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Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

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BTW, should I post the metabolic syndrome study I found in the heath etc info thread… forgotten what it's titled as?

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Thanks @Appleblossom ..,,, 🤗❤️💕

I suspected yesterday was the start of another detox dump .... beginning with low energy .... and this morning I have woken to flu-like symptoms ..... but if it's a detox dump that will only last a few hours and be gone within the day, along with tight and sore lymph nodes in the back of my neck .....

Hi @Smc ..... yeah .... MetBol.Synd. was a very rude shock cos my diet is good and I have always endeavoured to maintain a decent amount of exercise. It was a ruder shock when I increased my exercise and reduced my food intake and went UP on the scales, but the weight gain at that stage was only in my mid-section, which was bizarre !!

I have referred to it as my phantom pregnancy .... that has lasted for years .....

And the doctor I was seeing kept telling me to increase my exercise and reduce my food intake, then wouldn't believe I was because the results were not correlating with normal weight loss ...,, have since learned that is classic MetBol.Synd., but I think if your diet and exercise patterns are lousy to begin with, it does make a difference to those people to clean up their act.

It's the hardest weight to lose ..... but once I realised that stress can be a major factor, it's not hard to see why it's happened.

When I went to our family doctor with my husband and blew the whistle on him, he fired back with my lack of progress with my weight loss being a source of jealousy over his "successful" life change, and at that point I commented to the doctor that high stress causes floods of cortisol ..... the doctor replied that cortisol doesn't cause weight gain, to which I answered that I believe it prevents weight loss ..... at which point he stopped and stared at me, processing in his head, then said "yes, yes it does !" Magic words to my ears ..... cos it stopped WH in thise tracks.at least .....

It was being in MetBol.Synd. That was causing the weight gain, which is what was registering in my blood test results .... and when my blood readings stabilised I stopped gaining weight. It's the losing of it .... while doing the "Atlas holding up the world" thing that has proved so difficult .... hoping with far less stress so far this year that I have a fighting chance to get my waistline back in to the right sort of zone.

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@Smc the discussion topic is What's new:  research, services and technologies .... and yes, I think it is worthwhile and obviously you do too.

I was stressed at being told to lose weight, and not being believed that Zi was eating and exercising healthfully .... it meant. Lot to find there was a scientific explanation for it.

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@Faith-and-Hope

Mmm... and researching further, prolonged stress and sleep deprivation also mess up the appetite controlling hormones. Leptin, the hormone that gives the "I'm full" signal is decreased, and ghrelin, the appetite stimulant, is increased. Both the high cortisol and the appetite hormone imbalances are based on the body responding to a supposed emergency, where energy needs to be gathered and stored like crazy for the next phase of high physical challenge- "fight or flight", or potential starvation. 

I've got a tendency to carry extra weight anyway- I tell people I've got a worker-peasant metabolism, and if I'm not doing hard labour, dietary changes don't help very much. (I'm short, so portions become really tiny if I try to cut down. In theory I should have 1500 cal/6275 kj per day or less to lose weight; in practice, I'm exhausted and dizzy all the time if I eat that little.) Is interesting and helpful knowing that there may be more to it.

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Ok, articles posted.

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That's what I found @Smc .... 

Increasing fruit and veg is certainly a key cos they contain high fibre as well, which helps to keep you full for longer, and so does lean protein.

There are healthy fats and unhealthy fats .... cold pressed oils are the ones you want as opposed to heat-extracted, and avoid hydrolysed fats as much as humanly possible .... 

incidentally, coconut and palm oils are excellent as natural oils, but they are the ones usually hydrolysed, which then makes them anything but !! They are the ones used cheaply in the fast food industry and have devastating health effects,

It's similar with white flour products.  Your body reads white flour as a sugar.  Only whole grain is complex carbohydrate .... and that was a huge shock for me .... realising that the "whole grain" bread I was eating lots of was a white grain bread with some whole grains thrown in for the labelling.  Bread choices in the supermarket have come a long way since then.

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Hello All. How are we today? Am ok but at same time also feel this slight anxiety feeling. Maybe it is the lack of sleep....not sure. 

@Faith-and-Hope - metabolic syndrome. I googled it. Never knew it existed. One new thing I learnt today. 

I read a mighty feed video and article last night about high functioning anxiety. It popped up on my feed. It is such an interesting concept. The writer used the following words:

Achievement. Busyness. Perfectionism. 

The panic that flashes through my eyes when a plan changes. When anything changes.

It starts to make me now overthink especially given my partner says I can be over-organised and sometimes even once used word over-controlling. As people always say how busy I am and how can I function with the amount of activities I have with the work I have to get done....well don't really sleep much. I know that I purposely keep myself busy cause the moment I stop my brain and thoughts will be my own worst enemies. But this is probably me overthinking things as I tend to do. 

 

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@Faith-and-Hope

We keep our diet generally healthy. There's usually lots of vegs, fruit consumption varies depending on what's in season. A lot but not all of our carbs are wholemeal or wholegrain. Meat varies, but we eat a lot less than the average family, so proportionately don't get too much fat. Fats vary too- olive oil or macadamia oil for cooking, but butter is hard to beat on bread. One downfall for me is that I need to cook to fill other family members who are hungrier than me, particularly our late-teens son. If I'm cooking for me only, there's even more vegs than usual. 😄

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Sounds pretty much like me @Smc .... and butter is a healthy natural fat when kept in the right place in a balanced lifestyle .... it's artificial fats or chemically altered ones that are rubbish.

We have fasting periods across the year for religious reasons, and they are vegan vegetarian plus shellfish, for weeks ahead of Easter and Christmas, and on most Wednesday's and Friday's throughout the year. It makes you think. And alms-giving is a part of that .... along with the thought that "it's more important what comes out of your mouth than what goes in to it ..." meaning - be nice ❣ or it doesn't matter what you fast from.
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Hello everyone @Faith-and-Hope @Smc @Anony18 @Appleblossom @Determined @Former-Member @Shaz51  (hope I didn't miss anyone, sorry if I did)

I've not popped into this thread today, for some reasons my notifications from this thread are sporadic to non existent unfortunately.

Anyhow.. I just wanted to say "hello" before I read all of your wonderful goodness in contributions.  🙂

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