Weight Loss VS LIfe Style Goals

[kalefan2013]

Hi All

I just wanted to share my views on Weight Loss. I see a lot of post for people that want to loose weight. But I really think the goal should be permenant life style changes. Then the weight will look after itself. If we don't make lasting changes to our lifestyles . The weight and health issues will just come back year after year. I truley believe in a whole food Veggie\Vegan diet. Despite all the reading I did the only thing that got me started was a 12 day herbal detox. This forces you to read labels and raises your awareness of what you are actually feeding your body. BE warned if you do the detox don't cheat. Your body will rebell. After the detox I got use to the non processed food and actually find most of it disgusting now.  If you only shop on the outside ilsles of the supermarket. You will avoid most processed foods and not have to make so many tempting decisions. I find my energy level is up. I'm more focussed and alert. My complection and hair now have a more healthy glow. People that have not seen me in a while actually comment on how good I look. Although I still have weight to loose. It is coming off but not the end goal anymore. Thus enabling me to be happy with myself on my daily choices not using the number on the scale to gauge my happyness.

If you would like further inspiration there is a few good documetaries out that help

Forks over Knives

Fed UP

Over Fed and under nourished are just some examples

I hope this will help at least one person to change their goal from weight lose to  healthy and fit life style. 

Thanks for reading and best wishes to all

[pinkpink]

appreciate u sharing 🙂

[divedragon]

Yes, thank you for sharing.  I agree, a change in life style is necessary to both get healthy and stay healthy.  I just watched Forks over Knives and must say it is a documentary with an agenda.  For those who haven't seen it, its basically a plea for everyone to become vegans (although that term is never used).  Some of the inaccuracy include:

1) Dietary cholesterol affects blood serum cholesterol.  This has been determined not to be the case by scientific studies.

2) China had no animal products in their diets.  The Chinese have always had animal based products to eat from fish to pork to dog and many others.

3) The Japanese diet in 1958 was stated to be healthier as there were only 8 deaths from prostate cancer while in the US there were 14000 and that was because the Japanese ate a plant based diet.  The truth is animal products were widly available in the Japanese diet, mostly consisting of seafood.

4)Fat causes us to over eat cause it doesn't trigger receptors.  Recent studies show that good fat has the lowest insuline response of any other food, so while there are a lot of calories in fat, very little of it results in increased blood glucose and even more important less insulin is secreted to be able to store those calories as fat.

There are many other fact omissions and cause and effect mis-correlations.  In the course of researching some of the issues made in this film I ran across someone else who had already done this so I'll just link every to that website:  http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-science-legit-a-review-and-critique/

Still, we do need to change lifestyle.  Eat less, eat better quality and exercise.

[Dominique]

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@kalefan2013 wrote:

Despite all the reading I did the only thing that got me started was a 12 day herbal detox. 

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Here is an interesting article on detoxes. Congrats for the life style change!

[kalefan2013]

Thank You for your comments. I had actually read the same article about the detox prior to starting one. Consumers need to be really carefully about choosing quick fixes as most of them are only effective for the short term and do not support long term changes. The detox I choose was more like a " RESET"

Not restrictive. You could eat as much as you wanted. As long as it was not processed. Forcing me to make a meal plan, hunt for new recipies and get back in the kitchen. Which also had a postive effect on my bank account. ( I"m also know as the penny pincher in our family) Watching food documetatires gave me a real sense of what food really was. As well as some respect on where it comes from .Something that was long forgotten. Now I consider the real nutritional  value and quality of what I'm buying. Not just the price and if it looks good. Fruit and Veg consumption has not been this high in years. The dinner plates are well balanced now. I'm still looking for the anwser to why I put in all the time , effort , planning and research. Yet my husband that does nothing but eat what I give him has managed to loose more weight then me. I guess you can't win them all. Thanks again for your feedback. 

Happy Trails

[Raviv]

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@kalefan2013 wrote:

I'm still looking for the anwser to why I put in all the time , effort , planning and research. Yet my husband that does nothing but eat what I give him has managed to loose more weight then me.

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I wouldn't worry about that.  Women (in general) tend to hold fast to their body fat, so it doesn't come off as quickly.  It's apparently more important in an evolutionary sense for us to hang on to it.  Just keep eating good, nutritious foods in reasonable amounts and you'll do fine.