Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Saturday, January 24, 2009
OK, So the Other Day Caught Up With Me...
(Another handwritten journal entry that I'm posting late) VLCD Day 35. 231.2lbs this AM. It was a 1.4 lb weight gain from the splurge the other day...I did pretty good today though. No cheats except a Sugar-free Caramel Latte. I forgot about the milk in it until after I'd drank 3/4's of it though...no worries, it'll come off eventually...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A "Blow Day"...
(I journaled this on 1/22/09 and just getting it online) Went to Washington, DC today for the March for Life Rally. Only had 4-1/2 hours sleep. On the way to meet the bus I stopped at Sheetz and got a Sugar-free Caramel Mocha Iced Coffee that tasted way too good to be even close to Phase-anything compatible.
I did good for meal 1. I had brought with me some strawberries and a Spinach Quiche that I made from EggBeaters and frozen spinach. (The Vegetarian Program allows eggs - 1 whole egg and the whites of 3 eggs- and EggBeaters has a product with yolk. Two servings of it is only 80 calories and is equivalent to a serving of meat.)
On the bus however I made one of those "command decisions" that said, "Oh, heck with it for the day!" They were passing around banana bread slices, so I had one. Then for meal 2 I had a 4-inch Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich and another piece of banana bread. Later on the trip home I had a half of a bagel with cream cheese. I know my body must have been in shock, because I hadn't had bread in a month!
I think the saving factor was that I was on my feet either standing or walking for almost 5 hours in the midst of the crowd of 400,000 marchers. So surely I burned part of the food off there, right?
I've made a decision that I will keep on plugging on until I lose all the weight, and that I'm not going to get so legalistic that I despise the very thing that's helping me. It can take a couple days for a cheat to show up, so I may have set myself back a little, but I don't regret it. I'm in this for the long haul.
I did good for meal 1. I had brought with me some strawberries and a Spinach Quiche that I made from EggBeaters and frozen spinach. (The Vegetarian Program allows eggs - 1 whole egg and the whites of 3 eggs- and EggBeaters has a product with yolk. Two servings of it is only 80 calories and is equivalent to a serving of meat.)
On the bus however I made one of those "command decisions" that said, "Oh, heck with it for the day!" They were passing around banana bread slices, so I had one. Then for meal 2 I had a 4-inch Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich and another piece of banana bread. Later on the trip home I had a half of a bagel with cream cheese. I know my body must have been in shock, because I hadn't had bread in a month!
I think the saving factor was that I was on my feet either standing or walking for almost 5 hours in the midst of the crowd of 400,000 marchers. So surely I burned part of the food off there, right?
I've made a decision that I will keep on plugging on until I lose all the weight, and that I'm not going to get so legalistic that I despise the very thing that's helping me. It can take a couple days for a cheat to show up, so I may have set myself back a little, but I don't regret it. I'm in this for the long haul.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Journey of 1000 Steps...
There is an old saying that goes, "The journey of a thousand steps begins with just one." Well, I think I've re-started this journey countless times throughout my life. Each time with a certain degree of short-lived success.
I'm sure any of my readers who've struggle with weight problems, or more accurately in my case "morbid obesity", can identify. The myriad of new fad diets, the feeling of self-deprivation and starvation, unfulfilled self-promises... the constant feelings of failure.
I've done South Beach, Atkins, Richard Simmons' Deal-A-Meal, the Daniel Fast, 1200 calories a day, 3 "normal" meals a day, 6 "small" meals a day, the Heart Healthy diet, the No Concentrated Sugar diet, eDiets, etc. I've hiked and backpacked, done Slim-in-6 six to seven days a week consistently for 6 weeks, walked-jogged 1-2 miles a day with a friend, done the treadmill and stationary bike routine, and am still fat! All it's ever done was cause me to fight bout after bout of feelings of failure.
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And, oh, those who've been there will understand the desperate hope...You know, hoping that the guy will actually spend enough time around you to get to know you for who you are inside. The real you...the great personality and sense of humor. The talents and abilities with which you've been blessed. The passion for life and sincerity with which you live each day... Yeah, well, it's a scene all to familiar to many overweight people.
Enough of the woes of being fat...earlier this year God brought a business partner into my life who, along with his wife, was following a weight loss program that I'd never heard of before. It was developed by Dr. Simeons, an Italian doctor some 40+ years ago. It's pretty radical in the eyes of most people. And while the FDA has approved it for the clinical treatment of severe obesity under a physician's care, it's not "officially" been ok'd for "weight loss". LOL! The FDA's way of keeping us from having access to something that actually works!
The weight loss program is called by some The HCG Diet, and it's based upon the book Pounds & Inches: A New Approach To Obesity by A.T.W. SIMEONS, M.D. and the research and treatment he did while at the Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Italy. It's been safely self-administered by thousands of overweight people here in the USA with documented success (video blogs, before and after photos, etc). You can get a free download of the book by going to: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HcgDieters/
Having said all that, I decided to embark upon my own weight loss journey with the help of the HCG Diet. Most of my blogging will be by video, as that will allow you to actually SEE the progress as I become half the person I am now. ;-D (OK, not quite half, but I've got almost 100 pounds to lose.) Come along and join me on my journey...
I'm sure any of my readers who've struggle with weight problems, or more accurately in my case "morbid obesity", can identify. The myriad of new fad diets, the feeling of self-deprivation and starvation, unfulfilled self-promises... the constant feelings of failure.
I've done South Beach, Atkins, Richard Simmons' Deal-A-Meal, the Daniel Fast, 1200 calories a day, 3 "normal" meals a day, 6 "small" meals a day, the Heart Healthy diet, the No Concentrated Sugar diet, eDiets, etc. I've hiked and backpacked, done Slim-in-6 six to seven days a week consistently for 6 weeks, walked-jogged 1-2 miles a day with a friend, done the treadmill and stationary bike routine, and am still fat! All it's ever done was cause me to fight bout after bout of feelings of failure.
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And, oh, those who've been there will understand the desperate hope...You know, hoping that the guy will actually spend enough time around you to get to know you for who you are inside. The real you...the great personality and sense of humor. The talents and abilities with which you've been blessed. The passion for life and sincerity with which you live each day... Yeah, well, it's a scene all to familiar to many overweight people.
Enough of the woes of being fat...earlier this year God brought a business partner into my life who, along with his wife, was following a weight loss program that I'd never heard of before. It was developed by Dr. Simeons, an Italian doctor some 40+ years ago. It's pretty radical in the eyes of most people. And while the FDA has approved it for the clinical treatment of severe obesity under a physician's care, it's not "officially" been ok'd for "weight loss". LOL! The FDA's way of keeping us from having access to something that actually works!
The weight loss program is called by some The HCG Diet, and it's based upon the book Pounds & Inches: A New Approach To Obesity by A.T.W. SIMEONS, M.D. and the research and treatment he did while at the Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Italy. It's been safely self-administered by thousands of overweight people here in the USA with documented success (video blogs, before and after photos, etc). You can get a free download of the book by going to: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HcgDieters/
Having said all that, I decided to embark upon my own weight loss journey with the help of the HCG Diet. Most of my blogging will be by video, as that will allow you to actually SEE the progress as I become half the person I am now. ;-D (OK, not quite half, but I've got almost 100 pounds to lose.) Come along and join me on my journey...
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