Comments on: No more excuses - weight loss starts now

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:42:49 +0000

The local eating culture makes soooo much difference. Here in Bangkok I’m eating out twice a day. Provided I avoid buffets and western restaurants (with western size portions) I lose weight slowly but surely. I’m quite happy with a Thai size portion but will happily devour a huge meal if it is put in front of me or I was silly enough to go ‘all you can eat’.

Then I go to the US for two weeks of work and buffet meals and put the 4kg it took months to lose back on in 2 weeks

By: Raoul

Raoul — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:13:44 +0000

The US doesn’t seem to have it’s priorities right:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8904252/

Or more of a visual representation:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/top_of_the_food_chain.php

By: Inger

Inger — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:51:56 +0000

I sympathise - the labeling is confusing. Yogurt is the one that gets me - if you go for no fat you have loads of sugar and vice versa. My doctor pointed out that the best thing is to look at the overall calories. In the end that is what matters - energy in

By: I, too, have a beard

I, too, have a beard — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:39:48 +0000

Hey dude,

I’ve managed to drop about 3 kg in the last fortnight or so, by cutting back to three square meals a day.

Have you thought about asking your skinny(er) colleagues what kinds of food they eat? Perhaps there’s sources for decent food you won’t find in an ordinary supermarket. Be worth investigating.

Re not many fat people over there, I’ve two comments to make:

1. When I was Stateside, I founf that people were either frightenly obese, or scarily skinny. Precious few in between. (And I’m not counting the people I saw at the geek conference, who generally fall into one of the two categories)

2. Since I;ve lost weight, I’ve noticed a lot more fat people. The converse may be that if I were to regain weight, I’d notice far fewer fat people, ie peoples’ sizes are measured relative to the viewer frame of reference.

Minor blowout on meat => not bad
Minor blowout on a dozen lamingtons, custard tarts, and an entire tray of hedgehog => bad

If I ever feel a blowout coming on, and feel as though I can’t stop it, I dive straight for the rice crackers and blow out on them. A packet is 4 points (how much is a Mars bar?) and then I get thirsty and have to drink and then, well, then I am generally not hungry any more

Wingco

By: Laura Thomson

Laura Thomson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:44:40 +0000

Hey Andrew - best of luck.

Re the bread, additives, etc, I’ve found the best place to buy non-sweet bread is at the organic grocers - try Wholefoods, Roots, or Trader Joe’s. Nothing that I’ve found in those stores contains high fructose corn syrup (yay).

On spreads…I gave them up long ago for use in sandwiches. Try it, you won’t miss it. If you need something to wean yourself off with, low fat Philly works great. I do keep butter in the house for when I have the very occasional toast craving (once every couple of months).

The serving size one is hard. In some ways it’s easier here because they are so large for me that I have no hope of eating the whole thing, hence I’ll stop when I’ve had enough. (I have more trouble if it’s say 20% more than I want to eat, rather than 100% more.)

I wish you all the best with your new program