Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.8-pounds.
I was right, it's just stuff waiting to leave the barn.
Anyway, I was talking to a friend who was giving me advice about how to exercise. Mind you this person is overweight, and doesn't exercise. But, I am supposed to consider the advice.
Hmmm?
We were talking about how slowly my knees are healing, and hurting less and less. I move faster and I am more mobile than I was. He said, "Well it's because you lost weight." Well Dah... Golly, I didn't make the connection.
Isn't it strange how people can insult the intelligence of another person, and not even try? Gee, I didn't know taking ten 6-pound bowling balls off my body would have a good effect. I am so stupid, don't you know? Phew...
You are going to run into people out there who think they can help you with your weight loss program. These are the people who are fat, and out of shape, but have brilliant ideas about how to lose weight.
In the end these same people won't take on there own advice. There is an expression that's been floating around for years: "Talk is cheap." It doesn't cost anything to hand out advice.
Putting that advice into action is what costs something.
My friend means well, and so do many of the people you will encounter seem to mean well. However, remember this, "Good intentions won't get that mule and the wagon out of the mud." You'll have to pull them out. That will take physical effort to do it.
All the talk in the world won't get those extra pounds off of your body. You'll have to take action that will be physical, and mental. You'll have to deny yourself food, especially when every fiber and cell inside of you wants food. Of course, there is the exercise too which takes effort.
I don't care what the experts tell you. I don't care what the neurotic con men and women tell you. You know who I am talking about. These are the people who will tell you that it was easy to lose weight.
Oh yeah, it's so easy? Bull!
Tell me it's easy to say no to that extra brownie.
Tell me it's easy to say no to that stack of pancakes that you're staring at in the Menu.
Tell me it's easy to eat an egg and a piece of toast for breakfast when the stomach is screaming feed me more.
Tell me it's easy to eat one hamburger at the family picnic.
Tell me it's easy to eat only a couple slices of Turkey and some vegetables at that Thanksgiving table.
Tell me it's easy to avoid eating when you wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like cats are clawing your insides because of hunger.
Go ahead tell me how easy it is to deny those cravings and that hunger.
Go ahead and feed me some more of your stupid lies.
Go ahead, I am waiting.
Here is the cold hard truth, which makes me so darned unpopular. "It Sucks Trying To Lose This Weight." And, "It Sucks Trying To Keep The Weight Off."
Go ahead and tell me more advice on how to lose weight. Tell me how diet and exercise is the key. Go ahead try to pump me up.
Pass out your awards for the most change. Fill the blog-o-sphere with your suggestions about how to lose weight, and do it without pain. It's so easy to lose weight after all.
NO, it's not. It sucks.
I like sitting down and eating a whole pizza. Well, I did. I like eating three pieces of fried chicken. Well I did. I like eating until I am stuffed. Well, I did.
I hate having to avoid desserts, and candy, and all kinds of foods. I hate not eating when I am hungry as the devil. I hate losing weight. I absolutely hate it.
There, are you satisfied oh wise ones?
Tell me more of your pompous bull! Go ahead and feed me your crap.
Let's just say you managed to get this far reading my post; then bare with me for a couple more lines. Then when you're done you can go wander off to someplace else on the Internet.
Losing weight isn't fun. It's not easy. You will have to go through mental and emotional anguish to lose weight. Yes, you can have activities that will make it fun. Only, in the end, "when the rubber meets the road," you will have to give up many of the things you cherish. Food, will be one of the things that we fat ones cherish.
You will have to deny yourself that extra donut.
You will have to deny yourself that sugar.
You will have to deny yourself that extra helping of potatoes.
The list goes on of things you will have to deny yourself.
Believe me, it's going to be like trying to get a dirty pacifier out of the hands of a baby. You're going to want to cry like a baby.
Oh, OK, you have an "Iron Will." And you never cry. Excuse me. You're so disciplined?
If that's true. Answer me this one question: Why are you so fat?
Pardon me while I end here. I have to go eat a rice cake. Don't bother me. I'm trying to lose weight.
Bye for now....
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
No Commentary Today
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 185-pounds.
That's up 7-pounds over the record.
Am I going backwards? No, I am not. I am convinced this is food that's waiting to make it's exit. As I said before, with all the protein powder that I consume, things tend to back up.
Unfortunately, I have no commentary today. There isn't enough time.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 185-pounds.
That's up 7-pounds over the record.
Am I going backwards? No, I am not. I am convinced this is food that's waiting to make it's exit. As I said before, with all the protein powder that I consume, things tend to back up.
Unfortunately, I have no commentary today. There isn't enough time.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Don't Overeat, It's Only Overloading the body
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.6-pounds.
Didn't I tell you yesterday, "It's stuff waiting to leave?"
Yesterday I was talking with some lady who lives in Chicago. She was telling my how she is so fortunate that food doesn't stick to her. She is so active, she says, that she can't gain weight.
OK. She is about 30 years old. As she ages, let's see if she can still claim that.
On the other hand, she said her mother is getting fat, and has a very fat gut. She said her mother wants to lose the weight but can't figure out what to do.
I started giving her suggestions. I asked her how much food does momma eat? The woman's reply was, "She doesn't eat that much food. I have watched her, she doesn't eat that much."
Did you ever hear of this expression, "The hand is quicker than the eye?" Illusionists use tricks and illusions to deceive us into believing what we are seeing is real.
This woman's mother who is fat, and getting fatter, is unwittingly using tricks and illusions to make her daughter believe something isn't what it seems. However, look at that mommas fat body, and then reason will tell anyone with some sense she's overeating.
Just because I didn't see what someone was eating doesn't mean they haven't eaten something.
One thing many people fail to realize is a person doesn't have to eat solid foods to pack on the pounds. Drinking sodas, fruit juice, milk, and some other drinks that may have corn syrup, and maybe even a couple cups of coffee with sugar dumped in, can add to the calorie count for the day.
I don't believe people anymore when they tell me they don't eat that much. I can look at your body and tell that you are lying to me.
And, I did know one woman who was thin like a tweedy bird. She truly didn't eat that much. What she ate made all of the difference in the world. One of the things she made a very intense effort to do was to avoid sugar at all costs. Which made her diet very limited indeed.
So, anyway, I finished off my suggestions and was told this: "Well, not all diets work the same for everyone." I realized there I wasted my breath with this woman. She had no intention in sharing what I told her with her mother.
My reply to the woman before she left my presence was this, "Tell your mom to EAT LESS FOOD." She was snooty enough to say, "That may not work for her." To which I said, "Let me lock you mother in a room and not feed her. She'll lose weight then."
At that logic she had to conceit that I was right. I am right. If anyone is deprived food, they will lose weight. That's it.
Here is the challenge, what should anyone eat? What can anyone eat, and not kill themselves in the process of trying to lose weight?
Hmmm, what has the government been publishing for years? How many servings of fruits and vegetables should we eat? How much meat and dairy should we eat?
Then, what have we been warned about time, and time again? Avoid sugary foods, and soda, and fats, hasn't this what we have been told?
Hey, preponderant one - yes you - the one who's pants don't fit anymore, what have we been told? What have we been letting go in one ear, and out the other?
The information is out there. The solutions to our weight gaining issues are out there. The problem is we want a real quick fix. So, in desperation, we turn to the ghouls and vampires who call themselves doctors. These are the guys who in a flash will cut up your guts and charge you $30,000. Then they will leave you living for the rest of your life with a body that can't function properly.
Let me make this real easy for you. Are you ready for an easy lesson? Try to follow me here:
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.6-pounds.
Didn't I tell you yesterday, "It's stuff waiting to leave?"
Yesterday I was talking with some lady who lives in Chicago. She was telling my how she is so fortunate that food doesn't stick to her. She is so active, she says, that she can't gain weight.
OK. She is about 30 years old. As she ages, let's see if she can still claim that.
On the other hand, she said her mother is getting fat, and has a very fat gut. She said her mother wants to lose the weight but can't figure out what to do.
I started giving her suggestions. I asked her how much food does momma eat? The woman's reply was, "She doesn't eat that much food. I have watched her, she doesn't eat that much."
Did you ever hear of this expression, "The hand is quicker than the eye?" Illusionists use tricks and illusions to deceive us into believing what we are seeing is real.
This woman's mother who is fat, and getting fatter, is unwittingly using tricks and illusions to make her daughter believe something isn't what it seems. However, look at that mommas fat body, and then reason will tell anyone with some sense she's overeating.
Just because I didn't see what someone was eating doesn't mean they haven't eaten something.
One thing many people fail to realize is a person doesn't have to eat solid foods to pack on the pounds. Drinking sodas, fruit juice, milk, and some other drinks that may have corn syrup, and maybe even a couple cups of coffee with sugar dumped in, can add to the calorie count for the day.
I don't believe people anymore when they tell me they don't eat that much. I can look at your body and tell that you are lying to me.
And, I did know one woman who was thin like a tweedy bird. She truly didn't eat that much. What she ate made all of the difference in the world. One of the things she made a very intense effort to do was to avoid sugar at all costs. Which made her diet very limited indeed.
So, anyway, I finished off my suggestions and was told this: "Well, not all diets work the same for everyone." I realized there I wasted my breath with this woman. She had no intention in sharing what I told her with her mother.
My reply to the woman before she left my presence was this, "Tell your mom to EAT LESS FOOD." She was snooty enough to say, "That may not work for her." To which I said, "Let me lock you mother in a room and not feed her. She'll lose weight then."
At that logic she had to conceit that I was right. I am right. If anyone is deprived food, they will lose weight. That's it.
Here is the challenge, what should anyone eat? What can anyone eat, and not kill themselves in the process of trying to lose weight?
Hmmm, what has the government been publishing for years? How many servings of fruits and vegetables should we eat? How much meat and dairy should we eat?
Then, what have we been warned about time, and time again? Avoid sugary foods, and soda, and fats, hasn't this what we have been told?
Hey, preponderant one - yes you - the one who's pants don't fit anymore, what have we been told? What have we been letting go in one ear, and out the other?
The information is out there. The solutions to our weight gaining issues are out there. The problem is we want a real quick fix. So, in desperation, we turn to the ghouls and vampires who call themselves doctors. These are the guys who in a flash will cut up your guts and charge you $30,000. Then they will leave you living for the rest of your life with a body that can't function properly.
Let me make this real easy for you. Are you ready for an easy lesson? Try to follow me here:
- If you must eat that chocolate; eat just one
- If you eat a hamburger; eat just one
- If you eat an Egg Mc Muffin, eat just one
- If you eat a piece of pie; make it a small piece
- If you eat that fried chicken; eat only one piece
- If you must have that stack of pancakes for breakfast; consider eating salads for the rest of the day
Do you understand what I am getting at here? Eating moderately is the best way to go. Over consuming food only gets everyone in trouble in the end.
Don't overeat. You're only overloading the body. In the end you'll get fat like a hog.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Losing Weight Is Worth The Effort
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 186-pounds.
It's only food that's was getting ready to leave. I won't get graphic. I had a large New Years Day Dinner yesterday. Does that give you any idea there?
Anyway, today I was talking to a friend. He was wondering about what he was going to do about the fact he is getting noticeably bigger. He is now beginning to realize he must do something about it.
In our conversation he admitted that he is used to eating big meals. He even admitted he eats food because he feels comfortable eating. He likes to eat.
Yes, most of us do like to eat. There are a lot of companies out there that make food delicious for one reason, "So we will eat as much of it as they can sell."
The companies that make snack foods and candies aren't worried about the fact people overeat. These companies want to make money. And the only way they make money is people have to buy their food.
I am not knocking companies that make yummy food. I am not knocking chocolate factories and candy makers.
When I gained weight. I didn't blame the food makers. I had to blame me. It wasn't any one's fault but my own.
I wasn't tied down to a table with a funnel forced into my mouth. Then some mad man poured food into me until I burst.
My family didn't do things that got me emotionally upset for the main purpose of making me eat, eat, and eat, to soothe my feelings.
Nope, the responsibility for over eating came down to me. This is the way it is with you too. No one is forcing food down your throat.
No one is standing in front of you with a loaded gun threatening to kill you if you don't eat.
The opposite if true. I am now hearing commercials from the Nanny State of Illinois telling people to teach children to eat responsibly.
There are shelves full of diet books in the book stores, and the libraries.
The News Media is publishing story after story about obesity.
So what is the problem? Me, and you are the problem.
Until you resolve in your head and your heart that the problem is with you and no one else. You won't take the necessary steps to resolve the problem. That's it.
And all the diet books, and doctors, and news stories about obesity can't fix you until you decide you want to fix the problem.
Can you lose weight? Yes, I did in less than one year I lost 60-pounds. Do you have to starve to death to do it? No, you won't starve if you do it right. All you do is reduce your portions sizes that's all.
We eat more food than we need to live, and survive. We could do with less food and do just fine.
You have to get over you, and your need to fill every square inch of your tummy.
If you do, and you take the steps, sooner or later you will lose weight. It's well worth the effort.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 186-pounds.
It's only food that's was getting ready to leave. I won't get graphic. I had a large New Years Day Dinner yesterday. Does that give you any idea there?
Anyway, today I was talking to a friend. He was wondering about what he was going to do about the fact he is getting noticeably bigger. He is now beginning to realize he must do something about it.
In our conversation he admitted that he is used to eating big meals. He even admitted he eats food because he feels comfortable eating. He likes to eat.
Yes, most of us do like to eat. There are a lot of companies out there that make food delicious for one reason, "So we will eat as much of it as they can sell."
The companies that make snack foods and candies aren't worried about the fact people overeat. These companies want to make money. And the only way they make money is people have to buy their food.
I am not knocking companies that make yummy food. I am not knocking chocolate factories and candy makers.
When I gained weight. I didn't blame the food makers. I had to blame me. It wasn't any one's fault but my own.
I wasn't tied down to a table with a funnel forced into my mouth. Then some mad man poured food into me until I burst.
My family didn't do things that got me emotionally upset for the main purpose of making me eat, eat, and eat, to soothe my feelings.
Nope, the responsibility for over eating came down to me. This is the way it is with you too. No one is forcing food down your throat.
No one is standing in front of you with a loaded gun threatening to kill you if you don't eat.
The opposite if true. I am now hearing commercials from the Nanny State of Illinois telling people to teach children to eat responsibly.
There are shelves full of diet books in the book stores, and the libraries.
The News Media is publishing story after story about obesity.
