Healthy Weight Loss

[Hollylane]

Originally Posted by deedarino

Lost another "chicken"!!! The best part is when the second number on the scale goes down :-)

I started my class and have been doing pretty good...yesterday the room was filled with about 10 athletic type men; usually I would be so intimidated I would leave but not this time! I got right on those weight machines, right in front of those dudes, right in front of that GIGANTIC mirror...LOL. Yeah, gonna have to work on that one.


What do you guys think of coconut milk? I found one by Silk that is very good. It has less sugar content than milk but it is cane sugar. Does this matter?


3.6 Turkeys lost.....(love this!)

I was at the gym with my trainer last week, feeling intimidated by all the big buff guys in there. One of them walked up to my trainer, interrupted our session/discussion, and asked where something was, and then tried to start a chat with my trainer about the training he was doing. I could tell Mark was getting annoyed, and I was just standing there being polite, but all of a sudden the hair went up on the back of my neck, and I looked right(up) at that 300 pound, fully muscled guy and said:

"Hey, Brittany over there can help you with your questions. This is my trainer, and you are interrupting the time I have paid for."

I was so PROUD. Mark was grinning like a loon. I swear that guy was pouting as he stalked off looking more than a little like the shape and size of a silverback gorilla.


Congrats on the lose of 3.6 turkeys! That is AMAZING!

I am totally jazzed about the hike tomorrow. The more I hike, the more I want to hike. I even posted a duplicate hike to one I had been on the wait list for, in the hopes that some of the other people on the wait list would join the duplicate hike this Sunday, and I got a group together of 12 people. This one will be an 8 mile hike at the same park as tomorrow's hike, but on a different trail.

I did some lifting, squats, and walking during lunch today, and had plain tuna on a bed of greens. I found some great protein bars that are low carb enough for me, but with enough calories to support my energy levels on my hikes. They actually taste frigging good too...BONUS!

I hope you are all having a wonderful evening

[Thinker]

Originally Posted by Hollylane

but all of a sudden the hair went up on the back of my neck, and I looked right(up) at that 300 pound, fully muscled guy and said:

"Hey, Brittany over there can help you with your questions. This is my trainer, and you are interrupting the time I have paid for."

Right. On. !!! I love when entitled asses get snapped off like that!!!

[Kelt]

Hey healthy peeps!

I thought I'd stop in and let you all know I'm not dead. I did stumble across something this afternoon that I think some of you might find of interest.

I know a lot of you are trying a lot of different things but the core principle in this thread is healthy weight loss. I also know that some of the folks in here are diabetic and therefore probably familiar with glycemic index and glycemic load. It has also informed an awful lot of my food choices over the last year and a half or so.

Granted I never did an exhaustive search, but I had difficulty getting comprehensive reliable information about what those numbers were for a lot of foods. Today I stumbled across what I've been looking for all along. It's been up and running for about five months now and it's from the University of Sydney in Australia. It has a really good G.I. and GL database and it searchable. Since this is the place where a lot of the research has been coming out of I think it's a pretty good bet as a reference.

Anyway here's the link and I hope some of you find it as useful as I do.

University of Sydney - GI foods advanced search

Bon appétit

[Gentle Tiger]

I have nothing to add. I'm just stalking you healthy people.

[starryeyes]

I worked out today, ate lots of protien and only ate a small piece of birthday cake! Yaya. Feels good

[sylvie]

Good Morning Healthies.. ♥

Just got home from work, eating my morning snack now..
Then, going to go to the Gym since i don't go back to work 'til 4pm..

For breakfast:
1 shredded wheat, with 1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 medium banana
1 small yogurt

For snack:
1/2 cup of green grapes

At the gym, i will do:
30 mins treadmill, altering between 1 min jog, 1 min walk
20 mins elliptical
Some weights for lower body (glutes, seated leg press, hip abuctors)
Some Ab crunches & squats
plus walking to & from the Gym (25 mins walk each way)

For lunch:
1/2 whole wheat pita
2 oz. chicken breast
lettuce, chopped tomatoes, red onion
1 Tbsp crumbled feta cheese

For snack:
8-10 almonds & 1/2 green apple

For dinner tonight:
1/2 stuffed pepper
nice garden salad on the side
1/3 lemon , no dressing

Mr Mtn & i made some delicious stuffed peppers on Monday night, and dined together.. ♥ Love Our cooking adventures, and they were soooo yummy!! And taste even better the next day ..

