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My weight loss story (LONG)
I was born in 1972 as a normal weighing child. I pretty much led a
normal life, but have always been heavy. At the age of 3 months, my mother was feeding me what a 1 year old would eat. She always said I was happiest when I ate. All throughout my childhood, I was teased, and ridiculed about my weight. We all know how mean kids can be. I was not only big, but an early bloomer also. By the age of 13 I was already 5=E2=80=9911 and weighed 220 pounds. I almost looked ridiculous entering the six grade, when most kids that age are about 5=E2=80=99 120 pounds. When I was 16 years old, I ballooned to the weight of approximately 280 pounds. I was fairly active playing high school football, and competing in the weight lifting. I was encouraged to be this size by coaches, because my weight was useful. As any male of that age, I began taking a great interest in girls. I decided that I was going to lose weight, and began on my first weight loss venture that summer. During the summer I lost about 60 pounds, and started my junior year of high school. I eventually got down to in high school at the weight of 205. I looked and felt great, and since I was still lifting weights, my physic was still intact. I lost my weight doing lots of exercise, and really watching my diet. No specific diet, but just cutting down foods, not drinking full sugar sodas, etc. During my junior, I experienced my first real love, and began packing on pounds. By the time I had graduated from high school, and began college I was at about 290 pounds. At the age of 19, I ballooned to the weight of 309, and I decided that this was enough. This was around 1991, where No FAT was the most popular thing. I invented my own diet where I tried to eat no fat, and as little protein as possible. Within 7 months I dropped 109 lbs. I got as slow as 172 lbs by the time I realized I needed to stop losing weight. My diet basically consisted of: Breakfast: nothing Lunch: small can of tuna, with as many saltines as I wanted Dinner: bagel, or yellow rice, or pasta with tomatoes sauce (it was either 1 of these) Drank gallons of water a day I did tremendous amounts of exercise. Living at my parent=E2=80=99s house (going to college), I would basically play 2 hours of basketball everyday. Living in Florida, during the summer, you could imagine the heat and humidity. The weight just came off like melting butter. Within 2 years, I gained approximately 60-70 pounds, and weighing about 250. Trying to eat normally after starving myself was very hard, and just started eating like always did, too much. Around this time, a family member mentioned Atkins to me. At that time I thought it was a crazy way to eat, and gave it a try. Unfortunately, my first attempt was very half hearted, and I quit after about a two week time period. Never reading the book, just was told eat meat and you will lose weight. During that time I began working at night while still going to school. I was working at a super market distribution center, and the work was very labor intensive. I lost 40 pounds during 1-year period just because of the amount of labor involved. Trying to work at night and trying to go to school, it was just so hectic that eating was secondary. A few years went by, probably around 1999, I had basically gained if not all most of any weight I had lost and was hovering around 300 pounds again. At that time I was in bad shape, and was working in the computer industry. As we all know that these types of jobs are very sedentary, and my job was also fairly stressful. When I was 16, I started smoking, and continued during this whole time. At this point in my life I was smoking about 2 packs a day, weighing around 300 pounds, and doing zero exercise. I had to make a significant change, or I figured I was going to either have any of numerous diseases being over weight causes, or be dead by 40. At this point I had already roller coasted 3 times, and really needed to find a permanent solution to my weight loss. This was approximately early 2000, where I was watching TV and caught a special on the Atkins diet. Basically got a rundown of ketosis, and what was involved. The information I got seemed like a simple thing to do, even though TV program portrayed it as unhealthy method of weight loss. I decided, I had nothing to lose, went out and bought the book. I thoroughly read the book, and pretty much understanding all the phases began the diet. Starting with induction, I began losing weight. At first, I was really apprehensive on weighing myself because of the fear of knowing how much I really weighed. After about 2-3 weeks, it was very noticeable that this was working. Not really doing any exercise, following a very strict induction, the weight began falling off. I stayed in induction level carbs for about 9 months and got down to 205 lbs. I did start during that time doing some exercise, which was 2-3 times a week I would go to a driving range and hit golf balls. Might not seem like exercise, but hitting a jumbo basket (150 golf balls) in about an hour can build up a sweat. At 205 lbs, I felt great, and looked that way also. I had also quit smoking, which really made it a double whammy. During the next couple of years (2001-2003), I maintained a fairly low carb diet. Not really the maintenance phase, but never returning to eating the way I used to. Not really restricting my intake, and almost doing zero exercise I began packing on the pounds again. In January 2003, I joined a gym and began to religiously go everyday. I lost a few pounds, but quickly quit going after about 2 months. My job had become even more stressful, and the company I had been working for (7 years) began having serious financial problems. Having just recently bought a new home, money, and stress began to get the best of me. By the time I found a new job I was weighing 237 lbs, this was August of 2003. By January