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I have to lose weight. I have honestly tried every diet known to woman.
The Fake Mayo Clinic Diet …I was good until I had to drink six ounce of prune juice.
Atkins…Good until I gave up red meat.
Weight Watchers…I finally joined last year, and the first meeting I went to they announced it was the last in that location. I did not go back.
The Rice Diet…Can we say binding?
MediFast…I did this last year. It cost at least a mortgage payment, and the minute I began eating actual food, I gained almost all of it back.
I joined a health club and have been there five times since last August.
Oh, one summer I went to a diet center that gave me pills. When I took them to my doctor the next time I had an appointment, she threw a fit. Legal speed. I threw them out, but they did work. I was a crazy cleaning machine.
I bought the Flat Tummy book, the Biggest Loser 30 Day Jump Start, The Real Mayo Clinic Diet book, The Zone, Fit Club Diet, and many more. I have wasted many a tree in the quest for a waist. (How very clever was that?)
There are many others, believe me. I found a web site yesterday that has you rate what you want in a diet. I ended up with the Bread of Life Diet. If it works, it just might be for me. You have to eat twelve slices of a light bread a day. That sounds like a lot but it is really only about 400 calories. You have other things too, and make some odd sandwiches. I may try this one. I ordered a used copy of the book on Amazon, and just might try to buy the necessary foods this weekend.
I went to the diet web site that is determined by your blood type. I have O, which is considered to be the oldest of the blood types. AB is the newest. It told me to eat as primative man ate….lots of meat and no veggies, dairy or fruit. No way.
Alas, I just do not know what to do. I think I will go look for the potato chip diet or the french bread and brie diet…..
I was just reminded of another diet I tried and messed up. Carol told me that eating ten to twenty pieces of dark chocolate kept the appetite away. She lost a lot of weight so I thought I would try. She told me she bought Gharadelli (sp?) dark chocolate, so I bought the same. It was not easy to eat ten to fifteen pieces of dark chocolate in a day, and the fact that it had a caffeine, I could not eat it after about five. I made myself sick on dark chocolate, only to find out she was talking about Gharadelli dark chocolate CHIPS!!!!!!!
there is a really weird correlation between exercise and losing weight. You THINK that you exercise more, it burns more calories and you naturally lose. The trouble with that is that muscle weighs more than fat. So, at the beginning of one of my more dramatic periods of determination to lose weight i went on this exercise kick, right? I lost four pant sizes…four…and freaking gained 15 pounds. Fortunately i was working with a nutritionist. After that initial couple of months of frustration (well except for the smaller pants it was frustrating)- THEN the weight loss started. Muscle also requires more calories at rest than fat- so eventually it all pays off. THEN, we all think of diet and want to knock off twenty pounds in a month or so so we can go back to eating normally, right? Thing is that minor changes in intake can give us a couple pounds a week loss. Over six months that’s relatively painless, and adds up to 50 pounds. So i advocate making changes you can stick with long term. And i advocate exercise- with the caveat that you have to be patient about seeing the rewards of it.
that’s my two cents.
Did you get a new isp? My blog did not recognize you.
I have done NutriSystems and it worked for me. While I was off because of the surgery, I lost 17 pounds in 2 1/2 months. It teaches you about the good food and you still eat desserts (chocolate too). Excerise is needed with any diet program. Even if you can just get out a walk. One needs to get the heart rate up to burn the calories. I got this information from the lady who I got my PT from for my knee.
The amount of food you eat is very important too. Try cutting down on the amounts. Stop eating at least 2 hours before you go to bed.
I got off track just before I went back to work, but I am trying to get back on track. I now can excerise more so that will help. Excerise also helps clear the mind if you do it outside.
Maybe we can blog about this and encourage each other during our weight lose process.
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Norma, i assume you had knee surgery? Got to tell you, I really wish i had done that. I spent several months working to avoid surgery (and did)- but i still end up occasionally in pain or a brace- and from what i have seen others experience i’d have been better off replacing the whole thing.
anyway i certainly do not envy knee rehab of any kind-
and yeah, portion control. Do y’all realize how little that really has to change to matter? If we’d all like simply set up our meals and then take away a tablespoon of everything…and cut like an inch off every sandwich or slice of toast and toss it…that would do it.
just reducing ONE sugared drink a day adds up to like 50,000 calorie per year total.