So what is the problem? Me, and you are the problem.
Until you resolve in your head and your heart that the problem is with you and no one else. You won't take the necessary steps to resolve the problem. That's it.
And all the diet books, and doctors, and news stories about obesity can't fix you until you decide you want to fix the problem.
Can you lose weight? Yes, I did in less than one year I lost 60-pounds. Do you have to starve to death to do it? No, you won't starve if you do it right. All you do is reduce your portions sizes that's all.
We eat more food than we need to live, and survive. We could do with less food and do just fine.
You have to get over you, and your need to fill every square inch of your tummy.
If you do, and you take the steps, sooner or later you will lose weight. It's well worth the effort.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Well, Have You Made Any News Years Resolutions?
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
This is only because I had some late night snacks with my family as we welcomed the New Year?
It's The New Year, What Are Your Resolutions?
I know, we've been listening to the crowd that harps about making goals. Yes, I heard the message yesterday that mentioned the Yale and Harvard study about the class where 3% of the students had written goals and 20 years later were more successful than the peers of the class.
Ok, it's the New Year and some of us are thinking we're going to change something. Well, I am going to be a nicer person. I'm going to try to not get angry as much. Well, I am going to get a better job. I am going to the gym more often. I'm going to lose 20 pounds.
Yep, we all have it in our minds that the year 2008 will be different than the year of 2007, or any other year in the past.
Since this isn't a goal setting class. Honestly, I don't have a list of New Years Resolutions that I have made for 2008. I am thinking well, what ever happens, happens. Yep, I am not going to even attempt to make 2008 any better.
I will do more of one thing this year than I did. I will pray more. That's the one thing I will do.
Did You resolve to lose weight this year?
I am going to make this easy.
Go get a good quality digital scale. Go get a pad of paper you can have handy by that scale. This is so you can write down your weight.
Go get another pad of paper so you can keep a record of what you are eating. Go get a calorie counter.
Find out what your height and weight is supposed to be. Any standard height weight chart will do.
Now, when you eat, write down what you ate and approximate how much you ate.
When you climb out of bed, weigh yourself and see if you are anywhere near where you should be. If not, it's time to get off those pounds.
Here is how you lose the extra pounds: Eat Less Food. That's it.
At lunch don't assume you can walk into McDoanld's three times a day and eat a Big Mac, Fries, and a Chocolate Milk Shake and then lose weight. It won't happen.
Don't assume you can eat two fried chicken breasts for lunch and potato salad and lose weight. It won't happen.
You are going to have to start cutting back on the food consumption.
EAT LESS FOOD in 2008. With that, you will lose weight.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
This is only because I had some late night snacks with my family as we welcomed the New Year?
It's The New Year, What Are Your Resolutions?
I know, we've been listening to the crowd that harps about making goals. Yes, I heard the message yesterday that mentioned the Yale and Harvard study about the class where 3% of the students had written goals and 20 years later were more successful than the peers of the class.
Ok, it's the New Year and some of us are thinking we're going to change something. Well, I am going to be a nicer person. I'm going to try to not get angry as much. Well, I am going to get a better job. I am going to the gym more often. I'm going to lose 20 pounds.
Yep, we all have it in our minds that the year 2008 will be different than the year of 2007, or any other year in the past.
Since this isn't a goal setting class. Honestly, I don't have a list of New Years Resolutions that I have made for 2008. I am thinking well, what ever happens, happens. Yep, I am not going to even attempt to make 2008 any better.
I will do more of one thing this year than I did. I will pray more. That's the one thing I will do.
Did You resolve to lose weight this year?
I am going to make this easy.
Go get a good quality digital scale. Go get a pad of paper you can have handy by that scale. This is so you can write down your weight.
Go get another pad of paper so you can keep a record of what you are eating. Go get a calorie counter.
Find out what your height and weight is supposed to be. Any standard height weight chart will do.
Now, when you eat, write down what you ate and approximate how much you ate.
When you climb out of bed, weigh yourself and see if you are anywhere near where you should be. If not, it's time to get off those pounds.
Here is how you lose the extra pounds: Eat Less Food. That's it.
At lunch don't assume you can walk into McDoanld's three times a day and eat a Big Mac, Fries, and a Chocolate Milk Shake and then lose weight. It won't happen.
Don't assume you can eat two fried chicken breasts for lunch and potato salad and lose weight. It won't happen.
You are going to have to start cutting back on the food consumption.
EAT LESS FOOD in 2008. With that, you will lose weight.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Monday, December 31, 2007
My Last Message For The Year 2007 - It's So Inspiring
Due to events and timing beyond my control I haven't posted in this blog for the last four days.
I know you have all been waiting patiently for my great words of wisdom, and of course my tender, thoughtful words of encouragement.
Many of you have probably put on another five pounds the last four days only because you haven't been able to connect to my deep, deep, words of wisdom which reach down into the soul and tenderize the heart, and give that special meaning to live by.
So since I know you have all missed me so incredibly much, and missed every word that I write, I have a very special delicately written message for you now that is sure to inspire you to take the correct course of action. Are you ready?
HEY FATTY - YES YOU FATSO - PUT DOWN THAT EXTRA DONUT AND GO OUT FOR A WALK. HEY FATTY - WHAT ARE YOU DOING EATING THOSE THREE EXTRA CHICKEN PIECES FOR DINNER? HEY WHY ARE YOU EATING THAT WHOLE PIZZA FATTY?
Ah, aren't you so glad you tuned into my blog? Oh, how I make myself laugh.
Did you notice the delicate words I chose? There isn't a person out there who is quite as inspiring as I am. Aren't you so glad I am back blogging today?
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Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds. Woo Hoo that's super.
This means that I am free and clear of the ten extra pounds everyone gains during the Christmas Holiday Season. Tomorrow is a New Year, and I am heading into it just over 180-pounds.
Don't think for five seconds I haven't had some Christmas Cookies, or some Christmas Chocolate Balls along the way either. I have, and they were yummy.
This morning I had to head out early to drop off my rental car. (It's a long story.) So I reached into the freezer and grabbed a cherry Christmas Cookie, two Reese's Chocolate Christmas Bells, a cup of instant coffee, and a banana. How is that for breakfast?
(Here is just an aside thought. If you have any of those extra Chocolate Christmas Bells hanging around, or even some of the Christmas Cookies, put them inside of your freezer. This way you can pull them out and celebrate Christmas all year long. What do you think is in my freezer? Thanks to my friends who push cookies on me.)
That was my breakfast. I went to pick up my car at the auto repair center, and then went with a family member for an early lunch. I haven't calculated up those calories yet. I am sure I have used up about one thousand calories: fried hash browns, Greek toast, a three egg omelet covered with hollendaise sauce and Mozzarella cheese, butter, and jelly.
I Eat What Everyone Else Eats
I do eat food. I eat real food. I eat a lot less than I used too. I am always watching for the end result. I can not do it if don't write down what it was that I ate. I can't do it if I don't weigh myself at least once a day, and then write it down.
It's critical for me to be aware of the food portions as well. I am watching how much meat I eat. I am watching how much potato, starches, or fruit I put on my plate. I am thinking about what I am going to eat. It's a constant thing. It will never end.
When I pulled that cookie and the chocolate from the freezer I wrote down what it was that I ate. If I run into a problem, I know why I am having it.
If you are not constantly monitoring your food consumption, and being critical about what you are eating, then you will have problems.
I wish that I could be like so many other people that eat, and don't pay attention to what they eat. Then they never get an ounce of fat.
I Met Someone Who's Husband Is An Emotional Eater
The other day I ran into a woman who was telling me that her husband is 100-pounds over weight. He is also depressed. It's having an emotional effect on her, and him.
I asked her if her husband pays attention to what he eats. She told me no, he eats when ever he feels like it. She told me that he is an emotional eater. I told her that's tough to deal with.
She said he just won't stop eating. And, when he gets upset, he eats more. Hmmm, it's sounds like some people I know. I told her to have her husband read my blog.
Now, get it straight. I am not a nutritionist, or certified doctor of nutrition. I am not anything but an ordinary guy who over the time of one year lost sixty pounds. I didn't do anything special or out of the ordinary. I reduced the amount of food that I consumed. I just ATE LESS FOOD. That's all I did.
When I tell someone to read my blog I want them to catch onto one thing, "You can do the same thing." When I write, I deliberately throw a spin into my writing that makes it bizarre. Yes, I do try to get some laughter, and I do try to spin up some emotions.
Unfortunately the only thing that makes anyone change is due to events that provoke an emotional response. I am working on an emotional response.
I hate the positive up beat messages that play with the team concept too; "Yes, we are all team players, and we can do it together: ooh, ooh, ooh ah." Bull...!
I am a human being, treat me like one.
Hey, I am as selfish as the next person out there. The only difference between me and a five year old child is that I am almost fifty years old, and I am in a bigger body. Don't think for five seconds I don't put my gooey, little, fat fingers on my chocolate bar and don't think, "It's mine, you can't have it."
Tell me the truth, when you eat that chocolate, aren't you flashing back in time? I do. I flash back in time to when I was little. I remember rushing down the stairs to the Christmas Stockings that were hanging on this ledge by the back picture window. Then I remember the fights we would have because we would steal each others candy. Yes, I remember the greed of the little child.
Isn't it somewhat like this today? We are emotionally hurt, or we're hungry, and out comes the little child. Yep, it's that little child with the wet sticky fingers that clamps onto the chocolate bar and refuses to give it up.
I saw this recently in a grocery store. Some little child in a grocery basket seat latched onto a big candy bar as her mother pushed the cart through the isle. Her child reached out and in a flash clamped onto the candy bar. When her mother tried to get it back the child screamed it's mine, and threw a tantrum.
That's dramatic for sure. However, the next time you decide you want to lose some weight, see if you don't want to throw a tantrum when you decide you have to give up something you like to eat.
The truth is, we want to be comforted. We don't want to feel hungry, not even a little bit hungry. We want our emotions to feel some sense of satisfaction.
The only problem with this is: when we are satisfying ourselves, we are only committing ourselves to an unpleasant doom. Yep, we will have to put up with extra pounds that over stress the body.
Think about that the next time it's late at night, and you think you need a mid-night snack. It's feed the little child now, and have that little child suffer later. Then you'll really be crying.
My mother used to say, "Quit you're crying, or I'll give you something to cry about." That's sounds cruel for sure. But, it was her way of putting an end to the whining of a cranky child that wanted it's way.
It's time to put an end to that cranky child inside of us that wants it's way. How, you decide to do it is up to you.
Here is how you start: EAT LESS FOOD.
Yep, you'll want to throw a tantrum when you do.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
I know you have all been waiting patiently for my great words of wisdom, and of course my tender, thoughtful words of encouragement.
Many of you have probably put on another five pounds the last four days only because you haven't been able to connect to my deep, deep, words of wisdom which reach down into the soul and tenderize the heart, and give that special meaning to live by.
So since I know you have all missed me so incredibly much, and missed every word that I write, I have a very special delicately written message for you now that is sure to inspire you to take the correct course of action. Are you ready?
HEY FATTY - YES YOU FATSO - PUT DOWN THAT EXTRA DONUT AND GO OUT FOR A WALK. HEY FATTY - WHAT ARE YOU DOING EATING THOSE THREE EXTRA CHICKEN PIECES FOR DINNER? HEY WHY ARE YOU EATING THAT WHOLE PIZZA FATTY?
Ah, aren't you so glad you tuned into my blog? Oh, how I make myself laugh.
Did you notice the delicate words I chose? There isn't a person out there who is quite as inspiring as I am. Aren't you so glad I am back blogging today?
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Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds. Woo Hoo that's super.
This means that I am free and clear of the ten extra pounds everyone gains during the Christmas Holiday Season. Tomorrow is a New Year, and I am heading into it just over 180-pounds.
Don't think for five seconds I haven't had some Christmas Cookies, or some Christmas Chocolate Balls along the way either. I have, and they were yummy.
This morning I had to head out early to drop off my rental car. (It's a long story.) So I reached into the freezer and grabbed a cherry Christmas Cookie, two Reese's Chocolate Christmas Bells, a cup of instant coffee, and a banana. How is that for breakfast?
(Here is just an aside thought. If you have any of those extra Chocolate Christmas Bells hanging around, or even some of the Christmas Cookies, put them inside of your freezer. This way you can pull them out and celebrate Christmas all year long. What do you think is in my freezer? Thanks to my friends who push cookies on me.)
That was my breakfast. I went to pick up my car at the auto repair center, and then went with a family member for an early lunch. I haven't calculated up those calories yet. I am sure I have used up about one thousand calories: fried hash browns, Greek toast, a three egg omelet covered with hollendaise sauce and Mozzarella cheese, butter, and jelly.
I Eat What Everyone Else Eats
I do eat food. I eat real food. I eat a lot less than I used too. I am always watching for the end result. I can not do it if don't write down what it was that I ate. I can't do it if I don't weigh myself at least once a day, and then write it down.
It's critical for me to be aware of the food portions as well. I am watching how much meat I eat. I am watching how much potato, starches, or fruit I put on my plate. I am thinking about what I am going to eat. It's a constant thing. It will never end.
When I pulled that cookie and the chocolate from the freezer I wrote down what it was that I ate. If I run into a problem, I know why I am having it.
If you are not constantly monitoring your food consumption, and being critical about what you are eating, then you will have problems.
I wish that I could be like so many other people that eat, and don't pay attention to what they eat. Then they never get an ounce of fat.
I Met Someone Who's Husband Is An Emotional Eater
The other day I ran into a woman who was telling me that her husband is 100-pounds over weight. He is also depressed. It's having an emotional effect on her, and him.
I asked her if her husband pays attention to what he eats. She told me no, he eats when ever he feels like it. She told me that he is an emotional eater. I told her that's tough to deal with.
She said he just won't stop eating. And, when he gets upset, he eats more. Hmmm, it's sounds like some people I know. I told her to have her husband read my blog.
Now, get it straight. I am not a nutritionist, or certified doctor of nutrition. I am not anything but an ordinary guy who over the time of one year lost sixty pounds. I didn't do anything special or out of the ordinary. I reduced the amount of food that I consumed. I just ATE LESS FOOD. That's all I did.
When I tell someone to read my blog I want them to catch onto one thing, "You can do the same thing." When I write, I deliberately throw a spin into my writing that makes it bizarre. Yes, I do try to get some laughter, and I do try to spin up some emotions.
