Working away from home - eating healthily

[cojak]

I try and avoid large quantities of fatty and highly processed food. I drink at least 3 litres of coffee a day, plenty of protein so fish, ham, beef, prawns and chicken, and noodles and rice and veggies and stuff.
in the evenings I usually have a few beers and a light dinner.

I drink too much coffee, tea is much better (and I've saved money).

[d000hg]

No something my gym instructor told me. She asked what and when I was eating and then went, nein! nein! nein!

All those years of medical science training can't be wrong.

[Mich the Tester]

I pack my racing bike into the boot of the car and take it with me to the hotel. I ride most evenings and some mornings, but from next week I'll do spinning at a gym nearby clientco. That way I can eat pretty much whatever I like, either the home cooking by the hotel owner or in a restaurant nearby; get enough exercise and you really don't need to worry too much about getting fat. Just avoid the junk food places. I have a little pot of multivits that I use some days.

[Mich the Tester]

Believe what you want, it's still a load of mince, type of stuff peddled in women's magazines with no scientific fact.

WHS

You eat it, you need to burn it. If you don't burn it, don't eat it.

[Old Hack]

I think it's hard to argue against there being the wrong tulip to eat. You can exercise as much as you like to keep the weight off, but if all you're eating is deep friend tulip, you're likely to be harming your health.

I used to do what MTT does, that is take a bike with me. Then I started using hotels with gyms and pools and it's much better, in my opinion. Nothing beats an open air 'real' bike ride for getting fit, but getting back to the hotel at 8pm, it's sometimes easier going to the gym than going out for a ride around dusk time.

There are, however, plenty of ways to eat healthily working away.

As an idea, could we make a sticky of ideas to keep the weight off while away?

[minestrone]

If we believe the more progressive current western dietary thinking white rice is just a total no no in anything more than small amounts. The staple food for about 2 billion people who seem to have had no weight issues until we introduced them to burgers and coke. Lunacy.

[Mich the Tester]

I think it's hard to argue against there being the wrong tulip to eat. You can exercise as much as you like to keep the weight off, but if all you're eating is deep friend tulip, you're likely to be harming your health.

I used to do what MTT does, that is take a bike with me. Then I started using hotels with gyms and pools and it's much better, in my opinion. Nothing beats an open air 'real' bike ride for getting fit, but getting back to the hotel at 8pm, it's sometimes easier going to the gym than going out for a ride around dusk time.

There are, however, plenty of ways to eat healthily working away.

As an idea, could we make a sticky of ideas to keep the weight off while away?

I shall do this within the next couple of months when my accountant gives me his customary 'raise your costs to avoid the 52% tax scale' phone call.

[original PM]

everything in moderation!

only way to live

[Mich the Tester]

If we believe the more progressive current western dietary thinking white rice is just a total no no in anything more than small amounts. The staple food for about 2 billion people who seem to have had no weight issues until we introduced them to burgers and coke. Lunacy.

Take a look at Africa; you have two large population groups who are not usually fat. The Sudan tribes who live in the east generally eat lots of grain, but not much meat; that means they get the proteins and carbs but their calory intake is limited by not eating much meat. Then you have the much larger Bantu groups who live in central and western areas; they generally eat lots of fish and meat, but not so many spuds or grain; that gives them the nutrients, but limits their calory intake. Plus, most people still do physical work. The problems there are now starting in the cities where obesity is become a big issue; that's because they combine high calory intake diets that include meat AND starches with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Most people in cities now live in two job, two child households and are so busy they just grab some fast food on the way home and now obesity is becoming a bigger health issue than AIDS or malaria in urban Africa.

In short, yes, the low carb diets can work, but simply because they involve a lower calory intake. Eat the carbs AND the proteins, limit the fat and combine it all with some exercise, which doesn't need to be intensive training; a half hour to an hour brisk walk around the local area can make a big difference.

And if you do intensive exercise, DO NOT stop eating carbs, whatever some jumped up instructor says; your body needs them. Without the carbs, it will burn fat, but it'll also burn proteins from your muscles and can leave you weakened with a whole lot of waste products in your kidneys.

[Old Greg]

Take a look at Africa; you have two large population groups who are not usually fat. The Sudan tribes who live in the east generally eat lots of grain, but not much meat; that means they get the proteins and carbs but their calory intake is limited by not eating much meat. Then you have the much larger Bantu groups who live in central and western areas; they generally eat lots of fish and meat, but not so many spuds or grain; that gives them the nutrients, but limits their calory intake. Plus, most people still do physical work. The problems there are now starting in the cities where obesity is become a big issue; that's because they combine high calory intake diets that include meat AND starches with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Most people in cities now live in two job, two child households and are so busy they just grab some fast food on the way home and now obesity is becoming a bigger health issue than AIDS or malaria in urban Africa.

In short, yes, the low carb diets can work, but simply because they involve a lower calory intake. Eat the carbs AND the proteins, limit the fat and combine it all with some exercise, which doesn't need to be intensive training; a half hour to an hour brisk walk around the local area can make a big difference.

And if you do intensive exercise, DO NOT stop eating carbs, whatever some jumped up instructor says; your body needs them. Without the carbs, it will burn fat, but it'll also burn proteins from your muscles and can leave you weakened with a whole lot of waste products in your kidneys.

It's almost like people should have a balanced exercise and do some exercise.