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Just eat healthy. Don't worry about the weight because in due time it will come off.
Remember, you didn't put it on overnight and it won't COME OFF overnight either.
It is not how much you weigh that is important, but where you carry your weight. If you are heavy in the stomach area, that means that you are carrying a lot of fat in that area, and it is not healthy at all.
I went on the Beach back in '06 and then had an allergic reaction to something that I ate. Never figured out why but had to take mega doses of pednisone for 10 days. Anyway, that was after I had lost 40 pounds.
The past 2 years I have been through the roller coaster with my mom's death this year, (complications of diabetes w/o amputations), husband's bile duct cancer and his Whipple surgery last year, and now my dad is dying from Alzheimers'.
So I have definitely made a commitment of being back on the Beach for the past 6 months or so, eating very healthy and going down in my weight once again.
But the biggest motivation was buying the book, You: On A Diet by Dr. Oz of the Oprah Winfrey show. It was a hardback book, $25.00 and worth every penny and an excellent reference material.
It explains in very easy to understand layman's terms what exactly happens to your body when you do diet. It has great cartoons, which are humorous throughout the whole book and they help illustrate exactly what the good doctor is teaching you in hopes that you will retain what you read.
The most important thing that he wrote in it is that the body was meant to be fed and you must do that by eating. Otherwise, if the body thinks that it is starving it will hang onto everything that you have in order to "survive."
But if you want to lose weight you must eat and eat healthy foods to reset your metabolism and walk at least 30 minutes everyday, even if you have to break up the 30 minutes of walking into 3 ten minute segments.
Many people do not realize that when they are overweight, they are in the making of becoming a diabetic. They may not show any symptons one day, and then one day much to their surprise & disappointment they find out that they are diabetic. So, if your parents became diabetics, then if you eat and cook the way they did you will definitely become a diabetic.
I really feel that if more people would just read this book, You: On A Diet, it would truly motivate people to do the best that they can to eat healthier.
He says that if people were to basically eat the same thing for breakfast and for lunch everyday, then sticking to a healthy eating plan would not be so hard. You would then have the option to vary dinner.
As a matter of fact, YOAD, (You: On A Diet), is almost the same as SBD and it would complement the SBD way of life. But the YOAD book gives so much information and tips and points about why you should eat this way for life, and what happens when you do and what happens when you do.
I am not pushing just to plug YOAD but because I saw my mom die from complications of diabetes I certainly don't want to go that way nor do I want to see anyone else go that way.
This book explains how all of the organs work together and what happens to one organ when it is not functioning properly affects all the other organs. Other doctors don't have the time to go into all the details but just tell you this is what you should eat and this is what you should not eat and watch your weight.
But Dr. Oz says that weight is not as important as where you are carrying your weight or excess fat. If you are carrying it in the belly then you are a prime candidate for all types of diseases especially diabetes. He goes on to explain how that fat gets there and what happens to the entire body when it does.
But he also says that if you want to reduce that area of fat, then you will need to eat differently because if you continue to eat the way you have been, then it will never go away because what you eat first is generally what gets burned off first before the stored fat does. So you don't want to eat any of the stuff that will continue to make your belly any bigger than it is.
For a woman, her waist should not be any more than 32", for a man, no more than 38". Generally speaking, you take a person's height and divide into half. The number you get there is how big a person's waist should be.
You see, my mom wouldn't eat the way she was suppose to, and she was under a lot of stress due to dad's alzheimers'. She tried but she had a knee replacement in one leg and it made it very hard for her to walk even on a treadmill at home. Her knee hurt her a lot. Anyway. dad was put into a nursing home and my siblings & I tried for a number of years before dad went into a nursing home to help her.
She had 2 leaking heart valves, a clogged heart artery, and at 4'11" she weighed 201 pounds. She was retaining fluid. She was eating salt laden foods, processed foods, dietic candy which gave her terrible gas, and drinking diet sodas and putting 6 packs, yes, 6 packs of artifical sweetener in her iced tea, (3 of the pink packs and 3 of the blue, yuck!), and stuff that she was just not suppose to be eating at all. That was not to mention all the meds she was on. Probably 15 to 20 pills a day.
Her legs were constantly developing blisters and fortunately she was given good care for those and she didn't lose her limbs.
But if a person loses a lower extremity, chances are they will lose the opposite limb because the remaining limb now has to do the work of two limbs, and for a diabetic, that is a very good possibility.
Anyway, she needed to have heart surgery but she was a poor candidate. They did a heart catherization and put dye into her to perform this and they almost lost her but then the dyes that they use for SCANs and procedures such as the one my mom underwent are highly toxic to the kidneys.
As a result of the dyes, she went into kidney failure. She said that she had a stroke because she had trouble moving her left leg and arm. (That was never confirmed by the doctors but they did rehab on her because she had been in the hospital bed for a couple of months because she was so heavy and couldn't move.)
For a number of years she couldn't sleep laying down at night because she couldn't breathe. She was low on blood and there was some bleed somewhere in the body but the doctors couldn't find where the bleed was. So she would get a transfusion and be okay for several months and then it would happen all over again. You don't have blood you have no way of getting oxygen to any of your cells in the body. Because of it, she was mentally confused too.
The doctors put a port into her chest to do dialysis and a respirator to keep her sedated and they did dialysis on her for 6 weeks in the hospital to pull the fluid off of her. She went from 201 to 151. Her skin was hanging from her body. She didn't look like the same woman anymore, and she actually thought that the port that they put into her chest was where she "had heart surgery". She was so doped up from the meds.
Finally, we were able to get her into a nursing home for care and to travel offsite to a dialysis center 3 times a week. When doing dialysis you must restrict your fluid intake and you must restrict your phosphate intakes too, and take phosphate binders with every meal and with every snack. (No beans, no processed foods, ect.) Because if you do, then the phosphates will build up in the body and calcifiy the organs, tissues, and joints. And then you will have more problems. (Sodas are loaded with phosphates both the regular and diet.)
She would eat navy bean soup at the nursing home even though she wasn't suppose to because of the phosphates in the beans. (See she still wouldn't eat right.)
She couldn't see very well and my sibling and I took her to the best eye surgeon there was. Mom had a stroke in one of her eyes and so she was missing the lower part of her vision in that eye. And as for the other eye, she couldn't see worth beans. The eye surgeon said it was from poor circulation of the blood and from neuropathy due to diabetic complications.
She had slipped and fallen in her shower at the nursing home. We figured she slipped in some water that she did not see on the floor and fractured her lower lumbar and was in constant pain and on meds for that too. The pain meds made her constipated and so that was another problem on top of all the others.
Then a week later she was having trouble breathing again, and was low on blood, and bleeding from her backside when she went into the hospital one final and last time. She passed a few minutes into Easter morning one day after her birthday this year.
I apologize that this was long and very descriptive but this is what people will face if if they do not take care of themselves and end up becoming a diabetic.
So please, please take care of yourselves. |
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:15 pm |
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