Christmas is coming - "Oh no it isn't, Oh yes it is!" (Thank you Widow Twanky!) Don't worry when it's "Behind you!" I'll be sure and let you know, just in case you prefer to hibernate during this rather hectic festive mayhem.
So what've you got planned? Big family get together? Cornflakes and mince pies for breakfast, followed by the contents of a selection box, a satsuma, a couple of walnuts, ( you would've had a Brazil nut, but you couldn't get in to it) a snowball cocktail and sausage roll all before 10am?
You've suddenly got that feeling when you're so stuffed you're beginning to dread your dinner?
No need to panic for there will inevitably be a calamity in the kitchen. The cooking time of the Turkey is generally a couple hours out. Someone with home economics O level and an unhealthy interest in Gordon Ramsey will ask "Is that the juices running clear or just fat in the bottom of tin?" In the interests of food safety you get a couple of extra hours digestion time to recover from the mornings munching.
When you eventually sit down to Christmas lunch it's more like Christmas tea, well past the Queen's speech and that means you can put away a small EU mountain of Brussel sprouts and not even flinch.
After the main course, the Pudding arrives in flaming brandy. Everyone cheers as a small fire hazard is extinguished and then all around take stock. No one wants Christmas Pudding after Christmas dinner - no one. However, unless you are allergic to it's ingredients, you get it down you in the name of tradition, for old times sake and because it's flipping well there! Personally I think Christmas Pud should be reserved for emergencies; a food substance that has the properties to sustain a small community for some days. It doesn't finish the meal, it paralyzes the eater.
That should be enough, but some brave chaps can't be beat.
If you're following the pudding by eating cheese and biscuits you're in the elite league. You've done the steeple chase of morning munching, the marathon dinner excess and now in a kind of food triathlon you're setting off on another gluttonous trek. You will finish, but you will be fit to burst my friend, fit to burst!
Naturally you'll find room for a turkey and stuffing sandwich to mop up the alcohol at around midnight and then your digestive system will gurgle like a clapped out school boiler, sigh heavily and roll up it's sleeves and get on with processing a conveyor belt of calories and attempt to turn them in to something useful; well it'll do it's best, it IS Christmas and when you're poor old body's been up since 4am peeling carrots and pouring sherry for an imaginary fat bloke it can't promise anything.
Boxing Day will roll around and from then on it's about 'eating things up' which to be honest is where all of the damage is done. Our bodies can cope with the odd blow out. We love the occasion of a good 'Feast' and for good reason. Celebration something special and rare is what makes us who we are. Every so often an incredible feat of overeating won't even register on the scales because inside the body knows it's supposed to be slim and it'll get right back to being slim without skipping a beat. But, and it's a big old but. If you keep on stuffing yourself for the sake of 'eating it up' or 'because it's Christmas' then you're getting into the habits of overweight people and when you follow those habits, you'll get a new fat shape whether you like it or not. It's up to you. Blow out or blow it? The choice is all yours.
For more information on how to change your thinking to change your weight go to
www.fatladsreformclub.com
P.S Funny thing about the days after Christmas. I always end up craving beans on toast. I don't plan it, but I know I'll hit the point when I just want something dull. It's not the grub, it's the variety that's the spice of life and in the end if you listen to your body, it'll keep you slim and healthy.
Sunday 20 December 2009
Thursday 19 November 2009
Enough is enough
Remember when you were a kid and you'd pushed your luck about as far is it could go and just before the shouting would start, your mum would say "That's enough now"!
She said it, "That's enough" and you knew that the reason she said it was because you knew what enough meant. It was the point you could go to and still be safe, still be OK, still get back from with ease. Enough.
If you ever get invited to someones house and have a meal with them, they'll probably say at some time in the course of the meal, "Have you had enough"? This is the point where (even if you're still starving hungry...) you say, "Oh yes thanks" because you've been bought up to be polite!
Truthfully, that's only the half of it. Most of the time someone, (it could even be your mum,) is pushing food at you and telling you to eat up; they've been slaving over at hot stove and you should eat and be grateful, other people aren't as fortunate as you!
So where does that leave you, especially if you're heavier than you want to be?
It leaves you in charge. It leaves you being the one who decides what is 'enough'.
You are now the voice in your head that says "What I have eaten is good, it's a safe amount, it's not so much that if I keep on at this rate it'll be more difficult for me to be the size I want to be in the future".
Be able to say "Thank you, I've had enough". Say it to yourself. Know what is enough for you and be confident in your decision.
