Shandyr's weight loss thread
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Personally, I think that gym could do you good.
After the Christmas, I was thinking going to gym every day for an hour and make it routine.
There is serious threat to live a life only sitting generally. My doctor told me that. Cardiovascular system is in major risk.
Exercise isnt that hard to accomplish either. Just by walkimg everywhere and taking stairs instead of elevators can help shed some weight.
But the best thing for weight loss is the proper mindset for it. You need to want to and you need to put in the work to better yourself.
Your diet is a high protein, low fat diet with real foods and moderate amounts of sugars -- mostly fructose. Which is good but I'm not seeing much iron, calcium or fiber. As your body asks for fiber you will reach for the figs which won't help with your sugar intake. You really need to add some green leafy veg to that diet. Also, as someone that can tell you such things to smell you. Seriously. If you start to smell like ammonia that is a sign that you are ingesting more protein than your body can process.
How to make leafy veg palatable? Ever met an overweight Ethiopian? Try gomen and reduce butter to taste: http://ethiopianrecipes.net/gomen-ethiopian-greens/ The chilies do the same thing that the ginger is doing -- speeding up your metabolism.
Now that I've talked about food -- lift your arms straight above your head. Put your palms together. Using your waist, bend to the side. Feel the pull in your side. Do that again each day trying to move a mm further each day. Congrats, you are exercising without changing clothes or hanging out in the gym. And your body can start to use that protein. Let me know if you want another one you can do while you are gathering your party.
Good luck and remember that the goal is health.
Thats said I'm basically at the place you're wanting to be. I don't work out, I don't play sports, and I in general hat exercise. Sure, I get some exercise every now and then but not much really. I'm 55kilos.
I'm also pretty weak and squishy, and occasionally anemic, though thats from nose bleeds.
So just know what your getting into. If you're losing weight to be healthy, then you should at exercise. If you're not losing weight to be healthy, then why are you doing this at all?
So before you decide to bluntly reduce the amount of food you eat, I suggest consulting with a proper dietologist to understand the underlying processes in your organism. The whole thing isn't as simple as "eat less, lose weight", there's so much stuff going on, you will never make the right decisions without knowing how it really works.
Exercise isn't just pumping iron at the gym or running 3 km a day. It can be things much simpler than that. Just being active is a form of exercise. You're burning energy instead of storing it.
Fear of what others think isn't an ideal reason to attempt to lose weight (or do anything for that matter). You need to do it for yourself, you need to feel good about your choices, or it will just lead to stress and anxiety.
And I bet at least one of those bullies have packed on the pounds through out the years so karma.
Congratulations on the weight you've already lost, and I wish you success in your efforts to lose more.
I've struggled with weight issues my whole life. I was a very overweight child and suffered the taunting for it, including constant nagging and criticism from my mother.
When I was in ninth grade, after a particularly stern lecture from my mother about how awful I looked and how I *had* to lose weight, I went on a crash diet. I basically did it your way, by severely restricting calories, but still not exercising. I ate no breakfast or lunch, and had one salad for supper (made from lettuce, sometimes lean ham, and cheese, with low-fat dressing), and that's all I ate for six months. I dropped from 240 pounds to 185 pounds. My mother was delighted, all the kids at school were delighted, and I became much more socially accepted during my high school years and going into college.
I liked how people were treating me better, but I felt very hungry all the time. I often would binge on something like a whole box of donuts and then starve myself the rest of the week in guilt and self-hatred. My weight went up and down, but I didn't get "fat" again. Every time I hit 200 I was able to get it back down to at least 190 by going on the starvation diet.
During my first two years in college, I started to deal with having to accept myself as being gay. I began to notice fit male bodies more and more, in magazines, movies, and TV shows, and I wanted my body to look like that. So, I finally started working out. Over the next few years, I spent at least an hour a day, sometimes more, lifting weights or running. I alternated days between upper body strength training, and lower body with running for aerobic fitness.
