Posts by pinksalmon

Knee how Ma! I'm back and I found my scale too...197...very low water %, not surprising...good to be home again...be happy you live in the USA...the air quality is herendous over there. I'll take some time tomorrw to reads the string.

Strike:

Thank you for posting the Article, research based lit is the bomb. Well worth the read. If you don't have the time read page 5 at least. I know the research below pertains to me. The Sears diet has helped to calm the carb storm for me.

From the article:

"To be sure, this is the same logic that leads to other unconventional ideas. As it turns out, it’s carbohydrates—particularly easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars—that primarily stimulate insulin secretion. “Carbohydrates is driving insulin is driving fat,” as George Cahill Jr., a retired Harvard professor of medicine and expert on insulin, recently phrased it for me.

So maybe if we eat fewer carbohydrates—in particular the easily digestible simple carbohydrates and sugars—we might lose considerable fat or at least not gain any more,

whether we exercise or not.

This would explain the slew of recent clinical trials demonstrating that dieters who restrict carbohydrates but not calories invariably lose more weight than dieters who restrict calories but not necessarily carbohydrates. Put simply, it’s quite possible that the foods—potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, pastries, sweets, soda, and beer—that our parents always thought were fattening (back when the medical specialists treating obesity believed that exercise made us hungry) really are fattening. And so if we avoid these foods specifically, we may find our weights more in line with our desires."

198 today! My skinny twin brother advised me not to weigh myself everyday. Feels like a gift. My 36 pants feel a little loose. And I relate to you Strike, I'm moving little things now to my NEW house, and the big stuff on Friday. and you hit the nail on the head General Patton, slow or fast, it is a process for sure for sure good buddie. The transition continues....

This month has been about transition. My new house is 95% completed and I'll get the CO hopefully tomorrow. I'll post pics on flickr for all to see. Friday we move the big stuff. I'm in great shape, I can do this. I've not weighed myself in a week, and it's a relief not to. I feel strong. High energy. Eating sensibly. I ate some HagenDas yesterday, as a reward. I've not injured myself in almost 2 months. My body feels repaired from the last few months of lifting and running.

At least on the last few pages of posts, It seems like this forum has become about running, competing. Weight lose seems secondary,  and I'm really A-OK with that. For most of us, fat burning has been integrated in our fitness programs, before we all had a laser focus on fat burning. We've transitioned.

KOKO 

I like all y'all's postings. Very focused, grounded. It does keep me motivated. Trend line is a good way to measure. I'm back in the groove. Doing mostly body weight exercises plus squats with 50 pound hand weights. I'm not that worried about weight lose right now. Fat burning is a gradual thing for me these days.

Keep up the great work. Especially the newbees.

 This too shall pass. Gratitude first.

Choose one. As long as the one you choose is not broken and will give you consistent reliable info each and every weigh in. Compared to my home scale, my doctor's scale makes me heavier, even with clothes. That's another thing, weigh yourself sans clothing. Check the accuracy: take a 25-50 pound free weight and weigh that, that will give a sense of confidence in the machine you choose. There is a calibration lever on the bottom of the scale, move that around if need be for accuracy.

More importantly, it is not about your weight, your weight will fluctuate depending on your water intake, it is about how much FAT you burned. Total weight will give you your weight and not give you what your current water content and fat content is. There are machines that can do this, I highly reccommend using one of these. You can get a good one at K-MART. For the sake of Wednesday weigh in -- Weight is OK, but I like to know if the FAT % is going down. And that is what it is all about -- BURNING FAT!

Abner: Congrats! That is how I got started with weight loss...my Dr. said that if I kept up my weight gain, I'd have to contend with Diabetes in a few years...so way to go...great victory for you...way to step up take of yourself. AND I want to say thank you to WW again, great job with the stats, really makes a difference.

What a page of enthusiastic posts...huh. Feels like we need an awards banquet, LOL. Great work Scott. Sararsota, thank you for your recognition, in my humble opinion the missing link in alot of fat burning programs is what the AFC and now the J4C will provide...And Sarasota, you are part of our success, we all are...support in the journey. And yes, we all deserve a big congrats from the stage of life for keeping on keeping on...it takes mental toughness and we all showed we have it in spades.

Phord, I want some of that coffee you're drinking buddie. As for denial...provide them info. Get thier email and send the link to the J4C forum. Yeah, I've had some of the same responses. But we keep trying. As for hotties, well hotties are good, recognition is good. Being healthy is 'mo gooder. Being healthy has lots of benefits. Story: I was painting the stairs the on Sunday along with a very skinny helper. I had to go upstairs but there was scaffaling straddling the stairs. There was about an 18 inch opening that I could squeeze through...and I did without a problem...I could not even of attempted that feat 6 months ago. Let alone keeping up the pace of 14 hour days these past few weeks. So yes, being healthy is very good.

I want to send out a healthy shout out to WW for all his help crunching the numbers. Makes a difference. Thanks WW.

And Phord, you keep it up buddie, I appreciate all your wonkie how-to-healthy body shop talk.

Gentlemen: Start your engines...keep your metabolism high and your spirits higher. I wish you all the very best on this journey.

I look forward to everyone's final post tomorrow, or first post for the J4C.

Welcome lueckl, the J4C starts today, welcome. I just updated the header. 3 months have gone, history has been made, how did you do? Meet your goal? Get close to your goal?

The real question is what will you do next?

I guess that has always been the question. The J4C is the place to BURN fat. I suggest we use this word instead of lose. No one likes to lose anything. It is a negative. BUT, burn on the otherhand is strong. For me at least it is a positive. Feels better in saying it doesn't it? When it is burned it is gone, but you get something else in return for your efforts. We're burning fuel to get things done. On our way to freedom day, 90 days to go. Let's make the best of it. And I like WW's ideas. Stay tuned.

I've been working 12-14 hour days for the past 2 weeks painting my new house and recruiting. One more week of this and I will be totally done with painting. I've been burning calories and eating within the Dr. Sears program and I feel confident that I am off the 200 mark for good. Today I weighed in at 196. Not working out just painting. Moving.

As for interval training, yes, my twin brother swears by it. He got down to 160 from 200 and has been there for a few years. Thank for the articles, keep up the great work. Incidentally he has washboard abs. He teaches GED science classes to early offenders in Dallas. He looks like a kick ass prison guard.

Welcome to the J4C everyone.

Abner, RK1, wrm, WW: Gratitude. Thanks for all the posts. I'm out of my fog. And back working out again. Not looking at the scale. Just working out. Having fun moving. Getting my metabolism back up again. Painting all weekend. Getting the new house ready for move-in. Moving. In more ways than one.

I appreciate all your posts. It has made a difference. And wrm, welcome to the group. And WW thanks again for the number crunching and your recaps. I really like your recaps. And it is Spring again. In North Carolina it feels like it has been spring all Winter. Who lives in Ohio? Not me.

Thanks Abner. I hear you. I too hae alot to be thankful for. Since August I've lost 35 pounds. But I think I motivated myself to workout. I did some body weight lifting, modified push ups and lifted and moved about 500 bricks today, more physical than I've been for weeks. Tomorrow I will run. I will get up and run. I'll let you know if I don't do it. Thanks. And congrats on your success too.

You've changed to a new ifestyle and now are maintaining it! Way to go! Inspirational.

I'm at 201 today

Metabolism 101: Articles that will give us an understanding about how our bodies work:

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-242-304--7753-0,00.ht ml

Better still: This 3 part on line video series on metabolism 101. Of course he is selling, but there is still some good free info.

http://www.my-nutrition-coach.com/Metabolism- Matters-Webinar.html