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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
Yeah, nope. Most of what you've posted above are myths and nonsense.
I agree with the other posters, mostly nonsense and nonsense that has probably been copied and pasted from some other website.
None of these things are life hacks that the OP has discovered for themselves, if they were there would be some personal story attached to them. In fact I would go a step further and suggest that the OP may even be selling something. To me the post has that unrelentingly upbeat ring to it that you hear from sales people.6 -
LivinBest_Life wrote: »In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please
, both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.
Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.8 -
Thanks for all of the feedback, appreciate everyone's opinions.
I certainly am not a salesman and selling anything.....just new here and want to connect and share.
I haven't cut and pasted anything, I do daily everything I mention and it works for me.
My intentions are good to help people to share knowledge, yes one day something is right then the next it can be proven to be wrong. I am just sharing here. Apologies if I have offended anyone or misrepresented my ideas in any ways to upset people.....
Best of luck and thanks for the positive criticisms and as @snickerscharlie mentioned absolutely seek the opinion of a medical practitioner before taking any supplements.3 -
LivinBest_Life wrote: »Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
Cortisol: Cortisol is a hormone used to mobile glucose for high energy activity. The point is to turn up and down various metabolic pathways based on their relevance to success in the big 4 Fs of nature: flight, fight, feed, and mate. It can't change the ability to store or withdrawn energy beyond the limits of what a person takes in and puts out.
Sleep: The nugget of truth is there are studies about sleep deprivation, and just a small amount, impacting the composition of what is lost when losing weight, but it does not change calorie deficits / weight loss happening. So there is good advice in getting sleep of good length and with good sleep hygiene. Ideally, we want calorie deficits to induce fat loss instead of lean tissue loss.
Gut Health: seeing as the microbiome is what will actually digest fiber and convert it int medium chain triglycerides, I've never understood why anyone thinks the microbiome will cause weight loss - a varied flora should cause more calories to digest and be available. Still, sure, getting good fiber, eating veggies, the general advice for guts are probably good. No need to supplement without medical advice.
Intermittent fasting: is largely a method of psychological control over intake, and depending on chronobiology, might impact output (large breakfasts make some people more active). Stomachs don't need to rest. Our organs are not filled with tiny haemonculi that need sleep like a human as a whole needs sleep.
Water: water can help with appetite. No need to force anything, particularly first thing in the morning when water out is on the mind. Just aim to have clear urine by around noon is more decent advice.
Fun fact, the Okinawan centenarians are interesting. Many of them have a high tendency to drink, smoke, and be on pension / Japan's version of social security. Some researchers suggest that they don't actually have that many 100 year olds, but instead they have a lot of people that were born in lax records eras that have misreported their age or assumed someone else's identity. Or believing smoking and drinking recommended like drinking water.
No idea where you come up with this boosted metabolism. I'm afraid for my kidneys for what kind of water would have to pass to use that kind of energy.6 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »LivinBest_Life wrote: »In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please, both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.
Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.
So am I!
half of them were women.
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I feel like explaining my disagree on the first post.... I was anticipating the later post, thus it was an anticipatory disagree. Having arrived at the later post I see no reason to change that first disagree, mainly on the points raised by others and discussed above.
Some of the hacks seem relatively benign, though a bit... mind space consuming for marginal benefit. Some seem to have the potential to cause some issues for some people: I doubt that everyone in the world would improve their health by taking more magnesium, or am I missing something?
But, I've always wondered about the following (by no means is this the first time I see it and I've always wondered about it) that no-one has ever explained to me in a way I can understand:
People wanting to lose fat talk about improving their digestion. And for the life of me I do not understand the mechanism where you will create an energy deficit and lose fat by being able to extract more calories out of the food that is transiting through your body!
Is it that you will feel so much better and you will be flying through your day increasing your Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (caloric expenditure) because you're no longer feeling bloated? OK. I can understand that! Maybe. But then I would consider this an anti-bloat improvement measure as opposed to an "absorb more nutrients out of my food" measure. And yet most people seem to imply that absorbing more nutrients will be helpful to weight loss.
So yeah. Still at a loss as to how absorbing more nutrients and energy from my food will make me lose weight and the science behind it!
Oh well. I wish everyone success in reaching their goals.
Dispassionately analysing previous knowledge, discarding what is marginal or unhelpful and concentrating on the "base of the pyramid" the stuff that offers real traction towards meeting goals will probably help most of us get closer to reaching our goals.
Take care!
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
I am always wary of claims like NEW HEALTH HACKS!
Mainly because most good advice for living will not be new - stick to boring advice like- Dont smoke,
- dont drink alcohol to excess,
- follow a balanced diet using guidelines such as the one your govt provides,
- keep weight to a healthy level (for almost everyone this will be in or very close to standard BMI ranges)
- do some physical excercise most days (the Aust govt defines this as minimum half hour of walking 5 days out of 7 - the walking does not have to be continuous eg I walk 15 minutes to work and 15 minutes back)
- have regular health checks as recomended eg pap smears, mammograms, FOBT's,
- have immunisations as recomended
But I do not claim any of that as new or as paperpudding originals.
paprerpudding n=1 as follows.
I never take magnesium.
I sleep for around 7 hours most nights but almost never asleep before 10 pm (also have occasional weekend afternoon nap)
I eat a general balanced diet, including fruit, veg every day but sourbread, garlic, sourkraut only occasionally. I do not like greek yoghert
I do not do any form of IF nor do I intend to
I drink water - but not 500ml first thing in the morning
and I highly doubt this would boost my metabolism by 30% - why do I need it boosted by 30% anyway??