Unfortunately the only thing that makes anyone change is due to events that provoke an emotional response. I am working on an emotional response.
I hate the positive up beat messages that play with the team concept too; "Yes, we are all team players, and we can do it together: ooh, ooh, ooh ah." Bull...!
I am a human being, treat me like one.
Hey, I am as selfish as the next person out there. The only difference between me and a five year old child is that I am almost fifty years old, and I am in a bigger body. Don't think for five seconds I don't put my gooey, little, fat fingers on my chocolate bar and don't think, "It's mine, you can't have it."
Tell me the truth, when you eat that chocolate, aren't you flashing back in time? I do. I flash back in time to when I was little. I remember rushing down the stairs to the Christmas Stockings that were hanging on this ledge by the back picture window. Then I remember the fights we would have because we would steal each others candy. Yes, I remember the greed of the little child.
Isn't it somewhat like this today? We are emotionally hurt, or we're hungry, and out comes the little child. Yep, it's that little child with the wet sticky fingers that clamps onto the chocolate bar and refuses to give it up.
I saw this recently in a grocery store. Some little child in a grocery basket seat latched onto a big candy bar as her mother pushed the cart through the isle. Her child reached out and in a flash clamped onto the candy bar. When her mother tried to get it back the child screamed it's mine, and threw a tantrum.
That's dramatic for sure. However, the next time you decide you want to lose some weight, see if you don't want to throw a tantrum when you decide you have to give up something you like to eat.
The truth is, we want to be comforted. We don't want to feel hungry, not even a little bit hungry. We want our emotions to feel some sense of satisfaction.
The only problem with this is: when we are satisfying ourselves, we are only committing ourselves to an unpleasant doom. Yep, we will have to put up with extra pounds that over stress the body.
Think about that the next time it's late at night, and you think you need a mid-night snack. It's feed the little child now, and have that little child suffer later. Then you'll really be crying.
My mother used to say, "Quit you're crying, or I'll give you something to cry about." That's sounds cruel for sure. But, it was her way of putting an end to the whining of a cranky child that wanted it's way.
It's time to put an end to that cranky child inside of us that wants it's way. How, you decide to do it is up to you.
Here is how you start: EAT LESS FOOD.
Yep, you'll want to throw a tantrum when you do.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182.6-pounds.
Woo Hoo...! I think this is super.
This means I slipped out of the Christmas Time Trama of over eating and seeing it for the next week on the scale. Am I good or what? Just kidding there.
But, I have been going back into my archives and I pulled up something that I wrote a while ago.
I had written a poem:
I see everywhere I go preponderant people.
There seems to be more than I remember.
I look at pictures of old and don't see as many preponderant people.
Where did they all come from?
Why, I ask myself, Why?
Who is the cause of all this preponderance?
Can anything be done to stop this trend?
Will anyone listen?
I am making the Clarion Call.
Listen to me before it's too late.
I was like you, and then I changed.
You can be like me.
Oh preponderant people why won't you change your ways?
Don't you know your doom is coming?
Don't you even care?
I am making the Clarion Call.
I billow out the same.
I was like you, and then I changed.
I was preponderant too.
Now don't you know that your health will suffer?
Don't you know that you will feel better?
You will jump and hop like a gazelle if you will heed my call.
Oh you preponderant people.
You tip the scale to far.
Your clothes no longer fit you.
You huff and puff when you move.
You can't get up from your chair.
You can't even climb the stair.
But, you won't do what I told you.
Oh you preponderant people.
It hardly rhymes at all. I guess you can't really call it poetry. Well, it can't be called good poetry. But it conveys my thoughts for today.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182.6-pounds.
Woo Hoo...! I think this is super.
This means I slipped out of the Christmas Time Trama of over eating and seeing it for the next week on the scale. Am I good or what? Just kidding there.
But, I have been going back into my archives and I pulled up something that I wrote a while ago.
I had written a poem:
I see everywhere I go preponderant people.
There seems to be more than I remember.
I look at pictures of old and don't see as many preponderant people.
Where did they all come from?
Why, I ask myself, Why?
Who is the cause of all this preponderance?
Can anything be done to stop this trend?
Will anyone listen?
I am making the Clarion Call.
Listen to me before it's too late.
I was like you, and then I changed.
You can be like me.
Oh preponderant people why won't you change your ways?
Don't you know your doom is coming?
Don't you even care?
I am making the Clarion Call.
I billow out the same.
I was like you, and then I changed.
I was preponderant too.
Now don't you know that your health will suffer?
Don't you know that you will feel better?
You will jump and hop like a gazelle if you will heed my call.
Oh you preponderant people.
You tip the scale to far.
Your clothes no longer fit you.
You huff and puff when you move.
You can't get up from your chair.
You can't even climb the stair.
But, you won't do what I told you.
Oh you preponderant people.
It hardly rhymes at all. I guess you can't really call it poetry. Well, it can't be called good poetry. But it conveys my thoughts for today.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Christmas Time: I Didn't Gain Weight Like Everyone Else
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.8-pounds.
Woo Hoo...! I thought that it would be worse than that for sure.
Oh, I ate so well yesterday. Yum, Yum, Yum, Yum, I had ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, flank steak, and sausages. For dessert I ate ice cream, peach pie, pumpkin pie, and of course Christmas Cookies. Let's not forget I had chocolate too.
Yes, it was a nice day for sure. Then I awoke this morning to step up onto the scale weighing 183.8-pounds. That's not bad, considering.
So, that's all the damage so far for this Christmas Season. I think that I escaped gaining ten pounds here by the hairs of my chinny-chin-chin.
Really, I thought that I would be seeing 10-pounds extra too. Here is why, I haven't been killing myself to lose the weight. I haven't been depriving myself of a little sweet here, and a little sweet there. I haven't been ignoring certain foods, just because it's got sugar, or fat, or some other ingredient in it that's banned by the weight losing officiants.
Yes, I have made efforts to be careful, but hey, I get carried away too. I like food too. And I'm not any different than anyone else.
Here is the difference between me, and any other weight conscious American out there. I have a written record of what I ate yesterday. I have a written record for what I ate for the last six months. If I have a problem with my weight, I can diagnose the problem.
Most people can't tell you what they had for breakfast, let alone what they ate for dinner two weeks ago. If they did have a written record, then maybe they could figure out where it is they are messing up with the weight.
It gets tedious writing down everything that I eat. It gets tedious figuring out trying to remember what the amounts were and recording them. It gets tedious recording the calories.
Even though it gets tedious, I believe this is the one thing that has saved me from going over board day-in-and-day-out.
And I am not writing to anyone that it's convenient. I am not writing to anyone it's an easy habit to develop. Recently, I have worked late, late into the night. I have written food and drink down on pieces of paper. Then I have actually missed some days recording what I ate or drank. I've had to pull out the pieces of paper and record them into my journal.
My journal isn't complicated either. It's a spiral note legal pad. I write down the food, or drink and the amount next to it. I just make a list of what I ate. I put down the date, and the weight for the day. And if I think about it, I will weigh myself at night. That's it.
I have nothing fancy. A friend of mine told me oh that's too complicated for me. Oh, OK.
Yep, it's complicated. It takes time to get into the habit of recording everything down to. Because sometimes I will forget something, and then mentally backtrack to what I ate; then I record it for the day.
Also, I can think back to what I recorded for the day, and mentally justify depriving my insatiable hunger. Sometimes when I get hungry, I have to say to myself, "No, you ate today, now forget it."
Someone I was talking to yesterday said he lost 80-pounds and it was easy to do. I asked him if he struggled with hunger. He told me he didn't. I asked him if he had any diet plan, or a mentor. He told me he didn't.
Granted he lost a lot of weight. I don't believe it was easy. Denying self isn't easy. For me it's not.
I question the honesty of people when I am told it's easy to lose weight. Uh, uh, it's a struggle getting it off, and it's a struggle to keep it off. Especially as we age.
If I had consumed the amounts of food at 20, or even 30 years old that I consume now, I would have been at 160-pounds months ago. Things have slowed down in me. Aging has changed my metabolic rate. I don't burn the food like I used to.
Yes, I have gone from pudgy as a child to thin, back to pudgy, and back to thin. But, I seem to remember it all happening with a whole lot more food consumption than I am eating now.
It doesn't matter. I am now on my way to going back to thin. This time, I have a system that I will have to use for the rest of my life. I will have to be constantly monitoring my food consumption. I will be a factory that never rests.
I will have to fill out my logs, and watch what I eat. I will have to keep weighing myself and be ever alert for those pounds that seem to jump onto the body from no where.
I will have to be a pain in the back side to everyone at the table as I pull out my little piece of paper and pen. Yep, it will go on and on.
This is a life long battle. It's "The Battle Of The Bulge."
I don't like it. I wish it were different. It is what it is.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.8-pounds.
Woo Hoo...! I thought that it would be worse than that for sure.
Oh, I ate so well yesterday. Yum, Yum, Yum, Yum, I had ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, vegetables, flank steak, and sausages. For dessert I ate ice cream, peach pie, pumpkin pie, and of course Christmas Cookies. Let's not forget I had chocolate too.
Yes, it was a nice day for sure. Then I awoke this morning to step up onto the scale weighing 183.8-pounds. That's not bad, considering.
So, that's all the damage so far for this Christmas Season. I think that I escaped gaining ten pounds here by the hairs of my chinny-chin-chin.
Really, I thought that I would be seeing 10-pounds extra too. Here is why, I haven't been killing myself to lose the weight. I haven't been depriving myself of a little sweet here, and a little sweet there. I haven't been ignoring certain foods, just because it's got sugar, or fat, or some other ingredient in it that's banned by the weight losing officiants.
Yes, I have made efforts to be careful, but hey, I get carried away too. I like food too. And I'm not any different than anyone else.
Here is the difference between me, and any other weight conscious American out there. I have a written record of what I ate yesterday. I have a written record for what I ate for the last six months. If I have a problem with my weight, I can diagnose the problem.
Most people can't tell you what they had for breakfast, let alone what they ate for dinner two weeks ago. If they did have a written record, then maybe they could figure out where it is they are messing up with the weight.
It gets tedious writing down everything that I eat. It gets tedious figuring out trying to remember what the amounts were and recording them. It gets tedious recording the calories.
Even though it gets tedious, I believe this is the one thing that has saved me from going over board day-in-and-day-out.
And I am not writing to anyone that it's convenient. I am not writing to anyone it's an easy habit to develop. Recently, I have worked late, late into the night. I have written food and drink down on pieces of paper. Then I have actually missed some days recording what I ate or drank. I've had to pull out the pieces of paper and record them into my journal.
My journal isn't complicated either. It's a spiral note legal pad. I write down the food, or drink and the amount next to it. I just make a list of what I ate. I put down the date, and the weight for the day. And if I think about it, I will weigh myself at night. That's it.
I have nothing fancy. A friend of mine told me oh that's too complicated for me. Oh, OK.
Yep, it's complicated. It takes time to get into the habit of recording everything down to. Because sometimes I will forget something, and then mentally backtrack to what I ate; then I record it for the day.
Also, I can think back to what I recorded for the day, and mentally justify depriving my insatiable hunger. Sometimes when I get hungry, I have to say to myself, "No, you ate today, now forget it."
Someone I was talking to yesterday said he lost 80-pounds and it was easy to do. I asked him if he struggled with hunger. He told me he didn't. I asked him if he had any diet plan, or a mentor. He told me he didn't.
Granted he lost a lot of weight. I don't believe it was easy. Denying self isn't easy. For me it's not.
I question the honesty of people when I am told it's easy to lose weight. Uh, uh, it's a struggle getting it off, and it's a struggle to keep it off. Especially as we age.
If I had consumed the amounts of food at 20, or even 30 years old that I consume now, I would have been at 160-pounds months ago. Things have slowed down in me. Aging has changed my metabolic rate. I don't burn the food like I used to.
Yes, I have gone from pudgy as a child to thin, back to pudgy, and back to thin. But, I seem to remember it all happening with a whole lot more food consumption than I am eating now.
It doesn't matter. I am now on my way to going back to thin. This time, I have a system that I will have to use for the rest of my life. I will have to be constantly monitoring my food consumption. I will be a factory that never rests.
I will have to fill out my logs, and watch what I eat. I will have to keep weighing myself and be ever alert for those pounds that seem to jump onto the body from no where.
I will have to be a pain in the back side to everyone at the table as I pull out my little piece of paper and pen. Yep, it will go on and on.
This is a life long battle. It's "The Battle Of The Bulge."
I don't like it. I wish it were different. It is what it is.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas
Hello weight losing fans...
Today's the big day. Yep, it's Christmas. Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.8-pounds.
Not bad for having enjoyed so many goodies along the way this month. Today was no exception. I did eat my fair share of goodies today to include cookies, pie, and ice cream. Oh, the guilt I feel... NOT.
I know that tomorrow I am going to see it.
Merry Christmas anyway...
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today's the big day. Yep, it's Christmas. Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.8-pounds.
Not bad for having enjoyed so many goodies along the way this month. Today was no exception. I did eat my fair share of goodies today to include cookies, pie, and ice cream. Oh, the guilt I feel... NOT.
I know that tomorrow I am going to see it.
Merry Christmas anyway...
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Christmas Time, Easter Time, Summer Time, Winter Time, What's The Difference?
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds. That's down from yesterday, and still up over the record.
Today I woke up in the middle of the day, after having slept only four hours. I worked all night long.
I am tired but, I have things to do, so I am up and about. Ugh...
I was disappointed this morning when I stepped up onto the scale. I thought sure I would have been down more pounds by now. Yes, I know it's the Christmas season. Yes, I know we are all facing the temptations of all the goodies.
Our Bodies Don't Care About What Time Of Year We Over Eat
It's really not any different this time of the year than it is any time of the year. We just make it different. We con ourselves into believing that, "I can celebrate the Christmas season," and in doing so go hog wild with the food.
Not, so. You're body doesn't know it's Christmas, Easter, or the Fourth of July. You do, but it doesn't.
All year long the body does the same old things day-in-and-day-out. It processes the food we shove into our mouths pretty much the same way everyday, short of a catastrophe happening as a result of illness.
If it's the middle of the summer and we decide to slurp down a pitcher of lemonade that's laden with sugar, the body has to figure out what to do with the sugar. It's the same as in the middle of the winter when we slurp down some extra sweet hot chocolate, and a fist full of Christmas Cookies. The body has to figure out what to do with the food, and the sugar.
