Weight / Fat loss

how come no smoked fish? I always assumed those were good for you (isn't it just fish and smoke?)

I largely took the view that if smoking and curing meat turned meat from good to bad, then why isn't it the case for fish too, or have studies only focused on red meats? There's no doubt that things like the salt cured fish in Sweden isn't necessarily good for you, and the more you think about it... the more it's hard to argue that salmon would somehow be exempt from this. It isn't solely the fat in red meats that is part of the problem, but more widely that the chemicals that various curing/preservation processes imbue the food with.

That was less a weight-loss argument and more a "too many studies, for too long, show cured and preserved products of various types to be bad." Though the vast majority of studies have focused on red meat exclusively, I can't see why similar issues wouldn't arise with other products... it's the process that creates the problem.

I just figured if I was going to change my diet in a major way, this thing that has nagged me for ages could be addressed too.

I'd advocate portion control over everything else if you're just focused on losing weight.

This needs multiquote - @itsbruce I'll look into mash substitutes and that parsnip thing sounds interesting, although I can't quite imagine the flavour!
@arrowplum
Couscous can do one if that's the case! I really like carbs, think that's the problem.

I'm attempting portion control but getting hungry a lot (first week) - fruit is filling the gaps but it's probably the wrong fruit (oranges, bananas, kiwi)...

I drank water instead. With Nuun to give it some flavour.

I drink quite a lot of water, will try plopping some nuun in!

@Dramatic_Hammer I can second @itsbruce 's recommendation in that smashed parsnips are good (use plenty of black pepper).

@Velocio re fish. I have never really thought of it but I looked it up a little. Meats, I know, use nitrites/nitrates as part of their preserving process. Too much of those are bad for your heart health I think. Fish can be "just" the salt and smoke but both of those are bad for you. Sometimes, by some manufacturers I guess, they use nitrites or nitrates as a preservative too.

So there you go, I guess I will be a little bit less happy with myself as I eat smoked sprats or smoked trout salads for lunch. It is at least better than meat, but hey, I eat spam too.

You'd do better to increase your raw veg intake than the fruit, really. Too much sugar in most fruit for it to be useful in controlling hunger pangs.

Tuesday: ... 5x5 intervals on work gym bike before lunch...

http://www.greenbank.org/misc/hr_int_5x5_ramp.png

Guess I start again at 230W for 5x5. I doubt I could get to the end of a 5th at 240W.

Cauliflower rice works great if you want to knock up low carb egg fried rice or similar stir frys/currys or whatever as it will hold a sauce + not go mushy.

I've just come back from 10 days in Wales at my mums house, which included the run up to and also the days of/after my sisters wedding. I am roughly 50% cake, 40% booze 10% regret.

Sardinia next week too. Oh dear. At least track league finishes this month.

What was the name of that structured training DVD pack that went round a year or so ago...?

Someone had a copy and was kind enough to give me an FTP download of it.
I stashed it on a hard drive and can't find it, so knowing the name would improve my searching greatly.

Found it.
It were called Insanity training

#mental

Hmm. May need to start worring, another 1.4KG lost this week. Kinda want to slow it down. May have to purposefully eat 20% more.

Still healthy and everything, only BMI 21. But... I've only just measured for a new wedding suit after losing 5 inches from the waist and I'm still losing weight. Going to have to put a little back on before the wedding.

Lard is your answer...

Bow down and pray to Lard Cheesus...
Repent for your skinny sins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsONzEqrr6w

Hmm. May need to start worring, another 1.4KG lost this week.

Tapeworm?

It has begun. 1.8kg gone over the last two weeks (daily weighs show a nice downward trend so it's not just fluke). Planning for 0.5kg a week from now on (ideally more) to put me back to sub-80kg when I go skiing in Feb.

Over 80kg today

For breakfast? That's a lot of Bacon

That's a lot of Bacon

Really? Seems like a reasonable amount to me.

He might be inserting it in more than one orifice.

Hungover
2 cups of coffee (black decaf, no sugar)
3 weetabix for breakfast
50km round Richmond Park
1pt of Saino's chocolate milk (for energy + protein)
1 x 750ml bidon of orange squash
2 x 750ml bidon of water + nuun electrolyte tablets
30 minute swim

I am a little hungry right now (and probably still dehydrated).

Also putting your body into starvation mode.