Everyday Systems

Graham

Absolutely identify with this. I've been eating to control my mood for years. Then I got smart and grown-up and switched to cigarettes :? No S brought up a lot of feelings especially when I started. More feelings got dredged up when I started experimenting with low-carb - removing a lot of comfort f...

Graham

@Sienna - thanks for the clarification - I don't suppose you'd know of a book or on-line source I could consult to get clearer about all this? I sort of get what you are saying, but I'm spinning off into new questions and not knowing where to go for answers.

Graham

@ Wosnes - I get your drift, and if I had a waistline of 50% of my height or less, I'd probably be more relaxed about this sort of issue - but I'm overwaist and struggling with it. It feels like every strategy I adopt short of renouncing sugar altogether turns out to have it's own punishing qualiti...

Graham

Hi Graham, @montanajack: I don't think Taubes is quite so blind and ignorant as you suggest Not suggesting blind or ignorant or blind, moreso, his personal bias prevented him from from providing a balanced set of facts regarding his recommendations. For example, vegan and vegetarian diets have been...

Graham

@ Wosnes - I get your drift, and if I had a waistline of 50% of my height or less, I'd probably be more relaxed about this sort of issue - but I'm overwaist and struggling with it. It feels like every strategy I adopt short of renouncing sugar altogether turns out to have it's own punishing qualitie...

Graham

@montanajack: I don't think Taubes is quite so blind and ignorant as you suggest - but the info on the blue zones is very interesting, and very encouraging. One of the issues that has been bothering me about a low-carb solution to Western ailments is whether it would be a sustainable global approach...

Graham

10st 10 3/4lb, 37 1/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 55.6%, Body Fat 29.1% OK: waist going in the right direction, and weight up 1lb. Slept pretty well. Ho hum. Compared to previous weeks I need to get focused on how the carbs sneak in (every day I have a pint of milk I add 26 grams of carbs to my diet for a kick...

Graham

Sometimes I wonder why I use any sweetening at all. After all, if I don't like something without sweetening it, why am I having it? Then again, sometimes it's a comfort thing, sweet tea or coffee, an enjoyable ritual. If European regulations made it easy, I'd be using Stevia already. It's not in the...

Graham

http://www.getsmile.com/emoticons/seasons-smileys-54682/love31.gif Not to worry. Linked doesn't mean "caused by". They are talking about Association, and trying to make it Causation. It's going to take a lot more evidence that that before I feel the need to eliminate any type of artificial sweetene...

Graham

Good article - and did you also notice this : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091101132543.htm ? Artificially sweetened drinks associated with decline in kidney functiion? They don't say which sweeteners - rather annoying unless we are we to understand all sweeteners are equally damagin...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.7% FASTING Visited SO, had carby food, carby "treats", and a swollen belly tells it's tale today. To be exactly where I was a week ago, to see no reward for a week of privation - I find it hard to believe. I imagined one day, I'd get to my tar...

Graham

There are any number of experts who think a low-carb/higher protein diet is bad for everyone and they have the research to back them up. There's a huge number who believe "the less meat the better" (hence, more grains) for a variety of reasons -- everything from overall health to better use of the ...

Graham

http://www.leangains.com/2011/01/better-blood-glucose-with-lower-meal.html Good article. As I read the study results I wondered, "Am I the only one who's noticed it's not only "good info on why everyone should be following No S" but also an even stronger endorsment for "why everyone should be follo...

Graham

That is a delightful video - rather let down by the unscientific attack on Atkins. Anyone up to date with the research wouldn't be making those sort of remarks - but all in all, it was a hoot. I think there are a lot of people (doctors, researchers, etc) who don't think the attack on Atkins is unsc...

Graham

That is a delightful video - rather let down by the unscientific attack on Atkins. Anyone up to date with the research wouldn't be making those sort of remarks - but all in all, it was a hoot.

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 1/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 55.6%, Body Fat 29.3% So. Now I'm slimmer, though the puzzle over my weight continues - a week of "low carbing" and two fasts finds me weighing exactly what I weighed a week ago - what is that about? And my breath is a little nasty this morning too. I ate modera...

Graham

10st 10 1/2lb, 38 1/2", BMI 23.6, WHtR 57.5%, Body Fat 32.6% These figures are of dubious value: I had been up from 2:45am till 8 doiing overnight voluntary work - had cups of tea, so stomach not empty when I got home and measured it around 9am. Slept till midday, breakfast of fried bacon, egg, mush...

