Going to be starting Atkins

JC Der Koenig wrote:
You might as well give up now because you're going to be fat and stupid the
rest of your life.

Eat yer ****ing vegetables, you malnourished crabby-ass.

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."

"Cubit" wrote

I feel exercise at 300 pounds is dangerous. While it might help with the
weight loss, it is not essential.

I know what you mean (I think), but I don't agree. At 300 pounds yes, it's
far easier to get injured and create a lot of pain when you exercise. The
300 lb. person isn't usually going to be able to go out and walk a mile,
unless he's a great big, muscular guy. But that doesn't mean he/she cannot
exercise. Just that he's going to have to be smarter about it, and also more
patient.

Everybody, virtually, can add exercise. No, it's not essential to life, but
it is important... as important as eating your vegetables and eating regular
meals and drinking plenty of water. Exercise revs up your metabolism, builds
a little muscle, increases circulation, and elevates your mood. It also
turns down your appetite.

One of the best exercises is walking. Too much can cause pain for very heavy
people, so it's necessary to start small... maybe just around the block, or
down to the end of the block, or even just down the driveway and back.
Whatever you can do without too much discomfort. Then do it every day or
better yet, every other day and alternate it with something else like
swimming or biking. Increase by small increments on a weekly (or longer if
necessary) basis. Don't increase by more than 10% per week. Swimming is
good, if you have access to a pool, because body weight stress on joints is
eliminated. Biking can work for many people, but don't try to do hills and
keep it slow and easy at first.

If you can't even do the walking, there are videos aimed at seated exercise,
for people in wheel chairs, that I understand can really get the blood
pumping. Lifting light weights for upper body strength may be quite
possible - not only will it get your circulation, but you'll build a little
more metabolically active muscle. You can gradually increase the weights.
Stretching or yoga is great even for big people. It gets you in touch with
your body and also helps prevent injury.

If you start small, just a little more than you're doing now as part of
everyday living, you'll be able to do more and more. Just don't get
impatient and do too much and injure yourself. Exercise is one of the best
things a dieter can do for him/herself.

HG

"John" wrote in message ...

now it looks like pizza without the crust, hehe.
Trader Joes has low-carb pizza dough. You can make it yourself with
some of the protien-rich flours too. But, make this a special treat,
you wont loose weight eating the foods designed to mimic carby food,
too often they are almost as bad (even if they 'seem' ok through some
net-carb trick)


Does anyone know, or has anyone tried making meatloaf without
the bread crumbs,

Yeah, I make it all the time.
1- You dont need bread-crumbs for meatloaf. Egg/meat/seasonings is
all that is required. Try it before you add low-carb fake bread
products.
2- Buy a pack of bacon and wrap your meatloaf completly with bacon
before putting it in the oven. Soooo good. Experiment with different
meats.
3- Google for 'low carb recipe forum'. There are a huge amount of
low-carb resources and recipies on the web.
4- Dont worry too much about the sugar content of sauces (unless you
are eating a LOT of sauce). It's better to get some bad carbs from
that ketchup on your meatloaf than do without IMO. Same goes for beer

"John" wrote in message ...

now it looks like pizza without the crust, hehe.
Trader Joes has low-carb pizza dough. You can make it yourself with
some of the protien-rich flours too. But, make this a special treat,
you wont loose weight eating the foods designed to mimic carby food,
too often they are almost as bad (even if they 'seem' ok through some
net-carb trick)


Does anyone know, or has anyone tried making meatloaf without
the bread crumbs,

Yeah, I make it all the time.
1- You dont need bread-crumbs for meatloaf. Egg/meat/seasonings is
all that is required. Try it before you add low-carb fake bread
products.
2- Buy a pack of bacon and wrap your meatloaf completly with bacon
before putting it in the oven. Soooo good. Experiment with different
meats.
3- Google for 'low carb recipe forum'. There are a huge amount of
low-carb resources and recipies on the web.
4- Dont worry too much about the sugar content of sauces (unless you
are eating a LOT of sauce). It's better to get some bad carbs from
that ketchup on your meatloaf than do without IMO. Same goes for beer

On 12 Aug 2004 07:26:18 -0700, Werdna wrote:

"John" wrote in message
...

now it looks like pizza without the crust, hehe.
Trader Joes has low-carb pizza dough. You can make it yourself with
some of the protien-rich flours too. But, make this a special treat,
you wont loose weight eating the foods designed to mimic carby food,
too often they are almost as bad (even if they 'seem' ok through some
net-carb trick)


Does anyone know, or has anyone tried making meatloaf without
the bread crumbs,

Yeah, I make it all the time.
1- You dont need bread-crumbs for meatloaf. Egg/meat/seasonings is
all that is required. Try it before you add low-carb fake bread
products.
2- Buy a pack of bacon and wrap your meatloaf completly with bacon
before putting it in the oven. Soooo good. Experiment with different
meats.
3- Google for 'low carb recipe forum'. There are a huge amount of
low-carb resources and recipies on the web.
4- Dont worry too much about the sugar content of sauces (unless you
are eating a LOT of sauce). It's better to get some bad carbs from
that ketchup on your meatloaf than do without IMO. Same goes for beer


Speaking of bread crumbs, BJ's (a store here in New England like Costco or
Sam's Club) had some low carb bread crumbs. I thought they'd be great for
an occasional foray into fried chicken, but the bread crumbs had partially
hydrogenated oils. Almost any processed food has the latter.

--
Bob in CT
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"jamie" wrote in message
...
JC Der Koenig wrote:
You might as well give up now because you're going to be fat and stupid
the
rest of your life.

Eat yer ****ing vegetables, you malnourished crabby-ass.


I just ate a pickle.

"jamie" wrote in message
...
JC Der Koenig wrote:
You might as well give up now because you're going to be fat and stupid
the
rest of your life.

Eat yer ****ing vegetables, you malnourished crabby-ass.


I just ate a pickle.

"JC Der Koenig" wrote

I just ate a pickle.

Oh, yeah. That should really help.

HG

"JC Der Koenig" wrote

I just ate a pickle.

Oh, yeah. That should really help.

HG

"JC Der Koenig" wrote

I just ate a pickle.

Oh, yeah. That should really help.

HG