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I Think My 62 Year Old Sister Has An Eating Disorder [Forum]

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:16:15 +0000

Is it possible for someone age 62 to become obssessed with weight loss? My sister is having trouble with aging and trys to keep up with the latest styles and trends…and I think she is also trying to become excessively thin. She has always been about a size ten but starves herself now to stay about a size 3. She looks awful…her skin is a strange color, her bones protrude and she complains of being cold constantly. She also is very fatigued all the time. Another obssession is constantly pointing out how “Fat” everyone else is. This is hurtful as I am trying to lose about 40 pounds since I was ill with adrenal insufficiency two years ago and piled on the weight when treated with steroids. The rest of the family (six siblings) also feel she is getting a bit “off” and unstable in her thinking. I am worried for her but she takes great offense when I tell her she is getting too thin for her health and age. She basically thinks I am just jealous but I am not since I am taking off abut three pounds a week now due to a life time change in eating and recovering my health naturopathically. She seems so insecure and is very lonely due to a recent break up. I feel like she is trying too hard to keep that “young” look and instead this is making herself look “very old” beyond her years. How does one approach something like this since she denies she is “too thin”?

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Maintaining My 28 lb Weight Loss — Almost! [Forum]

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:44:30 +0000

Hi guys, Two years ago I lost 28lbs through weight watchers. My goal weight was 135lbs (I’m 5′6″). In fact, I went down to just under 130 and hung out there for a while. At the time, I felt too skinny, and allowed myself to put on a few pounds. I’m most comfortable at 132. However, since Christmas I have been maintaining at 137 – 140. I have a generally healthy diet, but I just LOVE creamy cheese, red wine, pate; really fattening treats. If I get to 135 I “reward” myself by indulging in this stuff. I KNOW that if I put my mind to it I could get rid of these 5ish pounds in a week or two. And every Monday I start pointing; by Friday I’m promising to start again on Monday. The other problem is I’ve been exercising a lot less. I’m a runner, and did a little race (10k) in June and then took a few weeks off. Now, when I think about it, I’ve really only been running once a week or two. I also do aerial acrobatics and it shocks me how hard it is to lift an tiny little 5lbs extra of my own body weight on the trapeze. I’m back running this week, training for a half marathon in September, but how do I help shift my mind set into a weight LOSER again instead of an ever so slightly frumpy and unhappy maintainer. Help!

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My Tips for Losing Weight [Forum]

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:14:34 +0000

Hi everyone, this is my first blog ever. The idea came to me the other night when I received a call from my niece Natalie, who lives in another state. She has a friend, Kim who wants to lose 15 to 20 lbs by the time her husband comes back from his tour. Their husbands are both in the Air Force. Natalie knows that I have struggled with my weight since age 30, 40, 50, etc. I have been on Weight Watcher’s, Atkins, Nutrisystem, and many more. I lost the most weight on Weight Watchers, (32 lbs) however, by the same time the next year I had gained the 32 lbs back, plus an additional 30 lbs. Natalie had asked me to give her friend Kim some tips on what to eat and how to know how many calories to eat in one day. I’m no expert, I can only speak for myself, but you have to be in the right mind set to lose weight for yourself and only yourself. I’m sure everyone who has struggled with their weight has had a spouse, friend or sibling that has said to you, “You’re too fat, you need to lose some weight” . Well, I don’t know how you would feel about that remark, but it made me NOT want to lose weight!!! (But, I am a stubborn person) lol. Natalie had asked me to take pics of my meals and to let her know how many calories are in each item, such as Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and a snack. She said that if she could see a visual of it, it would be easier for her and her friend to begin a diet. I can only tell you and show you pics of food I eat to lose the weight. Also exercise is also advisable. Due to my bad back, I can no longer do floor exercises, but I walk at a fast pace at least once a day for however many minutes before your legs start to ache and you are out of breath. My first day I walked 10 minutes, the next day, I increased my walk by another block, up to 15 minutes and so on. You do not want to overdo it at the beginning as you may say to yourself “this is too much trouble and my body can’t take it.” Well, I assure you your body can take it, as long as you still have the ability to walk. Take it slow in the beginning and work up to a 1/2 hour a day walk, then maybe a 15 minute walk later that evening. It took you years to gain the weight and it’s not going to go away in a few weeks, it may take some of you several months or a year, depending on how much weight you want to lose. Below is one of my favorite meals that satisfies me while I am dieting. Skinless, boneless chicken breast (160 calories) Green Beans (20 calories per serving, I usually eat two servings (40 calories Yellow Saffron Rice 1/2 cup 150 calories. Total calories for dinner: 350 calories. I grill my chicken on the George Forman Grill, either with teriyaki marinade and sauce or any other marinade you like., (but remember to check the calories, as marinade’s do have them.) For a snack, I also enjoy Quaker Rice Cakes (caramel Corn flavor) with 1 TBSP of peanut butter spread on top of the rice cake (rice cake is 50 calories and the Peanut Butter (Plain or Crunchy has 95 calories per 1 TBSP. total calories 145 for snack. Other snacks I eat are Nutri-Grain Cereal Bars (130 calories), Kelloggs Cinnabon (150 calories) and Special K bar (90 calories). Also it is a good idea to drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water per day. If you like Crystal Light I think you could count that as water. Well, I was going to include some pics of food, but I can’t figure out how to do it. Will have my son come over and show me. I hope I haven’t gone on too long, but I will be back soon with pictures of my prepared meals along with calories. Thanks for reading and remember you can do it!!!!!!

