On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:41:53 GMT, Ignoramus23305
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:31:33 GMT, Chris Braun wrote:
On 16 Aug 2005 07:37:25 -0700, "Doug Freyburger"
wrote:

Chris and Beverly both mentioned roll your own. Both
experienced and well-read folks years into their
process. Neither newbies.

Well, we were both newbies once. I was a newbie three years ago, and
began with a "roll my own" plan. After two years of weight loss and
one year of maintenance, I'm still doing much the same thing. I do
think it's possible to approach a "roll your own" diet in an
intelligent way. Not everyone approaches it from a position of
ignorance, you know.

Successful dieting is much easier conceptually than, say, electrical
design or boiler repair.

The nice thing about dieting is that, given enough motivation, simply
eating less reliably produces weight loss. So, complete newbies can
lose weight if they simply eat less. When I started dieting, I knew
next to nothing about nutrition etc. I simply started eating less, and
walked, and did not eat certain obviously not so good things. That
worked just fine.

Piggybacking on another post of yours about feeling like being in an
alien body, after almost two years, I no longer feel that way. I got
almost fully used to it.

Well, I've only been at my current weight for about a year. And it's
a bigger change for me -- half my weight. And I spent a lot longer
being heavy, since I'm much older than you. So it may take me longer.
It's not just appearance -- though I'm still startled sometimes when I
look in the mirror -- but the huge changes in the way my body works --
my desire to be physically active, my muscularity and strength, my
energy levels, my seemingly much more active metabolism, etc. It's a
lot to get used to :-).

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004