"Janithor" <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Has anyone here successfully lost weight and kept it off? I want to
lose 20 lbs. I haven't tried regulating my diet, although I have cut
way back on fast food and I'm trying to substitute nuts and dried

fruits

instead of processed stuff like chips. I'm trying to be aware of when
I'm hungry vs. when I'm just nervous, although one problem is the

night

time binging, I still do that somewhat, I don't know why.

I started running again, when I get serious milage (over 30 week) I

seem

to lose ~5-10 lbs, which is a good start, but doesn't seem like much

for

so much time put into running. I was hoping quitting drinking would
help too.

I struggle enough trying to regulate my life, counting calories seems
like one of those big chores that there is no way I'm going to do it.

I

know to lose weight it's ultimately a question of math: burn more
calories than you consume.

i quit all sugar and took meds for cholesterol and lost 50 in 3 months ,
and its stayed off 3 years this May

Dieting helps by eating healthfully, not just to lose weight, but regularly.
Also, weight loss can be a symptom of depression, as well as a side effect
of a medication.

Dieting helps by eating healthfully, not just to lose weight, but regularly.

On Mar 20, 4:07 pm, Janithor <Janit...@comcast.net> wrote:

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Has anyone here successfully lost weight and kept it off? I want to
lose 20 lbs. I haven't tried regulating my diet, although I have cut
way back on fast food and I'm trying to substitute nuts and dried fruits
instead of processed stuff like chips. I'm trying to be aware of when
I'm hungry vs. when I'm just nervous, although one problem is the night
time binging, I still do that somewhat, I don't know why.

I started running again, when I get serious milage (over 30 week) I seem
to lose ~5-10 lbs, which is a good start, but doesn't seem like much for
so much time put into running. I was hoping quitting drinking would
help too.

I struggle enough trying to regulate my life, counting calories seems
like one of those big chores that there is no way I'm going to do it. I
know to lose weight it's ultimately a question of math: burn more
calories than you consume.

Eating healthy, stop the PM eating, no beer, switch to sugarless sodas
and keep running. Have your thyroid checked as well. Make sure
you're not hypothyroid, it will slow your metabolism down to a crawl
and it's impossible to lose weight and keep it off for long periods of
time. Running that much you should be dropping weight if you are
eating sensible. Now if you sit at your computer at 10 pm stuffing
junk food in your mouth, well there ya go, your body doesn't have time
to burn it off before you go to bed and while you're sleeping it's
turning into pure fat. Minimize Carbs as well. I don't do that
adkins crap or the south beach crap. Carb turn into sugar if your
eating a lot of carbs do it by lunch time, it gives your body time to
burn it off.

My diet consists of healthy eating after lunch, the junk food is
before lunch. That way my body has all day to burn the junk and then
my body uses the healthier foods in the afternoons. I never eat after
6 pm, I'll never burn it off before bed. I don't eat out of bordom.
Attitude hun, you'll do it, if your telling yourself you'll never do
it, well then, you'll never do it!

Eating healthy, stop the PM eating, no beer, switch to sugarless sodas
and keep running. Have your thyroid checked as well. Make sure
you're not hypothyroid, it will slow your metabolism down to a crawl
and it's impossible to lose weight and keep it off for long periods of
time. Running that much you should be dropping weight if you are
eating sensible. Now if you sit at your computer at 10 pm stuffing
junk food in your mouth, well there ya go, your body doesn't have time
to burn it off before you go to bed and while you're sleeping it's
turning into pure fat. Minimize Carbs as well. I don't do that
adkins crap or the south beach crap. Carb turn into sugar if your
eating a lot of carbs do it by lunch time, it gives your body time to
burn it off.

My diet consists of healthy eating after lunch, the junk food is
before lunch. That way my body has all day to burn the junk and then
my body uses the healthier foods in the afternoons. I never eat after
6 pm, I'll never burn it off before bed. I don't eat out of bordom.
Attitude hun, you'll do it, if your telling yourself you'll never do
it, well then, you'll never do it!

I'm fairly anorexic, and don't eat much as I don't really have a
feeling of hunger anymore. I think what you need to do is drink
more fluids rather than eat.

I don't really do anything except walk from time to time. Drinking
alcohol if anything might lose weight, if it's wine for example as
it goes into the fluid category. I think a large part of what I did
was replace food with a huge quantity of glasses of iced water.

I don't eat much now, so eat whatever tastes good to me, and that's
often stuff prolly not all that healthy.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:07 +0000, Janithor wrote:

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Has anyone here successfully lost weight and kept it off? I want to
lose 20 lbs. I haven't tried regulating my diet, although I have cut
way back on fast food and I'm trying to substitute nuts and dried fruits
instead of processed stuff like chips. I'm trying to be aware of when
I'm hungry vs. when I'm just nervous, although one problem is the night
time binging, I still do that somewhat, I don't know why.

I started running again, when I get serious milage (over 30 week) I seem
to lose ~5-10 lbs, which is a good start, but doesn't seem like much for
so much time put into running. I was hoping quitting drinking would
help too.

I struggle enough trying to regulate my life, counting calories seems
like one of those big chores that there is no way I'm going to do it. I
know to lose weight it's ultimately a question of math: burn more
calories than you consume.

Losing weight is an extremely personalized task... and has more to do with
just calories despite what the mainstream seems to think.

I never feel hungry and I average about 1200 calories a day or less and
maintain my current weight... which is about 35lbs overweight. By any
current standard of metabolism I should be starving to death.

The only way I've ever lost weight is on Atkins... but I find it difficult
to maintain that diet for extended periods... I loves me a potato.

Well, it's math, but it's not just math, as far as I can tell. We've
been trying hard to lose weight for a year, with mixed success. We've
kept off everything we've lost, but it's been hard to lose more.

Quitting drinking would help, you'd think, because alcohol is
basically useless carbohydrates, in a food sense. Nuts and dried
fruits are great from a nutrition point of view, but you have to be
careful. Nuts are nearly all fat, and it's good fat, but it's still
fat. And dried fruit... I love it; it's one of my real weaknesses,
sigh. But think about it... it's concentrated fruit, and if you ate
that much in regular fruit, it would fill you up with water, etc. So
you can eat a lot more dried fruit, and that's a lot more calories.

Here's my recommendation, or what we're trying at the moment anyway.
There's a book called You On A Diet, and it's been very popular
lately, but it's actually a very good book plus a sensible way to eat
that doesn't require counting calories. I'd buy it, try to ignore the
fact that it's written in kind of a cutesy way, and try what they say
for a while, including paying more attention to your waist than your
weight and to what you're eating than to the number of calories in it.
(And report back!)