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Old December 1st, 2003, 09:46 PM
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Default How do you keep your focus?

On 1 Dec 2003 14:20:45 GMT, Ignoramus15011
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I just keep my focus. Do same things every day. Eat same amounts every
day. Post to alt.support.diet every day. Refuse any food offered by
anyone if it does not fit my plan. Record my honest weight every day.


You're on automatic. Glad it's working so well for you.
I'll look at adding those things in my life.


try it, it may help, depending on your personality.

You may have serious issues with appetite and metabolism etc, as your
weight is way beyond a typical fat person range. Standard advice may
be less than what you need. But trying above all to keep doing exactly
the same things every day help.


What is a serious appetite issue?


I have no idea whatsoever what it might be. I am just saying that it
may be more than a case of a typical fat guy who likes pizza too much
and can take it under control if he wanted to. The point of me saying
it is that typical diet advice may not work well for you. Some people
have binge eating problems -- nothing to be ashamed of, but it does
make dieting more difficult.


You may not genuinely feel the need to lose weight yet and not be
motivated properly.



You may be going on weird fad diets and crash diets instead of
adopting a sensible weight loss programs. Like, now you are suddenly a
lacto ovo vegetarian. Why?


No weird fad diets or crashes.
I've been lacto ovo since 1982.


I see. Are you on it for non-diet reasons (such as ethical reasons)?
If you are in it for health, you may observe that it is not working
well!

How tall are you and how old?

6'5" 47

There are a few people here (maybe just one) who was, I think, 425 lbs
and went down to 225.


265 is a great goal for me.
I'm big framed and muscular.


That's good.

What seems to work for many people is three approaches:

1. Going on a non-radical diet, such as cutting down sugar/junk food,
MODESTLY limiting amount of calories eaten, and adding lots of
exercise (500+ calories per day), such as walking, weightlifting, etc.

2. Going on Atkins or another low carb diet seems to help drop weight,
but many report dropping out or regaining (true for all diets).

3. Going on a medically supervised meal replacement diet.

Myself, I lost 47 lbs with approach number 1. My diet is very much not
radical -- the only thing that I do not eat is sugar and junk food,
more or less. I eat anything else, but I measure my portions and limit
my total for the day. Also I do not eat in the evenings and at
night. I also exercise about 500 cals per day during the week.

What does not work more or less universally, is going on crash diets.

Some people do stomach stapling if dieting genuinely does not work.

My suggestion to you, which is a hundred percent safe medically, is to
completely cut sugar and junk food -- not a bite -- and try to eat
modestly below what would be required for maintaining your weight,
calorie wise. To this, add 1-2 hours of walking, depending on your
physical condition. Eat ast scheduled times and do not snack
mindlessly. It is hard the first 1-2 weeks to stop snacking at night
etc, but becomes very easy if you stick to it. Due to your 360 lbs
weight, running or using stairmaster may not be indicated due to knee
joint issues.


Thanks for the tips, Ig.
I found these helpful.
Refuse any food offered by anyone if it does not fit my plan.
Record my honest weight every day.
trying above all to keep doing exactly the same things every day help.
completely cut sugar and junk food
Eat ast scheduled times and do not snack mindlessly
No night snacking
Some aerobic exercise


You're making a few other assumptions that aren't me.
Exercise wasn't a problem for me until my gym closed a couple months
ago. I bench 425 and leg press 1500. I can sweat on a stairmaster
for an hour and a half before I lose interest. Without a gym I'm
finding other ways to exercise at home with weights, but other than
walking I don't have areobics set up.

There is a saying that bodybuilding is 80% diet. I'm proof of that.
I'm strong. Look like I've done something, but still look fat.

My question on keeping Focus directly relates to the problem I've had
maintaining a long term effort. I'm doing great today. I want to do
great for 4 months every day. Four months of consistant effort would
put me so close to my appearance goals and get me on automatic.

I've over analyzed everything which is a waste of time for me and
that's where the Focus question comes in. So much analysis without
constructive action makes successful expectations hard to hold.

The ova lacto diet is fine if I hadn't turned to ice cream and pizza
when life got me down. I've had some very painful losses over the
past two years where I ate without discipline.

I am now conquering that stuff and getting on with this change. I want
to succeed.


Mike

i
223/177/180


i
223/176/180

Congratulations,

Mike