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Tabbyking | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 08:36 am     the first time i went to WW, i lost 6.5 pounds the first week! so i thought to myself, "self, you only have to go another 5 weeks." hello? you don't get to lose 6.5 pounds every week! sticking to WW exactly as i had the first week might find me with no weight loss or maybe half of one pound. i think it took about 12 weeks to lose 10 pounds. what i am doing now is cutting out carbs, both to make sure i don't become diabetic (or am able to control it if i do become diabetic; it runs big time in the family), and playing golf where i walk the course with a pullcart. i remember all those times i ate a baked potato for dinner, with nothing on it, or nonfat sour cream and chives...and the worst thing carb-wise is potatoes! by cutting out breads, rice, potatoes, etc., and saving those carbs for when i make carnitas or some other wonderful mexican dish and use a tortilla or two, i lost 10 pounds since january. okay, that doesn't sound like much, but i didn't do any dieting at all, just cut out the bigtime starches or ate them very sparingly. you can use celery for lots of things--peanut butter or tuna, for example. you can also roll tuna up in large lettuce leaves or stuff it into a tomato. i might broil the potato skin from a baked potato and eat it with nonfat sour cream. lots of taste, but very little of the carbs that are in the white of the potatoes. i also make a very good pudding that cathie gave me the recipe for. if you like pumpkin pie, it's wonderful...canned pumpkin has very few carbs per serving (9), and the fat free, sugar free vanilla pudding has only about 6 carbs per serving...i make the pudding with water, not milk, so i don't have to add those calories or carbs in milk, either. my doctor laughed when i told her i was eating a great pudding 4 or 5 times a week, "but the sad thing is, I AM EATING CANNED PUMPKIN!" it's a good thing i like this pudding because i hate sweet potatoes, yams, etc., which many people think pumpkin tastes like! about some of the metabolife things out there--i had a friend who used something from australia several years ago. is that where the metabolife product comes from? i know it was a big name product. anyway, she started having eye trouble. she ended up with bell's palsy or graves disease. she had some facial paralysis that lasted for almost a year. the only thing she had changed in her life was taking this product...i remember she had given me a few of the pills to start on, and i commented to my husband that i was getting eye ticks, maybe only after 5 or 6 days of taking the supplement, so i quit taking them. then my friend got her troubles, and she had maybe only taken the supplement for a month. so texannie is right, as far as i'm concerned. other than vitamins, i wouldn't get into any supplements. i find if i have a cup of broth or tomato soup before dinner, it helps to fill me up. i try not to eat anything after 6:00 p.m. i let myself have a diet soda once or twice a week. and i try to think of creative alternatives to starchy foods!my personal goal right now is to lose 10 pounds before i see my doctor again in january. that is with the holidays quickly approaching, too, but i am going to do my darndest. reading this topic is a tremendous help, and i love reading your success stories and commiserate with and admire those who have backpedaled a little but are getting back on the bike! |
Lostintheglades | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 10:15 am     Texannie - no...I would never give her anything with Ephedra in it, that's why I was asking if anyone had found anything that is safe. We are all prone to migraines so anything like that is out of the question. Which also mean that diet drinks are a no because of the aspertame and nutrasweet in them. I was basically wondering about the carb blockers although most of them seem to have stimulants as well. Most of it is self control. I know I can lose about 2 lbs a week just giving up the soda's. Especially if I'm not playing as much tennis as I'd like. |
Texannie | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 11:12 am     Even the ephedra free ones are bad. 2 lbs a week is the recommended amount to safely use. Have you tried the Diet Rite sodas? They are caffiene free and sweetened with Splenda. |