Graham

10st 10 3/4lb, 37 34", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.4% __ @80g carbs FASTING As far as I can tell (I cook stew, then have some on a plate, what % of the original went on the plate? don't know, so how count the carbs?) I had about 80 grams of carbohydrate yesterday. I am 3/4lb heavier. It could ...

Graham

Wednesday: 10st 9 1/4llb, 37 9/16" BMI 23.4, WHtR 56.1%, Body Fat 30.3% Thursday 10st 10lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.6% What happened to yesterday's posting? Anyway. Diet disaster-ish just now. I'm all over the place with eating and other life aspects. I've been sloppy with low car...

Graham

I do think it is a legitimate concern that cardboard made from recycled printed cardboard can contain higher amounts of mineral oil than cardboard made from 'virgin' pulp. HOWEVER- from my experience in the pulp and paper (containerboard AKA cardboard) industry, printed cardboard is not often recyc...

Graham

Just spotted this in the news today - recycled cardboard used to package food is contaminating the food - right through the inner wrapper! Another reason to either avoid or restrict packaged food.
Details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12663183

Graham

10st 8 1/2lbs, 37 1/2", BMI 23.3, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 30.3% And a sore nose/throat - I'm walking a tightrope. I failed No S - couldn't get enough satisfaction from my low-carb meal - I have a theory about that, which I wlll need to test. I visited SO, she gave me veg soup and I accepted the hospitali...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.7% Good and bad news? Bad might be that I had bread and then 8 chocolates yesterday. Good might be that I'm not grossly heavier than Sunday, I'm slightly slimmer, it is a bright sunny day and I'm feeling ok about fasting. i suspect if I hadn't...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 7/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 31% Here I'm stuck. I have been "low carbing" ineffectively, it seems. And No S compliance has gone out the window. Bored with it anyway, but combining it with low-carb and IF has been confusing and ineffective. Additionally, I have been ill far ...

Graham

10st 8 1/2lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.3, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.7%

Graham

10st 9 1/2lb, 37 15/16", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.6%, Body Fat 31.3%

Graham

10st 10 1/4lb, 37 1/2", BMI 23.6, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 29.9%

Graham

10st 11 1/4lb, 38 1/8", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.9, Body Fat 31.3%

Graham

10st 10lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.6% It isn't the weight but my WAIST that I wish I could change. Again "forced" not to fast by the clear signs of the start of yet another cold (only 2 weeks after I recovered from the last one), dosing myself with vitamin C all day long, and I st...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 1/2", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 30.2% I woke with slight soreness inside my nose/throat. If this is the start of another cold, that would be one a month, for several months. I am thinking I might be "run down" - over-strained. The most obvious additional stress in my life, the one I ...

Graham

Also noteworthy - neither of these cultures do one-plate meals. Instead, they have several courses, lingered over. Reading the comments on the article about French dietary habits, over and over again, French women mentioned smoking, which I certainly saw when I was in France. I too used to find stay...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 1/2", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 30.2% So, no heavier, but fatter than yesterday. Yesterday was a struggle - staying low-carb felt very uncomfortable yesterday, for the first time, a real sense of rebellion, disappointment, feeling cheated. I went for a bike ride but was frustrated wh...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 3/8", BMI 23.4, WHtR 55.8%, Body Fat 29.8% OK, where do I go to complain? No, seriously - I am 1/4" slimmer than last Saturday, but I weigh exactly the same, it's like a week of stupidity. What is the point in working so damn hard at weight-loss for sod-all results? Something is wrong w...

Graham

10st 7 3/4lb, 37 1/8", BMI 23.2, WHtR 55.4%, Body Fat 29.5% A rare occurrence, the same weight and waist two days running. FASTING . My pc is ominously showing blue screens from time to time - I hope it's not a hardware fault again. On the happy side, the youghourt dip seems to have done no permanen...

Graham

10st 7 3/4lb, 37 1/8", BMI 23.2, WHtR 55.4%, Body Fat 29.5% _ 2K rowed in 11 min _ 1 hour bike ride Some weight regained, but equal to my previous slimmest, lowest body fat% since I started No S. I am onlly 1/8" less than yesterday, but I can really see it. I hope this isn't a false dawn, I've foole...

