Hello everyone!
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I agree with you. I also think that flexiablity is also important. Especially if your on a long term diet. You have to be able to make changes and adjustments. If a diet is too strict or ridget [sp] a person is more likely to get bored. tbs~
| | I basically think that every WOE works for some people, and no WOE | works for everyone, because everyone has different food preferences, | physical reactions to foods, moral views, finances, time available for | food preparation, family habits, etc. IMHO, an eating plan that | seriously conflicts with any of these is not an eating plan that | works. | | Thanks to everyone who responded! | | -Anna | 196/174/145
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Hi Anna! Welcome to ASD and thanks for delurking. Your numbers are looking good. I’m glad you’ve found a WOE that works for you. Cheers, Lia — 230/214/194 by June 8/154 longterm goal To reply change got to hot
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). Partly thanks to this group, though, I kept trying stuff, I think I’ve found a compromise that seems to work for me–basically, I eat low-glycemic index carbs (veggies, beans, certain whole grains and fruits) and low- or medium-fat protein. It’s amazing how full I can get on a plate full of vegetables, beans, and chicken, with very few calories! And my carb cravings are gone. I’m also exercising five days a week, which I’m sure is helping. I’ve been going strong for about 8 months (a record for me), and I plan to continue forever. Thanks for all the support! -Anna 196/174/145 it feels good to type that 
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Welcome Anna, You have done really well, good of you to de-lurk and join us. Roxan
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). Partly thanks to this group, though, I kept trying stuff, I think I’ve found a compromise that seems to work for me–basically, I eat low-glycemic index carbs (veggies, beans, certain whole grains and fruits) and low- or medium-fat protein. It’s amazing how full I can get on a plate full of vegetables, beans, and chicken, with very few calories! And my carb cravings are gone. I’m also exercising five days a week, which I’m sure is helping. I’ve been going strong for about 8 months (a record for me), and I plan to continue forever. Thanks for all the support! -Anna 196/174/145 it feels good to type that
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Have you tried lowfat but limiting the carbs to veggies, fruits, and whole grains? Staying away from refined sugar and flour has really curbed my cravings. I was doing fine on lowfat high carbs (for many years) until I quit smoking a year ago. Since then I have had to alter my WOE. — Theresa 145/132/120
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I lost weight on both low-fat and low-carb diets, and I stuck with them for varying lengths of time. I just didn’t *like* them enough to stick with them for the rest of my life, which is my main criterion for a diet that "works for me." On low-carb I totally lost my appetite for everything but sugar and bread, and I had to force-feed myself eggs, meat, and dairy, which I’ve never liked much anyway. I felt ill and tired all the time, and dreaded every meal; I basically decided I’d rather stay fat than continue feeling that way. Low-fat/high-carb was better, but I was always hungry and my carb cravings got worse (possibly related to the fact that I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which affects the body’s response to carbohydrates). I basically think that every WOE works for some people, and no WOE works for everyone, because everyone has different food preferences, physical reactions to foods, moral views, finances, time available for food preparation, family habits, etc. IMHO, an eating plan that seriously conflicts with any of these is not an eating plan that works. Thanks to everyone who responded! -Anna 196/174/145
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I lost weight on both low-fat and low-carb diets, and I stuck with them for varying lengths of time. I just didn’t *like* them enough to stick with them for the rest of my life, which is my main criterion for a diet that "works for me." On low-carb I totally lost my appetite for everything but sugar and bread, and I had to force-feed myself eggs, meat, and dairy, which I’ve never liked much anyway. I felt ill and tired all the time, and dreaded every meal; I basically decided I’d rather stay fat than continue feeling that way. Low-fat/high-carb was better, but I was always hungry and my carb cravings got worse (possibly related to the fact that I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which affects the body’s response to carbohydrates). I basically think that every WOE works for some people, and no WOE works for everyone, because everyone has different food preferences, physical reactions to foods, moral views, finances, time available for food preparation, family habits, etc. IMHO, an eating plan that seriously conflicts with any of these is not an eating plan that works. Thanks to everyone who responded! -Anna 196/174/145
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Not meaning to "speak" for anna, but I think she likely means that it didn’t work for her because it somehow didn’t "satisfy" her either physically, emotionally or both.
