Quote: (12-20-2018 12:51 PM)roberto Wrote:
Quote: (06-02-2018 07:31 AM)Ski pro Wrote:
Lost another kg (down to 89.5 today) over the last week or so by trying to eat clean and limiting bad choices. Physically eating less now and generallyi have replaced sugar added foods with things like nuts and berries, coconut chips and dried fruits.
Started to exercise again now the ski season has finished and I’ve completed my month break from all exercise. Hitting gym on a weekly basis to lift and interspersing that with some sprints and football.
Posting here for accountability
In my experience that's a bad move. Nuts and dried fruits in particular are extremely high in calories and sugar respectively.
Carrots are good to snack on, they fill you up pretty good.
I have to disagree with this.
Have you ever met a person who got fat just eating blueberries and bananas?
Dried fruit has the water removed, eat dried cranberries and nuts with water and it is all back to normal.
Yes, you can over consume on dried fruit and nuts, to an extent, but all the fibre present will blow up your toilet bowl and you'll learn retrain the natural hard way.
Dried fruit and nuts is a good way to get dense calories on a diet as you can fill your calorie requirements with this rather than trying to sneak in carbs. Also, the fibre present keeps you full longer. Fibre is the key and is nature's way of controlling how much you eat. What hurts our bodies is the processed and refined foods that strip the fibre away leaving just the sugar.
I have lots to contribute to the thread and when I have some time I will write a data sheet. For some context I went from bringing on chips and soda to now hot having drank a can of soda in 15 years. It is all willpower, choices, distances and some time that is needed. With time your pallete will change and will no longer prefer sweet items.
First major step I can quickly share, is to cut drinking your calories and to also not use calorie free replacements such as diet coke. You have to learn to drink and love drinking water (or milk to am extent). The bulk of sweet induced cravings come from an actual need for water and being thirsty. For many who don't like water this means juice or whatever else to satisfy this urge.
One you ditch the drinking of sugary drinks it makes the food part very easy.
For all those folks who I see who can't shake sugar all have a common theme in not enjoying drinking water and being dehydrated. One girl I work with, with water, drinks what I do in one morning over a course of two days and the rest is soda and juice she consumes. All you need to know.
If you hate water you can find good water enhancers that have minimal artificial sweeteners and provide a light for taste to the water. That can be a good bridge to ween yourself of sugar drinks to eventually just consuming mostly water (I drink cold pressed juices a few times per week but I go for the very nutrition dense drinks that are not all that sweet I.e. beet and carrot juice)