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Obese Kids Are More Likely to Be Bullied

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:00:05 +0000

I-Mockery Kids get bullied all the time – doesn’t make it right – but it’s practically a cliché. If you’re “different” growing up, you’re probably going to run into trouble. And, being overweight certainly qualifies as different . So, it’s no surprise a new study claims obese children are more likely to be bullied. Taking a few self-defence classes is a good way to solve the problem! Continue reading…

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[Forum] Weight Loss: Starting Again

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:47:57 +0000

So the other day it was almost 50 degrees out. I’ve been hiding in my sweatshirts and sweaters all winter like I always do, but I don’t want spring to blindside me this time. I don’t want to have to go shopping for all new clothes that I feel comfortable in because I’ve let myself gain weight again. I have tried to start a healthy lifestyle over and over and over again. In the past it has never been so important though. For some reason in college I could drink every day and live off of handy snacks, dunkin donuts, pasta, and lean pockets and only gain 5 pounds here and there. Those 5 pounds were easy to lose too. Now it feels like they are nearly impossible to shed. Maybe if I blog my daily meals, snacks, exercise, etc. then I will feel more obligated to stick to my guns. I like instant results and have little patience when it comes to weight loss, but I know that it is a slow process and I need to get motivated. So, here it goes.

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[Forum] Need Help With Motivation and Self-control

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:30:27 +0000

I’m 21 years old and I know weigh 210 pounds and am 5′6. Pretty much my whole life I thought I was fat. My mom had an eating disorder for many years and she’s obsessed with working out and eating the bare minimum now. My dad has struggled a little with weight but he’s a very busy business man and can’t find the time to always go to the gym. Nobody in my family is obese, weight has never been a huge issue. My parents always told me I needed to workout, so therefore I always thought I was big. I didn’t choose the best foods to eat when I was young, but I never over ate. I was active in basketball and baseball, then P.E. in jr.high. Then during and after high school I started to party, and stopped doing sports, etc. I still was not fat. Looking back at pictures during that time, makes me so sad. I went to hawaii about 3 years ago with my family and I was so miserable there bcuz I felt like I had never been this fat and I didnt want to walk around in a bathing suit. I look at those pictures now and I kick myself big time for not flaunting what I had bcuz I had a good body, no one ever told me. So throughout the years, I kept gradually gaining weight. I’ve developed a habit of craving food at night time. I’ve turned into a closet eater. I will go buy snacks and then hide them in my room until everyone goes to bed, then I bring them out and eat them. I don’t eat in excess in front of my family. I feel too embarrassed. I was in a bad emotionally abuse relationship from summer 2007 until pretty recently and that, according to my mom, is when I really started putting on weight. He made me feel like he could have any girl he wants, that he didn’t need me. He had a way of yelling and making me feel so ugly and worthless. But I never left. He was an alcoholic and I felt the want and need to be there to try and help him. I know it wasn’t my position and you can’t help someone that doesn’t want to help themselves. I wanted to be the first girl in his life to actually make a difference. As the months passed, the fights progressed. He eventually started breaking things in the house (we lived together), he called me every bad name in the book, and then he started calling me fat. That was the killer for me. ANYTHING but that. I started feeling so ashamed of myself, embarassed to ever eat infront of him. I feel like I started putting on the pounds when I was with him because he beat my self esteem down so bad that I had a whole in my heart and my head. I think I turned to food because I’m not interested in drinking (my mom is also has an alcohol problem, so it turns me off), I want nothing to do with drugs, and what else is there? I didn’t know what to do for comfort or for an escape. I suppose food did that for me. Now days, I struggle to go to the gym. I’m a member at the women only gym, Curves. Its an absolutely great program and you really have no excuse to not go. This is my 3rd time signing up, I’ve quit every other time. I usually have a good 2 weeks of eating smaller portions and better foods, drinking 4 bottles of water a day, then something always happens or a switch goes off in my brain and I stop all of it. And that is what I do NOT understand what so ever. I know that I need to lose weight, I know what I need to do, WHY can’t I do it? I wanted to tell my whole story on here just so everyone could get a better perspective about my life and issues. I’ve never told anyone my weight or my life, so I thought maybe this could turn into a positive thing. I would love to get advice on how to help myself, motivate myself, anything at all. Thank you very much for reading

