Exercising without a gym

[Eviltrap]

i'm off rice for two days... and i'm missing my rice!!!

 

i hope to kick the addiction of rice/bee hoon/noodles - anyone has any tips???

 

I guess it's all boil down to self-discipline.

 

To ensure you do not get tempted, just don't see it. I know if I go down to the coffeeshop to have bf, I may get tempted to eat noodles. If you bring your own food for lunch, then no choice but to eat your own food. Same goes for dinner.

 

Best is not to subject yourself to temptation.

[Chickenbackside]

i'm off rice for two days... and i'm missing my rice!!!

 

i hope to kick the addiction of rice/bee hoon/noodles - anyone has any tips???

Same as quitting smoking. Actually not really. Smoking was easier to quit for me.

 

There's no easy way. You just gotta do it.

[Hamburger]

i'm off rice for two days... and i'm missing my rice!!!

 

i hope to kick the addiction of rice/bee hoon/noodles - anyone has any tips???

 

when I decide not to eat, I simply do not put it inside my mouth. Its call discipline

 

put it another way...which will you pick:

 

roasts pork and roasts duck

 

or

 

bak cho mee

 

The answer is obvious........

Edited September 23, 2010 by Hamburger

[S4vtec]

haven't touched rice for a year . forgot how it taste like ... now that we talked about it .... it kinda looks like fat maggots....

[Chickenbackside]

haven't touched rice for a year . forgot how it taste like ... now that we talked about it .... it kinda looks like fat maggots....

You must be one of those stealth people. Quietly doing it without telling people. I'm betting you're seeing real results...

 

For me, it's been 2 years since my last taste of rice/noodles/bread/pasta/sugar... But at the 1 year mark, I was still a bit tempted by certain things. Today, no more.

Edited September 23, 2010 by Chickenbackside

[S4vtec]

that's why i only do carl's junior for theor low carb burgers ... but then the sauces and fries tsk tsk..

[S4vtec]

well i was a portly 84 kg " chubby and cute " as the mum and aunties would describe kind of guy . National service memories are filled with IPPT retakes as i simply could not push /pull / drag that lump of lard over the bar or along the 2.4km stretch . The MO says i'm fit as a fiddle ( PES A ).

 

Going into the work force meant late nights and dinner which is naturally take out food , convenience food ( Old chang kee , Canadian 2 for 1 pizza , instant noodles ) . I ballooned even more.

Tried all sorts of diet, liquid diet , etc , even becoming a vegetarian ( that was the worst weight spurt ) all vege but gained the most weight. Didnt work until now .

 

Now i am hovering 65 - 68 kg . Do runs of 7km, daily tabata circuits x 3 ( Burpees , Prisoner squats , high knees, jumping jacks ).i still do long cycles on weekends 30km or so Recently attempted and completed my first half marathon @ Adidas Sundown and am going for the full 42 at SCSM..

 

I eat like a pig ( Collegues that drop their jaws when they go out for lunch with me ) half a chicken without the rice and sauce. ) or breakfast of 5 eggs with a dollop of butter. ( oi you be careful ! die of heart attack then you know! Hear that too often ) Tried to explain and point them to some litreture but Singaporeans and asians in particular very " race horse " mentality ( more vege less meat , goverment also put up these signs at the hawker cejtre liao cannot be wrong la "

 

 

All these aside the main thing is that i am happier now , more confident to pursue my goals in life!

 

It's their own choice ....

Edited September 23, 2010 by S4vtec

[S4vtec]

my crux are the moon cakes.... damned .. nearly sucummed a few times... i was looking for diabetic friendly , gluten free version which are non existent !

[Chickenbackside]

Congrats bro. Yup, that's what you get when you do it right.

 

Thanks for sharing. I think it encourages and reassures the new people that it does work, if they do it right.

 

The main difference with this lifestyle is, it is sustainable cos 1) we never ever need to feel hungry 2) it gives us optimum health.

[Topgun]

Fantastic!

 

Thanks for sharing!

[Xtrocious]

Hi CBS

 

Got a quick question for you...

 

Anyway, I was watching the crappy BBC documentary on food (where they are still activists of the less calorie intake is good regime)...yes, my bad, I was bored while recuperating at home...hahah

 

They brought up a study apparently done by Danish researchers who found that eating yoghurt will reduce the absorption of fats by our body...they found that eating yoghurt (never really specify how much but say it should be of a low-fat variety) daily would result in the body expelling up to 20% more fats in our stools a year...

 

But this is not what we want right?

 

 

[Mazdaowner]

Other way round for me bro. quitting smoking was a terrible uphill battle, that took me 5 -6 years before I gave it up totally.

