilla. It has the gums but a nice amount of vanilla flavor and relatively ice cream like at a lower cost. I don't know how nationwide safeway is. Luckily we can read the labels and find if it has gums or carageenan.

Sorry to bring up ice cream in a dieting thread but I don't believe in substitutes. If you are going to eat ice cream do it right, get it over with, and tomorrow is another day.