Graham

10st 6 3/4lb, 37 1/4", BMI 23, WHtR 55.6%, Body Fat 30.1% Lightest yet. Yesterday was, in HabitCal terms, PERFECT. I've only had about 10 days like that in the whole time I've done No S. (with more than 2 categories to monitor) It wasn't a good day all round though. Despite a good breakfast I felt h...

Graham

10st 8lb, 38", BMI 23.2, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.9% An easy fast, near enough 24 hours, resulting in 1lb lost and 3/8" gained. Low carbing at the same time creates a possibly misleading element: If I'm carrying less glycogen my weight should be lower by some pounds purely in water weight, doesn't te...

Graham

Joking apart - I guess you don't seriously dispute that organic food is actually better do you? What we call organic agriculture was, for most of human history, totally normal and standard. Yes, but so was famine. Making organic sound like some sort of crank obsession is a reflection of how success...

Graham

There are so many problems with processed foods it's difficult to know where to start. Because I just saw something about this on the news, one could start with added sugar. It's in everything and not only is it in everything, it's in it in unnecessarily or unusually large amounts and in things tha...

Graham

Well, I don't buy organic produce raised by virgin elves and picked by the light of the first new moon when Venus is in Capricorn, either. I don't think that's necessary no matter what "organic" farmers seem to think. But I buy hunks o'meat, veggies I have to cut up, big bags of WHITE flour and wha...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.5%

FASTING A productive day aimed for, and the fast not over-long, not to gross weariness. Weight and waist bouncing up and down, i need to get back to keeping a graph to see trends.

Graham

I don't know what food costs across the Pond. (IIRC, you live in the UK). I spend about 60 quid a week on groceries for a family of three, but I buy almost no pre-processed food. If I were buying pre-packaged food, I'd be spending more . My remarks were addressing the way processed food displaces t...

Graham

Yes, one of the first few comments pointed out that both "camps" in the little vignette had that in common: They did NOT eat processed junk. I thought that was one of the best points made. That's one of the things I noticed about the various traditional diets. They don't tend to have problems until...

Graham

I finally found something worth posting on DietHobby today. Under the "Meat or Plants" chapter of the Taubes "Why we get fat" review. "Meat is a long-standing part of our diet and should be good", says Taubes, "Don't eat too much red meat or processed meat, it will give you bowel cancer" says UK gov...

Graham

10st 9 1/2lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 32.1% @130g carbs may explain how fat I got in one day - bit of a shocker though... I avoided chocolates and biscuits, had low-carb pancakes - I did have fruit: 1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, pineapple and juice with my chicken and my usual pint of who...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.5% That was a tough fast, leading on to a No S failure which wasn't even fun, though the food was good, I was just too hungry to exercise restraint. A lettuce and capsicum salad with balsamic vinaigrette and salami ad-lib while I waited for the fr...

Graham

10st 9 1/4lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.5% What did I eat yesterday to add 1 1/4lb? Breakfast: 2 sausages, onion, mushroom and cheese omelette, milk in beverages, yoghourt, evening meal lettuce, carrot, 1oz raisins, chunks of Gorgonzola, walnut, with balsamic vinaigrette around 8pm....

Graham

I just cannot believe that the problem is physical if it affects more than 2/3rds of adults. Kathleen, I wonder what you are meaning here. On the face of it, it has no logic to it at all. Colds affect 100% of adults - so does death - does that mean that these problems aren't physical? I know you me...

Graham

Tuesday: 10st 8lb, 37 9/16", BMI 23.2, WHtR 56.1%, Body Fat 30.6% Wednesday 10st 7 1/4lb, 37 3/8", BMI 23.1, WHtR 55.8%, Body Fat 30.3% Thursday 10st 8lb, 37 1/2", BMI 23.2, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 30.5% _ Rowing 9min, 1.7K In the end I did "fast" on Monday. I had noticed my appetite was much less than s...

Graham

Hi Kevin, I pm'd you yesterday, it seems you haven't collected it yet, is it not in your folder?

regards, Graham

Graham

I cannot recall the source, but a study I recall from 40 years or so ago stated that children were able to choose a balanced diet for themselves so long as they hadn't been exposed to significant quantities of dietary sugar Once regular sugar-eating had been experienced, instinctive mechanisms faile...

Graham

10st 11 1/4lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 31.7% I cannot swear to this, as I'm not a practised carb counter, but I believe I consumed something of the order of 85grams of carbs yesterday. I ate as much as my appetite prompted me to, but with carbs restricted - all the main starchy foods...

