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[oracleslave]

Or increase your calorie usage while keeping your intake constant!!

Yes, although in the majority of cases a combination of the two is probably best.

[Jog On]

Or increase your calorie usage while keeping your intake constant!!

Or increase your calorie usage and reduce your calorie intake.

Then there's the type of 'calories you intake' at what intervals you intake them at and how much/often you drink water etc.

I find I pretty much stay at the same level by eating well and exercising during the week then drinking beer and eating curries on the weekend

[Spacecadet]

I was listening to a nutritionalist on radio 4 on monday, he had a few very good pointers on healthy eating

Only buy food that your grandmother would recognise as food
don't buy anything with more than 5 ingredients
avoid anything processed (this includes processed flours eg bread, pasta)
avoid anything thats marketed as a "healthy" option
buy fresh when ever possible and cook from basic ingredients

A classic example is yogurt. Yogurt should be a basic food, just milk and a bacterial agent that turns the milk into yogurt. The modern supermarket yogurts are full of sweetners, sugars and other carp you don't need in there.

[PAH]

I was listening to a nutritionalist on radio 4 on monday, he had a few very good pointers on healthy eating

Only buy food that your grandmother would recognise as food
don't buy anything with more than 5 ingredients
avoid anything processed (this includes processed flours eg bread, pasta)
avoid anything thats marketed as a "healthy" option
buy fresh when ever possible and cook from basic ingredients

A classic example is yogurt. Yogurt should be a basic food, just milk and a bacterial agent that turns the milk into yogurt. The modern supermarket yogurts are full of sweetners, sugars and other carp you don't need in there.

You have a point. Tried a Heinz Weight Watchers shepherds pie the other day and it was as gross as a budget brand one. I'm sure it's a conspiracy by the supermarkets to make us lazy gits shell out 3 times more for the Aberdeen Angus top of the range one.

On the subject of yoghurts, my favourite used to be Ski, especially the black cherry one. Now they've gone and tampered with it, filling it with all sorts of carp that according to them is healthier.

What do people think about the eat breakfast to stop your metabolism slowing, if you want to lose weight? I think it's carp myself. Rarely have time for breakfast apart from at the weekends, but as long as I can hold on till lunchtime without snacking (which is probably the crucial point) I seem to be as trim as ever. A nice healthy 25 stone.

[Denny]

Denny, thyroid problems are not as rare as some people think - and its a really bad news for weight loss. Detecting Thyroid problem is really difficult and takes months to prove. However not sure if GPs are willing to look into hormonal imbalances readily.... Anyway there is a lot of info out there on the web, but please don't give up on being a size 10, well there is nothing wrong with a size 12, but if you are unhappy, you can still do it, have you looked into the Paleo kind of way of eating?

You're right, thyroid problems are commoner than people suppose and ill understood by those who don't have them resulting to all too common scornful remarks from ignorant twerps like Dimprawn such as - you're eating too many donuts and sweets in front of the telly and just blaming it all on your glands. I wish that was the case.

Luckily, I did have a good doctor who diagnosed my problem correctly and put me on Thyroxine. My TSH levels were up around the 200 mark instead of 5or so, which is what they should be. Many women, who tend to suffer this problem most of all, usually in their 40s and 50s, don't get diagnosed correctly at all if the symptoms are mild and wonder why they're suffering ill effects for years on end and putting on heaps of weight. Most put it down to middle age spread. In my case, the effects were so severe over a couple of months after stopping smoking (usually a typical time when the problem first becomes apparent) that I practically shut down altogether and couldn't even walk a few yards up the road without feeling as if my legs had been weighted down with lead, plus I felt unreasonably cold, extremely fatigued with little effort and my skin became dry and puffy as well. So it had to be more than just middle age spread and post fag withdrawal weight gain (which is what I thought it was at first).

I lost a few pounds once the effects of the tablets kicked in, but it's no substitute for naturally produced Thyroxine which regulates your metabolism a lot more efficiently than tablets ever can. Now it's very hard for me to lose weight at all, and I have been stuck on the same weight for ages now, despite being on a strict low GL diet with far fewer fattening treats than I used to have and exercising daily. Luckily, I'm tall so being a size 16 does not equate to fat in my case. But I am bigger than I'd like to be. I used to be size 14, in 2006, which is what I want to be now.

[Churchill]

I used to be size 14, in 2006, which is what I want to be now.

Wellll, you could always go out and get some exercise!

[SandyDown]

Denny, your experience is very similar to a lot of women I speak to, I am a member of a health forum, and many women also had similar experiences and suffer from the snail effect weight loss… I agree LG diets are the best in ones, I have been practicing such diets since 2003 (but I do fall off the wagon now and again)- I don’t have in-depth knowledge off all thyroid problems, but have you read about the GL diets on the T3 levels? There are a lot of people talking about it, however I know a lot of people who have been on a total carnivore paleo diets and have been very happy with their food and physics (eating just meat/fish and fat, and eggs, some rarely have diary too)

[EternalOptimist]

Surely if your diet remains constant but you excercise more, you will entually waste away to nothing.
Contrariwise, if your activity remains constant but you eat less you would also waste away to nothing.

The fact that this is obviously wrong means that their must be another factor at work, and I think I have discovered what it is and the principles behind it. The balancing factor is the amount of poo that you produce.
In example 1 above , you excercise more, therefore the energy increase is extracted from your poo in the lower intestine or somewhere and the amount of poo decreases.
In order to lose weight it is simply neccessary to go to the toilet and do a lot more pooing

[Spacecadet]

You have a point. Tried a Heinz Weight Watchers shepherds pie the other day and it was as gross as a budget brand one. I'm sure it's a conspiracy by the supermarkets to make us lazy gits shell out 3 times more for the Aberdeen Angus top of the range one.

On the subject of yoghurts, my favourite used to be Ski, especially the black cherry one. Now they've gone and tampered with it, filling it with all sorts of carp that according to them is healthier.

What do people think about the eat breakfast to stop your metabolism slowing, if you want to lose weight? I think it's carp myself. Rarely have time for breakfast apart from at the weekends, but as long as I can hold on till lunchtime without snacking (which is probably the crucial point) I seem to be as trim as ever. A nice healthy 25 stone.

found the program:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogramme.shtml

and a times article on the book:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle3202051.ece

[Churchill]

Surely if your diet remains constant but you excercise more, you will entually waste away to nothing.
Contrariwise, if your activity remains constant but you eat less you would also waste away to nothing.

The fact that this is obviously wrong means that their must be another factor at work, and I think I have discovered what it is and the principles behind it. The balancing factor is the amount of poo that you produce.
In example 1 above , you excercise more, therefore the energy increase is extracted from your poo in the lower intestine or somewhere and the amount of poo decreases.
In order to lose weight it is simply neccessary to go to the toilet and do a lot more pooing

does talking poo work as a viable alternative?

Denny.