Calamity | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 12:15 pm     Lostintheglades: I don't know anything about weight-loss supplements so I'm sorry I cannot help you there. Maybe you could encourage your daughter to substitute water for at least a couple of her sodas a day? This is one of my favorite threads but I haven't posted in it for a long time, so apologies for my long-windedness now. I did a new exercise video this morning and loved it (lots of kicks, yea!). Well, it's not actually new; I've probably had it for at least a year but just never got around to trying it before today. (If you could see how many fitness tapes I have, you might understand how that could happen, lol.) However I've recently set up a budget for myself and there's not really any room for exercise video splurging in it so I guess I'll just have to make do with the 120+ (wince) that I already have. The annoying thing is, my tape rotation will have to juggled because there's no way I'm going to be able to "master" this video in just a couple weeks. (Along with designing a budget, I made up an official schedule of exercise videos to follow.) And I spent one whole evening color-coding that schedule, darn it! Another part of my self-improvement scheme is including a wider variety of foods in my diet. I don't need to lose weight, I just want to eat healthier. This has only been partially succesful. I'm so pathetic - how can a long-time vegetarian hate so many vegetables??!! I often hear about people cutting carbs out of their diets and think to myself, "No pasta? No bread? I might starve.". I looked at a book called SugarBusters but it wasn't that helpful either. Oh and I love pumpkin too. I have a yummy recipe for a low-fat pumpkin custard but it is a bit of a hassle to make. Well worth it though! |
Texannie | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 12:25 pm     Calamity, I follow a low glycemic way of eating similar to sugar busters, and I eat pastas/breads...just healthy, whole wheat, whole grain ones. And maybe one or two servings a day as a side rather than a whole meal. I am not great about eating veggies either, so I have found if I make a pot of veggie soup in the crockpot on Monday, I have lunch for the week. I also cut up a ton of veggies and marinate them in a small amount of Wishbone Italian dressing and eat them alone, in a salad, with a protein or bake them. Yummy. I have also discovered V-8 with Lemon. What was your new exercise tape? |
Calamity | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 12:47 pm     Thanks for the advice, Texannie! I'm going to try your hints. The video was Kick Into Fitness with the Radio City Rockettes. Lots of fun and challenging too! |
Tabbyking | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 12:57 pm     my pumpkin pudding is only a box of vanilla nonfat, sugar-free instant pudding, a can of pumpkin and some water. if i use a large can of pumpkin, i use the large box or 2 small boxes of pudding. i do not need to add any sweeteners because the pudding is sweetened enough. i add pumpkin pie spice when i feel like it. i mix the pudding on high with 'more or less' one cup of cold water. after 2 minutes, i put in the can of pumpkin and mix for another minute. then i put scoops into small containers. i get about 8 or 10 servings if i use the large can of pumpkin, 4 or 5 if i use the smaller cans of pumpkin and one small package of pudding. and, incidentally: when i didn't have on my reading glasses and just grabbed the jello box with the vanilla looking picture on the front--well, it tasted fine with that pudding, too...even though i had picked up white chocolate! anyway, with a little dab of nonfat cool whip, it is great, although i eat it without most of the time. it satisfies my sweet cravings and gives me a serving of fruits/vegetables, without adding all the sugars and carb most other fruits/veg's have. it literally takes me 3 minutes to make it. |
Tabbyking | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 01:04 pm     oh, when i made a stew and had to skip eating the potatoes in it--but which i had put in for my family--i steamed some large cauliflower florettes just before dinner and put them in my serving of stew. really good! and it tasted like potato to me! i love pastas and all the high carb 'starches', and make a killer lasagne, but cutting them out took me out of diabetic range in about a month. as soon as i eat them more than 'sparingly', my glucose levels shoot right back up. what's with the food pyramid showing us we should all be eating more breads and grains, when sometimes those are the worst offenders?...unfortunately. my husband just perfected his home-made french bread with onions and cheese baked inside, the most wonderful crunch to the crust, mouthwatering inside....there are 3 loaves sitting on the table and i have to avert my eyes when i go in the kitchen! LOL |