Graham

10st 10 1/4lb, 37 11/16", BMI 23.6, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.4% As my appetite returns, I am confronted by the "problem" of what to eat. I know I ate, knowingly, wondering about consequences, several handfuls of cashew nuts alternated with handfuls of raisins - they are 70% sugar. I did wonder just h...

Graham

Kathleen: a couple of points you might care to consider: Identifying the harm done by dietary changes isn't easy. The famous studies carried out by Pottenger on cats showed that the effect of a dietary deficiency could take several generations to take full effect. So, when considering the effect of ...

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 7/16", BMI 23.4, WHtR 55.9%, Body Fat 30% 7:23am I do look slimmer today. The ugly pouches of fat at my middle are definitely receding, though the bulging abdomen remains, and I'm still the wrong side of 37". I didn't fast yesterday, a strange week spent fighting a cold - now a weekend....

Graham

She didn't state it as fact -- it was an opinion. Hmm. Blithe Morning is a long-standing, thoughtful member of the No S community, and her statements therefore carry weight, an air of authority. I respect her response to what I posted, apparently persuaded by my reasoning that the queried assertion...

Graham

Looking at the "7 rules of the Italian Kitchen" article, it is illustrated with a picture of a beaming Italian lady - and she's FAT. She looks just like the older ladies I saw when I visited Italy as a child. The young women were slim, the middle-aged ones seemed to be very well padded. My dad said...

Graham

And for the record, I think everyone who sticks with No S will get to "normal". I understand that certain conditions such as PCOS and insulin resistance may slow things waaaaayyy down but eventually it WILL come about right. Blithe Morning, I'm wondering what you base this statement on. I've been w...

Graham

I loved the Mark Twain quotation, one to savour - but a word of caution about peasant cuisine: don't expect too much from it. Looking at the "7 rules of the Italian Kitchen" article, it is illustrated with a picture of a beaming Italian lady - and she's FAT. She looks just like the older ladies I sa...

Graham

10st 8 3/4lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.3, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 31% Slept better, woke with sore throat (less severe than yesterday). The vitamin C and hot water bottles did good work for me. Airing the bedroom, more vitamin c and now coffee. I don't think I'll fast today. If I eat like yesterday I'll shed we...

Graham

10st 9 1/2lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.8%

Sore throat, sore nose, a feverish nigh't sleep - chest improving. Encouraging words CC, lets see over time.

Graham

@ 10st 10lb, 38", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.3% The iffy scale thwarts precision. Modest eating , a little disorderly - but then I'm sick. How many colds have I had in the last 6 months? This one's a bit nasty at the moment. Depleting and painful. Reading on with Pollan - his questioning of n...

Graham

10st 11lb, 38 3/8", BMI 23.7, WHtR 57.3%, Body Fat 32.1% It it a bit like my body is saying "you can't make me lose weight". It wasn't such a taxing fast, I was relatively inactive owing to my cold - but I did do yoga and isometrics, and my fast -breaking meal was one plate, "low carb" (how many? ho...

Graham

Well - am I overthinking it? There is a lot of complexity to these issues, and I certainly hate the thought of going through the privation of a fast and then being cheated of the benefit by the unwitting use of something such as caffeine or an insulin-raising sweetener. Some days I have a lot of tea...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.3% FASTING Sore nose/throat junction and cough - perhaps a day not to fast? Also, then I can carry on with an experiment of a low-carb sort - to persist with that regime. Re No S strictures - the true test of the low-carb diet hypothesis is to...

Graham

Body-weight fluctuates a lot. The problem is how we interpret it, and react to it. My own response to that issue has been to weigh myself daily, and measure my waistline daily. I try to be consistent: I measure before eating or drinking, after visiting the bathroom. The repeated measures let me see ...

Graham

10st 10lb, 37 1/2", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 29.9% 6:32 am. Woken early, the wind rattling the windows for the 3rd night in a row, though my late evening tea at Samaritans may have had more to do with why I couldn't sleep longer. Measurement: the moment of truth: weight is no great encouragement...

Graham

@10st 10lb, 37 7/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 31% Same iffy scale denies precise measure, but looks much the same as the last time I used it (a week ago). I've woken very early. I feel very alert, inconveniently energised - I added a new stir-fry ingredient last night, ginger - did I overdo it...

