Don't ask me, I wear a diaper and weigh 800 lbs.
Come to find out, I'm 60 pounds overweight. (OK, OK, it wasn't much of a surprise but it was much higher than I expected.)
I want some suggestions for living healthy.
I am now approaching middle age and being a particularly picky eater, and really didn't develop the taste for all the recommended amounts of fruits and veggies I'm supposed to eat every day. I normally ate what was convenient which was not the healthier choice.
What I want to know is mostly from my cubicle bound FRiends, how do you keep your waist lines down as well as HDL up, and LDL down with a sedimentary job?
What about exercising? I have the normal 8-5 job and also do some web consulting work in the evenings, not to mention 2 small kids at home. I don't want to lose that 'daddy time' in the evenings by going to exercise. I'm really not one to wake up at 5am and drive to the gym.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Don't ask me, I wear a diaper and weigh 800 lbs.
Eliminate carbs and eat whatever else you like.
Get outside and run around w/ the kiddies.
I recommend the Engine 2 Diet. You can check it out at www.engine2.org. It’s as much about getting your bloodwork happy as it is about losing weight, more so actually. The weight loss is alomost incidential, though good. You won’t be hungry eating all the plant based food on the diet either.
Brisk walk 30 minutes a day, watch your refined sugar intake, which includes the carbs. Look at it long term. Develop good habits.
Stop drinking alcohol.... the calories are killer plus it leads to poor eating decisions and bad sleeping habits. I gave up the booze 10 months ago and have lost 75 pounds!
Quit eating bread and sugar. Problem solved
Tag, races (where you lose), push them in a wagon, etc, etc.
Eating less, not less often, is just cutting down on the portion size.
Your stomach takes 20 minutes to tell your brain that it's full.
Water instead of soft drinks or sweetened drinks.
Raw vegetables for snacks instead of junk food. Carrot sticks, cauliflower, bell peppers, etc.
It will work but it takes time if you expect to lose it and keep it off.
Start a heroine habit.
Get rid of refined sugars and refined white flour. You will need to read labels, if these are found in the first 5 ingredients, choose not to consume the food. Seriously.
Talk to your doctor of a nutritionist. With this many factors of what you need to work on, don’t take a chance with layman’s suggestions.
one thing that helped me was to eliminate food with high fructose corn syrup. I limit dairy, and exercise alot! Best wishes. I’ve been heavy, and now I am relatively slim.
This is the answer:
1) Eat less, but better;
2) Move more.
Exercise is your friend. :)
Here endeth the lesson.
Sounds like you’re getting some good suggestions here. I’m going to check these out as well.
Eat less, exercise more. That's as simple as it can be.
Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator. Walk the short distance instead of driving. Order your meal, cut the portion and take half of it home. No fast food, ever. No soft drinks.
You're a geologist?
You publish dirty magazines?
You sell gravel?
Portion control. eat what you like but not more an a cup (I cheated a little on this). Have a steak not the side of beef, with it potatoes (one cup) and veggies. If still hungry have more veggies.
Never go more than 4 hours without eating something. If you have lunch at noon and dinner at 6 or later have a snack about 3.
She told me not to worry too much about calories, etc but keep an eye on the fat content. I was a bacon and eggs guy, now it is Fiber One in the morning.
I get one a day week to eat and drink. During the week it is black coffee in the morning and water the rest of the day, lots of water. On Saturday I have bacon and eggs, etc, have a few other things I like and an adult beverage that evening.
Must say it has really worked for me. I still eat what I like but less of it and I feel great. I am now off of my BP meds and my cholesterol meds have been cut in half.
I lost 20 pounds over a 6 month period by sticking to 1300 calories a day. (I’m a relatively small woman, so this is a healthy intake for me- you can Google your own proper caloric intake.) However, here’s the first key. Keep a food diary and pre-plan everything you intend to eat that day. You can change your plans, but that will require you to go back to your written plan and eliminate something to make it balance out. There are all kinds of handy computer programs that will help you do this, and some make great graphs to keep you inspired. I used “Weight by Date.” It helped me keep accountable to myself.
Forcing yourself to stick to a food diary will eliminate your impulse eating, because you’ll be too lazy to recalculate everything.
Since I’m a mom, I tended to eat similar breakfasts, lunches, and snacks (100 cal popcorn) every day. Then I’d just limit my portion size for whatever I fed my family for dinner to fit into my daily caloric allowance. The 4 PM snack was crucial. Without it, I was out of control at dinner time.
The second key is to MEASURE your serving sizes until you figure out what a normal serving size is. It turned out I was eating up to three times the normal serving size of everything for years.
I didn’t worry about exercise, carbs, fat, food pyramids, or whatever. I just kept a food diary and kept my intake under 1300 calories per day. I’ve kept off the weight for two years so far.
In a nutshell if in is more than out you will gain weight. If you drink alcohol...( i drink no more than 2 glasses of wine a night (6 ozs apiece) it needs to be considered in calories in.
I watch my carb intake. YOU DO NEED CARBS. Do not let anyone tell you different. It provides energy. Stick with mainly slow digestion carbs (veggies oatmeal whole grains.) Watch your carb intake after say 5:00. If you do not burn carbs it turns straight to sugar and will sit on your body all night. Not good.
I also eat 5 small meals a day instead of three big ones to regulate blood sugar.
WOrks wonders for me. I am 38 almost 39 and in great shape.
EXCERCISE!!!!!!!!!!