Church's Fried Chicken and Waffle House Diet Update:65 pounds

It works! I have lost 40 pounds since the middle of February.
I cut out bread, rice, grits, taters, and sweets. No sweetened drinks of any kind.

I eat beef, pork, chicken, fish and sea food. I eat some vegetables, mostly cabbage, peas, and a half of a sweet tater every now and then. I eat some fruit, mostly strawberries, melon, and unsweetened apple sauce.

I eat "wraps" from Jersey Mike's at lunch about once a week, days when I'm working. I eat a ham&cheese omelet from WH about once a week. Fried chicken a couple of days.

I never get hungry. I eat eggs and sausage or bacon for breakfast most every day.

I last saw my doc on 12-31-14. I figured I had lost 25-30 pounds. Yesterday, scale said I was down 40 lbs. I didn't start the diet until mid-Feb. BP was down. Had blood drawn, hoping cholesterol is still good. I know blood sugar will be down. Those numbers were never real bad.

I noticed just this week that my knees aren't aching nearly as bad. I can get around much better without huffing and puffing quite as bad.

I have always been fat, but generally pretty healthy. At nearly 67 years old, it was really beginning to tell on me, though. I hope to lose 40 more by Christmas.

Congratulations and good luck.

Congratulations!
I lost 60 pounds in 3 months on similar diet, (Atkins), with LOTS of exercise.
Stick to it.

Glad you're losing weight with the fried chicken.
I just try and eat fried foods sparingly, although I love them.

congrats on your success keep it up. Im on a sea food diet everything i see i eat

I used to be able to lose weight. Something happened (or didn't happen?) where it just sticks around now.

redlevel said:

It works! I have lost 40 pounds since the middle of February.
I cut out bread, rice, grits, taters, and sweets. No sweetened drinks of any kind.

I eat beef, pork, chicken, fish and sea food. I eat some vegetables, mostly cabbage, peas, and a half of a sweet tater every now and then. I eat some fruit, mostly strawberries, melon, and unsweetened apple sauce.

I eat "wraps" from Jersey Mike's at lunch about once a week, days when I'm working. I eat a ham&cheese omelet from WH about once a week. Fried chicken a couple of days.

I never get hungry. I eat eggs and sausage or bacon for breakfast most every day.

I last saw my doc on 12-31-14. I figured I had lost 25-30 pounds. Yesterday, scale said I was down 40 lbs. I didn't start the diet until mid-Feb. BP was down. Had blood drawn, hoping cholesterol is still good. I know blood sugar will be down. Those numbers were never real bad.

I noticed just this week that my knees aren't aching nearly as bad. I can get around much better without huffing and puffing quite as bad.

I have always been fat, but generally pretty healthy. At nearly 67 years old, it was really beginning to tell on me, though. I hope to lose 40 more by Christmas.

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Im motivated with your success. My thyroid messed up months ago and I gained fourty pounds. I want to drop at least fifty.

My Eating Disorder

I have a serious eating handicap that I was born with: two hands and one mouth. Even then, I still need to lose a few pounds and the Atkins diet does indeed work.

Congrats on your substantial weight loss and I hope you manage to keep it off.

Congratulations on your success!
My Dad died when I was 29. He never had the chance to explain the facts of life to me. (No, not THOSE facts. Missus Fan is an Older Woman, she explained 'em on our wedding night). The facts of life are, if you're a guy, when you hit your mid 30, everything you put in your mouth ends up on your gut, and you can stand in front of a mirror and watch the hair in your ears and nose grow.
When I was 34 Missus Fan bought me a new pair of britches. Size 40 waist. I told her I was not even gonna try them on. Called a friend and we joined the YMCA. Stared to play racquetball, which soon became a regular thing. I didn't know much about diets, so I made up my own. Decided to cut out fat. If you go to a well stocked grocery store almost every item has a low or no fat alternative. Only one I couldn't stand was Ranch dressing, the others I couldn't tell the difference. I continued to eat sweets and drink regular pop. Lost over 30 lbs. in a bit over 4 months.
It can be done. Just takes a bit of will power.
I can wear size 31 waist jeans now.
Jim

P&R Fan said:

Congratulations on your success!
My Dad died when I was 29. He never had the chance to explain the facts of life to me. (No, not THOSE facts. Missus Fan is an Older Woman, she explained 'em on our wedding night). The facts of life are, if you're a guy, when you hit your mid 30, everything you put in your mouth ends up on your gut, and you can stand in front of a mirror and watch the hair in your ears and nose grow.
When I was 34 Missus Fan bought me a new pair of britches. Size 40 waist. I told her I was not even gonna try them on. Called a friend and we joined the YMCA. Stared to play racquetball, which soon became a regular thing. I didn't know much about diets, so I made up my own. Decided to cut out fat. If you go to a well stocked grocery store almost every item has a low or no fat alternative. Only one I couldn't stand was Ranch dressing, the others I couldn't tell the difference. I continued to eat sweets and drink regular pop. Lost over 30 lbs. in a bit over 4 months.
It can be done. Just takes a bit of will power.
I can wear size 31 waist jeans now.
Jim

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Raquetball will do it.I have a friend in Austin who has to eat at least four thousand calories a day--just to maintain his tiny weight. I an pass the cookie aisle in any store--and gain five pounds. Oh and,did I mention--he playes Raquetball several times a week.

