[vibbs]

Originally Posted by vibbs

So mostly now a days, I run a 5-5.15 mins per km pace for around 15 mins or a more relaxed 6:30-7 is for 40-45 mins. It does not help further that 4 days a week I have now reserved for weight training.

Completely derailed over that past 2-3 months. No running, no weight training and complete disregard to any sort of control on what I am eating.

Had a tough and stressful few months and as a result my weight is now 78 kgs. 7 kgs up from my lowest in August. :(

Hopefully I ll manage to get some gains back in the one month that remains in this year. I don't want to end this year without any progress.

[graaja]

Originally Posted by vibbs

Had a tough and stressful few months and as a result my weight is now 78 kgs. 7 kgs up from my lowest in August. :(

Hopefully I ll manage to get some gains back in the one month that remains in this year. I don't want to end this year without any progress.

We fall to rise again and shine! I am sure you will be back to your previous fit self in no time. I have done this a couple of times in the past 10 years. You should be able to lose at least 4 kilos by this year end. Go for it, and all the best.

BTW, I have created a separate thread documenting my 10 years of journey.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shift...s-journey.html (Fat to Fit - A journal of my fitness journey)

[MasterChief]

I already posted the following information on the excellent thread by graaja mentioned above. But I am again posting it here for the information of those bhpians who may miss it there.

I, some months back, came across a website (whose name/address I have misplaced/not saved) that pictorially presented how many grams of digestible carbs per 100 grams are present in various fruits and vegetables in a very beautiful manner. I had downloaded those pictures that I am sharing below, which I think members may find useful in estimating and planning their calories/diets.

Don't consume too many fruits - they are full of sugars. They are nature's candies. All the nutritions available in fruits can be had from vegetables also - without the added sugar.


Then, what about vegetables? In case of those growing above ground, even the worst has lower carb than the best fruits.


But be careful with those growing below ground - possess higher carbs.


Be a nut.
All nuts provide healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, and eating them may even help improve some heart disease risk factors.
But all nuts are not created equal.

Yes, the peanut is better than cashew nut in terms of carb content. So, if someone pays you peanut, don't feel offended

Choose your plate:

Colourful or colourless?

And, say goodbye to low-fat and fat-free products. It's a myth propagated over the decades. Fat is essential for the human body and is required for absorbing various vitamins. And bonus - it makes everything delicious.


And avoid sugar. Sugar is poison.

[sukhoi]

Originally Posted by MasterChief

I, some months back, came across a website (whose name/address I have misplaced/not saved) that pictorially presented how many grams of digestible carbs per 100 grams are present in various fruits and vegetables in a very beautiful manner. I had downloaded those pictures that I am sharing below, which I think members may find useful in estimating and planning their calories/diets.

The website is https://www.dietdoctor.com/,

They have a detailed section on Visual Low Carb Guides at https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb.

Originally Posted by MasterChief

And, say goodbye to low-fat and fat-free products. It's a myth propagated over the decades. Fat is essential for the human body and is required for absorbing various vitamins. And bonus - it makes everything delicious.
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And avoid sugar. Sugar is poison.

Very true, totally second - third that point. Was reading some articles some time back which mentioned that all such low fat products use an excessive quantity of sugar to make the taste acceptable.

Cheers,
S

[graaja]

Originally Posted by MasterChief

I, some months back, came across a website (whose name/address I have misplaced/not saved)...

Originally Posted by sukhoi

The website is https://www.dietdoctor.com/,

When I saw these images, I too remembered seeing these somewhere but could not recall. Today, as I was writing my next blog on LCHF and Keto 101, I recalled this was from dietdoctor and have used some of the images and provided the link to that article as well in my blog.

Will update my TBHP thread soon.

[sunilch]

Dear MasterChief,

I am going to curse you for the rest of my life for posting this. I love this thing called 'Sweet Potato' - especially the way my Mother makes it.

Originally Posted by MasterChief

But be careful with those growing below ground - possess higher carbs.
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But may not. May be I will forgive you. I love peanuts too - with black pepper though. And I love a full-cream milk cup more than a cup of tea or coffee. Without sugar

Originally Posted by MasterChief

Be a nut.
All nuts provide healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, and eating them may even help improve some heart disease risk factors.
But all nuts are not created equal.
Attachment 2084810
Yes, the peanut is better than cashew nut in terms of carb content. So, if someone pays you peanut, don't feel offended


And, say goodbye to low-fat and fat-free products. It's a myth propagated over the decades. Fat is essential for the human body and is required for absorbing various vitamins. And bonus - it makes everything delicious.
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And avoid sugar. Sugar is poison.

[bblost]

Just wanted to clarify that while the name has nut in it, peanut is not a nut.

It is infact a legume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume

This puts it in the same category as peas, lentils etc.

[amit_arya]

Originally Posted by MasterChief

But be careful with those growing below ground - possess higher carbs.

I might be wrong, however If I remember correctly from our school days, sweet potato was healthier than potato. I think the reason tought was that was that all sugars are carbs and not Vice versa. E.g starch is carb but not sugar. Since these are complex carbs which take a while for body to process compared to raw sugar hence they are probably considered better. Is this reasoning still true or changed now?

Originally Posted by MasterChief

And avoid sugar. Sugar is poison.

Agreed, but some sugar is still required for body which we get thru vegetables as well.

Also for fruits, though they have more sugar as compared to vegetables and hence we should avoid them for same reason, however they are rich in vitamins and minerals hence should not be fully avoided.

Taking balanced healthy diet with no access sugar is what I usually try to follow.

[MasterChief]

Originally Posted by sukhoi

The website is https://www.dietdoctor.com/,

S

Thanks for sharing the web address.

