Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood Yes, I even go all out and get fancy coffee and make it in the Aeropress lol
Oooooohhh look at Mr Barista over here
Can't beat that coffee first thing in the morning though
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@matt-wood Yes, I even go all out and get fancy coffee and make it in the Aeropress lol
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
The time thing worked for me, no coffee after X time and work through that way and also drink something else I enjoyed - I have tried reduced caffeine drinks to replace.
Now I am down to one in the morning and I look forward to it a lot.
This is the same as me. I only have two first thing now and I really look forward to them.
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@dave-hayes Well I would also add the lovely Kate to that can't get enough of list
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@dave-hayes Apart from Blake Lively
I'm a brunette man myself
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@dave-hayes Apart from Blake Lively
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
The time thing worked for me, no coffee after X time and work through that way and also drink something else I enjoyed - I have tried reduced caffeine drinks to replace.
Now I am down to one in the morning and I look forward to it a lot.Everything in Moderation is great.
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@lee-woodman said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
I definitely need to cut down, Iād say I have about 8 cups per day, and thatās on a day when working and donāt have any during the workday. Im quitting smoking first so one bad habit at a timeā¦.!
Well done Lee and though I have never smoked, I admire the sentence I'm quitting; well done on that
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I definitely need to cut down, Iād say I have about 8 cups per day, and thatās on a day when working and donāt have any during the workday. Im quitting smoking first so one bad habit at a timeā¦.!
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone got tips on giving up caffeine?! I swear heroin is easier to kick! I know I use caffeine to help control my ADHD. While caffeine can make people hyper, it has the opposite effect on me. It slows my thought process down, it stops the 101 thoughts racing through my head. In essence, I'm self medicating via caffeine. Any suggestions warmly accepted!
Interesting you should liken it to Heroin. Caffeine has the same/very similar chemical effect on our bodies that cocaine does, probably why its so addictive.
Best advice I can give is to reduce the amount slowly over time. I used to drink loads, now I have two cups first thing and decaff after that. You could reduce it via time, e.g. no caffeine after 3pm, then bring that time earlier and earlier. Or limit the amount of cups per day. A combination of the two would probably be best.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone got tips on giving up caffeine?! I swear heroin is easier to kick! I know I use caffeine to help control my ADHD. While caffeine can make people hyper, it has the opposite effect on me. It slows my thought process down, it stops the 101 thoughts racing through my head. In essence, I'm self medicating via caffeine. Any suggestions warmly accepted!
Keith, this might help, but my wife loves coffee, til she had a health check up a few weeks ago and the one thing that was pushing her BP up was Coffee, so we switched to Decaf and its been a lot better since.
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@keith-anderson I used to drink a lot of coffee and something that helped me cut down was keeping track of how much I was drinking. I was averaging about 10 mugs a day and once I realised that I slowly cut down. Have you tried to track how much you drink? You can also try and spot if there's any triggers such as automatically doing it first thing in the morning, could you try and wait a little bit so it's a more conscious decision?
Another tip which might work is get yourself some decent decaf coffee. Sometimes it's the process of making the coffee and having a warm drink rather than the coffee itself. If you have some nicer decaf coffee you might be more willing to reach for that as it's a better experience.
I know these are more for reducing coffee rather than cutting it out completely.
As for 101 thoughts, I have a small notepad and just write stuff down or draw random shapes in which I feel helps reset my thinking. Then again, I had a housemate with ADHD and he refused to write anything down and didn't like the idea of doing something that didn't have an valid outcome.
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Anyone got tips on giving up caffeine?! I swear heroin is easier to kick! I know I use caffeine to help control my ADHD. While caffeine can make people hyper, it has the opposite effect on me. It slows my thought process down, it stops the 101 thoughts racing through my head. In essence, I'm self medicating via caffeine. Any suggestions warmly accepted!
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@matt-wood tracking weight sounds like me tracking P&L (hopefully trending up rather than down)
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End of week 2 and there has been no movement. Average weight at week end 2 is the same as week end 1. Not surprising since the first week would have been all the excess water weight.
I would expect to see some drop in week end 3's average.
This is something I used to try to help clients understand. There won't be a nice straight line of weight loss. It will go faster and slower and in some instances there may even be a slight gain.
I also advise people to largely ignore daily weights. Instead it is much better to take your weight every day but then calculate a 7 day average. then compare these averages to see how your progress is going.
Hope everyone else is achieving any goals they have set for themselves.
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Morning all.
So after week one my average weight is 2.4lbs lower than my starting weight. 179lbs down to 176.6lbs.
Such a sharp drop is to be expected for two reasons.
First the start of any diet/healthy eating plan following a period of rubbish food will always see a sharp drop. This will mostly be water weight. Less carbs consumed means less water held in the body.
Second I am doing a very aggressive short term liver clean up plan. With long term weight loss you should only be aiming for 1-1.5% of your bodyweight per week.Waistline has decreased by .75 inches and body fat % (according to scales) is down just over 2%.
Moving into this week now is the plan to be full keto. This part will be a little fluid as I expect to be doing keto for somewhere like 7-10 days. I know myself well enough now that I can eyeball when I am ready for the 3 days fasting.
The 'being ready' is the point at which I think all glucose is gone and my body has adapted to ketones. At this point the 3 day fast should be largely hitting the visceral fat stores.
Hope everyone else is living a healthy life now xmas is done
