Five Alarm Milestone Report!!! (^_^)

Thanks for the encouragement Doug! I need to get under that 300 lbs barrier
and not EVER let myself get near it again!......I hope you are still a
member of this group when I reach my 100kg barrier! It will be great to
reminisce with you about this post eh? LOL!!!

Thanks again~! You're an inspiration to me!

Eddie

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
Hi, Eddie. I know you can do it. You are at 306 lb right now, right?

I haven't talked about this point so much, but back in 1998, before I
started another diet (from which I rebounded - a constant fear for the
future) I actually had my all-time peak weight of 304 lb!

Seeing the scale go over 300 lb was a life-altering experience. I never
rebounded to THAT level again.

At any rate, I was where you are now and now I am under 100 kg, and I am a
49 year old basically sedentary male. If I can get under 100 kg literally
ANYBODY can, I am 100% convinced of that!

doug



On 1/8/06 1:15 AM, in article ,
"Eddie-Type2" wrote:

Absolutely wonderful Doug!!! You should be proud of yourself!!!!
I hope I can realize that 100kg hurdle, but I think realistically it won't
be until around Christmas this year!....good for you!

Eddie
Type 2 diabetes
Last A1c = 6.2
Last BP=118/68
Weight June05-359lbs/Current-306.0lbs/Loss to date=52.0lbs/Goal
Weight-153lbs



"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
I'm in the 90s! I'm in the 90s!

Yay! Yatta! It has finally come!

Yes - I have a long way to go yet, but as far as I'm concerned it is all
downhill from here and the rest can take as long as is needed. This is the
day I've been waiting for, the day I've been hoping for, since starting my
diet on June 3 - 218 days ago.

As you can probably tell, I'm extremely happy today!

And I greatly, greatly appreciate all the supportive messages people take
the time to post for me. This online support group has definitely made all
the difference.

Check this out:

http://lerner.net/diet/InThe90s.jpg

(^_^)

The vital stats:

* Day 218, Week 31 + 1 day
* Weight (kg): 125.0 - 99.8 (minus 25.2 kg)
* Milestone! Finally broke the 100 kg barrier! I'm into two-digits!
* Milestone! Lost more than 25 kg!
* Weight (lb): 275.0 - 219.6 (minus 55.4 lb)
* Milestone! Under 220 lb!
* BMI: 41.3 - 33.0
* Percent lost: 20.2%
* Milestone! Lost more than 20% of my body mass!
* Percent complete to goal: 55%

Here is a summary of my diet method, for reference:

* I figured my "goal weight needed calories" per week. Then I deducted
1,000
calories from the total and put them aside for a bonus and divided the
difference by 7. This gave me 1700 calories per day plus a weekly bonus of
1000 calories for flexibility. Having a bonus helps relieve the stress of
facing a fixed, rigid daily limit.

* I do daily exercise on my stationary bike. I deduct those displayed
calories from my daily total, which is an incentive to do regular
exercise.

* At the end of the week, if there is anything left over from my 1700*7
nominal calorie limit I roll it over to the next week. This adds just a
little more "fun flexibility" to the diet, so some weeks I can eat a
little
more without going off the plan.


doug@onward to goal!

I'll be here!

I think that obese people, like me, who lose weight always need to diet. We
probably have something in common with alcoholics.

doug



On 1/10/06 1:14 AM, in article ,
"Eddie-Type2" wrote:

Thanks for the encouragement Doug! I need to get under that 300 lbs barrier
and not EVER let myself get near it again!......I hope you are still a
member of this group when I reach my 100kg barrier! It will be great to
reminisce with you about this post eh? LOL!!!

Thanks again~! You're an inspiration to me!

Eddie

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
Hi, Eddie. I know you can do it. You are at 306 lb right now, right?

I haven't talked about this point so much, but back in 1998, before I
started another diet (from which I rebounded - a constant fear for the
future) I actually had my all-time peak weight of 304 lb!

Seeing the scale go over 300 lb was a life-altering experience. I never
rebounded to THAT level again.

At any rate, I was where you are now and now I am under 100 kg, and I am a
49 year old basically sedentary male. If I can get under 100 kg literally
ANYBODY can, I am 100% convinced of that!

doug



On 1/8/06 1:15 AM, in article ,
"Eddie-Type2" wrote:

Absolutely wonderful Doug!!! You should be proud of yourself!!!!
I hope I can realize that 100kg hurdle, but I think realistically it won't
be until around Christmas this year!....good for you!

Eddie
Type 2 diabetes
Last A1c = 6.2
Last BP=118/68
Weight June05-359lbs/Current-306.0lbs/Loss to date=52.0lbs/Goal
Weight-153lbs



"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
I'm in the 90s! I'm in the 90s!

Yay! Yatta! It has finally come!

Yes - I have a long way to go yet, but as far as I'm concerned it is all
downhill from here and the rest can take as long as is needed. This is the
day I've been waiting for, the day I've been hoping for, since starting my
diet on June 3 - 218 days ago.