Graham

Thanks for the kind thoughts BA, I don't write the whole of my life down here, maybe it came across as rather grim? I do wrap up warm, and have hot drinks - but it was extremely windy here today, and that made my flat rather chilly, and heating bills are very expensive here these days, so one tends ...

Graham

Karen, I've been thinking about your question over and over. I do think sugar can be addictive - for some people. If you're bingeing on weekends there is a strategy you might try, if it fits with your life; make sure you eat good solid meals (plenty of protein and fat), especially for breakfast, to ...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 38 1/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 31.7% Interesting figures this morning: I had 3 meals yesterday, needy/hungry so I had pancakes after tango class. How does it measure: 4oz almonds, 2 eggs, oil/butter Splenda lemon juice = 23 grams of carbs Before bed, perhaps 1/3 pint of milk: ...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 38", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.4% Woke with clear chest, following breakfast slight surge in congestion: I had an omelette with 2 eggs, filled with boiled spinach and peas topped with grated cheddar cheese, seasoned with salt and pepper fried in my stainless steel pan using coc...

Graham

10st 10lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 32% 1:22pm - suddenly my chest is congested: I ate 2 sausages, a fried egg, fried onion, apple, pineapple, ketchup cooked in a little sunflower oil and coconut oil. then came instant coffee with milk and cologran sweetener (mixture of sodium sacchar...

Graham

10st 10 1/2lb, 38", BMI 23.6, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.2% I should have mentioned the No-S F I'm not writing out the whole word, I think it has the wrong impact on me. I do want to track the whole compliance issue honestly - but the label should be chosen according to it's overall impact. The F word ...

Graham

The premise behind low carb is that you need to eat what you don't want. No thanks. If I thought that was what low-carbing meant, I wouldn't want to do it either. I see your sister-in-law also doesn't add to the appeal of the low-carb approach. Seriously though - If I have sausage and eggs for brea...

Graham

TexArk, I think that we older females are finding that vanilla No S doesn't work for us. It's not just older females - vanilla No S didn't work for me either. What I have found, in observing one sister in law in particular, is that you can reduce carbs for a period of time but it gets harder and ha...

Graham

10st 12 1/2lb, 38 1/2" BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.5%, Body Fat 32% This is a bit crushing. All gains lost. Sunday was what? Breakfast was nothing massive - 2 sausages, 3 potato pancakes. Lunch - a grapefruit. Dinner - remains of beef stew, lettuce with vinaigrette, kale, carrots, 1 slice of bread. Later I ha...

Graham

Yes, but I keep writing and then deleting. The mix of the impact of Taubes' ideas and my brief personal experience with trying to apply low-carb along with No S and IF in my disorderly life is creating turbulent thoughts and contradictions. Part of my reaction goes like this - "If what Taubes says i...

Graham

@10st 12lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 31.7% Can't say for certain, but it looks like all the week's successes have completely vanished. (Sunday to Sunday) Yesterdays "excesses" were: 4 chocolates, 4 biscuits, and seconds with my evening meal of beef stew with some spaghetti, vegetables...

Graham

@10st 10lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.3% I was very hungry by the time I ate my second meal yesterday. I ate around 9pm - stewed minced beef with onions, carrots, tomatoes with some garlic and flavourings/nourishing stuff - I even put a little molasses in beef stew. I had a beer as ...

Graham

Eileen7316 wrote: After the VERY FIRST LAP, there were many, many children stopping to get a cup of water.

Was it the water they really wanted, or just a reason to stop?

Graham

Speaking of french fries...I made some for dinner last night using this recipe . They aren't something you make often, when you're in a hurry, or when you want to make a LOT of fries, but they're very good. I use one good-sized (not one of the huge baking potatoes) potato per person. Wosnes, thanks...

Graham

10st 9lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.4, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 32.3% 8:32 Fasting since yesterday at 11 am. A snap decision, seemed it might fit Thursday and Friday's activities pretty well. I haven't slept all that long though - I was restless, stayed up watching rubbish films on TV till 1:30, then woke just be...

Graham

10st 10lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.5, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 32% _ Row 8min 1.6K Thanks for the detailed reply CC. It is good to get concrete examples of what works, even though we are all different. I was a little disappointed to see your observation about low-carbers getting stuck because of too much nuts o...

