weight issues

[pantsonfire]

I feel like i can't get anywhere with my weight. It's like a yo-yo. I lose 20 lbs.. and then gain 10 back! I wish I could stick to something that's more consistent! I am at my wits end and i really need to lose 30 lbs by the end of this year or til mid January. I have a wedding coming up that I am in and i'd like to look good.. but also feel good about myself. because at this rate.. my self-esteem is not all there!

[stiltman]

More than 5-7lbs per month is crash dieting and that never lasts

To lose wieght permenantly, you need to change your diet permenantly and add more exercise. Lowering your overal caloric intake is the only solution. Don't look at the latest fad diet on the bookshelf. Less proccessed foods and less empty carbs will reduce your caloric intake right off the bat.

[yoda313]

I hear you pantsonfire.

I was on a good health kick early this year and through summer. Then I got a pretty high fever in early fall one day and after that I just stopped working out - couple months now unfortunatly. I think it kinda took the wind out of my health kick. I'm trying to work back up.

Good luck

[redstripes]

The best advice is to eat right and exercise daily.. you will start to feel better about yourself soon... and that will definately help you boost your self esteem

[lordsmurf]

Charge the diet permanently (crave less of bad foods, crave more of good foods, eat at right times of day, etc), and only set a goal to lose maybe 5 pounds per month at most.

[Aski]

The best advice is to eat right and exercise daily.. you will start to feel better about yourself soon... and that will definately help you boost your self esteem

I think this is also the healthiest way to lose weight

[Mylan23]

What you need is some self confidence. I heard a theory that we need to love who we are and that alone can get us looking amazing. I think I would love the theory no matter what, but being that Carson Kressley from Queer Eye is saying it, in his new show How To Look good naked all the more reason to listen.

[zzyzzx]

[zzyzzx]

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=50...n_page_id=1811

The half ton mum: Tragic story of world's heaviest woman
Last updated at 21:19pm on 30th December 2007

Renee Williams became the largest person ever to have gastric bypass surgery earlier this year after ballooning to nearly seventy stone – but died 12 days later.

The bedridden 29-year-old begged doctors to perform the operation when she became so large that she couldn't hug her two children.

<exactly whom was desperate enough do do her?>

Her astonishing size meant that the operating table had to be specially widened for the procedure.



The operation was successful and Renee lost four stone due to her reduced stomach capacity before dying of a sudden heart attack less than two weeks later. Her story is told in a Channel 4 programme next week.

Renee, from Austin, Texas, had battled with her weight since childhood and was classified as super-morbidly obese at the age of 12.

She was married by the age of 15 and had her first child, Mirina, at 16 weighing 30 stone (420 lbs).

Renee had grown to a massive 35 stone (490 lbs.)by the time she had her second daughter Mariah.


Tragic: Renee died days after the surgery
"When you don't have that thing in your head that tells you you're full, it's disgusting the amount of food you can eat," She said.

In 2003, she was hit by a drunken driver in an accident that left her unable to walk because her leg was crushed.

She became bedridden and began eating even more.

"She wouldn't stop eating until her stomach started to hurt," says 13-year-old Mirina.

"She would get about eight burgers and eat them all. I kept telling her she was eating her emotions. I think she was sick and tired of being in that bed."

Renee piled on more and more weight and by 2007 she was nearing 70 stone (980 lbs.)- six times the size of a healthy woman in her age group.

She begged doctors to perform gastric bypass surgery on her and was turned down by 12 who insisted that the operation was too dangerous for a woman of her size.

"I understand the risks but I am not going to make it if I don't have the surgery," Renee said at the time.

"I want to be able to care for my daughters and see them graduate high school."

Gastric bypass surgery makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine. Patients feel full sooner, consume fewer calories and lose weight.

Houston's Renaissance hospital finally agreed to perform the surgery after Renee's condition deteriorated and she was given just a year to live by doctors.

The operation on February 20th took five hours as surgeons had to cut through masses of fat to secure the band.

"I feel like I've been run over by a truck," she said afterwards.

Renee began to lose weight immediately but suffered a sudden heart attack on March 4th which took her life.

