Interesting you say that Inanna about carbs - they usually recommend to have about 50% of your daily food intake being carbs, and I agree it is too much.
And you've jogged my memory re smart eating...
Paleo diet.
Now I usually hate any word that has the word diet in it as it conjures up thoughts of missing out on yummy foods....and um, you make the choice on this one.
Paleo diet is about 'clean eating' - like cave men / women No processed foods.
Eating only fruit, vegetables, meat and legumes (nuts etc). No dairy, no pasta etc.
Most ppl claim to lose about 1kg a week eating this way.
I eat that way normally... My diet has very little processed foods... Unfortunately it didn't help much for my weight loss...
I agree though it's far healthier to eat without all of the adjustments to food.
We rarely eat gluten in our house - if I do I use spelt flour, I use rapadura which is the dried juice of sugar cane - instead of processed sugar. etc I have to say though it didn't help me lose weight - but I didn't put on either.
I really had no issue with my weight until I used the steroids with Immy's pregnancy & it seems to have really stuffed things up.
I don't agree with the Paleo diet being authentically "cavemanish" as some authors suggest. It was known that they milked cows, ground grains etc.
What I think is that a large percentage of our population eat a high level of processed foods in their every day diet. From the first thing in their bellies in the morning to the last thing at nigt. I don't think that's healthy.
However, I would also have to agree that obesity is the scurge of our modern day - it is the biggest indicator of morbidity... So, in order to be more healthy we sometimes need to use tactics that may not be the best choices for every day health - but if they bring our weight down into a healthy range we can then slowly regain our diets for a healthier life. KWIM?
If I have 10kgs to lose and it means eating more meat than I feel good about - so be it... Once my weight is reached and new dietary lessons learned it is easier to keep on that healthy road...
I know once in my 20's I put on about 10kgs on an extended holiday. I lost it on shakes and ridiculous eating - however, I got my weight off & kept it off - until recently.
Sometimes we need to take drastic measures to get it off and get healthy.
However, I also think we have a dietary preoccupation with rice & pasta - and our portion sizes of these foods are way out of whack. I had a curry the other night with rice & felt like a balloon afterwards... I just don't eat much of it anymore and when I do - I feel it!
Geez people can be rude!
I would say that before you go completely changing your diet see if there are a few little things you can change. You said you have changed portion size already... do you eat too much full fat dairy? butter? chocolate? white bread? Sometimes just little changes can really reduce your kilojoule intake and it is easier to stick to it is it is fairly similar to what you eat already. That is what I think anyway.
Diet will make the biggest difference to fast weight loss, but do as much exercise as you can manage as the more muscle you build up the faster you burn energy, so it gets easier to keep weight off. I have always thought that fit looked better than just skinny too.
Good luck with it. Try to do it for yourself though... not for ignorant people who make rude comments.
Hey hun, i just read your post and whoever called you a Whale can go and ....... (Fill in the gap with very rude insult) When we are back to uni you can be my swimming buddy and we should get the girls back together for another season of netball!! Interested?
No processed foods.
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