George,
I know abot his thing -- nearly 5,000 calories! Looks like it'd taste
delicious as all, but not worth it for me -- I'll try to fake it in
sallow oil in a fryingpan -- dust some onion wedges with seasoned
flour & immerse & fry.
You don't want to have your blood work drawn after grazing like that!!
I would, just to get my doctor to flip out temporarily, until I explained my overall diet plan, then she'd calm down. . .
I weighed myself today, for my weeklly weigh-in & I'm only 1.5lb away from my goal of losing 60! So next week, I switch tacks & speed up the rate of loss until I lose my final 80lbs
I owe it all & only to my own created diet (being paralized, I can't excercise to a useful level) & God, of course. Nothing I aim to do gets done without first inviting Him to be in on it.
I use the same ONE FORK when I eat. (I've washed enough dishes over the
years, even by then, to know that using fewer is always appreciated)
If I can eat at home with paper plates and plastic silverware, and
disposable microwave cooked items, that means no dishes to wash.
Problem with that is it contributes to waste, & takling too large of an eco footprint.
I used to do such, but I'd wash t he cutlery & re-use hundreds of times, until they gt broken or lost. & I only used paper plates, as they compost well enough back into the earth from when they came. . .
Now they are making compostable plastic for this kind of use (disposable cutlery)
I don't like eating plastic -- I prefer a large, solid fork to eat with.
Like how I don't like my coffee in paper or styrofoam cups, so I carry my travel mug with me, which has a metal brim where I sip from, though the lid is mostly plastic.
I looked long & hard to find one that had a metal sipping rim, could hold a medium takerout coffee, & kept co9ffee hot, even for 8 hours (it does! Contigo is the brand you want for this) & it had to have a handle, so I could hang it on my chair somewhere when I need my one & only working hand free (like for moving around)
Got my first perfect one for $15 at the catchall supermarket I go to, but whenj it broke they had bnoine for a long time, then back on the shelf, but now $30 apop, so my wife, genius when it comes to shopping online, found the same on Amazon for $12, free overnight delivery right to our door!
Why pay greedheads' prices, I say!
Our name is Pope, not dope!
But if I didn't eat around 6,000 calories a day then I lost weight
from my already nearly anorexic loknig frame.
I need to lose weight, but it's easier said than done.
The way I finally got a plan that worked is mynetdiary -- you can google it & sign up on their site for free -- if you have a smarhone, you can install the app to have it always with you so every time you eat you can enter what you had.
It's all math. Fat = stored energy (measured by calories) (also the measurement for taste)
3,500 calories or so is a pound of energy.
You need x calories to maintain your weight as-is (& not get anorexic., which can be deadly)
The website page calculates that "x" & after you tell it how much you want to lose & how quickly (I started with 1lb/week); then gives you tyhe new total per day you need to stay below to achieve your target.
Doctors & Nuteritionisdts agree that just losing 10-% of your fat will result in health gains.
I was over 360lbs (I'm 6', so it was not as noticeable as you might think), so I aimed for an even 300 for my first round, at 1lb/week, mostly as a proof of concept & to see if I could do it.
Firt thing I notioced is the new total was well within my normal habits -- I just had to be careful to quit with the extras.
My dad said, "It's not the minutes you spen ast the table that make you fat -- it's the SECONDS." & "The best exercise to lose weight is push-ups - push up from the table after you've had a good meal."
I put both of these into my plans & also the tiny bit I'd heard if, from ads on my phone, about intermittant fasting; this has me take 16-hour breaks from eating altogether, which works better than dieting & reducing portion/taste quality.
For me, my breakfadt was most iportant, so I fixed 10h00-06h00 for my non- eating time on 3 days a week, avoiding the 2 days we tend to have our lavish meals & dessert, & making one meal a day days alternate with normal days.
So actually I was losing at a quicker rate than only 1lb/week, more like 1.5 (no complaint here)
& I wasn't hungry -- the first few fast days, yeah, as my stomach had to shrink to normal size. I considered these small hunger pains a gift, telling me I was in ketosis (where my body is sucking fat to get its calories, since the stomach was empty.); soon enough, my stomnach shrink back toa normal size, so I can feel full faster, & thus naturally reduce my eating without thinking about it.
