If I invest 3 to 4 hours a day in exercise, I can crack that 200 pound barrier, but how can you have a family, job etc and do that.
My blood pressure is 120/70. My pulse rate is low, and it takes significant activity to get it up. My cholesterol is OK. In general other than being 60 pounds overweight, I am in good shape.
By the way I do watch my diet (lots of vegetables and fruits, reduced meat with lean portions, reduced bread, and no caloric drinks - I only drink water). I am always hungry. When I go super low on the calorie count (1400 calories/day), I start experiencing the starvation symptoms discussed in the article (dreaming of food, inability to sleep, and anger).
I think all males in my mother’s side of the family seem to have the same problem. Most of them eat about like I do or worse, and they do not exercise nearly as much.
That's a little more than I needed to know.
I hear you!
My mother is very chunky through the hips, thighs and tummy (but not what I would classify as obese).
I see my body slowly looking like hers and it horrifies me!
I used to go to the gym religiously, lifting weights, doing aerobics, and having salads with homemade, lo-cal dressing for dinner. I lost MAYBE 5 lbs. and 1/2 inch in my hips after 6 months of HARD work! My body just would NOT let go of the fat! I decided, “what the heck” after the one-year membership ran out. It is hard to stay motivated when you see NO RESULTS! I’m convinced it is the genes. I’m not obese now, but I’ve got some excess flab.
Different diets work effectively for different people. For you, quite clearly, the high-fiber, low-protein diet is not working. So why stick with it? Try cutting out that fruit (pure sugar!), eliminating bread altogether, and go to town on meat, fowl, and fresh fish. South Beach or Atkins, in other words. You'll lose eight pounds of water in the first week and have tons of energy.
When I eat the way you do I blow up like a balloon. I couldn't lose weight on your diet no matter how much I exercised, and would always be angry and hungry, too.
Here is some information for you but first you should understand what I am about to tell you involves some things that are counterintuitive.
The first is, being overweight as opposed to being obese (a medical genetic condition), being overweight is a sign of malnutrition.
Now I know what you are thinking, that you eat healthy and so you think you can’t be suffering from malnutrition. So here is the second thing, once you may have been eating poorly such as alot of sugary items. This craving for sugar led you at one time to eat poorly but the it was not the poor choices of food that led to your initial malnutrition. Malnutrition is not always caused by junk items in a diet. It is caused by a yeast buildup in the gut. Yeast love sugar and produce alcohol as a byproduct of consuming sugar. But as yeast builds up in the gut it robs you of the nutrition you are trying to feed the rest of your body. So even though you have adpated a more healthy diet now, your yeast is robbing it from you and you are not absorbing the nutrients your body needs. So you are malnourished and that leads to putting on fat.
Putting on fat is the body’s response to a lack of nutrients.
Yeast in the gut robs you of nutrients.
This is why you are always hungry.
You have to get rid of the yeast and allow the good gut flora to get back in control.
But warning! When you find a doctor that will help you to get rid of your gut yeast, beware that what will be prescribed will kill the gut yeast (but not the good gut flora) and when the yeast die they will emit toxins leasving you nauseated for a few days. It’s not a serious side effect but it’s like having a mild flu.
Once your gut yeast is gone your weight should come down naturally. But keep fighting the yeast because it can come back.
One of the reasons Americans are so overweight these days is because of the heavy doses of antibiotics that are given. Antibiotics are often the best treatment for a condition but in most cases they are not vitally necessary, yet people eat them like candy and doctors prescribe them in the course of practicing defensive medicine, most often unnecessarily, like taking a sledge hammer to a tack. Doctors read that they should curtail antibiotic prescriptions but they fear the one case where the patient gets sicker because they did not prescribe it and the lawyer writes the letter requesting medical record release.
Antibiotics allow yeast to get a foothold in our guts. No matter what we eat we seem to gain weight or keep it on. That’s because the yeast are in control.