White people food.
Posted on 10/04/2012 4:00:55 PM PDT by dennisw
At five-foot-six, Edwin Velez weighed 300 pounds when he holidayed in the Bahamas last November.
When the 26-year-old from Albertville, Alabama, saw his holiday snaps, he said quickly realised his overweight body needed a drastic lifestyle change.
Making a vow that he would be in better shape for his next planned vacation the following March, Mr Velez set himself the seemingly impossible task of losing 100lbs in those four short months, a goal he not only reached, but exceeded.
'I woke up one morning and I was like, "I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this now,"' he told Good Morning America.
Cutting out white carbohydrates, Mr Velez also changed his diet. He avoided sugar, anything carbonated, and all food which were coloured white - including potatoes, white bread, pasta and rice; slowly introducing whole grain variations, instead.
'Being Hispanic made it extremely difficult because rice and beans and tortillas and breads and pastas are big part of our food,'
'Being the holidays, right around Christmas, I made my own meals and went and bought my own food, like grilled chicken and fish, so my family would have their food and I had my food.'
Of his rapid weight loss, he added that 'drinking nothing but water was, like, the first 10 to 15 pounds and that came off probably within the first two to three weeks.
'I would also go to the local track and start walking in the morning, and go that afternoon, every day,' he said.
'I went to the track because [I was too] self-conscious to go to the gym... so I just would go to the track by myself and I started there until I felt comfortable enough to go to the gym.'
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A great diet. Eat only real foods. Real foods do not come with a list of ingredients.
Nothing white takes it a step further
That's racist!
Good for him. That moment when one realizes a change has to happen and one is going to do it is golden.
He dropped a third of body weight by cutting out ‘white food’
That’s racist!
You beat me to it
Judging from the pictures, he should go out and get a new scale. If he’s 5’6”, there is no way that the pictures show a 300 lbs man and a 200 lbs man. He may have lost 100 lbs, but he didn’t start at 300...
I conducted an experiment on myself over 10 years ago with regard to diet. I wanted to see what effect eliminating sugar and alcohol from my diet would have on my body. So I did it. ZERO sugar/corn sweeterner/etc of any kind in any amount(this was difficult to do since almost all packaged food has sweeteners of some kind). Zero alcohol of any kind in any amount. I did it for six months and weighed myself every sunday morning at exactly the same time imediately after waking up. Other than these two things I ate as much as I wanted. NO exercising.
I consistently lost 1/2 pound every week for the entire 24 weeks. 12 pounds lighter basically by doing NOTHING...and I was only about 15 lbs overweight to start with. I beleive that if everyone eliminated these 2 things for a period of 2 years there would be no fat people. Period.
A VERY interesting website...
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/
And another enlightening presentation that’ll blow your socks off if you’ve got the time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKdYUCUca8
At the end of the article it states that he now weighs 155, so that’s probably the skinny photo.
White people food.
Yes. I cut processed foods out of my diet and lost 15 pounds in a little over a month. I don’t eat anything out of a box or a can, except beans. Tonight’s supper was a baked potato and broccoli.
I have lost over 130 lbs following a similar approach. I lost mine in less than 6 mos (Feb to Aug this year). There are five rules I follow:
1.) No High Fructose Corn Syrup or Sugar. (HFCS being more critical to avoid).
2.) No ‘Enriched’ ANYTHING - Organic Whole grains only.
3.) No Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated anything. I limit my intake of oils to pure saturated fats (coconut oil is my primary).
4.) I drink 110 ounces of water daily.
5.) No processed foods of any kind - no preservatives, no added colors, no added flavors. If you don’t recognize every ingredient on the label - it’s bad!
I was limiting my caloric intake to 800-1000 calories a day initially and now am at 2400 (which is a LOT of food when following these rules). I was losing over 1 lb a day and dropped from a 48” waist to a 34”. I didn’t work out at all until I raised my calories to 1600 - it’s actually counterproductive to exercise when on low calorie intake (your body enters starvation mode and begins adding fat rather than burning it). At 1600 calories I began walking and now work out twice a day - I feel FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!
Yeah, gotta stay away from those crackers.
Real Food = God made food not man made. Butter yes, margerine no. Corn on the cob, or corn meal yes. Processed corn syrup or other man created products from corn or soy no.
I have done the same thing, I cut Alcohol and processed foods of any kind as well as salt out of my diet, I still use honey to sweeten hot tea, and eat some whole grain pasta, but have been eating all the lean protein fruit and green vegetables i can put in my hungry maw still dropping pounds at more than 1 a week I was 218lbs mid July I am 173 as of this morning. I have no exercised one push up or jogged nothing other than eliminating the rubbish the food industry serves us and the booze except for one a week on Saturday night in small amounts and Sunday i am a half pound heavy every time off just 3 or 4 beers low carb ones at that is enough to add back a half pound alcohol is probably the single worse thing someone can put in there body other than crack cocaine.
Along with everyone else’s replies, it can be done. I wasn’t really overweight. But the creeping obesity they talk about that extra half pound a year that sneaks up on you definitely had a good start on me. I eliminated eating wheat completely (I still do drink it occasionally), no fast food, no high fructose corn syryp and only drink water and a morning cup of coffee. Lost 30 lbs and am back to college weight. Playing with my kids is my exercise. Eat more vegetables now, but changed nothing else. Getting past the first couple of weeks of the wheat/bread addiction was the hardest part.
Okay, you tell us what you don’t eat so tell me what you DO eat. It’s hard to make meals without anything. :>)
Dieting is un-necessary IF you simply don’t over-indulge.
I have never dieted, never was overweight and have eaten all kinds of food all the time, BUT, in moderation.
I enjoy “grazing”; lot’s of little meals instead of 3 typical big meals.
I often eat 10-15 times a day. 1/2 sandwich and an apple, a chicken leg or some slices of steak, a piece of homemade apple pie (w NO SUGAR ADDED!) etc etc etc
(Gotta keep up on the dental hygiene with all that eating)
Being dangerously overweight, unless there is a real glandular/chemical problem, is a character flaw. Just like smoking, public drunkenness and cheating on your spouse. (go ahead flamers!)
When the 300 lb man realized that being overweight was caused by his own actions, he fixed it. I’m very happy for and proud of him.
Now if we could just get Liberals to realize their character flaw, life would be grand indeed!
Live right and life’s rewards will be yours.
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