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Diets and Dieting - Frell Me Dead
I've been working on losing my winter weight ever since I took my summer clothes out of storage.
Thankfully, I only need to lose about 10 lbs, but if I'd kept scarfing those free doughnuts at work every day...
The diet/exercise combo I'm on right now seems to be working for me.
What works or doesn't work for you?
Has anyone ever driven you crazy with a fad diet?
(I once worked for a lady on the cabbage soup diet...the less said, the better.)
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My diet plan: go to college.
Seriously. i walk everywhere and since i eat college food i lose weight!
but during the summer i'm going to actually go work out.
I'm going to try and sign up for a kickboxing class that won't cost me so much and also do a lot of running and scrunches in my basement, where i have a treadmill.
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I'm going to college and I still weigh in the 190s
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Whatever you do, remember vitamins.
If you're not sure you're getting enough vitamins every day, take some in tablet form, like Centrum or similar.
It's cheap insurance against coming down with scurvy, or whatever.
And don't substitute coffee for food, if you're not eating as much as usual, that caffeine hits your insides like a hammer.
Maybe switch to decaf.
Make sure you get enough sleep, you can get away with a few 24 hour periods of wakefulness once in a while, but it's a bad habit to get into, you start to look and feel pretty punchy after a while.
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I find cutting out alchohol and sugar completely helps.
Also eat wholemeal foods instead of refined flour foods and stuff.
I get addicted to sugar so I find I need to do this so I don't trigger cravings.
Getting bouts of hypoglycaemia at the moment though because I find myself eating less.
Have lost a lot of weight alright, but still have some stomach fat left (that's about it).
Probably need to start running for 30 mins 3 times a week so I get more aerobically fit and start burning fat instead of glucose, otherwise I'd say the dieting will just keep leading me to low blood sugar which isn't good...
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Quote: : I'm going to college and I still weigh in the 190s how tall are you?
While in college, I usually weighed around 230 + or - 10lbs.
At 6'5", I didn't look overweight at all.
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I weigh 120 (well, i want to stay that way consistantly.
Right now i'm 125) and i'm 5'3 or 5'4.
So thats average for me i think...all the charts i read regarding the "ideal weight" have mine as 118-135 and thats just too broad for me.
So does anyone know?
i eat fairly well, as well as college food will let you!
I dont have time to snack so i dont eat chips and stuff very much.
I had like 1/4th of a bag of microwave popcorn the other day...i cant finish a whole bag of popcorn anymore.
And i'm not such a big fan of
buffets anymore, whereas when i was younger i could eat some people under the table.
"when i was younger..." holy frell i'm only 20!
i drink coffee, but only when i need it.
I drink mostly tea because that doesnt have as much caffiene and i can drink it just to relax with it.
I prefer vegetables when i eat in my cafeteria...cause i don't trust the meat!
grinner, you must have been a strange sight!
Fluctuating between 230 and 10 pounds!
Wow, heavyweight boxer one day, lrge chihuahua the next!!
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Quote: : ..cause i don't trust the meat!
Red meat is NOT bad for you.
Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
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Since becoming diabetic with this pregnancy, I've cut out sugary stuff and actually...while 'gaining' baby weight (cause I'm bigger..obviously) I've lost 17 pounds.
You'd be surprised at how fast it comes off when you skip the sugars.
And some of the Atkins stuff that is out there, is REALLY good sugar free stuff these days.
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AS, the old rule they used to go by was 100lbs for the first 5' and then 5lbs for every inch after that, but nowadays, you'll get a different answer from almost every doctor you talk to.
Truly, fat/muscle ratio is far more important than actual weight.
Muscle weighs more than fat.
So you could have two people of the same height weighing 150lbs, and be two completely different sizes because one is fit with muscle and the other is overweight with little muscle but a lot of fat.
There's too much emphasis on weight by the scale.
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What Blackthorn said.
Like for example, an Olympic cyclist might be heavier but also thinner, because they're basically muscled like corded steel, lean and dense.
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Here's another hint that might sound strange, but it works.
(Trust me.)
If you like your sugar and/or a lot of carbs, try this.
Drink milk. Especially while you're eating your sweets or right after.
For some reason, the milk works with your body and helps your body digest the sugars.
They don't go into your bloodstream.
It works with meat or cheese too (because they are proteins) but it works faster with milk.
It seems the milk 'absorbs' some of the sugars before they get to your body.
Works for me every time.
I can monitor my bloodsugar (with my glucometer) and watch the sugars drop when I drink milk.
It's kind of a cool easy trick.
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The best diet I have ever been on would have to be the Suzanne Somers diet.
I lost 25 pounds in 2 months and did not feel like I was on a diet.
It is healthy, it isn't a fad, you don't count calories and you don't measure protions.
You are not hungry and the list of things to "avoid" is very easy to remember.
You can eat out almost anywhere and stay on the diet.
My neighbor recommended it to me after she lost almost 40 pounds on it in just a couple of months.
She has kept it off for over 2 years and looks fantastic.
The book cost $10 and was worth every penny.
What has NOT worked for me are all those exaggerated and prolifically advertisied diet pills.
I spent a lot of money on those pills over a year and lost only my cash.
The only diet pill that ever worked for me, was Metabolife 356 and they have now taken that off the market.
I think that anything that contains ephedra should still be available under a doctor's supervision by prescription.
Instead the govt.
(through the FDA) has completely removed it from the market for everyone.
Since I went on hormone therapy 18 months ago, I have put on 40 pounds It is most depressing.
I would like to see someone come up with a really sensible way of losing weight for the +50 year old with multiple injuries (back, cervical spine, knee and arthritis) Most regular diets and exercise routines are fine for healthy, young people (<30) but they are not suitable for the 50+ person with lots of physical problems.
Those of us, in our senior (or approaching our senior) years, need modified low impact routines, but no-one seems to be coming up with any.
My only form of exercise that does not jar my spine, kill my knee or hurt my arthritic hips is swimming.
The 50+ person has a slower metabolism, and a reduced tolerance for high impact workouts (unless that has been their lifestyle for years).
They also have reduced strength so many of the weight lifting routines are not wise.
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My mom had the same sort of effect when she had gestational (sp?) diabetes only with salad...huh.
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Quote: : all the charts i read regarding the "ideal weight" have mine as 118-135 and thats just too broad for me.
So does anyone know?
.... I have heard from people who are encouraging people to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, that the only time you should step on a scale is at your doctor's office.
The rest of the time you should look in the mirror when you get out of the shower and if you look okay, then that's your ideal size.
For those who claim they shower with their clothes on (refer to "Do you shower naked?
- poll") you have to take your clothes off to do the mirror test.
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