Food/Diet and training hobbies
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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
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I normally do about 14 hours, which I know is below the accepted minimum of 16 to call it "fasting", but have done 18s and 24s regularly in the past as well.
The only reason for 14 is that I like to pack in some protein before the afternoon arrives as there have been a few (peer-reviewed) studies now that show greater benefit from protein ingested earlier in the day, and my own subjective experience seems to back that up.
Not that waiting until afternoon is bad for you at all, just better for muscle growth really. Not an issue if that's not what you're after.
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@adam said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Keto and fasting is great for boosting energy and focus. I do have a break once in a while and it reminds me why I switched! For example I currently feel like utter crap after stuffing my face with carbs over Xmas!
100% agree with this. I'm not full keto all the time for various reasons. But absolutely feel like utter crap after all the sugar and alcohol over xmas. Just a few days on managed carbs (from healthy sources) and quality food and I feel a million times better!
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@dan-mackinnon said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood are you planning on making 18 hr fasts a regular occurrence or just for this week?
Apart from over xmas, I always do a minimum of 16 hours everyday, this usually ends up being 18-19 hours though most days.
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood Love it, @Adam is full Keto and he's an animal!
I do love a fast, that clarity it gives me and my body not having to process all that food as well!
The clarity thing is huge! For me there is always a point where my vision clears up to crystal clear and then I know that at that point I am into proper fasting state.
I usually have the 'floaters' (will have to remind myself of the correct term) but during a fast they disappear entirely from my sight.
Also you get the sense that your brain is running 1000 miles an hour with stuff, or in my case probably just up to speed with everyone else
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@matt-wood are you planning on making 18 hr fasts a regular occurrence or just for this week?
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Right the fun times of cake and beer are over now
Hopefully everyone had a good time and a great new years.Speaking from my waistline's point of view, I certainly did
I am going to record my next 4 weeks on here, partly for accountability to me (although Ive been doing this for years now and know I have very little issue with that), but also it may offer some small help or inspiration to others.
Jan 2nd, my weight was 179lbs (81.36kg).
Pre xmas I was hovering around 172/173lbs. So an increase of 6ish lbs. Not too bad given all the crap Ive eatenMy scales also tell me bodyfat %, I dont think its that accurate given my experience working in the industry, but as long as I am consistent it will be the change in that figure I am interested in. Currently stands at 14.2%. From my experience the scales tend to overestimate by 2-3%, but also hydration levels and electrolyte level will affect it. I will be being consistent in diet now though so those should not change too much.
For the rest of this week: Min 18hrs fasting per day. Carbs will be slowly reduced. By Monday next week I plan on being full keto.
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@dave-hayes GK at 58 probably be a bit rough on the hips! Great that you can play tennis regular though
Maybe try the walking footy thing, there is a group near us here and it looks a great laugh, very low risk of injury too. -
@lee-woodman said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
I agree with that, it’s sad when you see people stressing about it on Christmas Day….it’s a lifestyle after all and a few days won’t hurt. It’s better to allow yourself a few days to indulge rather than letting bad habits creep in
I’ve been trying to bulk but can’t get enough calories in, being on the go all day and then gym 3-4 times a week has inadvertently led to a kind of recomp, not a bad thing really!
I hate bulking. Sadly my plan for the next three years, a final push before I hit 45, probably will hardly put on anything though as my training age is over 20 now.
I always find loosing weight easier than proper over eating. Once or twice I can smash in 10k plus easily but excess cals day in day out gets rough.
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@dan-mackinnon said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood how are you getting on with your lifting challenge for 2021?
Not bad Dan, hit 1.4m before I stopped counting so well over the target
