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Re: Diet

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 06 May 25 3:01 AM | 15 view(s)
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Re: “Cutting out the sugary sodas . . made losing the first ten pounds easy. More exercise and dropping the cookies out of my lunch bag made the second ten pounds go away. The last ten pounds were a DOG.” My previous doctor told me that people don't often lose weight through exercise. His recommendation was to keep track of what I'm eating. He said that if I do that, I'll automatically trend toward reduced calories.

I'm not doing that, but I like the diet I'm on now. I've got three easy meals that fill me up: Bean burritos, Tuna fish sandwiches, and Mushroom soup. The burritos are about 135 calories apiece. I just ate four and I'm full. A can of mushroom soup with dry milk is 550 calories. Three tunafish sandwiches are 390 calories.

If that's all I ate, I'd be consuming 1,480 calories per day and would definitely lose weight. But I also eat miscellaneous fruits and vegetables, zero calorie things like coffee and soda and salad dressing (often as a dip), and a glass of NON-DIET Gatorade (80 calories most days).

My daily intake is less than 2000 calories for sure. Importantly, I'm not suffering and am dropping weight at roughly ½ pound per day. I think I can keep this up indefinitely, though I will occasionally cheat when going out, visiting with folks or celebrating something.

But I will probably find, as some of you have, that diet expectations and diet realities are two different things.





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Re: Diet
By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ
Tue, 06 May 25 12:13 AM 		Msg. 07893 of 07936

Decomposed > I naively hope I can regain the mentality I had when I was young and really didn't care at all about food.

I remember way back when when I was 'Young and Indestructible' . . .
And I weighed about 140 pounds . . and it didn't matter how much or how little I ate I tended to stay that way.
Then I got 'Old and Fat'.

And I finally decided I needed to lose thirty pounds . . . (And get down to 160 pounds.) I began weighing myself twice a day - and writing it down on a calendar. I set the mark for losing two pounds a week. (I figured if I lose the weight slowly my body might decide it 'likes being smaller' and not let the weight come back very fast. It seems like people who lose weight fast tend to gain it back -just as fast.)

Cutting out the sugary sodas . . made losing the first ten pounds easy. More exercise and dropping the cookies out of my lunch bag made the second ten pounds go away. The last ten pounds were a DOG.

And, finally, I got older . . . decided I didn't give a rats patootie any more . . Enjoying sugary sodas far too much. . . And twenty five of them came back to 'party on my belly'.

Zim.

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