Help! I'm Horrible at Losing Weight is the latest installment of the "Help! I'm Horrible" series
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Many of us want to be thinner. One of the first tips in Swim Faster Faster is:
LUG LESS LARD, the positive way to say this is: Be a slimmer swimmer.
The fact is, when we swim, we have to drag our bodies through the water and if we have less mass and resistance, we're likely to swim faster.
Many of us want to lose weight or have lost weight, some of us kept it off while others lost then gain it all back. The problem with losing weight is I often find it after I lost it.
This thread is for us to discuss this issue and act in this arena
What works and doesn't?
Why do we self sabotage?
What's your story?
What else?
The 4 word DIET from the book "Four Word Self Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives" by Patti Digh is:
"EAT LESS MOVE MORE "
Losing weight takes
a goal / intention, a plan, and action.
it takes constant focus and effort. It takes discipline. It takes some being hungry and suffering. We lose weight by burning more than we consume.
There's a catch 22
If we starve ourselves and lose weight too quickly our bodies become more efficient at storing fat.
It's an emotional area, it's diffucult, it can seem overwhelming,
some resort to expensive and possibly dangerous surgery and or plastic surgery.
Food is a difficult area, we need it to survive, for energy and repair, but if we eat too much, we store up the excess in the form of fat.
If you're a bit too heavy you might benefit from being a slimmer swimmer.
You might be healthier and fitter.
Use this thread to
declare your intention, goal and gain some support.
There's many books, methods and programs out there.
I'm not offering anyone any sure fire solution here.
there's No "lose 20 pounds in 20 days for 20 bucks" scam
Many methods work.
The simple solutions are:
EAT LESS MOVE MORE,
Anything we do and measure improves.
Anything we focus on improves.
Appropriate action and smart choices work
Sometimes we perform better with support
Increase your resting metabolic rate.
Be sensible.
Become a fat burning biofurnace.
Stop procrastinating, start now
you can offer advice, share your story, share your current situation and goal.
you can participate or lurk
we can celebrate achievement and progress
console failure, set backs and disappointment
ARE YOU IN?
if so please share:
name
age
height
weight
situation
goal
plan and
post your progress and updates
What else?
consider weekly pictures or updates
chart your journey from before to after.
Forgive yourself for mistakes.
It took years to put it on, it's likely to take months or years to take it off.
Stop procrastinating, start now, don't wait for Monday or some made up starting point.
Most importantly: Always always work with your doctor and professionals
I hope we go from horrible to excellent, from where we are to optimal.
It's fun to be fit fast and healthy.
Good luck, Namaste
Ande
I think lots of us tend to fall into one of two camps--
The majority, I suspect, in the swimming world would like to believe we are the masters of our own destiny, and that with the right combination of grit and volitional behavior, we can dramatically alter our body mass and sustain this for the duration.
The minority, of which I count myself a member, believe that for some aspects of our physiology, our influence is, at best, modest. There are multiple biological and environmental forces that we can't overcome, or at least not for year after year. In fact, some of these forces may well be entirely hidden to most of us, from infection by AD-37, a type of adenovirus strongly linked to obesity, to unforeseen consequences of Global Warming itself. To wit, here is an excerpt from an article I wrote on obesity several years ago. Dr. Astrup's hypothesis may fail to prove out. But the larger point is that causes for obesity are likely much more complex than the average person realizes, and the Eat Less/Move More mantra--while seeming to be so intuitively obvious--may, in fact, be as misguided as many now-debunked aspects of the Conventional Wisdom.
Remember when homosexuality was widely considered a lifestyle "choice" that could be "fixed" by reparative therapy? Few people believe such hogwash today. I suspect that the Eat Less/Move More Rx. will one day such join discarded ideas in the scrap heap of Pseudoscience.
Excerpt:
Last year, Arne Astrup, M.D., a renowned obesity researcher at the University of Copenhagen, proposed a fascinating idea that sounds like science fiction but has nevertheless generated considerable interest among scientists worldwide. Given the global weight gain seen in humans and animals alike, Dr. Astrup reasoned, there must be some common environmental factor shared by all. Diets, livelihoods, access to technology, health care: These vary dramatically all across the fattening globe. Not so the atmosphere that all of us must breathe.
For eons, the concentration of carbon dioxide across the earth has hovered steadily between 180-280 parts per million. Thanks to fossil fuel combustion, this has changed dramatically in less than a century. Last May, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that average daily CO2 levels have increased to 400 ppm, a figure not seen for at least three million years, long before humans evolved. What’s more, this increase has been accelerating in virtual lockstep with the expansion of global waistlines.
