Losing weight (Cheryl)

[Guest guest]

Thank you for all the information on how to lose weight. I will give it

a try. I know I get hooked on how much I want to lose by how much I really

would love to weigh. Again thank you.

Cheryl

[Guest guest]

> Thank you for all the

> information on how to lose weight.

> I will give it a try. I know I get

> hooked on how much I want to lose

> by how much I really would love to

> weigh.

I know just how you feel, Cheryl, but

the dreams don't do much good except

arouse false expectations that can

never be safely fulfilled.

Our autonomous nervous system

controls how much goes into and how

much is taken out of our fat tissue

and we cannot intervene in the process

with willpower. All we can do is to

produce the external conditions that

will cause certain body functions to

decide to burn some fat.

Just remember that you will be

fighting against many millions of

years of evolution and that your

enemy has the ability to inject

hormones directly into the

innermost parts of your brain.

The only weapon you have is your

intelligence - that is why the

more you can learn about physiology

and metabolism and cell biology and

organic chemistry, the bigger is

your advantage. If you already

have some idea of those subjects

and want to go Googling, try

" energy homoeostasis " , which is the

name of the game. Don't be put off

when you see that most of the work

is done on rats and mice - they

have energy regulation systems

that are very similar to ours and

can be cut open to see what is

going on!

The entire fat storage regulation is

made with a large number of inter-

connected closed control loops,

some of which in our case are mal-

functioning.

The main things we can do are to:

1. Eat a wide selection of natural

foods with high nutritional value

and low energy content. Those are

mostly fruit and vegetables. You can

start off by deciding not to buy

any more convenience foods in

packets. They have had almost

everything nutritious taken out of

them because those are what most

limit the shelf life. This won't

make you any thinner but it will

help you stay healthy when you

reduce your food intake.

2. Get in some real exercise. You

have to build up to it over months,

starting with five minutes a day and

slowly working up to an hour a day,

every day. This is exercise against

a resistance, even if it is only

gravity, like climbing stairs

whenever you can. Just strolling

around the block for 30 minutes,

3 days a week won't do it. Without

exercise your chances of losing

any weight are very much less.

The intensity has to be just below

or at the sweating level, just

before you start to pant or breathe

through your mouth. The exercise

is in addition to and not instead

of, all the work you usually do

in the day! Real tough!

3. Start to think in terms of months

and years instead of days and weeks.

Nothing much sustainable is going to

happen very quickly.

4. Learn some of the theory of

metabolism and physiology. The

Internet is loaded with it, some of

it is useful some of it is nonsense -

or even a cruel scam, you are mostly

on your own, the general rule being

that if it costs money, you don't

need it. My recommendation would be

to start at:

http://www.weightlossforall.com/

The guy is selling a book but it is a

soft sell and you don't need to buy it.

He provides a lot of information that

appears to me to be sensible.

I won't wish you luck because luck has

nothing to do with it, I will wish

you an iron discipline, tireless

perseverance and a bitter determination

- those are what you need to succeed!

Regards

[Guest guest]

Cheryl:

Unless you ave some metabolic disease, losing weight is a matter of

mathematics.

You take in more than you burn, you are going to gain weight.

I have been a member of weight loss support groups for literally years and

some of the things I have learned are are:

1) There is NO magic pill to make you lose weight.( If there was, there

would be no fat people.

2) Exercise DOES matter.You can lose weight wihout exercising, but exercise

helps speed up the process and makes you healthy and strong.

3) You have to have ATTITUDE.......you need to want to lose weight and

believe that you can succeed. I used to feel I failed every time I ate

something bad..I had to learn that you have to accept there will be times we

are going to " slip " a little so you work thoses little " treats " into your

plan.

4) DO NOT use the word diet!. It suggests right away deprivation....instead,

Change you eating habits for life.

I found incorporating weight trainig into my plan was the best thing I

could do. It helps tone your muscles, which in turn burn fat at a faster

rate and for a longer peroid of time than fat. Plus it helps take the

pressure off those aging joints (for us older folk)You need not go into a

extensive routine. Start small , work up.

The only successful way to lose weight and keep it off is to Eat healthy and

in Moderation, Exercise your body, mind and spirit.

I am 51 , overweight but I am back on track again and I work out three

times a week, drive my bike to work each day (6 miles one way) and because

my boyfriend is a newly diagnosed type 2 and I have just been diagnosed with

impaired fasting glucose, we try to watch what we eat.I have also learned it

is like quitting smoking...sometimes you have to try more than once to

succeed.I will never be a Barbie doll figure.I just want to feel good and

stay healthy.

I have tons of info on weight trainging, weight loss etc..if you want you

can email me off list at stargatersg1@.... Maybe we should start a

group on here for weight loss...LOL I mightlook into that....

Be safe....

Betty

The happiest of people don't necessarily

have the best of everything;

they just make the most of

everything that comes along their way