Birchall
Dick Chown Award 2016
Before anyone asks what this has to do with A2s (or any car) I have posted this in the "Relaxation room" section !!!!
What I have done is as follows
I LOVE my food (almost as much as I love A2s !!!) and that lead to me to tip the scales at 16.5 stone (that is 105 KILOS!) so I decided to lose some weight.
Firstly I had tried exercise but became bored of it very quickly and gave up, so I wanted to lose weight without exercising. Exercise is VITAL for health but not a great way to lose weight, especially if you get bored of it easily.
Secondly I LOVE my food, it is one of life's pleasures and I was not going to eat "cabbage soup" etc. (what happens when you have lost your weight, what do you eat then to keep it off!!!
So it dawned on me that, as a computer software consultant I have to analyse problems every day and so I analysed the reasons for gaining weight.
I tried it and lost over 3 stone (around 20 kilos !!) in three months, with NO PILLS, no fierce exercise regime but being active, no weird foods, no calorie counting etc.
The calorie counting is absolutely a waste of time, do you know how they calculate calories in foods etc?
THEY BURN IT !!! So for a can of coke (for example) they freeze dry it, put the solids into a glass container, set fore to it and measure the heat given off !!
Your body doesn't do that, and it will not always convert calories etc.
Using the calculation for calories, do you know what contains the most calories !!!!!
Petrol, Dynamite etc. !!!
Drink petrol and you won't put weight on !!!!
This is an example of how I applied simple common sense to view weight loss and gain in a different light.
But the MOST important thing I analysed was the sensation you feel when you feel hungry.
Basically we all see this as a sign that we need to eat something!! But no, think about it like this.
If you over eat the body stores the extra as fat (agreed?) and when you don't have any food left in your stomach, your body converts this fat to energy by "burning it off" instead of via the stomach. Also pretty much widely accepted?
So if your body is consuming itself (converting the fat) I am pretty sure that this would feel uncomfortable?
This was a turning point. Now I can use the hunger sensation as an indicator that my body is consuming my fat. Which is EXACTLY what I want it to do, if I want to lose weight.
Most diets would say, if you are feeling hungry drink some water or have a diet yoghurt etc. Does that stop the hunger sensation? Absolutely yes, so therefore it is stopping your body from doing just what you want it to.
I then went on to analyse why sugar makes you put weight on, when there is no fat in it and it is a plant extract!!!
The answer is simple, sugar is high in energy (don't use the calorie word!) so if you have sugar AND a meal, the body can store the meal and use the energy from the sugar (which it can't store anyway because it does not convert to fat) This also helps explain why kids go hyper when they have had a lot of sugar, the body can't store it so it makes then use up the energy by being hyper active!!!
I also analysed why beer / wine makes you fat (it is not the reasons that you think.
I figured out why in the last 50 years we are at a period in time where we really DON'T need meals any more.
I also figured out how you can eat whatever you want and lose weight (more to the point why you SHOULD eat what you want !!!0
and lots of other things.
I tried it out on a very pretty but overweight girl in our office who had trued to diet and failed MANY times. She lost 55lbs (over 20 kilos) and turned into a STUNNING young leady that turned heads!!!
So I wrote a book about it (I am not trying to advertise it on here, I am just finding a distraction for my current situation and I LOVE talking about my diet.
If I haven't bored everyone silly and you want me to go on I can post the odd portion of it on here, so you don't have to buy the book and so I don't get accused of trying to profit from the forum.
Steve b
What I have done is as follows
I LOVE my food (almost as much as I love A2s !!!) and that lead to me to tip the scales at 16.5 stone (that is 105 KILOS!) so I decided to lose some weight.
Firstly I had tried exercise but became bored of it very quickly and gave up, so I wanted to lose weight without exercising. Exercise is VITAL for health but not a great way to lose weight, especially if you get bored of it easily.
Secondly I LOVE my food, it is one of life's pleasures and I was not going to eat "cabbage soup" etc. (what happens when you have lost your weight, what do you eat then to keep it off!!!
So it dawned on me that, as a computer software consultant I have to analyse problems every day and so I analysed the reasons for gaining weight.
I tried it and lost over 3 stone (around 20 kilos !!) in three months, with NO PILLS, no fierce exercise regime but being active, no weird foods, no calorie counting etc.
The calorie counting is absolutely a waste of time, do you know how they calculate calories in foods etc?
THEY BURN IT !!! So for a can of coke (for example) they freeze dry it, put the solids into a glass container, set fore to it and measure the heat given off !!
Your body doesn't do that, and it will not always convert calories etc.
Using the calculation for calories, do you know what contains the most calories !!!!!
Petrol, Dynamite etc. !!!
Drink petrol and you won't put weight on !!!!
This is an example of how I applied simple common sense to view weight loss and gain in a different light.
But the MOST important thing I analysed was the sensation you feel when you feel hungry.
Basically we all see this as a sign that we need to eat something!! But no, think about it like this.
If you over eat the body stores the extra as fat (agreed?) and when you don't have any food left in your stomach, your body converts this fat to energy by "burning it off" instead of via the stomach. Also pretty much widely accepted?
So if your body is consuming itself (converting the fat) I am pretty sure that this would feel uncomfortable?
This was a turning point. Now I can use the hunger sensation as an indicator that my body is consuming my fat. Which is EXACTLY what I want it to do, if I want to lose weight.
Most diets would say, if you are feeling hungry drink some water or have a diet yoghurt etc. Does that stop the hunger sensation? Absolutely yes, so therefore it is stopping your body from doing just what you want it to.
I then went on to analyse why sugar makes you put weight on, when there is no fat in it and it is a plant extract!!!
The answer is simple, sugar is high in energy (don't use the calorie word!) so if you have sugar AND a meal, the body can store the meal and use the energy from the sugar (which it can't store anyway because it does not convert to fat) This also helps explain why kids go hyper when they have had a lot of sugar, the body can't store it so it makes then use up the energy by being hyper active!!!
I also analysed why beer / wine makes you fat (it is not the reasons that you think.
I figured out why in the last 50 years we are at a period in time where we really DON'T need meals any more.
I also figured out how you can eat whatever you want and lose weight (more to the point why you SHOULD eat what you want !!!0
and lots of other things.
I tried it out on a very pretty but overweight girl in our office who had trued to diet and failed MANY times. She lost 55lbs (over 20 kilos) and turned into a STUNNING young leady that turned heads!!!
So I wrote a book about it (I am not trying to advertise it on here, I am just finding a distraction for my current situation and I LOVE talking about my diet.
If I haven't bored everyone silly and you want me to go on I can post the odd portion of it on here, so you don't have to buy the book and so I don't get accused of trying to profit from the forum.
Steve b