Some fat bint at work has lost a shit load of weight doing it but she looks tired/ haggard…without looking into it I’d say it’s a load of balls… You need carbs, moderately even, to cut them out for fats seems bizarre…they’ve found evidence recently that shows we were eating grains in the palaeolithic giving two fingers to the palaeolithic diet too… The slimming world diet let’s you eat almost as much carbs as you want once you have limited fats and you have people doing that losing 20stone and feeling full of energy. As always, truth is in the middle.
They’re dead nuts on it in South Africa, they call it Banting and so amny people are at it almost every restaurant has a Banting section on the menu. Seems a bit extreme. I do think fats have gotten a bad rep but cutting carbs completely is way too extreme. The food writer for the Irish times has a new book on it I think, Domini Kemp.
Fasting works. 16/8. No need to cut any food groups. Fast 16 hours using sleep time as half that and eat other 8.
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That’s what I’m curious about.
I get why it works for fat people. Higher satiety of proteins and fats, less sugary carbs etc. But if you have low body fat, are controlling your calorie intake, and are training regularly, then what do you get out of it?
Most of what I’ve heard is either purely anecdotal stuff about ‘brain fog’ and ‘feeling sharper’ which is too subjective to take seriously, as people are always rationalising their training and dietary choices anyway. Or else some spurious sounding stuff about training your body to burn its fat reserves.
Neither seem convincing enough to drop fruit, porridge, and yoghurt from my diet and replace them with avocados and fuck loads of eggs.
It’s everywhere these days. Seems to be the in thing.
Down to 78kg (at 6 foot) after 6 months of on and off dieting. Hoping to get it down to 75kg over the next month or so. Was maybe 16 stone when I left a few years back so a decent transformation.
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That sounds very light for a 6 foot man
How did you do it. sweating bullets half the year out there surely helps
Nah I’m a big build and there is still a load of fat around the stomach area. Going to start doing press-ups/sit ups soon though, twice daily.
Yeah that helps, also the portions are smaller over here (although they give you shit tons of white rice), even if the food itself isn’t necessarily any healthier. They give more veg, less meat. No sugar outside of coffee, only things I drink are water, coffee and a few beers a week. Cut down on burgers, rice and fried food. Walking 10,000 steps every day and then 20-30k on a Sunday. That’s it really.
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Still sounds very light though Turenne, I’m 5’7" and 74kgs and according to my doctor the perfect weight. Fair play to you though, that’s impressive. I’ve said it a million times before, water is the key, cut out soft drinks shite and drink water, you’re halfway there. Where are you btw, I’ve forgotten.
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Fitzy? 5’7"? Hmm. Do you look like this when you’re gardening?
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I’d bate the shite out of that little fucker.
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How dare you, I’m very slim.
Can’t be right, pal. At 6 foot you should be looking at around the 85kg-90kg mark… I’d say you just need to work a little bit of fat into muscle rather than losing weight.
Supposedly 6 foot 78 kg is just about inside the normal weight category, assumnig you don’t think BMI is a load of bollocks. 85kg to 90kg is overweight (again supposedly).
http://www.whathealth.com/bmi/chart-feetkilos.html
But yeah, I need to get onto @caoimhin about some daily ten minute exercises to get rid of some of the fat.
No I don’t really believe in bmi… No such thing as a one size fits all really .
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Walk 20-30kms every Sunday? That’s a fair trek! Around the streets or where?
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