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I'm a confirmed spinster, so the chance I would be motivated by looking at guys' bums is extremely small. And I'm certainly not going to chase after them!
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How about the smell of bacon, curve...would that make you run?
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@zogo, maybe that would work, although I'm not sure whether I would run toward the bacon or away from it.
I really like sausage better than bacon, so maybe even that wouldn't motivate me. Generally speaking I am a low-energy sort of person and shy away from anything resembling strenuous activity, except sometimes when there is something that needs to be done in the garden.Maybe Harry Potter knows a magic spell that would make me into a more athletic and energetic person (but I doubt it).
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I wonder if Harry Potter has some magic pills that will make me lose weight and get toned without having to work out? I know, I know...that's not gonna happen. Those really would be magic!
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Alack, there is no magic pill for weight loss, despite what they say in those TV infomercials. Don't listen to them! I bet you'd end up with nothing to show for it but a pile of bills. If you really need to lose weight, the way to do it, IMO, is to change the way you eat and/or your activity level.
That was my experience anyway--I changed how/what I eat, lost over 30 lbs and have mostly kept it off since 2001. Now I am facing a conundrum, because one of the foods that really helped me follow my plan is now "off limits" because it contains soy protein isolate...with my ER+ diagnosis, I want to minimize the amount of that I consume.0 -
I wish some of those companies would be convicted of libel, for all those inaccurate claims they make! But there is BIG money in anything that says "pill" and "lose weight" in the same ad!
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They should put a label on diet pills that says "Don't waste your money buying these"
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I know...its really whatever food is put on the table or in our mouths! (I am doing the treadmill these days, but all the snacks my DH keeps around the house are too much temptation for me).
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I know, I am the only one to blame for needing to lose weight. It was just soooo much easier to gain than it is to lose.
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I agree, and sometimes the most fattening meals are the best!
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oooooo, how about chocolate malts? I miss those
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dearies, of course if you tell yourselves that fattening meals are the best, or pine after chocolate malts, you will find it easier to gain weight than to lose it! If I think about missing being able to eat as much grain or pasta or bread as I did in the past, my resolve to develop healthier eating habits melts away like a sugar cube in the rain. I will admit it, I do miss them, but I can still eat some of those things every day, and as much of them as I want on my once-a-month day off. If that's what I thought about all the time, though, I'd find it much harder to stick to my plan. And I'm now in the process of learning about low-carb/high protein baking, so soon I hope to be able to "have my cake and eat it too", so to speak---to be able to make breads and muffins and other yummies that taste good, fit into my eating plan on any day (not just my day off), and don't make me gain weight.
Now, where I fall down is exercise. When I was house-hunting this time, I deliberately looked for a place that's within a short flat bike ride of many places I may want to go to. I don't mind walking or riding to get from one place to another, so hopefully the fact that cycling is a feasible way to get around (unlike any of the other houses I've lived in since moving to WA) will lead to an increased level of physical activity by yours truly. I have just never had the self-discipline to force myself to walk or run or cycle for the sake of the exercise alone. The very idea makes me picture a hamster in a wheel, running, running, running and going nowhere! See what those negative thought patterns will do!
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Oh, how many times I have craved a chocolate malt or a big bowl of ice-cream!
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Well OK, you can have a chocolate malt, but even a small one has almost 600 calories in it. If you weigh 150 lbs*, you can burn 285 calories by riding a bicycle for 30 minutes at a speed of 12 miles per hour, or by jogging for 30 minutes at 5 mph, so it would take a little longer than an hour or going a little faster to use up the calories in that malted. I don't know about you, but I don't want a chocolate malt bad enough to spend an hour doing something I don't want to do in order to burn it off. I'd much rather adjust my caloric intake to match my favored activity level than the other way around.
But as the saying goes, "your mileage may vary". If you do want a chocolate malt that bad, or you don't mind exercising for an hour, or aren't trying to lose weight, then go for it!
*the chart on the website I used for this example only goes down to 150 lbs. The lower the weight, the fewer calories burned per half hour of the same type of exercise.
