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Hope I'm not the only one with a weight problem.
I think my problem is I eat too much and don't exercise enough. Any advice on that?
Emotional eating. Don't eat looking for solace or empathy /sympathy. Junk food doesn't care about you. It just wants to make you fat.
Eating is not the meaning of life. I am starting to realise that now.
Yet that cakeshop needs my business. I am helping the economy by buying their pies.
 
I need to lose about 50lbs, but my body is so messed up right now and very limited on doing any major exercising, especially walking like I use to do. I'm sure I could do certain exercises, but just to lazy I guess. I need back surgery, but since hubby got laid off we lost our insurance. I should eat more fruits and raw veggies, but my body SCREAMS FOR ICECREAM and Cheez-it-Snaps. OY VEY.
 
I need to lose about 50lbs, but my body is so messed up right now and very limited on doing any major exercising, especially walking like I use to do. I'm sure I could do certain exercises, but just to lazy I guess. I need back surgery, but since hubby got laid off we lost our insurance. I should eat more fruits and raw veggies, but my body SCREAMS FOR ICECREAM and Cheez-it-Snaps. OY VEY.
Hey respecting your ruthless honesty there glory.
I actually swam in the ocean twice last weekend. It's a start at least.
Maybe I need fasting and Bible study together.
 
I believe in eating healthy so I stick to chocolate, ice cream, chocolate, cookies, chocolate, cake and chocolate.
All mirrors have to be too high for ne to look into and scales are locked away
You mean you are in the same club as glory and I ? Wow
 
Hey respecting your ruthless honesty there glory.
I actually swam in the ocean twice last weekend. It's a start at least.
Maybe I need fasting and Bible study together.
Swimming is the best exercise as it works all your muscles and maybe I need to join a gym that has a swimming pool as I do love to swim.

Fasting and Bible study would also be a good exercise for the mind, body and soul. Personally I have never fasted, but I do love studying the Bible and spending time with God.
 
I believe in eating healthy so I stick to chocolate, ice cream, chocolate, cookies, chocolate, cake and chocolate.
All mirrors have to be too high for ne to look into and scales are locked away
At least you are consistent, LOL
 
I think my problem is I eat too much and don't exercise enough. Any advice on that?

Eat less and exercise more. :)

Seriously, I find that writing down calories lets me know when I have reached the number of calories that keeps my weight reasonably constant. Takes a bit of experimentation with a pen, paper, and scale to find the number of calories that works for you.

Appetite doesn't seem to work too well for most people with modern American food. Its so tasty that people tend to keep eating. In days of yore, appetite tended to keep most people at a constant weight. Back when people ate vegetables from their own farm. With sugary/refined/hydrogenated American food you have to write down the calories. For many people their appetite will simply never say enough at the right time with such foods.
 
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Eat less and exercise more. :)

Seriously, I find that writing down calories lets me know when I have reached the number of calories that keeps my weight reasonably constant. Takes a bit of experimentation with a pen, paper, and scale to find the number of calories that works for you.

Appetite doesn't seem to work too well for most people with modern American food. Its so tasty that people tend to keep eating. In days of yore, appetite tended to keep most people at a constant weight. Back when people ate vegetables from their own farm. With sugary/refined/hydrogenated American food you have to write down the calories. For many people their appetite will simply never say enough at the right time with such foods.
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unless you lived in the city you worked outside and walked often in 1870 only 250 persons lived from the cape to Miami and mail came by foot in some areas
 
Hope I'm not the only one with a weight problem.
I think my problem is I eat too much and don't exercise enough. Any advice on that?
Emotional eating. Don't eat looking for solace or empathy /sympathy. Junk food doesn't care about you. It just wants to make you fat.
Eating is not the meaning of life. I am starting to realise that now.
Yet that cakeshop needs my business. I am helping the economy by buying their pies.
I'm sure you've heard this before but I truly believe it is extremely accurate. Calories in, calories out. One idea to consider is to monitor daily food intake, particularly carbohydrates, to achieve a balance with the amount of daily exercise. Note that each gram of carbohydrate translates to 4 calories but not all calories are going to be converted to fat.

First, I have to be fair and identify that I am not super heavy. I am 6'-1" tall and weigh roughly 210 pounds. According to the medical field I am considered obese but to look at me I don't look obese. In February of 2012 my weight had climbed up to about 230 pounds and I was diagnosed with type II diabetes. My doctor prescribed Metformin and had me attend a class about managing carbohydrate intake. Carbohydrates, particularly simple carbs like sugary foods, syrups, milk products, white flour, white breads, and fruit juice concentrates among others are what is converted into glucose. Complex carbs are high fiber and these are not converted to glucose as easily and help you feel full at meals.

According to medical guidelines a diet for a person 50 years old and above should get about 135 grams of carbohydrates daily. When I actually tracked my carbs I learned that I was ingesting upwards of 200 grams or more per day and a good percentage of them were simple carbs which are the ones that really can cause blood glucose to rise and increase fat storage in the body.