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Raquetball will do it.I have a friend in Austin who has to eat at least four thousand calories a day--just to maintain his tiny weight. I an pass the cookie aisle in any store--and gain five pounds. Oh and,did I mention--he playes Raquetball several times a week.

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Nice thing about it is it's running with a purpose. I can play for an hour or more and not get winded. If I were to run around the block somebody would have to do CPR.
I will run when I'm out of ammunition.
This is HIGHLY unlikely to happen.
Jim

Redlevel,

I'm fixin to give that chow line a run....Needin' to lose a few my ownself.


Su Amigo,
Dave

P&R Fan said:

Nice thing about it is it's running with a purpose. I can play for an hour or more and not get winded. If I were to run around the block somebody would have to do CPR.
I will run when I'm out of ammunition.
This is HIGHLY unlikely to happen.
Jim

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Same here on running.In fact,even in my leaner days--I hated running. I used to play soccer, baseball and football. However,I love walking.

Update: just got off the scale.

Down a whopping 65 pounds now.

I figured with July 4th celebration, BBQ, watermelons, fresh
vegetables and fruit, I would probably put a little weight back
on. For the last two weeks or so, I have been eating half a
watermelon every day, four or five peaches, fried okra once
or twice a week, fresh peas out of the garden, figs right off
the tree, and my regular fare of fried chicken and eggs and
sausage.

I have actually lost two or three pounds during that time.

I'm still laying off the sweets, taters, rice, grits, corn, and no
bread. I really, really wanted some of the desserts at the 4th
Bash, but I laid off. It has been hard not to eat fresh sweet
corn out of the garden, and it has taken a while to get used
to peas without cornbread. Tough not to make a mater sammich,
too.

After the fresh stuff out of the garden runs out, I intend to get
back on the diet in a serious way, hopefully dropping two pounds
or more per week. I want to be down by 100 pounds by Christmas.

My blood work numbers were good, blood sugar down, and
cholesterol and triglycerides still good.

Not bragging, just saying. (Maybe bragging just a little)

You cut out grits? I'm out!

Amazing! I'm going to have to find some dedication and discipline. I'm 50 now and Doc has me on metformin for blood sugar level. I imagine losing some weight will get things back in order and allow me to do the outdoor things I like to do. It's tough to find the time to exercise though given I have a 14 month old.

I'm on the Cambridge Diet.

You know, that diet where you eat enough to feed a small town in Massachusetts.

Good for you redlevel!

FWIW, I got up to 436 pounds before I decided to do something about it. My health was (and is) still good - normal BP, cholesterol, blood sugar, no heart problems and good liver & kidney function, etc. etc. Other than being 200 pounds overweight I was still pretty healthy for 50+.

Then I shattered my right knee. After all the surgery, 4 months on crutches, 8 months of PT, blah, blah, blah, I just couldn't take the constant pain anymore and decided it was time to take some pressure off that knee.

It took me 30 years to gain 235 pounds, but I needed to loose as much of it as possible as quickly as I safely could. So I made the decision to have bariatric weight loss surgery in December. I had my 3rd follow up visit yesterday (1 month, 4 months, 7 months). I've officially lost 120 pounds so far - and 25 pounds since my 4 month checkup.

All the numbers from my blood work were great, and my BP was 122/78. Last week when I saw my knee surgeon it was 109/79! I'm feeling better, sleeping better, my apnea is nearly gone. I have more energy, and my knee doesn't bother me that much at all - at least not compared to how it was.

I only need to lose another 65 pounds or so and I'll be satisfied, If I can loose another 90 I'll be VERY happy, and if I could loose another 115 I'd be thrilled! That would put me back at 200 - right where I was when my wife and I married 30 years ago. But that seems a little unrealistic.

Having the surgery was the smartest decision I've made in MANY years. I was at a point where the weight and my knee problems prevented my getting enough exercise to take the weight off by diet and exercise alone. Loosing this much weight without the surgery would have taken years - IF I was able to "starve" myself for that long. By comparison the surgery was pretty minor and the benefits have definitely been major. I'd recommend it to anyone who has reached anywhere near the level of obesity that I did.

Eliminating most carbs & grains keeps me slim...in addition to 3 swim & 2 weight workouts a week...and I'm no spring chicken.

I'd lose weight if I was on a chicken diet too.. I'd starve to death.