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How to curb snack cravings?

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    #32
    flaka
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    EileenG wrote: »
    Ok, this sounds pretty weird, but it might be worth trying. Intermittent fasting.

    This sounds like yo-yo dieting. Makes your body think there is a shortage of food and then an over supply. Have I got this wrong?

    If the OP has a problem not snacking between meals I think they my find not eating at all more of a challenge.
    EileenG wrote: »
    This was suggested by a couple of body builders I know and respect, so I agreed to have a go at it for two weeks. I'm almost finished the first week, and it's going well.

    Good for you. Personally I wouldn't like that. I'm not trying to be a bodybuilder, I'm not sure if the OP is either. I've lost most weight by training every second - third day using short HIIT and body conditioning.
    Eating every 3-4 hours a planned meal with a pig-out session one day a week - I never know when that will be.

    Ironically I've gotten great tips from Oxygen the female body building magazine. All of them recommend eating 5-6 planned meals per day.


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    #33
    flaka
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    Beerlao wrote: »
    who has time to make 6 meals everyday?

    Anyone with motivation. There are 24 hours in everyone's day.

    Most people who eat 5-6 times per day don't make 6 meals a day. That would be too time consuming.
    Perhapse you've heard of an invention known as "refrigerator".


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    #34
    rubadub
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    Beerlao wrote: »
    who has time to make 6 meals everyday?

    You eat 6 times a day. I can sometimes have 10+ "meals" in a day. Doesn't mean each one requires the effort of a christmas dinner!


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    #35
    EileenG
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    flaka wrote: »
    This sounds like yo-yo dieting. Makes your body think there is a shortage of food and then an over supply. Have I got this wrong?

    I believe the theory is that this is more like the eating pattern we would have used when we were hunter gatherers. You got up, went looking for food, found it, sat down and ate lots, then rested, socialised and went to bed.

    I'm not actually a body builder either. There's no way I'm putting my 46 year old body, complete with stretch marks, into a bikini on a stage, but there's no doubt that bb-ers are the most efficient dieters on the planet.


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    flaka
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    EileenG wrote: »
    You got up, went looking for food, found it, sat down and ate lots, then rested, socialised and went to bed.

    Thankfully we've advanced to the point where the hunting is outsourced to supermarkets and the only gathering we do these days is wheeling a trolly around the supermarket. We're a gatherer-consumer people.
    EileenG wrote: »
    I'm not actually a body builder either. There's no way I'm putting my 46 year old body, complete with stretch marks, into a bikini on a stage, but there's no doubt that bb-ers are the most efficient dieters on the planet.

    They are so dedicated its unbeliveable - what's important is they have figured out what works for them.

    Personally I think most people want the answer without figuring out the solution themselves. Try different things and find what gets the desired results.

    I was doing a programme a PT friend recommended to get my body fat down - I was putting on mass like a good thing and not losing fat. He was right about the diet but I changed it to suit my routine and the exercise I had to figure out what worked for me.


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    EileenG
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    Definitely agree you have to work out what suits your body. For instance, I spent over ten years breastfeeding, so that had to be taken into account in my diet and routine. But I'm all for taking advantage of things that have worked for other people and seeing if I can apply them to myself.


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    IncredibleHulk
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    ApeXaviour wrote: »
    hazelnuts, pistachios, brazil nuts but not peanuts).
    Why not peanuts?


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    #39
    EileenG
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    Peanuts are technically a legume, not a nut. Also, much more likely to cause allergic reactions.


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    Beerlao
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    EileenG wrote: »
    Peanuts are technically a legume, not a nut. Also, much more likely to cause allergic reactions.
    what is a legume? what's the difference between a legume and a vegetable?

    legume is french for 'vegetable'... so what is french for 'legume'?


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    #41
    EileenG
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    Legumes are things like peas and beans. Some of them can be eaten with minimal cooking, but a lot of them need hours of cooking before they are safe to eat.


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    #42
    flaka
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    penuts grow in those wooden pods... similar to peas i guess.
    I never thought about it like that.


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    rubadub
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    EileenG wrote: »
    Intermittent fasting.

    This was suggested by a couple of body builders I know and respect, so I agreed to have a go at it for two weeks. I'm almost finished the first week, and it's going well.
    Some lifters here use the Anacat protocol.
    http://www.teamtestforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=761&start=0&sid=1bcfe25d5483ef3808e3f7b283adaa05
    Basically eating lots just before and after training, so calories go into muscle building, and eating less on off days. I find this easy to maintain, I could not maintain a constant cut or bulk easily. Of course BBers are not always using the healthiest means to get "in shape". I have heard this as one reason as to why BBing is not in the olympics as it is not in "the spirit" of the olympics. Of course some will practice perfectly healthy techniques, and even the "bad" ones are probably healthier than the average joe down the pub.


    EileenG wrote: »
    I believe the theory is that this is more like the eating pattern we would have used when we were hunter gatherers.
    flaka wrote: »
    Thankfully we've advanced to the point where the hunting is outsourced to supermarkets and the only gathering we do these days is wheeling a trolly around the supermarket. We're a gatherer-consumer people.
    Some peoples waistlines will not be thanking them. You can walk to the shops, and carry the food back. That is still the same sort of theory, but most are driving to the shops, buying un-natural processed crap, and driving home again. They even need a trolley to bring it from the shop to the car, to save their poor wasted muscles.
    EileenG wrote: »
    Peanuts are technically a legume, not a nut. Also, much more likely to cause allergic reactions.
    I never knew they were different. Learn something new on these threads all the time!

    Seems there is nut allergy and peanut allergy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_allergy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy

    Seems cashews are not nuts either

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
    Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing a dermatogenic phenolic resin, urushiol, a potent skin irritant toxin also found in the related poison ivy. Some people are allergic to cashew nuts, but cashews are a less frequent allergen than some nuts.


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