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    BD's Big Diet Book
    BD's Big Diet Book
    BD's Big Diet Book
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    BD's Big Diet Book

    By David E. Gates

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    A different kind of diet book!
    This one doesn't tell you what or how to eat, but rather gives you the experiences of more than a dozen different diets, allowing you an insight into each to enable you to choose the diet that's right for you!
    Based on real-life experiences, detailing the highs and lows of each diet, with a scoring mechanism for each, this book gives practical help and advice on a variety of diets and dieting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid E. Gates
    Release dateJan 1, 2021
    ISBN9781005183233
    BD's Big Diet Book
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    David E. Gates

    David E. Gates has published several books and short-stories. His first book, Access Denied, is a true story.  A deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of becoming a father and having to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support Agency who seem hell-bent on ruining him, emotionally and financially.. It has garnered 100% positive reviews. The Roots of Evil, his first horror novel, is a graphic, violent, intense and gore-laden horror story. His second fictional novel, The Wretched, is an original horror story set in and around Portsmouth. David has made a documentary film about the battlefield memorials in Ypres, Belgium called Ypres – The Battlefield Tours and previously wrote film reviews for Starburst and Samhain magazines and interviewed the likes of Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and many others. He has also written many short stories and poems, a full-length motion picture screenplay, the screenplay to a short film and in his spare time hosts a rock radio show. Also by David E. Gates: Access Denied The Roots of Evil The Wretched Omonolidee First Words Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman The Projectionist A Planned Demise The Ghost of Clothes Fixing the Faker The Christmas Carol Omonolidee - Morgado, Portugal, 2018. Two Sides of Vegas

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      BD's Big Diet Book - David E. Gates

      Foreword

      The information in this book is based on my own experiences and is not sanctioned by any company or organization. The views within this book are mine and mine alone, except where I’ve specifically cited statements from others in respect of relevant experiences/products.

      I am not a medical professional or healthcare representative and the reviews/records I publish here are based on the true representation of results from the programs I’ve encountered and/or undertaken. The results and comments therein are given purely as a guide. Any actions you take as a result of reading the texts in this book are taken at your own risk. No liability is accepted for any loss/damage you may suffer as a result of reading and acting upon any of the information within this book.

      Advisory

      As a caveat, before you undertake any dramatic change of lifestyle, or begin any new kind of diet, it’s recommended to discuss what you’re planning with your doctor.

      All diets work

      Without exception, all diets work. Read that again. All diets work.

      It's a difficult concept to swallow and something that might seem unbelievable if you've been on as many diets as I have and have also had limited or zero success with the various types of diet out there.

      Dieting or weight-loss is a multi-billion-pound industry. What's the secret to it succeeding across pretty much every demographic? The answer is simple and probably not surprising. The answer is people. By their very nature, and this is not intended as a slight upon you who might be included in this description, a large proportion of people are generally living a lifestyle which is not akin to maintaining a steady weight or fitness regime.

      In times when we were hunter-gatherers, we sought out our food. We lived on what the earth provided and what we worked to gain. We were active, almost constantly, as we strove to find our next meal. Even in modern times, we had jobs that were much more physical. Industries relied on hand-crafted work and skills to produce the objects of facility, functionality and fun that we used to employ. Now, machines undertake a lot of that work.

      Over the past few decades, we've become sedentary. Even more so in recent years. As technology makes our lives easier, we've become lazier. We drive virtually everywhere when, before cars were so plentiful and affordable, we used to walk – even to the bus stop – or cycle.

      As a kid, I used to cycle everywhere. At weekends I would cycle for miles. I would leave my home in Portsmouth and cycle to Clanfield and back, a round-trip of at least twenty miles. I wasn't one of the new-age cyclists that suddenly appeared and seemed to propagate the roads following the success of Team GB in the 2012 Olympics and Tour-de-France. I was just a kid that loved to explore.

      I'd cycle over Portsdown Hill, down through country lanes that led me through villages such as Denmead, Bedhampton, Cowplain, Lovedean and Waterlooville. I'd stop at lakes, rivers and forests to admire the beauty of nature. I'd climb trees and rock-faces, to get a better view of the environment I was in. I'd explore caves and burrows to find out what was hidden.

      To visit friends, I'd walk or cycle to their homes. It was rare we stayed indoors, except when the weather was particularly inclement and even that didn't always stop us getting outdoors.

      Shopping was something our parents did and something in which we were rarely involved. A steady diet of chips, egg (fried) and beans, beans on toast and the occasional fish and chips were regular staples of the mealtimes. Roast dinner with vegetables on a Sunday, watered-down soup to enable a single tin to feed three children and an adult, with a slice of bread, were normal fare to us. We weren't overweight as a nation then.

      So, what's changed?

      Now we explore/visit friends/shop via a screen. Whether it be a tablet, laptop, PC or large LED television connected directly to a myriad of on-demand services, the interface is, for the most part, that they all require you to be sitting down to partake in the content they deliver. The way we consume entertainment has changed. And is still changing. Recent advances in technology sought to counter that sedentary lifestyle. The Wii forced you to get up to be involved in a game of tennis or bowling. The X-Box Kinect took that a stage further without a need to hold a controller – your body, as the advertisement loudly and proudly proclaimed, was the controller. Even now, there's the affordable advent of virtual reality devices that connect to a mobile phone and allow you, via a software interface, to enter an environment where you can physically interact with it. A clever device that allows you to walk around the artificial environment without leaving a four-foot circle inside your home has been developed. It's a unique invention using a technology that has a friction-free interface between your feet and the surface by way of special shoes that allow you to walk on a concave disc area smaller than a Twister game mat (remember those – in days when playing meant you had to get more physical too?)

      Take-away food is delivered within thirty minutes – quicker than it takes to cook something much healthier. Ready meals are quick and easy with a cooking time of under ten minutes for most items and fast-food is the order of the day for a world that runs at such a frenetic lifestyle as we appear to have today. Following the recent Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, I found it astonishing that people were so desperate for McDonald’s and KFC that they were willing to queue, in their cars, for HOURS to get this type of food.

      Yet, despite that frenetic nature of our lives, we strive and struggle to lose weight when we need to. I know, from experience, it's much easier to put weight on than it is to get it off.

      During the mid-eighties, when I was in my late teens, I had what was described to me as a perfect physique. I used to cycle, walk and swim. A lot. Almost every Sunday morning I'd swim fifty lengths of a seventy-five-metre pool. I cycled everywhere I needed to go.

      Then they closed the pool. It was meant to be closed for a few months over the winter for refurbishment but that soon developed into a period lasting a lot longer.

      I bought a motorcycle which replaced the physical requirements of cycling.

      And I discovered beer.

      My regular fitness regime disappeared. I rarely cycled, utilising the motorbike to get me there quicker. Saturday nights I spent in the pub consuming large amounts of booze and my Sunday mornings became a lazy video-game session on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of a mass of new and affordable computers for the consumer market.

      And the weight piled on. With my height, of six-feet or thereabouts, and broad-shouldered build, I was ideally to have a weight of around twelve-thirteen stone. Suddenly, although it wasn't that sudden if I'm honest, I was up to sixteen stone.

      I cut out sugar in my tea, thinking that would solve all my problems. But it was small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Talking of potatoes, I had started eating a lot more things like chips with large fat-ridden kebabs or burgers from dubiously sanitary vans and establishments following a night pubbing and clubbing. None of which helped of course.

      A friend and colleague (it’s likely inappropriate to name him, so we'll call him Mr. G) who had also put on a fair bit of weight after becoming contented following marriage and moving to a delightful cottage in the country and discovering the delights of homemade organic beer

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