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All this talk of sweets is making me want to fall often wagon and go grab a container of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream!
48 hours into no refined sugar products
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Never did like ice cream. Too cold.All this talk of sweets is making me want to fall often wagon and go grab a container of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream!
next step is to start reading food labels (hidden sugars, fructose syrup is worst)
to satisfy sweetooth without bad thoughts, you can grab greek yogurt and add some this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Flavdrops&ref=nb_sb_noss
sucralose-zero cal sweetener. i got strawberry, blackberry.
to satisfy sweetooth without bad thoughts, you can grab greek yogurt and add some this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Flavdrops&ref=nb_sb_noss
sucralose-zero cal sweetener. i got strawberry, blackberry.
No thanks. I’m enjoying greens, some almonds, chicken, turkey, salmon. Want to stay away from sugars and lots of processed filth.next step is to start reading food labels (hidden sugars, fructose syrup is worst)
to satisfy sweetooth without bad thoughts, you can grab greek yogurt and add some this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Flavdrops&ref=nb_sb_noss
sucralose-zero cal sweetener. i got strawberry, blackberry.
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Just a little update. 10 days have past with no refined sugar. Feeling really good about it. I am still eating things like hamburger buns, etc..... so I am not off bad stuff, but I am not eating refined sugar as a meal substitute.
I ate refined sugar, sometimes in large quantities, to include as a meal, daily for the past 50+ years of my life. I think the placing a huge bowl of candy, filled with my favorite candies less than three feet from my chair at work, was what put me in the mode to seek change. I think I likely lost 3-5 lbs in the past ten days.
I ate refined sugar, sometimes in large quantities, to include as a meal, daily for the past 50+ years of my life. I think the placing a huge bowl of candy, filled with my favorite candies less than three feet from my chair at work, was what put me in the mode to seek change. I think I likely lost 3-5 lbs in the past ten days.
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I might start buying lettuce regularly. I want to eat less after I eat half the package of it.
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You are farther ahead than I am.
I have a little bit of soda, a little bit of microwaveable Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup, and some cheese (regular half pound package of cheddar cheese) to stand in as what I will eat at work until Tuesday. Reduced activity level and I have half a package of lettuce as well.. to which, yes, I add salad dressing. Also drinking water, a lot of water.
This, to me, though high in sodium... represents reduced caloric intake.
How does one put their body into ketosis..
Be mindful that either of those methods bear risks for those with metabolic disorders since their body may lack the ability to regulate their blood glucose levels and very low blood sugar can kill a person.
There are two methods. The first one is to eat a very low carb diet, say no more than 30 g of carbs per day for most people Indigestible fiber dies not count as carb so you may subtract that when calculating your carb intake based on food labels/charts. It may take a few days until you go into ketosis. Most people can taste the ketones in their mouth. Dirt of a cheesey or acetone taste
The easier method is intermittent fasting. If you do not eat anything for at least 12 hours your body will begin using your body fat as fuel.
Intermittent fasting is easy to do. You don't want to eat for at least 16 hours every day. You have a contiguous eating window of 8 hours. You could eat from noon till 8:00 pm or you could eat from 10:00am.till 6:00pm. After a 16 hour fast you ate unlikely to overeat and will find it pretty easy to get used to this routine. Your caloric intake must still be appropriate for your weight goal and you should not eat a lot of carbs but you don't have to go duoer-low on carbs.
If you do not fast for at least 15 hours a day the intermittent fast will not work any better than if you were just skipping any one meal.
After about 12 hours of fasting the pancreas will stop putting out any insulin and your metabolism will switch to fat burning. You want to maintain this state fir at least 4 hours hence the 16-hour fasting period. It is very effective and requires minimal will power and discipline
I deliberately put on at least 10 pounds in the late fall because I need extra insulation when surfing during the cold season. Once the water gets warmer in the spring I do an intermittent fast and lose the extra weight in usually 2 weeks.
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Yeah, I agree and not only that but the quality of life will be more miserable until the engine dies as it can be long and painful with patch work and repairs to keep it running because of poor eating habits.
No fast food, no fried food, no snacks, no cakes, no sodas with sugar or artificial sweeteners(which means no sodas), no fruit juices, no ice cream, no desserts in the common American sense of the word.
Use clean food = Super Lean beef (93% or more), poultry, FISH of all kinds, from canned to fresh, to frozen (I do choose fish lower in mercury much info on the internet to do that), fruit and vegetables, skim milk, no added sugar yogurt (Activia from Dannon) and frozen yogurt from Yasso (which is fantastic, avoid the few with saturated fats) Nuts all kinds are fine, Almonds and Walnuts but all are good.
