I went to my first diabetes class yesterday, they told us all about how carbs work and what we should eat and what to leave behind, its not a diet is a life stile change and once in a while you can leave it for a special meal.

So for four hours we listened to everything they said, writing notes getting handouts that we will never ever look at again and when we were done and the class was over I said that I had been real good on my new eating a health life stile non-diet except for last weekend.

Last weekend I was at the mother ship painting the kitchen, Talula took his roommate my son and I to lunch, it was at a place called the Ship Wreck and what my son and I had was a 1/2 pound Wisconsin cheddar cheese burger with bacon, some onion rings on top with a fried egg on a Pretzel bun with fries, it was truly a master piece from a great chef and nothing on the menu was over $9.00.

Everybody wanted to know exactly were this place was, including the instructors who had been for 4 hours telling us what we could eat, should eat, better not eat, never eat and this lunch was on the never ever touch list.

I look forward to a class reunion this weekend. Bon Appetit.

Eat less, eat healthy, and exercise more.

I love my sweet potato french fries fried in cocnut oil with some good home made gaucamole dip sauce.

Scrumptious!!!!

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:53 am Eat less, eat healthy, and exercise more.

Exercise , eat healthy and eat less but more smartly. Efficiency can drastically reduce time spent on a lifestyle change. I guess some have higher expectations than others. Different benchmarks for different people

I still disagree with exercising for 2-3 hrs intensely like my mom currently does. She fts double zero pants and exceeds her expectations for her age however she's always tired, suffers from tendonitis, has has bone fractures and major inflammation outbreaks.

Result she gains weight again only to repeat routine exercise mistakes again.

I will keep up to date on how to increase brown fat reserves the more I research.

If I continue like this I won't need to worry about getting fat well into my 80's.

despite having a endomorphic body type

Reagrding exercise

experience has it that

1. the more time I spend on intense exercise rotines the more I run down and atrophy my muscles(more cell divisions taking place and I loose muscle mass )

2. If I exercise but barely put any effort into it I gain nothing.

balance between these 2 is key.

It is diet and exercise, I try to keep to under 2000 calories a day and 400 per meal 5 meals a day. I went to a physical therapist for my exercise routine, that is every other day, using free weights a series of exercises 3 sets of 10. it takes about 20 minutes and is what I need.

It sounds like your mother is over doing it, extremes as it were, she would be better to cut that by 2/3rd, every other day and would have better results.

One thing I have noticed, my hip no longer hurts and I can touch my toes again, this is from working out and diet.

River

Ugh, another week and I only took off 1 pound. I think my body has gone into starvation mode and that I need to up my intake a bit. I noticed that 8/10ths of that pound came off yesterday as I had been stagnant for a week. Either my slightly increased intake convinced my body I wasn't starving and it started to let go of fat, or I came off the plateau.

I figure this week will be a challenge since my partner insisted that I join he and one of his friends for dinner out at a very tasty Chinese place. I decided to come off the program for that meal and get right back on it. I think indulging like that once per month isn't a big deal overall.

Now, if I drop any weight again tomorrow, then I should be o.k. and I'll know it was too low a calorie intake causing my metabolism to go down.

And I know, don't weight myself every day, yadda yadda. With my scale that reads in 2/10ths of a pound increments, I should be able to see something measurable every day or two, and I weigh myself at exactly the same time of day when I do it (first thing in the morning, bare ass nekkid). I'm also making a photo log of this weight loss. I take 3 nekkid photos each week at the same angles so I can visually see the loss. My plan is after a couple months total to make a photo progression from the start to that point with about 8-9 photos to really reinforce it's working. I've also posted a photo of a pig engaging in gluttony on the refrigerator.

I did notice my pants are fitting a bit looser already. That made me happy. I'll be doing cartwheels when I'm able to buy a new, smaller pair of pants that fit.

I'm 11 down so far. Let's hope it's 13 by this time next week, and I'll be ecstatic if it's a total of 15 then.

