On channel Ten tonight, Jamie Oliver presented a show called Eat To Save Your Life. Was extremely interesting and i tell you now, it certainly brought home to me that i need to be persistant in losing weight and keeping it off. It was that interesting that i took 3 pages of notes and i will be refering to those notes everytime i think about blowing the whole weight loss thing.
An example of what was shown:
They spoke about good and bad cholestrol, one thing i didn't know was that the good cholestrol cleans the bad but that doesn't give us the freedom to continually eat bad fats with the odd good fat thrown in for good measure.
One woman's diet consisted of full cream lattes and crisps, pizza, soda etc. She was about 300 calories over her daily limit but if she was to cut out 1 latte and the crisps she would be under her daily intake. Having that latte and bowl of crisps would increase her weight by 3 1/2 stone over 15 months. She does need to eat alot more fresh produce though.
They did an autopsy on a 25 stone deceased man to show what eating [email protected] food does to your body. There was fat everywhere, it even invaded the muscle fibers! The heart could not be seen due to the amount of fat around it. The diaphragm was higer then it should have been, the lungs were extremely small, the amount of fat was disgusting and really off putting. I'm a person who needs to be shown things, visulization is my weakness and this has done the trick!
I really hope they show it again, we could all get something out of it.