A blog about my life battling weight lose and how you can lose weight and keep it off. It might be easier than you think.
Friday, March 27, 2020
This Is The Time
You Tube has hundreds of exercise videos all free to help you get moving. You don't need money to exercise. You don't need to buy anything. There are exercise programs for everyone no matter what physical condition or age. Believe me, that even those people who live in an assisted living facility all exercise every day.
The internet has all the help anyone needs. Sites like WebMD, Medicinenet.com, health.gov, and several others, just do a search with your browser, extensive information is available on anything "health".This is the time to get in shape.
If you really want to lose your body fat than look for my e-books at the websites listed below. You'll get information on Healthy eating, exercise, and diet. Instead of spending hours on the internet reading dozens of posts, you can save time by picking up one of my e-books.
There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $1.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my e-book.
This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, B&N.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
My new e-book is available on Smashwords.com, just type “getting to a Healthy Weight” in the search box at the top of the home page.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Do You Want To Be Thin?
Both the jobs were hard work and I lost about 10 pounds without trying. I was just burning several thousand calories a day. I was 6 foot tall and weighed about 172. After I left construction and bought a small business, I started to gain weight. I was 32 years old and the next 5 years following I gained about 30 pounds, and before I was 40, I weighed about 220 pounds.
Everyone I knew had noticed and I started to feel self-conscious. I knew I had to lose weight. I had settled into a lifestyle of self-indulgence. Finally, I joined a Health Club. It was a complete gym with machines, running track, aerobics classes, a separate room for weight lifters, a pool, jacuzzi, steam room and expansive locker room with towels provided.
I did get plenty of exercise but I didn't lose much weight and after a few years, I stopped going. Like most people I was pretty discouraged throughout my 40's and then after I sold my business, I finally got serious about losing weight.
So the reason I'm writing about myself is because I want you to know that my battle with my weight went on for more than 20 years. But I did win the battle because I never quit. I weight 165 today after more than 30 years of trying to lose weight. I reached my goal now and just work on maintaining my weight. And even maintaining is a battle, an everyday battle of watching my calories and exercising. I have no regrets, the exercise has made me a healthier person and staying thin in my senior years lets me be active. I ride a bike, swim, walk a lot, I do yoga and weight train twice a week.
Being thin can be challenging, for some people it comes easy. They're born with the right genes and they can process food without absorbing the fat. Others like me have to work at it. But if I would have taken some advice when I was younger it might have been easier.
I always thought I could do it the easy way. "I'll diet for a few weeks and I'll be thin and ready for the summer." That was a pipe dream, it never happened. Sure, it's easy to drop 5 or 10 pounds, but in a couple weeks, it comes right back. I wasn't serious about my weight, oh sure I wanted to lose weight, but doing what was necessary never happened.
I didn't get serious until I started to feel sluggish, I was tired in the afternoon, my joints started to ache and walking became a chore. My whole adult life I was in denial about my weight and maybe that was because it didn't bother me to be overweight. Then you get older and you start to feel the effects of carrying around the extra pounds, but your still in denial and think the aches and pains are because you're getting older but it's not, it's from carrying around the extra weight and because you aren't active enough it's getting harder to carry the extra weight and your heart is starting to strain under the extra work it has to do.
I think I wrote about this before, but being a little overweight isn't going to keep you from living a healthy life. You can be just as healthy as a thin person if you do regular exercise. If you're not exercising your heart will wear down from the extra strain. Extra weight causes extra strain on your heart and at the later years of middle age your heart can start to give you trouble. So actually, if you're an overweight person, exercise is more important.
Carrying extra fat especially in the waistline is the hardest fat to lose, and it's the most dangerous to your heart. I don't really understand why, but most of us start to put on the extra pounds in our thirties and forties. Like me, though, we don't work at losing it until it starts to cause problems. By that time, you can lose the ambition to lose fat and that's probably why you see so many seniors overweight.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Are You Staying Home?
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Stay Healthy
This might not be the time to worry about your weight. It will take care of itself for now. I know it's a temptation to eat when you spend all day in the kitchen, but if you're not working or going to work take the opportunity to get outside and walk. I walk twice a day now just because I have more free time and I'm tired of watching TV.
