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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 28, 2017, 09:46:43 PM
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http://jackpineradicals.com/groups/health-and-fitness/forum/topic/tiny-rants-about-diets/
It's pretty dull and boring on Skins's island this evening, so I went to Manny's place hoping to see some action.
djean111 (2475 posts) January 28, 2017 at 12:18 pm
Tiny rant about "diets".
My son (44) was diagnosed as having diabetes II, to the surprise of absolutely no one. Blood sugar 244 or something like that, weight at about 280. That he would admit to. He lives with me, and has some other more mental problems, under control.
Anyway, he showed me his prescribed diet – and there was BREAD in it. I said um, that diet will merely maintain. He said okay – you put me on a diet. Heh. Atkins. Two months, I think, and I have his weight down to 236 (he has that weird big hard belly thing going on, that evidently is the last thing to go. It has already been ultrasounded and scanned and whatever, just fat.
Anyway – blood sugar down to 100, sometimes 90. He stopped taking statins for cholesterol because his face got swollen and a bit purplish. Moderate exercise and better diet will, IMO, work better, and his doctor concurs. And doctor says he does not need to see a specialist, because the blood sugar is under control. Son does understand he is not “cured”, and cannot return to his former diet of pizza, ice cream Pepsi, candy bars, sugary coffee – on top of any veg and fruit and meat I could trick him into eating.
So – he comes to me and says he was reading that being on Atkins was fine, but when people stop being on that “diet”, and go back to their regular way of eating, they gain the weight back So – here is what I told him, because I am so tired of that “just gain the weight back” bullshit.
1. “Diet” = “what you ****ing eat”. Whatever the **** that is.
2. If the way you were eating caused you to gain weight, (and this is the nicest way I can put this) why the everloving **** would you think you would not start to gain weight again, if you start to eat like that again? Duh!
3.Whatever you eat is a “diet”. Losing weight by eating other stuff does not render the diet you were previously on – pizza, etc. – any less bad for you than when you were eating that stuff and gained weight.
4.Son now understands why people gain the weight back when they go off whatever diet they were on to lose the weight, and resume their regular diet of sugar and starch.
5.Okay, I have not only vented, but cannot figure out how to stop the numbering. So I am done!
FanBoy (4918 posts) (Reply to original post) January 28, 2017 at 2:23 pm
2. +100. Unless you're trying to lose weight for a wedding or something,
diets aren’t worth much (though I did the hangover/barfing diet in college and lost about 10# in a couple of weeks that I managed to keep off for 40 years by eating better and exercising more –)
ElfinWilde (221 posts) (Reply to original post) January 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm
5. I found that I could no longer even entertain the idea of eating meat…
I had been eating less and less of it decided to stop altogether. It was no hardship for me. I just could no longer consider living, breathing, sentient beings as food. (My husband and son are still meat eaters.)
The up side besides no longer having a queasy feeling about the food I eat is that I lost ten pounds without even trying. I find that I am eating healthier (most of the time) and no longer crave things like chocolate and cookies. Oh yes, I still eat them, but before I could not stop eating, say a small bag (the kind you find at the check out counters) of Hershey’s kisses until they were gone. Now one or two kisses are more than enough. I just don’t want more.
Before, if I had a box of cookies, I ate three or four of them. If I started eating one, I had to finish it. Now, if I take a bite of a cookie and realize that I’m not really hungry, I stop at that one bite. I stopped wanting and eating white bread and, now, when I eat bread, it is sprouted whole grain bread. Yummy!
I’m not sure why this has happened this way. Perhaps it is all the additives and antibiotics they pour into meats that had my eating out of control. I’m just glad that it is working this way for me. Now, I eat what I want, when I want. I just hope I continue to lose the excess poundage a little at a time.
Okay.
Well, at least it's more interesting than anything one can find on Skins's island at the moment.....
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Eat less,exercise more...works every time.
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input > output = weight gain.
input < output = weight loss.
Its as simple as that.
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djean111
My son (44)...
...He lives with me, and has some other more mental problems, under control.
And his DU name is???