BS: Here I go again

Subject: Here I go again
From: nutty
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 11:05 AM

Over 12 months ago I received tremendous support from mudcatters when I gave up smoking. It was hard but I made it BUT I also managed to gain 35 pounds in weight (and I wasn't that small to start off with)
The challenge now is to lose the weight without resorting to smoking again. Anyone fancy joining me????
I've joined Weight Watchers so that I have someone to answer to if I slip up but would appreciate an internet buddy (or 2) as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 11:47 AM

I chawed on carrots and rabbit food to counter that empty pit feeling until I turned orange and green. Along with the diet, it may help. Get your doctor to arrange a consultation with a diet specialist to arrange a diet that is suited to your physical make-up. The weight-watchers program can be integrated with the specialists recommendations.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 12:05 PM

It will never hap without exercise - ONE HOUR - EVERY Day!!

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 12:07 PM

Nutty, check over at Jon's Annexe. Some of us have had great success with Weight Watchers.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: DonMeixner
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 12:10 PM

Nutty,

I just learned that a 150 lb person can burn 250 Calories off in 20 minutes by jumping rope. I wonder if you were do that with a buddy, like Double Dutch you'd burn twice as much. Ofcourse the right kind of Double Dutch with the right buddy could take longer and use ropes in a different way. But you'd still burn those calories wouldn't ya.

Don.

I need lose more than a few and I just started jumping rope and added it to my daily 3 miler. Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:00 PM

just acquired an exercise bike, so next time we're up on the Snug together...... (like tonight maybe?? Sunday Singaround??)

I've already done an hour walking in the woods, and 3 miles on the bike (did one this morning), but I'm sure there has to be a more enjoyable way of working up a sweat!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: skarpi
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:06 PM

HAlló Nutty, I lost 30kg In 6months, thats crazy thing to do but I did. Here is somthing you should think of, go and join up In " Body for life " I started last Friday and I am going to loose another 5 to 10 kg . It´s amazing how it works out. Try it. All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:38 PM

Liz, I found that the Snug is the best way to tolerate the boredome of riding a stationary bike. (In the days of HearMe I would have to get off the bike to applaud.)

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Gypsy
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:44 PM

Get into de emphasizing food. I've lost 18 lbs in 3 months (not a real race, huh?) by doing that. My diet is simple....steamed grain, salad, vegetables, and fruit. When you eat basically the same thing, each day and each meal, you wind up eating less. Gives you alot of extra time too, since you aren't planning meals.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: nutty
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 01:55 AM

Thanx for the advice folks. I get regular exercise already ....walk about 2 miles everyday with the dogs ....... but will have to try and fit something else in as well. The exercising while on the computer sounds a great idea, think I'll give that a try.
My diet is pretty basic already (I'm an insulin dependent diabetic) so I'm aiming for the ... lots of veg and little of everything else .... approach first. I'll let you know how I get on.

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: DonMeixner
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 07:02 AM

Nutty,

Have your Doc check you for Hypothyroidism. I discovered I have it and it explains a slow steady weight gain I have had for the last few years. I am otherwise a healthy middle aged guy with a good diet and excercise. Losing the weight isn't easy and probably impossible until they get the thyroid working right.

Luck to you.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: pattyClink
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 10:05 AM

Good luck, you are not alone. I'm working a plan and think it is good to keep touching base with other people trying to stick to one.

The 'something else' you're thinking of adding ought to be weight training. It raises the metabolism, and that will really get some progress going. If you hate gyms and contraptions, you can just buy small hand and leg weights and keep it low key. As you get stronger pass them on to somebody else and get larger ones.

I don't know your age, but you know They have discovered as we age we need a higher and higher ratio of weight work versus aerobic. So if anybody out there is walking religiously and not making any headway on shaping up, that's why. And it's never too late to start, They have done studies with perfectly ancient seniors and it significantly helped them to start weight work.

Cheering you on!

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 10:18 AM

There are dozens and dozens of diets out there. I know - I've looked at most of them - and then eat the books! The conclusion I have come to is that all diets have some advantages and some drawbacks - pick what is best for you from all the good advice and then, the realy important thing - STICK TO IT!

It should become a lifetime thing so diets that totaly ban certain foods are more likely to fail. Having said that a brief spell on any of them is probably OK provided that you don't go mad and binge after.

I guess being an ID diabetic (like my son) the low carb diets are out - unless you can allow for it by a decrease in insulin?. Healthy balance is the important thing - and as Gargoyle says excercise.

Good Luck - keep us posted.

Cheers

Dave the fat but slightly diminishing Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: GUEST,Lyndi-Loo
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:42 AM

I'm trying to lose weight too and I find the best thing for me is to cut out as much fat and refined sugar as I can from my diet. That means that my fridge is a cheese-free zone which is really hard (low fat cheeses just don't feel right). Don't worry too much about starch as you need that for slow energy release. I'm also upping my exercise which means walking every lunch hour instead of sitting at the desk talking to Mudcat. as for weights, don't spend money on hand weights; use tins of baked beans instead (the plus is that you get to eat the beans later as a reward!)

Subject: RE: BS: Here I go again
From: Hilary
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:51 AM

Hi Nutty, Absolutely brilliant giving up the smoking, congratulations. Maybe you could use again whatever motivational techniques worked so well last time ??? I lost 4 st in the first half of last year, by eating plenty of lower fat/sugar content foods than I used to eat, & walked more & started swimming again. I have no intention of going hungry ! I tried to think what I WAS going to eat & do rather than dwell on what I can't have etc etc & risk feeling deprived BUT have gained 15lb since november, so like you said - here I go again ! Walked into to town rather than drove. How do the clubs approach things ?- I've never tried one. I've assumed I'd rather go to a session.

My guess is losing the weight will be easier than quitting smoking - but good luck.

H