Our bodies aren't saying, "Hey, It's Christmas, it's time to put some extra pounds on this guy or gal here."
Our bodies aren't saying, "Hey, It's Thanksgiving day here, it's time to put on some extra pounds here."
No, we're seeing those extra pounds because we're eating more food than we may need to survive. Isn't that a shame?
Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall, it makes no difference the season or the time, if we over eat more than we need, then we are setting ourselves up to eventually get fat.
I am not writing that it's easy to make the right decisions. It's not. We all have our weak spots in our wills that allow us to resist the temptation to overeat.
I went to that brunch for work yesterday, and there was this Rum Cake there. I love Rum Cake. If I didn't have to be at work within a few hours, that Rum Cake would have been my chink in the so called armor of my plan to avoid overeating
I had to be at work, so I resisted even tasting the Rum Cake. And, if not, perhaps I would not have been writing so brilliantly yesterday about how I averted disaster with a "Preemptive Food Strike."
Eh, I was just blathering on there. I know that lurking around the corner at someones home somewhere is that one food I won't be able to say no to; it may be fruit cake, or it may be that Rum Cake. It will be something.
And, don't think I won't try to figure out some way to justify my scarfing down an excessive amount of dessert. I will.
I told someone at work yesterday, "Just press the reset button and start over." Today is the day you know you blew it. So, what? Press the reset button and start over.
Tomorrow's another day. The next hour is a new moment in time. The next minute is a flash in the moment of your history when you may finally set your will to do better for yourself.
Then again maybe you won't set your will to lose the weight. That's OK. What? That's OK. Yep, that's OK.
Here is what I say, "Enjoy that Snickers Bar that's melting in your hand there." Yes, enjoy it. Go ahead, eat those big bags of "All Natural Potato Chips" there. Go ahead, eat all the food you want.
But, damned if I want to hear you complain when you can't get up the stairs. Damned if I want to be the one pushing you around in your wheel chair. Damned if I want to be the one who pays your medical bills.
I say, "EAT, EAT, and EAT Some More." Because the food industry loves you. You're helping some illegal alien working in a factory somewhere. Evon's nut's love you. And all of their non-English speaking employees are feeding their families because of you.
And they love me because I am spreading the message for them, go ahead EAT.
Think about all the people who have employment at the Cheetos factory, and the chocolate factory, and the bread factory because of you, and people like you.
EAT, and then EAT some more. There are hospitals, and clinics who's doctors and surgeons will have plenty of work to do with open heart surgery, and heart bypass surgery. Let's not forget the doctors who will get rich charging for lipo-suction, stomach resections, and other surgeries.
Teach your children to eat more sugary food so that Dunkin Donuts won't go out of business.
Eat, Eat, and Eat some more. You are helping to keep this economy going. You and everyone else out there.
EAT, and for Goodness Sakes, don't feel one lick of guilt or responsibility for it. And if you do, I don't want to hear it.
Now, Go Stuff Your Face...
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds. That's down from yesterday, and still up over the record.
Today I woke up in the middle of the day, after having slept only four hours. I worked all night long.
I am tired but, I have things to do, so I am up and about. Ugh...
I was disappointed this morning when I stepped up onto the scale. I thought sure I would have been down more pounds by now. Yes, I know it's the Christmas season. Yes, I know we are all facing the temptations of all the goodies.
Our Bodies Don't Care About What Time Of Year We Over Eat
It's really not any different this time of the year than it is any time of the year. We just make it different. We con ourselves into believing that, "I can celebrate the Christmas season," and in doing so go hog wild with the food.
Not, so. You're body doesn't know it's Christmas, Easter, or the Fourth of July. You do, but it doesn't.
All year long the body does the same old things day-in-and-day-out. It processes the food we shove into our mouths pretty much the same way everyday, short of a catastrophe happening as a result of illness.
If it's the middle of the summer and we decide to slurp down a pitcher of lemonade that's laden with sugar, the body has to figure out what to do with the sugar. It's the same as in the middle of the winter when we slurp down some extra sweet hot chocolate, and a fist full of Christmas Cookies. The body has to figure out what to do with the food, and the sugar.
Our bodies aren't saying, "Hey, It's Christmas, it's time to put some extra pounds on this guy or gal here."
Our bodies aren't saying, "Hey, It's Thanksgiving day here, it's time to put on some extra pounds here."
No, we're seeing those extra pounds because we're eating more food than we may need to survive. Isn't that a shame?
Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall, it makes no difference the season or the time, if we over eat more than we need, then we are setting ourselves up to eventually get fat.
I am not writing that it's easy to make the right decisions. It's not. We all have our weak spots in our wills that allow us to resist the temptation to overeat.
I went to that brunch for work yesterday, and there was this Rum Cake there. I love Rum Cake. If I didn't have to be at work within a few hours, that Rum Cake would have been my chink in the so called armor of my plan to avoid overeating
I had to be at work, so I resisted even tasting the Rum Cake. And, if not, perhaps I would not have been writing so brilliantly yesterday about how I averted disaster with a "Preemptive Food Strike."
Eh, I was just blathering on there. I know that lurking around the corner at someones home somewhere is that one food I won't be able to say no to; it may be fruit cake, or it may be that Rum Cake. It will be something.
And, don't think I won't try to figure out some way to justify my scarfing down an excessive amount of dessert. I will.
I told someone at work yesterday, "Just press the reset button and start over." Today is the day you know you blew it. So, what? Press the reset button and start over.
Tomorrow's another day. The next hour is a new moment in time. The next minute is a flash in the moment of your history when you may finally set your will to do better for yourself.
Then again maybe you won't set your will to lose the weight. That's OK. What? That's OK. Yep, that's OK.
Here is what I say, "Enjoy that Snickers Bar that's melting in your hand there." Yes, enjoy it. Go ahead, eat those big bags of "All Natural Potato Chips" there. Go ahead, eat all the food you want.
But, damned if I want to hear you complain when you can't get up the stairs. Damned if I want to be the one pushing you around in your wheel chair. Damned if I want to be the one who pays your medical bills.
I say, "EAT, EAT, and EAT Some More." Because the food industry loves you. You're helping some illegal alien working in a factory somewhere. Evon's nut's love you. And all of their non-English speaking employees are feeding their families because of you.
And they love me because I am spreading the message for them, go ahead EAT.
Think about all the people who have employment at the Cheetos factory, and the chocolate factory, and the bread factory because of you, and people like you.
EAT, and then EAT some more. There are hospitals, and clinics who's doctors and surgeons will have plenty of work to do with open heart surgery, and heart bypass surgery. Let's not forget the doctors who will get rich charging for lipo-suction, stomach resections, and other surgeries.
Teach your children to eat more sugary food so that Dunkin Donuts won't go out of business.
Eat, Eat, and Eat some more. You are helping to keep this economy going. You and everyone else out there.
EAT, and for Goodness Sakes, don't feel one lick of guilt or responsibility for it. And if you do, I don't want to hear it.
Now, Go Stuff Your Face...
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Friday, December 21, 2007
A Christmas Party Preemptive Strike
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
It's the same weight as yesterday's weight.
I'm still up 3-pounds over that record weight.
Recently I have written some posts about the Christmas / Thanksgiving / New Years celebrations. It's this time of year when everyone says, "I gained 10-pounds because of all the Holiday Food."
Today was the Christmas brunch at work. I am sure that many Christmas brunches are much like this one. Everybody brings in a dish to eat, or a dessert to share with everyone else.
At my companies Christmas brunch on the make shift tables were set all kinds of desserts, and casseroles, meats, and breads. It truly was a cornucopia of food.
I was reluctant to go to this brunch since I have so far to drive, and I am not really to interested in being tempted with so much food. Did I write tempted? I sure did.
This morning I knew that I would eventually have to make a good will showing at this event. I had to think about what I was going to bring. I had to think about how I was going to avoid chowing down on all the goodies.
I made a decision to make a Christmas Preemptive Food Strike. Before I left I made myself a concoction of pulverised apples, and two scoops of protein powder. When I guzzled down this mix I felt like I had just stuffed myself with a Thanksgiving dinner.
My plan was to make sure I wouldn't show up at this brunch feeling hungry. If I had, then I would have been a goner for sure.
Before going to the brunch I stopped and purchased a couple of bags of Kettle Cooked Potato Chips. I looked at the bag of these delicate morsels of fried potatoes and noticed the grand advertising on the bag. It said, "No trans fats. All natural oils and ingredients."
That's great, natural potato chips. Hmmm? I read that little side panel looking for the calorie count. It said, "Serving size 10 chips. Calories per serving-190 calories." Whew, all natural, but lethal for the calorie counter.
Just think for a guy like me who allows himself 1,500-1,600 calories a day, this bag of delicious, oh so natural delicacies would allow me about 79 potato chips; that's all.
Think about that the next time you push your greedy little arm into a big bag of potato chips.
(If the shoe fits, wear it.)
So, how did I do with the Christmas brunch? I took small portions of different things. I made one sandwich of barbecue beef using only one piece of wheat bread. I had a small scoop of egg casserole. I had some small scoops of other foods. I stopped myself with one plate of food, that had about five different items on it.
For dessert I had one small piece of cherry cheese cake, some cranberry sauce, and a slice of zucchini bread. I took out my little piece of paper and wrote down everything that I ate.
People wondered what I was doing. Some asked me if I was counting calories. I said yes.
I had some conversations with people there at the party. One guy told me that he lost 80-pounds. Then he said he put back on 40-pounds. He told me that he had forgotten all about dieting. Then I ran into the one guy who I have written about before. He was putting two pieces of chocolate cake on his paper plate. I was watching him when he caught my attention with a comment. He saw it and said, "There's Dave watching what I'm eating." I told him, "I'm not your conscience, and I wasn't watching you."
I told him, "You have to live with what you are eating not me."
And that is the way it is. I can't think for myself, let alone think for anyone else. But, the guilty always feel like they are being oppressed, even when no one is watching. It was his conscience that was giving him a hard time, not me.
One of the owners of the company came out and told me to eat up. I told her I have eaten all that I am going to eat. She was delighted to be digging into all this food. She complained that she felt so full already. Then she said, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could do this everyday?"
I said, "Sure we can, and then in five years we'll all be rolling around in wheel chairs."
Then I thought, "That was dumb to say." But, I said it. Oops. I can't take it back.
My only thinking is this woman is a certified millionaire. She can have this kind of food everyday if she wants to. No one is stopping her from having a banquet everyday. She could also afford to put out food for her employees everyday like this if she wanted to. It wouldn't hurt her banking account any.
I am wondering how a woman, and people like this who have so much can think so impoverished. You would think by her comments she hasn't got two nickels to rub together.
Anyway, I couldn't oblige her and dig into the pile for more food. I told her I lost sixty pounds by avoiding eating all of this stuff.
I made my preemptive strike before I got to the party, and I walked away eating like a normal person ought to.
I know that it's hard to eat properly when we go to functions like this. I certainly have my times when I ask myself what did I do? But, I can't take my little finger and stick it down my throat and spit up my food.
If I ate it, then I must live with the end results.
It only makes sense to pull in the belt and say to oneself whoa, what am I doing here? And just because I am going to a Christmas party or any other party doesn't mean that I have an excuse for pigging out. I don't.
I thought ahead of time about what I was going to be facing. I made a preplanned route for escape. I didn't want to see another 185-pound day. I am hoping to get to below 180-pounds here soon. By the looks of things, it's real hard to do.
If you are going to a Christmas party soon, it might pay to eat a couple pieces of fruit before you go. By planning ahead, you may be able to save yourself from a diet disaster.
I call it a "preemptive food strike."
The reality of life is this. Each and everyday many people over eat the amount of food necessary to survive. As a result they get fat, and fatter. I was the same way.
The Holiday season is an excuse people use for eating more food than they should. Then they contrive all sorts of reasons for over eating. "Oh, I would feel deprived," is the best one.
You're deprived here in America? Since when? I haven't seen empty shelves in any local supermarkets lately, have you? I seem to recall going into every gas station I fill up at and seeing rows, and rows of soda, and drinks of all make ups in the refrigerators. I seem to remember seeing about 30 different boxes of candy bars at the check out counter. But, we're deprived?
Ummm, I don't think so.
Christmas is a great time of the year. It's fun. But, I can't let that be my reason to put on 10-pounds. Especially since it took so much effort to get off that 10-pounds.
I like anyone else would love to keep pounding the food into my face. But, I don't want to pay for my mistake. I took a stand today to fight. I said to myself, "No, let all these other people eat this stuff." I thought, "If they want to get fat, and fatter, then they can. I don't want to."
Here's A Thought For The Day
Do you remember the credit card commercial where the items were listed and then the result would be priceless? Here is my rendition:
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
It's the same weight as yesterday's weight.
I'm still up 3-pounds over that record weight.
Recently I have written some posts about the Christmas / Thanksgiving / New Years celebrations. It's this time of year when everyone says, "I gained 10-pounds because of all the Holiday Food."
Today was the Christmas brunch at work. I am sure that many Christmas brunches are much like this one. Everybody brings in a dish to eat, or a dessert to share with everyone else.
At my companies Christmas brunch on the make shift tables were set all kinds of desserts, and casseroles, meats, and breads. It truly was a cornucopia of food.
I was reluctant to go to this brunch since I have so far to drive, and I am not really to interested in being tempted with so much food. Did I write tempted? I sure did.
This morning I knew that I would eventually have to make a good will showing at this event. I had to think about what I was going to bring. I had to think about how I was going to avoid chowing down on all the goodies.
I made a decision to make a Christmas Preemptive Food Strike. Before I left I made myself a concoction of pulverised apples, and two scoops of protein powder. When I guzzled down this mix I felt like I had just stuffed myself with a Thanksgiving dinner.
My plan was to make sure I wouldn't show up at this brunch feeling hungry. If I had, then I would have been a goner for sure.
Before going to the brunch I stopped and purchased a couple of bags of Kettle Cooked Potato Chips. I looked at the bag of these delicate morsels of fried potatoes and noticed the grand advertising on the bag. It said, "No trans fats. All natural oils and ingredients."
That's great, natural potato chips. Hmmm? I read that little side panel looking for the calorie count. It said, "Serving size 10 chips. Calories per serving-190 calories." Whew, all natural, but lethal for the calorie counter.
Just think for a guy like me who allows himself 1,500-1,600 calories a day, this bag of delicious, oh so natural delicacies would allow me about 79 potato chips; that's all.
