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BrianHG:
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--- Quote from: BrianHG on June 18, 2020, 03:33:02 pm ---Also, I found it is safe to put sprouted breads in the fridge. Refrigerated, their shelf life increases to a few months as long as they were fresh before you placed the in the fridge. I have no choice but to buy the bread in bulk here as the local stores purchases them at a limited quantity because of their price and being a niche product, and it appears I'm not the only one in my town who is on the hunt for these breads.
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Do you have Trader Joe in Canada/Quebec? - they had a reasonable range of sprouted grain products when I looked this morning.
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When traveling to California for business, trader Joes is my default stop as I make sure my hotel room has a functional kitchen & I prep my own food except for business dinners.
Luckily here in Quebec, I have access to an authentic butcher, who I personally know by name where I order the top quality meats in bulk, to order by weight, which he vacuum packs for me, then freezes it.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 18, 2020, 05:04:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: BrianHG on June 18, 2020, 04:25:00 pm ---[...]
Our appetite is such a finely tuned system that If we were to only eat 4 pistachio nuts a day over my requirements, within a year, anyone of us would put on an additional 25 pounds of fat.
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I was amazed to find how many calories there are in nuts. E.g. 15 grams of walnuts ( which is really not much!) is 100 calories...
Guess who was ignorantly piling on ounces of walnuts on the breakfast oats in the past... no wonder it was hard to lose weight, LOL!
To me, the big "Aha" is where the calories are coming from, there are plenty of counter-intuitive surprises in this space! :D
Even my mug coffee with milk turned out to be an issue, when you add it up over a day (week, month, year...)
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It's not just calories but how much they fill you up and what other nutrients they provide. For example semi-skimmed milk might have the same number of calories per 100ml, as lemonade, but it also has a ton of other nutrients such as calcium and protein and it's absorbed much more slowly, than lemonade, which is just sugary water.
Nuts are energy dense, but they're also packed full of other nutrients, so aren't a bad thing to eat.
When you eat most of your calories is also important. It's generally better to eat more earlier on in the day, so it can be burned off, rather than at night, when it's more likely to be stored as fat.
However it's still energy in vs expenditure which matters. Tricks such as less energy dense food, which is slowly absorbed, eating enough fibre and not too late help to increase the odds of an energy deficit, but physics always wins.
I've found if I'm really active, it's almost impossible to gain weight and I tend to under, rather than over eat, which can cause some disordered eating, such as binging, and waking up in the night to eat. When I'd go for a six mile cycle ride at lunchtime, as well as cycling 4.5 miles to and from work everyday, I'd find myself eating all sorts of processed, sugary, fatty food and still lose weight. Now I still cycle to and from work, but I haven't cycled at lunchtime, since the pandemic, as I'm worried about having an accident and going to hospital, so the binging is rare and I don't wake up to eat any more. When I start cycling at lunchtime again, I'll make more of an effort to eat/drink more calories from substances which don't keep my stomach full for too long, as night eating is a pain and I feel drowsy the following day. All the energy dense foods which are considered to be healthy, tend to be slow release and would keep my stomach full, thus reducing my appetite and what I eat later, so I might resort to eating some junk food, after my lunchtime cycle rides, to keep my intake up.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 18, 2020, 05:04:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: BrianHG on June 18, 2020, 04:25:00 pm ---[...]
Our appetite is such a finely tuned system that If we were to only eat 4 pistachio nuts a day over my requirements, within a year, anyone of us would put on an additional 25 pounds of fat.
[...]
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I was amazed to find how many calories there are in nuts. E.g. 15 grams of walnuts ( which is really not much!) is 100 calories...
Guess who was ignorantly piling on ounces of walnuts on the breakfast oats in the past... no wonder it was hard to lose weight, LOL!
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Yes. One of the first things to do if you want to lose weight is keep a list with what you eat for one or two weeks and then sum up the calories. There will be several red flags :)
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: nctnico on June 18, 2020, 10:17:36 pm ---Yes. One of the first things to do if you want to lose weight is keep a list with what you eat for one or two weeks and then sum up the calories. There will be several red flags :)
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This usually holds true since it is so easy for our bodies to extract the calories from our processed/refined cooked food.
Example: I eat all my filet mignon blue. I don't mean disgusting refrigerated cold, but, the bulk core of the meat isn't cooked while the outside is seared for flavor, but the core never exceeds body temperature during cooking.
It was discovered that actual 'cooking' of meat actually performs part of the digestion breakdown process making it 5x easier our short intestine to extract the calories and nutrients from the meat. The truth is our massive brains burn most of our consumed calories at rest and without cooked food, in our deep ancestry, we might have never been able to fuel our evolution at times of low food availability.
This actually holds true for many vegetables as well. As an example, raw carrots celery are so difficult to digest, you can almost consider them as negative calories. Not only can you stuff them nonstop, but it actually will take all day non-stop just to chew down enough of them just to get enough calories to survive. However, once you cook them, no only are they soft, but sweeter too and it becomes easy for our intestine to extract them as fuel instead of them being fiberous mulch being pushed through our system.
Unfortunately, if we try using this trick, for some of us, it doesn't last too long until our sub-continuous appetite system catches on, adapts, and then you find out you are eating 2-5x the food to make up for that new weird hunger sensation. It's feels like your stomach is stuffed full from eating all that mulch which you don't seem to be extracting any useful surplus calories from, so you feel as if you always need to eat more non-stop.
Damn it, we cant trick our bodies indefinitely. Like it or not, evolution has designed us to seek out calorie rich food all too well.
nctnico:
I'd say it has become way too easy to get food. But you can get used to eating less.
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