The gym thread

[Scott]

Good call changing to the less sugary or starchy foods (white pasta, rice and bread). As for the GF diet, it's a little annoying but it can take more than a week to feel the benefits from it. I know this as if Coeliacs have gluten it can take longer than a week for them to feel back to normal again. Do you eat sandwiches as your 'go-to' snack? A lot of the GF bread isn't great and it's quite expensive considering how much you get, but certain brands are better than others (I believe Kim may have mentioned those to you?). As you say though, some of it can be quite high in sugar, but from what I've found a lot of food which isn't specifically marked as gluten-free is actually free-from anyway, but they're "made in a factory that handles wheat" or something of the sort, so they can't advertise it as such. I find that meals with brown rice, chicken and things like peppers, tomato, spinach and occasionally something like honey, maple or pesto really add to the flavour. When I say maple, I don't mean the cheap maple syrup which is made just from sugar, I mean proper Canadian maple syrup which is organic, though it is high in natural sugars.

I don't really want to go to a gym, so I've been browsing reddit and found the following thread which I'm going to be following in the short term: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments...l_stopgap/

I've done this tonight and will be following the schedule alongside things like football or climbing, I'll post results/thoughts on it over the next couple of weeks

I do have sandwiches for tea usually, yes. Tried two types of GF bread, and also warburtons GF rolls and didn't like any of those - Im sure they made me feel worse anyway, guts churning all night until I could get rid... I couldn't get on with the texture at all though, was forcing it down tbh.

Then the other GF stuff like cakes/biscuits had a lot more sugar than the normal equivalent and tasted awful and made me feel ill. So after that I gave up on that idea. I know it may not have been long enough but I couldn't put up with eating that stuff forever tbh. I dunno how Kim does it!

As for flavour...I dont really like flavour lol, bland and boring suits me fine, its more texture for me, and that pastey kind of texture of the GF bread wasn't nice at all.

The only thing left for me to try cutting out now is dairy...as I have cheese most days tbh, either in a sandwhich or at dinner with chicken/cheese/ham or pasta/cheese/bacon etc.

Well if you're going to eat cakes and biscuits they're full of sugar no matter whether they're GF or not Fruit is sweet and has natural sugars and is GF, why not try that as a substitute? Most chocolate is GF but then again that's dairy, so partly what you're trying to avoid. Eat Natural bars are GF and are really good as a snack, and they're reasonably sweet as some have honey, others have yoghurt or again, some have dark chocolate.

Are you not too keen on rice then?

Kas cheers for posting that