Have a wonderful day all!

[JustJo]

Good morning healthies

Thank you so much for that GI resource Kelt...that's super helpful. I try to eat low glycemic index foods because I know it helps tremendously with the diabetes....so thank you, thank you!

It was weigh and measure day at Curves this morning and I don't have anything as dramatic as last month's 10 inch loss to report.

However, considering that I did it a few days late last month, a day early this month, traveled for work for a week (including lots of meals in restaurants or catered in), Easter candy in the house, and insane stress over my mother....I'm actually quite happy.

Normally, I'd be gaining weight like mad at a time like this....and instead I lost 2.5 pounds and about an inch (half from my waist and the rest off my thighs).

I'll take it!

[Hollylane]

Good morning

I am dragging ass this morning. I refuse to let the ass dragging happen while I am hiking today. I need a theme song, with some rhythm. I do not like eating breakfast, but I will do it this morning, low carb of course. I need to find some energy!

[ruffryder]

I got this information from self.com. I 'm sure we've all heard it but it's nice to be reminded and sometimes folks don't know.

- Skip added sugars and high fructose corn syrup. White sugar, brown sugar, honey—all sugar pumps calories into your diet and spikes your blood sugar. It makes you feel fatigued, instead of giving you that energy you were hoping for. cold cuts and ketchup are in this list.

- Avoid bad fats. Saturated and trans fats can clog your arteries and promote inflammation. Sidestep the fried foods and anything made with hydrogenated vegetable oils. Wipeout high fat marbled meats and choose skim or 1% fat dairy products. Eat good fat - olive oil, avocado, and nuts.

- Pump up protein includes chicken and salmon. It stabilizes blood sugar and helps you feel fuller longer. Divide your body weight in pounds by 2—that's how many grams of protein you should aim to get each day. Other great sources of protein include whole grain cereals, tofu, and beans. These are also rich in fiber and magnesium.

- Alcohol is no good when it goes along with resisting unhealthy foods. Instead, for drinks make it water, tea, seltzers and coffee. An occassional glass of red wine is good!

- Reach for fiber. It is filling and helps your digestive tract, pulling cholesterol out of the blood stream. Keep fiber foods close at hand always including cereals, fruit, berries, potatoes and edamame. Have two foods with at least 3 grams of fiber per serving every day.

- Chew, Swallow, Repeat. Eat something every 4 hours. This keeps your blood sugar stablilized and your metabolism revved. The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings. Try an energy bar!

[JoSchmooze]

Getting ready to leave for a fun weekend
in Austin in a couple days....
Wodering how I am going to stay on track....
I already toldAbby that I would probably eat,
but already thinking in the back of my mind how to
find the right foods and how to not look like
I am completely crazy about this whole thing....
Food addiction! Dammit!

[PinkieLee]

Originally Posted by JoSchmooze

Getting ready to leave for a fun weekend
in Austin in a couple days....
Wodering how I am going to stay on track....
I already toldAbby that I would probably eat,
but already thinking in the back of my mind how to
find the right foods and how to not look like
I am completely crazy about this whole thing....
Food addiction! Dammit!

NO WORRIES my friend!

Luckily, Candace is on a pretty strict diet right now, too.... so she is bringing a lot of her menu items herself. So, go ahead and grab some healthier options at the grocery store and come on

Plus, me & Medusa will be there too... there is safety in numbers

[ruffryder]

Originally Posted by ruffryder

Divide your body weight in pounds by 2—that's how many grams of protein you should aim to get each day.

I wanted to go ahead and calculate this because I was thinking it was a lot! However here is what it adds up to. .

If someone weighs 200 lbs. / 2 = 100 grams of protein a day or 3.5 ounces. This is very healthy, beyond healthy.

[Hollylane]

Wow. That hike was a lot more challenging than I expected. But....I DID IT! I met some great folks from my hiking group, and got to know the hike leader, her husband, and even walked with their dog, Gauge (an adorable, and well trained English Pointer rescue dog), for a few miles. I got lots of tips, and a few blisters, and some more tips... about blisters.

