Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@keith-anderson The apple watch is a decent bit of kit, I do try and get into the getting the streaks and get annoyed when I dont break it.
Especially if it buzzes me at say 9pm and says your X cals from finishing the 3 rings a brisk 20 min should do it lol yea mate its 9 pm
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Some of the more worrying things I learned about, some years ago, from high levels of insulin resistance are NAFLD and in women POS.
On a basic level though someone would just flat out wear their pancreas out until it gave up and stopped functioning.
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@dan-mackinnon said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood I was listening to a podcast and they said one of the biggest threats to our safety in the western world is diabetes. But it’s not edgy or easy to sell on the media so we don’t think of it.
In the world today you are more likely to die from overeating than you are starving.
Nice little cheery listen for the evening
Haha yep stuff like that will always cheer you up
There is now becoming an accepted 'stance' in the medical world that there is a type 3 diabetes. This being dementia. There is more and more evidence piling up to show that people with chronic high insulin resistance are at a high risk of it causing some form of dementia in later life.
You are 100% right about it not 'selling' in the media though. Diabetes is too much of a long burn issue in people for the media and activists to jump on so it gets ignored largely.
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@matt-wood I was listening to a podcast and they said one of the biggest threats to our safety in the western world is diabetes. But it’s not edgy or easy to sell on the media so we don’t think of it.
In the world today you are more likely to die from overeating than you are starving.
Nice little cheery listen for the evening
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@martin said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
I find it difficult, especially when watching football. I ditched the Coca-Cola for diluted juice. Working okay at the moment, but started getting severe headaches yesterday. Felt like all I was doing was taking painkillers, it wouldn't go away. Opened a can of Coca-Cola and before I'd finished it the headache was gone!! Having withdrawal symptoms!!
That will most likely be caffeine withdrawal symptoms. Lots of of it in coca-cola. Were/are you drinking the full sugar version? Deff best to cut that out if you can. If you can get some, try taking no added sugar cranberry juice to a match. Without the extra sugar they add in its pretty good for you. Good for your UT and has some iodine in it too.
Yes, full sugar Coca-Cola. I've ADHD so I self medicate via caffeine. Just trying to make a few lifestyle changes. I'm not as fit as I used to be. Diet has always been terrible though, but made up for it with exercise. Now 41 I'm not as fit and need to look after myself a bit better
Walk everyday will be a huge boost for your body. Use your fancy Apple watch thing to count steps. Aim for 8 to 12k a day. Sounds a lot if you are not used to it but in time you will barely notice it. I regularly go well over 20k without trying now, dogs help with that though as they have to go for a walk twice a day.
The sugar in those drinks will be playing havoc with your insulin levels. If you have to have one try having it as close as you can to a meal. Leveling out your insulin spikes will, in time, help you have a more consistent energy level. Not too mention all of the associated illnesses that come with chronic high levels of insulin. I used to be friends with a local GP and she always said insulin resistance will bankrupt the NHS. The more I see of people and western diets the more I think she is correct.
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@matt-wood said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@martin said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
I find it difficult, especially when watching football. I ditched the Coca-Cola for diluted juice. Working okay at the moment, but started getting severe headaches yesterday. Felt like all I was doing was taking painkillers, it wouldn't go away. Opened a can of Coca-Cola and before I'd finished it the headache was gone!! Having withdrawal symptoms!!
That will most likely be caffeine withdrawal symptoms. Lots of of it in coca-cola. Were/are you drinking the full sugar version? Deff best to cut that out if you can. If you can get some, try taking no added sugar cranberry juice to a match. Without the extra sugar they add in its pretty good for you. Good for your UT and has some iodine in it too.
Yes, full sugar Coca-Cola. I've ADHD so I self medicate via caffeine. Just trying to make a few lifestyle changes. I'm not as fit as I used to be. Diet has always been terrible though, but made up for it with exercise. Now 41 I'm not as fit and need to look after myself a bit better
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@martin said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
Once you cut it out, after a while you wont miss it. I used to drink plenty when I was younger. Almost never have it now to the point where if I have a larger shandy or two I feel so bloated from the fizz I stop.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@martin said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
I find it difficult, especially when watching football. I ditched the Coca-Cola for diluted juice. Working okay at the moment, but started getting severe headaches yesterday. Felt like all I was doing was taking painkillers, it wouldn't go away. Opened a can of Coca-Cola and before I'd finished it the headache was gone!! Having withdrawal symptoms!!
That will most likely be caffeine withdrawal symptoms. Lots of of it in coca-cola. Were/are you drinking the full sugar version? Deff best to cut that out if you can. If you can get some, try taking no added sugar cranberry juice to a match. Without the extra sugar they add in its pretty good for you. Good for your UT and has some iodine in it too.
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@martin said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
I find it difficult, especially when watching football. I ditched the Coca-Cola for diluted juice. Working okay at the moment, but started getting severe headaches yesterday. Felt like all I was doing was taking painkillers, it wouldn't go away. Opened a can of Coca-Cola and before I'd finished it the headache was gone!! Having withdrawal symptoms!!
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@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
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Down to 1 can of Coca-Cola per day. It was as much as 4!! (I know, awful). Sometimes it is one every two days. Just depends how bad my headcahes are. Swapped out my bi-weekly McDonlads (normally BigMac Meals) for either a McPlant Burger or a Chicken Wrap (single items, not meals).
Also juts bought myself an Apple Watch. Hoping to improve fitness
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@matt-wood Calves take a pounding!!!! I have found as well that if I switch to anything else I am ruined now, I have fully converted for every pair of shoes lol
Did you feel easier running as well? I feel light when I run now
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@Ryan Tested out my barefoot shoes this last couple of weeks since the weather has improved here.
Now I understood all the science and reasons for using them, but this is my first experience with them.Calves take a bit of a beating don't they!! Still I have noticed I run a little more upright, which will be good for my back.
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I have also heard the advice about that too @Matt-Wood and strangely enough it worked.
I tested Vegan for 6 weeks when the wife was pregnant and I had read finding ultra by Rich Roll, strangest thing I was the best I'd ever been.... I didn't bother with meat substitute as it wasn't about that, I made all my meals with natural high quality ingredients.
It wasn't about being vegan it was that I had zero processed sugar in that time - ZERO. Wow I was a machine.
I need to get back to that kind of thing just with meat in there.
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Agreed @Matt-Wood . To me that basically boils down to eating as little processed food as possible.
There's a great book by Robert Lustig called Metabolical which goes into great detail about this, well worth a read / listen.
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A little bit of general blanket diet advice. Even though it is not really possible to provide blanket advice as we are all unique.
When I was in college many many moons ago I was friends with a guy who took part in amature body building contests. He was there for the A & P classes not the nutrition. I asked why he didnt do the nutrition classes, he said he had been doing it for so long he was not sure what he would get from the classes.
He told me one day, "If it didn't have a face, or it didn't grow, don't eat it"
Laughing I never really understood until a good few years later. He was really telling me that if your food is nothing at all like it is in nature, don't eat it. Made a lot of sense when I got it. Anything that looks like nothing in nature has been messed with by people in labs so much that we probably shouldn't eat it.
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@matt-wood Cheers Matt will take a look - been following with interest some of your stuff on here
