Get the weight off! / TIA

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> Wow, it seems like people here are making or have made such great

progress! That's really inspiring. Every time I start to try to

change my habits somewhere deep down I think that I can't really do

it. It's so great to see that people DO really succeed and that

maybe I can too. Congradulations!

> Tia

......The thing is, everything must be done to YOUR likeing. There is

no way in the world I could have done this someone elses way. I

spent several years figuring out how the body works and what it does

with the food we eat and why - THEN I figured out what was going to

work for me.

That's why I give " general " advice in group but usualy work one on

one with someone via e-mail. There is no way a specific diet will

work for a large group of people. If I gave advice that would work

specificaly for you and someone else tried it after we had discussed

your way of life and eating habits - although you may loose weight

and love the program - someone else might not only hate it but even

gain weight! Heck - I'm back on the loos again and ya know what I

had for dinner? Chocolate covered raisins, coffee, and fiddle

faddle. Of course this isn't an every meal thing - but it's dinner

tonight and not a big no-no...my " diet " is worked around just this

kind of thing. It's what I want, what I need, what I can't live

without - so that's the way it has to be or I won't stick with it.

How on earth do I loose weight then? I burn carbs for fuel, take fat

from my body instead of my food and eat plenty of LEAN protien. Your

body needs a certain % of carbs, protien and fat as a mixture to make

fuel to live on. You have to eat protien or certain things and amino

acids together to produce a protien chain, and you have to get the

carbs from food (complex are best health wise and weight loss wise),

but fat - that is a different story. Fat can come from food OR

storage. BUT, and this is a big but - you have to give your body

what it needs in order to release the fat from storage so your body

can use it. Heck - so long as you've got your body working properly

it will even take care of sugar and huge amounts of calories (on

occation) without gaining - and even stoak the fire for a loss. But

there are rules and reasons for them. For instance: Sugar, your

body can burn. Fat - you know how I stand on that, but a little

won't hurt. But sugar and fat together? BIG NO NO NO!!! Why? The

jist is this, pretend your fat cells are little pac men. When you

eat sugar those little pac men open wide and just wait for fat to

gobble up and store. (long drawn out thing with insullen ect). Eat

fat if you want it, eat sugar if you want it - but not both together.

Tell ya what. When your ready, and I know it takes alot of time and

effort - but when you feel like your ready...take a good look at what

your eating - everything, even taist testing that one little bite.

Think about how often and why you eat. Are you hungry all the time?

When your board? Upset, angry, happy? Is it mostly sweets and

chips? Breads or meats or cheeses? Is it large amounts and meals or

just a hand full of this and that all day? Is it just after 5pm and

nothing all afternoon?

What do you drink? What kinds of things do you WANT to eat? Put

together a general idea for me and e-mail me and I'll take a look and

probably ask you a million more questions. LOL. But you can do

this, and you can do it in such a way that won't make it feel hard or

like your on a diet or like you can't wait to be done with it.

That's the big secret - making it something you want - you like - and

that works.

There are 3 ways to do it the way I see it.

#1 = The typical diet. You may or may not loos, then you go nuts and

binge out and put weight back on again - usualy more than you started

with to begin with.

#2 = The way my husband did it. It took him just 1 year to loose 225

pounds (actualy more but we're not sure how much because the scale

only went to 450). With this method you work your butt off every day

all day and stay hungry, go without, and then continue to " diet " off

and on and watch the scale to maintain.

#3 = My way. It's the easy way and requires very little deprivation

and no real work. But it take alot of time. 2 years now and I've

went from 225 to 156. To get from 156 down to 120 it will probably

take me another year. BUT, I can live with it forever.

I don't know if this is true or not - but I heard a lady say the

other day that unless you are doing something about it - you will not

stay the saame weight fro year to year, that you will gain about 5

pounds a year. (for a typical person who is not over eating or

eating in an unhealthy way like we all did).

Ang

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