Texannie | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 01:10 pm     Calamity, that does sounds like a fun tape! Tabby, I can remember doing the bake potato no fat sour cream thing too. I shudder now to think what it did for my blood sugar, but that sad thing was that in my 30's low fat worked for me. |
Tabbyking | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 01:21 pm     man, to go back to the days when i could lose a pound a day....and i was only 100 pounds and actually should have weighed more! i loved the baked potato because it filled me up! i hate being hungry. that's why i had to put the cauliflower in my stew to replace the potatoes. it bugged me that the rest of the family got to eat something white. LOL i do make stew with lean meat and mushrooms, too. i'll try that soon. |
Boberg | Monday, October 06, 2003 - 08:21 pm     Lostintheglades..I too use to be a CokeaHolic.. I drank at least a 2 liter bottle of coke a day.. I cut back to 1 20oz Coke a day and lost 17lbs over 5 months just by switching to only tea or water for meals and when I wanted a Coke at other times I went instead for a cup of crushed ice...I probably have at least ten cups of crushed ice a day and don't have my craving for coke anymore. Just remember that losing weight or cutting down on Coke must be what your daughter wants...nothing will drive me to overeat faster than someone trying to control what I eat or drink. Good luck to you and your daughter. |
Ginger1218 | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 08:52 am     I am very upset, I gained 3 pounds. I lost my track for 2 weeks with the holidays and cooking, etc. I feel like I worked so hard to lose and then to backtrack makes me crazy. So, I am back on track this morning and hopefully will have a nice loss next time I go to the nutritionist. |
March | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 10:14 am     I am glad I found this thread but now am more confused than ever. Are there any good carbs out there at all?? As you can tell carbs are my downfall. My other largest problem is eating dinner. It is always late before I even get to eat. I know they say to eat before 8 pm but no matter how hard I try I have a hard time doing that most days. I live 45 minutes from work and after work I go to Curves on the way home, then if I have to pick up groceries or anything like that I have to do that before going home as well. Then when I get home I have to check the office at home for messages, faxes, email in case there is something that needs answering right away. By then I am getting so hungry that I just want the fastest thing I can throw together. So if anyone has any ideas on fast but nutritious meals, could use the help. thanks |
Tabbyking | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 10:28 am     i broil skinless chicken breasts and steam cauliflower and broccoli for at least one meal a day. moderate carbs are okay--the starchy ones (as opposed to most 'leafy' vegetables) such as breads, pastas, potatoes and rice are pretty high in carbs...which is why marathon runners eat pasta by the tons the day or so before running. being pre-diabetic, i have to watch what turns to 'sugar'... lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., are pretty low in carbs...along with the gift-from-hell canned pumpkin! lol....i would think that most types of squashes are also pretty low in carbs, but i don't care for most of them. i mix either cut green beans or sliced zucchini with canned tomatoes. good, quick and nutritious. i eat hamburgers without the bun i broil or bbq a lean patty, then put the bleu cheese and sauteed mushrooms over the top and just eat it as if it were a steak. food still tastes good, i just have to 'think' outside the bun HAHAHAHA tabby made a punny....... march, maybe you should carry a ziploc of raw veggies to eat in the car on the way to curves. you could put a bottled water in the freezer each night and put the ziploc next to it to keep the veggies cool if you don't have a fridge at work or whatever. then you would also have the bottled water, which will still be cold, if not ice, to drink at your curves place. i buy the chicken breast strips at our food 4 less and put 3 or 4 of them in our little griller that i got at a garage sale for 3 bucks. the flash frozen strips only take about 6 minutes to cook. i put the veggies in the microwave steamer at the same time. they are usually done at 4 or 5 minutes, depending on how large your florettes are. mine are probably about 3 inches, not the tiny ones you'd have out for hors d'oeuvres! right now, i can get a large cauliflower for 99 cents and it is good for 4 or 5 large servings... i put a little pepper on the chicken and WW buttery spray on the cauliflower and i'm set in 6 minutes! then, one of my pumpkin puddings for dessert or for something during survivor, and i'm full til the next morning. |
