KathrynKennewell108 Member

I am on the east coast of Australia. I am currently studying for my Bachelor of Health Science Food and Nutrition degree.... why? Because I am so deeply interested in all things mind/body health, but particularly nutrition. I go to my daughter's school and see all the sad, angry looking overweight mums living through their…

TehGTrain, I'm sending you an add. You and I have very similar goals and nutritional approach.

As a fellow Aussie, the ignorance and curiosity on this feed cracks me up. :laugh: We could turn it around and make generalisations about other nations, but let's not, eh?:wink:

Awesome!!

Any room for lil ole me? I'm 38, mother, f/t student, p/t volunteer, canteen coordinator and self employed. My name's Kat, and I live in NSW, Australia.

I'm just over a year past my injury. It's been slowly on the up and up, but after attempting City2Surf for a 2nd time this August, I found it performed better than expected. I set out not to have any expectations during the event but, most importantly, to listen to my body and if my knee didn't feel right, to stop. I…

The body is designed to SURVIVE. It will do WHATEVER it can to do that. So it will not let go off that weight without a fight. The cr@p they are peddling in the media is just nothing more than advertising designed to play on your emotions. Tune out to it. Water off a duck's back. As for things like abs etc. Abs are made in…

Just sent you some add requests. Cheers, Kat.

BTW. My post was meant to be in reply to jwdieter's original post.

Uh. Hello? Do you actually shop? Go price a punnet of strawberries (per kg unit cost) and then go pick another random food and do the same. Repeat this until you have a list of ten totally unrelated foods. Go to MFP and punch in the data to work out a calorie output per 100g on each of these. Break it down into macro…

I used to eat cereal or toast for brekkie once upon a time.... was always hungry within the next 1 to 2 hours. Now I have my 2 eggs almost every single morning. It sets me up for the day and I manage dairy related cravings a lot better with this habit. Dairy is my downfall. I must've been a mouse in another life, lol. I'm…

Here here! I have two WHOLE eggs most mornings. Do your research. To fill the centre aisles with sugar laden crap and turn a neat profit, the sugar/processed foods industries needed a scapegoat. Fat. I wish people would get with the times and stop buying into the hand me down BS the last 2-3 generations have been fed.…

Berries. They are generally the best kind of fruit. Limit your fruit to no more than 2 serves a day. I personally don't even average one serve a day. Fruit is not naturally widely available in nature and shouldn't be consumed readily. Our bodies are physically not designed to process fructose at a cellular level, and…

Thank you!!! Another responsible parent who cares about the slow death of the English language and the way kids of today utilise it!

The trouble with this is, if you go read 10 different books, blogs etc, you will invariably get 10 different opinions on what to do or what not to do. A drop in metabolism is overrated as a reason to just go eat. Learn to feel hunger between meals. Personally, I eat 3 squares and a top up around 3 - 3.30 in the afternoon -…

They aired this on SBS here in Australia a month or so ago. I was keen to share the video link with my friends, but SBS's website only keeps catch-up episodes for a limited time and then deletes them. I was really bummed about that bit. Nonetheless, anyone who hasn't seen it and can find the opportunity to, I highly…

Are you gullible enough to take advice on food from a government website? Go directly to reputable scientific research for answers. I wish people would get thoroughly educated before flouting opinions like they are in a position to.

Exactly!!!

WTF? You're kidding aren't you? Go read some scientific research on Aspartame. There are several sweeteners that would make you feel you'd rather have the sugar instead if you looked at all the research. Look for products sweetened with Stevia. It's from a plant and not harmful.

Agreed. They are a human staple. We are designed to hunt and forage the ground, and most of what we should find in nature is veg, and the occasional fruit.

I don't. I'm a savoury tooth. And I find things like lollies and too much sweet stuff to be sickening. A sweet craving is a sign of candida. About 70% of the population has candida. Look at what's widely available and you shouldn't find that statistic too surprising.

Well said. I think - minimise sugar intake because it mucks up your hunger cues, and let your instincts do the rest. When you have your hunger hormones in balance everything else usually falls into place... provided the emotional related eating stays in check.

Me too, and I often gain (fluid) twice a month. Oh the joy of it all. :-/

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You could be going through a plateau. Try to mix it up a bit with training to keep your body guessing, and the other fail-safe I'd employ would be the measuring tape. A kilogram of muscle looks very different volume-wise to a kilogram of fat. This is where the measuring tape adds reassurance.

You need to make a long term experiment with your calories in vs calories out. Stick with a regimented schedule. If you are burning 300cal a day in exercise... try and maintain a similar burn every day. Don't workout to the point that you feel burnt out. THEN... ...the thing you must do is experiment with your 'calories…

Sugar is ok if it's in fruit, as studies have shown the fibre in fruit seems to negate the negative effects of the fructose (to a degree, which is why you need to limit fruit intake.. but scientists haven't worked out why just yet). ADDED sugar is a whole other story. Fructose is the biggest thing you need to worry about…

Did someone say The Walking Dead?? I'm skipping past all previous comments because we poor Aussies have to wait longer for our TV experience (except for the naughty ones who download episodes to their media centre... .shhh, I never said that :wink: ), but just dropping in to give TWD a big thumbs up. I'm up to mid 3rd…

Look up Pete Sisco.... the static contraction dude. He also agrees (if you see a picture of him you'll understand). Muscles. Yeah. You can have great abs. You won't see them under a layer of fructose induced padding. I had great abs when the nurse came to check on my progress while in hospital after my daughter was born.…

Thumbs up for that. I have Audible on my tablet/phone. There's no way I could crank out an hour on the treadmill without it. I plan to use it this weekend during a long distance charity event. I could be on my feet for well over 12 hours.