Healthy Weight Loss

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by alexri

Glee Gum is a really good natural brand that does not have aspartame or any of the nasty other artificial chemicals. They even sell a home kit for making you own gum. Spry gum is also another good brand.

I avoid any of the major national brands because of the chemicals, dyes and artificial ingredients they put in the gum.

Where can you get this?

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Mopsie

So I have changed my mind about my diet.

I am posting it here as a way of holding myself accountable.

I am going to go back to the diabetic plate method diet.

I have done this in the past and it worked well for me.

I'm not diabetic but its such a healthy way to eat.

Okay that is all... thanks for listening.

i'm interested in this.....could you explain?

ETA I googled this- smart way to eat!

[Mopsie]

Reposting for girl_dee

Originally Posted by Mopsie

Basically it divides up a plate this way:

(Picture your plate like a clock as I describe this)

Divide the clock in half with a line going from 12 to 6. The left side of your clock should be some sort of vegetable (non-starchy).

Now draw another line from the center of the clock to the three. The upper quadrant is lean protein and the lower quadrant is carbs.

Then you also add (off to the side) a serving of dairy and a serving of fruit.

It is an easy visual way to see the amount of food you should have each meal.

Here is a link: http://www.m.webmd.com/diabetes/usin...-with-diabetes

My version of a plate diet is to use a side-plate, not a full-size dinner plate.

It comes from many moons ago when I was teaching m'self to eat in public again...after years of anorexic/bulimic hiding away and refusing to eat with people.

[girl_dee]

[QUOTE=Daktari;822158]My version of a plate diet is to use a side-plate, not a full-size dinner plate.

It comes from many moons ago when I was teaching m'self to eat in public again...after years of anorexic/bulimic hiding away and refusing to eat with people.



i like using small plates myself. It's a good way to tone down portions.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Mopsie

Reposting for girl_dee

Thank you!

for me cutting out processed foods is key, when i do i always feel better. High protein low carb.

i just read somewhere that even cutting back carbs twice per week will help tremendously.

[nanners]

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by nanners

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

Thanks!!!!

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Daktari

My version of a plate diet is to use a side-plate, not a full-size dinner plate.

It comes from many moons ago when I was teaching m'self to eat in public again...after years of anorexic/bulimic hiding away and refusing to eat with people.

Smaller plates/bowls is something I adopted when I started my weight loss 3 years ago and I still eat this way. I find it a lot more satisfying (mentally) to have a big heaping plate and know that I get all of it than to have a small pittance on a giant (American sized) plate.

I got mine very inexpensively open stock at an Ikea store.

American plates are now 11-12 inches, euro 7-9. Mine are 7.

My grandmothers china has 8 inch dinner plates. That is how much things have changed in a short time. No wonder we eat more, and we are a lot less active.

[alexri]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

Where can you get this?

You can get Glee Gum or Spry Gum online, at Whole Foods, or at local indi or health markets.

[PaPa]

I wanted to share with y'all the paper they gave me at the High Risk Obesity Clinic about plate and portion control. I have this posted to my fridge. It is what I referred to when I said I knew what Mopsie was talking about. It helped me to be able to visualize servings and how I should be eating.

I also switched to luncheon plates quite awhile back. My main thing is portion control and this guide definitely helps.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/printable/...rol-size-guide

[Kelt]

I was doing some reading and thought I would share a small snippet. I haven't seen this mentioned in here before.

Compensatory mechanisms

The human body is very “smart” and has a strong innate drive to keep us alive and to maintain the status quo. When we cut calories without exercising, our metabolism decreases, and proteins like leptin set off the drive to eat more.

Likewise, when we exercise at the same time as we cut calories, the metabolic efficiency of exercise often increases so that we burn fewer calories for the same amount of exercise.

Meanwhile, we also want to eat more – and, without even meaning to, we may reduce our non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT).

For example, maybe after a long, tough workout you decide to go through the drive-thru instead of cooking. Even if you choose healthy food, it doesn’t take much energy to get it. Meanwhile, if you’re a 150 pound male, you could have burned roughly 136 calories by cooking for one hour (2). That may not sound like a lot, but if in addition to going to the drive-thru, you also let the kids walk the dog and the dishwasher wash the dishes, and then you drive to the corner for your mail instead of walking, the calorie-burn edge of your workout is completely lost.

