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Hard bumps? Sounds like a form of shin splints and should be looked at by your GP. There are lots of forms, look up tibial stress syndrome if you like that sinking 'omg I have everything' feeling :D I have one lump that is only painful when pressed. I am tapping 50 and have had it since I was a teen. I ignore it.... and…
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That one's easy.. Why thank you for noticing - I used to be obese :) Oops, someone else used it... must be good then :-D
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Crikey how complicated! IF is easier for men not women. And many people find it impossible if they are already doing a highly restrictive diet plan. Too much taken out for too long, becomes untenable. Maybe that's why you found it hard.
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They are many and varied and a lot of them are linked on various threads with quite a few earlier in this one. A quick google will get you a lot of proper research, peer reviewed journals, if you prefer that to magazine style reports. JUDDD site, despite his supplement sales pitch, carries links and info. But the benefits,…
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Oooh! An unintended pun? A sort of Freudian slip: "That is a fact, period" Yay! :-D
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It's not like 60 is old! And you seem to be living proof :)
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You could do a stretching routine on your days off. Your cardio work will leave your leg muscles short and your lifting will shorten whatever it is you use. Stretching is important to reduce injury and to make your body feel 'right'. Youtube has a lot of really useful stretching routines and there are a lot of sites with…
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It can feel like deprivation can't it :) I found I could get round that following the JUDDD suggestion, always eat the same thing, plus always make sure it is highly flavoured. I find that big flavours make me feel more fed. So I batch make veggie curries and alternate them with a simple tuna salad. Then again it did take…
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Baba Ghanoush Aubergines, garlic, lemon juice, tahini and olive oil served with warm flatbread Pierce the skins of 3 large aubergines with a fork then grill over hot coals or the flame of a gas hob till the skin has charred and the flesh is very soft. Scrape the flesh from the charred skin and whisk with 2 crushed cloves…
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And why not take your meds? At the very least they can make exercise safer so you can reduce BP safely and then stop taking them.
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Pizza Express... really? I'll have to keep an eye out for that! Sheer madness :) As for the restriction, it is the same weekly deficit as many other diet plans. I have been on it for 18 months and, when I reach goal, I will do as everyone one else who wants to maintain does, monitor and do a modified version, maybe 1 day a…
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You are into the world of micronutrients, lack of vitamins and minerals and a whole list of directly associated illnesses, psychological stress and anxiety plus a long list of indirectly caused illnesses, heart problems, death! Does anyone one remember the sunlight diet? Great scam!
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Oh yes! Some big bounces are perfectly normal. Not sure about a whole stone and more though. Are your scales alsways in the same place, on a flat surface or on carpet? Usually if you view it as interesting and won't get freaked out by the numbers you can weigh yourself a few times a day and see the changes food, drink, the…
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Look, all contraception messes up your hormones - that is the whole point of them, ALL of them. ALL of them have the potential for messing up your weight, moods and other heath factors. I was warned that depo could cause back pain. Well I have that anyway, so I am on Depo, have been for decades, literally. My back pain and…
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Ah! That's the problem there - starvation mode. It is one of the great diet industry lies. It is based in truth but has very little to do with the kind of kcal restrictions a normal 'diet' would introduce. Also Intermittent Fasting is just another way of restricting your kcals to a weekly deficit, usually the same weekly…
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Work it out hun! Burn more kcals than you eat - really? Still loving your questions :)
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Reading both of us back I think we are agreeing in principle. It is a matter if semantics, that and no tone in the written word. I fast but not 5:2. The Fast in the title does not mean quick. I hate the website for it, it is full of idiots who start the diet and THEN ask questions. The forum is shocking in the extreme.…
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Semantics! 5:2 per se is too new to have specific research. But its principles are not new and there is a lot of research on those. Also, if you focus on the weight loss then will be very little, as that is not its primary purpose. As fads go intermittent fasting is very well researched.
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Try a legs bums and tums class, if you can find one. Then you can progress to weighted squats. The instructor should teach you good form and you can concentrate on it, use the mirrors. Tell the instructor that is what you want...
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How much research do you want? Gold standard research on IF goes back decades in connection with diabetes - endocrinologists have studied it for years in animals and humans. Ramadan and the affects of fasting in other religions have also been studied for years. Effects on non obese subjects, obese subjects, insulin…
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Psychologist Sheldon 'invented' somatotypes and researched stereotyping and body shape, basically he wanted to say that your personality and temperament has a biological basis, is shaped by your body composition Endomorphs are likely to be perceived as slow, sloppy, and lazy. Mesomorphs, in contrast, are typically…
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Yup. I have been JUDDDing for almost 18 months, I started way before Dr Mosely's programme. I started it as I have never found a diet that sounded doable (I know too much physiology and all of the 'rules' were counter intuitive for sustained adherence). But JUDDD, written by another doctor, whose book explains his thinking…
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Was it as gross as Fast Food Nation? I might catch up with it if it was :)
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I think that one of the problems the presenter had was that those who sold us diets actually had some very solid sound bites / beliefs / points of view - like Dukan and the Slim Fast mas - even if they did come across as living very, very far away from the world the rest of us inhabit. It was very hard for the poor little…
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Sorry, it is what I believe and is based on a lot of science. I'm not saying you will need to be as vigilant as you are when in loss mode, but you absolutely will have to live in active maintenance mode. That should include pizza and beer and cake plus some regular measuring, logging, whatever, to ensure you don't bounce.…
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I posted this as a response in the Men Who Made Us Fat thread.... and it fell off the page without comment, forgive me but it took an age to type.... The Men Who Made us THIN, who are they? What is it? The actuary who invented BMI so his company could avoid insuring people who had the temerity to die early - totally…
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Na! We are already adapted. There are examples of loaves of bread in the British Museum that are 5000 years old and archaelogical evidence of grain grinding over 8000 years ago. http://www.allaboutwheat.info/history.html Wheat has been a staple part of the human diet for about 12000 years.
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May be a little bit like putting my head above the firing line, but the advice "Eat less carbs and more vegetables" Never ceases to make my eyes pop!
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You really don't need to consider that as, unlike water soluble vitamins, your body stores ADEK for a while in the liver and fatty tissue to be used as needed.
