Can't eat porridge now.
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Why not? Love the stuff, me, although I tend to use mine to make overnight oats.Can't eat porridge now.
So do I, but it has too many carbs.
Oats are slow release carbs which are essential for sustaining energy over a period of time. They also keep you fuller for longer and contain loads of fibre.
I'm not a fan of keto, or any diet for that matter, because they don't work.*
*They do work, of course they do. All diets work. However, they only work while following them and once an individual comes off their diet, the body fat piles back on, usually with interest. In other words, they're temporary and their impracticality makes a lot of them unworkable in the long term. This is why I never follow a diet. Lifestyle is what's important and all these fad diets lose sight of that.
Rather than a "diet" as such I try to ensure I eat a reasonable healthy mix of food coupled with a degree of exercise.
I use the my fitness Pal app plus smartwatch together to help me achieve this.
The monitoring watch keeps track of my exercise etc.
The food app keeps track of what I eat and let's me see the potential impact.
I still more or less eat as I would but with some modification if the mix of carbs/fat/protein is getting skewed. It also allows me to see how my food mix intake affects the other nutrients I take/need.
I've found the trick is to early on in the day enter what I expect to take for the day. Then look at what the overall intake for the day would be.
All it sometimes needs is a slight tweak (maybe change a planned pudding etc) to make the days intake that bit more healthy.
On days that I exercise more that can be offset to allow a greater intake if I want - still trying to keep the right balance.
The food app can read the calorie burn from the watch app and offset it.
Some days I blow the limits and other days I don't.
I use exercise as the way to reduce weight rather than "dieting". If I want to lose some/more weight I up theexercise.
It's worked pretty well for me since I started doing it.
I use the my fitness Pal app plus smartwatch together to help me achieve this.
The monitoring watch keeps track of my exercise etc.
The food app keeps track of what I eat and let's me see the potential impact.
I still more or less eat as I would but with some modification if the mix of carbs/fat/protein is getting skewed. It also allows me to see how my food mix intake affects the other nutrients I take/need.
I've found the trick is to early on in the day enter what I expect to take for the day. Then look at what the overall intake for the day would be.
All it sometimes needs is a slight tweak (maybe change a planned pudding etc) to make the days intake that bit more healthy.
On days that I exercise more that can be offset to allow a greater intake if I want - still trying to keep the right balance.
The food app can read the calorie burn from the watch app and offset it.
Some days I blow the limits and other days I don't.
I use exercise as the way to reduce weight rather than "dieting". If I want to lose some/more weight I up theexercise.
It's worked pretty well for me since I started doing it.
Explain overnight oats please
Soaking porridge oats in the fridge in milk overnight. Nothing mystical about it.
Here’s how I do it:
1 300ml kilner jar, add
70g organic porridge oats
30g coconut flavour whey protein
7g organic raw cacao nibs
Lactose-free full fat milk to preferred level
Stir until consistent.
Add Large gob of Greek yogurt, do not stir.
Close lid and place jar in fridge overnight and eat next morning.
The only things needed are the jar, oats and milk. You can then add whatever you like. I add protein to keep my intake high and the nibs give a nice crunch. Some people add nuts, fruit, honey.
I occasionally count calories but it gets so tedious I seldom bother. I have a good idea what I’m on anyway and try to stick to around 3,ooo/day. I keep my protein high, plenty of greens and fruit intake is modest. I’m in the gym five days a week and lift for about an hour at a time. I also club swing a few days a week, usually in circuits as a substitute for cardio as I hate running, cycling, stair masters etc. If my waist band gets tight, then I start counting calories because I know I’ve been over-doing it on the calories.
Bollox. You're on a "diet" as much as I am. The only difference is in the balance of carbs, fats and protein we eat (in fact, as far as I'm concerned, the word "diet" should be confined to describing illogical eating regimes dreamt up by so called celebrities or pointless eating habits followed by the desperately obese who have a pathological fear of eating in moderation and exercise). Keto is not a "diet", it's a just method of eating that involves consuming a different balance of the essentials. The only difference between you and me is that I eat more fat, moderate amounts of protein and less carbs than you do.
