Diet, Weight Loss-Dying For Food

600 Pound Mom

2011-03-30T21:10:00.000-07:00

I was watching this TV show about this woman with 6 daughters who weights 606 pounds. She is so fat she cannot move or walk. She is stuck in her bed. What shocked me is what also shocked her new diet doctor. Unless she is lying, according to her food journal she eats only one meal a day and it's not even near a thousand calories. With a diet like that she should be skinny, even skeletal.

Obese Three Year Old

2011-03-29T12:09:00.000-07:00

This three year old boy from China is said to weight over 130 pounds. Doctors think he has some kind of hormonal imbalance because he is also tall for his age. His mother says that if she doesn't give him several servings of food at one meal he will cry until he gets the food nonstop. I'm sure he will cry for a long time and I'm willing to bet there is something physically wrong

Danger, Holidays Approaching!

2010-11-13T10:06:00.000-08:00

I believe the most important thing to remember this holiday season is to watch your portions. If you stuff yourself you'll feel bad afterward both emotionally and physically. Stuffing yourself at just one meal can put you back on the road to weight gain instead of weight loss. Keep the "now or never" mindset. It's not OK to stuff yourself now and New Year's is not a diet.

Wanting

2010-10-07T12:58:00.000-07:00

I've written about this before but I'll keep writing about it because it is the.most important aspect to losing weight. You've got to really want it. Of course we all think we want it but there's a difference between wanting it and really wanting it. Think of it this way. If you really wanted it you'd have it. There should be no struggle no temptation to overeat. If you really wanted

New Theory on Weight Loss

2010-09-10T11:02:00.000-07:00

This is only my theory on weight loss. It comes from observations of my own overeating. First I believe that you can only successfully kick a habit if it's presented right in front of you and you can refuse it. We all have our favorite foods and our food weaknesses. However having those foods in abundance in your kitchen actually help you to resist them. For instance, for a long time

Eating When You're Thirsty

2010-08-20T13:52:00.000-07:00

Most of you have heard it said that some of the reason many of us eat too often is because we are really thirty and are mistaking this want for being hungry. I would like to verify and admit that I am often thirsty. So thirsty that my tongue turns into dry sandpaper. Having said that I want to tell you that as a diabetic I know that when a super thirst rolls in, one that makes you

Swelling Finally Gone

2010-08-15T19:34:00.000-07:00

It seemed like it took forever but I finally got rid of the swelling. The puffed bags under my eyes are gone and my fingers and hands are down also. It took a lot of will power to stay away from salty and processed foods. What I did was to order a lot of fruit and vegetables and water and diet drinks. I cooked my food myself which helped me to avoid extra sodium. I did lose some pounds

Obese Kids Twice as Likely to Die Before Age 55

2010-02-11T16:08:00.000-08:00

A newly published study followed almost 5,000 American Indian kids from their childhoods till adulthood. They found that kids who were fat were twice as likely to die before age 55 from related diseases. They measured the kids for body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose levels from 11 years old and up. The most telling were the high body mass index and the

Lite Stuffed Peppers

2010-02-07T22:24:00.000-08:00

I'm going to start posting recipes on this blog that are lite on calories, fat, and cholesterol. This is the first. You'll need, 6 medium green bell peppers 1/2 cups sugar 2 cups of lo-sodium tomato juice, divided 1-6oz. can tomato paste 1 tsp. oregano, divided 1/2 tsp. crushed basil leaves 1/2 tsp. garlic powder, divided 1 lb. ground beef, lean 1 1/2 cups oats, uncooked, quick 1 medium

The First Hurdle

2010-02-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

I find for myself that once a see a few pounds drop I am very motivated to drop more. As anyone will tell you the first few pounds you do drop are from water. Thin people think that doesn't count, but for me it does. I've learned that eating the same keeps that water trapped in your body. That eating high sodium foods makes me so bloated I look like a Thanksgiving day balloon and feel like

The Fast

2010-02-04T09:00:00.000-08:00

I'm not giving this as advice because I'm sure health professionals will tell you it's either unhealthy or dangerous. I'm only telling you what I've done in the past when I was younger and healthier and what seemed to work for me. I would go on a week long fast. Now before you run away here me out. I would start on a Monday and would only eat fruits and veggies. As much as I wanted but

Important Step in Weight Loss

2010-02-03T14:57:00.000-08:00

I believe that the next important step in changing your eating habits to lose weight is getting full on smaller portions. I think that your body is so smart it knows exactly how much food it needs to maintain the weight you are at right now, be it thin or fat. So let's assume you are heavy. You've eaten small portions all day, but now you're going crazy because your body is asking for

