95% if diets end in failure.
Then I choose to NOT "diet". I'm not training for a marathon and then once i finish it, hit a weight on the scale, go back to the old "me". I'm practicing being 199 pounds. I'm eating like the thinner person. I'm sorry to say I just watched this show on bariatric surgery and I was sickened. The only "way out" is through a surgery? People die from this and they don't ever get to eat like a normal person. It's like being addicted to a drug and being forced to live in a bubble your whole life.
I learned some cute sayings this last week. I'm up to episode 60 of the Fat 2 Fit radio podcasts. "Hunger is fat cells shrinking." And, " hunger is not an emergency." What really sickened me is that after theses surgeries these people where so happy to be dropping weight so fast (including muscle). They're bodies where not able to shrink their skin because it was done so fast. I have spent around 25 years being obese and 10 years maintaining or loosing weight. In the last 29 months I've yo-yoed, but not as badly. 20 pounds over 6 months stabalizing at 300 pounds and then 12 over 5-6 months staying in the 240's.
Like taking a break from a race I'm learning new techniques to battle my life long bad habits. I ate a whole bag of celery this last week. It was my "go with" food and snack with most meals. Much better to eat 200 calories of celery in a week then 1000 calories in pretzles.
I've had several ham sandwiches on whole wheat bread which is much better for me then those cheese burgers. (300 calories vs 800). It's all little changes.
The BMR needed to maintain my current weight and get down to 199 is only about 1000 calories less then whe I was 333 pounds. Not that much of a difference. There are no quick fixes, only a life long challenge. Fat is a symptom of my "disease". I will challenge and struggle with my weight my whole life. I choose to do it as a thinner healthier me.
Oh, BTW, I'm not an english major, so I am sorry if my typing is not perfect, but I'm here to help myself and some others, not give grammer lessons.
I learned some cute sayings this last week. I'm up to episode 60 of the Fat 2 Fit radio podcasts. "Hunger is fat cells shrinking." And, " hunger is not an emergency." What really sickened me is that after theses surgeries these people where so happy to be dropping weight so fast (including muscle). They're bodies where not able to shrink their skin because it was done so fast. I have spent around 25 years being obese and 10 years maintaining or loosing weight. In the last 29 months I've yo-yoed, but not as badly. 20 pounds over 6 months stabalizing at 300 pounds and then 12 over 5-6 months staying in the 240's.
Like taking a break from a race I'm learning new techniques to battle my life long bad habits. I ate a whole bag of celery this last week. It was my "go with" food and snack with most meals. Much better to eat 200 calories of celery in a week then 1000 calories in pretzles.
I've had several ham sandwiches on whole wheat bread which is much better for me then those cheese burgers. (300 calories vs 800). It's all little changes.
The BMR needed to maintain my current weight and get down to 199 is only about 1000 calories less then whe I was 333 pounds. Not that much of a difference. There are no quick fixes, only a life long challenge. Fat is a symptom of my "disease". I will challenge and struggle with my weight my whole life. I choose to do it as a thinner healthier me.
Oh, BTW, I'm not an english major, so I am sorry if my typing is not perfect, but I'm here to help myself and some others, not give grammer lessons.
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