Keto is all about retraining eating habits so that your body uses predominantly fat for energy, rather than carbs. I was skeptical, and the wife was very skeptical when she first started researching it (bearing in mind she's qualified in sports nutrition) but it's been a bit of a revelation. Sure, you have to balance what you eat fairly carefully, but to be honest it's no harder than the sports nutrition eating plans we used to follow when we were going to the gym regularly a few years ago.
We started this at the beginning of the year and once we got over the initial couple of weeks of craving carbs it's as easy to balance the amounts of fats/protein/carbs as it is to eat what would be considered a "normal" diet - i.e. lots of carbs and sugars while trying to avoid fats. When we do treat ourselves to something that has higher levels of carbs than we normally eat then we both feel lethargic for a couple of hours or so afterwards. That brought it home to me how different our eating habits had become and how we were now acclimatised to eating the way we now do.
I'm not saying it's for everyone (especially if you have an existing medical condition) but it has been clinically proven to work in reversing type 2 diabetes. I wouldn't call that a fad diet.
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So do you eat that cold or heat it up?
Was the receipt for a recipe?
It was for the nuts
Have you hit your head or something? Your first word is ‘bollox’, which indicates disagreement and then you go on to paraphrase pretty much what I wrote, therefore agreeing with me. WTF?
I’m not on a diet, by definition. My food intake, for want of an expression, doesn’t really change unless I cut back my calories or up my calories depending what I’m trying to achieve in the gym. I don’t restrict any one food group because, in my own experience, we need protein, carbs and fats. I take it further by varying my types of these macros.
As far as I’m concerned, any diet that restricts a food group is a fad. Keto is basically a sensible version of the Atkins diet. The body needs carbs, look at/ask any professional/elite/half serious athlete.
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Cold.
I use the proportions that I do because that works for me. I don’t think there’s any rules, just personal preference.
Keto was brilliant in the Inspector Clouseau films.
Have you hit your head or something? Your first word is ‘bollox’, which indicates disagreement.
Correct. I said that because I don't agree that it's a fad diet. Or if it is then your eating regime is one too.
I’m not on a diet, by definition. My food intake, for want of an expression, doesn’t really change unless I cut back my calories or up my calories depending what I’m trying to achieve in the gym.
Neither does mine. The only difference between yours and mine is in the percentages of fats/protein/carbs we eat.
And I've not bothered to count calories in months yet my weight, body fat and measurements stay the same.
I don’t restrict any one food group because, in my own experience, we need protein, carbs and fats.
Bulkshit. Of course you do. Try ramping up your intake of carbs and proteins and see how that works.
As far as I’m concerned, any diet that restricts a food group is a fad.
See answers above. Ergo....by your own admission you must be on a fad.
Keto is basically a sensible version of the Atkins diet. The body needs carbs, look at/ask any professional/elite/half serious athlete.
Did you read my post fully.? I didn't say that you don't need carbs, I said that Keto means instead of carbs being my predominant source of energy it's now fats instead.
We're not Olympic athletes but my times on the pushbike and Elayne's times out running are improving all the time. We have increased our weights and have better energy levels for whatever exercise we do. If we've cut back on our Carb intake so much then where are we getting our energy from..?
Answers on a postcard.
Correct. I said that because I don't agree that it's a fad diet. Or if it is then your eating regime is one too.
I’m not on a diet, by definition. My food intake, for want of an expression, doesn’t really change unless I cut back my calories or up my calories depending what I’m trying to achieve in the gym.
Neither does mine. The only difference between yours and mine is in the percentages of fats/protein/carbs we eat.
And I've not bothered to count calories in months yet my weight, body fat and measurements stay the same.
I don’t restrict any one food group because, in my own experience, we need protein, carbs and fats.
Bulkshit.
Of course you do. Try ramping up your intake of carbs and proteins and see how that works. As far as I’m concerned, any diet that restricts a food group is a fad.
See answers above. Ergo....by your own admission you must be on a fad.
Keto is basically a sensible version of the Atkins diet. The body needs carbs, look at/ask any professional/elite/half serious athlete.
Did you read my post fully.? I didn't say that you don't need carbs, I said that Keto means instead of carbs being my predominant source of energy it's now fats instead.
We're not Olympic athletes but my times on the pushbike and Elayne's times out running are improving all the time. We have increased our weights and have better energy levels for whatever exercise we do. If we've cut back on our Carb intake so much then where are we getting our energy from..?
Answers on a postcard.