Re: Re: How do you take your Armour

November 8, 2004

I still can't exercize, I am too tired at the end of my days. I never was a

great one for that anyway. Follow me around at work some day when I have 10

dogs to groom, and see if you can exercize! LOL Seriously, my work is so

physical, with proper thyroid, I shouldn't need more. I do not eat much

either. I have usually either a banana or a slice of toast for breakfast and

no lunch & steak for dinner with a vegetable when I am OK enough to cook. If

I am too tired ot cook, YUCK, I go the TV dinner route. Snacks I usually

have one in the evening, a low carb ice cream bar & I drink alot of 2% milk.

Artistic Grooming

Hurricane, West Virginia

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November 8, 2004

My daughter's studying to be a personal trainer, learning anatomy, diet, etc.

She's works out at home daily but otherwise has a very physical day job routine

as well. She's always had a weight & female hormonal problems.

She states that from what she's studied, experienced herself & read of others'

experience that six small meals of high protein, very low fat with a bit of

carbs is the best way to lose weight along with some exercise. Less eating isn't

going to make a person lose weight. Eating properly this way will tho.

I know others who've lost amazing amounts of weight by eating this way, even

disabled, sedentary, very overweight people. This is the same type of diet that

the book " The Zone " diet agrees with. Both sources state this way of eating is

the most optimal to balance glandular/hormonal function. It works for me.

A good nutritional breakfast to start the day is best too. The biggest meal

ought to be at lunch time with high protein snacks or drinks between meals to

make up the 6 meal-a-day quota. Less food at night is best too, always way more

protein than carbs & way less fat than either. The Zone book describes the

amounts of each needed.

Also drinking l/2 one's weight in water every day keeps things flowing &

functioning best too.

I always did rather well on that regime plus about 2 hours of exercise every day

(mostly stretching/hatha yoga, walking, etc) & never had a weight problem until

March when I fell off the chair, hurt myself badly & have been off my feet &

sedentary since then.

But I still kept up with that way of eating & haven't gained anything except my

muscle tone & strength have suffered. I have also always taken

vitamin-mineral-amino acid (protein) supplements at breakfast, dinner &

sometimes in between as called for too which I know have helped me greatly.

And I had enough strength & energy, even on just Synthroid, to do all the house

& yard work plus interior decorating myself for the past 2 years & even before

that while caregiving my sick husband 24/7 too. Tho of course, I pushed myself

to do it & am not pushing myself anymore since March.

In s' case, this kind of dietary change may be all she needs since she's

doing so much physical stuff all day long anyway.

Just my two cents for what it's worth to anyone.

Caroline

Re: How do you take your Armour

you are right, some jobs ARE exercise! (i sit at a computer all day)

sounds like you eat ok, but maybe skippy lunch isnt such a great idea.

whenever i add a little weight training to my routine it seems to be

easier to lose weight.

im not trying to be mean at all... and i completely understand being

so tired... but i am under the impression that I AM going to have to

work at the weight loss on my own. getting my thyroid up to speed so

i have enough energy to do it is going to help, but i dont see the

weight just disappearing because of that.

right now, i feel that the exercise that i can fit in, and the eating

correctly, is just keeping me from gaining weight due to my thyroid.

because if a " normal " person was doing what i am doing, they

would be losing weight. but me, im just fighting it off!

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<artisticgroom@v...> wrote:

> I still can't exercize, I am too tired at the end of my days. I never was a

> great one for that anyway. Follow me around at work some day when I

have 10 > dogs to groom, and see if you can exercize! LOL Seriously, my work

is so > physical, with proper thyroid, I shouldn't need more. I do not eat

much > either. I have usually either a banana or a slice of toast for

breakfast and no lunch & steak for dinner with a vegetable when I am OK enough

to cook. If I am too tired ot cook, YUCK, I go the TV dinner route. Snacks I

usually have one in the evening, a low carb ice cream bar & I drink alot of 2%

milk.

>

> Artistic Grooming

November 8, 2004

>>She states that from what she's studied, experienced herself & read of

others' experience that six small meals of high protein, very low fat with a bit

of carbs is the best way to lose weight along with some exercise. Less eating

isn't going to make a person lose weight. Eating properly this way will tho. <<

Well as it takes UNDER 600 calories a day for me to lose ANYTHING, how could I

possibly do that on SIX meals a day. When someone can explain that to me I will

try it. If I eat 1000 calories a day, in any breakdown, I gain weight, have for

over 25 years now. I have developed the eating habits I have now as a means to

stop weight gain, I have lost weight at the beginning of this year on Atkins

Diet, but I got sick doing it. So that's no good either. I need milk. Lots of

it. When I cut it down or out, my fingernails break horribly and my skin gets

very dry. That was one thing I had to give up on Atkins. I love meat and crave

it. The rarer the better! Even raw sometimes! But when I cut out all carbs I am

ill within a couple weeks. I have the will power of an OX with dieting comes

from lots of practice! When I dieted when I was about 23 years old. I lost 120

pounds in a year. Under 600 calories a day for a year!!!

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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November 8, 2004

The Atkins diet will make anyone sick on long term basis. IMHO. I've read a lot

about why that's true. Eating only 600 calories a year is really remarkable too.

But I wonder how healthy that was for you in the long run? Atkins doesn't

provide the proper nutrition for optimum hormonal balance which is required for

overall good health for one thing. So good thing you're off that now.

I can't say much more about the 6 meals a day plan except to suggest reading The

Zone Diet book which explains it all & gives recipes to follow. Or any good diet

book about keeping a good alkaline/acid balance for better health & weight loss

too. For the recipes they give in such books, you could decrease the amount of

calories to suit yourself but still eat the special high alkaline foods (mostly

veggies & some fruits) it suggests & tells why they work.

I'm no authority on it tho as I don't particularly follow it except I do eat

lots of hi protein foods...mostly chicken, tuna fish & hi protein green powder

drinks. My daughter does stay on the 6 meals a day because she's always had a

weight problem & it works for her. It worked for my extremely sedentary disabled

grossly overweight friend too. And she ate 6 meals a day of the exact same foods

she always ate including cake frosting out of the container for snacks. Only she

spaced the 3 meals amounts over 6 meals, two hours apart instead. The body's

metabolism utilizes the food intake a better, more balanced way on 6 meals than

on 3 meals.

I have my own ways of eating high nutrition foods & between meals snacks. I've

never had a weight problem tho. Have only gained about 10 lbs since being older

mostly that won't come off. But then I'm 67yo now & could care less about an

extra 10 lbs on me. If it gets over that & becomes uncomfortably painful on my

weak low back, then I have to fast or stick to a hi protein, low carbs, low fat,

mostly liquid, diet drinking l/2 a gallon of purified water per day for a while

until I lose about five lbs & feel better is all. Or do more physical stuff or

formal exercise which also melts it off.

I'm a bit overweight right now & eating just about whatever I darn well please

any hour of the day or night which is likely making me sicker. But I haven't the

incentive or motivation to do a darn thing about it right now. Not until the

Armour kicks in better & helps me out more here. I haven't a lick of

self-discpline left anymore it seems. Though I used to have bunches of it.

Maybe you need even more Armour & Cytomel than what your're already taking for

your weight problem? Or adjustments to them? Don't know.