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Avoiding weight gain when not cycling
(43 posts)- Started 6 years ago by Darkerside
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I’m not going to make myself popular here, but I think a lot has to do with genetics, or perhaps upbringing (or both).
There were youthful times when I drank a large bottle of sugary pop a day, plus quite a lot of chocolate, lots of milk and 3 reasonable, mother provided, meals a day + a lot of cycling and general outdoors.
Then a shortish period of less than great self-catering, followed by a time of brown bread, brown rice, vegetables, not much alcohol (relative poverty etc.)
Then years of reasonably diet, not much meat, too much alcohol (4 pints every day for a few periods) variable amounts of regular cycling (no ‘exercise’).
Probably a stone or so heavier than in my 20’s (inevitable and probably good). Never (as far as I can remember) noticeably ‘overweight’.
Fish suppers every week, not many takeaways or very much eating out - more lattes and brownies than full meals.
Never “dieted” - and I do believe that most people who do put the weight on again.
So apart from genetics, avoid ‘enlarging your stomach’ seems to be wise advice (and probably hard to get back from).
So not very helpful or dealing with ‘psychologies surrounding food’ or ‘how to deal with the commercialised food culture’, or the daily ‘away-from-home-eating-options’.
So my ‘advice’ is “eat less and stress less about it”.
HOWEVER I do understand that some people really have ‘issues’ that can’t just be their own fault.
In general blame the food industries and Govs’ failure to challenge them adequately.
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Breast-fed babies were shown in a very large scale study in NZ/AUS to be less pre-disposed to childhood obesity.
You could just ... No wait that's a terrible idea.
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byrne, frantz, weymouth, harrison and belew
i reckon anyone's neighbour and spouse is likely to be not far off their entire weight combined
we live in interesting times
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Slightly OT.
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patients were put on a “soup and shake” diet for three months before being gradually introduced to food again building up to a daily diet of 1600 calories
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Don’t know whether that’s about type or quantity of food (or both), but must involve considerable willpower.
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"must involve considerable willpower" I couldnt do the shakes and soup thing, yuk.
I have read about this reversing diabetes - pretty interesting stuff.
1600 calories is pretty low for an ongoing target unless you have a small frame - when you consider that a bowl of porridge with 275ml of semi skimmed is 290 calories.
However, if you have developed diabetes then perhaps the alternative is even less appealing?
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TBH I think the main thing is to avoid a sedentary lifestyle. When it comes to health your actual weight matters a lot less compared to how much exercise you're getting. Difficult for the time poor, though, as @darkerside is finding. One of the beauties of utility cycling is the fact that it takes up no (extra) time and builds lots of good exercise into your day.
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“it takes up no (extra) time”
That depends.
CCE is never ‘representative’ but there are definitely people here who choose to cycle commute quite long distances that could be done quicker by car or train (where available).
However for general utility - shops, work, destinations of 2, 3, 5 miles (depending to a degree on geography, fitness and towncentreness) it can save time when factoring in finding a parking space, waiting for the bus etc.
Add in the time spent working to pay for a car in the first place...
But we have long established that most people don’t look at the economics of transport particularly rationally.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"But we have long established that most people don’t look at the economics of
transportanything particularly rationally."FTFY
Exhibit A: Brexit.
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Excellent thread... :)
5:2 sounds workable, particularly as it involves minimal disruption to other people's meals (the diet of someone trying to avoid putting on weight and that of a breastfeeding mum being pretty much opposites).
Let me Google how bad the '2's needs to be...
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@Darkerside, this programme kicked off the 5:2 thing for me and many others. Worth a watch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lxyzc
Main thing to remember about the "2s" is the 600 calorie daily limit (for men). And drink plenty of water...!
Further advice here:
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the 5/2 is effective and doable. I do it when my trousers get tight. I find that on the 5 days you eat less and skip the work treats as you're mindful of the 2 days.
However I only do it for a month or two, enjoy the results, then return to my old ways of beer, cheese, butter etc and the weight goes up again, the trousers tighten, and so the cycle continues.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@Rosie, yeah that sounds like me for the past few years!
Will power. The only way...
Trying again this year, have to do something!
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