This is kind of what Ithought too. I figured she didn’t that the diet was at fault, that the diet wasn’t working, but that it didn’t work *for her*. Usually when a person uses that expression they don’t mean that the object is defective, but rather that it doesn’t mesh with the sujbect for whatever reason. Low-carb would probably be effective in causing me to lose weight if I tried it, but it doesn’t "work for me" because I don’t eat meat, dairy or eggs and like to have a diet with a wide range of food, and I don’t think I could accomplish all three of those things at once. — oliver 215/183/150 29%/18%/10%
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way to go anna and thanks for coming out of lurkdom! — read and post, rosie http://www.geocities.com/barrettetc/barrettetc.html
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). Partly thanks to this group, though, I kept trying stuff, I think I’ve found a compromise that seems to work for me–basically, I eat low-glycemic index carbs (veggies, beans, certain whole grains and fruits) and low- or medium-fat protein. It’s amazing how full I can get on a plate full of vegetables, beans, and chicken, with very few calories! And my carb cravings are gone. I’m also exercising five days a week, which I’m sure is helping. I’ve been going strong for about 8 months (a record for me), and I plan to continue forever. Thanks for all the support! -Anna 196/174/145 it feels good to type that
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Not meaning to "speak" for anna, but I think she likely means that it didn’t work for her because it somehow didn’t "satisfy" her either physically, emotionally or both. This would likely make it hard for her to stick with it. I have the same problem when I try to go on any sort of "diet". If anything is off limits, then I just crave it more. I have to allow things in small portions in order to succeed…but this is me. As long as I think a piece of cake is ok, I often don’t even want it. If I think I need to never eat it again, or even for a period of time, then all bets are off. It just becomes a much greater struggle, and I am likely to fail. So, I am just sort of guessing this might be what she is meaning by it not working for her, jmho. — Hopefull (294/235/135)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). It always interests me when people post these words "they/it didn’t work for me". What exactly do you mean by this? Is it intentionally cryptic? Do you mean? a/ you stuck to the eating plan prescribed and didn’t lose any weight b/ you didn’t stick to the eating plan c/ something else? If it’s (b) then how can you say they didn’t work if you didn’t stick to the eating plan? If its (a) well then …. and if it’s (c) then I’d like to hear about it! Oh by the way – Welcome! Paul [336/227/190] (Target 210 by 1st June 2002) Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn
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Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me).
It always interests me when people post these words "they/it didn’t work for me". What exactly do you mean by this? Is it intentionally cryptic? Do you mean? a/ you stuck to the eating plan prescribed and didn’t lose any weight b/ you didn’t stick to the eating plan c/ something else? If it’s (b) then how can you say they didn’t work if you didn’t stick to the eating plan? If its (a) well then …. and if it’s (c) then I’d like to hear about it! Oh by the way – Welcome! Paul [336/227/190] (Target 210 by 1st June 2002) Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn
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Welcome, Anna, it sounds like your WOE is similar to mine except I don’t eat meat. It looks like it’s working well for you, those are some great looking numbers there. I just discovered that fructose has a GI of 20 so I’m experimenting with it for blood sugar control. — Theresa 145/132/120
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). Partly thanks to this group, though, I kept trying stuff, I think I’ve found a compromise that seems to work for me–basically, I eat low-glycemic index carbs (veggies, beans, certain whole grains and fruits) and low- or medium-fat protein. It’s amazing how full I can get on a plate full of vegetables, beans, and chicken, with very few calories! And my carb cravings are gone. I’m also exercising five days a week, which I’m sure is helping. I’ve been going strong for about 8 months (a record for me), and I plan to continue forever. Thanks for all the support! -Anna 196/174/145 it feels good to type that