The First Step

2010-01-31T19:53:00.000-08:00

They say the first step is admitting that you have a problem. I know I'm overweight, yes I'm obese, but looking out from my eyes I don't feel overweight. I look in the mirror and see a fat person, yet inside I feel like a thin person. I think that means I haven't taken seriously the fact that I've got a lot of me to lose. We need to come to terms inside with who we've become as

New Report On Overweight Elderly

2010-01-30T18:46:00.000-08:00

We've been hearing a lot these past few years about how being overweight and/or obese affects our health. This new study they did now says if you're over 70 it doesn't matter much about being overweight and your other health conditions. I don't think this means you can gain a ton of weight after you turn 70, but I do think it puts it into perspective about the relationship between

Kids and Obesity

2010-01-20T13:13:00.000-08:00

A federal task force is urging doctors to screen for obesity in children from 6 to 18 years old based on their BMI numbers. The BMI is the relationship between your height and weight remember. Although there is a chart to figure out someone's BMI , it's really pretty simple. Just look at them. If you can't decide if someone is overweight or not, I wouldn't worry about them too much.

Training For The New Daily Diet

2010-01-14T14:35:00.000-08:00

I know it sounds weird to train for a new diet but I think it's the only thing that works. With any diet you go on it has to be something that will become your habit every day for the rest of your life. It must become a habit. I just got my shipment of groceries and although I did order some goodies, I was also mindful of ordering healthier foods. For instance I got ham and chicken

Time To Come Clean

2010-01-09T15:58:00.000-08:00

It's been a tough year for me and I haven't taken my thyroid pills for close to a year now. I'm going down hill but expect to be back on the meds within the month. I've also been overeating and of course gaining weight. I pigged out over the recent holidays and am ready to start eating smart again. I'm not going to go on a certain diet but rather a calorie counting, or exchange,

New Diet

2009-02-03T22:57:00.000-08:00

Although I've been honest with myself about why I'm fat, I've never really examined where and when and why I eat the way I do. I have figured out that part of the problem is that I eat fast, too fast. So while I want to enjoy the taste of my food I eat too quickly to really do so. Eating slowly helps me to appreciate the taste of the food in smaller portions. The main thing I've

Flat Belly Dead in its Tracks

2009-02-01T06:13:00.000-08:00

Prevention did not give me adequate time to do the diet from beginning to end. It was supposed to be four days of prep and four weeks of the diet. They sent me the book about Jan. 12, I picked it up from the Post Office on the 16th and then Prevention said it had to be completed by the 30th to be one of the bloggers they would include, which was my main reason for blogging about it. I do

The Flat Belly Diet from Prevention

2009-01-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

I have chosen to go on the Flat Belly Diet. I am blogging about it for Prevention Magazine along with other writers who also have their own blogs on Prevention. I just got the book in the mail and am in the process of preparing to start the program in about two weeks. I've already got some great posts on weight there so visit me often and see my progress or failure. This could be just the

The Most Important Part of Your Diet

2009-01-02T13:35:00.000-08:00

You have a choice in weight loss. You can opt for either just losing weight, or you can lose weight and be healthy. To lose weight eat less. To be healthy eat less, and move. Studies have shown that even people that are not overweight are in health danger if they don't keep moving. So walk, run, jog, jump, skip, bike, row, clean, climb, swim, do whatever you like to do but move for

FDA Warns to Avoid These Diet Aides

2008-12-25T06:26:00.000-08:00

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Holiday Pounds Are Coming!

2008-11-17T21:49:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and for all of us food addicts, you know what that means. Good for you if you can navigate yourself around the feasts without overindulging. That would be the best choice, but if you're like me and have no self control, the extra pounds will come. So let's start diet planning now. Tomorrow till Thanksgiving Day, let's diet very strictly. Eat healthy in

Easy Indicator Of Early Death Found

2008-11-12T20:34:00.000-08:00

A study that involved nine different countries in Europe dicovered that simple waist size was a "powerful indicator" of early death. Every two inches around the waist raised the risk of early death by 13% to 17%. We've all heard about the extra weight around the middle being an indicator, however this study being so large gives a much more accurate result. They studied 360,000 people

Baby Time!

2008-10-11T16:18:00.000-07:00

My daughter had my first grandchild on October 1st. He was born happy and healthy, 18 inches long, 5lbs. and 5 oz. Her labor only last about 5 hours and I was in the room to see him come into the world. She walked a lot and ate right while pregnant, hence the quick labor I believe. She was worried about eating too much towards the end and now is walking again and limiting her portions and