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You're on the right track!
Veggies=good.
*very low carb is the best*
This has totally worked for me.
Plus sprinting and heavy lifting.
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I find the simpliest approach simply to initially fast and experience the feeling of "hunger", be mindful of the accompanying physical phenomena, observe them, re-learn and re-experience how the desire to eat is completely conditioned by the quantities and type of food one is used to eat. Experience that it actually does not take much food to sustain physical and mental functions but that the biggest portion of food intake is caused by desire and attachment and unreflected habits which may be considered quite "animal-like".

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Pax wrote:Stefan - how has it been going?? Still doing well, keeping the weight off?
Overall I've lost 23 kilos and I now weigh 83.9kg. My goal is to be 75 kg by the end of the year.
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Congratulations :clap:
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Stefan wrote:
Pax wrote:Stefan - how has it been going?? Still doing well, keeping the weight off?
Overall I've lost 23 kilos and I now weigh 83.9kg. My goal is to be 75 kg by the end of the year.
Very nice!! I've been making slow inroads myself.
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alan wrote:You're on the right track!
Veggies=good.
*very low carb is the best*
This has totally worked for me.
Plus sprinting and heavy lifting.
*nodding vigorously*

Body composition is primarily what you eat and secondarily how (often/much) you move your body. And bringing up the rear, but very important to weight loss: stress levels and quantity of sleep.
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Congratulations Stefan :clap:

On a side note, does any one of you know a pali prayer to say/chant before eating?
I've been searching that cause it would be a great way to abstain from eating sweets and stuff :smile:
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Admiral wrote:On a side note, does any one of you know a pali prayer to say/chant before eating?
I've been searching that cause it would be a great way to abstain from eating sweets and stuff :smile:
Good idea, Admiral! I googled and found this one at http://buddhism.about.com/od/becomingab ... chants.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wisely reflecting, I use this food not for fun, not for pleasure, not for fattening, not for beautification, but only for the maintenance and nourishment of this body, for keeping it healthy, for helping with the Spiritual Life;
Thinking thus, I will allay hunger without overeating, so that I may continue to live blamelessly and at ease.
That'll take the fun out of it, eh?



And congratulations on your progress, Stefan! :twothumbsup:
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Is anyone here into weightlifting?
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Hi Admiral,
Admiral wrote:On a side note, does any one of you know a pali prayer to say/chant before eating?
I've been searching that cause it would be a great way to abstain from eating sweets and stuff :smile:
If you do a search on 'repulsiveness of nutriment' you should be able to find a thread I started months ago which includes a transcription on the contemplation of the repulsiveness of nutriment that is in the Visuddhimagga.
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Can't live without nutriment, though, can we?
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I couldn't agree more, alan!
repulsiveness is not intended to generate aversion.
Rather, it is to develop discernment and to see food for what it really is.
That's all!
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Seeing food for what it really is--Good topic for a new thread, or not?
I'll leave it up to the moderators.
"repulsiveness" of food--I half understand the idea, maybe some one can help me with this?
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Hi Alan
There is already a thread on repulsiveness of nutriment that I mentioned earlier.

Like many other things, the sensory pleasure of food can become a powerful source of craving which can lead to obsession. And here, when I say craving I don't mean the pangs of hunger that one might experience from time to time when one does not eat. The kind of craving I'm talking about is the craving of the sensory pleasure of eating one's favourite things.
Eating is so fundamental and because it is a sensory activity, craving, aversion and attachment to food or to the foods we enjoy can run very deep. So, the point of the exercise of 'repulsiveness of nutriment' is merely to break one's attachment to the sensory pleasure of inbibing and eating and view food as merely a remedy for hunger. As I said earlier, despite the language used and the descriptions given in the Vism, like maranasati (charnel-ground contemplation), the object is not to develop aversion, rather dispassion.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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I'm just wondering whether anyone has used protein formulas (meal replacement) to assist in weight loss and what your experience has been.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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