Obesity discrimination



I am like that, no matter how much I eat im constantly hungry, what I pack away at dinner time is usually at least 2 times more than anyone else sitting at the bate table and I could eat more no problem at all, it might not be a problem with my brain I may just be a greedy fecker but I am constantly hungry

How well do you sleep?

Lack of sleep messes up two hormones. I forget their names but one controls how hungry you are and one sends signals to your brain to tell you that you've eaten enough. When you don't sleep properly, they go haywire and your body thinks you are always hungry and never full no matter how much you eat.
 
Absolutely. You can get really decent recipes online for fresh produce. Or buy a cook book for 15 quid and you've got your next year's worth of food sorted.
This is a good point, Ive been a little bored of the food ive been eating lately, and I don't like looking online for recipes(I do this but I like to read) I bought a joe wicks book on Monday with 100 meals in and have already had 2 of his meals, took no more than 20 mins to cook, all fresh and me and the wife(no) have had 2 healthy meals with no hassle, and it took less time for me to cook the meals than it does for a pizza to be delivered
 
Smaller portions are definitely part of it. But so is changing those portions from beans potato waffles and breaded chicken to roast fresh chicken and veg.

You can eat as much veg as you like and you'll never get fat because there just isn't enough calories in there before you are full.

The only reason I say it is possible to change is because I myself did it. My parents cooked shite when I was a kid. Brought up on processed crap and I got chunky in my mid teens. Looked online, saw I needed 45 mins excercise 5 days a week and I should eat fresh. Within, I think it was 3 months I was back to a normal weight.

All I did was stop eating majority of processed food, pasta and bread.
Once you realise eating the contents of a fresh cheeseburger with salad but not in a bun still helps you lose weight it becomes easy.

Yes this is sound advice. Small changes can have big effects.
One pound in weight equivalent to 3500 calories. If you can burn 500 a day and cut out two slices of bread a day you'd drop 1.5 pounds a week.
Or if you drink full fat coke, one 500ml bottle a day, just switching to the zero option would drop you half a pound a week
 
The subconscious is quite sneaky. Put stuff in front of you and you will be eating it before you realise. It likes high calorific salty, fatty, sweet stuff. That is put in front of you wherever you go. It likes the path of least resistance and will eat a ready meal and sit on the phone rather than prepare a decent healthy meal.

Ironically, we are happier after we have exercised and eat healthy stuff. So we need our conscious mind to override the subconscious. I do this by only taking decent food into the house. No biscuits/crisps/pop. I haven't got the willpower not to snack. I forced myself to do more exercise as I got older and gave up one car between me and the missus and started walking and cycling on certain journeys

I can see how people get fat and lazy, we are programmed to do it. It just isn't a recipe for a happy healthy existence.
I do the same, Don’t buy any crisps, biscuits or cakes. My alternative with my cuppa is a rice cake with peanut butter on. I have never eat so much fruit in my life as i am now,, i am Weak willed if in the house so its just better not to have them there in the first place.
 
How well do you sleep?

Lack of sleep messes up two hormones. I forget their names but one controls how hungry you are and one sends signals to your brain to tell you that you've eaten enough. When you don't sleep properly, they go haywire and your body thinks you are always hungry and never full no matter how much you eat.

Well I never knew this, over the last few years my sleep has been up and down because of my 2 kids, and the last few months has been the worst of it, it just seems to be getting back to normal now, I wonder if that helps
 
I do the same, Don’t buy any crisps, biscuits or cakes. My alternative with my cuppa is a rice cake with peanut butter on. I have never eat so much fruit in my life as i am now,, i am Weak willed if in the house so its just better not to have them there in the first place.
Do you still drink beer marra? Im off next week
 
This is a good point, Ive been a little bored of the food ive been eating lately, and I don't like looking online for recipes(I do this but I like to read) I bought a joe wicks book on Monday with 100 meals in and have already had 2 of his meals, took no more than 20 mins to cook, all fresh and me and the wife(no) have had 2 healthy meals with no hassle, and it took less time for me to cook the meals than it does for a pizza to be delivered
Joe wicks is brilliant. If anyone wants to lose weight easily I highly recommend his online programme. It's expensive... about 130 quid IIRC. But so worth it. You basically pay to have someone on the other end personally talking to you... it helped a lass I knew to have a fitness guru on hand to push her through everything. The idea being if you do it for 3 month a you will be conditioned to carry it on yourself
 
Pretty easy to change with a few simple lifestyle choices though. You could even make a positive out of the negative in job interviews when you eventually knock a few clem off and get a few.