To Dr. Astrup, this is more than just a statistical coincidence. His argument is physiological. The more CO2 we breathe, the more acidic our blood becomes. This, in turn, increases the firing rate of orexin neurons, newly discovered brain cells that are exquisitely sensitive to changes in blood acidity. “Orexin” derives from the Greek word for appetite—an apt soubriquet for nerve cells that so powerfully drive our urge to eat. The faster our orexin neurons fire, the more unconscious edicts we receive to stuff ourselves and head for the couch.
In his analysis, Dr. Astrup estimates that increases in atmospheric CO2 during the past century are enough to increase the average firing rate of our orexin neurons by 1 percent. If anything, this may be an underestimate because modern humans spend considerably so much more time indoors, where CO2 is even higher, than our ancestors did a century ago.
For a pilot study, Dr. Astrup and his colleagues recruited six young male volunteers, who agreed to be exposed to higher than normal levels of CO2 in a special respiration chamber. The result: a 6.1 percent average increase in calories they consumed. What’s more, this change took place in a mere 7.5 hours.
“I’m quite familiar with Dr. Astrup’s work,” says Angelo Tremblay MSc, Ph.D., a professor at Laval University in Quebec and internationally prominent authority on environmental contributors to obesity. “His idea certainly merits further investigation.”
Larger-scaled studies are already underway. But don’t hold your breath—you’ll only spike the carbon dioxide in your blood.
I think lots of us tend to fall into one of two camps--
The majority, I suspect, in the swimming world would like to believe we are the masters of our own destiny, and that with the right combination of grit and volitional behavior, we can dramatically alter our body mass and sustain this for the duration.
The minority, of which I count myself a member, believe that for some aspects of our physiology, our influence is, at best, modest. There are multiple biological and environmental forces that we can't overcome, or at least not for year after year. In fact, some of these forces may well be entirely hidden to most of us, from infection by AD-37, a type of adenovirus strongly linked to obesity, to unforeseen consequences of Global Warming itself. To wit, here is an excerpt from an article I wrote on obesity several years ago. Dr. Astrup's hypothesis may fail to prove out. But the larger point is that causes for obesity are likely much more complex than the average person realizes, and the Eat Less/Move More mantra--while seeming to be so intuitively obvious--may, in fact, be as misguided as many now-debunked aspects of the Conventional Wisdom.
Remember when homosexuality was widely considered a lifestyle "choice" that could be "fixed" by reparative therapy? Few people believe such hogwash today. I suspect that the Eat Less/Move More Rx. will one day such join discarded ideas in the scrap heap of Pseudoscience.
Excerpt:
Last year, Arne Astrup, M.D., a renowned obesity researcher at the University of Copenhagen, proposed a fascinating idea that sounds like science fiction but has nevertheless generated considerable interest among scientists worldwide. Given the global weight gain seen in humans and animals alike, Dr. Astrup reasoned, there must be some common environmental factor shared by all. Diets, livelihoods, access to technology, health care: These vary dramatically all across the fattening globe. Not so the atmosphere that all of us must breathe.
For eons, the concentration of carbon dioxide across the earth has hovered steadily between 180-280 parts per million. Thanks to fossil fuel combustion, this has changed dramatically in less than a century. Last May, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that average daily CO2 levels have increased to 400 ppm, a figure not seen for at least three million years, long before humans evolved. What’s more, this increase has been accelerating in virtual lockstep with the expansion of global waistlines.
To Dr. Astrup, this is more than just a statistical coincidence. His argument is physiological. The more CO2 we breathe, the more acidic our blood becomes. This, in turn, increases the firing rate of orexin neurons, newly discovered brain cells that are exquisitely sensitive to changes in blood acidity. “Orexin” derives from the Greek word for appetite—an apt soubriquet for nerve cells that so powerfully drive our urge to eat. The faster our orexin neurons fire, the more unconscious edicts we receive to stuff ourselves and head for the couch.
In his analysis, Dr. Astrup estimates that increases in atmospheric CO2 during the past century are enough to increase the average firing rate of our orexin neurons by 1 percent. If anything, this may be an underestimate because modern humans spend considerably so much more time indoors, where CO2 is even higher, than our ancestors did a century ago.
For a pilot study, Dr. Astrup and his colleagues recruited six young male volunteers, who agreed to be exposed to higher than normal levels of CO2 in a special respiration chamber. The result: a 6.1 percent average increase in calories they consumed. What’s more, this change took place in a mere 7.5 hours.
“I’m quite familiar with Dr. Astrup’s work,” says Angelo Tremblay MSc, Ph.D., a professor at Laval University in Quebec and internationally prominent authority on environmental contributors to obesity. “His idea certainly merits further investigation.”
Larger-scaled studies are already underway. But don’t hold your breath—you’ll only spike the carbon dioxide in your blood.
