Biggest Loser Finale

diane said:

Anyone following this TV show? The finale is this Tuesday night 8pm NBC.

I'm following it. I cannot wait to see who wins.
At this point I am guessing Gary.

I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home into the
world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it with $250 K as a
prize. The website is good- lots of before and after pics. Both meal plans
reduced the carbs and kept calories in control, I hope they mention it in
the finale.

One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he wanted big
losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the only thing he had to
worry about all day- It was surprising how little he would lose in a week- I
wondered what held him up.

It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go down.

--
Diane

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Quoted message said:

diane said:

Anyone following this TV show? The finale is this Tuesday night 8pm NBC.

I'm following it. I cannot wait to see who wins.
At this point I am guessing Gary.

diane wrote:
|| I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home
|| into the world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it
|| with $250 K as a prize. The website is good- lots of before and
|| after pics. Both meal plans reduced the carbs and kept calories in
|| control, I hope they mention it in the finale.
||
|| One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he
|| wanted big losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the only
|| thing he had to worry about all day- It was surprising how little he
|| would lose in a week- I wondered what held him up.
||
|| It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go
|| down.

You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control your
eating.

However, there are BIG advantages to exercising and it will assist in weight
loss.

Bottom line: control your eating first (low carb is great for that, but not
the only way), and add reasonable exercise second (combination of weight
training and some form of cardio, recommended).

diane wrote:
|| I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home
|| into the world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it
|| with $250 K as a prize. The website is good- lots of before and
|| after pics. Both meal plans reduced the carbs and kept calories in
|| control, I hope they mention it in the finale.
||
|| One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he
|| wanted big losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the only
|| thing he had to worry about all day- It was surprising how little he
|| would lose in a week- I wondered what held him up.
||
|| It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go
|| down.

You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control your
eating.

However, there are BIG advantages to exercising and it will assist in weight
loss.

Bottom line: control your eating first (low carb is great for that, but not
the only way), and add reasonable exercise second (combination of weight
training and some form of cardio, recommended).

Roger Zoul said:

You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control your
eating.

Actually, I am one of those folks who *do* need to exercise to get my
weight down. Just eating right does not cut it for me and I have
always been this way and have learned this over the years.

The other night I was just thinking about my life pre- and
post-children and my weight was much less BEFORE I had my kids because
I was outside all the time walking, hiking, swimming, etc. I even
dabbled in jogging a couple of years before I had my first son and it
was then that my weight was at an all time low of between 150 and 160
pounds but I was not watching what I was eating at that time. I was
19 and ate whatever I felt like eating.

When I do not exercise I can put on weight very very easily if I pack
in the excess carbs. I have seen as much as 6 pounds overnight. I've
often wondered if that is related to my PCOS in some small minor way.

Jaime wrote:
|| On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:29:47 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
|| <[email hidden]> wrote:
||
||
||| You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control
||| your eating.
||
|| Actually, I am one of those folks who *do* need to exercise to get my
|| weight down. Just eating right does not cut it for me and I have
|| always been this way and have learned this over the years.
||

I didn't say "eating right", I said control your eating. That means you
have to less than your body needs to maintain its weight. And low carb
allows folks like us to do that relatively easy.

|| The other night I was just thinking about my life pre- and
|| post-children and my weight was much less BEFORE I had my kids
|| because I was outside all the time walking, hiking, swimming, etc.
|| I even dabbled in jogging a couple of years before I had my first
|| son and it was then that my weight was at an all time low of between
|| 150 and 160 pounds but I was not watching what I was eating at that
|| time. I was 19 and ate whatever I felt like eating.
||
|| When I do not exercise I can put on weight very very easily if I pack
|| in the excess carbs.

That's what I mean. If you're eating excess carbs then you are not
controling your eating, though, according to some, you may be eating right.

|| I have seen as much as 6 pounds overnight.

Could that be water weight or due to sodium?

|| I've often wondered if that is related to my PCOS in some small
|| minor way.

Maybe...but it doesn't sound like you gained 6 lbs of fat over night.

How would you know? You've never lost any weight. You still weigh 400
pounds.

The best thing would be for you to quit giving diet advice, because you
don't know anything about it.

--
Now [censored]. You cannot possibly be this stupid and remember to
breathe. You must be trolling. -- Carmen

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Quoted message said:

Roger Zoul said:

You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control your
eating.

Actually, I am one of those folks who *do* need to exercise to get my
weight down. Just eating right does not cut it for me and I have
always been this way and have learned this over the years.

The other night I was just thinking about my life pre- and
post-children and my weight was much less BEFORE I had my kids because
I was outside all the time walking, hiking, swimming, etc. I even
dabbled in jogging a couple of years before I had my first son and it
was then that my weight was at an all time low of between 150 and 160
pounds but I was not watching what I was eating at that time. I was
19 and ate whatever I felt like eating.

When I do not exercise I can put on weight very very easily if I pack
in the excess carbs. I have seen as much as 6 pounds overnight. I've
often wondered if that is related to my PCOS in some small minor way.

In article <[email hidden]>,

diane said:

I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home into the
world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it with $250 K as a
prize. The website is good- lots of before and after pics. Both meal plans
reduced the carbs and kept calories in control, I hope they mention it in
the finale.

