Re: Reasons for getting fat

Several years ago I swore I would never diet again. A year and five months
ago I started eating low carb, not dieting as I eat all I need to keep me
from being hungry, I just limit my carb intake. I have lost just shy of 60
pounds and am losing about two pounds a month. Still fat but not nearly as
fat, maybe someday I will not even be fat anymore.

In news:[email hidden],
Gandalf Porker <[email hidden]> stated
| On 12 Nov 2004, [email hidden] (A J Davenport) wrote:
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|| While I may have gotten fat by eating too much and not exercising
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| <SNIP>
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|| The reason I remain fat is because I refuse to diet ever again.
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| <SNIP>
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|| Sorry for the length, but you did ask.
|
| I cut to the highlights for everyone's sake.

"FOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Several years ago I swore I would never diet again. A year and five
months ago I started eating low carb, not dieting as I eat all I need
to keep me from being hungry, I just limit my carb intake. I have
lost just shy of 60 pounds and am losing about two pounds a month.
Still fat but not nearly as fat, maybe someday I will not even be fat
anymore.

Good for you! I wish you well for the continued effort.

By the way, you might want to trim alt.trolls off of the list of groups in
replies. Otherwise you are adding to their "scoreboard"

Gandalf Parker

Wow. You have done the correct and reasonable thing, and it works.

I'm not that patient. However, I do have a plan and expect to beat the
odds.

"FOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Several years ago I swore I would never diet again. A year and five

months

Quoted message said:

ago I started eating low carb, not dieting as I eat all I need to keep me
from being hungry, I just limit my carb intake. I have lost just shy of

60

Quoted message said:

pounds and am losing about two pounds a month. Still fat but not nearly

as

Quoted message said:

fat, maybe someday I will not even be fat anymore.

In news:[email hidden],
Gandalf Porker <[email hidden]> stated
| On 12 Nov 2004, [email hidden] (A J Davenport) wrote:
||
|| While I may have gotten fat by eating too much and not exercising
|
| <SNIP>
|
|| The reason I remain fat is because I refuse to diet ever again.
|
| <SNIP>
|
|| Sorry for the length, but you did ask.
|
| I cut to the highlights for everyone's sake.

I'm not that motivated. It has to be easy or I won't do it. This is easy.

In news:[email hidden],
Cubit <[email hidden]> stated
| Wow. You have done the correct and reasonable thing, and it works.
|
| I'm not that patient. However, I do have a plan and expect to beat
| the odds.
|
| "FOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
| news:[email hidden]...
|| Several years ago I swore I would never diet again. A year and five
|| months ago I started eating low carb, not dieting as I eat all I
|| need to keep me from being hungry, I just limit my carb intake. I
|| have lost just shy of 60 pounds and am losing about two pounds a
|| month. Still fat but not nearly as fat, maybe someday I will not
|| even be fat anymore.
||
|| In news:[email hidden],
|| Gandalf Porker <[email hidden]> stated
||| On 12 Nov 2004, [email hidden] (A J Davenport) wrote:
||||
|||| While I may have gotten fat by eating too much and not exercising
|||
||| <SNIP>
|||
|||| The reason I remain fat is because I refuse to diet ever again.
|||
||| <SNIP>
|||
|||| Sorry for the length, but you did ask.
|||
||| I cut to the highlights for everyone's sake.

FOB wrote:
:: I'm not that motivated. It has to be easy or I won't do it. This
:: is easy.

It is good to know your limitations.

I feel that way myself. However, I keep redefining what "easy" is. Most
things I think will be difficult turn out not nearly as difficult as I
thought they would be. Not eating pasta, working out on a regular basis,
etc. Thought it would be hard, turns out it isn't very.

In article <[email hidden]>,

FOB said:

I'm not that motivated. It has to be easy or I won't do it. This is easy.

