Posted on 05/12/2013 2:37:18 PM PDT by neverdem
I agree that too many people are lazy slobs. Your resting metabolic rate will be low if you don’t exercise, thus lowering calories needed for maintenance.
I find that exercise is good for your mind as well. After you do it long enough it becomes habit.
It’s actually a very nice movie, I enjoyed it, and my usual fare is John Wayne.
Same here, but next time I'm going to pick rich parents.
Portion sizes here are insane. Most things you really can cut half, eat half, and save the other half for lunch the next day, and be better off for it.
;-).
No, you go under anesthesia and you have a 1-5000 change of ending up dead. Not a sexy situation.
Praise God! I hope to join you in that some time within the year... :-)
They have several procedures all of which can be avoided by a modest amount of will power.
Yes, we have insane portions and very reasonable prices.
In Italy as an example, pasta and meatballs were about 40% the size of our plates and about 40% more expensive.
So here in CA I can get a great pasta and meatball plate for at least two for $9-15. In Italy as an example it is less than half our dish sizes and the prices are from $15-26. (Just talking average places, not fancy ones.)
I keep the carbs low and eat natural foods most of the time. Eggs are not the devil's food hey were portrayed in the 70’s and the 1980’s and I walk or jog 2 to 2.5 miles 5 times a week and lift weights. It wasn't till I drastically reduced the breads, white rice, potatoes, ect that the weight peeled off.
I go to Weight Watchers.
We cut out all sugar-free, fat-free, low-cal, low-fat, etc. from our diet. We basically eat as our grandparents did before the war- no hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils or HFCS. We don’t shy away from full-fat products. Popcorn popped in pure coconut oil is devine! I definitely feel better, but I feel best when I cut out all sugar and reduce my carb intake. Even my arthritis disappears. The thing is I just love my sweets! With summer coming on it will be much easier. My favorite lunch is fresh green beans blanched, then sautéed in a generous amount of olive oil with caramelized onions, and topped with toasted almonds. That and a handful of cherry tomatoes and I’m in heaven!
Your grandparents had pure coconut oil? Mine used lard.
I think that could be a good idea.
We work a lot, have a 4 year old and the wife goes to college. I need more time personally.
I probably cut back 22 pounds slowly off in the last 2 years. Have more to go, but to be honest I understand I will have bad days and I am educating myself more regarding better eating choices and portion control.
I use some of the weight watcher’s meals from the grocery store. I also take some small potassium supplements which gets some of the salt and calcium out of the body (better for men than women).
My wife went on medi-fast with bars and stuff. She went from an almost 14 to a 4 in a year. She wants me to do the bars but that is for me too much.
I am making more and more better lifestyle choices though.
My path is slower for sure though than hers was.
You can’t live forever on food-substitutes. You have to have food. Weight Watchers teaches you about smart food choices, and also about the non-rational factors that affect your choices.
I ask myself, “How do you feel?” Sometimes I feel hungry, but much more often, I feel angry or tired or bored. You can learn to “feed” those feelings with something that’s relevant, instead of with food.
One of my problems is that I can “feed” my feelings on the satisfaction of losing weight each week, and the sense of control from saying, “No, I won’t eat that,” and wearing clothes too small for my teenage daughters ... but then the size 2’s are too big and Weight Watchers and my doctor are giving me the Concerned Face.
Bloody Vikings...
“The consensus opinion is that fast food companies and convenience food makers are to blame for the fact that 69 percent of America is either overweight or obese.”
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I don’t agree. The businesses are providing products that people demand. Capitalism, baby.
The problem is with us fat people. We are too stupid or too lazy to feed our bodies with the right food in reasonable quantities. These convenience foods and restaurant meals weren’t meant to be eaten every day.
I second your opinion.
Here in the South the dietary fare hasn't changed much but the habits of her people have..
One look at a local mall shows the effect.
Instead of an mostly agrarian lifestyle where people worked from sunrise to sunset, people now set indoors at desks or stationary positions inside air conditioned/heated buildings.
Yet they consume more calories than an field hand but burn off less.
The "epidemic" is an self imposed one...
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