Originally Posted by sunilch

Dear MasterChief,

I am going to curse you for the rest of my life for posting this. I love this thing called 'Sweet Potato' - especially the way my Mother makes it.

Originally Posted by bblost

Just wanted to clarify that while the name has nut in it, peanut is not a nut.

It is infact a legume.

Botanically correct but I think here peanuts are grouped under nuts from a culinary perspective [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(food)].

Originally Posted by amit_arya

I might be wrong, however If I remember correctly from our school days, sweet potato was healthier than potato. I think the reason tought was that was that all sugars are carbs and not Vice versa. E.g starch is carb but not sugar. Since these are complex carbs which take a while for body to process compared to raw sugar hence they are probably considered better. Is this reasoning still true or changed now?

Carbs or Carbohydrate are of two types: sugars (e.g., glucose, fructose, sucrose) and starch (amylose and amylopectin). As per the link below, starch is the polysaccharide synthesized from glucose (made up of 300 to 1,000 glucose molecules) by green plants as their main energy store (https://www.researchgate.net/publica...polysaccharide.).

Starch or complex carbs are relatively better than eating refined carbs (stripped of all bran, fiber, and nutrients, such as white bread, pizza dough, pasta, pastries, white flour, white rice, sweet desserts, and many breakfast cereals). When people advise eating complex carb, they usually refer to whole grain foods.

And, both sweet potato and potato contain starch. Sweet potato is not better than potato. More info on sweet potato vs potato can be had at https://www.nutritics.com/p/news_Swe...g%20per%20100g).

[Ithaca]

10 out of 13 honey brands fail ‘purity test’, finds CSE investigation
Source: The Hindu

Don't know what to make of this report that claims the commercial honey we have been substituting for sugar may be synthetic sugar syrup from China. I hope the report is debunked for lovers of Indian honey.

The investigation also uncovered that Indian companies in the business of honey were importing synthetic sugar syrups from China for adulterating with honey.

Honey marketed by prominent brands failed a key test of purity, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has claimed, citing an investigation it conducted on various brands of Indian honey.

Current regulations specify around 18 parameters that honey must comply with for producers to label it ‘pure honey.’

CSE food researchers selected 13 brands of raw and processed honey, including Dabur, Patanjali, Baidyanath and Zandu, and subjected them to tests that are required under national food regulatory laws to be labelled as honey.

“What we found was shocking” said Amit Khurana, programme director of CSE’s Food Safety and Toxins team. “It shows how the business of adulteration has evolved so that it can pass the stipulated tests in India...We found that sugar syrups are so designed that they can go undetected.”

Source: The Hindu Article

Read this on twitter - https://twitter.com/the_hindu/status...553831938?s=20

One person pasted an image of the test - https://twitter.com/the_hindu/status...553831938?s=20

One gentleman in the replies mentions a brand called "Bharat Honey"
https://twitter.com/SanjuMaji14/stat...890551811?s=20

I have no affiliations with the brand - Bharat Honey.

Mods - could not find an appropriate thread for this post, hence pasted here in the weight loss thread.

[srishiva]

Bought battle rope for working at home. 1.5 inch, 50 feet. Really tires you up. Good way to burn calories at home without spending too much time.

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by srishiva

Bought battle rope for working at home. 1.5 inch, 50 feet. Really tires you up. Good way to burn calories at home without spending too much time.

Rope for working at home? Hope you are not a hangman. Just leaving out the word 'out' leads to speculations.

Won't the battle rope damage the floor if you use inside the house? You have a big yard where you can use it? This is not an option for flat dwellers like me.

[AMG Power]

The medical profession has a habit of doing an about turn in areas related to food.

Cholesterol a few years ago was the worst enemy in ones diet but now is a very good friend.

Fat was enemy, low fat was considered good for several years. Now fat is a friend and low fat is enemy.

Both of these are exactly opposing viewpoints of earlier schools of thought.

How do we know that the current thinking is also not wrong and that the medical profession will not do an about turn again?

If history is any indication to go by, a change in thinking should happen again.

Yes, people lose weight by the following the Keto and LCHF diets but it's not as if there were no healthy people all these years until this was discovered?

Conspiracy theories attribute the cholesterol theory to the pharmaceutical industry. So maybe the second is the food industry? Neither may be true.

Personally ever since the cholesterol debacle, I take any new school of thought on food or any other new areas by the medical profession with a pinch of salt.

Just as in a newly launched car - you may find yourself unearthing hitherto unknown problems with the car. And the usual advice is to wait until initial teething problems are sorted.

[graaja]

Originally Posted by AMG Power

How do we know that the current thinking is also not wrong and that the medical profession will not do an about turn again?

If history is any indication to go by, a change in thinking should happen again.

Yes. This is an inherent risk in new concepts like LCHF, IF etc. The only way is to educate ourselves and follow something that has more science to back up.

Actually, the low fat diet which was made a standard by Ancel Keys was not based on scientific methods at all. It was based on a broad study of diet types and mortality rates etc in many countries, and he left out countries that did not support his theory when publishing the study.

Compared to that when we see LCHF or IF concepts, the explanations are more scientific (on insulin, insulin resistance etc), and seem much more common sense.

Only time will tell if these concepts do not have any other side effects in the long run. Till then we just have to choose.

[srishiva]

Originally Posted by Samurai

Rope for working at home? Hope you are not a hangman. Just leaving out the word 'out' leads to speculations.

Won't the battle rope damage the floor if you use inside the house? You have a big yard where you can use it? This is not an option for flat dwellers like me.

Did not realise the omission I have a gym in my basement (33 x 18 feet) with granite flooring. So no issues with it.