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[Forum] Trouble Maintaining My Weight Loss

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:37:16 +0000

I was severely overweight for over 9 years and then I really buckled down and joined ww and lost it in about 3 years. I hit my goal about a year ago and now I’m having so much trouble. I feel lousy and I keep having to reduce my points so that I don’t gain weight. I’m hungry all the time and I just feel bad. I’m starting to wonder if there is anyway to actually keep the weight off or if it’s just inevitable that I gain at least some of it back. I feel like I ruined my body and there’s nothing I can do to fix it. Any advise would be great. ~Thanks

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What If Advertisers Couldn’t Lie?

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:56 +0000

I saw the movie “The Invention of Lying” recently. Very brief synopsis: the movie takes place in a world where everybody tells the truth, all of the time. There is one part early in the film where the main character (Ricky Gervais) is watching a Coke commercial. This is how it transpires: Hi I’m Bob, I’m the spokesperson for Coca-Cola. I’m here today to ask you to continue buying Coke…. It’s just brown sugar water… they haven’t changed the ingredients around lately so there’s not much new I can tell you about that… we’ve changed the can around a bit though and added a polar bear (so kids will like us)… Coke is very high in sugar and like any high calorie soda can lead to obesity in children and adults who don’t sustain a very healthy lifestyle. Continue reading…

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[Forum] Common Fitness Myths – Debunked!