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Hello, I’ve been lurking here forever (2+ years), and I thought I’d post and let everyone know how much reading the group has helped me. Like many here, I have been trying to lose weight for years. I failed miserably on both low-carb and low-fat diets (I have nothing against them; they just didn’t work for me). Partly thanks to this group, though, I kept trying stuff, I think I’ve found a compromise that seems to work for me–basically, I eat low-glycemic index carbs (veggies, beans, certain whole grains and fruits) and low- or medium-fat protein. It’s amazing how full I can get on a plate full of vegetables, beans, and chicken, with very few calories! And my carb cravings are gone. I’m also exercising five days a week, which I’m sure is helping. I’ve been going strong for about 8 months (a record for me), and I plan to continue forever. Thanks for all the support! -Anna 196/174/145 it feels good to type that
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Just wanted to give an update. Some of you guys and gals that have been around here for a while will remember me, for the rest I’ll give a fast update….Here it goes… There’s this guy (me) who has had a weight problem all his life. This guy joins the Army followed by Marines and struggles with his weight even in the military. This guy gets out of the military and as some years pass he gains back to around 250lbs. This guy wants to fly, buys a powered hang glider. A little over a year goes by this guy crashes his glider along with his left leg, right foot. Five months in bed and eating junk food is not a good combination. This guy gets to 300 lbs. I can’t believe this guy. ;<) This guy felt bad and the weight hurt his body where all his injuries were so he decided to do something about it. He started to walk, and walk some more, then some more till he could walk four to five miles a day. He gets down to oh I don’t know 250lbs and decides to join a gym. The gym has this contraption called an elliptical machine. Easy on the joints and makes him sweat BAD. Well about this time this dude is watching Dr. Phil and those folks on his show trying to lose weight and it really motivates this guy. He buys Dr. Phil’s 7 keys book and really gets excited and learns things about why he has a weight issue, so he changes his eating habits drastically from the way he use to eat and with the combination of exercise and eating well he gets down to 189 lbs. Wow 111 lbs drop. For some reason I’m think he really got down to 179lbs, but he had a hard time maintaining at that weight. Oh well don’t matter now. One day this guy works out on an elliptical and "SNAP", that broken foot he once had broke while pedaling and if I remember right it hurt like a B***H. Anyway 13 weeks later and not watching what he ate he gets back up to 225-230 pounds. Today that guy (ME) went back under 200. I’m reading a new book "The ABS Diet" written by a man who is the editor of Mens Fitness and though I haven’t finished it yet I’ve learned a lot and will try to follow this plan when I get back from Disney World in a couple weeks…..Yeah Mickey. I seem to be able to eat healthier today with craving the bad things and I’m trying to eat 5 to 6 times a day, smaller portions, with protiens, some carbs, basically lean meats, veggies, and fruit. I’ve learned I’m probably losing muscle from doing to much cardio, see I do about 6-1/2 a week on the elliptical now I’m learning after 20-30 minutes of high cardio workout you body switches it’s feeding mechanism from the fat cells to the muscle cells….Don’t quote me on wording I’m close in what I say…lol Anyway I’m happy with the way I look right now but I feel I could be even healthier and less prone to future health issues if I lose more weight. I plan to reduce my cardio time to 30 minutes and start doing weights, I’ve never liked lifting weights but I hear you don’t have to lift a lot of weight to get great benefits from weight lifting. I’ve read if you gain a pound of muscle you’ll burn an additional 50 calories a day a rest. Ten pounds of muscle…well you do the math. My hope is to get a lean and somewhat muscular body. Well I’ll try to keep posting as I reach certain goals and hopefully post some new pics as I reach the goals as well. Take care everyone, Paul in NRH TX 300/200/175? lean mean fighting machine
