softie
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Re: please help!
Posted:
05-Dec-2006 17:50
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OK, read that post of yours, and take the word "HAVE" as in "have to lose" out. The real word is WANT. Be honest. Go on - post it again and say "WANT" instead! You only HAVE to lose weight when a doctor says "you have to lose 20 stone or die".
Now for some helpful advice: 
Best way to lose weight for a pwcf is to exercise. Pwcf cannot run the risk of losing their appetite, as we depend on it for times when we are ill - and the one thing we can guarantee is that we WILL be ill, sooner or later, and will lose weight as a result.
Exercise, however, allows us to keep our appetites unblunted, does a lot of good for our hearts and lungs, and helps us to lose weight and turn fat (which is ugly, sits on the hips and looks floppy) into muscle (which looks much better, sits on the arms and legs and looks sleek).
First thing to do is join a gym AND USE IT. So many gyms get their profits from the hundreds of people who join, pay for 20 sessions and then never turn up. Weird. Try to exercise BEFORE eating, so your muscles grab what you eat to refuel themselves after all the effort. Go for a LONG, brisk walk before Christmas lunch!
Second thing: Buy a book about the GI factor. There are many of them. The idea is to eat as much as you want, but to eat foods that are more likely to turn into fuel rather than overflow your muscles and liver and turn into fat.
Don't use artificial sweeteners. If you have a cake, eat a real cake. A cake with sweeteners promises your body that you are eating sugar, so you make insulin which drags sugar out of the blood into the liver, which turns the sugar into fat. Then, no sugars come along, the blood is low on sugar, and you get hungry and go and binge on something like buiscuits to fill up - and the fat your liver made gets added to the fat in the biscuits and smears all over your hips.
Exercise and some fairly small changes to your diet will make things easier. If you STICK to it, then you will, slowly, lose weight. This is safe weight loss, unlike so many diets that encourage you to eat too little and cause you to dehydrate, and suffer from hunger pangs that make you break your diet.
I hope this helps. Take care, don't go daft, and stay well!
Richard.
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