Posted on 01/04/2008 1:53:30 PM PST by neverdem
Someone on another thread a year ago mentioned the NoS Diet at nosdiet.com and it has helped me a lot. It is just sensible small lifesytle changes and your post reminded me of that. They mention Wansink’s Mindless Eating book on that site too.
I know of people who lived the same way, but in my life a big daily breakfast just isn’t gonna happen unless my wife and I get up at 4:45...
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How about putting molesters and lowlifes into jail so kids can play outside for a change?
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I’ve always heard that each hour of sleep before midnight is worth two hours of sleep after midnight, and, by the way I feel, it’s probably true. The earlier you go to bed, the more refreshed you feel in the morning, and better able to face exercise.
I’ve always done better with losing weight when I get enough sleep so that I have more strength to resist temptation and make good choices.
I know what you mean but it really is true that breakfast is the most important meal, if you can find some way to eat a high protein breakfast it sure makes the day more enjoyable. The modern practice of no breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and mountains of food in the evening is upside down.
Sometimes I think that to look and feel healthy, you have to have no life...i.e...go to bed super-early, sleep forever, and never eat good food in decent quantities!
In the 4-5 years since, I have kept most of the weight off by exercising 2-3 times a day and eating mostly natural, whole foods (no processed crap). I don't worry about how much I eat so long as it is good food made by Mother Nature like fish, meat, nuts, yogurt, eggs, vegetables, olive oil, wine, beer, raisins etc. \
If you have trouble motivating yourself for exercise, get a dog. An active dog. This will ensure that you get out there and walk 2-3 times a day. I have an Australian Kelpie that is bred to herd sheep. If I don't walk at least 6 miles a day with it, it freaks out and tries to hump my leg. That's the kind of motivation that I need.
No, you don’t sleep forever, just enough that you don’t have to have an alarm wake you in the middle of a dream, that is obviously not enough sleep. You can eat good food in quantity but it must be truly GOOD food and eaten earlier in the day. Yeah, you probably need to go to bed earlier but you just have to learn to get your enjoyment earlier, I remember when I used to think two AM was an early bedtime but when I look back I wasn’t doing anything that wonderful most of the time. Of course there were a few exceptions 80)
Heck I don't mean 2AM either! That's a rarity for me to stay up that late. But I enjoy late-night TV once in a while, and sometimes I don't even get home from work until 9:00 PM. Usually I'm in bed at 11:30 to midnight and up "officially" at 7:15, but my wife gets up at 5:45 and most of the time I toss and turn for the rest of that time after she gets up, and don't get back to sleep until finally a few minutes before the alarm goes off.
Thanks for the link. He has type II diabetes. It runs in families and has ugly complications. That’s enough for some folks to change their lifestyles. I don’t think we’ll find out if he had a surgical procedure unless he gets complications.
Alright, neverdem, what’s the big idea pingin’ me to this topic? What are you tryin’ to say, hmm?
;’)
thanks ND.
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“No wonder! I love carbs, don’t exercise, never eat breakfast, lots of times miss lunch and carbo-load late at night. Of course I knew this but habits (uh... lifestyles?) are hard to break. ;-)”
The rantings of an undisciplined jarhead—)
“1. Exercise is the morning is probably better for you than exercise in the evening. It helps you get2. The single most important factor in weight loss may very well be SLEEP. Your metabolism will slow down if you don’t get a good night’s sleep every night — and by this I mean enough sleep that you can wake up without an alarm. And whatever a “full night” means to you in terms of sleep should always be within the night itself — not when the sun is up. Sleeping eight hours from midnight to 8 AM is less effective than sleeping six hours from 10 PM to 4 AM.”
I do the early morning exercise, but with some caffiene on board. My sleep is the best between 9:30 and 3:30a.m. I am an early riser and likewise to bed.
“The only thing that matters is net calories. Eat more than you burn, you gain weight. Eat less, you lose.
It couldn’t be more simple.
But how much are you eating? More importantly, how much are you burning? You can vaguely estimate the former, you can no more than guess at the latter.”
Ah, but it matters WHEN said calories are ingested as to how rapidly they are burned. Calories ingested late in the day tend to be deposited as fat at night.
“Eat hearty in the morning and sparingly in the evening and never at night.
Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I’ve heard that too.
I’m on a weight-loss plan now that’s just based on reasonable portions and somewhat better food choices, nothing insane, no tofu or flashy workouts...just common sense. We’ll see how it works.”
I work 8-to-5, mostly at a desk, and live on a 106 acres. I strongly urge you to add exercise to your daily habits list. I want all freepers healthy and fit if ever there is a need to call.
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