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Nice to hear from you again. I look forward to you posting again. Oh…..I’m envious of your trip to see Mickey! I’m a real fan of the mouse. My office is full of Mickey items. I hate to tell you this but he won’t be at Disney World. He’s been riding in the child seat in my van for the past couple years<g He used to sit in a chair in my family room but our cat kept biting his nose. He went with me on my last trip to Disney but he just hung around the hotel room while we went to the parks. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/uowenba/album?.dir=/2cbd&.src=ph The ladies at the hotel tucked him into bed each night before we returned. Have fun on that trip! Beverly – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just wanted to give an update. Some of you guys and gals that have been around here for a while will remember me, for the rest I’ll give a fast update….Here it goes… There’s this guy (me) who has had a weight problem all his life. This guy joins the Army followed by Marines and struggles with his weight even in the military. This guy gets out of the military and as some years pass he gains back to around 250lbs. This guy wants to fly, buys a powered hang glider. A little over a year goes by this guy crashes his glider along with his left leg, right foot. Five months in bed and eating junk food is not a good combination. This guy gets to 300 lbs. I can’t believe this guy. ;<) This guy felt bad and the weight hurt his body where all his injuries were so he decided to do something about it. He started to walk, and walk some more, then some more till he could walk four to five miles a day. He gets down to oh I don’t know 250lbs and decides to join a gym. The gym has this contraption called an elliptical machine. Easy on the joints and makes him sweat BAD. Well about this time this dude is watching Dr. Phil and those folks on his show trying to lose weight and it really motivates this guy. He buys Dr. Phil’s 7 keys book and really gets excited and learns things about why he has a weight issue, so he changes his eating habits drastically from the way he use to eat and with the combination of exercise and eating well he gets down to 189 lbs. Wow 111 lbs drop. For some reason I’m think he really got down to 179lbs, but he had a hard time maintaining at that weight. Oh well don’t matter now. One day this guy works out on an elliptical and "SNAP", that broken foot he once had broke while pedaling and if I remember right it hurt like a B***H. Anyway 13 weeks later and not watching what he ate he gets back up to 225-230 pounds. Today that guy (ME) went back under 200. I’m reading a new book "The ABS Diet" written by a man who is the editor of Mens Fitness and though I haven’t finished it yet I’ve learned a lot and will try to follow this plan when I get back from Disney World in a couple weeks…..Yeah Mickey. I seem to be able to eat healthier today with craving the bad things and I’m trying to eat 5 to 6 times a day, smaller portions, with protiens, some carbs, basically lean meats, veggies, and fruit. I’ve learned I’m probably losing muscle from doing to much cardio, see I do about 6-1/2 a week on the elliptical now I’m learning after 20-30 minutes of high cardio workout you body switches it’s feeding mechanism from the fat cells to the muscle cells….Don’t quote me on wording I’m close in what I say…lol Anyway I’m happy with the way I look right now but I feel I could be even healthier and less prone to future health issues if I lose more weight. I plan to reduce my cardio time to 30 minutes and start doing weights, I’ve never liked lifting weights but I hear you don’t have to lift a lot of weight to get great benefits from weight lifting. I’ve read if you gain a pound of muscle you’ll burn an additional 50 calories a day a rest. Ten pounds of muscle…well you do the math. My hope is to get a lean and somewhat muscular body. Well I’ll try to keep posting as I reach certain goals and hopefully post some new pics as I reach the goals as well. Take care everyone, Paul in NRH TX 300/200/175? lean mean fighting machine
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Hi Paul, it’s good to see you back. Kasey 365/213/190
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It’s great to hear from you, Paul. It sounds like you’re doing really well. You must be feeling so happy about the changes you’ve made in your life! Chris 262/130s/130s started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004
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Paul ,I remember you:) Good to’see you’ back! glo
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Hi Kasey, Wow your numbers are looking great. Keep up the good work. Paul
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi Paul, it’s good to see you back. Kasey 365/213/190
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Just wanted to give an update. Some of you guys and gals that have been around here for a while will remember me, for the rest I’ll give a fast update….Here it goes…
<long interesting update snipped I remember you well Paul, but it was still good to read your story again. I think what you have done is wonderful, and a real inspiration to those who make excuses for not taking control of their health. Congratulations on being under 200. I hope we’ll see you posting here more often. janice
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