--LT

Since most of the posts here are on what to eat and on your progress, (cheers to you all,) I'm going to throw a couple more comments on how to eat.

If you want to gain control of your eating, when you eat practice what meditaters call "mind-full-ness." Often, when we eat, it is with complete mind-less-ness. We get our dinner, plop down in front of the TV, (the glass teat,) and plug into NCIS. On the commercial break we look down and have eaten the entire thing with no real memory of doing so, or what you ate or how it tasted. At breakfast we become immersed in the newspaper while we eat, and taste nothing.

If you don't have a beautiful plate, go to goodwill and try to find one. (not too big) Try to plate your food so it looks good. (you deserve it) Turn off the TV, put away the computer, books and newspaper. Take a bite. Put down your fork. Pay attention to the tastes, textures and smells. Good food is usually a balance: crisp against creamy, tart against sweet, oil against vinegar. Become aware of these things. Feel it as it goes down. Pay attention; you paid for it, somebody worked on it. Some animal or plant died to feed you. Taste! Don't waste all that effort. Practice being alive and aware.

And as you progress, apply that attention to your own body. Learn to eat by your body and not by the clock. We have certain times we expect to eat, so we order or cook a meal, sit down and eat all of it. If you eat on your own schedule, do so when you get actually hungry, not when everybody is eating. If you need to eat with others at dinner, get good at eating a few bites, to avoid being conspicuous, and ask for a take out and eat it in small doses when you are actually hungry. There is a certain advantage to this. Since the meal is social, and your mouth isn't always full, you can be thought a sparkling conversationalist by asking your dining partners about their days, telling funny stories, etc. Serious anorexics are often brilliant at this, being quite entertaining; anything to keep people from noticing that you aren't actually eating.

We spend too much of our lives in a state not a whole lot more aware than sleeping. Wake up and taste your life.

Transward

I'm actually getting kind of scared about my diet. I don't know if it's the hormones talking or what, but suddenly I just don't seem to have any appetite whatsoever. I actually have to remind myself to eat sometimes, so that I'll keep burning fat rather than going into "starvation mode," because the desire for food just does not seem to come any more, at least not compared to what it was like as a guy. I used to have to eat 3 full pig-out meals a day just to feel satisfied. Where now I'm eating like a freaking rabbit, and yet I just never seem to feel hungry.

Yesterday, all I ate all day was a small bowl of pulled pork, 4 beef sticks, a bowl of spinach, some carrots, and a single order of onion rings. That was all that I ate all day, and yet I didn't feel hungry in the least. I used to eat twice as much as that in a single meal and still feel hungry afterward.

Hell, I barely ate anything today either. Again, a small bowl of pulled pork for breakfast, a bowl of soup for dinner, a bowl of spinach, a snack at work, and that was absolutely it. And yet again, I still don't feel hungry.

What the heck is going on here? This is me we're talking about... me, the person who ate TWENTY-TWO pieces of pizza at the Pizza Hut lunch buffet once, and who used to eat TWO full 2-entree Chinese meals every single day, and still felt hungry by the time I got home. And now I can't even eat one plate at a Chinese buffet without feeling full, and I'm eating less in a whole day that I used to eat in a single meal. I really don't know what the hell is going on here. But I guess this does at least shed some light on how it's possible for women to just eat a salad and feel satisfied afterward. Because now out of the blue I'm starting to feel the same way.

On the plus side, I'm now down to 242 lbs as of this morning, so I've now lost a total of 28 lbs since the beginning of January.

If you go from eating too much to eating properly your stomach will shrink. Unless you're underweight or malnourished it's not something to worry about. Unless of course you have signs of liver damage?

Losethem (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:36 pm Ugh, another week and I only took off 1 pound. I think my body has gone into starvation mode and that I need to up my intake a bit. I noticed that 8/10ths of that pound came off yesterday as I had been stagnant for a week. Either my slightly increased intake convinced my body I wasn't starving and it started to let go of fat, or I came off the plateau.

A pound can easily be water weight, mine will fluctuate by six or seven pounds? You might well have lost more than you think and just put on water?