[shane180288]

Hiya All

I'll start with a quick note about me, I'm a 23 year old male, i weigh 16 stone and at a height of 6 feet, and feel horrible about myself..

Back in september i was in work and i had a very active role that included walking but mainly joggin approx 8 miles a day at its minimum

As i lost my job i sat on the sofa and searched for job, but i started eating bad things more and more, i ate a bad'ish diet when i was in work but as the exercise was so extreme for 5 days a week the weight kept dropping off.. anyway depression hit in when i went on the scale and it said 16st... so as i got depressed i got told by a friend powder (anphetemine) will help so i started that, came quickly hooked for the wrong reasons, then i when onto smokin canabis and started after quiting smoking cig's again..

my girlfriend found out and when crazy and threatend to leave me if i didnt stop, so i had a wake up call stoped all srugs but still smoking cigs but shes ok about that..

but problem is im still 16st and just feel depressed, i need help what to eat as my situation is complicated...

i am in work as a security guard, i work 15 hour shifts and are all nigt shifts, so in the day imin bed but for 16 hours im awake,,

i tend to quickly nip the shop and buy snacks but its getting out of hand,,

what can i eat in work, such as today i needed a quick fix again so i grabed a rustler chicken burger and i have on me 2 sachets of cup of soups and a bottle of pepsi max

any help and easy things to eat in work i need that will fill me an keep me full

thanks in advance

[Staceyray]

Hey

Firstly, I can totally sympathise with you on the amphetamine problem, as I have done the same thing myself. It's a bad road to go down, as I found out. You can't maintain a healthy lifestyle and end up just being monged out when you come down. Either that or take more, which leads to an addiction. But good on you for giving up the drugs, that's a hard thing to do. I used to regularly smoke cannabis too, but stopped over a year ago. I still smoke tobacco though.

My hubby also has to eat on the go in work, but his problem is not his weight, but the fact he eats so much crap I worry about his cholesterol levels. I now make big pots of homemade spaghetti bolognese, curries and chili con carnes which I freeze, and he takes one out every night before work and has them for dinner. I also make him healthy sandwiches with plenty of salad in them.

Have you tried joining a slimming club? I HATE going to slimming classes, so I have joined online. They give you recipies, food diaries and support with your weight loss.

If you need any support or advice, let me know xxx

[GoSugarFree]

To lose body fat, you must tell your body to stop making fat. There are 2 common carbohydrates that switch on your fat making metabolism in your liver and tell your body to go into starvation mode:

1. Fructose. Sucrose is 50% fructose and just to be clear, I'm talking about sugar.

2. Ethanol (Alcohol)

If you remove these 2 things from your diet then your body will switch out of survival mode.

Apart from fructose, sucrose and alcohol, you can eat whatever you want. The UK GDA amounts are OK as a guideline, except that they do not recognise the importance of fructose (and ethanol is not grouped with sugars, so people think its an extra allowance but it isn't) and the percentage calories from fat should be 40%, not 30% (due to the monumental error made by the 7 countries study that forms the current official guidance).

Once you remove the biochemical trickery these chemicals set up, you can trust your appetite to tell you when you're hungry and when you're full and your body can tell active days from inactive days.

As well as eliminating fructose and ethanol:
Avoid processed food (it's cheap for a reason). Any food that does not look like it was when it came off the animal or plant is processed. And food manufacturers are putting sugar in all sorts of unexpected things, so scrutinise labels very carefully.

Eat lots of fibre. Fibre keeps the carbohydrate intake from causing blood sugar spikes.

Drink plenty of water

Take moderate exercise (but don't overdo it as it's not a big calorie burner unless you want to run a marathon every day and let's face it, you'll only end up injured that way). Again, the UK guidance is OK.

It was a revelation when I found my way through what's out there and boiled it down to this. I have gone from BMI=29 to BMI=21 (and dropping even faster now I've reached "enlightenment").

The mechanism for why we store fat like this is a throwback to our ancestors using the autumn friut crop to fatten up for the winter (from sucrose/fructose/fruit sugar). Back then, there was no fruit in the winter and spring, so no sugar, so the process had 6-9 months each year to reverse itself. Plus survival of the species has nothing to do with living until old age, so it didn't matter to them that they made bad fat for long periods year after year.

The biochemical hormone in control of fat making is insulin. The more insulin in your body, the more your body makes fat. So weight loss is all about keeping insulin levels low.

The effect of eating fructose and ethanol is that your liver makes new fat (this is the small dense LDL cholesterol that clogs the arteries and gives us cardiovascular disease). The effect of consuming a lot of fructose or ethanol is that this new fat accumulates in the liver and in the muscles, increasing insulin resistance. This causes the pancreas to produce more insulin in order to control your blood glucose level (same as blood sugar level). Eventually the pancreas can't produce any more and this is what we call Type 2 diabetes.

The Increased insulin takes your next food and turns part of it to fat before your body ever sees it. That's why people put on weight even though they feel hungry and tired. Even higher insulin levels make it worse, which is why it's a vicious cycle and why people that become obese turn into couch potatoes. It's not their fault, it's the misinformation that has created a bad food environment.

Starting off with a low carb diet will get the insulin down more quickly because the blood sugar will be lower. You may not need to do this but it will accelerate weight loss if you do (it's just more restrictive and expensive because of being protein-dense).

Just so you know my credentials, I'm a chemical engineer and not a doctor, nutritionist or anything else connected with the health, food or medical industries (so I've got absolutely no vested interests). My job is to find information, evaluate and collate it until I can reach a conclusion that I am prepared to support and then use the conclusion to perform a function. Usually I design industrial gas plants and control systems but I can't sit by and keep this information to myself when so many people are being bombarded with so much conflicting information, because it is making everyone obese and sick. This is the unpalatable truth that the food manufacturers and sugar companies will want to keep out of the mainstream as it will severely damage their profits.

Good luck and stick with it. Then you can forget about food and body fat being an issue forever as you will know how it works.

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[sidhealth]

Yeah, When you fall in depression, body weight to be change. It is difficult to turn in original state.