Sandwiches are fine with whole wheat products AND wraps from the many available low fat wheat Tortilla Wrap bread in the supermarket. Post shredded wheat if you must have breakfast. Drink lots of water.
This stuff isnt rocket science and everyone is aware of the things in this post, it just depends if they want to acknowledge it and do it.
Sure it will cost more then a Big Mac or Fried Chicken sandwich at Chick Filet. I bet down the road you will save much more money by not needing the vast amount of prescription drugs that you will need to stay alive or the many heart procedures to keep your heart going and possibly less intervention for cancer. Plus you will feel great, your weight will drop.
If you really think about it, by staying to a diet of healthy "clean" food you are sticking it to the corporations that turn food "dirty" to make HUGE-HUGE profits off you and give it to their shareholders. Prepared food companies are not your friends, they exist to pick your pocket and could care less of the health consequences.
I got motivated and pulled some stuff out of my refrigerator just to show how committed I am now. Hopefully you can zoom in... ?
Actually our dog eats much the same way added to his dog food. *LOL*
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Excellent.
Well, I has a perfect chance to do that for the latter part of today and into tomorrow morning.. I do want to lose some belly flab. I can tell I am already starting to, as when I do the "vacuuming" of the stomach muscles, I can see the general outline of a fit man's 6 pack. That was not the case about a month ago, when I was about 15 pounds heavier.
My work must be catching up with me, as all I have the energy to do is walk, and I did that today.
I feel my body is adapting.
I can also fast, some sugar but not full meals, driving cross country back home in about 96 hours......
This thread is gold.
15 pounds in a month is a lot of weight loss. Obviously, you lose water along with fat. For you, skipping breakfast and an early dinner may just do the trick 15 minutes running, swimming or calisthenics will crank up your metabolism considerably.
Vavaroom: if one does a 12 hour fast, is it ok to eat fatty foods like , cheese, bacon, eggs, spinach, greens ?
I’d imagine the body would still be working/burning fat
Thank You
A 12-hour fast only gets you at the starting point of the fat-burning process because the body has still glucose available as fuel. You want to stay for a few hours in fat-burning mode. You can eat pretty much anything during the eating window with the caveat you need to maintain a caloric deficit and you should eat low-carb because carbs wil make you immediately produce insulin which is detrimental to fat burning mode.
If you are going to work out during the eating period - I presume you wont be eating nonstop! you can go higher on the carbs because your muscles will be able to use up the glucose before it can be converted into body fat. If you feel weak or faint during exercise, have some carbs. Just little by little. Don't go overboard. A couple grapes will likely do. I have dates before my morning run because they stabilize my blood sugar. A few dates do not raise the blood sugar levels a lot but they help prevent low blood sugars. Low blood sugar levels are not fun. Who wants to pass out?
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So, I'm presently in the "i feel lethargic" phase in a slow, slow, couple to few weeks dialing down of what I eat, and I ate a considerable amount of high sodium microwaveable Hormel meals. I will admit that I don't really know how to cook, which is what made that attractive.
I'm not "super fat" but I think I've come to the realization from this summer on that I am larger than I would like to be.
I know I am fit, my new job actually has us training "calisthenics" or some kind of active cardio so that we can be flexible. An hour or so a day. It incorporates walking, then goes into a yoga-like routine.
I am 6ft and now I'm about 240. So I've definitely taken it to heart and eating less.
You are saying.. to kick it up a notch? I do do jumping jacks, about 100, and I have some 28lbs approximately dumbbells I lift sometimes, doing at least 10 shoulder presses.
I have considered buying some lighter weights, to do more exercises. I keep up with the cardio and stretch routines. Most people can't..
Absolutely. The point of intermittent fasting is to get the body more easily into fat burning mode. Most people can do intermittent fasting more easily and long term compared to those who eat reduced meals all day long.
I’m a little dense for lack of better word and lost on how to start the kerosine/fasting. From what I’m reading you can fast for 2 hours then eat low carb foods? Or….
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Again, you are already ahead of many people since you are doing an hour calisthenics per day. Cardio will be most effective at helping you lose weight. Crossfit would be very good. Make sure you get enough recovery time and rest. The older I get the more important recovery gets and I take longer breaks now. Strength training will make you pack on muscle mass. The more muscles you have the more energy and fuel you burn. A power lifter may be incredibly strong with lots of muscles but he is likely also quite fat by normal standards. There's a balance to everything. I do believe that everyone can feel when they have their ideal body composition, and it may change over time and with personal goals.
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