Comments on: Fat girls

By: admin

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:23:18 +0000

My city has everything from wild rose berries to apples and even wild boars in the forest. I kid you not.

But on a more practical level, living in a city has the advantage of not needing a car. You can bike everywhere and hunt and gather at your local whole foods market or take excursions to the countryside on the weekend. This emulates a hunter gather in the excercise sense.

About coffee as a weight loss tool – I really enjoy coffee but I am off of it as I had a problem, that is I was up to like 5 cups a day and when I did not have my fix, I would get headaches. Oh do not get me wrong, I would love the taste of some Foofy Caramel cafe Latte grande, but I think coffee is an energy thief. Although it can help transport fat from the liver into glucose, its effects as an appetite suppressant and metabolism stimulate wear off after a few weeks. But it sure taste good.

I think besides a multi-vitamin with chromium and a good diet I think L-carnitine works pretty well.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:12:00 +0000

What if you live in the city? Hunting and collecting berries is fine if you live in a rural area, but when you live in the city, it’s not so easy to do these things, plus you need a permit to go fishing. I live on protein and vegetables – potatoes are good, but if you add them to bread and pasta you may have a problem. Also, eating after 6pm is something I avoid, and drinking lots of coffee can also help keep you thin, provided you don’t add milk. If you had to live on a real Paleolithic diet, you would have to include insects and weedy tubers with occasional meat. The fibre will make you camp out in the bathroom for a while too.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:28:02 +0000

I have heard the argument by many people who it takes money to have a good diet. If that is so, why in Poland where I live, girls will buy a 50 kg bag of potatoes and maybe some herring from local markets and be thin beautiful and healthy on a fraction of the price of a normal diet. Yes on Saturday morning some farmer drives around and rings the bell at 8 Am and wakes me up, and you can buy 50 kg or about 100 lbs for like 25 dollars. This will last one person 3 months here. You can supplement it with other things but for very little you can eat great and healthy.
In the USA I plan to buy flour and make my own bread like I used to. I will also have my own garden and grow my own herbs and vegetables in my apartment and out back. I also go to the forest and collect berries and apples etc.
Why I think in rich countries people are fat because they have it too easy.
I make reasonable money but choose to live a bit more rustic. It is more fun that way. I go fishing and catch fish.
The key is not processed food like the paleolithic diet.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:20:18 +0000

Yes, being poor can cause you to eat cheap fattening food. In South Africa, the cheapest food is samp and “pap”, and it makes you blow up like a balloon. The people who eat this food are extremely poor, and they can’t afford health foods. If the world wants skinnier people, why is the healthy food so expensive?

You can probably get by on one rice cake a day, but it’s as bad for your health as having a 2 litre Coke and five hamburgers for breakfast. You never mention the benefits of adequate fat – fat keeps you warm and cushions your organs.

One must also consider the safety aspect of walking everywhere. It would be nice, who wouldn’t want to walk everywhere?
But if you live in an area where you could be attacked, it’s preferable not to. I try to walk everywhere – the other day I walked 5km to town, and guess what, three guys started following me, one drunk and crazy. Of course I ran like hell, and I almost sprinted back home, but oh well, now I’m not motivating anyone. It’s interesting how many joggers get killed or robbed. Apparently it’s not safe to be a health-conscious jogger on Table Mountain these days, you’ll be threatened at knife-point.

I have to mention the menstruation thing – you can’t lose so much weight that you can’t menstruate anymore, that’s very bad for your health, and being a man, you can’t take this into consideration. We have an extra organ which we have to maintain, and it makes you gain some weight in water every month. If you told a woman she is fat when she is gaining this weight, you are cruelly unreasonable.

Also, what if people accuse you of being fat when you are not? People are taking things too far, in my opinion. I’ve met a ten-year-old girl who is completely normal and even pleasingly strong, who told me that she must go on a diet because she was called “fat” at school, and if you are a sensible person you would recognise that this is total bull hockey. In what sick, twisted world are kids supposed to be on diets?

Once again, clothes’ sizes are guidelines. If you wear bigger sizes because you happen to be a woman who is 6 ft, but athletic, it doesn’t make you fat just because it is generally accepted that certain sizes designate you as fat.

When you advise travelling the world in order to take your mind off your behind, you do realise it’s bloody expensive? It costs R20 000 just to get to Europe, nevermind travel there. Is this advice meant for richer people? And if you’re a battling average housewife, it’ll never happen. You’ll never think of higher things, because you have to deal with the housekeeping and the kids and their hissy fits, then an unhealthy but affordable dinner for your silly husband and ungrateful kids.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:42:05 +0000

Bravo. I have been in shape and out of shape. And even if I was living on an island and there was no one else but me, like in Castaway, I would say that I would have a better quality of life when I am in shape. When I am in shape, I am productive, think better, have more energy, feel more positive, feel better on many levels. When I am out of shape I am sluggish and lethargic.
Why do people have such resistance to the simple idea that when you let your body get fat and flabby your life quality often suffers. Are we that politcally correct that stating something like that will create a stir?
In the winter I eat soup and in the summer salads. It is a very basic idea and seems to work. My goal is to eat to live to eat.

By: Abbey

Abbey — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:58:55 +0000

I used to be a big girl (not huge, but about a size 12). One day, I finally had enough of it and started working out and hiking and ice skating, and I now only eat healthy foods. I eat tons of fruit and salads and healthy sandwiches. My husband loves soup, so we cook a lot of those. I always keep portions small, and if I get hungry soon after eating, I just drink tons of water. That always makes the hunger go away. The thing that made me realize that eating sweets and fatty foods was horrible (not only for health reasons), but once it was gone, it was gone. There would be nothing to show for it (except extra weight). That’s when I took up voice-overs and guitar and piano, learning languages, etc., things that would be more useful to me than eating all the time. I’m now a size 4/6, and guess what, I found my man and I’m happier than ever! (He actually prefers that I stay at a six, so I have a few more feminine curves, but size six is still thin.) I’m all for people accepting themselves no matter what they look like, but you also have to be honest with yourself and care about your health.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:21:50 +0000

I would say 18% is a bit of a stretch, more like 10% maybe 15%.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:07:41 +0000

When we are talking about pregnancy and women, women have full right to get as fat as they want. I have known many girls get huge and afterwards really shape up. No pregnancy should every consider weight, but rather proper diet like DHA and Essential fatty acids and protein and balance and rest. But women that are too fat also have problems. Nature likes a balance.

By: DJH

DJH — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:36:52 +0000

Women require approx 18% body fat in order to menstruate and function in a reproductive capacity. Many thin women are advised to put on weight in order to raise their chances of conception when trying for a child.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:40:09 +0000

Maybe I am a bit harsh but it is to make people aware that they are doing harm to their health. Everyone can be moderate.

Are you saying being poor makes people fat? For example, when my wife who has a masters degree from a top school and some medical school after that was working in a lab. She was making less than 500 dollars a month. And prices were not that much different from the USA. So she spend it on flour and made her own bread. She also bought vegitables. That was it. It was not a lot but she is thin and healthy. She walked to work. The was the reality of Eastern Europe. Her parents have a small farm so she was lucky to get some milk and eggs from time to time. Now we have more money we can afford strawberry smoothies (I made one with two lbs of strawberries last night).
So I think with will power everyone can live in moderation and a more rustic diet. If you lack will power I recommend travelling to poorer countries and see how people live.