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I know you are itching to jumpstart your weight loss, but doing a temporary diet is worse in the long run. If you watch "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2" he admits to regaining weight and needing to find sustainable habits. If you want to keep it off you need to figure out your lifetime habits not temporary ones.
I know you are itching to jumpstart your weight loss, but doing a temporary diet is worse in the long run. If you watch "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2" he admits to regaining weight and needing to find sustainable habits. If you want to keep it off you need to figure out your lifetime habits not temporary ones.
I don't disagree with you Jade, but understand this diet is for the rapid weight loss I desire, and some of the changes in my diet are permanent ones. For example, bye, bye Dr. Pepper, and stopping the big meals filled with fat, like big taco dinners. When I was in my late teens and all throughout my 20s I hardly ate, in fact when I saw other people addicted to food I remember thinking to myself I hope I never get that way. Well I did without even realizing it.
Honestly, the challenge of tackling this issue and losing as much as I can as quickly as I can motivates me. Long gone are the days when I was heavy into physical fitness, nothing but muscle, and with probably around 2-3% body fat, however, I would like to fit into some of my old jeans from a few years ago that I still have and not have to wear 'big fat guy' jeans. And as I lose weight and also address some bad injuries with surgery, I should be able to workout more than I can at the moment.
Thanks for your input.
On a sidenote, towards the end of the day yesterday I noticed my allergies weren't bothering me near as much as they normally do. Couldn't help but believe the vegetable and fruit smoothies I drank helped. My allergist told me my allergies were the worst he had seen in 20-30 years. I was allergic to virtually everything and many were severe reactions. Allergy medication has helped for the last 23 years deal with the headaches and some of the sinus drainage, but due to my age allergy shots couldn't help. I'll be monitoring this to see if taking in the benefits from all the vegetables is helping or if it was a coincidence. It didn't eliminate them but it did seem to help. I'll add an update in future posts once I'm sure one way or another, and how much of a help it's been in that regard.
I know you are itching to jumpstart your weight loss, but doing a temporary diet is worse in the long run. If you watch "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2" he admits to regaining weight and needing to find sustainable habits. If you want to keep it off you need to figure out your lifetime habits not temporary ones.
Developing sustainable habits is key to becoming healthier. Good information on a healthy diet and sustainable weight loss is hard to come by.
After my mom died of cancer, I decided that I had to adopt healthy habits. I read the book How Not to Die and visit https://nutritionfacts.org frequently. I eat a lot more fruit and vegetables than I used to eat. On thing that Dr. Greger frequently mentions is that a healthy diet doesn't have to be expensive and helps you make good choices when you shop. He also has a free app called The Daily Dozen that helps me make good choices.
I also read The Fiber 35 Diet, Fiber 35 Diet Archives - BrendaWatson.com. I don't follow the diet per season but I use My Fitness Pal to count calories and fiber grams that I consume. The fiber makes me feel less hungry.
The information from those sources has helped me drop 51 pounds since October. I feel better and look better.
My advice OhioJB, is to seek out good information from good sources and work on improving your health. The weight will come off and you'll feel better.
Developing sustainable habits is key to becoming healthier. Good information on a healthy diet and sustainable weight loss is hard to come by.
After my mom died of cancer, I decided that I had to adopt healthy habits. I read the book How Not to Die and visit https://nutritionfacts.org frequently. I eat a lot more fruit and vegetables than I used to eat. On thing that Dr. Greger frequently mentions is that a healthy diet doesn't have to be expensive and helps you make good choices when you shop. He also has a free app called The Daily Dozen that helps me make good choices.
I also read The Fiber 35 Diet, Fiber 35 Diet Archives - BrendaWatson.com. I don't follow the diet per season but I use My Fitness Pal to count calories and fiber grams that I consume. The fiber makes me feel less hungry.
The information from those sources has helped me drop 51 pounds since October. I feel better and look better.
My advice OhioJB, is to seek out good information from good sources and work on improving your health. The weight will come off and you'll feel better.
Good luck!
Congratulations on your weight loss, photobuff. Good advice.