"I wanted to sit down in a corner and die." Says a distraught Mirina.

"Mom was my best friend and now she has gone it hurts."'

[ZAPPER]

See your doctor. Depending on his commitment to your health he will advise you to loose the weight on your own, kind of "Cold turkey" or he may have an elaborate system set up that may help. The cold hard truth is that it is your body and your life. You already know that you have to cut the calorie intake and increase the calories spent, that is the only way for it to work.

I have yo-yo'ed all of my life and the two best times that I have lost weight were when #1) I was under a doctors perscribed diet pill and taking in only 1000 calories a day. It was miserable! But I lost 45lbs in two months. And #2) I worked at a Scout camp with three quanity controled meals a day (everyone had an equal share) and thousands of acers of land and water to traverse and activities to keep me busy from dawn till dark and then some. Great times, best shape of my life!



My advise? Put down the fork, get off of your ass and MOVE! (Kind of the pot calling the kettle black huh?)

[Corey]

Now that you are through the holidays and have probably gained 40 lbs., it is a perfect time to start a new diet/exercise plan. Just make sure to stick to it unlike 99% of the people who making losing weight their new years resolution. 8)

[Aski]

What you need is some self confidence. I heard a theory that we need to love who we are and that alone can get us looking amazing. I think I would love the theory no matter what, but being that Carson Kressley from Queer Eye is saying it, in his new show How To Look good naked all the more reason to listen.

I've heard about this show... Lifetime has seriously sucked my wife in… since there are almost no other channels that have shows she has been looking forward to she has been making me watch Lifetime with her. And all i keep hearing this week is "On Friday night it's “How To Look Good Naked” 9pm, baby!! I can’t wait!"

[Super Warrior]

Like all things in life, the key to succeeding in weightloss is consistency.

Take it one step at a time. It is FAR better to do 1 hour of decent quality exercise EVERYDAY, than to do 6 hours of great exercise in one day, and then take the rest of the month off because you burned yourself out like a fool.

Also accept the FACT that both Diet AND Exercise is required. No one ever lost weight and kept it off longterm, by doing only one without the other.

If you aren't willing to do both, you automatically FAIL. Those people who are just lazy and don't want to do exercise, any results they get from diet alone will be short lived.

[redstripes]

Ha ha Aski my wife is exactly the same, she wants me to watch it with her too but what am I complaining about.. My wife wants me to watch a show that has women strip down to their panties...

[ozymango]

Super[/url] Warrior]

Also accept the FACT that both Diet AND Exercise is required. No one ever lost weight and kept it off longterm, by doing only one without the other.

Amen! Also it's much easier to watch what you eat when you feel a little better about yourself, and doing exercise -- any exercise -- can help break the cycle of eating, then feeling bad for eating, then eating more to stop feeling bad.

I cannot stress enough the importance of exercise, it will make it easier to lose weight and keep it off. And I'm not talking about big things like running the marathon, just start walking more, take the stairs instead of the elevator, if you've got a bicycle in the garage, clean it up ... just move your body, one step at a time, and you'll be amazed at how much easier it is to diet.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes a few years ago and the only thing that has helped me lose weight and keep it off -- and it's a slow process! -- is exercise, it helps your metabolism and your whole attitude. When my blood sugar levels rise,I can make it drop 50 points just by going on a 20 minute walk. Do anything!. Every step makes a difference.

The hardest part is getting started, the first week is a bitch because your body is adjusting to a new routine and it's easy to get discouraged. But very importantly, after even just a week of eating better and exercising more, you'll only lose a pound or two but your whole attitude will shift, it'll start coming easier once you break the cycle.

Good luck!

[zzyzzx]

Put down the fork.

[rhegedus]

I'm not so sure that the diet excercise combo produces different results to either in isolation.

There was a clinical trial published a couple of years back that compared three large controlled groups of volunteers:

1) Normal -500cals/day calorie diet
2) Normal calorie diet with 500 cals excercise/day
3) Normal -250cals/day calorie diet with 250 cals excercise/day

At the end of six months, there was no significant difference in weight loss between the three groups (nor any significant difference in basal metabolic rate).

