Thanks Gals and Guys, good to be back home. I've always been mindful of my health, except for the damn smoking, haven't had one in 3 days now, kinda tough, but doing some vaping (nicotine) to supplement and trying to wean off. All my life I've fought the weight thing @ 6'1 225 I was still called obese according to the damn BMI thingy/farce, quite often I'd go on a binge and find myself pushing 240-245 and say to self; "self time to get it back together", and start eating better and lifting weights, I mean I work on my feet all my life for many hours at a time. The past year I couldn't do it as I felt like I was going to have a damn heart attack at a good walking pace for 10 minutes or even training/working with my pup Dixie. Hopefully the meds and salad will get me pointed in the right direction, I weighed in @ 256 before all the testing began, fattest I've ever been. Thanks again for everyones support.
Hello Captain!
Just a quick one to say you dont have to eat just salads as that will get old and boring in 5 seconds......and you'll fall off the wagon. Your work is physically demanding and salads will not provide you with the nutrients and calories you need unless they are meat, fowl, and fish salads with plenty of healthy oils in them.
Go back to basics ie eat only food, completely cut out product from your diet, and if you must have that slice of cake or cream pie at the weekend, then make it yourself (another reason to get a thermomix - they are a life saver for people who work yet still want to eat well especially the steaming function) when you cook your own food, you can control what's in it.....most people gain weight because they are consuming large amounts of the poisons that big food is now peddling as food. Even though the Paleo advocates exaggerate a bit, that is the kind of diet our bodies evolved to eat.
Big food = Big Sugar 99% of breakfast cereals are a sugar filled nutrient desert....as I always tell my daughter one would get more nutrients eating the boxes they come in.
We all tend to forget that food is meant to nourish and strengthen our bodies......so if two people sat down together and one person ate a prawn starter, a 1 kilo steak, roasted sweet potatoes and strawberries and cream and the other ate a commercial pastry and 4 doughnuts, the person who ate the food, is actually sated and medicated, whereas the person who ate the 'products' will be hungry again in a short period because there is very little goodness in products; after a meal consisting of products, your body is trying to deal with the sugars, the gluten, the E numbers, the colourings, the preservatives......they actually leach stuff from your system and cause all manner of digestive tract chaos.
So all food is good ( complex carbs, protein, healthy fats,)and all products ( unless you make them yourself) are a slow kiss of death. You lift weights; its one of the most effective exercise mechanisms so if You are gaining weight your diet is where the problem is. If you were to replace granulated sugar and sweeteners with Stevia ( I actually grow mine - and the weather where you are is ideal also)
Obviously the booze and cigarettes are not the best, (I smoke and drink; if anything is going to get me it'll be one of the two) but studies have shown that the impact on ones system of 'poisons' is directly related to how whole the persons body already is. So a 'healthy' person can have a bit of everything (even products) with little negative effect, whereas a body riddled with issues is way more vulnerable to carcinogens and the like - a bit like our plants; the healthier the soil and therefore the plant, the less vulnerable it is to pests and diseases.
Hope I don't sound like a nagging wife
but food and health and nutrition are my passion, and big food and big pharma will draw me into a rant any day, because they are two of the banes of modern life. My mother has run/owned a nursery school for 36 years, 6 years ago she banned parents from sending children to nursery with any sweets, biscuits or the like, the results were astonishing from the point of view of behaviour, attention span/concentration and health wise and even though people call her the food nazi behind her back, it has not stopped an 18 month waiting list from becoming the norm, because what works, works, and human beings have forgotten that the body will always win, you can't fool it. That's why big pharma and big food work hand in hand; big food messes up your system and big pharma will prescribe a 'fix' which is always just something to surpress or ameliorate your symptoms, rather than addressing the core issues.
Be well and don't hesitate to ask if you want my help with a food plan. Just send me a PM with a list of what you like to eat, what you won't eat and detailing your level of cooking skills and before you know it we'll have you as fit as a butchers dog.
Enjoy your Sunday! I'm going off to prep stuff, we have friends coming over for an evening barbecue.