Yup. I have spoken with my doctor about that very theory yesterday on the phone. He has decided that besides lack of excercise (Which I am already trying to take care of) he wants me to try to take in MORE learn meat, and omega fatty acids (Olive Oil, Fish Oil, Flax seed Oil, etc) for a couple of weeks to see what the effect is. He believes it may actually cause me to see a boost in weight loss. We shall see.

BTW I have only dropped about a pound and a half so far, but hey its a start.

GoodOlBoy

GOB,
My cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic said that I need to loose because if I didn't I would be headed toward diabetes. I'm a heart patient. She told me to eat fish at least twice a week, cut down on the carbs (notice I didn't say cut out), eat much more fruit and vegetables, and get no less than 3 hours of cardio-vascular exercise each week. Seems real simple, and I have been doing this since January and have lost about 6 lbs. You need to kinow that when I started I was 5'5" and weighed 165lbs. Small man on a small frame. But 6lbs for me is 3.6% of my original body weight. That would be about 10 lbs for you. Please note that it has been around 5 months for me which is about a pound per month. Like you, the question is , when do I exercise. I started getting up earlier in the morning to take my morning walk, and believe it or not, I have much less energy for the day when I don't get up and walk. I sincerely hope this helps you. As a side note, my mom has bad knees too and her doctor told her to do her walking time in a swimming pool. I realize this is only good advice if you have access to a pool. Best of luck to you!
McPat

Oh you know that mentality of either having biscuits or rice or potatos with every meal....believe it or not when I started DeMadmans diet last week...then the 3 days were over I said ok Val you gonna go back to your routine for the other 4? So the first night off the diet, instead of that "southern mentality" of having a starch at dinner I just substituted another vegetable and I gotta tell ya I didnt miss it...and didnt have that stuffed feeling either.....for ya'll not familiar with southern cookin that is almost unheard of....

I have actually been finding it pretty difficult to eat more of anything. I just don't have that big of an interest in food anyway. Although ever since I have been riding the bike I have had this craving for an ear of roasted sweet corn like you wouldn't believe. . . .

GoodOlBoy

Isn't it strange how the older generations ate stuff that today would be considered a no-no (everything cooked in gobs of lard, etc.) yet most of them weren't heavy. My mom's side is italian. Big ol' fat sausages, mountains of spaghetti and lasagna with meatballs in real gravy the size of your fist were the order of the day. Looking at pictures of my grandparents and great grandparents, there wasn't a heavy one in the bunch.:rolleyes:

GOB, don't worry about finding time to fit an hour long workout into your schedule. Just do 5 minutes of something, anything to start. No matter how beat or tired from work you are, you can manage 5 minutes. That gets you in the habit, that is the most important thing. You can work up from there.

GOB, you are getting some good information here that probably helps others too. It is a fact that when you quit eating, your body will use your muscle for food first while it stores fat in reserve. Natures way of survival I guess. Moderation is the key to about everything we do in life. Overdo anything and it will show up somewhere else..along with all the above suggestions, when you walk outside, do deep breathing exercises. Inhale as deep as you can at least 10 times and do this everytime you find clean air to breath. Might get light headed at first. Oxygen is a +..I am a person that can walk into a donut shop and smell it and gain lbs.(I don't go there).my job was sitting behind the wheel of a truck and try to get out and walk around doing that as my cardio dr suggested after my 5 heart attacks and bypass etc etc. While sitting in your office or wherever, do the stomach rolls..ya know, tighten etc. kind of like situps. Do while watching tv, driving car or anytime you think about it.. Also, to counter the mind game all this creates, use a very small dinner plate..then you can have the seconds..trick the mind and body..drink water before dinner and the rest of the day. Water is what renews body cells. Set a goal a little closer to where you are now and reach that goal first..think thin..think thin..don't shoot for the total lb goal..won't seem like you are getting anywhere..I say have that corn on cob you crave just only eat 1/4 of it..will stop the need to have it..I also have 2 crash diets from cardio drs that you have to follow to the T but can't stay for long..They are the more you eat the more you loose programs..one is vegi soup and the other has cabbage soup involved..and I love them both..but is not the store bought kind of soup..have to follow how to make your own..I will dig them out later and send ya if wanted.kind a like the one given to you above posted..but the more you eat, the better...good luck..think thin..breath deep..can't hurt..good health to ya..