Saw a two-ton-Tess in front of me in Tesco the other day, trolley absolutely filled to the brim with utter shite from the frozen food and cake aisle. Struck me that the only fresh fruit/veg she hoyed on the conveyor belt was half a dozen bananas.

This.

I 've noticed it too. If i can see that the stuff they are buying is calorie packed rubbish, why can't they.
But there are a lot of stupid unaware people out there, so that will be them.
But the situation is only going to get worse unless Government, health and Education are more active on the situation.
As far as descrimination is concerned, i don't think they are overly victimised. In fact i think they get away with quite a lot.
A couple of years back i changed my season card seat at the SOL. Unfortunately, i ended up with a massively overweight bloke next to me. In that whole season i think i sat in his overhang about 3 times. I just found any empty seat nearby and sat there.
 
Joe wicks is brilliant. If anyone wants to lose weight easily I highly recommend his online programme. It's expensive... about 130 quid IIRC. But so worth it. You basically pay to have someone on the other end personally talking to you... it helped a lass I knew to have a fitness guru on hand to push her through everything. The idea being if you do it for 3 month a you will be conditioned to carry it on yourself

This raises a point that not everyone can do it on there own, Education is needed from a very early age, everyone in school should leave with some knowledge of how to cook for themselves, but it seems people would rather bang something in the micro wave or order a take away as they don't have time to cook, is it really they don't have time or could this be down to the fact the are not confident in the kitchen? loads of people I know cannot cook a proper meal from scratch and I find this astonishing
 
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Yes this is sound advice. Small changes can have big effects.
One pound in weight equivalent to 3500 calories. If you can burn 500 a day and cut out two slices of bread a day you'd drop 1.5 pounds a week.
Or if you drink full fat coke, one 500ml bottle a day, just switching to the zero option would drop you half a pound a week
True. And the food doesn't have to be boring. I made a curry one night for me and our lass with coliflower rice instead of normal rice. Basically you buy a coliflower grinder for 8 quid and that does the work for you. Honestly we both said the coli rice tasted better than actual rice... it was lush, full of minerals and approx. 400 calories less than normal rice.
 
This raises a point that not everyone can do it on there own, Education is needed from a very early age, everyone in school should leave with some knowledge of how to cook for themselves
People know what is good for them and bad for them. The knowledge is at their fingertips on the phone they are on all day.
 
This raises a point that not everyone can do it on there own, Education is needed from a very early age, everyone in school should leave with some knowledge of how to cook for themselves
I agree that would be a massive step in the right direction. But I also think it's fair to say in today's society everyone can do it on their own. Everyone knows that a salad is healthier than a McDonald's. Everyone knows that the internet and cook books are available.

But in essence I agree we as a society could do an awful lot more to help each other.
 
People know what is good for them and bad for them. The knowledge is at their fingertips on the phone they are on all day.
Yes harry it is, but people would rather watch tv our play computer games and laze around, if your taught in school it sticks with you, just like if your mam and dad cook proper meals I would think your more likely to when you grow up, if your fed on pizza and chicken nuggets everynight I would guess and its only a guess that's what you will be serving up when your a adult at tea time for yourself and your kids, educate the kids early, I grew up cooking with me mam and learning the basic skills and I do have the occasional pizza and chicken nuggets night, but I prefer to cook myself and my kids a proper meal everynight
 
I agree that would be a massive step in the right direction. But I also think it's fair to say in today's society everyone can do it on their own. Everyone knows that a salad is healthier than a McDonald's. Everyone knows that the internet and cook books are available.

But in essence I agree we as a society could do an awful lot more to help each other.

I'm not helping anybody. I'm not a charity.
 
I'm not helping anybody. I'm not a charity.
I just think our schools system should teach cooking, it doesn't require a chef. Just a teacher who can read a set of instructions. It should be in the vocation that it becomes normal for children to cook healthy tasty meals.
 

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