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:50:17 +0000

Most every health professionals say that all you have to do is eat right and exercise. To most people that sounds easy but with so many false statements and myths about diet and exercise it becomes complicated and frustrating trying to figure out what is correct and what is not. We want to clear from your mind all that you have heard from exercise videos, dozens of fitness magazines, and hundreds of books. We want you to realize that all you really get from them are junk heaps of false conclusions, half-baked exercises, contradictions and nutrition theories that generate so much confusion and uncertainty. Myth: Cardiovascular training is better for losing weight than weight training. Truth: To make over your body, you MUST train with weights. Getting a cardio work out is better than doing nothing but to really change your physique you need to weight train. When you weight train you increase your metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns fat). Also, when you gain muscle it takes more energy to maintain your muscle than it does fat; fat just sits there. Because of that, weight training is even better than aerobic exercise for people that want to lose fat. When you weight train you raise the rate at which your body uses energy. If you start up a cardiovascular training regimen your results will not be the most beneficial if you do not add weight training into it. You may lose weight but your shape will not change. When you weight train you actually change your shape, not just becoming a skinnier version of your self in the past. If you want a body transformation, weight training adding in cardio training is the best way to go. Myth: When you exercise it doesn’t matter what you eat. Truth: When you exercise, it matters even more what you eat! As stated above, when you exercise, it matters even more what you eat. If you start working out and aren’t feeding your body the correct nutrients then you are exercising a nutrient-deficient body; which makes you worse off than a sedentary person eating the same things as you. You are also making your body more nutrient deficient the longer you continue to not give your body the proper nutrition and working out. It is simple; physically active people need more nutrients than sedentary people. I didn’t realize how important this was until I realized that even though I was working out to get the body I wanted I wasn’t feeding it properly, therefore I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted. So many people are victims of this myth, I was one of them for a long time and now I know better. This part is simple as well, without optimum levels of the nutrients your body needs, you are not going to get the results you are looking for. You have to accept the fact that optimal nutrition is just as important as exercise and then guess what… you will be one step closer to accomplishing your goal in a healthy manner. Myth: If women train with weights, they will get bigger muscles like men. Truth: Weight/resistance training helps women build long lean muscle not bulky muscle. When women train with weights they completely change the way their bodies look. They don’t get bulky but leaner. If only women can understand that if they took the fat on their hips and thighs and replaced it with the same weight in muscle, then their thighs would be much smaller. This is because fat takes up 5 times as much space as muscle. Most of the time women don’t know that their body composition determines how they look; by building lean muscle you replace the fat on your body incredibly transforming your body into a leaner, more beautiful, healthy body. Women need to be more concerned about not having enough muscle on their bodies to maintain health. Remember strong muscles lead to strong bones; strong bones lead to NO OSTEOPOROSIS! Myth: Weight training is only for people in sports. Fact: All people should be weight training. Starting at age 25, body fat levels increase and muscle mass decreases and continues to do so as you age. If you look at statistics the normal American man’s body fat increases twice over, from about 18% to 36%. In the same time frame, a woman’s body fat can go from 33% to around 45%!! If you look at it, it’s almost like a domino effect. As we get older, we get fatter; when we get fatter, we lose muscle mass; when we lose muscle mass, we lose strength. As we lose strength of course we then are weak and become susceptible to disease and disabilities. So here is my point; weight training is made for all people, with proper use you will increase your body’s strength and flexibility. It doesn’t matter what level of training you are at, from beginners to advanced, or if you’re healthy, you are ready to start pumping some iron right now! The goal is to start and make your self healthier as you learn. I am a professional and I am still learning! Myth: When you are lifting weights your muscles grow. Fact: When you rest your muscles grow. Working out is just the spark to light the fire for building muscle. The real “magic” happens when you are resting. When you work out you want to slightly damage the muscle fibers by overloading them. When you lift weights properly, you cause micro-trauma to the muscle tissue. When that happens your body responds to that by sending its “muscle-rebuilding workforce” out to repair its self. The repair of your muscles involves energy which in the right situation, will be coming from your stored body fat. This also goes back to nutrition; you won’t get all of the nutrients to rebuild your muscles from body fat, you need the right amounts of amino acids, creatine, minerals, vitamins, etc. to build the muscle you want. Giving your muscle the right amount of rest is vital to your health as well as the growth of you muscles. If you don’t rest the muscles long enough then when you go work those same muscles out again you re-damage the already damaged muscle tissue and it will take longer to rebuild it this time around. It’s like you are short circuiting the recovery process and that is not a good thing. Bottom line is that in between your workouts, while you are resting, is when your muscles actually grown. With the proper rest, and nutrients being fed to your body your muscles will grow stronger and firmer each time around. Myth: Eating right means 3 meals a day. Fact: Eating right means six nutritious meals a day. As I have harped on before you must eat to get your body the right nutrients to be healthy. If you look back in history our ancestors were frequent feeders or grazers, not bingers. Normally when you eat “3 square meals” it is on the run and you are starving! To convert your body from fat storage facility to a leaner, feel better, healthier, better looking machine you need to develop the pattern of eating frequently. You should eat every 2-3 hours to convince your body and mind that there is not a starvation period closing in. Also, eating often keeps your metabolism accelerated, so you burn more calories and fat during the day. When you get used to eating every couple of hours then your body stops those cravings that you used to have because you won’t be hungry and on top of that you will have more energy! In the end you will be setting yourself up for a good “metabolic environment” that can keep up the healthy fat loss and muscle gains that you want. Myth: If you “eat right,” you don’t need to take supplements. Fact: Studies show that many of us need to take supplements. Because it is impossible to calculate the nutrient value of many foods, you can’t be certain that you are getting all the nutrients your body needs. Even if you had a full time chef making the best food in the world you still wouldn’t be able to get everything your body needs in a day, in the correct amount. That is where supplementation comes into play. You supplement with vitamins and minerals along with nutrition shakes and then you can be more certain you are getting the right nutrients into your body for recovery, muscle gains, or for general health. Myth: You only need to drink water when you are thirsty. Fact: Your body needs more water than it lets you know. Can you believe that muscle is made up of more than 70% water and your brain is made up of 85% water? Your body is made up of a lot of water and water is a vital transport instrument for an infinite amount of nutrients including carbohydrates. And we can’t forget that it has a huge role in all cellular activity. Just think, if the water in your body is low it will affect all of these process,’ and cause a buildup of ammonia and other bad things in your body; so if you don’t want to be sluggish and dehydrated throughout the day drink water all day long. Now if you happen to be a person who has water retention the best way to get rid of that is to NOT take a diuretic but to drink more water! To go on about how water is so wonderful it can help control your appetite. If you drink a cup of water with your meal then it will help fill you up. Your body needs water constantly to properly function, so remember to drink a lot and throughout the day. Don’t wait till you are thirsty because then you are already dehydrated. Myth: The longer you exercise the better. Fact: Too much exercise prevents results. Simply said if you work out to much you over work your muscles and it takes you further away from your goals instead of closer. Short, concise, intense workouts are the best way to reach your goals and it generates amazing results. Once you stimulate the muscles you need a resting period, this goes back to when you rest your muscles grow (read above). That is why it is good to lift weights every other day instead of everyday. If you look at people that work out all the time they usually have little to show for it, because there comes a point that if you keep pushing yourself day in and day out, it will begin to work against you. In the sense of exercise, more is not better.

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[Forum] Safflower Oil Reduces Belly Fat

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:42:41 +0000

I picked up the latest issue of Woman’s World magazine a few days ago because it had a head line about the affect of safflower oil on belly fat. Research was done at Ohio St. Univeristy by Martha Belury Ph.D. that showed that the oil blocks belly fat hormones and can reduce fat even without exercising. I was skeptical so I went to the university’s web site and looked up the researchers name, and I was able to find the published report on her finding. I don’t have the time to go over all the benefits, but what do you think of this study?

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