Think about that the next time you push your greedy little arm into a big bag of potato chips.
(If the shoe fits, wear it.)
So, how did I do with the Christmas brunch? I took small portions of different things. I made one sandwich of barbecue beef using only one piece of wheat bread. I had a small scoop of egg casserole. I had some small scoops of other foods. I stopped myself with one plate of food, that had about five different items on it.
For dessert I had one small piece of cherry cheese cake, some cranberry sauce, and a slice of zucchini bread. I took out my little piece of paper and wrote down everything that I ate.
People wondered what I was doing. Some asked me if I was counting calories. I said yes.
I had some conversations with people there at the party. One guy told me that he lost 80-pounds. Then he said he put back on 40-pounds. He told me that he had forgotten all about dieting. Then I ran into the one guy who I have written about before. He was putting two pieces of chocolate cake on his paper plate. I was watching him when he caught my attention with a comment. He saw it and said, "There's Dave watching what I'm eating." I told him, "I'm not your conscience, and I wasn't watching you."
I told him, "You have to live with what you are eating not me."
And that is the way it is. I can't think for myself, let alone think for anyone else. But, the guilty always feel like they are being oppressed, even when no one is watching. It was his conscience that was giving him a hard time, not me.
One of the owners of the company came out and told me to eat up. I told her I have eaten all that I am going to eat. She was delighted to be digging into all this food. She complained that she felt so full already. Then she said, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could do this everyday?"
I said, "Sure we can, and then in five years we'll all be rolling around in wheel chairs."
Then I thought, "That was dumb to say." But, I said it. Oops. I can't take it back.
My only thinking is this woman is a certified millionaire. She can have this kind of food everyday if she wants to. No one is stopping her from having a banquet everyday. She could also afford to put out food for her employees everyday like this if she wanted to. It wouldn't hurt her banking account any.
I am wondering how a woman, and people like this who have so much can think so impoverished. You would think by her comments she hasn't got two nickels to rub together.
Anyway, I couldn't oblige her and dig into the pile for more food. I told her I lost sixty pounds by avoiding eating all of this stuff.
I made my preemptive strike before I got to the party, and I walked away eating like a normal person ought to.
I know that it's hard to eat properly when we go to functions like this. I certainly have my times when I ask myself what did I do? But, I can't take my little finger and stick it down my throat and spit up my food.
If I ate it, then I must live with the end results.
It only makes sense to pull in the belt and say to oneself whoa, what am I doing here? And just because I am going to a Christmas party or any other party doesn't mean that I have an excuse for pigging out. I don't.
I thought ahead of time about what I was going to be facing. I made a preplanned route for escape. I didn't want to see another 185-pound day. I am hoping to get to below 180-pounds here soon. By the looks of things, it's real hard to do.
If you are going to a Christmas party soon, it might pay to eat a couple pieces of fruit before you go. By planning ahead, you may be able to save yourself from a diet disaster.
I call it a "preemptive food strike."
The reality of life is this. Each and everyday many people over eat the amount of food necessary to survive. As a result they get fat, and fatter. I was the same way.
The Holiday season is an excuse people use for eating more food than they should. Then they contrive all sorts of reasons for over eating. "Oh, I would feel deprived," is the best one.
You're deprived here in America? Since when? I haven't seen empty shelves in any local supermarkets lately, have you? I seem to recall going into every gas station I fill up at and seeing rows, and rows of soda, and drinks of all make ups in the refrigerators. I seem to remember seeing about 30 different boxes of candy bars at the check out counter. But, we're deprived?
Ummm, I don't think so.
Christmas is a great time of the year. It's fun. But, I can't let that be my reason to put on 10-pounds. Especially since it took so much effort to get off that 10-pounds.
I like anyone else would love to keep pounding the food into my face. But, I don't want to pay for my mistake. I took a stand today to fight. I said to myself, "No, let all these other people eat this stuff." I thought, "If they want to get fat, and fatter, then they can. I don't want to."
Here's A Thought For The Day
Do you remember the credit card commercial where the items were listed and then the result would be priceless? Here is my rendition:
- Bag of Christmas cookies- Two for the price of one $5.00
- Christmas cup cakes purchased at the Charity bazaar- $3.00
- Christmas Dinner at the Church- $10.00
- Two loaves of Rum Cake- $10.00
- Gallon of Eggnog - $5.00
- 20 extra pounds on New Years Day- Priceless
- Last Year's "New Years Day Resolution" - Worthless!
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Blending Up The Fruits And Vegetable, And Maybe Getting More Nutrition
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
That's down from where I've been the last couple of days.
It's still up 3-pounds from the record.
I do believe part of my problem the last couple of days was that I was consuming something that was helping me to retain water. I was drinking more diet seven up, and diet rite than I usually do. It also helped to pass some of the junk out South of the border, after which, made a dramatic change on the scale.
(You know what I mean.)
I have been making a concerted effort to eat my vegetables, and fruits by pulverizing them up inside of the blender.
Today I was making my concoction of fruits and vegetables and was pulverizing some tart apples that I had purchased on "sale" at the local grocery store. I peeled the apples and cored them. Then I chopped them and tossed them into the blender.
After I added some cold water and made what looked like apple sauce, I dipped in a spoon and scooped out some for a taste. "Hey, I thought, This is real tasty." Then I threw in a couple carrots. It was still tasty.
I was thinking this concoction would make terrific baby food. It's not pasteurized, to make it safe to eat, but nutritionally depleted as a result. It was fresh. And I am sure any teething little toddler would just love to chow down on this semi-tart concoction. If I was getting ready to toss in some other stuff, I may have had that just for a dessert.
I tossed in a bunch of green leaf lettuce, and a couple of scoops of Cookies-n-Cream Protein Powder. That was my evening meal.
As I have written before, I get stuffed when I drink down these fruit and vegetable concoctions that I pulverize inside of the blender. For a little while it seems I find some satisfaction after eating.
I also can't help but feel something different after drinking down these concoctions of fruits and vegetables made by a mad man in his kitchen.
You really ought to try making up some of your own vegetable concoctions. That is if you have a blender. Just peel some carrots, some apples, core a green pepper, chop them up and blend them up until they become a mush. Toss in some real cold water so you can losen it up and make it more like juice. Then add spices if you want. Then drink it down.
The only thing that I don't like about it, is I have to keep taking the blender apart and cleaning it.
But, I can't help but think that I am unleashing juices that I couldn't just by chewing the stuff with my teeth. I keep wondering if I am not releasing more vitamins, and nutrients this way.
And I wish I had thought of this years ago.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
That's down from where I've been the last couple of days.
It's still up 3-pounds from the record.
I do believe part of my problem the last couple of days was that I was consuming something that was helping me to retain water. I was drinking more diet seven up, and diet rite than I usually do. It also helped to pass some of the junk out South of the border, after which, made a dramatic change on the scale.
(You know what I mean.)
I have been making a concerted effort to eat my vegetables, and fruits by pulverizing them up inside of the blender.
Today I was making my concoction of fruits and vegetables and was pulverizing some tart apples that I had purchased on "sale" at the local grocery store. I peeled the apples and cored them. Then I chopped them and tossed them into the blender.
After I added some cold water and made what looked like apple sauce, I dipped in a spoon and scooped out some for a taste. "Hey, I thought, This is real tasty." Then I threw in a couple carrots. It was still tasty.
I was thinking this concoction would make terrific baby food. It's not pasteurized, to make it safe to eat, but nutritionally depleted as a result. It was fresh. And I am sure any teething little toddler would just love to chow down on this semi-tart concoction. If I was getting ready to toss in some other stuff, I may have had that just for a dessert.
I tossed in a bunch of green leaf lettuce, and a couple of scoops of Cookies-n-Cream Protein Powder. That was my evening meal.
As I have written before, I get stuffed when I drink down these fruit and vegetable concoctions that I pulverize inside of the blender. For a little while it seems I find some satisfaction after eating.
I also can't help but feel something different after drinking down these concoctions of fruits and vegetables made by a mad man in his kitchen.
You really ought to try making up some of your own vegetable concoctions. That is if you have a blender. Just peel some carrots, some apples, core a green pepper, chop them up and blend them up until they become a mush. Toss in some real cold water so you can losen it up and make it more like juice. Then add spices if you want. Then drink it down.
The only thing that I don't like about it, is I have to keep taking the blender apart and cleaning it.
But, I can't help but think that I am unleashing juices that I couldn't just by chewing the stuff with my teeth. I keep wondering if I am not releasing more vitamins, and nutrients this way.
And I wish I had thought of this years ago.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Pounds Just Seemed To Jump Onto Me
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 185.2-pounds.
Yep, that's not a typographical error there.
Imagine my surprise with this. Hmmm, could it be I have been having dessert the last couple days at someone else's home? It could be.
Imagine this after having written what I wrote yesterday.
Well, up and down the weight goes.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 185.2-pounds.
Yep, that's not a typographical error there.
Imagine my surprise with this. Hmmm, could it be I have been having dessert the last couple days at someone else's home? It could be.
Imagine this after having written what I wrote yesterday.
Well, up and down the weight goes.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Monday, December 17, 2007
We're Selling Away The Future By Over Eating
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
That's up 0.6-pounds from yesterday's weight. It's definitely over the record.
I have been hovering here around the 180-pound target for at least a month. I would love to shed those last 20-pounds at the snap of my fingers. That would be dumb.
One of the things I have had to learn to do is treat my weight loss like it's a science project. I have to be curious about how things work. I have to be observant. I have to constantly monitor what I am eating. I have to write down my weight. I have to write down my food consumption. I have to see what the results will be.
This is a science project that will never end. Everyday I have to monitor what it is that I am eating. Everyday I have to write down what I ate. Most days I will weigh myself and write that down.
Right now I am at a family-member's home. There are a lot more things here to chow down on than I keep where I live. I try to keep the stuff I know that I may binge on outside of my residence.
I am like anyone else, if I get tired enough, and hungry enough, I will grab the easiest thing that I can eat.
The Story Of Esau, And Giving Away The Future
In the old testament of the Bible, Esau came back from a hunting trip. He was so exhausted he didn't have the desire to dress out his game that he killed and cook it himself. Besides, he had the mentality that many men of old had, and some modern men have, "Leave the cooking to the women."
He knew his brother Jacob hung out with mom a lot, and that he could cook. So, in his thoughtlessness, and implied laziness, he cooked up a deal with his brother Jacob.
Jacob knew Esau was coming back from the hunt. He knew Esau would habitually throw his bow and arrows into the corner and then yell at Mom, "Hey, what's for dinner Mom? I'm hungry here."
Jacob was ready with the food for dinner, and he knew he could take advantage of the temporary fatigue, and the disorientation of a long day without food.
When Esau came into the tent he smelled that "Good Old Fashioned Home Cooking." His thoughts turned to satisfying that nagging hunger now, and not about thinking of the future.
Jacob was stirring that brew of stew and no doubt acted like he was ignoring Esau when Esau came into the tent. Esau asked Jacob if he could have a bowl of the stew.
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.8-pounds.
That's up 0.6-pounds from yesterday's weight. It's definitely over the record.
I have been hovering here around the 180-pound target for at least a month. I would love to shed those last 20-pounds at the snap of my fingers. That would be dumb.
One of the things I have had to learn to do is treat my weight loss like it's a science project. I have to be curious about how things work. I have to be observant. I have to constantly monitor what I am eating. I have to write down my weight. I have to write down my food consumption. I have to see what the results will be.
This is a science project that will never end. Everyday I have to monitor what it is that I am eating. Everyday I have to write down what I ate. Most days I will weigh myself and write that down.
Right now I am at a family-member's home. There are a lot more things here to chow down on than I keep where I live. I try to keep the stuff I know that I may binge on outside of my residence.
I am like anyone else, if I get tired enough, and hungry enough, I will grab the easiest thing that I can eat.
The Story Of Esau, And Giving Away The Future
In the old testament of the Bible, Esau came back from a hunting trip. He was so exhausted he didn't have the desire to dress out his game that he killed and cook it himself. Besides, he had the mentality that many men of old had, and some modern men have, "Leave the cooking to the women."
He knew his brother Jacob hung out with mom a lot, and that he could cook. So, in his thoughtlessness, and implied laziness, he cooked up a deal with his brother Jacob.
Jacob knew Esau was coming back from the hunt. He knew Esau would habitually throw his bow and arrows into the corner and then yell at Mom, "Hey, what's for dinner Mom? I'm hungry here."
Jacob was ready with the food for dinner, and he knew he could take advantage of the temporary fatigue, and the disorientation of a long day without food.
When Esau came into the tent he smelled that "Good Old Fashioned Home Cooking." His thoughts turned to satisfying that nagging hunger now, and not about thinking of the future.
Jacob was stirring that brew of stew and no doubt acted like he was ignoring Esau when Esau came into the tent. Esau asked Jacob if he could have a bowl of the stew.
Jacob probably laughed a little and initially told Esau, "No you can't." This probably irritated Esau enough to get him to plead with Jacob for some food.
Esau asked for food, and Jacob agreed only if Esau would cut a deal with him. Esau agreed and Jacob hit him with his very cleaver and subtle proposition.
Jacob told Esau, "You can have the whole pot of stew if you want."Imagine Esau thinking, "I can have all that?"
Aren't we like this too, when we get tired and we are as hungry as a baby bear cub, we can only think about how fast we can fill ourselves? Or, how about when we just had a blow out with the family, don't we think we can fill that emptiness we suddenly feel?
Anyway, Esau said, "Sure little brother, what do you want?" Jacob told Esau, "If you'll give me your birthright Esau, you can have this pot of stew." (And doesn't it look so good, and smell so good?)
Esau flippantly said sure Jacob you can have my birthright. In a flash, and with some careless words, Esau gave away his future for a pot of stew.
In a time of fatigue, and a time of hunger, Esau's stomach became his god. Because of that, he gave away what should have been near and dear to himself, and his future family. He gave away his right to a full inheritance from his father. He gave away his leadership position, and he gave away his future.
He did all of that for one pot of stew.
It's much like this today. We may not have the same birthrights that the ancients had back in the Bible, but we do have an implied future. The implication is that we can have a future. That is if we can keep ourselves alive long enough to get there.
And what will that future be? For you I don't know. Having lived as long as I have, I do know that people make judgements about other people based on their physical appearance.
