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My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Discussion in 'Culture and Food' started by Anon220806, Dec 14, 2020.

  1. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    When I was cooking breakfast for the kids in December 2019 I would cook scrambled eggs, Pork Tocino and rice for the kids and me for breakfast not every day but often as I really like Tocino, my weight reduced by 8 pounds during my 24 day stay over Christmas.

    The Philippines has always reduced my weight, ever since my first visit I have almost always come home lighter only to put it back on in the UK.
  2. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    It won’t be the weather that does that.
  3. Anon220806
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    Best to ask him.
  4. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Don't know, I find my appetite is suppressed when it is very hot, I have certainly put it down to that in the past.
  5. Anon220806
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    If that were the case there wouldn’t be any overweight Filipinos. :D

    I know what you mean. But insulin resistance and it’s symptoms is based more on what one eats. It’s never going to be just the beer, or just the Tocino , or just the doughnuts or just the rice, or just the banana. It will be the sum total of all the carbs eaten and not the fat or protein and how the individual’s body deals with the glucose bombardment.
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  7. Anon220806
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    And improve your chances of a healthier lifestyle and a longer life. The choice is ours to make.
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  8. Anon220806
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    Heck sausages. More meat. Less carbs. You see them in most supermarkets.

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  9. Druk1
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    I don't eat crisps, my lifestyle has always been as healthy as possible, never drank, smoked etc :)
  10. Anon220806
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    Both my wife’s sisters are well over weight now. They weren’t like that 10 years ago. The eldest, in her late 30s has high blood pressure now. (No prizes for guessing what her diet comprises). She discovered that after experiencing headaches and stuff and visited a doctor. She is now on blood pressure medication. She is an intelligent woman but does not (yet) understand that it’s the carbs she eats that has messed her up. Mrs Ash has quietly explained but the sister in law cannot grasp what she is being told, The medication will bring her blood pressure down, but not solve the root cause of the weight gain or the blood pressure increase (I don’t know if they tested her blood sugar levels). At some point she will understand and will make the necessary changes, so many eventually do.
  11. Daveyw1988
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    I find it crazy that 2 sausages have half of your daily saturated fats in
  12. Anon220806
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    Thats excellent. We need more healthy fat and less glucose. Yes, I know that goes against the grain ( pun half intended) but we are beginning to realise that fat doesn’t make us fat, glucose in the form of carbohydrates and sugar does.
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  13. Anon220806
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    I couldn’t find this when I was looking for it before but found it again today.

    “If saturated fat clogs a kitchen sink just think what its doing to your arteries”

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    This cake was baked today by a local woman. It’s mainly fat (double cream) and protein with very few carbs and some sweetener. It tastes pretty good.

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  15. Anon220806
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    Everything in moderation….

    Liverpool GP reports. Insulin resistance specialist comments on the “everything in moderation “ fallacy.

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  17. Anon220806
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    A very good video just released. Liverpool GP explains about the impact on health by way of high blood sugar levels and insulin resistance. This is relevant to obesity, T2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, cholesterol levels. It is explained in an easy to understand way. But guess what, it works and this GP uses his own patients and his own region as a Petri dish and they themselves are their own scientific control. If this method and success was replicated across the country a shed load of money would be saved by the NHS.

    The owner has disabled the use on other websites however you can still watch it via YouTube just click the button.

  18. Jim
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    Having just getting over the flu or whatever it was, I'm just started to eat again 5 day fast (lost appetite.) Had to eat something moist as my mouth is dry. losing too much weight lost 2 kg in 4 days, feeling groggy and unstable on my feet. I ate a banana today, I know 20 carbs maybe more but had to eat something.
    I was shocked to see 76.5 kg on the scales I don't want to lose any more weight I wan't to maintain it and I'm missing out on all nutrition on some foods that are cheap over here but high in carbs.
    I know which foods that are high in carbs like spuds, bread, rice ,pasta and fruits but I feel my body wants more nutrients than eating leafs.
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  19. oss
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    What was your target weight Jim?

    12 stone 6 lbs would be a good number for me but I am still far away from that.

    Five days no food little activity would be about 10,000 calories or about 3 lbs of fat the rest will be water and loss of your reserves of glycogen which also come out as water, fever will have upped the burning as well to some degree, you have probably also lost a bit of muscle mass, plus scales are never that accurate :)

    Glad you are getting over it, that's really good to know.
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    My target weight 75 kg but I'm happy at this weight. That was my middle weight boxing when I was in my 20's. Stick at it Jim.
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