As this example demonstrates, it’s tough to capture everything that goes into our energy balance equation and this presents a puzzle for researchers trying to understand the relationship between exercise and weight loss.

I have caught myself doing this more than I care to admit and it can really effect results. It's very easy to say to myself "I killed it on the beach today, this other stuff can wait" and easy as that, lose some of my results.

Just a thought.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

Where can you get this?

Originally Posted by nanners

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

Originally Posted by alexri

You can get Glee Gum or Spry Gum online, at Whole Foods, or at local indi or health markets.

We have some of the Glee Gum here, so we could send it to you to try out. Just let us know where.

I will warn you though....you get 3-4 really good chews before the flavor starts to dissipate. If you're the type to need that flavor as long as possible, you might not love this. If you just need something to keep your mouth busy, this would work.

[Miss Scarlett]

[girl_dee]

So 7 is my cut off time. ( thank you Syr )

Hope this helps me break my bad habit..

i have been known to eat middle of the night and wake up to find empty wrappers or half a sammich ...

Crazy stuff !

Originally Posted by Kelt

Smaller plates/bowls is something I adopted when I started my weight loss 3 years ago and I still eat this way. I find it a lot more satisfying (mentally) to have a big heaping plate and know that I get all of it than to have a small pittance on a giant (American sized) plate.

I got mine very inexpensively open stock at an Ikea store.

American plates are now 11-12 inches, euro 7-9. Mine are 7.

My grandmothers china has 8 inch dinner plates. That is how much things have changed in a short time. No wonder we eat more, and we are a lot less active.

Really, US dinner plates are so much bigger?
Not sure where you got those figures but I've never seen a dinner plate quite that small on my visits to various European places.

Your figures have just spurred me to measure the various styles of dinner plates I have. They range from 10in with 7in usable space to 11in with 8in usable space. I don't count the 'rims' as usable. These are a 'normal' size over here in my experience.

My larger side plates are 8in with 6.5in usable space and the smaller ones 7in with 5.5in usable. These are a perfect size for what mates call my 'bird' portions. cheep-cheep-quack!

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Daktari

Really, US dinner plates are so much bigger?
Not sure where you got those figures but I've never seen a dinner plate quite that small on my visits to various European places.

Your figures have just spurred me to measure the various styles of dinner plates I have. They range from 10in with 7in usable space to 11in with 8in usable space. I don't count the 'rims' as usable. These are a 'normal' size over here in my experience.

My larger side plates are 8in with 6.5in usable space and the smaller ones 7in with 5.5in usable. These are a perfect size for what mates call my 'bird' portions. cheep-cheep-quack!

US plates are humongous ! i prefer to use really small, like a salad plate, and enjoy a second 'serving' ...

Originally Posted by girl_dee

US plates are humongous ! i prefer to use really small, like a salad plate, and enjoy a second 'serving' ...

A salad plate? You don't just have a dinner and side plates? Jeepers! I don't think they taste any different on a dedicated plate.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Daktari

A salad plate? You don't just have a dinner and side plates? Jeepers! I don't think they taste any different on a dedicated plate.

But there's so much more!

Slide down to the bottom to see an actual photo/video.

[Kelt]

Hey all

I thought I would put up another "snippet"
This is mostly common knowledge but it never hurts to have a quick reminder
Negative energy balance is burning more that you take in for fat loss
with a focus on losing fat, not just 'weight'

HOW TO CREATE A NEGATIVE ENERGY BALANCE

1. Build muscle with weight training (about 5 hours of total exercise each week) and proper nutrition
2. Create muscle damage with intense weight training
3. Maximize post workout energy expenditure by using high intensity exercise
4. Regular program change to force new stimuli and adaptations
5. Boost non-exercise physical activity
6. Increase thermic effect of feeding by increasing unprocessed food intake
7. Eat at regular intervals throughout the day
8. Eat lean protein at regular intervals throughout the day
9. Eat vegetables and/or fruit at regular intervals
10. Incorporate omega-3 fats
11. Incorporate multiple exercise modes
12. Stay involved with “life” outside of exercise and nutrition
13. Sleep 7-9 hours each night
14. Don’t engage in extreme diets for risk of long-term overcompensation
15. Stay consistent with habits
16. Ignore food advertising

I wish I could link out to the source material, but these snips are from a private site and I cannot. It is a credible source.