Bottom line: it doesn't really matter how you achieve a (within reason) daily calorie deficit.

[ozymango]

At the end of six months, there was no significant difference in weight loss between the three groups (nor any significant difference in basal metabolic rate).

Bottom line: it doesn't really matter how you achieve a (within reason) daily calorie deficit.

Not quite true.
For diabetics (like me), exercise helps raise your good cholesterol and lower your bad cholesterol, and it increases your body's response to insulin. Check the studies on diabetics, and check your fasting blood sugar levels before you go on a diet. Weight loss is not just about losing pounds, it's about being in better overall health. There are skinny people who are in bad shape too, ya know.

[ozymango]

I'm not so sure that the diet excercise combo produces different results to either in isolation.

When's the last time you were on a diet? What helped you lose weight and keep it off?

[rhegedus]

A person will need a certain amount of calories to maintain their weight - any deficit will result in weight loss. How you achieve the decicit makes no difference to the amount of weight loss.

Of course excercise is beneficial cardiovascularly, but the benefits would still be apparent if the calorific loss were made up for by increased calorific intake.

[ozymango]

A person will need a certain amount of calories to maintain their weight - any deficit will result in weight loss. How you achieve the decicit makes no difference to the amount of weight loss.

Yeah, I get that, it's kind of a no-brainer.

[rhegedus]

Sorry, I thought you could not stress enough the importance of excercise in weight loss...

[ozymango]

Sorry, I thought you could not stress enough the importance of excercise in weight loss...

Actually you're right in that -- if you want to lose weight not in an academic sense, but really stay on a diet, if you don't have a good exercise component it's a hell of a lot harder to lose weight. You're talking logically of pounds lost = calories not eaten or calories burned, but that's not the reality of going on a diet. I'm sorry, but it's just not.

Now if you are telling me that you lost weight and kept it off just by limiting calories, my hat's off to you and I'm glad it worked. But when somebody tells me how hard it is to lose weight, I know he's right, and when you tell me it's simply a matter of diagramming calories, yes you're technically correct but unless you've had to lose weight yourself ... bite me.

[gadgetguy]

I lost about 40 pounds strictly by limiting my carbs (Atkins diet). I made no other changes in my daily (lack of) exercise routine. I was able to keep it off for a couple years by monitoring the amount of carbs I consumed, but all that went out the window when my Dad developed esophageal cancer. Being the only sibling in town, I took on the responsibility of getting him to doctors appointments and treatments and any other errands that he and my Mom needed. I returned to my old poor eating habits and have gained it all back. I know what I need to do to start losing it again, but my head isn't in the right place yet, which is the most important part of any self-change.

[budz]

The key to any diet is to exercise & eat healthy foods like fresh fruits, veggies and whole grain products. MODERATION is the key to eating healthy and losing weight. Simple walking for 20 - 30 minutes a day is very beneficial to maintaining one's weight.

ozymango I'm also a type 2 diabetic via hereditary, it's a genetic factor. About 7 months ago I discovered eating oatmeal, not the instant type, the rolled whole organic oats that are cooked on the stove is great for diabetics. It doesn't raise the blood glucose levels as quickly as the instant oatmeal. I cook about a 3/4 cup of the organic rolled oats with some water & add a little cinnamon in it. I found it quite grainy at first but I enjoy eating it now and my blood sugar levels after breakfast will only go up 10 digits. I find myself having to eat a bigger snack after breakfast because my blood glucose levels in the morning before breakfast are between 85-99. I'm also hypoglycemic so I eat a snack in between meals. I tend to get low blood sugar if I exercise too much so I exercise every other day.

[rhegedus]

Sorry, I thought you could not stress enough the importance of excercise in weight loss...

Actually you're right in that -- if you want to lose weight not in an academic sense, but really stay on a diet, if you don't have a good exercise component it's a hell of a lot harder to lose weight. You're talking logically of pounds lost = calories not eaten or calories burned, but that's not the reality of going on a diet. I'm sorry, but it's just not.