Graham

Thanks Connorcream and BrightAngel. I was wondering, CC, do you stick to No S now or just low carb or is it low carb plus calorie counting or what? I am sometimes thinking, if I have low-carb, and intermittent fasting, do I need to keep No S as well? I suppose any mixture that works, works. I have b...

Graham

Just wanted to vent because I am so tired and sooo hungry. I am overtired because I was hungry in the night last night and couldn't sleep. I thought if I ate a hearty breakfast it would help but I think being tired is just a vicious cycle because I am always hungrier when I am tired. For a future e...

Graham

10st 10 3/4lb, 38 7/16", BMI 23.7, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 32.3% _ Row 10min 2K Further weight drop but what happened to my WAIST? I had 1pt beer in the pub last night, and had a little bowl of fruit with cream afterwards - but no snacking, No S compliant day, - was it the beer? (Normally I have a shan...

Graham

I'm sure you are right, but is any diet "safe" if you are not physically active? That's a many-sided question. Just to be alive is to be active to some degree, we'd have to decide what we meant by "physically active" and "safe" to discuss it sensibly. Perhaps a more answerable question would be "is...

Graham

I don't think Reinhard is wrong by virtue of people needing to be responsible for what the shovel in their pie holes. Whether you eat three meals a day, or a low carb approach, it still takes discipline. I have also know enough people who have lost weight reducing calories to believe that not every...

Graham

This is just my opinion, but it comes from years of captive study of insulin and blood glucose (I have been a Type I diabetic for 32 years). Most cultures in the world have a plant-based combination (of grains and beans) that provides all the protein that is necessary to be healthy, and does not di...

Graham

10st 11 1/4lb, 38", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31% _ Row 10min 1.8K So - this fast had an immediate effect. My usual recent pattern has been no effect or even a small gain following a Monday fast and post-fast meal. The differences? 1. Though I did have fizzy water with lemon, it was less - I us...

Graham

Interesting invitation - "to join in the discussion" - but what to say? I am not familiar enough with this complex subject matter to be confident about having an opinion on it. What I do know, trawling cyber-space, is that Gary Taubes has his critics, who explain themselves with even more recondite ...

Graham

I find it very salutary to re-visit old diet books, seeing those promises, so convincing, yet so false. Maybe the authors believed in them, yet they let me down. Another idea might be to donate them to a public library but with a note in the flyleaf saying "I totally believed this author, did the di...

Graham

10st 12 1/2lb, 38 3/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.3%, Body Fat 31.7% Fasting , feeling the cold. I ate a late slice of bread @ 11pm last night (it was SO's fresh sour-dough - how could I refuse?). A true 24 hour fast would require me to wait till 11 to eat tonight. I don't think I'll want to do that. And ex...

Graham

Well done BA! You have done sterling work, doing a great service to all interested readers. Now, a couple of comments: First I would disagree with futility of using exercise to achieve weight-loss. Personally, I have lost weight using exercise alone - that is to say, leaving my diet unchanged, eatin...

Graham

@10st 12lb, 38", BMI 23.9, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.8% @BA thanks for the recipe - I'm a bit nervous about splenda - i wish the stevia products were available here, I'm thinking it sounds safer. Years ago I knew a successful WW dieter and she had cut out sugar in her tea altogether, she said after a ...

Graham

.This diet came at the end of the era where everyone understood that starches needed to be limited to control weight (my mother and grandmother would never serve bread and potatoes at the same meal) but also at the beginning of the scare over saturated fat and heart disease. Forgive a contrarian po...

Graham

@10st 10lb, 37 1/2". BMI 23.5, WHtR 56%, Body Fat 29.9% (iffy spring scale) Now, are there such things as low-carb treats? What are they? If I normally have pancakes on Saturday, are there low carb things to equal them in appeal and pleasure? Or should I let carbs be my treats? If sugar is bad for m...

Graham

10st 12lb, 38 3/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.3%, Body Fat 31.8% Thanks for the PM response CC, very helpful as I investigate low-carb. Thanks for the comments BA - But haven't I done enough character building even now? I'd just like to be dropping a few pounds! So, today - I'm 1lb lighter than I was last F...

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10st 12lb, 38 1/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 31.1% Rower 1.2K Compared to last Thursday, I'm the same waist and just 1/4lb lighter. That doesn't seem like much of an achievement for all the effort I've put in. However, I have increased my activity level somewhat, and may be carrying a little m...

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