Weight / Fat loss

whoop. i'll check it out. better than deep frying my own. cos really i only want one not a whole batch.

checked their website (i clearly have no work to do today) they come up as veggie, but not much info on ingredients. im sure you could email them.

i just found the same. (your internet must be way faster than mine..) i called them but they shut at 5 the losers. i'll hound them monday and report back.. cheers for the tip off.

dam i havent eaten a donut in years. seriously, i make the in store bakery girls go get the books out and check ingredients regularly, just in case. if anyone knows of a place where i can buy vegan donuts..... on my only trip to the states i found a vegan bakery and it was crazy full of biscuits and cakes and all kinds of things. i made myself feel so grossed out with a sugar high crash low. love to go there again...

I like http://www.quarrygirl.com/.

LA-based, but I'm sure at one point they reviewed a vegan bakery over here.

Ah yes, here you go--a shop that does vegan donuts:

http://www.quarrygirl.com/2010/06/26/vegan-field-report-vx-secret-societ-of-vegans-shop-in-london/

http://www.secretsocietyofvegans.co.uk/shop/

Their supplier is Accidentally Vegan, and here are their doughnuts (sic):

http://www.accidentallyvegan.co.uk/Accidentally_Vegan/Accidentally_Classic.html

But you're Bristol-based, aren't you? You can't order them on-line, unfortunately, only get them at the shop.

But, yes, you can get vegan doughnuts in London. :)

i believe that the doughnuts in co-op are vegan, this i've heard from a few people. Also own bake croisants from aldi as well. I hope this helps.

I'm going to call shennanigans on this.

Source?

I dont know about digging out some reputable research papers for you, that sort of thing is such a headache.

But it is generally accepted as common knowledge these days in the health & fitness world. So much so that things like "paleo/caveman" diets have become an in vogue fad.

Basically our species spent the largest part of their evolutionary history consuming only meat as the significant part of the diets. Eating plant products before the advent of modern crop varieties and agriculture would be massively innefficient and basically make it impossible to survive.

Animals are incredibly nutrient dense. Even modern variants of cattle & sheep contain the large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids which are essential to our health, you do not need to take fish oil supplements, some beef ribs are just fine.

People like inuits have had research done on them in modern times, where there are still a few communities whom rely purely on things like Seals & fish in the diet. They consume absolutely no carbohydrate traditionally.

Even mainstream BBC documentaries have been up there looking at this. They found that even a temporary period on the traditional pure carnivore diet had an incredibly good alround effect on heath when they tried it on some british subjects. Cholesterol levels, blood pressure and such were all improved on people who were already thought to be healthy.

A good place to ask for more information is:

http://activenocarber.myfreeforum.org/index.php

I however, very much enjoy my milk, bread & potatoes.

I picked up a Villeroy and Boch scale that measures muscle, fat etc at Robert Dyas. They're on sale at the moment for £14.99. We'll see how well it works.

This is what mine is showing so far (thrilling I know!)

This is what mine is showing so far (thrilling I know!)

Another tip, don't weigh yourself every day. Maybe once a week, or even every two weeks. You will get a lot of fluctuation on a daily basis (when did you last eat, how much have you drunk etc etc etc) and it becomes hard to pick out an actual trend

I'm aware of that- I just quite enjoy having a daily trend.

Once I chuck it into a graph the long term trends will over-rule any short term (big dinner last night) fluctuations.

I do weigh myself at the same time every day- post first of the SSS's, pre first cup of tea.

^ this

I do the same. Have been for a month. The fluctuation, when weighing-in at the same time every day seems to be minimal. The worst I've had is two kilos (which is pretty bad if you're only trying to lose a few, I suppose), but it seems that now that I have a schedule (similar to Neil's) and a month of data to look back on, a pattern has emerged.

Another thing I've been doing is counting calories, recording them, and then playing them against an estimated BMR and extra calorie-using activities I may do on top of that BMR. I calculate this into a total weight exhausted based on a sum of my caloric calculations (over the entire time I've been recording these details) vs a simple recorded weight loss (over the same time). As of today, it's 2 pounds off (I've recorded more "actual" loss [11] than calculated [9]), but it's pretty close over all (and some days, it's almost dead on). If nothing else, this really helps demonstrate that weight loss is a, more or less, predictable and controllable phenomenon.

Also, it proves that a) one can control and explain the world through science, and b) that Mark is a bigger nerd than me.

It doesn't prove (A). That's way too much of an inference than I'm willing to make. It may prove (B), but I bet you've got spreadsheet envy now.

I'm buying a Garmin Forerunner either later today or tomorrow- then I will have heart rate, cadence, calorie burn, distance, elevation traversed and so forth mapped in against the other statistics.

Bring it, spreadsheet boy.

My spreadsheet was free.

There's a iPhone app ('Track Your Weight', 59p) that records daily weight, fat and water and spits out a pretty graph with actual, trend and goal lines. There's no place to put notes, but I've found it quite useful recently (I think its periodically available for free, I definitely didn't pay for mine).

I'm buying a Garmin Forerunner either later today or tomorrow- then I will have heart rate, cadence, calorie burn, distance, elevation traversed and so forth mapped in against the other statistics.

Bring it, spreadsheet boy.

Neil, before buying the Garmin, take a look at this:

http://www.zephyr-technology.com/9600.0112.html

http://www.sportstracklive.com/help/android

In addition, they're going to be adding functionality for bluetooth HRMs to Google Tracks. This may be a cheaper/longer lasting option than the Garmin?

on the note of training.
Me and CrazyJames are meeting up for a pre 'workday' (i.e. early morning) session regularly this week and for the foreseeable future.
If you'd like details of it please let me know, but will probably put a cap on 4 people.
Also, swim sessions with dooks- ask him about cally masters, and a early morning swim set at Serpentine potentially.

Finally- Forum runs- Get to Hyde Park- lock bikes- go for lunchtime run/ post 'workday' run.
couple of mixed ability groups. running Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays.
anyone?

Well, here is the start of my nerdy monitoring:

Date_____Fat%Bone MassWater%Muscle%Weight
9/7/2010_18.52.8__60.8_41.8__81.6
3/8/201019.42.9__60.243____82.5

So, going to the gym a lot and cutting out the booze seems to have made me both fatter and slightly more muscular.

Arse

I'm up for the Hyde park run...

Dammit, despite cutting calories down to 1600 a day and upping my excersize, I'm not loosing any weight according to my scale.
I'm pretty sure that I've lost a little bit, as some of my clothing is fitting better, but still it isn't really the result I was hoping for. My calorie counter say's that at my burning/intake ratio I should be loosing a stone a month...ha.

If you've upped your exercise you might be building muscle. Muscle is heavier than fat so you weigh more. Measuring your body fat is probably a better idea.

Nhatt- if you are a tiny person the you'll need few calories AND your exercise may be burning slightly fewer calories (unless you're measuring real output with a powermeter for example in which case ignore that comment)- SO...... do your numbers come from a model which takes body mass into account?

Finally- Forum runs- Get to Hyde Park- lock bikes- go for lunchtime run/ post 'workday' run.
couple of mixed ability groups. running Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays.
anyone?

go on then.

You might just be retaining more water. Water weight will fluctuate a great deal, especially when beginning to lose weight and/or increasing your exercise. That's also something that will affect women more than men, short of filing a bug report with the designer, there's not a great deal you can do about that. Although trying to stay properly hydrated and limiting your sodium intake should help.