Now if you are telling me that you lost weight and kept it off just by limiting calories, my hat's off to you and I'm glad it worked. But when somebody tells me how hard it is to lose weight, I know he's right, and when you tell me it's simply a matter of diagramming calories, yes you're technically correct but unless you've had to lose weight yourself

That is the reality - calorific debt.

The amount of calories burned in what most people consider excercise doesn't amont to that much when compared to calorific intake. Obviously this differs on the activity one does and how often they do it, but people who need to go on diets tend to be unfit, so they are their own limiting factor in how much they can reasonably lose by excercise.

Bottom line - the three 1 hour sessions a week in the gym totaling 1500cals is a drop in the ocean compared to the 17,000+ calories consumed in that time. Considering that each pound of fat needs about 3500 of calorific debt to lose (i.e. 7 hours of average gym activity), people with jobs don't have that amount of time to spare. They can achieve more by cutting back on their diet and cutting out the crap.

... bite me.

No thanks, I'm on a diet

[Super Warrior]

Amen! Also it's much easier to watch what you eat when you feel a little better about yourself, and doing exercise -- any exercise -- can help break the cycle of eating, then feeling bad for eating, then eating more to stop feeling bad.

Yeah they say long duration exercise helps the release of feel-good endorphins or whatever those are called. Those who rarely exercise have no idea about this.

Everytime i'm done with a long hour of cardio or lifting, i always feel great after and feel a sense of accomplishment. I also feel like i've "earned" the right to be lazy and sit in front of the Tv after, no guilt there.

One of the things i bought for myself recently around christmas, was a new Treadmill. I do at least 1 hour on it everyday, shown here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic342876.html#1795995

[Delta2]

I feel like i can't get anywhere with my weight. It's like a yo-yo. I lose 20 lbs.. and then gain 10 back! I wish I could stick to something that's more consistent! I am at my wits end and i really need to lose 30 lbs by the end of this year or til mid January. I have a wedding coming up that I am in and i'd like to look good.. but also feel good about myself. because at this rate.. my self-esteem is not all there!

Yeah, I know how frustrating that can be

Since I discovered Atkins Diet method I have had success to keep my weigh stable for years

And that simple to do

Just avoid carbohydrates foods, like bread...cookies, any food made with white flour,etc...

The main idea is that carbohydrates are the main energy of the body, when you make a low-carb diet then your body will consume fat and proteins instead

I can eat bacon, any grill meat, I don't care about fat, eggs...cheese etc..etc...

I just avoid carbohydrates : potatoes, rice, spaghetti, macaroni, pasta, sugar, etc...etc..

and eat everything

I have 1.76m and 67Kg

good luck

[Super Warrior]

I have nothing against Atkins/low-carb, but i'd only recommend it for the Dedicated because its an insanely HARD diet to stick too.

Those who've never really been on it before will think, "Oh you can eat all the meat you want". However, eating nothing but stuff like meat gets really OLD, really FAST, and can be daunting to resist the carbs unless you've got the determination to back it up. Plus the body is hardwired to DESIRE carbs, and keeps nagging at ya to eat some.

The downfall in Atkin's popularity most likely occurred when they finally realized, that while its a good diet in theory, 95% of people simply can't bring themselves to stick to it long term. Thats why it gets the "fad diet" label in the end, they're probably right.

My point is, try something ELSE. Don't get me wrong i've been doing low-carb since 1998, but i've never met anyone else in RL who had the strong will to stick with it longterm. Some family members tell me they're going to start it one day, and i always tell them not to bother because i know they won't last very long.

[Delta2]

Super[/url] Warrior]

My point is, try something ELSE. Don't get me wrong i've been doing low-carb since 1998, but i've never met anyone else in RL who had the strong will to stick with it longterm. Some family members tell me they're going to start it one day, and i always tell them not to bother because i know they won't last very long.

Yes, it's true, but it is the only diet that worked for me, I don't have time to do exercise

You can eat carbs at the morning, and avoid them totally the rest of the day. That's what I do

Are you praying for a little peace of a cake ? chocolate ?

Eat it in the morning, and the rest of the day eat meat, fish, whatever but with vegetables

You can also eat fruits between when you have hungry

I make this for years