The weather was very rainy, and I was soaked from head to toe, with a nice layer of mud from the knees down. Fun!

I followed the hike up with a limp into the used/new sporting goods store, and picked up 2 pairs of hiking pants, two extra bandanas, a flashlight, BPA free water canister, a new (gently used) The North Face rucksack, gaiters, synthetic socks (that say they prevent blisters), and drooled over more hiking gear.

I also discovered, thanks to my new hiking buddies, a new app for the IPhone, called MapMyHike. It uses the GPS feature on my phone to track my progress, including:


Mileage
MPH
Elevation
Calories burned (by using my height and weight along with the other data)
Location
Alternate trails

And it has a workout log. Way cool!

I will have to use it on the eight mile hike this Sunday. Now I'm going to relax for an hour before heading to the gym for the hour with the trainer.

I am going to sleep like the dead tonight. That is a fact.

I hope you all had a wonderful and healthy day!

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

i was diagnosed with arthritis in my hands (sad news for a bodyworker) and now one of my knees is feeling the same way, (spent lots of time on my knees in my life! ) and i don't want to look back and think i could have done something to help myself feel better.

One of my clients is stricken with arthritis, she recently went on the "God Diet: = no preprocessed foods, and since then all of her joint pain has gone away, and she isn't the first one to say this.

We eat mostly off the land here, fresh meat, veggies or freshly frozen from our garden, so there is no excuse to buy and eat the processed stuff, not for me anyway.

Dee, I intuitively believe that what we eat offsets the genetic triggers that cause arthritis and other conditions. I'm sure there is plenty of research to back up that belief, too.

Also, exercise is always good for the body—strengthens the immune system, for one thing. And how delicious, to have freshly frozen veggies in the winter.

My grandmother had a huge freezer on her back porch and that's where she put cobblers, berries, pies, homemade ice cream, and meat wrapped in white paper. I still remember that frosty air that would rise into your face when you lifted the big white lid.

[Hollylane]

I think I could possibly have located every muscle that I have in my body today. They all feel about the same as that one spot on my neck...You know the spot...

Where the last nerve resides...

[cara]

My exercise plans have been put to the side momentarily while I rest my knee, which has decided to hurt in a very bad way. I think I was doing too much too hard and the snowshoeing adventure (the first one) really did me in. I'll get better, but in the meantime, OW!

Good luck, all!

[Hollylane]

Originally Posted by cara

My exercise plans have been put to the side momentarily while I rest my knee, which has decided to hurt in a very bad way. I think I was doing too much too hard and the snowshoeing adventure (the first one) really did me in. I'll get better, but in the meantime, OW!

Good luck, all!

Snowshoeing is on my bucketlist...I'm impressed! Rest up, I hope you feel better very soon! Knee pain blows!

[Ginger]

Recently I posted that I had suddenly gained three pounds. Well, my period started the very next morning!!

I have to keep reminding myself:

Hormones make weight patterns go wacky
The trajectory of weight loss often goes like this: - 2 + 1 - 2 +1 etc.

Have a beautiful weekend!

[gaea]

hear on my local news channel this morning how red wine helps assist to lose weight for WOMEN...wtf?? I was totally blown away by the promotion of use of alcohol to lose weight...at the end of the segment they said "it has something to do with the grapes and how they assist in keeping fat cells from developing"

personally i cannot drink wine due to the sulfates and becoming or being an alcoholic no thank you

What i clearly misunderstood here was why they just didn't promote grapes???

reaching my goal one pound at a time from the inside out.

I like grapes thus i will be researching the greatness of them sometime today whilst bored at work im sure.

[ruffryder]

Coffee has high antioxidants and nutrients. It can be healthy minus the milk, sugar, artificial sweeteners, and cream.

Coffee at the coffee shop can add you 400 calories in one coffee. Ask for it unsweetened and then add your own stevia.

Instead of sugar try organic maple syrup, stevia, or real full-fat organic cream, coconut milk, cinnamon, or organic unsweet cocoa powder for added flavor and sweetener. Black is always best. :P

I think someone asked about this.. Coconut milk is loaded with super healthy saturated fats called medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), which are known to boost your immune system and your metabolism!

Challenge for the weekend: Try a healthy alternative and something new with your coffee!

Have a happy Friday the 13th healthies and a wonderful weekend!