40 sticks a day ex-smoker. My magazine pouch would have loaded magazine, plus extra two empty pouches would be one 20 stick pack each, in ziploc bags.

 

Same as quitting smoking. Actually not really. Smoking was easier to quit for me.

 

There's no easy way. You just gotta do it.

 

[Mazdaowner]

Well done man. [thumbsup] Not everyone can do what you do. Well....what we do either. You have to be very determined to endure the pain and sweat, and it paid off, all the EXERCISE paid off for you and you're still going on. [thumbsup]

well i was a portly 84 kg " chubby and cute " as the mum and aunties would describe kind of guy . National service memories are filled with IPPT retakes as i simply could not push /pull / drag that lump of lard over the bar or along the 2.4km stretch . The MO says i'm fit as a fiddle ( PES A ).

 

Going into the work force meant late nights and dinner which is naturally take out food , convenience food ( Old chang kee , Canadian 2 for 1 pizza , instant noodles ) . I ballooned even more.

Tried all sorts of diet, liquid diet , etc , even becoming a vegetarian ( that was the worst weight spurt ) all vege but gained the most weight. Didnt work until now .

 

Now i am hovering 65 - 68 kg . Do runs of 7km, daily tabata circuits x 3 ( Burpees , Prisoner squats , high knees, jumping jacks ).i still do long cycles on weekends 30km or so Recently attempted and completed my first half marathon @ Adidas Sundown and am going for the full 42 at SCSM..

 

I eat like a pig ( Collegues that drop their jaws when they go out for lunch with me ) half a chicken without the rice and sauce. ) or breakfast of 5 eggs with a dollop of butter. ( oi you be careful ! die of heart attack then you know! Hear that too often ) Tried to explain and point them to some litreture but Singaporeans and asians in particular very " race horse " mentality ( more vege less meat , goverment also put up these signs at the hawker cejtre liao cannot be wrong la "

 

 

All these aside the main thing is that i am happier now , more confident to pursue my goals in life!

 

It's their own choice ....

 

[Xtrocious]

Same as quitting smoking. Actually not really. Smoking was easier to quit for me.

 

There's no easy way. You just gotta do it.

 

Very true but it's easier just to go cold turkey rather than gradually reducing the portion in my case...

 

Paiseh, I meant to say on rice, noodles and flour etc

 

I don't smoke...

Edited September 24, 2010 by Xtrocious

[Mazdaowner]

And I'll say that the Danish study was funded by some milk company. See credits at the end of the show.

 

Hi CBS

 

Got a quick question for you...

 

Anyway, I was watching the crappy BBC documentary on food (where they are still activists of the less calorie intake is good regime)...yes, my bad, I was bored while recuperating at home...hahah

 

They brought up a study apparently done by Danish researchers who found that eating yoghurt will reduce the absorption of fats by our body...they found that eating yoghurt (never really specify how much but say it should be of a low-fat variety) daily would result in the body expelling up to 20% more fats in our stools a year...

 

But this is not what we want right?

 

[Mazdaowner]

I went on drug treatment, too Zyban, within two weeks, I was off, slowly weened off , last stick, on the 14th day, everyday the amount of sticks would automatically decrease. You won't feel the urge to smoke as much as you did before. It's been..circa 9-10yrs now, maybe more, since I quit, first few months, body will be expelling black tar from yrou lungs, yes, the body will start doing it's cleaning process, every morning, in your spittle, after a few months, it'll all be gone, nose softer, taste back, no more very salty foods to get the taste, only thing is, where I would put the filter tip, right side lower lip, and smoke the joint till he end, always get lip burn, still remains, every once in a while, a patch of dead skin for you to use your teeth to peel off from your lower lip. I'd say, Zyban did the trick, with it's "Dry Mouth Syndrome" so you keep drinking water to flush off all the crap in your body.

 

Hey, totally no urge to pick up a joint at ALL. BTW, I used to smoke cigars, pipes, and also the occasional tobacco chewing.

Except for the newer brands, there isn't a brand of fags I haven't smoked before. Camel filterless, Dunhill, More, Malboro, 555, Consulate,Lucky Stirke,

Benson and Hedges and the list goes on. Yo, give it up. 23yrs of smoking, and I was a selfish bastar d. didn't stop even when my eldest son was coughing

due to my smoking. I tried patches, nicotine gum, acupuncture, this one did the trick. A serious addiction. Last time no 7-11, no smokes, wake up, look into ashtray and pull one spent joint, light up and drag a few also shoik.

 

Very true but it's easier just to go cold turkey rather than gradually reducing the portion in my case...

 

[Chickenbackside]

Hi CBS

 

Got a quick question for you...

