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You have to accept that weight loss is mostly due to the food you eat. Exercise is good and healthy but we (humans) are incredibly efficient. As you lose weight then walking or other exercise becomes easier. Walking is free. But any exercise is good for health.

Recognize that appetite is controlled in your hypothalamus - a really small part of your brain. There are 44 different hormones that work in balance, but as well your mind and other endocrine controls (i.e. hormones) also contribute. It is so complex everyone has theories, but science is still a bit vague. Some things are…

That's the rationale of the 5:2 diet. By eating 25% of diet on 2 of the days you wind up with a 20% deficit over a week. It's my choice as I only have to restrict on 2 days, & socializing on weekends is easy.

A calorie is a calorie. That's from a physics perspective. But food we eat is different as we are a bucket of biochemistry so different foods create different responses. Labelling them as "healthy" or "junk" I think that is less helpful for advice. What you eat determines how much you eat, and as trying to manage ones…

I'd like to help anyone and be a mentor. Been a mentor to business people for years so have an appreciation of how to be supportive & a couple of years ago wrote a book on why diets fail for 80% of people . Have done the journey myself with 15kg loss, & then 8 back but now on mfp again. So happy to help.

Weight is really only a rough guide to health. More muscle = better health = heavier. More bone = better health. More brown fat = better health. So it's really only visceral fat=unhealthy. So it sounds you're doing great. Congratulations on getting to your desired weight.

You loose weight when you have a calorie deficit. The responses above all tend to reflect this. Best tactics is a lower carb diet as it helps minimise hunger. Reduction in food eaten is 80% of weight loss. Exercise is pretty much a waste of time. Makes you healthier but not lighter. And most calorie over eating is too much…

Absolutely correct. The paleo guru - Mark Sisson from the Daily Apple says as one of their lifestyle changes is " move slowly most of the time, but occasionally move fast". Science research is pretty clear and suggests this normal sort of slow movement is critical. The other way of expressing it is "don't sit for more than…

What you put into your mouth is about health, and the consequence of poor food choices is bad health. Weight is pretty much only a marker. (Some- 20%, of overweight people have no health risks, but 20% of lean people have health risks). So consider weight is a marker, a bit like this analogy from Gary Taubes. You put a…

Weight is 4 things. Bones - good. Muscle - good. Brown fat - good. Visceral fat - bad. So if you are doing exercise, you don't have as much loss from muscle, and exercise helps increase bone density. Given muscle is more dense than fat, you will see more effect from your waist, or clothes than the scales and that is better…

Look up the forum group on JUDD or what is really taken the UK by storm is the 5:2 Diet. (also on MFP as a group). Or facebook www.facebook.com/groups/the52diet/ (22,000 members) The reason that the 5:2 is extremely popular is that your calories over a week are down by 10% or more. So that gives a net calorie deficit and…

Mittensofgalor gave a simple outline of the biochemistry and the simple answer to can you have too much sugar from fruit is actually 2 questions. 1. Can you have too much sugar? The answer is absolutely yes. Even the WHO is now saying 5 teaspoons per day. (20g). 2. Second question is can you eat sufficient fruit to blow…

Been here for 17 years. It's got busier but beaches & environment still tops. I have a few locals I've got onto mfp but more of them onto a 5:2 or no sugar wol. Lot of the mfp friends drop off eventually.

While lots of people say calories in = calories out - that is true for a robot. But I have not met many robotic people. Two other confounding factors are appetite; and your brain (very complex). Higher protein suppresses appetite. So science shows in studies that if one group eats a high carb meal, and another eats a…

Just a followup note. I looked at Jacquiearchambault's diary, and my suggestion is to do what RaggedyPond is doing. Focus on getting the protein up. If you do that, by simple replacement, your simple carbs go down. I advise my friends to drop the bread, drop the eggwhites for the whole egg, drop the fat free for the full…