of 2004, I was weighing 245 lbs. At 245 lbs, I said no way. I am not getting to 300 lbs again, and having to work my behind off to lose it. This would be my 4th roller coaster ride, and I was getting tired of it. Being 32 years of age, I knew that several things would start working against me: 1=2E Age 2=2E Lifestyle 3=2E Work 4=2E Disease So on January 5th, 2004 I began my new years resolution. I started going back to the gym I had been paying for and never going to, and I started induction again. I was working real hard, and noticed that the weight was not really coming off like it had before. I persisted, and weight slowly started coming off. It has taken me 12 months to lose 45 pounds. Not insignificant, but compared to my either ventures, quite slow. One of major differences I am doing this time is more weight training along with cardio, so weight training could partially be too blame. Also, I have heard that doing low carb way of eating the second time can be more difficult. Currently (2/17/2004) I am weighing 203 pounds. My goal is to get below 195. My diet is fairly healthy and here is an example: Breakfast: Protein shake with Hoods Lo-Carb Chocolate Milk & Flax Seed powder. 56 Grams of Protein, 7 grams fiber, 13 grams of carbs 1st Snack: Either Hoods Yogurt, Nuts (Peanuts, Almonds), Lo-Carb fruit Lunch: Spinach salad with red bell, hard-boiled egg, mushrooms, and other veggies. Always include some source of protein, i.e. 6 ounces of tuna, chicken breast, etc. Usually 2-3 tablespoons of full fat ranch 2nd Snack: Any listed for 1st Snack Optional 3rd Snack: This is if I do weight training, for recovering, I will drink protein shake same as for breakfast. Dinner: Usually some protein with a low carb side (Beans, salad, etc.) I do take quite a bit of vitamins, and always having when doing any type of diet. Currently my supplements a =EF=81=B1 Multi vitamin =EF=81=B1 L-Glutamin (twice daily) =EF=81=B1 Chromium Piccolanate =EF=81=B1 Flax Seed OIL (EFA complex) (twice daily) =EF=81=B1 Ogema-3 (twice daily) =EF=81=B1 CoQ10 I do drink quite a bit of water during the day, and do drink as much caffeine as I want. I have never restricted my caffeine, and always thought it was bogus that Atkins said you should. The exercise I do is as follows: Weight Training: 3 day split, 1 set to failure Monday: Push exercises (Chest, Tri=E2=80=99s, Shoulders) Tuesday: Legs (Squats, Leg Ext., Hamstrings, Calfs) Thursday: Bull exercises (Back, Bi=E2=80=99s, Traps) Cardio: Monday: 10 mins walking at highest incline, or running before workout for warm-up Tuesday: Same as Monday Wednesday: 30-45 mins of cardio. This can vary; it depends on what I feel like doing that day. For example it can high intensity interval training where I will sprint for 30 seconds, and then run for a minute and do that 6 times, and then run for the remainder of the time for a total of 30 mins of exercise. Another example is walk at 3.5mph at 15 incline for 30 mins, and then ride a bike for 15 mins. Thursday: Same as Monday (Sometimes skip) Friday: abdominal workout, and cardio (30 mins) Saturday & Sunday: if I feel like going to the gym, I might do Cardio or weight training I tried to get to the gym at least 4 days a week. Unfortunately, my job sometimes does not allow the days I want, so I make up days on the weekends. I do use Fitday to track my intake, but not religiously. I vary between 1500-2000 calories a day, and about 30-50 grams of carbs a day. I tried to keep my body in question of what is coming next, and what I mean by that is 1 week I might reduce my calories, and then the next week increase it. Sometimes on the weekends, I will do a full day of carb loading, which causes tremendous amounts of water gain, but does feel great when doing the weight training. My experiences and opinions are that weight loss is not easy, and is very easy to gain weight. I think our society is obsessed with weight and image. In one way, we produce so much food, and having the highest obesity rate in the world, but yet we look everywhere and see very fit, skinny, and attractive images. Also, I am concerned about how our government and scientist play us for fools. I think the food pyramid is the biggest sham ever, and I cannot believe society even puts up with it. Having a eating guidelines produced by a commerce dept and not a scientific dept is almost stupid (Food pyramid was developed by the USDA which is a commerce dept.) No wonder all the high carb foods are the most plentiful to eat. I do believe that weight loss does come down to calories consume versus calories expended. Anyone believing you can eat whatever, just as long as it is low carb is being misled. This logic will usually work at the beginning, because of the tremendous amounts of water loss, but after while it does not apply. I also believe that a low carb type of eating is healthy combined with low carb food. These foods are meats, veggies, fruits, grains, etc. I do not believe in fake low carb food, even though I do consume some of them (specifically Hoods), most are either junk, taste terrible, or flat out lie about their macronutrients. People have to realize that eating ice cream is neither low carb, low in calories, nor low in fat. Ice cream is ice cream, and not a diet food. I also believe that doing a significant weight loss while low carbing the second time around is harder. I do not know what it is, but I think your body is already adjusted to a low carb way of eating, or does not react in the same way. During my last weight gain, I never really returned to =E2=80=9Cregular=E2=80=9D eating. I ate higher carb foo= ds, but would rarely eat something like a donut, bagel, or pasta. Once I reach my goal, I intend to continue eating low carb, but being mostly concerned with the GI index versus just carb count. My goal will be to stay under 100 carbs a day, and consume about 2000-2500 calories a day. I do plan on continuing my exercise regiment, because I enjoy it. I give no excuses for my weight other than I love to eat. Eating is a pleasure for me, and I still enjoy it today. I just need to learn to enjoy it and not abuse it. I hope this information helps and maybe encourages someone to stick to it. |