 

Anyway, I was watching the crappy BBC documentary on food (where they are still activists of the less calorie intake is good regime)...yes, my bad, I was bored while recuperating at home...hahah

 

They brought up a study apparently done by Danish researchers who found that eating yoghurt will reduce the absorption of fats by our body...they found that eating yoghurt (never really specify how much but say it should be of a low-fat variety) daily would result in the body expelling up to 20% more fats in our stools a year...

 

But this is not what we want right?

The first thoughts that came into my mind were:

 

1) were the subjects healthy to begin with?

 

2) if they ate standard high grain, highly processed foods diets, any amount of probiotics they get from regular consumption of yoghurt will definitely make a difference in their food digestion and hence vitamin/mineral absorption.

 

3) we would not want good fat to be expelled cos their are metabolically critical in the processes like rebuilding cells, muscles, bones...etc.

 

4) artificial trans fats are a different matter, we want those out

 

5) did the study make a distinction between those fats?

 

6) did expelling those 20% more fat in stools make the subjects lose weight and hence be more healthy?

 

7) how are their health markers at the end of the study? Body composition?

 

8) how did their get their data? Lock and key lab conditions where everyone is fed exactly the same amount and exactly the same quality of yoghurt while eating exactly the same diet for 1 whole year? I bet not. It's probably fill in a questionnaire type thing, and you can already logically deduce how accurate those are.

 

9) correlation is NOT causality. It's like taking 1000 smokers and telling them to quit smoking and and start eating 10 olives a day. At the end of 1 year, assess their lung condition and finding that the have lowered their chances of lung cancer by 1000%. Then saying "eating 10 olives a day for 1 year lowers the risk of getting lung cancer by 1000%!"

 

 

I think it's just a small piece of the puzzle. Sure, probiotics are good. We can get them from eating dirt, kimchi, yohurt, saurkrout... It is but one little piece of the jig saw to optimum health.

 

Just eat real whole foods and do things like avoid taking anti-biotics, which literally wipe out all the good bacteria in your digestive system.

 

Talking about yoghurt, I have stopped it totally ever since coming back from LA. Why? When I was in LA, I bought full fat organic yoghurt from Whole Foods and ate it almost everyday. Real full fat yoghurt is nothing like what we get here in Singapore. 1 bowl is enough to fill you up to the brim. The taste is INCREDIBLE. The low fat, made from skim milk crap we have here? I can eat a whole 1kg tub and not be full. That already tells me something is not quite right. So I gave it up.

 

 

[Xtrocious]

The first thoughts that came into my mind were:

 

1) were the subjects healthy to begin with?

 

2) if they ate standard high grain, highly processed foods diets, any amount of probiotics they get from regular consumption of yoghurt will definitely make a difference in their food digestion and hence vitamin/mineral absorption.

 

3) we would not want good fat to be expelled cos their are metabolically critical in the processes like rebuilding cells, muscles, bones...etc.

 

4) artificial trans fats are a different matter, we want those out

 

5) did the study make a distinction between those fats?

 

6) did expelling those 20% more fat in stools make the subjects lose weight and hence be more healthy?

 

7) how are their health markers at the end of the study? Body composition?

 

8) how did their get their data? Lock and key lab conditions where everyone is fed exactly the same amount and exactly the same quality of yoghurt while eating exactly the same diet for 1 whole year? I bet not. It's probably fill in a questionnaire type thing, and you can already logically deduce how accurate those are.

 

9) correlation is NOT causality. It's like taking 1000 smokers and telling them to quit smoking and and start eating 10 olives a day. At the end of 1 year, assess their lung condition and finding that the have lowered their chances of lung cancer by 1000%. Then saying "eating 10 olives a day for 1 year lowers the risk of getting lung cancer by 1000%!"

 

 

I think it's just a small piece of the puzzle. Sure, probiotics are good. We can get them from eating dirt, kimchi, yohurt, saurkrout... It is but one little piece of the jig saw to optimum health.

 

Just eat real whole foods and do things like avoid taking anti-biotics, which literally wipe out all the good bacteria in your digestive system.

 

Talking about yoghurt, I have stopped it totally ever since coming back from LA. Why? When I was in LA, I bought full fat organic yoghurt from Whole Foods and ate it almost everyday. Real full fat yoghurt is nothing like what we get here in Singapore. 1 bowl is enough to fill you up to the brim. The taste is INCREDIBLE. The low fat, made from skim milk crap we have here? I can eat a whole 1kg tub and not be full. That already tells me something is not quite right. So I gave it up.

 

Let me try and dig up more on the Danish study...

 

But in the program, they actually collected the stools from the participants daily to analyze

 

However, you are right, it's not done in a controlled environment and there are a lot of other factors creeping in - exactly like how those "low fat, high carbs diet is good" studies are done...hahah