Posted on 01/04/2008 1:53:30 PM PST by neverdem
I am on the Huckabee Diet
I Hear Mike Huckabees lies and look at his voting record and I throw up all of my food!
The omnipresence of fast food.
Affluence: as more and more people can afford more and more food, guess what?
The food police. Almost every single social experiment they did on eating for the masses led to weight gain.
A couple of examples:
* claiming transfats were better for people than saturated fats and pressuring the food and restaurant industry to finally use these fake fats in everything. Now these transfats are declared "metabolic poisons" and scientists say they are extremely difficult for the body to remove from fat cells once deposited. * claiming a low-fat, non-fat diet was optimal. This led to overeating food that was refined carbs with no "go slow" fat. It led to massive consumption of high glycemic foods (e.g., even low-fat milk has a higher gylcemic index than whole milk).
Yes, with my computer at home and at work.
Anyone else?
If you would have told me 3 1/2 yrs ago that I would be running over 3 miles every morning I would have fell over laughing. I was 47 then and all my numbers had been good to that point. Then I got a blood sugar test up just over normal. Since my dad had his first bypass at 51 I realized it was time to do something. Started with 10 minutes of walking and went up from there. I now look forward to the morning exercise & wake up easily. Before it was a struggle to get up every morning. BTW I’ve also lost 55 lb.
It can be done! Start slow & don’t overdue it. Watch the calories on the treadmill meter. Then when you think about eating sometheing you shouldn’t, think about how long it will take to burn it off.
Would you add me to your health and science ping list?
Thanks.
>>Portion control and exercise are your friends........<<
Yep. I’m down about 80 pounds - a little less calories each day and a little more exercise each day, avoid doing anything stupid and if you do something stupid get back to your normal routine immediately.
One lifesaver per day (10 calories) over your caloric need will generate a pound of fat in a year. Multiply this anyway you want it, 100 calories per day or 10 extra for 20 years and you can see the effect.
McDonalds Bagameal website that changed my eating (I am not overweight at all, but must work at it- durn thyroid burned out. . I am not demonizing fast food, just increasing the awareness of what I eat. I did not realize my that the meal I normally ate just once a week as a treat was greater than my daily calorie needs.
“Since my dad had his first bypass at 51 I realized it was time to do something.”
Good for you!
“Would you add me to your health and science ping list?”
Me too
Weight loss is easy, four easy steps and do these in order.
1) Don’t waste money on books
2) Get rid of processed foods and eat REAL food. Doesn’t have to be organic (sometimes that is worse for you) but does have to be real. If you can’t pronounce the ingredients or don’t know what it is, don’t eat it. And for the love of pete don’t eat fried foods.
3) Eat slower. Give your stomach and brain enough time to react that there is food in your stomach. Don’t starve yourself by eating half of what you usually do and don’t overeat by eating too fast and thinking your still hungry.
4) Exercise. Your body maintains muscle/fat dependent on your activity level, not how much you eat (unless you starve or gorge yourself). Exercise and your activity level changes forcing your body to change it’s muscle/fat ratio.
That’s it. That’s the condensed version instead of a two page post.
Wife dropped 50 pounds (before getting pregnant) on getting rid of processed food alone and she still eats more then I do. She was Diabetic Type-II but is no longer on medication and her A1C says she’s not diabetic. She checks her blood sugar once a day just out of curiosity but doctor doesn’t even require her to do that any longer.
Yes, I’m 30 and my weight gain accelerated after age 25.
I have a revolutionary idea. Routinely burn more calories than consumed. I know, it’s a really radical idea!
I have had trouble posting articles and comments.
I’ve lost 24 pounds in less than 4 months and it was easy. I got deployed to an Arab country where no alcohol is allowed. (my biggest vice) I only drank water, coffee, and V-8 vegetable juice. I almost never ate any candy except for a couple of times my willpower broke around Christmas. I ate small portions and only had dessert with a meal two times while here. I ran for PT twice a week for about 25 minutes and did pushups and situps three times a week. I’m 5’7” and weighed 195 lbs when I got here. Last Tuesday I weighed myself at the gym and I was 171 lbs.
You wrote that to fanfan. I'll add you to my list unless you tell me otherwise.
I dont know of anyone who lived healthier for the next 16 yrs, but the damage was already done.
I dont know of anyone who lived healthier for the next 16 yrs, but the damage was already done.
Good luck with your diet. I can’t gain weight even if I tried.
Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I’ve heard that too.
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Let me recite a typical day’s food for a poor farmer in South Carolina who walked behind a plow all day. I lived this way myself until I graduated high school and went straight into the Navy to get out from behind a plow.
Breakfast: two fried eggs, ham, grits with the ham drippings poured on, biscuits made with lard, whole milk, some sorghum molasses over biscuits, butter, coffee.
Dinner: (lunch to you city types) vegetables,(usually field peas, green beans, butterbeans, corn etc. more pork, more biscuits, corn bread, butter, iced tea, maybe some more molasses and or milk, maybe pie and or cake.
Supper: (dinner to you city types) often just some corn bread and milk, maybe some field peas, this was the light meal of the day, you don’t want a full stomach when you go to bed with the chickens and rise with the chickens.
This diet coupled with at least 12 hours of strenous manual labor including at least 25 to 35 miles of walking during the day will keep you as skinny as a broomstick! A lot of people ate this way and lived to be well past eighty and I know whereof I speak.
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