My experience is that whatever people do to lose weight they sooner or later return to their original weight.
My conclusion is somehow our bodies control our weight to keep it stable, more or less.
If only we could access this mechanism
You guys are such a bunch of embyros.
Worrying about five or ten kilos here and there, anything lost under five kgs is just fluctuations.
Swiss Slammer lost control about a year after coming to CH, up until then I had a very active life jetting all over this rock and ended up getting swivel chair squat.
I was at a comfy 140 kgs and did all sort of strongman stuff for fun and sport, a year after being in CH I maxed out at 250kgs.
Thr nasty part was a fatal sleep apnoe, right up to hallucinations and hearing voices from god and I never noticed the weight gain untill I got a cpap.
Inside a year I lost 100kgs and still did strongman stuff.
It has crept back up to 170kgs and I am just starting my fourth Auschwitz diet.
Those guys in the camps were pretty thin, so I had a look at the calorie restrictions, mixed it with veriety and came up with something allign to a person who has had the stomach removed.
It works pretty well for about six to eight weeks and the last time I went down by afound seven kilos a month.
Iāll kepp you informed.
The ānormalā healthy weight for people is in the range that gives them a healthy BMI.
Note: Obviously this excluded people purposely putting on a lot of muscle like some athletes, weight-lifters etc.
The problem with putting on excessive weight (which is a relatively new thing), is that your new weight becomes your norm and your body will do what it can to keep that weight if you try to shift it.
We can.
It has got fooled by the crap we now eat and the stupid believe that being a bit hungry is bad for you
Itās just hormones telling you itās time to eat sometime - it was probably a trigger originally to go out and hunt - which may take have originally taken a few days to achieve without weapons and tools.
We evolved to be able to do that - we can go a few weeks without food without dying. (Contrast that with a shrew who must eat every few minutes to survive).
ā¦once you finish with the pies, that is! 
The word āPanzerā was the first that popped into my head.
I got the blood test back from the doctor and learned that I am pre-diabetes and need to make major changes immediately to avoid it becoming full diabetes.
I never really looked at what I eat and now looking at the ingredients, Iām not surprised. Just in my breakfast was 8 teaspoons of sugar. together with 2 tsp of sugar in my coffee (and I had 1-2 per day) thatās already 10-12 tsp of sugar or 47g of sugar per day off the bat.
Luckily, cutting out this amount will be easy as I already stopped taking sugar with coffee and changed my breakfast.
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Try and cut down all carbohydrates, a medium potato rather than a big one, a half portion of rice, no bread with dinner. Reduce your fruit intake.
If you go on to develop Type 2 you will have to cut carbs anyways (and start taking insulin stimulants or injections).
You are wearing out your pancreas, give it a break!
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Oh wow, that is pretty heavy. Have to admit I ditched sugared drinks around 15 years ago, and heavily limited diet drinks for the last 3 years. Although sweets (chocolate, cakes, etc) have been a weak point.
Do you do regular exercise with moderate to intense effort? This will also help.
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Go for proteins instead of āhiddenā sugar/carbohidrates ā buckweizen instead of rice, chickpeas and lentils pasta (Barilla has some) instead of wheat pasta, and complex carbohidrates (rye whole bread) instead of the usual baguette. in addition to getting rid of the pre-condition, you will get rid of several kilos veeeery fast! (and with no hunger or cravings). And ditch the cereals in the morning; follow the swiss birchen muesli tradition! No honey for you until next year! 
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I need to up it. Essentially, my lifestyle in the last few years has been terrible across various areas: diet, exercise, sleep, stress.
When your kids are young, this is an easy pattern to fall into. Our neighbour, with the same diagnosis, was able to lose lots of weight, get much fitter, and his tests are now completely normal. He did it with just a little more exercise, a careful eye to his menu, and a bit of self-control with the sweets.
Donāt forget porridge oats. An uncooked cup of oats has 11g of protein, lots of really good fibre and slow-release carbs.
I have mine cold with milk and a teaspoon of sugar - every morning.
A lot of people bang on about super foods. Oats are definitely it. Cheap as chips too.
(Before people berate me for the sugar, most people are eating far too much sugar in their diet but not from the sugar bowl - compare my one tsb with Philās eight in his cereal.
Fizzy drinks can have 13 tsps and then there are cakes, sweets, pastries, ready-meals, fruit drinks, fruit yogurts and so on.
(Some small 200g Migros yogurts contain a whooping 8 teaspoons of sugar)
Day 1 diet:
- Breakfast was greek yogurt with chia seeds and muesli. I took out the raisins from the muesli and may replace this with plain oats when I next go shopping. I need to buy cinnamon as apparent that is helpful.
- Lunch. Chicken thighs fried with garlic. Served with broccoli. Normally, Iād have a huge portion of white rice with this but replaced it with the broccoli.
So far so good. The Greek yogurt and chia seeds tasted much better than I was expecting. Iāll have to plan the food shopping for this weekend.
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I skew to loner, but I do realize how eating is a social thing.
Iām surprised at how any edible thing in the office is a sugar bomb: cookies, chocolates, cake, etc. Thereās also a weekly gifpeli time aimed at socialization, but more than one colleague already cut carbs and sugars because pre-diabetes or diabetes. Same at parties, sugar + more sugar.
So, take a step back and analyse how much sugar is social eating. Not even something you crave for if you were alone.
yes, cinnamon is helpful - at low doses. At high doses, it shows hepato-toxicity. Notice that there are two types of cinnamon (Ceylon, the good one, and Cassia, the āless goodā one, as it contains more of the hepatotoxic APIā¦which name eludes me right nowā¦ ) Another good option for cleansing -and additionally anti-inflammatory is Kurkuma, without the side effects of Cinammon. Yet, it might be an āacquired tasteā to put it on the muesli
you should try my honey, honey 
so much rich in oligo-elements & healthier than sugar!
Whatās that then?
A 30 minute brisk walk several times a week is enough to drastically reduce the risk of developing full blown diabetes.
Donāt eliminate carbs completely but try to eat more slow release carbs and whole grains rather than refined carbs.
Oats are fantastic, I have porridge for breakfast every morning.
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Iāve developed some ways of presenting winter squashes (Hokkaido, pumpkin, etc.) in ways that even finicky OH likes it. Gratin, stuffed, sliced paper-thin and made into roses, cut into wedges and dredged in Parmesan and pimenton and bakedā¦itās a long list. Great complex carbs!
have you tried it on curries? yummyā¦
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