Main > Everything Else

Question for fitness types

<< < (5/29) > >>

shardian:

--- Quote from: Glaine on May 02, 2007, 06:24:06 pm ---Even if I could manage eatting right, I think I would have a hard time getting on a good sleep schedule.

--- End quote ---

Same here. New baby + 50 hour work week + non-stop weekend housework = 0 sleep

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 02, 2007, 05:45:52 pm --- I lost 20 pounds in the first 20 days.  After the first 20 pounds I've been losing a pound a day.


--- End quote ---

That's an interesting way to word that.   ;D

I agree with most of this stuff, though I'm not especially worried about fats.  I don't think they're especially dangerous (aside from trans fats, which should send you running for the hills).  I think sugar is the main thing, and I don't just mean the obvious stuff.  Practically all pre-made food in America has sugar added to it.  you gotta try to avoid this.  As people have mentioned, start with soda.  I have a very healthy diet, and have for the last 9 years.  It started when I was 19 years old and made the conscious decision that I was going to cut soda out of my diet (I actually decided that I already disliked the taste, but was being tricked into thinking I liked it by carbonation -- let a soda go flat and drink it and tell me it isn't like drinking straight syrup, like the stuff they flavor lattes with at Starbucks).  Anyway, I switched cold-turkey to water, and within days I found that I had considerably more energy all through the day, rather than having less thanks to the lack of caffein.  It also didn't take too long for the thought of soda to become repulsive to me.  Not drinking soda today requires the exact same amount of willpower for me as not drinking the juice that I drain from a can of tuna after opening it.  I know I could if I wanted to, but the thought doesn't even cross my mind.  It has no appeal to me.

Here's the best part, though.  A coke has some god-awful equivalent of like 12 teaspoons of sugar in a single can.  That's a lot of ---smurfing--- sugar.  Once you cut that out of your diet for long enough that you stop craving it, your body makes some other serious changes, and one of those, is it stops craving sugar altogether.  Anymore I eat VERY VERY VERY little candy, cookies, cake, ice cream, etc.  I just don't feel like having them most of the time.  It pisses my wife off, cos she'll be like, "Let's stop and get ice cream cones."  And I'll say, "Okay.  I'll probably just have a bite or two of yours."  And she's like, "Nevermind, I don't want one anymore," cos it makes her feel fat.  But I can't help it.  I just don't feel like eating that much ice cream. 

I love it.  The only change I've made to my diet for health reasons, EVER, was replacing soda with water.  All the other changes simply followed automatically, with no effort or willpower on my part whatsoever.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 02, 2007, 05:45:52 pm ---A month ago I switched from regular to diet soda. I lost 20 pounds in the first 20 days.  After the first 20 pounds I've been losing a pound a day.

I wasn't fat, but now I'm in better shape for summer.

--- End quote ---
You must be an exception where drinking diet soda does help (still).

Diet Soda Drinkers Gain Weight

shmokes:
I didn't read the whole article, but one immediate suspicion I have is that they are mixing up cause and effect.  Since regular cola tastes better than diet cola, the only people, for the most part, who drink diet are people who switched from regular because they were fat or getting fat.  In this respect, it stands to reason that you would find a much higher incidence of obesity with diet soda drinkers than regular soda drinkers.  They are likely drinking diet soda because they are obese, rather than the other way around.

Or, on the other hand, maybe I should have actually read the article before responding.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 03, 2007, 06:21:06 am ---Or, on the other hand, maybe I should have actually read the article before responding.

--- End quote ---
Well the article is confusing. First they say that diet soda itself is not necessarily the cause of obesity, but maybe a sign of people being obese (ie you drink it when you are fat). Later it explains how diet soda can make the body crave for real sugar and thus how in fact it might cause obesity.

BTW they started the test with normal weight persons and checked their weight gain over a few years. It's not like they took all the fatties and counted the ones drinking diet soda vs regular soda.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version