Sibnce tyou have to weigh everything & enter it, before eating it, you see, very quickly, where your problem areas are, & you can make an adjustment immediately. (like I'll split a chocolate bar between two days' afternoon snack instead of eating it all at once. I've quit pop, as you already have,
Uf I want a cold carbonated beverage that tastes good (the flavoured sparkling water doesn't to me) I have a non-alcoholic beer (my fave is Budweiser Prohibition Ale(geddit?) which, when I looked a the nutrition label, shows zero sugars. It's good for the kidneys, to give a quick flush, & it has more nutrients than water (not as much as actual dark Stout, say, bu that costs extra moola)
The app is free to use for its basic purposes, as I've used it & described, but if you want to see an analysis of all nutrients going into your body, you can pay for it. Otherwise you can only look at Sodium. (a good one to watch these days, for anyone)
Try it out -- it worked for me & is working for others in my family just as well, but they can speed up the weight loss but doing a daily exercise regimen.
Uit's easy -- get a small diet scale that measures in grams, to carry with you if you eat something away from home (even one bite or taste); the app is great, you can just scan the UPC to look up the item & it'll have everything loaded in, & you just put in how much of it you ate. (try different amounts, to see what it does for the iten's calories)
Find seated exercises online & try those to start, to add some extra removal of calories (still math, x minus y is lower than just x!)
I'm praying for success & great health for you. . .
I got my activity level as the lowerst (sedentary) but I do get some just by walking around, using the power of oline leg to dragf my enmtire heavy-laden carcass around & up/down the stairs.
I do one situp a day (I sit UP in the morning, then copmlete it at bedtime by lying back)
& this is more effort than for others, as I'm hreavy & only have half side's muscles to do whatever I do,. so we beliegve even this littlebit counts as more than sedentsry because I'm doing what5 I do with extra weight, so it increases my net caloric burn. . .I'm not counting it, just watching my weight go down quicker than expected (a really good feeling!)
Also, #1 for helping your health is cutting wheat out of your diet 100% (not all carbs, just wheat); do this in combo with the mynetdiary plan & you'll be down to 'fighting weight' in quick time!
But be careful the wheat-free products are listed as "glutren-free" & taste like what "post-digested" grains likely taste like, & most gluten-free products, use abuttload of starches to make up for the wheat -- really increasing the item's ability to turn direectly into sugar in your body.
Dieticians normally do what this mynetdiary does, so here's a bit of diatician punning:
Q: What do you call a doctor for obese squirrels? A: A nutritionist
When fruit goes bad:
berry with a gun = a stRobbery.
bananas give the cops the slip.
When asked tyo speak up in court, the sweet tater just said, in his defense "I yam what I yam."
a bushel of apples = great opportunity to have an longterm affair with a doctor's wife.
Q: How did one stick of bitter call the other one? A: You're my butter from another udder!
Good host's tee-shirt idea: ROCK OUT WITH YOUR GUAC OUT!!
The 800lb gal went to see a dietician on her doctor;s advice & asked how she could get5 dowb to her college weight of 105, without cutting back on sweets, the dietician replied, in her best Dr. McCoy accent, "Dammit, Jen, I'm a dietician, not a magician!"
With the arthritis now, as well as the heat and insects, I don't do
good with walking outside.
heat in only March? Jeeze -- here it's still cool, wet most days & nights, but not bad, actually, this year.
Why not grow a little garden patch? You can do it in containers or
raised beds to put it at your height when sitting down, for safety, if
needed.
I was never one for gardening...I do my gardening at Kroger. <G>
Then you have at least one or three intermediaries, often a factory, interfering with the good food the way God grew it.
When you grow it, you know exactly what you're getting.
It's good for the blood pressure, too. Start small with just lettuce, tomatoes, or whatever you like to add to a sandwich.
I started with just lettuce, carrots, & radishes(great in soups or stews) in a raised box so I could pull up alongside in my wheelchair to do weeding & watering.
Since I quit drinking carbonated beverages, I haven't had a single
kidney stone.
I've heard this somewhere about you. . . Nice one!
I have about a can a year now, down from 2-5 a week when I was working from 06h00-16h00, & needed to be alert -- I found the caffeine kicked in fastest from downing a coke quickly than from coffee.
Now I can't be arsed to have pop. Whenin a restaurant (or McDonalds pretending to be one, I much enjoy cold water as my beverage; I finally gopt my McD;'s trained to allow me to have a supersize cup of water (hey usually only give little 8oz clear cups(used for cold coffees) as too maby people abused the self serve soda bar by asking for water yhen filing up on pop (a big gulp sized cup of coke costs the compant about 3.8c for syrup & soda water; the cup costs 5- 10c including lid & paper straw.
They charge you $2.69 for this giant tub of poison!
... My ship finally came in, but I was at the airport.
Iu was sitting at home waiting for Opportunity to knock & missed my ship, too.
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