It is true that you loose weight by eating at a deficit. The problem becomes how to continue to eat at a deficit or no surplus 3 months / 6 months / 1, or 20 years from now. Any diet, with a deficit, will loose weight. The problem is our willpower to eat at a deficit.:bigsmile: 80% of people who diet, are heavier 2 years…

The author George Blair-West in his book Weight Loss for Food Lovers (a doctor and a psychotherapist), makes some interesting points in his book. Science evidence shows 80% of people who diet after 2 years have given up and are heavier than when they start, and we know diets are one of the primary causes of eating…

When you read and quote science papers, one has to be aware of a few things. 1. Published in 2010. So what is the evidence undertaken and either reported (with a delay from editing) or work in progress. 2. This is a review, and they draw the conclusions from the "literature" which by itself will now be older than 4 years.…

BMI is still a pretty good indicator. There are other measures such as waist measurement, but the thing with health is that is visceral fat which is probably the most important factor. Fat on boobs or bum is ok. Fat around your middle is not. Hence females who go through menopause tend to put weight on around their middle…

There are dieting myths & then there are evidence based strategies. Can't see your diary but; 1. Up your protein. Even swinging 15% more dampens down appetite. 2. Cut out added sugar & try to cut out most carbs. Takes a couple of weeks to get over the sugar addiction. 3. Accept you have high value foods you just cant give…

You have to be very cautious about deriving epidemiological studies because they are notorious at self reporting. Correlation is not causation. The work by Leibel and Rosenbaum in a fully controlled environment is worth dozens of epidemiological papers to understand the causes. (These guys were the first who found leptin).…

Hi Sunshine. Without knowing what you are eating there are some things from scientific studies. 1. Fructose (in cane sugar, icecream, soft drinks cakes, candy) affects your appetite. Eat lots of fructose. You will be hungry. 2. Protein and fat are better than carbs (that's sugars, wheat, rice, potatoes) at making you feel…

A kg per week is doable as others suggest. When you loose weight you generally lose weight in both fat & muscle so if you don't want to loose muscle you'll have to do lots of muscle building I.e. weights. What others say is right though. Its not really recommended for 2 reasons. If you're young no worries, but if you have…

The amount of free glucose in your blood is only about a teaspoon (5g). Our liver and our insulin mechanism keeps it at that low level. (Hence the reason why diabetics run the risk of dying - too much or not enough glucose). Healthy systems are pretty good. We don't actually need to have any carbohydrates. Yep. None. (No…

True. But apples and fruit have nutritional value, and fructose is there along for the ride. But so is fibre and nutrients. Is is true that humans can do without all carbohydrates. We can get by quite happily with fat and protein. But carbs usually come with fibre, and fibre, though no biochemically does help our gut…

Saccarides is the biochemical name for the group of compounds that most people know as carbohydrates. Simple ones are sugars, longer ones as starches. Sugars ain't 1 thing. For example glucose is used by all living things as the only thing for energy. Fructose looks just like glucose, but just a little different. Likewise…

Common theme. Science, not opinion, shows exercise is not important in weight loss. Health yes. Exercise makes you hungry. So you eat a little more. Also, if you do a session, people tend ti have more time sedentary. A marathon runner burns about 3200 calories, & most of us dont come close to that. So a CherryRipe is about…

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-bad-is-fructose-david-despain.html http://evolvinghealthscience.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-journalists-should-know-before.html [/quote] Thanks for those references. A difficulty with biological science is that you can do one experiment (with randomised experiments) and…

Good sugar / bad sugar. There is a fundamental biochemical difference. Glucose (a monosaccharide) is what pretty much is fundamental to life. Drives the the mitochondrial process. But it is toxic in concentration. Humans with too much (diabetic) will die. When we eat, we break down the food (carbs which are in all plants)…

The posts above are really a bit silly. Confusion. Sugars ain't sugars (like the oil advertisement) . What the research is about is added sugar in our diets and most of this either sucrose (cane sugar - a disaccharide of glucose+fructose) or fructose. The independent, non industry funded peer reviewed science says that…