YouTube has dozens of exercise videos so take advantage when you have free time. We are all looking for something to do and you will start to get cabin fever because humans can't just hibernate like bears.
This might be a good time to work on a new diet plan. Change your eating habits and get healthy. Avoid junk food and buy more fruit. Stay away from sugar and any foods with sugar. You don't have to starve yourself, just eat better food and you won't be hungry.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Is Salmon Good For A Weight Loss Diet
Let’s start with an overview of the claims about salmon as a weight loss tool.
The fish is also packed with protein, a nutrient that’s linked to weight loss. One study found that a high-protein diet can be a metabolism booster, and this study revealed the positive effects of protein on appetite suppression.
Here’s my take on the claims:
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Lack Of Exercise Is Second Only To Smoking
Poor physical fitness ranks right behind smoking as leading risk factors for an early death, new long-term research suggests.
By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter
This post verifies my views on increasing your activity. At some point, people need to take their health seriously. After you lose the ability to exercise and make a change in your life, coming back will become very difficult.
Latest Prevention & Wellness News
Monday, March 9, 2020
Can We Stop Aging
The stiffening of the blood vessels and the decline of brain function associated with getting older are affected by what we eat and how much we exercise. If we follow the lifestyle habits associated with slower cardiovascular and brain aging, can we extend lifespan and healthspan? Advances in nutritional science have taught us that eating the right foods enables weight loss and helps to prevent heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
When he was 60 years old, he could not walk a city block without feeling pressure in his chest. Yet, as a gift to himself for his 68thbirthday, he celebrated with a brisk run-up and down the rolling hills of Central Park in New York City.
Though eating nutrient-rich food is critically important, it is not the only factor that determines good health. For example, Vitamin D, vitamin B12, and proper omega-3 intake are important for optimal health, as well as limiting sodium and high glycemic carbohydrates.
You may also be amazed that your taste improves as you start to eat healthier, that you actually get more pleasure from eating and you can eat generous portions of great tasting healthy dishes. Some people would say that they could never give up the processed food they crave. But you need to know that rejecting these foods is a mere temporary loss. What you gain is the highest level of energy and good health you ever had. If you were searching for the Fountain of Youth, you certainly found it. As he told people who asked him how he felt on his 68th birthday, “I honestly feel – no joking, no exaggeration – that I am only at the halfway point of my life.” The facts are the same dietary portfolio that protects your heart also protects your brain from aging and prevents cancer.
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Are You Destine To Gain Weight?
Your genes are why your eyes are brown and your hair is red. They are what make you, "you". But can genetics determine the size of your jeans?
Is There a “Fat Gene?”
We are a product of our environment and in your early years, you eat whatever your parents feed you. And the exercise you get depends on your parents. So before you reach middle school you are pretty much programmed to do whatever your parents allow you to do, which depends a lot on the region of the country and whether you live in the city or country.
Those formative years are very important in the way you will develop as an adult. So in some respects, if you're looking for someone to blame, maybe your parents did have something to do with your weight problem. But most of the chubby kids in school have lost that fat, I know I did, so you can't use that excuse forever.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
About Obesity
Most overweight people are obese and don't know it. They think they should lose a little weight but it's nothing serious when actually it is, These are the one who probably haven't seen a doctor. Then there are the people who thing their weight is fine but they are overweight. Because they haven't seen a doctor they have no clue.
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Is More Exercise Better?
f you really want to lose your body fat then look for my e-books at the websites listed below. You'll get information on Healthy eating, exercise, and diet. Instead of spending hours on the internet reading dozens of posts, you can save time by picking up one of my e-books.
There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $3.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my e-book. This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, bn.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
My new e-book is available on Smashwords.com, just type “getting to a Healthy Weight” in the search box at the top of the home page.
Until February 23rd Smashwords has a sale on my ebook for $.99, don’t miss out. This book is a one-stop-shop for all your weight loss questions. Use the coupon code CL77K.