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All this talk about losing weight, and now I am going to run on my treadmill. For me, this is easier that a walking plan outside as the weather here gets too hot and humid in the summer, and this way I can have fans right on me. And heck, with hot flashes even during winter, those fans are handy year round! Not sure if I'll find that it slims me, but I hope it will help me get healthier!
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If I could get rid of this extra 20 lbs.....Bliss
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I make lists of healthy food for the grocery store. And stick to the outer aisles of the store. It's all that processed food where they sneak in the bad stuff.
Curve, I like your "once a month cheat day" idea. If I EVER get to my goal weight, I would like to try that. Still stuck here in stall-land. I'll have to get on the treadmill with Wahine!
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@zogo, I didn't wait until I reached my goal weight to allow myself one day off per month. I knew before I started that if I had to choose between stuffing and pie at Thanksgiving dinner, I'd never stick to my plan. Maybe taking those days off made it slower getting to my goal weight than if I hadn't done so--or maybe if I hadn't allowed myself those monthly breaks, I'd have given up and never gotten to my goal at all. As it was, I took a day off every month from the very beginning, and still lost about thirty pounds in eight months or so. The eight months included getting "stuck" (for about six weeks as I remember) when I was ten pounds or so away from my target weight.
But as people are so fond of saying on here about chemo, weight loss is "very doable", or at least I found it to be so. Good luck!
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My stall has been for several months now. Arghhhh. I lost about 20 lbs when I first started low carb. And I'm very faithful to this way of eating. Gained a couple lbs back over the holidays and those are really hard to take off, as well. I'm going to have to shake things up a bit. More exercise is my next plan...Wish this darn ice would melt so I could get outside some more.
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If you do go out, you can entertain us with tales of your adventures in the Frozen North. Be careful, I bet it's pretty slick out there and we don't want you taking a tumble on the ice. Your stories will probably be more fun than hearing about my wanderings in the grey drizzle typical of the Pacific NW at this time of year. But I shouldn't complain. If it didn't rain a lot, it wouldn't be so green. Anyway, I really don't mind it. I'd rather put up with cold weather than heat. After 30 years up here, I start to melt as soon as the temperature hits about 82 degrees.
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Well, my problem lately is I keep thinking ..... "later"....but later doesn't always come...like today when I didn't get on the treadmill. Kept thinking I would run....later!
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wahine, would it help if someone chased you with a Taser? That might even get me to run, instead of sitting here at the computer.
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How about if we get you one of those vibration machines from the 1950's and you put the strap around your middle? That might be easier than running! But, I don't know about the results. A new fad is a vibration machine you stand on and do exercise (curls, squats). Supposedly it builds muscle faster and burns more calories.
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zogo, those machines were all sent to the scrap heap a long time ago. Anyway, that vibrating belt goes right over where one of the incisions will be for my reconstructive surgery. I know the saying is "no pain, no gain" but I don't think it means to apply mechanical friction to a surgical incision! I suppose there might be some truth in the claims for the modern version. It probably takes a little more effort to keep your balance on a vibrating platform than on the unmoving floor, thus burns more calories etc. But I don't know if enough additional calories are burned to make any real difference. If it's ten or twenty percent more than without vibrations, maybe....if it's only one or two percent more, not so much.
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It may help to carry heavy back packs but I, for one, wouldn't want to carry all that weight, just to lose weight! (I could drop and lose my back pack and say I *lost* weight couldn't I? lol)
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I've never been able to figure out what people enjoy about backpacking. For me, the idea of traipsing up and down rough trails with a heavy pack lacks any appeal.
I guess I'm just lazy!
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Our school system went all digital this year...no more textbooks for the kids...they were all given computers...I hope it also will save their backs since they won't be carrying so much weight anymore!
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I bet that program cost a "few" bucks! But, it's the way of the future. DS at college buys as many books as he can digitally.
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They think it will save them lots of money due to not having to replace textbooks all the time for updating, etc. AND no one has to try to repair and scrub (only word I could think of) the old textbooks to get them clean and in usable condition!
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I would like to take a class. But, more like an exercise class. Now I just need a burst of energy.
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