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Good morning,
On 17-Feb-2005, Perdu wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:21:05 GMT, "JC Der Koenig" Cried out loud... : So? 01000001011101000111010001100001011000100110111101 11100100100000011001100111010101100011011010110110 10000110010101100001011001000010000100100000010000 01011011100110111101110100011010000110010101110010 00100000010001110110010101101101001000000110111101 10011000100000011000010010000001110000011011110111 00110111010000100001 There's a fairly novel approach. A few folks have used Morse code on me when they find out I'm an amateur radio operator, but it's been a while since I've seen this. :-) Take care, Carmen -- Please note change in Reply To address carmensrt at gmail dot com Hotmail isn't working and is being abandoned |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:50:01 GMT, Carmen wrote:
Good morning, On 17-Feb-2005, Perdu wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:21:05 GMT, "JC Der Koenig" Cried out loud... : So? 01000001011101000111010001100001011000100110111101 11100100100000011001100111010101100011011010110110 10000110010101100001011001000010000100100000010000 01011011100110111101110100011010000110010101110010 00100000010001110110010101101101001000000110111101 10011000100000011000010010000001110000011011110111 00110111010000100001 There's a fairly novel approach. A few folks have used Morse code on me when they find out I'm an amateur radio operator, but it's been a while since I've seen this. :-) Take care, Carmen I thought it was a great story (not the Morse code, which I can't read). This is typical JC -- a negative comment. -- Bob in CT |
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"bainster" wrote in message oups.com... Story snipped Interesting story. Do you get your body fat % measured, and if so what is it? This info is a lot more useful than body weight, particularly when you've lost quite a bit. Oh, and I suppose your work outs include abs? |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:04:31 GMT, Perdu
wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:54:54 -0500, "Bob M" Cried out loud... : On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:50:01 GMT, Carmen wrote: Good morning, On 17-Feb-2005, Perdu wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:21:05 GMT, "JC Der Koenig" Cried out loud... : So? 01000001011101000111010001100001011000100110111101 11100100100000011001100111010101100011011010110110 10000110010101100001011001000010000100100000010000 01011011100110111101110100011010000110010101110010 00100000010001110110010101101101001000000110111101 10011000100000011000010010000001110000011011110111 00110111010000100001 There's a fairly novel approach. A few folks have used Morse code on me when they find out I'm an amateur radio operator, but it's been a while since I've seen this. :-) Take care, Carmen I thought it was a great story (not the Morse code, which I can't read). This is typical JC -- a negative comment. It does send the message to the idiot, without disturbing most people. If he can BOT so can I. Can't be as irritating as calling people fat, that are struggling in some cases to lose weight and get healthy. Best Regards, Steve Tout est per·du fors l'hon·neur What I wonder is if the online persona is the same as the offline persona; if so, I feel bad for JC. -- Bob in CT |
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I eat lots of LC ice cream. (Lots by percentage of calories.) It is a
wonderful diet food. You need to learn portion control. "bainster" wrote horse manure in message oups.com... People have to realize that eating ice cream is neither low carb, low in calories, nor low in fat. Ice cream is ice cream, and not a diet food. |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:48:58 GMT, Cubit wrote:
I eat lots of LC ice cream. (Lots by percentage of calories.) It is a wonderful diet food. You need to learn portion control. "bainster" wrote horse manure in message oups.com... People have to realize that eating ice cream is neither low carb, low in calories, nor low in fat. Ice cream is ice cream, and not a diet food. You mean that some people can eat low carb ice cream; you're apparently one of them. Other people (like me) are too weak-willed to have such ice cream in the house. If I want ice cream, I ride my bike as long as I can, then I go down the road to the local farm and get some real ice cream generated from milk from cows that live on the farm. I order a small and preferably split it with my girlfriend. This way, I get the ice cream I want but don't have it sitting around the house, beckoning me like the evil force it is. ;-) Anyone see "Dodgeball"? Particularly, the scene where he shocks himself? That's the type of machine I need. -- Bob in CT |
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Bob M wrote:
If I want ice cream, I ride my bike as long as I can, then I go down the road to the local farm and get some real ice cream generated from milk from cows that live on the farm. sounds v v nice. couple of years back I used to cycle to my nearest supermarket (2 miles away) to get italian ice cream. unsurprisingly I put on about 10 lbs in that year. :-( |
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Cubit wrote:
I eat lots of LC ice cream. (Lots by percentage of calories.) It is a wonderful diet food. You need to learn portion control. "bainster" wrote horse manure in message oups.com... People have to realize that eating ice cream is neither low carb, low in calories, nor low in fat. Ice cream is ice cream, and not a diet food. Ice cream is a no no. |
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