Ok, I've debated whether to post a pic of my weigh-in. Since it only shows my feet I guess I will. Still feels weird doing so. Seeing is believing so I may as well put this out there. Wish I had taken one from Friday morning when I was 312, the first day of my diet. My first weigh-in this morning was 307.2, this one taken a couple hours later was 307.8. Hope you like my new socks. Click on the image to get a better view. Thought the black curtain would make a good background.
And by the way, made another full blender full of vegetable and fruit smoothies. One thing I've noticed is drinking this makes me want ice water right away, not Dr. Pepper.
I know you are itching to jumpstart your weight loss, but doing a temporary diet is worse in the long run. If you watch "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2" he admits to regaining weight and needing to find sustainable habits. If you want to keep it off you need to figure out your lifetime habits not temporary ones.
Besides, I imagine that cleaning out the blender every day is going to get old.
Besides, I imagine that cleaning out the blender every day is going to get old.
Yup! Although I saw a USB chargeable mini blender following me on Facebook and I was sort of intrigued. :P
I don't like smoothies enough to have them daily. I'd rather just eat real food like a hearty serving of veggies. And it is really easy to make a nkt tasty smoothie. Also it is really contrived to just add ingredients for supposed health benefits.
I don't disagree with you Jade, but understand this diet is for the rapid weight loss I desire, and some of the changes in my diet are permanent ones. For example, bye, bye Dr. Pepper, and stopping the big meals filled with fat, like big taco dinners. When I was in my late teens and all throughout my 20s I hardly ate, in fact when I saw other people addicted to food I remember thinking to myself I hope I never get that way. Well I did without even realizing it.
Honestly, the challenge of tackling this issue and losing as much as I can as quickly as I can motivates me. Long gone are the days when I was heavy into physical fitness, nothing but muscle, and with probably around 2-3% body fat, however, I would like to fit into some of my old jeans from a few years ago that I still have and not have to wear 'big fat guy' jeans. And as I lose weight and also address some bad injuries with surgery, I should be able to workout more than I can at the moment.
Thanks for your input.
On a sidenote, towards the end of the day yesterday I noticed my allergies weren't bothering me near as much as they normally do. Couldn't help but believe the vegetable and fruit smoothies I drank helped. My allergist told me my allergies were the worst he had seen in 20-30 years. I was allergic to virtually everything and many were severe reactions. Allergy medication has helped for the last 23 years deal with the headaches and some of the sinus drainage, but due to my age allergy shots couldn't help. I'll be monitoring this to see if taking in the benefits from all the vegetables is helping or if it was a coincidence. It didn't eliminate them but it did seem to help. I'll add an update in future posts once I'm sure one way or another, and how much of a help it's been in that regard.
I have no doubt you will lose weight. I highly doubt the weight you lose will stay off if you don't have a sustainable and realistic plan to support it.
I am working on losing weight as well (amount is TBD) and I am in a Facebook group with my cousin and her friends for a year long challenge. Many of them are doing very intensive things that I doubt they will keep up. They are making progress. But each who is doing the most extreme things or hardest to keep up, have had setbacks where they regained 10-15 pounds. I joined late, we are 6 months in. But it looks like a common thing. I wonder what happens this time next year.
I am working on the slow and steady path and really reflecting on what hasn't worked for me in the past and what is most practical to do for the long haul. I am not making progress as fast, but my progress is steady and that counts more. I'd rather not have setbacks because I went too hard and it was unrealistic for me to keep up. I am not saying I don't consider doing different stuff. But that stuff doesn't fit in with the long term vision of my life.
Besides, I imagine that cleaning out the blender every day is going to get old.
Funny thing is I was surprised how easy it's been to clean it. The ingredients I'm using are part of the reason, plus I've been cleaning it as soon as I finish.
Funny thing is I was surprised how easy it's been to clean it. The ingredients I'm using are part of the reason, plus I've been cleaning it as soon as I finish.
Blender cleaning = no big deal
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Click on the image to get a better view. Thought the black curtain would make a good background. 