I also highly doubt the ONLY difference between the 50,000 Japanese and me was this water habit. Genetics and location are different for starters since I am not of Japanese descent nor do I live in Japan.3 -
paperpudding wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »LivinBest_Life wrote: »In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please, both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.
Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.
So am I!
half of them were women.
And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.1 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »LivinBest_Life wrote: »In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please, both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.
Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.
So am I!
half of them were women.
And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.
yes i know.
was just facetious comment picking up on sexism of "caveman"
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Thanks for all of the feedback, appreciate everyone's opinions.
I certainly am not a salesman and selling anything.....just new here and want to connect and share.
I haven't cut and pasted anything, I do daily everything I mention and it works for me.
My intentions are good to help people to share knowledge, yes one day something is right then the next it can be proven to be wrong. I am just sharing here. Apologies if I have offended anyone or misrepresented my ideas in any ways to upset people.....
Best of luck and thanks for the positive criticisms and as @snickerscharlie mentioned absolutely seek the opinion of a medical practitioner before taking any supplements.
I dont think anyone is offended (except Nonymouse and I about the term caveman
), they just disagreed with you.
I am assuming your post is all your own words - although the help with belly fat comment sounds spam familiar - but I have not clicked into the Lose belly fat ads that pop up so cannot verify otherwise
Yes people will be skeptical of claims without scientific backing or cited sources and of people setting themselves up as experts with all the answers to your questions! and of catchy phrases like New health hacks!
Also important to differentiate between what worked for you and what has universal application.
The non original guidelines posted by me do have universal application - ie they apply to everyone
Things like drinking x amount of water at x time and taking magnesium supplement to help sleep - they may well work for you, but they do not apply to everyone nor have any relevance in general guidelines.
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Thanks for all of the feedback, appreciate everyone's opinions.
I certainly am not a salesman and selling anything.....just new here and want to connect and share.
I haven't cut and pasted anything, I do daily everything I mention and it works for me.
My intentions are good to help people to share knowledge, yes one day something is right then the next it can be proven to be wrong. I am just sharing here. Apologies if I have offended anyone or misrepresented my ideas in any ways to upset people.....
Best of luck and thanks for the positive criticisms and as @snickerscharlie mentioned absolutely seek the opinion of a medical practitioner before taking any supplements.
I do understand that you are just trying to help people. That's wonderful! Perhaps just jumping in on the multitudes of existing threads and questions posted all over the forum might be a better way to share your ideas? 4 -
paperpudding wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »paperpudding wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »LivinBest_Life wrote: »In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
I'd like to see the scientific research on this one please, both on when our ancestors ate, and the food scarcity you seem to be implying.
Also, I'm offended on behalf of my Palaeolithic ancestors at the use of the term 'caveman'.
So am I!
half of them were women.
And didn't all live in caves, and those that did utilise caves (they are, after all, a handy ready made shelter) didn't live in them year round.
yes i know.
was just facetious comment picking up on sexism of "caveman"
Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!1 -
emeraldeyes2020 wrote: »Me too! Any tips for keeping my bp up ?
By "bp" I'm assuming you mean blood pressure?0 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
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Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
Caveat lector.
PS: Clan of the Cave Bear was freaking awesome!3 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
The real question is, were they wearing this? https://neandertal.co.uk/1 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
The real question is, were they wearing this? https://neandertal.co.uk/
Oh gosh. I don't want to know what that smells like...1 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
They were Clan. They called Cro-Magnon The Others. 2 -
I feel like explaining my disagree on the first post.... I was anticipating the later post, thus it was an anticipatory disagree. Having arrived at the later post I see no reason to change that first disagree, mainly on the points raised by others and discussed above.
Some of the hacks seem relatively benign, though a bit... mind space consuming for marginal benefit. Some seem to have the potential to cause some issues for some people: I doubt that everyone in the world would improve their health by taking more magnesium, or am I missing something?
But, I've always wondered about the following (by no means is this the first time I see it and I've always wondered about it) that no-one has ever explained to me in a way I can understand:
People wanting to lose fat talk about improving their digestion. And for the life of me I do not understand the mechanism where you will create an energy deficit and lose fat by being able to extract more calories out of the food that is transiting through your body!
Is it that you will feel so much better and you will be flying through your day increasing your Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (caloric expenditure) because you're no longer feeling bloated? OK. I can understand that! Maybe. But then I would consider this an anti-bloat improvement measure as opposed to an "absorb more nutrients out of my food" measure. And yet most people seem to imply that absorbing more nutrients will be helpful to weight loss.
So yeah. Still at a loss as to how absorbing more nutrients and energy from my food will make me lose weight and the science behind it!
Oh well. I wish everyone success in reaching their goals.
Dispassionately analysing previous knowledge, discarding what is marginal or unhelpful and concentrating on the "base of the pyramid" the stuff that offers real traction towards meeting goals will probably help most of us get closer to reaching our goals.
Take care!
I think honestly most people that think fixing digestion will cause weight loss don't have a very deep or structured model in their mind for how it will work. I think instead most people espousing it thing something like, obesity / overweight is bad / a disease, the digestive system is involved in the problem, fix digestion, fix disease. It is kind of an ill-humors / bad elemental balance concept of the body that tends to be how a lot of people think of it. I think to some extent, it might even be our default way of thinking and reasoning about things: we judge things bad or good, and good things fix bad things if good thing has any connection to bad thing.3 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »Oh I'm offended by it from the sexism angle too!
But would you actually prefer cavegirl? Or are we going for caveperson? And during the Clan of the Cave Bear era, did Cave People refer to themselves as People and to their Caves as Caves? What would happen during a cave-in? Or during an ex-cave-a-tion?
Only the cavemen and cavewomen who spoke English used the terms people and cave. Duh!5
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