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Well I doubt very much he went over his daily calorie allowance at that price!! You've got to eat something!
- once a kebab with chips
- and once chips with a burger (yes in Belgium you buy chips with something extra, not a burger with some miserable small portion of chips).
The other days I cook (mostly fish, sometimes chicken or pita).I've been eating like this for 2 years (because of meeting my bf).
Before this, I ate less fast food a week, but a I ate lots on a day. Even if it was healthy. The portions were to big. I had cut down already a bit and had lost 10 lbs. But I nearly didn't move. After meeting my bf, I started moving more (walking instead of biking). Eating smaller portions, but not more healthy (lost nearly 20lbs like this).
So it's about how big portions are and how much you move. I've been on this weight for one and a half years.
I'm not saying its easy, but its not impossible. It takes a lot of commitment to get healthy/fit/lose weight.
I personally know when I eat a Mars Bar that it would be better to eat a banana but sometimes I feel like a Mars Bar = my choice (informed one at that!)
:-)
I don't think some children are allowed to enjoy the outdoors as much as I did as a child and I think this is a shame.
Fat Nation as a program is trying to education, but far too basic for me.
I think HG is right too about diets and exercise being made to sound like torture. Even the fact that woman is called Miss Chiplash and the exercise woman is a bit of a nutcase. I know not everyone wants to run but I think the nice thing about running (and I would have thought a lot of other sports) is it can be a social thing and just a nice way of life. Doing a race or a long Sunday run at the weekend is something I really look forward too. It's a chance to meet friends and you can feel smug and relax for the rest of the day afterwards. Surely this is the sort of thing they should be emphasising.
Also people should realise that there is nothing wrong with going on a diet its just that you don't ever finish it. It's not something that has an end date. I know thats why people talk about healthy eating instead of dieting but I sometimes think that dieting is now so frowned upon that people just use 'diets don't work' as an excuse not to lose weight. Diets do work but only if you stick to them.
This seems to have turned into a bit of a rant too. Sorry!
"the biggest changes are in lifestyle - much less physical activity - cars have replaced walking and cycling as the main mode of transport,
there is less manual work as a result of domestic appliances, more affluence means more choice of food, growth of eating out (and in) as a leisure activity not simply for sustenence and more convenience food and availability at the big supermarkets"
To which I replied that running would solve these. Now I agree there are people who are too ill to run but I still maintain running / walking is a solution to these issues.
We have a car, non-manual jobs, are affluent, like eating out and takeaways and shop at big supermarkets. We have many domestic appliances. But neither of us are fat because we exercise in proportion to what we consume and to make up for the calories not burned doing physical / house work.
it's quite alot to accumulate and you won't do it in the ordinary course of the day unless you intentionally go for a walk or run imho
i think the idea of steps as a target is a good one but the reliability of the cheap pedometers maybe a bit suspect - perhaps that was giving a false reading for the curry lady 1200 steps?
a while back there was an interesting page where several mp's had to report for a week or so there pedometer counts - also with a 10 000 step target
most of them found it very difficult to do
you can read about it here
http://www.move4health.org.uk/MP%20diary.html
in the run up to that , they tested various pedometers and found that the only one worth using was an item retailing at 20 quid
i wonder what they are sending out in the 3.99 fat nation pack?
anyhow , though there are obvious flaws in the programme and how it's reported by the presenters (mainly live so higher than usual bullsh*t factor)
but that is all just pedantic detail in the scheme of things
i still think it's a good way to try and motivate people and at least they have a sense of how far they need to go - if say they clock up 5000 steps then they can be proud in a way and yet also realise how much more is required of them
when i say they
of course i mean me too - i'm still very overweight and don't run as much as i should/would like to
i've sent off my 3.99 for the pack out of curiousity and to see if the pedometer really works
His is supposed to show the distance travelled as well, but with our local hills accuracy would be very iffy.
He liked the idea, because it comes up with something tangible. I prefer timing my run, or measuring it on a map. I think that that is more of an accurate measurement of energy used. Each to his/her own, and it doesn't really matter in the end.