We don't need huge amounts of anything in life, we just need enough.
For more info about how to train yourself to get the shape you want go to
www.fatladsreformclub.com
She said it, "That's enough" and you knew that the reason she said it was because you knew what enough meant. It was the point you could go to and still be safe, still be OK, still get back from with ease. Enough.
If you ever get invited to someones house and have a meal with them, they'll probably say at some time in the course of the meal, "Have you had enough"? This is the point where (even if you're still starving hungry...) you say, "Oh yes thanks" because you've been bought up to be polite!
Truthfully, that's only the half of it. Most of the time someone, (it could even be your mum,) is pushing food at you and telling you to eat up; they've been slaving over at hot stove and you should eat and be grateful, other people aren't as fortunate as you!
So where does that leave you, especially if you're heavier than you want to be?
It leaves you in charge. It leaves you being the one who decides what is 'enough'.
You are now the voice in your head that says "What I have eaten is good, it's a safe amount, it's not so much that if I keep on at this rate it'll be more difficult for me to be the size I want to be in the future".
Be able to say "Thank you, I've had enough". Say it to yourself. Know what is enough for you and be confident in your decision.
We don't need huge amounts of anything in life, we just need enough.
For more info about how to train yourself to get the shape you want go to
www.fatladsreformclub.com
Thursday 5 November 2009
Comfort food
Blimey it's cold out there! Makes you want to turn up the central heating, grab a blanket or the dog and eat pile of chips followed by a huge jam sponge and custard.
Sounds great doesn't it? Stodgy food makes us feel safe and warm and...well... comforted!
Slim people feel like this just as much as fat people. Food is one of the great pleasures in life and should be eaten with relish.
The difference is that when you're someone who thinks like a 'thin person' you know that this kind of winter grub is just part of a bigger picture.
Slim people have a natural instinct to eat what's good for them as well as the odd sticky toffee pud. They make sure they get some veg and fruit. They eat a wide variety of foods. Not just because it balances out a good meal, but because their taste buds crave it.
Slim blokes naturally want to get some fresh air and blow away the cobwebs. Yes they might over indulge occasionally but their bodies want to stay on an even keel, so they naturally balance themselves out.
Slim blokes are, without any mental effort, giving their bodies the choice of nutrients so that they never crave sugar and they feel sick if they over eat. Thin guys are getting the essential nutrients that keep every cell in their bodies functioning well and they are getting this good quality nutrition every day.
Winter is a great time for warming tasty nosh. Enjoy it. Add some variety. Add fresh veg. Eat less fatty processed meat. Choose to cook food from scratch and give up worrying about your weight. Take pleasure in the great taste of wholesome, unprocessed and slap up family dinners and you'll find your body take charge once again. Think like a slim bloke and that's what you'll become.
For more info on training your thinking to get thin with ease at
www.fatladsreformclub.com
Sounds great doesn't it? Stodgy food makes us feel safe and warm and...well... comforted!
Slim people feel like this just as much as fat people. Food is one of the great pleasures in life and should be eaten with relish.
The difference is that when you're someone who thinks like a 'thin person' you know that this kind of winter grub is just part of a bigger picture.
Slim people have a natural instinct to eat what's good for them as well as the odd sticky toffee pud. They make sure they get some veg and fruit. They eat a wide variety of foods. Not just because it balances out a good meal, but because their taste buds crave it.
Slim blokes naturally want to get some fresh air and blow away the cobwebs. Yes they might over indulge occasionally but their bodies want to stay on an even keel, so they naturally balance themselves out.
Slim blokes are, without any mental effort, giving their bodies the choice of nutrients so that they never crave sugar and they feel sick if they over eat. Thin guys are getting the essential nutrients that keep every cell in their bodies functioning well and they are getting this good quality nutrition every day.
Winter is a great time for warming tasty nosh. Enjoy it. Add some variety. Add fresh veg. Eat less fatty processed meat. Choose to cook food from scratch and give up worrying about your weight. Take pleasure in the great taste of wholesome, unprocessed and slap up family dinners and you'll find your body take charge once again. Think like a slim bloke and that's what you'll become.
For more info on training your thinking to get thin with ease at
www.fatladsreformclub.com
Thursday 22 October 2009
The Feeders...
Apparently the problem, if you are overweight, isn't you, it's 'The Feeders'. Good. That helps doesn't it? Er, actually it doesn't. You're still fat.
You may at this point be wondering what or who 'The Feeders' are?