Texannie | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:14 am     Like Tabby said there are lots of good carbs out there..veggies being #1. And for starchy carbs, pick whole grain carbs...whole wheat breads/pastas, brown or wild rice. The main point of saying to eat before 8 is so that you aren't going to sleep on a full stomach. If you stay up late, eating late isn't really a huge problem. It's more the time between bed/food. Have you tried crockpot cooking..it's waiting for you when you get home! |
Lostintheglades | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 12:28 pm     LOL...yeah, I try to set an example for my daughter by drinking water. We have bottled water delivered so it's not like it's not an easy thing to grab when you're thirsty and I also have the sports bottles. I keep telling her the soda's are bad. My brother brought some Diet Rite to Thanksgiving last year. I may try buying that but I can't stop her from going to the nearest drive through or store and getting a sugar loaded Mountain Dew. Gosh darn teenagers anyway, I have enough problems controling what I eat...hehe |
March | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 06:46 am     Thanks for your ideas. I like finding new things to do with chicken as sameo-sameo can get boring after a while. |
Bonnyswan | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 07:27 am     20lbs in 7 weeks roughly!!!! Im so excited I can hardly sit still. Carbs are the DEVIL!! hehe...keep up the great job everyone. |
Rissa | Friday, October 10, 2003 - 07:45 am     Lost, it's hard with teenagers.. they seem wired to disagree over the colour of the sky. LOLOL Most sodas are 1/3 sugar and caffiene, with a little flavouring put in. You could try sitting her down with a measuring cup of white sugar and a cup of coffee and tell her to have-at-it. Maybe the visual will help. I have this arguement with my oldest all the time. My Great-grandfather was part of the original insulin study done in Canada by Banting, a full two years before he won the Nobel prize and the general population got access to the drugs. (This was in 1921, don't know when it drifted down to the USA) He died after being in a diabetic coma for 3 months. My grandfather died of diabetes, my grandmother's two brothers both died of diabetes. My father is a brittle diabetic and I am (so far) hypoglycemic. It will be over my dead body that my children ever have a slurpie. LOLOL There are just certain realities in life and one of them happens to be that my family and diabetes are fated to be joined at the hip... they don't always need to eat right, but dang if there is a reason to pour liquid sugar directly into your blood system. LOL |
Rissa | Friday, October 10, 2003 - 09:20 am     Calamity, can I ask a tape question? (200 tapes makes you most likely to be the TVC exercise tape expert. LOL). I am a hard-core runner, but I am hitting a plateau and am trying to break it by cross-training. I have three tapes currently and I do two of them once a week in between the treadmill. 1) The Step tape that came with my Step. Easy to follow, moderate effort (although the guy that leads the workout is goofy beyond belief. LOL) 2) Tae-Bo (the basic workout). After two years, I can follow the moves, still a hard workout for me. Stomach punishes me for days every time I do this one. 3) The original Richard Simmons, Sweatin' to the Oldies. I LOVE this tape!!! I have to add stuff to get my heart rate up but the choreography is very easy which is important for me because I can't dance to save my life. LOL I have had this tape for ten years now and it is literally falling apart, the sound is going as is the picture in places. So the question is: can you recommend another dance-type aerobic tape? I have tried the Kathy Smith tapes but I can't follow and spend most of the tape staring at the TV, looking for a easy spot to jump in. LOL I saw another Richard Simmons tape last week, a Salsa one. I like that music so if the choreography is easy, that would be a good one. |
