Found a couple of nice dresses at Target online. Got my new sundress last week, and a skater dress arrived today.
They fit, look okay, but they'd definitely look a lot nicer if I could shed 15 to 20 pounds. (I'm 5'10" and 196, give or take a few.) Right now, I'm not exactly a quarter-tonner, but I could definitely use a waistline that doesn't look 8 months pregnant.
While I'll likely still be too reserved/shy/terrified/ashamed to wear them anywhere, I'd at least like the idea that I could.
Changing my eating habits is going to be key to this, but I'm not sure I can. I'm hoping the clothes will somehow motivate me.
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Diet is only one half of the way
It decreases the incoming calories. However, there is other way to lose weight too - to increase the outgoing ones. Both work best when combined. And, contrary to what a lot of Very Famous People say, the weight is almost 100% a result of the balance of calories.
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A Third Way
There's actually a third way, but it only works in cold climates. And that's radiating heat. Shivering in the cold can get rid of as many calories as heavy exercise. It can also get you sick or dead, but everything in moderation! I read once that Eskimos need 6000 calories a day because of the cold. No idea if that's true. Their traditional clothing is quite protective. But someone who didn't grow up in that environment would need gradual conditioning.to allow their metabolism to make the adjustment.
These sites should help a lot ...
... with moving you towards better health, and maybe help you drop (*) those pounds you don't want.
No gimmicks, nothing to buy from them (unless you want their book(s), but remember your lending libraries), no calorie counting, or "weird" (**) diets, or "exchanges" or ...
https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en - I've gone through, in person, their cooking course - yummy! Also please look over https://www.pcrm.org/.
https://www.drmcdougall.com/ - His big points are: eat Complex Carbs (***), and drop fats and oils quite low. His front page will want you to attend in-person programs. Nope - >do not< spend $3,000. Instead,. scroll to the bottom of the page, where he has his free goodies: recipes and articles. I've made their cornbread and Three Sisters' Stew, both praised at potlucks.Also: https://www.drmcdougall.com/page/1/?s=color+picture
Please trust these sites. They are backed by science, and confirmed by many other sites that talk sense.
One more site: https://nutritionfacts.org/. Dr Greger has 2,000+ >free< 3 to 8 minute health videos, searchable by topic. I just browsed him to learn about my own too high (and bad ratio) cholesterol levels
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(*) A friend says "drop weight" - if you 'lose' something, we might find it again. Not so good for the kilos/pounds you/we don't want.
(**) Unless you think eating plants is "weird"...
(***) Yes, there has been 30-40 years of "(All) Carbs Bad" propaganda, using no science or bad science. This has sold a lot of books, plans and diet schemes. And has hurt a lot of people, maybe made some people sick or dead.
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One Very Important Thing - do not even think about doing "keto" - it is suicidal. "Keto" diets kill people even faster than the Standard American Diet - and "SAD" sickens and eventually kills one half of all Americans - a million-plus every year.
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Please follow up, do the plan(s), and Good Luck!
Thank You!
Much appreciated!
It's also about attitude
Most of us see dieting as a loss, we need to see the positive of the change of weight or slimmer figure, keep seeing how you wish to appear when you're eating and try to eat a little less, use smaller plates and exercise more. Though exercise won't lose you weight unless you do enormous amounts, like ride the TdF.
Angharad
I guess
some people can lose weight, others struggle and its largely in the head. Yes exercise can help, yes fewer calories will help but if your noggin isn't firmly behind it its nigh on impossible. I'm fairly lucky in that my body tells me when it needs food and i eat according to need - oh i can put on weight but, providing i keep to some sort of exercise routine it stays fairly stable. A week in GOC without riding the bike and my weight was the same as when i left, not dieting but my calories were on demand, some days i seem to eat a lot, others hardly anything.
Good luck, every journey starts the same way with the first step, after that we all make our own voyages, let yours be a fulfilling and successful one.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
I'm jealous
I am definitely jealous. I'm 5' 9" (Well OK, I've lost an inch in height so 5' 8") I'd love to be down to 191. I was nearly there until I had my thyroid surgery and corrected my hyperthyroidism.
I'm also jealous of your new clothes.
As far as weight loss is concerned; the prescription is simple... burn more calories then you consume. It's the implementation that's difficult. Difficult but not impossible. What's more difficult is the transition to a maintenance diet.
I once went on the Hilton Head Metabolism Diet. I got down to 180. It took about 9 months. It only took 6 months for it all to come back and invite relatives to move in.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Weight loss
I’m currently working with a weight loss clinic, includes nutritionist, doctor, psychologist, exercise physiologist. I have lost 6 pounds if the scale at our house is accurate 84 more to go. They recommended MyFitnessPal
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Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
For me...
... going on a diet never really worked. I think it may have been because diets felt like a temporary thing you did to reach a specific weight goal. I found it worked better to think of changes in the way I ate as lifelong choices. Doing things that way may not work for everyone. But, if it sounds interesting to you, maybe give it a try?
All the love
It's easy to put weight on (for a lot of us, myself included) and requires your resolve and time to dump it off - and keep it off. My mantra is this. Want to change you're shaped? You have to change the way you live.
Back to the old ways? You can guess the rest. If you really want that figure for life (Mmm, nice sundress..) you can do it.
Teri Ann
"Reach for the sun."