Collectively, they are the companies who make millions out of fatty, sugary and salty food. They are kings in the nutrient wasteland, they are monarchs of mono sodium glutamate, the shining knights of sugar.
I'm not going to name names (I'm not stupid, these corporations have very large budgets and even bigger lawyers) but let's assume we're talking about that quaint 'Scottish' restaurant with the arches of gold and with them any burger or chicken franchise you care to mention. I'm talking about fast fat food and with it all the ice creams and chocolatey side orders that make up a meal that could, calorifically speaking, keep an army on it's feet for days, albeit giving them that horrific afternoon sugar dip.
They've got great marketing all these 'Feeders'. They're on every corner,in every town and they've even infiltrated the odd hospital. Fast food is ubiquitous, but you know what? It ain't compulsory!
I agree that the ease in which everyone can buy cheap bad food is a big issue. Every supermarket has freezers full of food whose components have been so chemically altered they are barely fit for purpose, but you have a choice.
It's sometimes easy to forget that choice, but it's there and the more we exercise it, the more we grow in our mental stature and health.
Know that you can walk past the greasy fast food outlet. Know that you can use natural ingredients and make soups and salads and casseroles and a hundred other dishes that promote health. During the war years this country was healthier than it's ever been in the intervening years because people ate simple healthy food.
If 'The Feeders' are the problem then everyone would be obese and they are not. The problem as I see it is that some people have lost their self belief that they can do something about their obesity issues. This for me is the tragedy.
Allow a person to see that they are in charge, that they have the strength of character, intellect and dynamism to change any aspect of their lives, including their size and shape and amazing things happen.
There will always be temptation. There will always an easy way and a better way and there will always be personal choice.
If you want to learn how to shape your thinking to give you the tools to change your life for the better call in at www.fatladsreformclub.com
You may at this point be wondering what or who 'The Feeders' are?
Collectively, they are the companies who make millions out of fatty, sugary and salty food. They are kings in the nutrient wasteland, they are monarchs of mono sodium glutamate, the shining knights of sugar.
I'm not going to name names (I'm not stupid, these corporations have very large budgets and even bigger lawyers) but let's assume we're talking about that quaint 'Scottish' restaurant with the arches of gold and with them any burger or chicken franchise you care to mention. I'm talking about fast fat food and with it all the ice creams and chocolatey side orders that make up a meal that could, calorifically speaking, keep an army on it's feet for days, albeit giving them that horrific afternoon sugar dip.
They've got great marketing all these 'Feeders'. They're on every corner,in every town and they've even infiltrated the odd hospital. Fast food is ubiquitous, but you know what? It ain't compulsory!
I agree that the ease in which everyone can buy cheap bad food is a big issue. Every supermarket has freezers full of food whose components have been so chemically altered they are barely fit for purpose, but you have a choice.
It's sometimes easy to forget that choice, but it's there and the more we exercise it, the more we grow in our mental stature and health.
Know that you can walk past the greasy fast food outlet. Know that you can use natural ingredients and make soups and salads and casseroles and a hundred other dishes that promote health. During the war years this country was healthier than it's ever been in the intervening years because people ate simple healthy food.
If 'The Feeders' are the problem then everyone would be obese and they are not. The problem as I see it is that some people have lost their self belief that they can do something about their obesity issues. This for me is the tragedy.
Allow a person to see that they are in charge, that they have the strength of character, intellect and dynamism to change any aspect of their lives, including their size and shape and amazing things happen.
There will always be temptation. There will always an easy way and a better way and there will always be personal choice.
If you want to learn how to shape your thinking to give you the tools to change your life for the better call in at www.fatladsreformclub.com
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Today there is a man in Britain who weighs 70 stones. There is a picture of him on a national news website, taken when he weighed 50 stones. At 50 stones the man didn't make the decision to get smaller. No, in effect, he made the opposite decision, to get bigger. He got 20 stones bigger.
There will be people who will argue that the act of 'not stopping' is not in anyway the same as proactively gaining as much weight as possible. They will say that the man didn't WANT to get bigger. The fact is the outcome is the same.
Thankfully to be 70 stone is to be a rare human being. Thankfully, because it isn't healthy to be housebound by one's own bulk and I'd lay odds that the man concerned would have lead a more fulfilled and happier existence if, when he'd got to 50 stones, he'd decided to stop the weight gaining lifestyle and tried anything to change.
Imagine if things had gone the other way for him? He'd be 30 stones now and no doubt looking forward to being even lighter because his view of himself would have completely turned around.