I began to regulate my carb intake to a plan. I would allow myself up to 30 grams for each of three main meals per day with a maximum of 15-20 grams for any snacking between those meals for a total of up to 150 grams spread throughout the day. I also concentrated on switching to more complex carbs than simple carbs. I switched to whole grains for things like pasta, bread, cereals, flour, etc. Complex carbs are higher in fiber and these are not prone to increase blood glucose or be stored as fat.

At first it was a challenge to say the least. I had to learn a new lifestyle and my body had to readjust but one thing I did notice is that I never really felt hungry because I was eating something every 2-3 hours throughout the day, although portions were considerably smaller. Try this. The next time you have a piece of cake cut the piece to be about 2 square inches in size or if you have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, measure out 1/2 cup. That will be about 15 grams of carbs give or take. That's what I do.

By September of that year I lost about 30 pounds and my blood glucose came under control enough to stop taking the Metformin. After a while I decided I had this and didn't need to track my carb intake anymore. Almost immediately I began to notice my weight increasing because I was getting lazy, so I created a spreadsheet on my phone to track my carb intake and my weight came back down.

Today, depending on how diligently I monitor my carbs, I fluctuate from 200 pounds to 215 pounds but so far, thank the Lord, my A1C has been relatively steady ranging from 5.1 to 6.1. It's when I get lazy and convince myself that I can deviate from my plan that I find my weight increasing.

Carbohydrates and calories and body fat go hand-in-hand so when I am tracking my carbs I am also tracking most of my calories and managing my body fat storage.

We are not self-disciplined to manage our diet and exercise to accomplish the task. We rely on fancy diet plans and programs to do the work for us so we don't have to change our way of life. The problem is, if we do actually lose the weight what then? We stop the diet and then we put the weight back on because we didn't change our lifestyle. My wife spends tons of money on different plans and has found little success. What success she does have is rapidly negated as soon as she stops the plan after reaching her goals.

We'd prefer to just take a pill and solve our problems that way. I get a kick when I see commercials for weight-loss pills followed by commercials for weight-gain pills. They are preying on our lack of self-discipline.
 
Hope I'm not the only one with a weight problem.
I think my problem is I eat too much and don't exercise enough. Any advice on that?
Emotional eating. Don't eat looking for solace or empathy /sympathy. Junk food doesn't care about you. It just wants to make you fat.
Eating is not the meaning of life. I am starting to realise that now.
Yet that cakeshop needs my business. I am helping the economy by buying their pies.
Well - I'm 6' 3" medium framed, and been at 250 +/- 4 pounds for the last umpteen years. After my First heart attack (of 13) back in '92, I followed a diet and exercise regimen With religious zeal (avoiding saturated fats, and dietary cholesterol and walking miles) for some years - until my second heart attack. when I got a little less zealous. After the third or fourth heart attack, I was becoming somewhat agnostic to the whole diet thing, then they figured out the "Dietary Cholesterol", and saturated fat wasn't much of a contributor, and that the VILLAIN was SUGAR!!! SO I added "Pink stuff" to my diet. By number 13, however I'm pretty much became.'
;'.of a total Atheist (Diet wise), and after the last Rotoblator procedure up my "Widow Maker" (And stents #19-23), I haven't had any heart issues (other than congestive heart failure) for the last 14 years. The Cardio would like me to weigh 195-200.

Ain't gonna happen.
 
The next time you have a piece of cake cut the piece to be about 2 square inches in size or if you have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, measure out 1/2 cup. That will be about 15 grams of carbs give or take

Three ideas that might help.
Get smaller plates and bowls. Most dinner plates are too big, so use a smaller plate and fill it.
Eat home cooked food. As part of that cut the meat portion by half, and fill up on vegetables.
Limit your snacking to fruit, rather than a biscuit or donut have an apple. Ditto to crisps, chills.
 
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. Carbohydrates, particularly simple carbs like sugary foods, syrups, milk products, white flour, white breads, and fruit juice
Love milk, white bread, orange juice, yoghurt, ice cream.....
It's gonna be tough.......
 
Love milk, white bread, orange juice, yoghurt, ice cream.....
It's gonna be tough.......
I know exactly how you feel. I could live on ice cream, well, actually not anymore for it would probably kill me.

We don't have to cut those things out completely but for me it is critically important that I closely monitor how much of it I indulge. For example, to stick with my plan of maximum 30 grams of carbs at any one main meal, if I have an 8oz glass of orange juice for breakfast, which is about 26 grams of carbs, the rest of my meal has to be zero carbs. That means no bread/toast, no pancake, no cereals, etc. The good thing is that eggs are zero carbs and bacon and breakfast sausages are almost zero carbs and of course everything is better with bacon.
 
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