Something personal...

[JJEH]

Congrats sir and keep up the good work.

 

[sonora]

Good work!!!

Is there a way to eat healthy and lose weight, and have it not be bland?

Yes combine healthy eating, moderate portions with increased exercise. Congratulations! I'm sure your achievemeant has boosted your self esteem too.

 

[Arik]

You know you don't have to eat bland food to diet. You just have to eat the right food in normal portions and of course if you exercise that helps a lot too

 

[Arik]

Is there a way to eat healthy and lose weight, and have it not be bland?

Absolutely! And there are many way of doing it too.

The simplest way is don't eat processed food. If you want ground beef buy beef and grind it yourself. It's takes an extra 10 min. No or minimal fried foods, no breading or very minimal. Nothing fake or imitation. Bread shouldn't be white, in fact nothing carb related should be white. White is processed and you get all the carbs without any of the benefits (empty carbs). More fish, real fish not fish sticks. This is just a very basic condensed version. I can write pages on it

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Beef, chicken, cheese its all good. Until it's all you've eaten for the past 6 weeks. Then you would kill for a piece of bread or potato. When I am sticking to protein-based food with none of the carbohydrates after a while I find myself eating less and less simply because I don't want to eat it anymore.

Keep up the good work SP. The thing about proteins is that they take longer to digest and so stay with you longer and keep you hunger urges down.
If all I have for breakfast is a bowel of cereal, toast or pancakes, I'm famished by mid morning. But a couple eggs and some bacon... I'm good 'til lunch. Even a cup of yogurt sticks with me better than cereal.


John

 

[RonJ]

You were on my ignore list for a longtime.
Forgive me for bringing this up but I hope your weight loss improves your demeanor. Good luck!

 

[Fishinfool]

SaxonPig - I was always a big guy, 6'3. After I retired in 2009, I really gained. I was up to 347 lbs. Started a diet, and riding my bicycle. After about two years, I was down to 245 / 250, which I am comfortable at.

My opinion, the key is finding a diet that you can stick with. Starving yourself never works in the long run. Stick to a healthy 1200 or so calorie diet, a little exercise, and the weight will slowly but surely disappear. One day a week, I would treat myself to something like a nice, greasy cheeseburger.

Once you are at a weight you are comfortable, then increase your intake to maintain that weight. Don't fall into the trap of thinking, good, now I can pig out on anything I want....You'll just gain the weight back.

Good luck...

Larry

 

[vytoland]

keep moving forward, saxon...treat yourself once in awhile and exercise as much as possible....walking with arm movement helps a lot.... I know its an up hill battle....NEVER give up....

 

[gunnails]

I'm curious SaxonP, have you ever refereed to your self as
"The Deflator"?

 

[joeintexas]

Congratulations, it sounds like you are on the right track. I thought I had lost 10 pounds until I looked in the mirror and turned around, I didn't lose it I just misplaced it! Best of luck to you.

 

[Art Doc]

RonJ- Forgive me but I don't see anything wrong with my demeanor. You're the one joining in just to insult me so who has the problem, here? Please feel free to put me back on your ignore list.

 

[A10]

Congratulations SP! I'm an old fat guy myself. Losing weight is one of the toughest journeys a person can make.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I have to literally stop eating altogether to lose weight.

 

[BC38]

Keep up the good work SP. I fell off a ladder just over 18 months ago and shattered the top of my right tibia (bottom half of my knee). Over the next year I put on an extra 50 lbs. I just couldn't handle the pain in my knee anymore.

I had got all the way up to 436 lbs before I decided to get a little "help' taking some of it off. I had gastric sleeve surgery on Dec 17th and I'm down to 328 lbs as of yesterday morning. If I can get down to 250 I'll be totally satisfied with the results. If I can get down to 225 I'll be positively thrilled.

I'm doing water aerobics twice a week and walking a lot more. Eating less and exercising more. That's the ticket.

 

[ladder13]

Absolutely! And there are many way of doing it too.

The simplest way is don't eat processed food. If you want ground beef buy beef and grind it yourself. It's takes an extra 10 min. No or minimal fried foods, no breading or very minimal. Nothing fake or imitation. Bread shouldn't be white, in fact nothing carb related should be white. White is processed and you get all the carbs without any of the benefits (empty carbs). More fish, real fish not fish sticks. This is just a very basic condensed version. I can write pages on it

Perfect. Losing weight, and keeping it off, is a lifestyle change. Yoyo diets/fads/schemes don't work for the long term.

 

[LMWIS]

Way to go Saxon (sans 'Pig'). Atkins is great, but I've reached the point where I could walk a grocery store end to end and not see anything I could bear to eat one more night...,

As an aside, ever notice that being overweight is the last socially acceptable prejudice? Racism, sexism, even ageism are social taboos, but weight? Line up and take that shot!

I'm not where I want to be weightwise either, but I'm comfortable with where I am. At least until I'm off the shift work and stress rollercoaster.

Good luck, and keep up the struggle. I envy your success!

 

[islamoradamark]

i did not need to lose weight but when i quit drinking beer i dropped 15 pounds like nothing

 

[Frizzman]

Losing that much weight is no small feat. One must battle genetics, evolutionary adaptation to resist starvation, a calorie rich environment saturated with eating cues, easily acquired foods loaded with the fats and sugar our brains reward us for ingesting, technological advances that allow us to live a virtually exercise free life and more...Add to all that stress eating, eating due to boredom or pressure from others and its a wonder anyone can voluntarily go into a state of starvation and tolerate that over a protracted period...I have battled with obesity most of my life and have been up and down a hundred pounds plus over past sixty years. Losing weight isn't nearly as challenging as keeping it off over the long term...I have tried most "diets" and found there is no easy answer. It boils down to a simple formula, eat less and move more...That is simple but NOT easy. After air and water, food is the top commodity we all must be focused on. Those who think losing and keeping weight off is simply a choice can try an experiment that doesn't take as long as to do as trying a diet....Cut your fluid intake substantially until you feel really thirsty. Then put lots of nice, cold drinks around and try to resist them. Try to think about something else. Use "willpower" to not start gulping...See what I mean?...One could try it with breathing and that would teach a very quick lesson but I don't recommend that...So, you have earned some credit for doing something that is very verry difficult.

 

[federali]

It's a Conspiracy

I too have fought the battle of the bulge. What everyone is saying is so true. To add insult to injury, the major food companies, not only lace their foods with hidden sweeteners but they also add chemicals whose effect is to cause you to crave that particular food. Hence, that potato chip commercial, "bet you can't eat just one."

My one-month old grandson is being breast-fed with baby formula as backup. I read the label on his Enfamil formula and the most prevalent component was corn syrup. Sugar is known by many names, most of which we wouldn't recognize for what it is but every food study out there, except those sponsored by major food producers, shows sugar as a poison in your system and actually worse for you than fat.

 

[handejector]

I found a good bit of what you lost.