GOB, I've been observing this thread for a while and have kept silent, but I finally feel compelled to tell you how much I admire your determination to make this important change in your life. I too have my own "battle of the bulge" going on, and have lost a good amount of weight just by exercising, cutting back on portions, and no desserts. It's a struggle, and it's not easy. They say you feel better when you diet and exercise. That's a load of bull: In some respects I feel worse, in that I'm more tired, and sore from the exercise. But the results are noticeable, and I'm well over the "21 days makes a habit" rule, so now I miss not doing it. It just takes time.

I have nothing really to add or receommend, except to say that I eat oatmeal in the morning, cold cereal at lunch, and whatever I want at dinner, just smaller portions (which my wife enforces!) and no desset. Water all day, and exercise three or four times per week at our city fitness center. My workout routine is 50 mins. on a stationary bike, assorted weights, and walking laps in a resistance pool. I'm at the gym about two hours every time I go, and yes, I get home late (I have a wife and three kids which consume time between work and workout time). I somehow find time, and it works. After all, I find the time for hunting, shooting and fishing, so I can find the time for this too. I'm not advocating that this regimen is for you, just that it is what works for me after much trial and error. You'll find your groove and it will pay off.

Best of luck in your endeavors to lose weight. I applaud your efforts.

Thanks. I admire anybody who sticks with it. Let me tell you how much I have not wanted to stick with it lately. Particularly eating more. I skipped breakfast this morning again, and had half a granola bar for lunch. Bad me. . . . *slaps own hand*

But I am still trying. Never give up.

GoodOlBoy

You know why tehy were all thin?? it's because they didn't have the Money to buy large amounts of the things they ate.

People ate bread and fillers (carbs) back then because they didn't have the $$$ to buy extra meat. They ate things fried in lard because Lard was CHEAP. The bread and butter and jelly (if you were luck) was on the table to fill you up after the real food was gone and you were still hungry. People ate spaghetti because it was cheap and filled you up and it didn't have 2 pounds of ground beef in it. It had a little meat to flavor the sauce and that was it. You get the drift

Bottom line is people ate what they could afford, now people have the $$$ to afford everything the want to eat and then some....

Just Super Size it.....

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HEY GOOD OL BOY I DID THE SLIM FAST BARS WITH A GLASS OF SKIM MILK 1 OF EACH FOR BRKFST@LUNCH A SENSIBLE SUPPER THE WAKLED START OUT 50YRDS NEXT WEEK DO 75 YRDSIN A MONTH YOU'LL BE UP A LOT FARTHER THAN YOU THINK I LOST 65 LBS IN 6MNTHS IT REALLY IS A LIFE CHANGE, GOOD LUCK.

You're only partly right here. People did physical labor. They didn't have a backhoe to dig those ditches, they used shovels and dug them by hand. Even though they ate lots of carbs, those carbs were the fuel that kept them going.
My late father-in-law made the comment that, "There afren't any more ditch diggers anymore." Maybe that's one reason obesity is a problem these days.
I do have the theory that the meat we eat today is so contaminated with chemicals used by the feedlots to fatten up cattle that some of it must fremain in the meat and is fattening up up for the kill, not to mention all the antibiotics those cattle get to keep them from getting diseased. Could this be the reason many germs in humans today are so resistant to antibiotics?
Let's see here. lack of physical labor in the workplace because machines do it faster, save business money and jobs get done quicker saving even more money. Livestock is given feed laced with chemicals to fatten it up in as short a time as possible using less feed which saves business money., yet they charge more for that meat. That meat also is fed antibiotics to keep the herd penned up in crowded conditions healthy which end up in our bodies. The combination of fattening up chemicals and antibiotics ending up in out bodies making us gaim weight as well are immunizing bacteria in out body against antibiotics used to kill them. Is something wrong with this picture? It's all about money, and if the greedy kill us off due to obesity caused by their product, I guess it is just Tango Sierra for us.
Do you know that you can not legally go to a ranch and buy a steer to butcher? It's against the law. The brand has to be inspected by a FEDERAL brand inspector. Guess who got that law put in place? The big meat packing companies, that's who.
I lived for ten years in a small rural town in Nevada and got fairly friendly with several ranchers by shooting coyotes on their land. I asked about buying a steer to butcher and was told about the laws preventing the rancher from selling me the beef.
They say wild venison (deer, elk caribou and moose) have little or no cholesterol in their meat which makes it healthy to eat. Guess what? Range beef doesn't have any of that crap in it either. It get into the meat at the feed lot. Surprise! Surprise! (In my best Gomer Pyle accent.)
It's all about the money, and we have trhe ebst government business can buy.
Sorry if I got too far off thread, but I feel it is relevent.
Paul B.

Hang in there GOB!

