Diet..?

I have now seen a few episodes of Supersize vs. Superskinny and I have noticed a few things.

One thing I get annoyed at for all shows seems to say that carbohydrates (for example pasta, potatoes, rice etc.)

Carbohydrates (or more common, carbs) are not dangerous. The thing one should look out for are the wrong kinds of carbs. White sugar for example is wrong carb. Vegetables and whole grain products are examples of good carbs. 

Trough watching the Glycemic Indes or the Glycemic Load you can easy see what kinds of foods you should eat. People are different, they are resistant to carbs in different ways, some can eat loads, some prefer more meat, but that does not mean carbs are dangerous. Unless you get 20grams of carbs your brain will not work as it should.

Here are some examples of GL and GI charts:

http://www.naturalchoicesforyou.com/site/680805/page/222881

http://www.lowglycemicload.com/glycemic_table.html

http://www.ajcn.org/content/76/1/5.full.pdf

and you can your self google it, or buy one of the many books on the subject.

The second thing I get annoyed with is that they are so afraid of cheese. Cheese is not dangerous either. If you just eat enough of it. Then there will not be a problem. You will get some of the fat your body need, and you get calcium and protein and Vitamin-D from dairy products, something people need, especially if they live in countries where there is winter and dark.

Measure is the word. Those who cut carbs of completely (for example body builders) are only doing it for a short time, and they still eat enough to be able to exercise. Proteins keeps you full longer, but it is carbs that gives you energy to do anything.

Both carbs and cheese is okay, as long as you keep to enough cheese, and carbs are okay as long as you don't eat enormous amounts of sweets, fizzy drinks, crisps (chips), fried food and pastries.

One thing you should look out for on the other hand is salt. To much salt will cause among other things, high blood pressure, and can one guess where you find salt? Yeah, you're right crisps (chips), fried foods, and also  semi-manufactured products you buy at the store.

I hope this has helped and put some hope to people who believe that cheese and carbs are a no-no when losing weight.

1+1 = ..?

Recently I have been rather annoyed about... Well. Dieting.

It's so stupid.

Do you really think you will lose weight if you keep to a diet, that probably deprives you of vitamins and minerals  you need to have a functional body, and be able to actually burn off the fat you have on?

The only way, to be able to lose weight, is to work of more than you eat!

If you eat 1600 kcal, and you burn 1800 kcal a day, you will burn 200 kcal extra a day.

If doing the opposite (1800 in, 1600 out), the you will ADD 200 extra to your body a day.

It REALLY is that simple.

But it is important to remember that you actually need to exercise to get rid of the extra fat. By only dieting, you will not see any good result. One need to do some strength training to build muscles to be lean, and you need to do cardio to burn off fat.

I believe that people have different body types when it comes to make the food into energy. Me myself would never able to live on a LCHF-diet. I need carbs, and lots of them not to be in a bad mood, or feel sick, and I do feel drowsy and bad if I eat to much protein. This is because I am a slow oxidizer ("Slow oxidizers burn trough the nutrients of their food slowly and do not release the glucose from carbohydrates into the blood quickly enough, which means that they do not get converted into glucose, and energy production and availability are delayed." (Winning by losing; Jillian Michaels). Jillian means that excessive fat and protein intake slows down that even further, and I believe this. I am a bread junkie. I love pasta. I love fruits (except bananas and pears). And this is no "You can't eat this and that"-diet. This is more of a list of things one already knows:

Eat helathy food (no junk food, no fizzy drinks, no cakes and sweets etc etc.) but I know for my self I feel bad when eating to much proteins, and when I do, I feel full for hours, which is good, but instead, I don't have to eat, which is bad too!

I have some trouble with the food she says, as it is rather american, and I just don't like it, but it's still easy to buy low fat milk, low fat cheese and so on, and make it more Swedish.

LCHF, GL... Well.. It might work... For a while... Of course, thinking of GL is a good thing to do, as you choose to avoid sweets, sugar and fast carbs, but it is never ever good to take away anything completley!

You need carbs, proteins and fat to be able to have a body that is functioning!

I recommend to read Jillians book. She does not use diets, not quick fixes, and she is more down to earth with dieting than all those Hollywood trainers seem to be. ( I would also want to read Paul McKenna's I can make you thin, but that is a bit, over the top, using some sort of self hypnosis...)

But there are some rules to follow.

Eat every 4th hour: This will work if you stop eating when you're full!

Never eat so much as you feel stuffed or something. A comfortable feeling full is what to aim for. 

This will make sure you're hungry every 4th hour, so you can eat when hungry!

If you follow Jillians rules you might not be able to eat exactly what you want, but think of this:

Junk-food and sweets and processed food makes you ugly. It gives you spots, cellulite, bad skin as you look older... Do you want to look old, with spots and cellulite?

If one want to lose weight one need to do life long changes, and those are not big. If one wants to eat pizza and burgers, you can do it at home. It is easy, cheap and healthy to do at home!

The most important thing still is to keep enough calories so that you're body is still functioning. This means between 1600-2200 for a female, depending on things like work, exercise and calories you burn on a daily basis! 

If you burn about 7000 kcal extra, you will lose about 1 kg of fat from from your body (this is calculated without thinking of you adding any extra muscle mass to your body, which burns extra calories).

With simple math, if you eat so that you're on 0 (for example 1800 in, 1800 out), and you exercise 3 times a week, burning 300 kcal each time = 900. 

You do the math!

Vare sig det ena eller det andra

Det är liksom som att ha två människor inom sig.

Eller tre kanske till och med.

Först är det jag, mej. Tycker om livet, tycker om saker, tycker om film, tycker om det jag gör, tycker om att pyssla, träna, leka, läsa, skriva... Tja, tycker om att finnas och vara och ha kul helt enkelt. Funkar inte allt, så är det inte ett problem, man kan lösa det sen.

Sen finns det monster nummer 1.

Okontrollerat, helt och hållet okontrollerat. Allt, och jag menar verkligen allt! Aldrig lämna, aldrig inte äta upp.

Inte bara mat, allting. Det är svårt att sluta med någonting.

Sen kommer den västa fram, monster nummer 2.

Kontroll, istället för ingen kontroll. Ska veta, och vet, allt. Hur länge ska man träna för att göra av med så mycket?

Man har inte en normal syn på sig själv riktigt.

Portionsbestämt - Ät upp - Ångest

Inte äta alls - Ångest

Aldrig kan man vara helt och hållet riktigt nöjd.

Det svåraste är, egentligen att det är två helt olika delar, man vet inte riktigt vad man ska göra. Det är vare sig det ena eller det andra, och därför vet jag verkligen inte vad jag ska göra åt det...

Vintern gör det inte bättre.

Det värsta just nu är ändå, att jag inte vet vem man ska prata med. Det känns så jobbigt att berätta alla detaljer.

Allt som står här, det är bara ytan. Bara ett sammandrag. Det är så mycket mer.