Most people don't like people who are over weight. They view these people as awkward, and as unsightly. I know that doesn't seem fair, but it's the truth.
I know that the body suffers from all kinds of illnesses that are related to being obese. There is type-2 diabetes, there are heart problems, there is high blood pressure, there is cholesterol issues, there are digestion issues, and on and on the list goes of problems.
Time and time again we have example after example of people who have lost weight by adjusting the food they consume. The list of cockamamie diets goes on there too.
Oh how nice it would be for children if parents themselves would get the message about how to properly consume food.
One of the proverbs in the Bible states, "Put a knife to your throat if you are given over to gluttony." That's a pretty dramatic statement.
If you take it apart and realize what its saying, it's pretty much like this, it's better to kill yourself now, than to suffer from the long term effects of overeating. Look around and see the old people riding in carts because they are so large their body can't support them anymore.
How many people are getting sick and dieing because they are overweight? How many people aren't as productive as they could be because they are overweight?
I heard a statistic the other day that floored me. It was stated that it is now estimated that 40-50 percent of Americans are now over weight. This means that there is now over 150,000,000 (150 million) fat Americans out there. Wow...
Let me tell you, in the future there is going to be a much bigger health crisis than there should be.
In this blog I am not writing to 150 million Americans. I am writing to that one person who may just happen to peek in on my blog post for today.
If you've gotten this far with you're reading, I have one more question for you, "What will your future be like if you keep eating like you do?"
EAT LESS FOOD is my mantra.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Holding That Weight Line
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds. That's down from yesterday, and it's up over the record.
What can I say? Not, much. Just remember I have already lost a bunch of pounds. I have 20-pounds to go.
Judging from the way things are going, this may take another six months or so. I'm not kidding. I refuse to kill myself trying to get those extra pounds off.
I think that I have been writing this in my blog all along. It's not worth destroying your health by losing weight to quickly. Not to mention the fact that being over weight is already destructive to one's health.
Fasting your pounds off is stupid. Using diet pills is effective for a short time, but when you give up the pills, back comes the appetite and the weight with it. Besides that diet pills can become addictive.
Oh you can get that stomach tied up and chopped up, but you still have to learn to limit your food intake. Yep, that's right, you have to learn how to eat smaller portions. Gee, couldn't someone do that without the surgery? I think so.
There are all kinds of silly things people do to lose weight. In the end many people suffer from terrible adverse effects from avoiding the one real solution to their weight gain.
EAT LESS FOOD. Cut those food portions in half. Don't believe that garbage that you should push yourself away from the table feeling a little hungry. Nope, that doesn't work.
You'll have to monitor your food consumption. It will have to be a 24/7, 365 days a year.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds. That's down from yesterday, and it's up over the record.
What can I say? Not, much. Just remember I have already lost a bunch of pounds. I have 20-pounds to go.
Judging from the way things are going, this may take another six months or so. I'm not kidding. I refuse to kill myself trying to get those extra pounds off.
I think that I have been writing this in my blog all along. It's not worth destroying your health by losing weight to quickly. Not to mention the fact that being over weight is already destructive to one's health.
Fasting your pounds off is stupid. Using diet pills is effective for a short time, but when you give up the pills, back comes the appetite and the weight with it. Besides that diet pills can become addictive.
Oh you can get that stomach tied up and chopped up, but you still have to learn to limit your food intake. Yep, that's right, you have to learn how to eat smaller portions. Gee, couldn't someone do that without the surgery? I think so.
There are all kinds of silly things people do to lose weight. In the end many people suffer from terrible adverse effects from avoiding the one real solution to their weight gain.
EAT LESS FOOD. Cut those food portions in half. Don't believe that garbage that you should push yourself away from the table feeling a little hungry. Nope, that doesn't work.
You'll have to monitor your food consumption. It will have to be a 24/7, 365 days a year.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Eating Those Govenment Recommended Daily Servings Of Vegetables
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182.2-pounds.
It's only because I had a large lunch yesterday. Someone gave me a dogie box of food from the Christmas Buffet. It was loaded with food.
Yes, when I ate that box of food I went over my calorie count for the day. But, I am not going to fret about it. I didn't have any dessert with it. And, I quit eating for the rest of the day.
Getting A Buzz From Pulverized Vegetables
For the last three days I have been experimenting with pulverizing different vegetables in my food blender.
I started three days ago with blending up carrots and leaf lettuce in milk, and tossing in some protein powder. That made for an interesting concoction.
Yesterday I was mixing in tomatoes, broccoli, celery, tomato, and leaf lettuce.
Today I made two different concoctions because my blender was over loaded. I drank both concoctions.
After having made these concoctions of pulverized vegetables I noticed two effects. One, after having drank them down, I felt like I just ate a Thanksgiving Dinner. I was stuffed. That full feeling stayed with me a long part of the day yesterday. Two, I noticed that I was getting a buzz from it. I can't explain what was happening, but I felt like something was pumping into my veins and charging me up.
I was thinking is this a real feeling here? Is this stuff giving me something like a sugar buzz? I was also wondering if it's not the caffeine in the coffee.
I drank this morning two blenders full of vegetables, ice cold water, and milk. I pulverized five carrots, one large orange bell pepper, a cup or more of broccoli heads, three apples, four celery stalks, one medium tomato, two scoops of protein powder, and honey.
Gee, did I meet the governments recommendation for five servings of vegetables a day there?
Putting all these things together in the blender and pulverizing them overfilled the blender. I had to split up the ingredients and the processing.
I can't help but wonder what the long term effect will be if I continue to eat my vegetables like this. I am wondering if I will improve anything.
Right now after having drank down this concoction over one hour or so ago, I still feel stuffed.
It certainly is an interesting way to eat vegetables. I am definitely pulverizing the veggies down to a smaller particle than if I masticated them with my teeth. I also saved time.
Unfortunately, with my schedule like it is, I won't be able to do this everyday. And believe me, it gets tiring trying to eat four stalks of celery, a tomato, lettuce, apples, etc.. To get all those ingredients together and then eat them takes a while to chew them up in the mouth.
Also when I am out on the road, it gets very expensive to buy salad at a restaurant. It just seems to me, the more healthy the food is, the more they gouge the customer for it. I may be wrong.
Eating out isn't cheap. I went to a buffet the other day and the charge was almost nine dollars. That was cheap compared to many buffets.
When I get into the city and eat at a McDonald's, my bill can easily be $9.00-$10.00 just by purchasing a diet coke, some French Fries, and a hamburger.
It's much cheaper to make stuff for myself. I may start blending stuff and then carrying it in a large jar, or maybe a gallon jug. The only problem with that will be keeping it refrigerated.
Finally, this isn't all that I am eating throughout the day. I am eating other things like chicken, soups, and Christmas Goodies. Yum Yum...
Those are my thoughts for today, such as they are.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182.2-pounds.
It's only because I had a large lunch yesterday. Someone gave me a dogie box of food from the Christmas Buffet. It was loaded with food.
Yes, when I ate that box of food I went over my calorie count for the day. But, I am not going to fret about it. I didn't have any dessert with it. And, I quit eating for the rest of the day.
Getting A Buzz From Pulverized Vegetables
For the last three days I have been experimenting with pulverizing different vegetables in my food blender.
I started three days ago with blending up carrots and leaf lettuce in milk, and tossing in some protein powder. That made for an interesting concoction.
Yesterday I was mixing in tomatoes, broccoli, celery, tomato, and leaf lettuce.
Today I made two different concoctions because my blender was over loaded. I drank both concoctions.
After having made these concoctions of pulverized vegetables I noticed two effects. One, after having drank them down, I felt like I just ate a Thanksgiving Dinner. I was stuffed. That full feeling stayed with me a long part of the day yesterday. Two, I noticed that I was getting a buzz from it. I can't explain what was happening, but I felt like something was pumping into my veins and charging me up.
I was thinking is this a real feeling here? Is this stuff giving me something like a sugar buzz? I was also wondering if it's not the caffeine in the coffee.
I drank this morning two blenders full of vegetables, ice cold water, and milk. I pulverized five carrots, one large orange bell pepper, a cup or more of broccoli heads, three apples, four celery stalks, one medium tomato, two scoops of protein powder, and honey.
Gee, did I meet the governments recommendation for five servings of vegetables a day there?
Putting all these things together in the blender and pulverizing them overfilled the blender. I had to split up the ingredients and the processing.
I can't help but wonder what the long term effect will be if I continue to eat my vegetables like this. I am wondering if I will improve anything.
Right now after having drank down this concoction over one hour or so ago, I still feel stuffed.
It certainly is an interesting way to eat vegetables. I am definitely pulverizing the veggies down to a smaller particle than if I masticated them with my teeth. I also saved time.
Unfortunately, with my schedule like it is, I won't be able to do this everyday. And believe me, it gets tiring trying to eat four stalks of celery, a tomato, lettuce, apples, etc.. To get all those ingredients together and then eat them takes a while to chew them up in the mouth.
Also when I am out on the road, it gets very expensive to buy salad at a restaurant. It just seems to me, the more healthy the food is, the more they gouge the customer for it. I may be wrong.
Eating out isn't cheap. I went to a buffet the other day and the charge was almost nine dollars. That was cheap compared to many buffets.
When I get into the city and eat at a McDonald's, my bill can easily be $9.00-$10.00 just by purchasing a diet coke, some French Fries, and a hamburger.
It's much cheaper to make stuff for myself. I may start blending stuff and then carrying it in a large jar, or maybe a gallon jug. The only problem with that will be keeping it refrigerated.
Finally, this isn't all that I am eating throughout the day. I am eating other things like chicken, soups, and Christmas Goodies. Yum Yum...
Those are my thoughts for today, such as they are.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Friday, December 14, 2007
Can We Eat Candy For Breakfast?
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181-pounds.
That's down from yesterday and still up from my record.
Now, I had a fairly large lunch today. I had two pieces of chicken, one of which was a chicken breast. I also had potatoes, dumplings, and vegetables. I am done eating for the day. I expect I won't see any weight change by tomorrow.
Can We Eat Candy For Breakfast?
When I was growing up it never occurred to me to pull out a candy bar and eat it for breakfast. It never occurred to me to eat candy at any time for breakfast.
I guess that's all changed with the younger generation. When I got to work today one of my fellow workers was there in the break room eating a big bag of M&M's. Next to him was a bag of potato chips that he was going to consume next.
I said to him, "Hey interesting breakfast you have there." This is the guy I described in the past that's round like a beach ball. He's lost some weight, but now he's really struggling.
He got a look of guilt on his face and said, "Yeah I guess I shouldn't eat this." I told him, "Don't worry about it. Just make sure that's all you eat for breakfast and you'll be fine."
He said, "Didn't you say this was bad for me?" I said, "I never told you any of this is bad for you. I said, don't eat too much of it, that's all." I then said, "If you eat that candy and the chips and stop there you'll be fine until lunch."
I asked him if he doesn't remember me telling him about the Snicker Bar diet. He said, "He can't." I said, "We talked about just eating one 500 calorie Snicker Bar three times a day, and still managing to lose weight."
The problem with most people is they don't understand how to evaluate the food they eat. They want to eat, but they want to eat all the wrong stuff. Hey, I'm the same way.
He could have eaten four hard boiled eggs for that bag of candies. He would have had protein for his system instead of sugar.
Someone might say, "Hey, what about all the cholesterol in the eggs?" I think he has bigger problems being so overweight than his cholesterol.
I told this young preponderant man that he needs to start writing down everything he eats, and then start trying to figure out how many calories he has eaten.
I know I am wasting my time with him. He's destined to stay the way he is. I can see that it means more to him to stay as he is, rather than to make the necessary change.
I hope this isn't you. The benefits that go along with the struggle are well worth it.
Years ago I thought that I would never see 180-pounds again. I really thought that I was destined to be over weight for the rest of my life.
I found that answer to the question: How can I lose weight? How can I get skinny again?
EAT LESS FOOD. That's the answer. If you'll do that, then you will lose weight.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181-pounds.
That's down from yesterday and still up from my record.
Now, I had a fairly large lunch today. I had two pieces of chicken, one of which was a chicken breast. I also had potatoes, dumplings, and vegetables. I am done eating for the day. I expect I won't see any weight change by tomorrow.
Can We Eat Candy For Breakfast?
When I was growing up it never occurred to me to pull out a candy bar and eat it for breakfast. It never occurred to me to eat candy at any time for breakfast.
I guess that's all changed with the younger generation. When I got to work today one of my fellow workers was there in the break room eating a big bag of M&M's. Next to him was a bag of potato chips that he was going to consume next.
I said to him, "Hey interesting breakfast you have there." This is the guy I described in the past that's round like a beach ball. He's lost some weight, but now he's really struggling.
He got a look of guilt on his face and said, "Yeah I guess I shouldn't eat this." I told him, "Don't worry about it. Just make sure that's all you eat for breakfast and you'll be fine."
He said, "Didn't you say this was bad for me?" I said, "I never told you any of this is bad for you. I said, don't eat too much of it, that's all." I then said, "If you eat that candy and the chips and stop there you'll be fine until lunch."
I asked him if he doesn't remember me telling him about the Snicker Bar diet. He said, "He can't." I said, "We talked about just eating one 500 calorie Snicker Bar three times a day, and still managing to lose weight."
The problem with most people is they don't understand how to evaluate the food they eat. They want to eat, but they want to eat all the wrong stuff. Hey, I'm the same way.
He could have eaten four hard boiled eggs for that bag of candies. He would have had protein for his system instead of sugar.
Someone might say, "Hey, what about all the cholesterol in the eggs?" I think he has bigger problems being so overweight than his cholesterol.
I told this young preponderant man that he needs to start writing down everything he eats, and then start trying to figure out how many calories he has eaten.
I know I am wasting my time with him. He's destined to stay the way he is. I can see that it means more to him to stay as he is, rather than to make the necessary change.
I hope this isn't you. The benefits that go along with the struggle are well worth it.
Years ago I thought that I would never see 180-pounds again. I really thought that I was destined to be over weight for the rest of my life.
I found that answer to the question: How can I lose weight? How can I get skinny again?
EAT LESS FOOD. That's the answer. If you'll do that, then you will lose weight.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Try Making Juice In The Blender
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.6-pounds.
This is up from my record of three days ago. It's just stuff waiting to leave.
So here I am back up over my record. Hmm, what am I supposed to do, get depressed? I have to remember that this time last year I was way over 200-pounds. I was close to 240-pounds.
