We are all different right? So as you say some people eat lot of bad food and still look fit externally (not sure about their arteries internally though).
Anyway if eating similar food as them makes you fat then what would be the smart thing to do?
A) Change your diet, eat healthy and exercise?
or
B) Start comparing yourself with them and keep following their bad eating habits and have more problems?
Whether you fry something at home or someone fries it for you outside it makes no difference as far as raising your cholesterol/fat etc is concerned Hygiene is a different subject and nothing to do with this thread.
Another tip:
This is exercise/weight loss related thread. Yoga thread here
I have IMMENSE IMMENSE IMMENSE respect for large people who are honest to themselves and try to change their ways slowly but steadily. On the other hand the ones who just keep making excuses and lie to themselves....well it's their life. Weight gain does not happen overnight and weight(fat) loss definitely takes much longer.
Look with MY hard work and MY life style choices I am reasonably fit. I was just trying to help and show the light but FK it as some people just like making excuses and being wrapped in cotton wool.
I am happy with my quality of life and health so you prople can do whatever you want.
Here help yourself-
The lift/escalator one is a good one. Walking up the stairs rather than taking the lift doesn't feel like exercise for, as you remark, it's just part of everyday life.
I was astounded here, when visiting a hospital here, and going for the stairs, the stair well was packed with doctors, visitors and with patients. No-one was using the lifts.
You would never see that in the U.S. or the U.K.
Indeed, I once stayed at a hotel in California where you could not access the stairs from the ground floor as it only led from the upstairs floors to a below-ground floor emergency exit. No-one used it, or could use it.
There's a different mentality here in Switzerland and most of it makes sense.
Who is making judgments about whom here?
I have purposefully refrained from saying anything specific about what I eat or cook as folks who do not have the issues I have tend not to believe me anyhow. I did not want to turn this into me vs you (or whomever) because "you" types tend to look at "me" types and ASSume I eat at McDonalds every meal.
I absolutely do not.
I have gall bladder issues ever since arriving here... I do not eat that crap you invited me to help myself to, tyvm, except on somewhat rare occasion as my stomach would scream in agony for hours if I made any sort of a regular habit of it.
I cook healthy meals. That daydream meal is another example of a special occasion meal... not an every day thing, not even a once a month thing. It is a Christmas morning thing, for me anyhow.
I use fresh or frozen veggies, not canned.
I use extra-virgin olive oil even in my baking.
85% of the meat I eat is chicken. The rest is trimmed.
I spent the 5 years prior to moving here trying to help my mother eat healthier (she has low blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, gall bladder disease, hyatle hernia, etc, etc... a whole host of metabolic and gastric problems) ... and struggling to stay away from the snacks she brought home to help herself "feel" better over her own health issues.
I know what to eat, I know how to eat. Even though the gall bladder issues for me started when I moved here, I've *always* cooked that way for myself and when living on my own, I've always been deemed healthy (in all ways except the # on the scale) by doctors.
I do not need "you" to lecture me. None of us do.
Here, let me recap for you:
Peg A started out by saying that she doesn't get much Exercise-with-a-capital-E, and doesn't much want to - but that she has made several small lifestyle changes since moving here, and has in fact lost over two stone in the past year.
She reckons since this has worked for her, it might work for others: that people for whom physical exertion is rather a chore than a delight ought to try for simply an active lifestyle, instead of a sedentary lifestyle with regular workouts wedged into it.
Sure sounds like a 'losing' attitude to me!
@Peg A: Preach it, sister! I'm finding the same thing... no time or interest for formal exercise, but I've become just that little bit more active, and the weight is (slowly!) peeling off as a result.
I am on a
1. diet program ( Protein shake in the morning, salad and one tropical fruit in the afternoon, evening-4 indian breads with vegetable without any butter or indian ghee)
2. exercise 30 min trademill, 20 crunches-*2,sauna for 10 mi
3. walking evenings and noons for half an hour, also have developed habit of walking between stops, so I take bus , get down at the next stop, walk again, take the bus again...
All this is doing wonders. I lost around 6-7 kgs in timeframe of 4-5 weeks. ( I gave sometime for a week , thats where I had a tough time to loose more weight)
I dont want to know what caused the major impact but I am happy with the result and feel nice when my old clothes fit me
I've read the book by Gary Taubes mentioned in the OPs article (Good Calories, Bad Calories....I have it here in Basel if anyone is tremendously interested in reading it), and it brings up a lot of very good questions and doesn't really answer many of them. Although, when I was reading it, I think I changed my ideas of what was healthy or unhealthy about 10 times. Finally, I just decided to eat what I want, when I want, and try to eat a balanced diet because I don't know who to believe any more. Works for me.
Easy tigress We don't know life history of everyone who posts on online forums. So are you saying that she is not overweight any more? We can go only based on what people say on this and another thread that I read from her. Climbing stair is a good thing but hardly active lifestyle. Active lifestyle + regular workout would be a start.
Anyway you think I always enjoy working my butt off in the gym like a hamster? No pain no gain. You ladies can continue hammering me......it's time for me to go gym now cause I don't want to end up like my friends from school or my extended family members.
Nothing more to say on this thread. Cardio here I come.
I cant be bothered with workouts and stuff but LUUURRVVEE eating. The only bit of excercise I get is when cooking. Meat has to be fried just right before adding spices and then Yummm... followed by really really suger rich sweets!! HEAVEN!!
And then either going to blissful sleep or watching a movie or playing Xbox!!
Nothing more I ask from the Lord!!
Let the loonies Run and work out like crazy to have a Healthy life?
For what? For a long life?
Long life for what? So they can Run and work out a bit more
And then on the death bed, they'll be like.. wish I had done that or wish I had eaten that
As for using stairs and not lifts.. c'mon think about the time and effort it went into inventing those things! Show respect!
A competent Googler would have realised that chips/french fries/pommes
have no place in an English breakfast.
And the snags are burnt.
And the mushies are undercooked.
As are the toms.
And Gawd knows where the toast is.
Send it back and let someone who understands such things order for you.
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I think they are pretty consistent. Yes not for fad diets though. Ok I am running late so must go.....
I was reading an article about regeneration of cells and Aging and it said something like upto a certain point human cells, when they die and regenerate will keep the same level of quality... but after certain age or time either the new cells will not be as good as before or not regenerate at all.. i.e. cells iin various human organs... and that timeframe is decided by something in built in ones genes.
..and the beans shouldn't be next to the fried eggs. You can't enjoy the egg's gooeyness because it runs into the beans.
I was wondering about that.
The egg's gooeyness is for dipping the toast, isn't it?
(As for those beans, I have never had such with my breakfast, I quite like them if I have a hot dog though.)