I fell off the wagon big time as far as recording my food. I don't know quite what happened, I got busy and sidetracked.
It seemed as if I had a couple pounds weight loss, could be water fluctuation...but now I'm back right where I was, 215 pounds.
I think my free weight loss is over, and it was worth it. My sleep apnea, diabetes and hypertension are gone. I want to take off at least 50 more pounds though...I'm going to have to do this on my own.
White flour and sugar have to be completely out of my life. The sugar has been gone, but the white flour sneaks in.
Aug 25, 2009
Aug 17, 2009
White flour is the Devil
I admit it, I've done badly at recording and charting my food. But I have been trying to watch what I eat the past few days.
I discovered white flour does not work for me at all. I get gas and abdominal trouble big time.
I'll ban flour from my diet also and see how it works.
I discovered white flour does not work for me at all. I get gas and abdominal trouble big time.
I'll ban flour from my diet also and see how it works.
Aug 11, 2009
Healthy at any size?
Being fat in this culture is frickin' miserable.
But I don't doubt some can be healthy and fat...200, 250 pounds for the average female may not be a big problem as far as health. I see ladies weighing 230 or so who get around great, have none of the diseases of obesity and look and feel fabulous. Weight loss surgery isn't for them and an ethical surgeon wouldn't consider it, nor would insurance pay for it.
Those are the people who should preach and teach healthy at any size. The problem is when fat moves into morbid obesity...when you're hurting from the effects of obesity...then defining yourself as healthy moves into the realm of denial.
You move through life huffing and puffing, sweat pouring out of your pores as you negotiate a flight of stairs. You often have sleep apnea or diabetes or painful joints. If you don't have them yet, as the years go by into middle-age, you're primed to get these problems. Running is an impossibility, swimming mostly an embarrassment and biking simply doesn't work.
No fool, you know your job and romantic opportunities are more limited by your morbid obesity. Your quality of life undeniably suffers no matter how much confidence you manage to muster up.
You desperately try diet after diet. Your body wars with you. You try and try but it is as necessary and natural as drinking enough water to eat enough to maintain your weight. The prattle about healthy at any size is reduced to bullshit for the morbidly obese. Your life is undeniably cut short by your bulk.
Most small-sized people couldn't get up to 300 pounds plus if they tried. Their bodies simply won't allow them to carry that much weight. If we have the genotype where we can get that fat--it's damn near impossible to lose unless there is an actual famine, hunter gatherer style. Nowhere in the first world supports that sort of lifestyle. We are throwbacks, anachronisms that will die sooner because of the complications of our inherent metabolic disorders. Check out the Pima Indians.
Studies after studies along with boatloads of statistics tell us the only solid way to take weight off and keep it off if you're morbidly obese is weight loss surgery. Other methods work about as well as playing the lottery if you want to get rich.
So merely fat (such as Joy Nash and the like) can indeed be fine and healthy, but the line drawn between health and suffering complications of obesity is a gray one of varying widths. It's not for anyone else to tell anybody when and where it should be drawn.
But I don't doubt some can be healthy and fat...200, 250 pounds for the average female may not be a big problem as far as health. I see ladies weighing 230 or so who get around great, have none of the diseases of obesity and look and feel fabulous. Weight loss surgery isn't for them and an ethical surgeon wouldn't consider it, nor would insurance pay for it.
Those are the people who should preach and teach healthy at any size. The problem is when fat moves into morbid obesity...when you're hurting from the effects of obesity...then defining yourself as healthy moves into the realm of denial.
You move through life huffing and puffing, sweat pouring out of your pores as you negotiate a flight of stairs. You often have sleep apnea or diabetes or painful joints. If you don't have them yet, as the years go by into middle-age, you're primed to get these problems. Running is an impossibility, swimming mostly an embarrassment and biking simply doesn't work.
No fool, you know your job and romantic opportunities are more limited by your morbid obesity. Your quality of life undeniably suffers no matter how much confidence you manage to muster up.
You desperately try diet after diet. Your body wars with you. You try and try but it is as necessary and natural as drinking enough water to eat enough to maintain your weight. The prattle about healthy at any size is reduced to bullshit for the morbidly obese. Your life is undeniably cut short by your bulk.
Most small-sized people couldn't get up to 300 pounds plus if they tried. Their bodies simply won't allow them to carry that much weight. If we have the genotype where we can get that fat--it's damn near impossible to lose unless there is an actual famine, hunter gatherer style. Nowhere in the first world supports that sort of lifestyle. We are throwbacks, anachronisms that will die sooner because of the complications of our inherent metabolic disorders. Check out the Pima Indians.
Studies after studies along with boatloads of statistics tell us the only solid way to take weight off and keep it off if you're morbidly obese is weight loss surgery. Other methods work about as well as playing the lottery if you want to get rich.
So merely fat (such as Joy Nash and the like) can indeed be fine and healthy, but the line drawn between health and suffering complications of obesity is a gray one of varying widths. It's not for anyone else to tell anybody when and where it should be drawn.
Not losing weight
I've been stalled at around 213 pounds for at least a month.
It's time to get real. The first thing to do is to record every morsel I put in my mouth. I'll use fitday.com. Not that anybody visits, but I'll also write my food diary here to keep it honest.
With the DS, I can eat fat since I only digest 20% of it. I have to keep my protein intake high, as it's crucial and I only digest 50% of it. carbohydrates are the nutrients to watch. I hear whole grains and whole vegetable starches such as potatoes aren't bad, but refined and simple carbs such as white flour and sugar are the killers. I digest 60-80% of carbs, 90-100% of sugars.
I haven't been eating candy or cookies, but sandwiches and crackers have snuck into my diet, in what I thought were moderate amounts. They'll have to go. I'll keep modest amounts of potato in and maybe a little whole grain and monitor how it affects me.
I haven't had a lot of gas, but I notice it's increasing. Not enough to bother me terribly...but I see if cutting back on the carb makes any difference.
Here goes.
It's time to get real. The first thing to do is to record every morsel I put in my mouth. I'll use fitday.com. Not that anybody visits, but I'll also write my food diary here to keep it honest.
With the DS, I can eat fat since I only digest 20% of it. I have to keep my protein intake high, as it's crucial and I only digest 50% of it. carbohydrates are the nutrients to watch. I hear whole grains and whole vegetable starches such as potatoes aren't bad, but refined and simple carbs such as white flour and sugar are the killers. I digest 60-80% of carbs, 90-100% of sugars.
I haven't been eating candy or cookies, but sandwiches and crackers have snuck into my diet, in what I thought were moderate amounts. They'll have to go. I'll keep modest amounts of potato in and maybe a little whole grain and monitor how it affects me.
I haven't had a lot of gas, but I notice it's increasing. Not enough to bother me terribly...but I see if cutting back on the carb makes any difference.
Here goes.
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