Exactly this. A mate of mine went to Slimmers World a couple of times, it worked as long as he could be bothered to show up. After a while he stopped, and he regained his old weight. But when he was going they got to Christmas. "Oh dear oh dear" said all the class, "Wahat am I going to do over Xmas and NY? I'll put all this weight back on!" The trainer, reasonably enough, pointed out that it wasn't important what you ate between Christmas and New Year, it was what you ate and drank between New Year and Christmas. So as you say, nobody got fat from one day of bad eating. Nobody got fat from one week of it either, if they then behaved sensibly for a while. Christmas is 1 week of the year. The rest of the year is 51 weeks. Get the 51 right, you can do what you like for the last one.
Diet ideas - what actually works?
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Bulbous Also Tapered
I don't keep any sweets or snacks in my home at all. I'm still a fat bastard. Back in 2013 when I was unemployed for six months, if I got bored I'd go take a walk. Unemployment is very boring. I was up to 3.5 miles per day, and lost 35 pounds with no other changes in diet or habits. As soon as I secured a job, the weight went right back on.
I'm retiring in a couple of years...
They touched on this in the Radio 4 Planet Chicken thing. That was really interesting, I knew about the processing, obviously, but not the rearing. They pointed out that there are very real conflicts of interest. If you want animal welfare, then the enviro cost is greater because the birds move about and eat more food to produce less meat. That's inefficient. Max efficiency, in terms of most meat from least food, is if you grow then very fast, don't let them out and kill at 35 days. Didn't he say that if you get that right the conversion rate is something insanely efficient like 1.6? That's 1.6kg of chicken feed required to make every 1kg of live chicken. If that's true, it's almost impossible to believe.
Sounds like you need to buy some decent walking shoes, weatherproof clothing for the winter months, and a flask. You could join the hillsitting club. In this club, you walk up a hill until you find a nice place to sit, and you then sit down, drink tea and look at the view. It requires no specialist equipment other than a flask for your tea and some expensive biscuits.
Tried this out over the last couple of months. Excellent recipes, very easy to cook, tasty, not expensive and makes sense scientifically (pushes body in to ketosis).
i have ”lost” about ten pounds, ”love handles” reduced. Hopefully i will lose another half stone then carry on eating sensibly.
also should be getting a puppy soon - a lot of the weight increase was down to my missing my twice daily walks with my last dog when she passed on.
martin clark
pinko bodger
I might have written about this in a previous thread - but after a personal rate of inflation of 1-2lb/yr since mid 30s, I took stock of what I hated about WFH through the lockdowns - which really locked-in such damage - and did really two, really-simply things:
First - ASAP, work out of my place of work, everyday,, because that commute gives me 4+miles a day of walking , everyday, for free - a thing I'd taken for granted for a couple of decades - yet 18months of not doing so, showed how I'd failed to keep up with such a simple habit (- that all my recreational exercise - cycling, walks on canals/ hills/hiking hols etc, the bits I kept up 2019-2022, did not compensate for, because I hadn't expanded their ambit as much as I thought!)
Second - go functionally -wholly-vegetarian - because that (1) is always the better thing to do for manifold reasons, obvs, and (2) made me throw away/ adapt some of those ' I'm tired / lazy' dining habits. And dispose of old recipes, and expand my repertoire in other ways I enjoy / always have-done. yes, this meant I have also, binned a lot of casual-carb intake. NB - I do not, never have had, a sweet tooth - quite the opposite.
Outcomes:
First - ASAP, work out of my place of work, everyday,, because that commute gives me 4+miles a day of walking , everyday, for free - a thing I'd taken for granted for a couple of decades - yet 18months of not doing so, showed how I'd failed to keep up with such a simple habit (- that all my recreational exercise - cycling, walks on canals/ hills/hiking hols etc, the bits I kept up 2019-2022, did not compensate for, because I hadn't expanded their ambit as much as I thought!)
Second - go functionally -wholly-vegetarian - because that (1) is always the better thing to do for manifold reasons, obvs, and (2) made me throw away/ adapt some of those ' I'm tired / lazy' dining habits. And dispose of old recipes, and expand my repertoire in other ways I enjoy / always have-done. yes, this meant I have also, binned a lot of casual-carb intake. NB - I do not, never have had, a sweet tooth - quite the opposite.
Outcomes:
- shed c 18Kg in 10-12 months; have held off c 15, >>18months since, without any effort or even, thinking.
- Grew a beard at same time because (1) at 50, I'd never tried such; (2) it hides how lean my face is become... (nb I carry weight like a Seal, an even layer all over)
- bought new pants twice over, because waistline this far in is settling back to where I was at about 30, and what I have barely hangs on to the waistline I no longer have .. that's a quiet joy, as a mesomorph that's never had a 'gut'.
Jubal
pfm Member
Yes. You gotta be creative. I like Yamitsuki cabbage for example. Loads out there if you search.
les24preludes
pfm Member
And you've really got to get in the kitchen and start cooking most of your meals. You have so much more control when you understand how to cook food and make it tasty and low calorie.
I think that the action of cooking your own food has a positive psychological effect in that you are now engaged in what you are doing and taking an interest. I think that this engagement then encourages you to think about what you are eating, why you re eating it, and hence to a better understanding of what you want to be eating and why.