Let's get healthy!

Geraldo wrote: Fiddlesticks wrote: How on earth do you peel a cucumber..??? Lengthwise. You can peel alternate strips around the outside, so that it then looks fancy when you subsequently slice it.

You call it circumcising in the vegie patch.
   If you do it right the cucumbers don't scream.

Like, don't make miss Tomato blush , by letting her see Mr Green Pea.
     Remember all those when we were little Kids Fiddles.
                  In your case yesterday.

Sorry didn't type anything.

Folks a sure way to lose some flab but much, much more importantly., feel so much better. Is to rid your diet of any wheat and soy products. They are poison. No bread unless it is spelt based. No vegetable oils of any nature. Check your labels out before you buy. If you see vegetable oil. Soy or wheat mentioned , put it back. They are in so many products. Its all for shelf life and mass production purposes. Go old fashioned butter, not blended. Eggs? Help yourself.... Shop at local markets . Give the old supermarkets the old heave ho. Feel better and live longer. Add krill oil and vitamin d to your daily intake. As much fresh fruit and veg as you want. Source fresh red meat where you know it's history... As in no feed lot , corn fed full od antibiotic sick steers. I grow my own. Apple cider vinegar in water and check out Vital Green. I can assure anyone that they will feel better immediately.. And just one 30 minute brisk walk a day.

dont know if its already been mentioned in this thread but we have been venturing towards low carb and high fat diet. its getting plenty of attention world wide. Garry Fetke is the Tasmanian Doctor promoting it . i dont monitor exact weights as i dont really have a big weight issue with a job and a farm to work on but i have lost some weight without any additional exercise . this time of year is a bit of a bugger but i know as soon as i adjust back all will be well. he promotes cutting most sugar from your diet which is what he claims is the real reason for weight gain. Fructose being the issue.... Gary has a website for those who are interested.just google. now for my bacon and eggs..

That is very true re carbs but you want to enjoy the foods you eat as well, not many people can maintain that sort of eating style... couple of points below for those who exercise only.

SYT wrote: That is very true re carbs but you want to enjoy the foods you eat as well, not many people can maintain that sort of eating style... couple of points below for those who exercise only. For those who exercise in the afternoon the best time to have your 'carbs' would be after gym with dinner and/or before bed (eating lighter during the day) Those who exercise in the morning can get away with some carbs in the morning right after their workout but I would generally follow the same steps above eating carbs for around dinner time then using that as fuel for your next morning workout.

very true SYT re sticking to the diet. i for one cannot sacrifice my beer as life would not be worth living without it.  i have found by going close to it with but still enjoying occasional treats that i have lost weight.as with most if you go hardcore you generally fail.

Whale wrote: Hollywood wrote: The Hydehurst Hotel.... corner of Peel St and Punt Rd ........ Scottish pub owned and run by Greeks ..... lol Then owned and run by a famous Melbourne footballer ...... Sold in 1999 ....... Now called The Pint On Punt...... Fascinating relevant to the topic too

it is where all the Celtic fans go to watch their beloved team play.

Great atmosphere.

Whale wrote: lulu wrote: Sorry didn't type anything. Folks a sure way to lose some flab but much, much more importantly., feel so much better. Is to rid your diet of any wheat and soy products. They are poison. No bread unless it is spelt based. No vegetable oils of any nature. Check your labels out before you buy. If you see vegetable oil. Soy or wheat mentioned , put it back. They are in so many products. Its all for shelf life and mass production purposes. Go old fashioned butter, not blended. Eggs? Help yourself.... Shop at local markets . Give the old supermarkets the old heave ho. Feel better and live longer. Add krill oil and vitamin d to your daily intake. As much fresh fruit and veg as you want. Source fresh red meat where you know it's history... As in no feed lot , corn fed full od antibiotic sick steers. I grow my own. Apple cider vinegar in water and check out Vital Green. I can assure anyone that they will feel better immediately.. And just one 30 minute brisk walk a day. here we go, I have to laugh when I see people paying 50% more for gluten free products. they generally have no idea what they are buying, what gluten is and why the products are supposed to be beneficial. they have heard the catchy term and fall into it like the uninformed suckers they are. good marketing I suppose

I am with you on this one Whale. Gluten free does my head in and costs 3 times as much.
My cousin follows every food fad there is. Her obsession with Paleo is bordering on cult-like. Painful.

Paleo is great Gets rid of all the crap out of your body.

Might not hurt me to get an obsession with a diet   i am taking all this on board.  have to work out exactly what i will and wont do .  more exercise would definately help, but when there are so many aches and pains etc, its very difficult to get motivated.  

I still eat everything but I have a limit, like a wall which stops me from overdoing it.

Whereas in the past I would have 3 South Melb dim sims for a snack, I now limit myself to 1

In the past I would have had chips, 3 dim sims ,3 potato cakes for dinner, I now limit myself to 1 grilled fish, 1 dim, 1 potato cake

I rarely eat a really big meal and restrict calories to 600 twice a week.

So I still enjoy the unhealthy but tasty food I always have but I have inbuilt limits these days

Browndog wrote: Paleo is great Gets rid of all the crap out of your body.

I've never heard of a Paleo diet but the concept sounds very similar to the Catalyst Program "Gut Reaction". The idea is that with modern use of antibiotics and a modern processed diet we have dramatically changed the natural gut microbes that are good for us and allowed the proliferation of bad ones .

A totally new area of biology that science seems to have little understanding of .

We have a pony at home that has never had antibiotics in its life and when we have a horse sick with diarrhea we use the manure from the pony into the diet of the sick horse . You often see foals who have an upset gut search out the fresh manure of their mums to eat . I believe its all about rebalancing the gut bacteria . Its one reason we should never use oral antibiotics as injectable is the way to go .

There are paleo restaurants too.  Well, at least one.

isn't paleo just the Atkins diet revisted..??

They are both based on ketogenic weight loss though

Whale wrote: It shouldn't be that complicated to lose weight, what a world

Bloody hell, I agree with Whale again.....