Anglosaxon
Member
Hello
Like many of you, I've tried lots of weight loss tactics/diets i.e. low calorie, low fat & Slimming World. I’ve also kept quite fit (football, 5 mile runs, weights, surfing, circuits and high intensity training, but despite my efforts, my weight has increased over the years.
I’ve watched people do little to no work in the gym yet they look fitter than me! How do they do it? It’s interesting that with men, one won’t get be honest as to how they do it. Where with women you’ll generally get a straight answer.
With many of the diets, they won’t give you the science, it’s eat this and do that. So its difficult to stick to it because there is no basis to it. What’s the answer?
So step forward Zoe Harcombe. I saw her briefly on the BBC where she was discussing her book the ‘Obesity Epidemic.’ She seemed to make sense, so I have bought it and am now half way throught it. The key areas of the book that have grabbed me so far include:
Food intolerences
The floored studies regarding fat & cholestrol.
Sugar & flour
The basis of the ‘5 a day’ brand.
Transfats
Wow the explainations make perfect sense, we crave food because we are probably intolerant to them and some make a mess of our deigestive system. Fat & Chlolestrol are actually good for you and wrongly demonised. Moreover, almost half our diet consists of sugar and flour. The 5 day brand is purely based around a marketing initiative as opposed to nutrional evidence and finally transfats are man made, used as a filler and are not recognised by the digestive system.
So on this basis I’m going to try and embrace The Harcombe philosophy.
Like many of you, I've tried lots of weight loss tactics/diets i.e. low calorie, low fat & Slimming World. I’ve also kept quite fit (football, 5 mile runs, weights, surfing, circuits and high intensity training, but despite my efforts, my weight has increased over the years.
I’ve watched people do little to no work in the gym yet they look fitter than me! How do they do it? It’s interesting that with men, one won’t get be honest as to how they do it. Where with women you’ll generally get a straight answer.
With many of the diets, they won’t give you the science, it’s eat this and do that. So its difficult to stick to it because there is no basis to it. What’s the answer?
So step forward Zoe Harcombe. I saw her briefly on the BBC where she was discussing her book the ‘Obesity Epidemic.’ She seemed to make sense, so I have bought it and am now half way throught it. The key areas of the book that have grabbed me so far include:
Food intolerences
The floored studies regarding fat & cholestrol.
Sugar & flour
The basis of the ‘5 a day’ brand.
Transfats
Wow the explainations make perfect sense, we crave food because we are probably intolerant to them and some make a mess of our deigestive system. Fat & Chlolestrol are actually good for you and wrongly demonised. Moreover, almost half our diet consists of sugar and flour. The 5 day brand is purely based around a marketing initiative as opposed to nutrional evidence and finally transfats are man made, used as a filler and are not recognised by the digestive system.
So on this basis I’m going to try and embrace The Harcombe philosophy.