I’ve been on a diabetic diet, because of my weight and because diabieties runs in my family. What I’m supposed to do is eat many fruits and veggies and eat smaller portions throughtout the day like every three hours whether I’m hungry or not I need to eat and EXERCISE and drink WATER. Well, I’m NOT doing very well on this type of diet. I did better on weight watchers but I am the heaviest now then I’ve ever been in my life and I hate it. But it always takes me about 2-3 weeks to get into the mindset of dieting or as I say EATING HEALTHIER sounds so much better doesn’t it, LOL. I’ve finally sorta kinda weaned myself off of sweeties, but since ALL my teeth are SWEET TEETH it’s been very hard just doing that. But I REALLY need to lose weight VERY BADLY!
I like Norma’s idea of blogging about our weight loss progress and maybe we CAN encourage one another to lose the weight. I know I need ALL the encouragement I can get.
Pam, my mom has had bad knees all her life and she finally a year and a half ago had a double knee replacement and she did PT on both knees for about 7 months or so and she said it was the best thing she ever did because she said she was in sheer agony with both of her knees 24/7.
I hope when you occasionally have the pain it’s not that bad or even when you need to use the brace because I saw how much she suffered and that would just be terrible for you to be in such pain like that.
Pam – I had my right knee replaced in Jan. I had the left one done in Feb of 2009. I am so glad that I did. No more pain and I can do things that I did before. I plan to try to get back out golfing this summer.
Just omitting all the soda pop will help with weight loss. Look at all the salt and sugar in just one can. Diet pop is not that good for you either.
I just made a private Yahoo group where we can discuss diets and recipes. There was not a way to do it here without the comment list becoming too long to handle. I will send all of you invitations, but do not feel the pressure to join if you do not want to. I want everyone to stay here too, because I love reading the comments. It will be private, and only those I invite can read or post.
If you are a lurker here and want an invitation to the Yahoo group, email me at kathieschmidt@gmail.com
I will do this tonight, as it is time to jump in the shower now.
Looking forward to joining the yahoo group and Kathie I have to say it as my father would say “don’t jump in the shower,you’ll fall”. I know, I know it’s a bad joke, sorry, but in his honor I just couldn’t resist and just had to share. LOL
My mother always said, “If someone loses weight, someone else has to gain it, cuz where would it go?” So in honor of Earth Day today, I am “donating” 3 lbs to any of you that want it. (I’m out of my head taking all these cold medications.)
Ya know Jan, I actually remember that. We were in that downstairs den, near the kitchen at your house. She said that if someone loses weight someone has to gain it. lol I went home thinking about that.
I have a lot more to give away than three pounds…I would give thirty!!!
Don’t send the weight my way. My new knees could not handle anymore weight. That is way I need to lose. lol I am sure that we will be blogging here too, so keep it coming. I enjoy reading what others have to say.
I know HOW to lose weight…I just don’t. Laziness I guess. The last time I went to the doc he told me to lose weight (of course he did) and I told him I would but I HATED dieting. He told me losing weight was a lifestyle change not a diet. He told me to restrict portions, cut them in half and to keep it as natural as possible. Organic as much as possible, nothing artificial if I could help it. He told me to cut all my portions in half…no matter what it was. Not to drink sodas at all, not even the diet ones and to limit my caffeine. He said that I should eat 5-6 small meals a day instead of 3 large ones. Walk at least 30 minutes a day.
So, for a while, I did what he said and I did lose weight. But I stopped walking and realized….that was the kicker. That is what made everything else work. I don’t buy sodas and I think diet sodas are nasty so I am good there. I don’t buy anything labeled as “fat free” or “low fat” because 1) it is natural and 2)the make up for the fat with sugar (more calories).
I am throwing all of my large dinner plates away and buying the medium sized plates (I think they are called Bread plates). I watched a show on TV(if I could remember the show name I would try to link to it) that tested if people ate more simply if the plate was large. So they had 2 groups of people….30 each I think. One group of 30 had normal sized dinner plates and the other group of 30 had the smaller bread plates. The groups were in separate rooms and didn’t know about the other group. They were given the exact same buffet and told to eat as much as they wanted and when they were done to leave their dirty plates on their tables. After everyone left, the scientists weighed all the leftovers and compared that to what they knew they had put out on the buffet. Once the numbers were crunched it was determined that the “small plate” group ate less.
Anyway…enough of my rambling! Hahahahaha