I was eating Lean Cuisines three times a day just about this time last year. I eat more than that now. Is it any wonder that my weight would stall?
I have to remember that this weight loss program is a life long battle. It's "The Battle Of The Bulge." Unfortunately for we preponderates it's going to go on for the rest of our lives.
Ours aren't those hypersonic over driving metabolisms that instantaneously evaporates the food as we consume it, and then turns it into fat burning, muscle building, metabolic fuel.
NO, we are the ones who consume a morsel of food and then see it instantaneously come to the sides of our stomachs or our butts. "There it is today that cookie I ate just yesterday," is our thoughts.
Judging from the many over sized people I see walking around, we aren't the only ones that struggle with this.
The only difference between them and me, is I decided that I must do something to change it.
It's not rocket science what I did, and what I am doing now. All I did was learned to EAT LESS FOOD.
It's just simple physics and chemistry that's all. If someone consumes too many calories for the daily needs of the body, it will store the excess in the form of fat. That's it in a nut shell.
It's not profound. However, putting it into practice; well, that's a totally different story. When implementing a reduced calorie program, the will has to be used. If the heart and the will isn't there, then the battle will be lost.
I don't know how many people look in on my blog. I have had some comments. I don't know if there are all that many people who are getting encouragement from it. I don't know.
Onward I go; writing into the twilight of the future. Then not knowing what soul it will touch and inspire.
My inspiration to lose weight didn't come from a so called "positive message." My incentive came from a tired broken heart that was desperately seeking to be where I was years ago. I was lean in the military. I was running in the military. Then as time wore on I gained weight.
I packed on the fat and tried desperately to figure out how to get it off. My knees were breaking down. I was huffing and puffing climbing the stairs. I had to hold the rail going up the stairs.
NO, I didn't find the answers for my problem until I had an inspiration. It was like a spark of light in my brain. I thought could it work? Could eating less food be the real answer? Is that all it takes? Eat Less Food is all? Won't I die from malnourishment? Won't I be suffering like Karen Carpenter? Won't I end up neurotic from depriving myself? Shouldn't I see a doctor first?
Nope, Nope, Nope, NO, NO, NO. So what do I do? Eat Less Food. Is that it? I Eat Less Food? Yep, that's it, you eat less food. Well how much less? I don't know for you. You'll have to figure it out.
Why not start out weighing yourself first? Why not find a body, height, weight chart that's current somewhere on line? Why not figure out first where you ought to be on that chart?
And quit lying to yourself. If you have fat flapping like I did then admit you are fat, as I like to write preponderant.
You could start there. How serious are you about losing weight?
Making Juice Without That Juicer
Years ago there was an infomercial on TV for the Juiceman Juicer. This fitness guy who was a host was endorsing the wonders of making fresh juice. In his sales pitch he was extolling the wonders of fresh juice made from vegetables that are purchased at the local market.
You would think that drinking juice that was fresh made was the new fountain of youth.
Now, I have known people who have purchased those machines and began juicing every little morsel of vegetable and fruit they could find. Soon they would find that since the machine wasn't an industrial type machine, it broke down. Then there would go their dream of making juice.
I am not knocking juicing as a way to maintain a healthy life style. I will concede that drinking juice is a quick way to get those little vital nutrients into the body.
It's certainly more convenient to drink a vegetable than to chew it. Do I have to purchase one of those expensive juice makers to enjoy the benefits of juice? Umm, maybe not.
How about using that blender that's been sitting there on the counter collecting dust? You know the one that was given to you as a wedding gift. Yeah, that appliance over in the corner that you use once in a blue moon to make margaritas with, that's the one.
Yesterday I hit on something by accident because I was trying to get my bird to eat vegetables. He's like a five year old child, he turns his beak up at everything. He's losing weight because of it.
I purchased carrots, lettuce, and apples, so I could give them to this ill-tempered-fluff-ball of feathers.
I put them into the blender and pulverised them to mush. Then I put them onto a plastic lid and put it in his cage. I thought maybe he would consume this stuff if I made goosh out of it for him. Naw, it sat in the cage and dried out. I threw it away.
But, because of this, I made a discovery. That concoction actually tasted good. "Hmmm, I think I hit something here," I thought.
This morning I took four medium sized carrots, and green lettuce, and pulverized it to mush in the blender. I poured in two cups of milk, and two large scoops of cookies-and-cream protein powder. I ran the blender until the whole mix became puree. I tossed in a small bag of Splenda.
When I was done, I had a thick, creamy, yummy tasting drink that was loaded with fiber, and protein.
I had carrot juice with fiber, lettuce juice, and protein drink all in one delicious drink.
Experiment with mixing carrots, and other green things in the blender. Add ice cold water to make the mixture turn in the blender. Add honey, or sweetener to make it just a bit sweeter.
Here is what you'll get: You'll get the juice and the fiber in the same drink. It will be pulverised so you can drink it like a drink.
It's cheaper than buying a juicer. I think it will work too.
Tomorrow I may toss my angry little bird into the blender, that is if he keeps biting me.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.6-pounds.
This is up from my record of three days ago. It's just stuff waiting to leave.
So here I am back up over my record. Hmm, what am I supposed to do, get depressed? I have to remember that this time last year I was way over 200-pounds. I was close to 240-pounds.
I was eating Lean Cuisines three times a day just about this time last year. I eat more than that now. Is it any wonder that my weight would stall?
I have to remember that this weight loss program is a life long battle. It's "The Battle Of The Bulge." Unfortunately for we preponderates it's going to go on for the rest of our lives.
Ours aren't those hypersonic over driving metabolisms that instantaneously evaporates the food as we consume it, and then turns it into fat burning, muscle building, metabolic fuel.
NO, we are the ones who consume a morsel of food and then see it instantaneously come to the sides of our stomachs or our butts. "There it is today that cookie I ate just yesterday," is our thoughts.
Judging from the many over sized people I see walking around, we aren't the only ones that struggle with this.
The only difference between them and me, is I decided that I must do something to change it.
It's not rocket science what I did, and what I am doing now. All I did was learned to EAT LESS FOOD.
It's just simple physics and chemistry that's all. If someone consumes too many calories for the daily needs of the body, it will store the excess in the form of fat. That's it in a nut shell.
It's not profound. However, putting it into practice; well, that's a totally different story. When implementing a reduced calorie program, the will has to be used. If the heart and the will isn't there, then the battle will be lost.
I don't know how many people look in on my blog. I have had some comments. I don't know if there are all that many people who are getting encouragement from it. I don't know.
Onward I go; writing into the twilight of the future. Then not knowing what soul it will touch and inspire.
My inspiration to lose weight didn't come from a so called "positive message." My incentive came from a tired broken heart that was desperately seeking to be where I was years ago. I was lean in the military. I was running in the military. Then as time wore on I gained weight.
I packed on the fat and tried desperately to figure out how to get it off. My knees were breaking down. I was huffing and puffing climbing the stairs. I had to hold the rail going up the stairs.
NO, I didn't find the answers for my problem until I had an inspiration. It was like a spark of light in my brain. I thought could it work? Could eating less food be the real answer? Is that all it takes? Eat Less Food is all? Won't I die from malnourishment? Won't I be suffering like Karen Carpenter? Won't I end up neurotic from depriving myself? Shouldn't I see a doctor first?
Nope, Nope, Nope, NO, NO, NO. So what do I do? Eat Less Food. Is that it? I Eat Less Food? Yep, that's it, you eat less food. Well how much less? I don't know for you. You'll have to figure it out.
Why not start out weighing yourself first? Why not find a body, height, weight chart that's current somewhere on line? Why not figure out first where you ought to be on that chart?
And quit lying to yourself. If you have fat flapping like I did then admit you are fat, as I like to write preponderant.
You could start there. How serious are you about losing weight?
Making Juice Without That Juicer
Years ago there was an infomercial on TV for the Juiceman Juicer. This fitness guy who was a host was endorsing the wonders of making fresh juice. In his sales pitch he was extolling the wonders of fresh juice made from vegetables that are purchased at the local market.
You would think that drinking juice that was fresh made was the new fountain of youth.
Now, I have known people who have purchased those machines and began juicing every little morsel of vegetable and fruit they could find. Soon they would find that since the machine wasn't an industrial type machine, it broke down. Then there would go their dream of making juice.
I am not knocking juicing as a way to maintain a healthy life style. I will concede that drinking juice is a quick way to get those little vital nutrients into the body.
It's certainly more convenient to drink a vegetable than to chew it. Do I have to purchase one of those expensive juice makers to enjoy the benefits of juice? Umm, maybe not.
How about using that blender that's been sitting there on the counter collecting dust? You know the one that was given to you as a wedding gift. Yeah, that appliance over in the corner that you use once in a blue moon to make margaritas with, that's the one.
Yesterday I hit on something by accident because I was trying to get my bird to eat vegetables. He's like a five year old child, he turns his beak up at everything. He's losing weight because of it.
I purchased carrots, lettuce, and apples, so I could give them to this ill-tempered-fluff-ball of feathers.
I put them into the blender and pulverised them to mush. Then I put them onto a plastic lid and put it in his cage. I thought maybe he would consume this stuff if I made goosh out of it for him. Naw, it sat in the cage and dried out. I threw it away.
But, because of this, I made a discovery. That concoction actually tasted good. "Hmmm, I think I hit something here," I thought.
This morning I took four medium sized carrots, and green lettuce, and pulverized it to mush in the blender. I poured in two cups of milk, and two large scoops of cookies-and-cream protein powder. I ran the blender until the whole mix became puree. I tossed in a small bag of Splenda.
When I was done, I had a thick, creamy, yummy tasting drink that was loaded with fiber, and protein.
I had carrot juice with fiber, lettuce juice, and protein drink all in one delicious drink.
Experiment with mixing carrots, and other green things in the blender. Add ice cold water to make the mixture turn in the blender. Add honey, or sweetener to make it just a bit sweeter.
Here is what you'll get: You'll get the juice and the fiber in the same drink. It will be pulverised so you can drink it like a drink.
It's cheaper than buying a juicer. I think it will work too.
Tomorrow I may toss my angry little bird into the blender, that is if he keeps biting me.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Adding Weight By Eating At The Buffet Table
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
Yes, that's up about four pounds.
It's just stuff waiting to leave.
Yesterday I went to lunch with a friend. We went to a buffet. I had about five different pieces of fish. I also had a roasted chicken breast. Then I had some vegetables.
I went to the dessert table and had an apple pie square, a cherry pie square, and about 1 1/2 cups of soft swirly ice cream.
Like I said, it's just stuff waiting to leave.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
Yes, that's up about four pounds.
It's just stuff waiting to leave.
Yesterday I went to lunch with a friend. We went to a buffet. I had about five different pieces of fish. I also had a roasted chicken breast. Then I had some vegetables.
I went to the dessert table and had an apple pie square, a cherry pie square, and about 1 1/2 cups of soft swirly ice cream.
Like I said, it's just stuff waiting to leave.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
What To Do When You Can't Sleep
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds.
Hey what's up with that? Well, last night I couldn't get to sleep. I stayed up until 2:00 AM or so. I was drinking green tea with artificial sweetener, and hot chocolate. I was attempting to go to sleep.
I was listening to the radio. I was very interested in what I was hearing. I was listening to "Coast To Coast." Now, I am not a real big fan of some of the guests that come on. But the one they had on intrigued me.
He was talking about America isn't really in the middle of a gas shortage. He was also saying that the real people in charge are manipulating our fuel prices. And it's not because they want money. It's because they want control of people in mass numbers. I am investigating this now here at the library.
This isn't the scope of this blog, but some of what he was talking about explains why we are seeing the food prices soaring.
I went to the store yesterday and was gaging because I popped $42.00 for just a few items. I purchased some eggs, a head of lettuce, some other vegetable that I feed to my bird, coffee, and a couple other things. The clerk said $42.00 and my mouth dropped.
I don't usually frequent this store any more. I go to the discount food store around the block. But it was closed.
I have cut so far back on my food consumption, I don't go to the store like I used to. I have been purchasing food that is already to eat. I haven't had the time to cook.
I am not home that much. So, I have been eating out on the road. I already thought the food on the road was pricey.
When I go to McDonald's I will usually eat a hamburger, or something else. Then I am ready to fork out $5.00 for something that years ago McDonald's boasted would give me change back from my dollar. Yes, I get change back from my twenty dollar bill now. Ugh....
So, I guess we all have a good reason to cut back on our eating now. It's too expensive to eat anything.
Why Have I Gained?
I started out this morning writing about my gain of almost three pounds. Why did I gain it? It's easy to figure out. I am full of it again.
Last night I was drinking different fluids. They had not left my system.
You'll see the same thing. You'll drink something late one evening during a sleepless night and you'll see it on the scale in the morning. I did.
Oh, and one more thing. I was hungry late last night. I had to think about what I was going to eat to curb that stomach turning hunger. I decided to eat a very large carrot.
I was trying to get my bird to consume some of it; he turned his beak up at it. I ate it instead.
So, some of the extra weight was that big carrot as well.
Bye for now...
That's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 181.2-pounds.
Hey what's up with that? Well, last night I couldn't get to sleep. I stayed up until 2:00 AM or so. I was drinking green tea with artificial sweetener, and hot chocolate. I was attempting to go to sleep.
I was listening to the radio. I was very interested in what I was hearing. I was listening to "Coast To Coast." Now, I am not a real big fan of some of the guests that come on. But the one they had on intrigued me.
He was talking about America isn't really in the middle of a gas shortage. He was also saying that the real people in charge are manipulating our fuel prices. And it's not because they want money. It's because they want control of people in mass numbers. I am investigating this now here at the library.
This isn't the scope of this blog, but some of what he was talking about explains why we are seeing the food prices soaring.
I went to the store yesterday and was gaging because I popped $42.00 for just a few items. I purchased some eggs, a head of lettuce, some other vegetable that I feed to my bird, coffee, and a couple other things. The clerk said $42.00 and my mouth dropped.
I don't usually frequent this store any more. I go to the discount food store around the block. But it was closed.
I have cut so far back on my food consumption, I don't go to the store like I used to. I have been purchasing food that is already to eat. I haven't had the time to cook.
I am not home that much. So, I have been eating out on the road. I already thought the food on the road was pricey.
When I go to McDonald's I will usually eat a hamburger, or something else. Then I am ready to fork out $5.00 for something that years ago McDonald's boasted would give me change back from my dollar. Yes, I get change back from my twenty dollar bill now. Ugh....