Calamity | Friday, October 10, 2003 - 01:40 pm     Rissa: I'm naturally klutzy so I understand what you mean about getting frustrated by too-complex choreography. Another thing that bugs me is when a tape requires a huge amount of floor space to do a routine - where do they think I live? Carnegie Hall? (I also find it a bit discouraging to read customer reviews that complain a video was "too boring" and "too easy" when I was completely incapable of keeping up with it. Graceful people shouldn't be allowed to review videos, imho, lol.) Anyway, I do dance-aerobics tapes primarily to improve my coordination. Whatever cardio benefit I get is a welcome bonus. So I'm not sure if any of these titles will be as aerobically-challenging as what you may be looking for, but here goes... 1) Crunch: Fat Blaster Goes Latin - all cardio 2) The Dancer Body Workout - uses a step, has a ballet/yoga-inspired toning section as well 3) Breakthru Cardio Dance - has pilates section after the cardio segment 4) Kari Anderson's Dance Works - also has a pilates section after the dance routines 5) Reebok Rhythmic Power - all cardio - need a lot of floor space 6) Jamaica Me S'wet - all cardio 7) The Method: Dance to Fitness - not really hardcore aerobic - more modern/jazz dance influenced 8) The Firm: Ballroom Aerobics - people justifiably mock some of the Firm's goofy moves but this is fun and effective, uses a 4-inch box 9) Radio City Rockettes: Kick into Fitness - my new fave A couple highly respected instructors who specialize in complex and advanced dance aerobics are Christi Taylor and Donna Richardson. I've never tried anything by them because I know I'd fall on my face. But you might want to check out some of their tapes for yourself. Crunch also has a new Cardio Salsa tape out that might interest you. |
Reader234 | Friday, October 10, 2003 - 02:46 pm     Just stumbled into this thread... I blame Christine and Starting over btw!! I am guilty of doing NOTHING... but thinking about, and knowing the right thing to do!! Lost, I couldnt help but notice your post, I will tell you as a hypoglycemic what "supplements" I use when I'm serious about my health... Chromium Picolinate... it is in many vitamins nowadays, and it is in every diet pill I've looked at. I take 400mcg it helps me to stabilize my blood sugar, my grandma reccomended it to me chromium used to be in our ground, and therefore in our food, nowadays, not so much. The closer to the "whole" grains you eat, the better you are! 2. I take spirulina. It is a pure algae, protein, all protein, which again, helps me with my blood sugar, so I can eat less and not get dizzy!! I find it at the Health food stores in tablet form, my friends mom used to take it instead of eating back in the 60's - algae - - it smells like fish tank!! She tried to take it in capsule form, but the gels from the capsules had a bad reaction for her. I will add a disclaimer in that the author of 8 weeks to Optimum health doesnt think there is sufficient scientific proof about the chromium, I just tell you it works for me! (and for my friends that are diabetics, not insulin, but borderline... it helped them to stabilize their blood sugar levels as well!) Good luck, you are not alone. Also, know that there could be a 'placebo' effect in these products too, but I just know, they work!! |
Rissa | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 07:21 pm     Calamity, thank you so much for your response and sorry I took so long getting back to you. I found out yesterday that my dad's brother is now also diabetic... that makes it 100%. 100% of all adults over 35 on my dad's side of the family are diabetic and/or died of diabetes (back to the 1880's which is where my records go to). Not one of whom is/was the least bit overweight! (I say this for those that think they can scarff down slurpies, pop and chocolate safely as long as their waist lines are still a size 12). Also yesterday my dad was officially told he is in congestive heart failure plus advanced kidney failure (we have known/guessed for months now). He is going to the hospital on Thursday and we have been led to prepare for his never leaving. {sigh}. He has been saying all year that this will be his last Christmas, seems he will be right. {double sigh}. He doesn't know about his brother's diagnosis.. would break what's left of his heart. |
Calamity | Monday, October 20, 2003 - 01:57 pm     Rissa, I'm very sorry your family has had so much sad news. Your dad and uncle will be in my thoughts and prayers, along with you and the rest of your family. |
Reader234 | Monday, October 20, 2003 - 02:30 pm     Wow Rissa, that is a lot to handle. If its all right, I'll keep your dad, and his brother in my thoughts and prayers!! |
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