Yes Jamie I was diagnosed with cancer in Nov and had surgery in Dec and am doing chemo now. I love to eat and worked hard at my weight and worked out daily either at the gym, hikes, bike rides or 3 hr long walks. I got a new mountain bike last summer too which I planned to use a lot this year but that is now on hold. I also was well adverse in different eating programs as I was a personal trainer and aerobic fitness instructor for many years. I usually just followed what the natural path Dr said as it made the most sense to me. I posted a bit in your thread a few times about exercise. So right now I no longer have to fret over my daily work outs although I have to still monitor what I eat and try to get enough now. I used to drink at least 10 cups of water easily everyday now I struggle just to get a few in. Hence my words try chemo and you lose fast and don't have to worry about going to the gym.

 

Thanks

 

aww sorry, I didn´t know

Yes! I know it has terrible effects. I hope you will get through this and back to eating and excercising and being strong! Its all about being healthy!

 

Brandi, technically, I'd say you were cheating.

 

Right now I feel like when this is over I am going to eat 100 lasagne's, 100 burrito's, 100 pizzas and 100 enchiladas. I don't care how fat i get I will just be happy to eat again.

 

Reporting back from our city break - sadly we only managed 2 O's between us, due to an alcohol related incident

I'll also have to double check the scales this week after lapsing from my healthy eating routine - back to it tomorrow though.

 

awwww Cija!!!

The weekend was bad for me also, but I am back on track today!

 

All is not lost - Mr Babe was off work today, and we made up for it

 

I was going to refer you to the "Masturbation Thread" but.....

The day has been saved!

 

yay!!! :excited::excited::excited:

 

If you follow diet trends closely, you could get whiplash. One year fat is the enemy; the next, sugar is poison. Recently, twin brothers, Chris and Alexander "Xand" van Tulleken set out on a month-long radical experiment to put the debate to rest over which is worse.
Chris adopted a super low fat diet, consuming only the 2% he would need to maintain his health. Xand opted for a high protein diet that ditched all forms of sugar (i.e. carbohydrates), from table sugar to flour to fruit. The brothers, who both work as physicians, shared similar daily routines and stuck to the exact same fitness regimen. Furthermore, because they share identical DNA, any changes they experienced would be attributable to diet, not genetics. A film crew followed their nutritional journey, and it's airing as a documentary on BBC2 on Wednesday.
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Xand was motivated because he was at his highest weight ever — 245 pounds. He told the Daily Mail he looked like the "fat version of his twin" and was a living, breathing "cautionary tale." He realized that while he and Chris were both doctors, they really didn't know that much about nutrition and diet. "These topics fall between the cracks at medical school. Yes, we understood biochemistry and food metabolism, and knew a lot about the consequences of being overweight," he said. "But which diets work, why we eat too much and why losing weight is so hard don't sit within any medical specialty."
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The diets were easy to follow because the rules were so specific. Although there was no limit on how much the twins could eat , Xand says both plans were, ultimately, "miserable." Initially, he thought he had the better deal, devouring piles of meat, eggs, and fat — but eliminating sugars had some nasty side effects. His breath stank and he felt constipated. Moreover, he was sluggish, tired, and his brain was in a fog. When he and Chris raced each other uphill on bikes, he realized that his endurance was shot. Chris flew up the hill while Xand's heart rate surged. "He just keeps getting further away and I cannot make my legs go any faster," Xand huffed to the camera crew.
Xand was the weight loss winner, dropping a total of 9 pounds, but he says his high-protein, low-carb diet caused his body to go into ketosis — a state in which the body burns fat but doesn't effectively provide the brain with the glucose (sugar) it needs for energy.

Nutrition expert Angela Lemond explained to Yahoo Shine, that high protein diets produce chemicals called ketones, which promote weight loss but can lead to kidney failure. "We recommend staying above 100 grams of carbohydrates per day to avoid going into ketosis," she said and added, "We know people cannot sustain this way of eating and therefore, they re-gain the weight."

Meanwhile, Chris wasn't faring much better. He had lost a little weight, but without the added fat, even supposedly decadent foods, such as pasta, tasted like cardboard. Lemond explained that fat increases the feeling of satisfaction, and indeed, Chris experienced a constant gnawing hunger.
At the end of the month, neither brother felt like his diet was superior. Speaking with scientists working in cutting edge nutrition, they decided that the real problem was the combination of sugar and fat found in many processed foods. "We should not vilify a single nutrient…" Chris told the Sunday Express. "It is too easy to demonize fat or sugar but that enables you to let yourself off the hook in other ways. The enemy is right in front of us in the shape of processed foods."
The brothers concluded that searching for "one toxic ingredient" was fruitless and we should rather be watching calories, portion size, and eating whole foods whenever possible. Its an un-sexy approach that won't spark any diet crazes or launch a bestseller, but could actually work.

 

Motivation needed to get my arse in gear and start losing weight. Lost some before Christmas and now it's all back on

 

Spoiler

Seriously, thanks L4W1 - I'm looking forward to watching that.

Good luck - if I knew what the 'magic button' was for getting myself motivated, I'd

1 not have a problem

2 be very rich

I think one of the most important triggers is realising that being overweight affects your health. Often, it has to negatively impact your daily life before you realise that you have to do something.

 

Make sure he 'keeps his side of the bargain' mistress...... haha

and good luck everyone!!

 

Thanks again Nad

A small gain on the scales, but my clothes are hanging looser, so I'm expecting a loss next weigh-in.

 

That sounds interesting! Wish I could watch it!

I agree that the no carbs diet works really well, at least for me. I don´t feel like I am losing energy, but it might also be my age. It is really hard to follow it though! I generally still eat some fruit and dairy products, so my cab intake isn´t that low but it is way lower than 100g

 

That is true. I'm trying to lose the weight for my health bit some how I manage to put it back on again. Christmas has gone piled the weight on and now need to shift it

 

Everyone has that problem Its just so unfair, but we gotta keep going!

 

How to lose weight when a holiday or event is around every corner...

 

Luckily we don't have that over here, L4W1.

The diet industry is raking in the money after Christmas. I belong to a Weight Watchers group on Facebook, and with their latest regime, members are going crazy for certain grocery items, which are flying off the shelves. The dairy industry can barely keep up with the demand for quark, completely unknown last month. Members are also trying their best to bend the rules and coming up with recipes that use low fat low sugar ingredients. I'm not at all tempted to try Shredded Wheat cake