As you can probably tell, I'm extremely happy today!

And I greatly, greatly appreciate all the supportive messages people take
the time to post for me. This online support group has definitely made all
the difference.

Check this out:

http://lerner.net/diet/InThe90s.jpg

(^_^)

The vital stats:

* Day 218, Week 31 + 1 day
* Weight (kg): 125.0 - 99.8 (minus 25.2 kg)
* Milestone! Finally broke the 100 kg barrier! I'm into two-digits!
* Milestone! Lost more than 25 kg!
* Weight (lb): 275.0 - 219.6 (minus 55.4 lb)
* Milestone! Under 220 lb!
* BMI: 41.3 - 33.0
* Percent lost: 20.2%
* Milestone! Lost more than 20% of my body mass!
* Percent complete to goal: 55%

Here is a summary of my diet method, for reference:

* I figured my "goal weight needed calories" per week. Then I deducted
1,000
calories from the total and put them aside for a bonus and divided the
difference by 7. This gave me 1700 calories per day plus a weekly bonus of
1000 calories for flexibility. Having a bonus helps relieve the stress of
facing a fixed, rigid daily limit.

* I do daily exercise on my stationary bike. I deduct those displayed
calories from my daily total, which is an incentive to do regular
exercise.

* At the end of the week, if there is anything left over from my 1700*7
nominal calorie limit I roll it over to the next week. This adds just a
little more "fun flexibility" to the diet, so some weeks I can eat a
little
more without going off the plan.


doug@onward to goal!

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
I'll be here!

I think that obese people, like me, who lose weight always need to
diet. We
probably have something in common with alcoholics.

doug

You have an addiction to food. The effects can be more subtle than drug
or alcohol addictions, but when you let it take over your life, your
health and other aspects of your life suffer greatly.

Audrey

"ahmward" wrote in message
...

"Doug Lerner" wrote in message
...
I'll be here!

I think that obese people, like me, who lose weight always need to diet.
We
probably have something in common with alcoholics.

doug

You have an addiction to food. The effects can be more subtle than drug
or alcohol addictions, but when you let it take over your life, your
health and other aspects of your life suffer greatly.

Audrey

Not only that but you can give up alcohol, you can't give up food.
--
the volleyballchick

Nunya B. wrote:
ahmward wrote:
Doug Lerner wrote:

I think that obese people, like me, who lose weight always need to diet.
We probably have something in common with alcoholics.

You have an addiction to food. The effects can be more subtle than drug
or alcohol addictions, but when you let it take over your life, your
health and other aspects of your life suffer greatly.

Not only that but you can give up alcohol, you can't give up food.

While there may be some people addicted to every type of food
out there they are rare if they exist.

Folks tend to be addicted to a specific type of food because of an
intolerance or a class of food because of a hormone issue. Figure
out what you need to avoid and that will still leave a vast array of
choices nearly every time.

Food intolerance addictions can take a system that does elimination
and challenge. There are several such systems available - Texas
Elimination diet, Atkins and others. If you find out that you react to
corn like an wino reacts to wine, you would know how to resolve the
physical drivers of your addiction. Complete avoid corn and corn
products and control happens. It would take a bit of practice but
it doesn't end up difficult. The difficult part is admitting the
addiction
and commiting to avoiding the cause.

Hormone issues are like having a big reaction to high fat or high
carb foods triggering a binge. Discover such an issue and you'd
need to eliminate all foods above some fat or carb content. The
difficult parts are telling it from problems with specific foods and
the fact that the foods that are the highest in either fat or carbs
are the most tempting foods.

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
oups.com...
Nunya B. wrote:
ahmward wrote:
Doug Lerner wrote:

I think that obese people, like me, who lose weight always need to
diet.
We probably have something in common with alcoholics.

You have an addiction to food. The effects can be more subtle than
drug
or alcohol addictions, but when you let it take over your life, your
health and other aspects of your life suffer greatly.

Not only that but you can give up alcohol, you can't give up food.

While there may be some people addicted to every type of food
out there they are rare if they exist.

Folks tend to be addicted to a specific type of food because of an
intolerance or a class of food because of a hormone issue. Figure
out what you need to avoid and that will still leave a vast array of
choices nearly every time.

Food intolerance addictions can take a system that does elimination
and challenge. There are several such systems available - Texas
Elimination diet, Atkins and others. If you find out that you react to
corn like an wino reacts to wine, you would know how to resolve the
physical drivers of your addiction. Complete avoid corn and corn
products and control happens. It would take a bit of practice but
it doesn't end up difficult. The difficult part is admitting the
addiction
and commiting to avoiding the cause.

Hormone issues are like having a big reaction to high fat or high
carb foods triggering a binge. Discover such an issue and you'd
need to eliminate all foods above some fat or carb content. The
difficult parts are telling it from problems with specific foods and
the fact that the foods that are the highest in either fat or carbs
are the most tempting foods.

Interesting, but I was able to stop binge eating without elimiating anything
from my diet.
--
the volleyballchick