I got up to about 210 pounds of muscle without increasing my waist, and I looked pretty good, and I got lots of attention whenever I put on tight clothing and went to a gay bar. I still felt hungry all the time, and would occasionally binge and feel guilty about it. I was also never satisfied with my body. Despite all the long hours per week of exercise and staying on a restricted calorie diet, my abs never got very well defined, and I always had some softness around my belt line, such that I eventually had to accept that I was never going to have the body of a fitness model, which was mostly all that mattered in the gay culture I knew.
I grew increasingly depressed and discontent, and I had a lot of trouble with manic-depressive illness. The constant low calorie diet would often trigger and worsen hypomanic episodes. I knew I could calm down by eating, but I didn't want to eat because I'd get fat. So, I just gradually would let my mental hypomanic condition deteriorate into full blown mania until I was in serious psychiatric trouble with a psychotic break.
After I turned 30, I got so burnt out on the constant striving to have the perfect body, and the constant fear of mental breakdowns, that I basically said the hell with it, stopped working out, and started eating whatever I wanted. I let my weight balloon to what it is today, and I didn't care what anyone thought, and I still don't.
I am much happier and more content since I came to the state of letting it all go, but I would not have been able to do that when I was still in my 20's. I'm glad I got to experience life in my best possible shape, so I don't feel like I missed anything when I was young. But it was also a huge relief to say "Okay, this is what it's like to be "healthy", it didn't make me happy, so I'm going to stop now."
Anyway, I apologize that that post just got a lot longer than I had intended. I guess I hope that hearing the story of another person who's gone through a lifelong struggle with weight issues might help you in some way to define your goals and gain some perspective.
Again, congratulations on your success so far, and I look forward to hearing more about your efforts and your journey.
Peanut butter and celery, chips and hummus, goat cheese, edam cheese or cream cheese and crackers, strawberries, bananas, apples, peanuts, cashews, figs, dates, protein bars at work, milk, grapes, a multivitamin a day, and whatever the rest of the family happens to bring home. I've been on this diet for several weeks and the only times I've gotten sick were when I went off of it.
I've gotten so used to the current diet that I can't even eat much junk food without getting sick. American Chinese food, fast food, candy, most snack foods, almost anything with a lot of grease--I don't even want them anymore. The temptation is gone. This has been a years-long process, but I've found that it's possible to find a diet that's healthy and satisfies you.
@BelgarathMTH: If you don't diet anymore and you've got a bit of a sweet tooth, and you're not allergic to peanut butter, you might want to try making peanut butter sweeties. You just mix peanut butter with powdered sugar in a pot with a fork or your hands and roll it into little balls. The ratio depends on whether you want them very sweet and crumbly or less sweet and more intact. You can also mix in grains instead, and they got great with melted chocolate. I've made it for lots of people and all of them loved it.
We all know of the mass vegicide atrocities you have commited!
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As for diets. I have never been on one, as I do not need to be on one. Just blessed I guess.
However, I do seem to eat in an 8 hour window during the day. This seems to have some beneficial effect?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2857829/Want-lose-weight-Eat-food-eight-hour-time-frame-NEVER-snack-night.html
Also, as a teacher, I am forced to eat at regular times. I don't know. Still want the reason being I am just blessed...
In the school as a whole, we have a few children that could be classed as carrying 'puppy fat' I suppose, but bullying is not tolerated.
One time offences are dealt there and then and recorded, with parents knowing it has been recorded. This stamps out a lot of unsociable behaviour.
Pupil places are at a premium, and there are not enough school places for all the children. If a child acts in such a way they need to learn, and there parents need to learn that they will lose their place and will need to find a new school.
Not saying that we stop being vigilant. The child that keeps it to themselves, is the one that ends up being mentally tortured. We teach lots of lessons about seeking help and dealing with difficult situations.
So. To sum it up. We treat it very seriously now. I say now, as it was not always the case.