Is it really that simple? I believe it is.
Many people make the decision to lose weight, they see the benefits, they even lose some weight, but they give up, lose faith in themselves and comfort eat their way to oblivion. Why? Because the change needs to take place not just in your eating habits but in your thinking habits.
If you're not changing something, you're almost certainly getting the same results as you have always had.
If you've been fat for a long time, you're an expert at getting fat. Consider the idea that you can become an expert at being thinner.
When you recognise that you are controlling yourself; Even if you're allowing everything in your life to drift,(you have on a very deep level, made that choice.)You realise it's all down to what you really want to make happen.
It's a domino effect. Thinking about HOW you are creating your bulk,(I eat lots of fried food and I never exercise,) you can work out WHY you're doing it. What does it do for you? What would you accept as an alternative way of living?
You can decide if you are emotionally ready and willing to be thinner and lighter and you can choose to make any changes necessary to become the size you want to be.
Taking control of your own thinking might seem a strange starting point for weight loss, but realising that it really is 'that simple' could be the 'light bulb' moment where you start to move forward with your life. Give yourself the opportunity to look back at a pivotal point of positive change and not a life filled with might have beens...
If you want more information on changing your weight go to www.fatladsreformclub.com
There will be people who will argue that the act of 'not stopping' is not in anyway the same as proactively gaining as much weight as possible. They will say that the man didn't WANT to get bigger. The fact is the outcome is the same.
Thankfully to be 70 stone is to be a rare human being. Thankfully, because it isn't healthy to be housebound by one's own bulk and I'd lay odds that the man concerned would have lead a more fulfilled and happier existence if, when he'd got to 50 stones, he'd decided to stop the weight gaining lifestyle and tried anything to change.
Imagine if things had gone the other way for him? He'd be 30 stones now and no doubt looking forward to being even lighter because his view of himself would have completely turned around.
Is it really that simple? I believe it is.
Many people make the decision to lose weight, they see the benefits, they even lose some weight, but they give up, lose faith in themselves and comfort eat their way to oblivion. Why? Because the change needs to take place not just in your eating habits but in your thinking habits.
If you're not changing something, you're almost certainly getting the same results as you have always had.
If you've been fat for a long time, you're an expert at getting fat. Consider the idea that you can become an expert at being thinner.
When you recognise that you are controlling yourself; Even if you're allowing everything in your life to drift,(you have on a very deep level, made that choice.)You realise it's all down to what you really want to make happen.
It's a domino effect. Thinking about HOW you are creating your bulk,(I eat lots of fried food and I never exercise,) you can work out WHY you're doing it. What does it do for you? What would you accept as an alternative way of living?
You can decide if you are emotionally ready and willing to be thinner and lighter and you can choose to make any changes necessary to become the size you want to be.
Taking control of your own thinking might seem a strange starting point for weight loss, but realising that it really is 'that simple' could be the 'light bulb' moment where you start to move forward with your life. Give yourself the opportunity to look back at a pivotal point of positive change and not a life filled with might have beens...
If you want more information on changing your weight go to www.fatladsreformclub.com
Friday 16 October 2009
Getting fed up with being fat...
Sometimes even just being a little bit fat makes you feel bad about yourself. You love your jogging bottoms and you hate your jogging bottoms. You love them because you can get into them, you hate them because nothing else fits.
Are that person that no one wants to sit next to on a long haul flight?
Do you feel people around you are judging you? Watching your every mouthful?
Do you sleep badly? Breathe hard? Do you feel out of control? Don't know what to do? Don't know where to get help? "How could anyone help me?" you think, "I'm the one who does the eating?"
I've got news for you! If you want to change, if you REALLY want the SECRET to long term EASY weight loss you need to email me NOW!
bigchanges@fatladsreformclub.com and I'll send you a FREE! Yes FREE! Reformers Guide.
Do it now! It'll change your life.
Are that person that no one wants to sit next to on a long haul flight?
Do you feel people around you are judging you? Watching your every mouthful?
Do you sleep badly? Breathe hard? Do you feel out of control? Don't know what to do? Don't know where to get help? "How could anyone help me?" you think, "I'm the one who does the eating?"
I've got news for you! If you want to change, if you REALLY want the SECRET to long term EASY weight loss you need to email me NOW!
bigchanges@fatladsreformclub.com and I'll send you a FREE! Yes FREE! Reformers Guide.
Do it now! It'll change your life.
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