In news:[email hidden],
Cubit <[email hidden]> stated
| Wow. You have done the correct and reasonable thing, and it works.
|
| I'm not that patient. However, I do have a plan and expect to beat
| the odds.
|
| "FOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
| news:[email hidden]...
|| Several years ago I swore I would never diet again. A year and five
|| months ago I started eating low carb, not dieting as I eat all I
|| need to keep me from being hungry, I just limit my carb intake. I
|| have lost just shy of 60 pounds and am losing about two pounds a
|| month. Still fat but not nearly as fat, maybe someday I will not
|| even be fat anymore.
||
|| In news:[email hidden],
|| Gandalf Porker <[email hidden]> stated
||| On 12 Nov 2004, [email hidden] (A J Davenport) wrote:
||||
|||| While I may have gotten fat by eating too much and not exercising
|||
||| <SNIP>
|||
|||| The reason I remain fat is because I refuse to diet ever again.
|||
||| <SNIP>
|||
|||| Sorry for the length, but you did ask.
|||
||| I cut to the highlights for everyone's sake.

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

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

"Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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FOB wrote:
:: I'm not that motivated. It has to be easy or I won't do it. This
:: is easy.

It is good to know your limitations.

Nonr of us want to suffer hardship. Low-carb diets offer a way of losing
weight over the long term without having to starve ourselves. I'm a living
example.

Jim
217/180/165

For now

Ignoramus13790 said:

Luna said:

I feel that way myself. However, I keep redefining what "easy" is. Most
things I think will be difficult turn out not nearly as difficult as I
thought they would be. Not eating pasta, working out on a regular basis,
etc. Thought it would be hard, turns out it isn't very.

it is even easier to work out if I have a goal that is interesting and
the exercise is not merely for weight maintenance. I am now running in
preparation for an experimental low carb marathon, and it is
interesting and does not feel like drudgery.

I agree with you that having mini projects like yours make exercising much much
more fun. I'm trying to learn the Total Immersion swimming method from the book.

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As for dieting, as someone who lost weight and maintained by eating
less, maintaining with LC is infinitely easier. I eat what feels like
a lot of food and I am not gaining. It is pleasant to have a slim life
without food struggles. I thought that it was impossible. The hardest
part is handling social events and, possibly, vacations. The day to
dday life, is easy.

Low carbing with social events, travelling, etc., is not too difficult. To do
induction with social events and travelling though, is almost impossible.

"Ignoramus24825" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:45:18 +0000, Ada Ma

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Ignoramus13790 said:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:25:04 GMT, Luna <[email hidden]>

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>I feel that way myself. However, I keep redefining what "easy" is.

Most

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>things I think will be difficult turn out not nearly as difficult as I
>thought they would be. Not eating pasta, working out on a regular

basis,

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>etc. Thought it would be hard, turns out it isn't very.

it is even easier to work out if I have a goal that is interesting and
the exercise is not merely for weight maintenance. I am now running in
preparation for an experimental low carb marathon, and it is
interesting and does not feel like drudgery.

I agree with you that having mini projects like yours make
exercising much much more fun. I'm trying to learn the Total
Immersion swimming method from the book.

Never heard of it, sounds interesting.

Total Immersion ( http://www.totalimmersion.net/ ) is a pretty good program
for people wanting to learn how to swim. It's oriented towards athletes,
but the program can be useful for anyone.

I used their book and DVD to help me, and it's made a big difference in my
level of comfort and efficiency in the water. For many people, the aerobic
benefits of swimming go unfulfilled, because they are so inefficient in the
water that they get out of breath within a short time and have to stop.
This is most often caused by poor technique - and, since water is many times
denser than air, technique is important.

In my case, I was flailing and kicking too much, and had poor body position.
This resulted in my wasting a whole lot of energy while trying to "muscle"
through the water. After using their program, I'm still not a particularly
fast swimmer, but I am much more comfortable in the water, and can go for
much longer distances without stopping (I used their program a couple of
years ago to prepare for a triathlon that involved a 750 yard swim across a
lake).

GG

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As for dieting, as someone who lost weight and maintained by eating
less, maintaining with LC is infinitely easier. I eat what feels like
a lot of food and I am not gaining. It is pleasant to have a slim life
without food struggles. I thought that it was impossible. The hardest
part is handling social events and, possibly, vacations. The day to
dday life, is easy.

Low carbing with social events, travelling, etc., is not too
difficult. To do induction with social events and travelling
though, is almost impossible.

My diet involves not eating grains. Sometimes everything is breaded...

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