Crash Dieting

[ManinBlack]

Think primeval with your diet. Our bodies have evolved to what we are today over a great period of time, maybe two million years. We have only been eating a cereal/carbohydrate/sugar rich diet for a very small period of that time. Eat more like a caveman, protein, vegetables (not root though), nuts and drink plenty of water as well. Ignore BMI, it's not suitable for different body types and don't count calories, calorie controlled diets dont work long term.

A cheetah is probably the leanest most athletic mammal but has never ate a carb.

The nut case (according to Ethan!) who wrote this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Fat-Get...d=1429104074&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+fat+get+thin says more or less the same, as do (Ethan please note) a number of qualified medical practitioners. There are primitive people who exist & remain slim & healthy on a diet composed almost entirely of saturated fat & no carbohydrates.

 

[Slab]

Just to update the thread, the closing weigh-in is tomorrow for my ‘biggest loser’ challenge, so it’s just over 5 weeks since I started and with a day to go I’ve lost 26lbs (12kg)

Did very little exercise other than golf (with buggy) so is mostly due to cutting calorie intake and overall it’s definitely been worth it and something I plan to continue, albeit at a more realistic pace

I haven’t used any specific weight loss program and I bent a few ‘rules’ along the way, like not drinking enough water, weighing myself twice a day rather than weekly (which can be depressing when there’s little change) but I found doing it every 12 hours kept the focus high

My original weekly plan was to have 4 days limited to 800 calories, 2 days at 1,500 & 1 day at 2,000 and I’ve pretty much stuck to it (although there were several days below 500 calories and a couple over the limit i.e curry nights)

To be honest without the edge of the competition between the group I doubt I’d have been anywhere near as committed to doing this

It’s been made easier with my wife taking part too as she’s really been the one counting what goes in (without that I may have had decent enough weight loss results but I’d just have been starving myself)

Anyway I wanted to post how it went and to say thanks again to all who originally contributed, I’ll find out tomorrow how the rest of the group got on with the challenge but I’m pretty confident of a win (we’ll work it out as weight lost as % of start weight to make it fair) & mine is 12%

Binge of food & drink coming up for club champs this weekend and then onto a more realistic eating & exercise plan from Monday

 

[Stuey01]

Well done!