One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he wanted big
losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the only thing he had to
worry about all day- It was surprising how little he would lose in a week- I
wondered what held him up.

My guess is that Maurice just ate a lot. I think I remember reading that
the contestants were free to eat whatever they wanted.

Quoted message said:

It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go down.

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

The eating is definitely in control- if I want to have a lower weight
average, I'll need to get back to walking- I'm about to break that barrier
this week🙂.

--
Diane

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Quoted message said:

diane wrote:
|| I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home
|| into the world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it
|| with $250 K as a prize. The website is good- lots of before and
|| after pics. Both meal plans reduced the carbs and kept calories in
|| control, I hope they mention it in the finale.
||
|| One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he
|| wanted big losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the only
|| thing he had to worry about all day- It was surprising how little he
|| would lose in a week- I wondered what held him up.
||
|| It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go
|| down.

You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control your
eating.

However, there are BIG advantages to exercising and it will assist in
weight
loss.

Bottom line: control your eating first (low carb is great for that, but
not
the only way), and add reasonable exercise second (combination of weight
training and some form of cardio, recommended).

diane wrote:
|| The eating is definitely in control- if I want to have a lower weight
|| average, I'll need to get back to walking- I'm about to break that
|| barrier this week🙂.
||

Right. that's where the true power of exercise (as far as weight loss is
concerned) is. Once get near or under maintenance, then exercise can
provide a nice boost.

|| --
|| Diane
||
||
||
|| "Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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||| diane wrote:
||||| I think Ryan, but I thought it was a great twist to send them home
||||| into the world before the big weigh in- I doubt that I'd blow it
||||| with $250 K as a prize. The website is good- lots of before and
||||| after pics. Both meal plans reduced the carbs and kept calories in
||||| control, I hope they mention it in the finale.
|||||
||||| One thing that stuck with me from the trainer to Maurice- If he
||||| wanted big losses- to do cardio 2x a day. Granted that was the
||||| only thing he had to worry about all day- It was surprising how
||||| little he would lose in a week- I wondered what held him up.
|||||
||||| It impressed me to get my butt in gear if I want the scale to go
||||| down.
|||
||| You don't have to exercise to get your weight down....just control
||| your eating.
|||
||| However, there are BIG advantages to exercising and it will assist
||| in weight
||| loss.
|||
||| Bottom line: control your eating first (low carb is great for that,
||| but not
||| the only way), and add reasonable exercise second (combination of
||| weight training and some form of cardio, recommended).

Roger Zoul said:

I didn't say "eating right", I said control your eating.

To me controlling my eating is eating right. :-) That is just the
way my mind looks at it.

Quoted message said:

That means you
have to less than your body needs to maintain its weight. And low carb
allows folks like us to do that relatively easy.

I agree. When I eat [censored] I can eat *hundreds*..even *thousands* of
calories. When I stick to low carb I average around 1500 calories per
day, which surprised me greatly when I first started doing a food
journal.

Quoted message said:

That's what I mean. If you're eating excess carbs then you are not
controling your eating, though, according to some, you may be eating right.

Controlling my eating is eating right. When I go out of control things
are very very bad. *Very* bad.

Quoted message said:

Could that be water weight or due to sodium?

Water weight I think. Since I found out from a recent EKG I had a
heart attack I have quit eating salt and all sodium laden foods.

Quoted message said:

Maybe...but it doesn't sound like you gained 6 lbs of fat over night.

It was probably water but I do gain very easily. When I was pregnant
with my first son I gained over 50 pounds easily. Close to 1 hundred.

Jaime wrote:
|| On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:58:51 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
|| <[email hidden]> wrote:
||
||
||| I didn't say "eating right", I said control your eating.
||
|| To me controlling my eating is eating right. :-) That is just the
|| way my mind looks at it.
||
||
||
||| That means you
||| have to less than your body needs to maintain its weight. And low
||| carb allows folks like us to do that relatively easy.
||
|| I agree. When I eat [censored] I can eat *hundreds*..even *thousands* of
|| calories. When I stick to low carb I average around 1500 calories
|| per
|| day, which surprised me greatly when I first started doing a food
|| journal.
||
||
||| That's what I mean. If you're eating excess carbs then you are not
||| controling your eating, though, according to some, you may be
||| eating right.
||
|| Controlling my eating is eating right. When I go out of control
|| things
|| are very very bad. *Very* bad.
||
||
||| Could that be water weight or due to sodium?
||
|| Water weight I think. Since I found out from a recent EKG I had a
|| heart attack I have quit eating salt and all sodium laden foods.
||
||
||| Maybe...but it doesn't sound like you gained 6 lbs of fat over
||| night.
||
|| It was probably water but I do gain very easily. When I was pregnant
|| with my first son I gained over 50 pounds easily. Close to 1
|| hundred.

Okay....you certainly didn't gain 50 or 100 lbs of water. But if you
consistently overeat and are sedentary, weight gain comes on quickly. Some
of us have greater capacity than others to overeat - significantly. I speak
from experience, too.

Roger Zoul said:

Okay....you certainly didn't gain 50 or 100 lbs of water. But if you
consistently overeat and are sedentary, weight gain comes on quickly. Some
of us have greater capacity than others to overeat - significantly. I speak
from experience, too.

It is a constant battle for me to not overeat....even on low carb.