Thanksgiving challenge - LOSE TEN POUNDS by Turkey Day - are you in? (lose weight, losing)
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So it seems the better arpproach to keeping weight off is to perhaps eat sensibly (watch portion size and what one eats) and use extra exercise to compensate for gains due to Xmas cookies, holiday dinners, etc...
Those articles, particularly the weightology one, are pretty interesting.....quite informative!
So it seems the better arpproach to keeping weight off is to perhaps eat sensibly (watch portion size and what one eats) and use extra exercise to compensate for gains due to Xmas cookies, holiday dinners, etc...
Those articles, particularly the weightology one, are pretty interesting.....quite informative!
The best approach is to change your genes.
If you can't do that then you have three choices: Struggle the rest of your life (not psychologically healthy), get weight loss surgery (it works, but at $40K it isn't cheap unless insurance pays), or do nothing.
The best approach is to change your genes.
If you can't do that then you have three choices: Struggle the rest of your life (not psychologically healthy), get weight loss surgery (it works, but at $40K it isn't cheap unless insurance pays), or do nothing.
I have been trying to lose 10 pounds. I have a jump on some of you because I started day after Labor Day. I want to be able to stop the holiday spread and keep eating sensibly into the new year.
I have lost 5 pounds by cutting carbs. I have not had bread, pasta, rice, cereal, cookies, pastry, etc. After the first two weeks I added a piece of dark chocolate at night. Also a glass or two of red wine when I want it.
I am lucky that I like vegetables. I try to limit fruits as well. For breakfast, if I don't have two scrambled eggs and turkey bacon or sausage, I have fat-free plain Greek yogurt with a bit of splenda, walnuts, cinnamon and sliced strawberries. It is really good and holds you for a while. Vegetable juice, celery and hummus, soy nuts or almonds are all good snacks. Low fat cheese and grapes also works as a snack. Lunch is usually a salad with olive oil and balsamic or cider vinegar. Or a black bean burger (no bun) with guacamole and tomato eaten between two lettuce leaves. Natural peanut butter smeared on an apple or celery, low fat ricotta with fruit and nuts are good lunches, too. If you crave meat, lean roast beef or turkey rolled around a slice of avocado or green pepper and dipped in mustard or horseradish sauce is great.
Dinner is what I would usually make, but nothing breaded, deep fried and no starches, more veggies. Smaller portions of meat.
I have also given up diet soda-I think it makes you crave more foods. Water cleanses the palate. Drink more water.
Good luck everybody!
I have an even bigger jump start because I started last February LOL.
The best approach is to change your genes.
If you can't do that then you have three choices: Struggle the rest of your life (not psychologically healthy), get weight loss surgery (it works, but at $40K it isn't cheap unless insurance pays), or do nothing.
You forgot the fourth choice:
Learn to embrace a different lifestyle entirely - and learning to embrace, means learning to enjoy. Enjoying a new lifestyle is not struggling. The path to learning it might be a chore and frustrating at times. But once you've embraced it, it's - well - embraced. Not struggled against.
Perhaps some day you will learn to enjoy a healthy lifestyle Charles, and not feel that you have to pimp surgical procedures to people who might not need them, to validate your own existence.
Learn to embrace a different lifestyle entirely - and learning to embrace, means learning to enjoy. Enjoying a new lifestyle is not struggling. The path to learning it might be a chore and frustrating at times. But once you've embraced it, it's - well - embraced. Not struggled against.
This works, for a solid 5% of people that have tried it. It sounds nice: "Just Embrace a New Lifestyle" as if the reason people are overweight is as simple as wearing your hair short versus wearing your hair long ("Just embrace a new hairstyle") but for 95% of people it's dreamland.
Perhaps some day you will learn to enjoy a healthy lifestyle Charles, and not feel that you have to pimp surgical procedures to people who might not need them, to validate your own existence.
Perhaps one day you will not assume you know what my lifestyle is.
The best approach is to change your genes.
If you can't do that then you have three choices: Struggle the rest of your life (not psychologically healthy), get weight loss surgery (it works, but at $40K it isn't cheap unless insurance pays), or do nothing.
Another boo hoo from Charles. Sorry buddy, but being healthy takes sacrifice. If you want to put in the effort it will pay off big time, if not then stop complaining. A lot of folks here are seriously trying to better themselves. If you want to blame genes and then eat french fries that is your choice, but it has no purpose for this board.
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