I am sorta in the same boat, 5'7" 210lbs, and I don't eat that much at all. Yes I drink more soda than I should, and since I am a truck driver, well...it isn't the most active of lifestyles.

I am interested in what you mentioned about not eating enough.
It makes good horse sense, do you have any additional info in that?

I remember when I was on active duty, I always had problems with weight. I did always pass the tape or calipers test, but when they had me go on diets several times, I actually gained weight, not lost it. I just never fit their "height/weight" tables.

Keep with it GOB! :)

Still going good, the weight loss aint real apparent but I am starting to feel better.

Can't drink slim fast. One of the main ingrediants in it and most diet drinks is soy. . . . allergic to soy. . . . .



GoodOlBoy

Just checking in, GOB. Hope all is still going well for you.

Afternoon GoodolBoy
Ben awhile since I checked in here. Good to see you are sticking with getting the weight off. The low carb diet worked good for me. I wasn't over weight by much (30lb) but felt much better after I got rid of it. Have kept it off now for 2 years. I'm just carefull as to how many carbs I take in in one day. Like I said anything you do is better than doing nothing. MC

Been sick that last week or so and I backslid some. Startin back on it this week. I feel like a bloated freakin whale after a week of doing practicaly nothing.

GoodOlBoy

GOB,

I've been watching this thread for a while. I admire you. I am a former fatty. I am 5'2" and once weighed 220lbs. I lost 100lbs and it wasn't all that hard. Keeping it off is much harder.

People ask me my secret, and I don't really have one. I lost it the old fashioned way. Low fat, no sugar, butter or fried foods. My exercise was walking 2 miles a day with 3lb weights on my ankles. I ate lots of pre-packaged meals (Lean Cuisine, Smart Ones, Healthy Choice). That was an easy way for me to keep count of my daily calories and fat grams. They also have dessert! Anyway, like I said, it's been harder to keep it off. (Especially living with a man who can eat as much as 3 grown men and never gain an ounce)

Best of luck in your continued weight loss venture!

THanks for the encouragement. Unfortunantly There is not a single prepackaged meal left on the market I can eat because of my soy allergies. I am working on it, it is just taking time.

GoodOlBoy

Hello GoddOleBoy,

Have you involved basic strength training in your regime? If not it would probably make a great difference for you in as little as 6weeks of weight training 3x week. You should also be consuming at least a gallon of cold water daily, along with your sensible eating habits.

For my 40th Birthday I received this book as a present, I suggest you give it a look-see to see if it makes sense to you as it did for me.

Living Longer Stronger Ellington Darden PHD

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...1._BO2,204,203

FWIW

Peace,
Talon:cool:

Certinaly looks like it would be worth a shot.

Thanks Talon

GoodOlBoy

I bit the bullet today and ordered the Nutrisystem program, wish me luck....Val:eek:

Good luck Val! Hope you like Sodium, cause Nutri-System is packed full of it ;)

I know someone who tried it for a month and returned the rest. Now she's on the prepackaged meals and counts points. Lost quite a bit of weight since then. Not to shoot Nutri-System down, I'm sure it works for a lot of people. Much cheaper once you get all the literature from it and buy your own meals.

But why Val???

You've never seemed to have alot extra on your frame, unless something has majorly changed since the last pics you posted.

So many women these days seem to think that hollywood "skin and bones" look is nice, but a woman at a realistic and _healthy_ weight is a hell of alot more attractive.

The way I figure it, it was something I needed to try before I died and yes I put some extra weight on since the surgery...dont feel like going and buying new clothes...I know what I am comfortable at, and that includes plenty of curves;) anything over that is just fat.........I am fat...but thanks for the heads up....

Good Luck Val. Sorry I didnt respond sooner so far I am down by about 15 lbs. I am working hard (or was it hardly working) on eating those four to six small meals a day (Alot of days I miss it, but I still at least grab breakfast every day.) And trying to work a bit more excercise in. Life is still hectic, but it is still good too.

GoodOlBoy

Up date on the weight loss :( first off I am not a big scale girl, I go by a couple of pairs of pants....I put on a favorite pair of jeans for the heck of it and had room to spare....I have been following the Nutri-system for a couple of weeks now and the weight is falling off of me. The food is not that bad, in fact I am always pleasantly surprized, because the packaging is something from a war zone...oh its got pretty pictures on it...but really its quite edible for a southern girl.....use to gravy and biscuits....anyway its working and working fast for me...so I am pleased....Val

My weight loss has slowed a bit this week because I have not done nearly as well on the meal eating/excercise. . . . . anyway back to the grind it is comming off and I WILL get the rest of it off of me.

GoodOlBoy