So, I guess we all have a good reason to cut back on our eating now. It's too expensive to eat anything.
Why Have I Gained?
I started out this morning writing about my gain of almost three pounds. Why did I gain it? It's easy to figure out. I am full of it again.
Last night I was drinking different fluids. They had not left my system.
You'll see the same thing. You'll drink something late one evening during a sleepless night and you'll see it on the scale in the morning. I did.
Oh, and one more thing. I was hungry late last night. I had to think about what I was going to eat to curb that stomach turning hunger. I decided to eat a very large carrot.
I was trying to get my bird to consume some of it; he turned his beak up at it. I ate it instead.
So, some of the extra weight was that big carrot as well.
Bye for now...
That's the way it is... I'm David Dane
Monday, December 10, 2007
My New Record
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 178.8-pounds.
This is a new record for this weight loss season.
More Christmas Cookies please, we're losing to much weight here.
I had a long commentary, then accidently wiped it out just now. I don't have time to rewrite it. So, you can live without my dribble for a day or so.
Bye for now...
And that's they way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 178.8-pounds.
This is a new record for this weight loss season.
More Christmas Cookies please, we're losing to much weight here.
I had a long commentary, then accidently wiped it out just now. I don't have time to rewrite it. So, you can live without my dribble for a day or so.
Bye for now...
And that's they way it is...I'm David Dane
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Someone Understands
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 179.4-pounds.
I am back at my record weight here today. Hmmm, can I stay there? Especially since I have been chowing down on the Christmas Goodies. Yummy...
I have been eating the goodies. When I have I add those calories to my total for the day. If I hit that 1,500 calorie target, I will usually quit eating for the day.
I didn't say don't eat a fist full of Christmas Cookies. What I said was, you better make a choice. Either you eat that hamburger or you eat those cookies. You don't get both.
Go ahead eat that little bundle of Christmas Joy, then realize that was lunch, or dinner.
I do.
The other day I had a bunch of dessert. I didn't eat for the rest of the day. It's because I blew my calorie count clean out of the window.
Now, I can't keep doing that day-in-and-day-out. That would be unwise. But, there are just some days when the Sugar Monster just hits with a vengeance.
Someone Gets It
Dinah weighed in with this comment: "You are so right about counting calories...we have to do it forever...I finally figured out monitoring my food intake was a lifelong necessity...losing the weight is only part of the equation in weight loss...the other part is keeping it "lost"....keep hammering away...maybe some people will eventually get it...those calories add up!"
She was commenting on what I wrote about yesterday. A woman I was with couldn't understand my obsession with calorie counting.
Thank you Dinah.
It's Not Fun Scrutinizing What I Eat
I don't like having to scrutinize every piece of food that I am going to eat. I wish that I didn't have to. But, I got preponderant because I didn't exercise caution with my food consumption.
There are some people who can go day in and day out eating scrimpy little meals, and they do it by habit. I had a woman friend that was like that. She would open and eat a can of smelly little fishes, and eat a little salad, then feel full. She was lean like a little twig.
I don't have that luxury. My appetite is considerably larger than hers. I want to eat, and eat, and eat.
I think most people want to eat, and eat, and eat. Judging from the number of over sized men and women out there, I think I may be right.
It doesn't matter what drives them to over eat; because sooner or later they will have to realize they are in trouble. Then who ever it is that's over weight will have to dramatically change their food consumption habits.
My way is dramatic. It may seem to be neurotic and obsessive at times. Believe me, I wish it were different. But, if I don't stick to a certain regimen, sooner or later I will lose control.
It's like a pilot that has to go flying; he better pre-flight that plane. And he/she has to stick to a regimen every time. If not, then one day something will be wrong and that could be disastrous.
When I am eating I am thinking about what's going into my mouth. I can still enjoy the momentary flavor, but I must be responsible in the process.
I must be on my way.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 179.4-pounds.
I am back at my record weight here today. Hmmm, can I stay there? Especially since I have been chowing down on the Christmas Goodies. Yummy...
I have been eating the goodies. When I have I add those calories to my total for the day. If I hit that 1,500 calorie target, I will usually quit eating for the day.
I didn't say don't eat a fist full of Christmas Cookies. What I said was, you better make a choice. Either you eat that hamburger or you eat those cookies. You don't get both.
Go ahead eat that little bundle of Christmas Joy, then realize that was lunch, or dinner.
I do.
The other day I had a bunch of dessert. I didn't eat for the rest of the day. It's because I blew my calorie count clean out of the window.
Now, I can't keep doing that day-in-and-day-out. That would be unwise. But, there are just some days when the Sugar Monster just hits with a vengeance.
Someone Gets It
Dinah weighed in with this comment: "You are so right about counting calories...we have to do it forever...I finally figured out monitoring my food intake was a lifelong necessity...losing the weight is only part of the equation in weight loss...the other part is keeping it "lost"....keep hammering away...maybe some people will eventually get it...those calories add up!"
She was commenting on what I wrote about yesterday. A woman I was with couldn't understand my obsession with calorie counting.
Thank you Dinah.
It's Not Fun Scrutinizing What I Eat
I don't like having to scrutinize every piece of food that I am going to eat. I wish that I didn't have to. But, I got preponderant because I didn't exercise caution with my food consumption.
There are some people who can go day in and day out eating scrimpy little meals, and they do it by habit. I had a woman friend that was like that. She would open and eat a can of smelly little fishes, and eat a little salad, then feel full. She was lean like a little twig.
I don't have that luxury. My appetite is considerably larger than hers. I want to eat, and eat, and eat.
I think most people want to eat, and eat, and eat. Judging from the number of over sized men and women out there, I think I may be right.
It doesn't matter what drives them to over eat; because sooner or later they will have to realize they are in trouble. Then who ever it is that's over weight will have to dramatically change their food consumption habits.
My way is dramatic. It may seem to be neurotic and obsessive at times. Believe me, I wish it were different. But, if I don't stick to a certain regimen, sooner or later I will lose control.
It's like a pilot that has to go flying; he better pre-flight that plane. And he/she has to stick to a regimen every time. If not, then one day something will be wrong and that could be disastrous.
When I am eating I am thinking about what's going into my mouth. I can still enjoy the momentary flavor, but I must be responsible in the process.
I must be on my way.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Critics Everywhere
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.6-pounds.
This is just about 1-pound over my record for this weight loss season.
Golly, I just can't eat enough Christmas cookies.
People Don't Get It With The Weight Loss
Today I took a friend shopping. She can't drive because of her disability, so I helped her out today.
She treated me to lunch at Wendy's. I took the little box the French Fries came in and was looking for the calories. She said, "Oh oh, there you go looking for the calories." I said what do you mean, "Oh, oh?" She said, "You're always talking about calories." Then she asked, "Are you still counting calories? Haven't you lost enough weight?"
Well, maybe I lost enough weight. That doesn't mean I need to quit counting calories.
This is where people don't get it. People think they can eat a little hamburger and French Fries for lunch. Then they will wonder why it is they are getting fat. Well, it's because they fail to remember all the other stuff that they ate or drank throughout the day.
The calories add up very quickly when consuming food. It goes like this: A few hundred calories here, and then a few hundred calories there, then you're fat, and getting fatter.
She was no exception to the rule. When I met here five years ago, she was a whole lot thinner than she is now.
What people fail to realize is we all should be looking very carefully at how much food we consume.
This same lady also told me that a man needs more than 1,500 calories a day to live. Umm, yeah if I were maintaining my weight I could eat a couple hundred more calories. Then I would stabilize at a set weight.
I am still attempting to get down to 160-pounds. She wanted to know why I think I should lose more weight, just as many people want to know. Well, I have 20-pounds of gut fat, that's why.
My Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale says I am at 24% body fat. A man should be at around 15% body fat. I want to get to the 15% body fat range. This would mean that I would be in around 160-pounds.
Here at 180-pounds I am much better than I was a year ago. But, I am not near what I want to be.
I told my friend, "Believe me I am not being neurotic about this. I know what I am doing."
You are going to run in to people who don't understand. Many of them will be highly critical. Many people you will run into are attempting to lose weight but are doing it the wrong way.
I eat food. I eat cookies, candy, cake, hamburgers, French Fries, potatoes, cheese, milk, juice, fruit, and a bunch of different foods. I don't eat as much as I used to.
I eat all the stuff that I used to eat years ago. I don't eat big heaping portions anymore. Well, some days I go to town eating. It's not like I used to. If it was, I wouldn't have lost 60-pounds in just under one year.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.6-pounds.
This is just about 1-pound over my record for this weight loss season.
Golly, I just can't eat enough Christmas cookies.
People Don't Get It With The Weight Loss
Today I took a friend shopping. She can't drive because of her disability, so I helped her out today.
She treated me to lunch at Wendy's. I took the little box the French Fries came in and was looking for the calories. She said, "Oh oh, there you go looking for the calories." I said what do you mean, "Oh, oh?" She said, "You're always talking about calories." Then she asked, "Are you still counting calories? Haven't you lost enough weight?"
Well, maybe I lost enough weight. That doesn't mean I need to quit counting calories.
This is where people don't get it. People think they can eat a little hamburger and French Fries for lunch. Then they will wonder why it is they are getting fat. Well, it's because they fail to remember all the other stuff that they ate or drank throughout the day.
The calories add up very quickly when consuming food. It goes like this: A few hundred calories here, and then a few hundred calories there, then you're fat, and getting fatter.
She was no exception to the rule. When I met here five years ago, she was a whole lot thinner than she is now.
What people fail to realize is we all should be looking very carefully at how much food we consume.
This same lady also told me that a man needs more than 1,500 calories a day to live. Umm, yeah if I were maintaining my weight I could eat a couple hundred more calories. Then I would stabilize at a set weight.
I am still attempting to get down to 160-pounds. She wanted to know why I think I should lose more weight, just as many people want to know. Well, I have 20-pounds of gut fat, that's why.
My Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale says I am at 24% body fat. A man should be at around 15% body fat. I want to get to the 15% body fat range. This would mean that I would be in around 160-pounds.
Here at 180-pounds I am much better than I was a year ago. But, I am not near what I want to be.
I told my friend, "Believe me I am not being neurotic about this. I know what I am doing."
You are going to run in to people who don't understand. Many of them will be highly critical. Many people you will run into are attempting to lose weight but are doing it the wrong way.
I eat food. I eat cookies, candy, cake, hamburgers, French Fries, potatoes, cheese, milk, juice, fruit, and a bunch of different foods. I don't eat as much as I used to.
I eat all the stuff that I used to eat years ago. I don't eat big heaping portions anymore. Well, some days I go to town eating. It's not like I used to. If it was, I wouldn't have lost 60-pounds in just under one year.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Friday, December 7, 2007
No Excuse Anymore For Getting Fat At McDonald's
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto that Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182-pounds.
That's the same weight as yesterday, and it's only 2.6-pounds over my record for this weight loss season. I gotta eat more Christmas cookies.
Today I Ate At McDonald's
I went to McDonald's for lunch today. I ate a Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese, a medium French Fries, and a Diet Coke. The total calorie count for the meal was 1,120 calories. Of course the double burger was the largest calorie consumable item in the meal coming in at a whopping 740 calories.
As I was eating my meal I was looking at the environmentally friendly cartons that the food was served in. Do you remember when they used to be plastic foam? On the box the hamburger came in was a fully informational listing of the nutritional value of the food. It included the calorie count, the fat grams, the salt count, and the carbohydrate count. On the box of French Fries the same nutritional guide was supplied.
Now, I don't know if McDonald's is doing this because the law made them do it, or they are doing it as a public service. What ever the reason they are doing it for, I found it extremely helpful for me to figure out the nutritional value of the food I was eating.
McDonald's also lists on the paper place mat for the food trays a complete in store menu with the nutritional value of the food. So, if you are staying in the store to eat, or having your food passed out the drive up window, the nutritional value of the food is readily available for any one's observation.
This makes it extremely easy for someone like me who is calorie counting to figure out just how far over the line I may have just gone, or if I am holding the line.
Common sense would tell the average person that eating at McDonald's isn't going to make it easy to stay with any diet; not unless someone orders salads all the time.
Having the calorie counts available for anyone to see makes it hard for anyone to make up excuses for getting fat at McDonald's.
McDonald's has made it obvious that just about any food item you pull off the menu is going to be loaded with calories. This includes the salads, which average about 300 calories each.
Am I saying don't eat at McDonald's? No I am not. But, if you do eat at McDonald's, make sure you look at how many calories are in the items you are going to consume.
If you are a heart patient, a diabetic, a calorie counter, a Doctor Atkins's dieter, a person with high blood pressure, or just a plain old Joe, there is no excuse for messing up your diet any more.
McDonald's has laid its cards onto the table and exposed the truth. Now, no one has any excuses.
Thank you McDonald's... It's genuinely appreciated.
McDonald's I have just one request; just one. Would you please put in a points system for those Weight Watchers out there? They just can't figure out what a calorie is. It's too hard for them. Then they get confused.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto that Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182-pounds.
That's the same weight as yesterday, and it's only 2.6-pounds over my record for this weight loss season. I gotta eat more Christmas cookies.
Today I Ate At McDonald's
I went to McDonald's for lunch today. I ate a Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese, a medium French Fries, and a Diet Coke. The total calorie count for the meal was 1,120 calories. Of course the double burger was the largest calorie consumable item in the meal coming in at a whopping 740 calories.
As I was eating my meal I was looking at the environmentally friendly cartons that the food was served in. Do you remember when they used to be plastic foam? On the box the hamburger came in was a fully informational listing of the nutritional value of the food. It included the calorie count, the fat grams, the salt count, and the carbohydrate count. On the box of French Fries the same nutritional guide was supplied.
Now, I don't know if McDonald's is doing this because the law made them do it, or they are doing it as a public service. What ever the reason they are doing it for, I found it extremely helpful for me to figure out the nutritional value of the food I was eating.
McDonald's also lists on the paper place mat for the food trays a complete in store menu with the nutritional value of the food. So, if you are staying in the store to eat, or having your food passed out the drive up window, the nutritional value of the food is readily available for any one's observation.
This makes it extremely easy for someone like me who is calorie counting to figure out just how far over the line I may have just gone, or if I am holding the line.
Common sense would tell the average person that eating at McDonald's isn't going to make it easy to stay with any diet; not unless someone orders salads all the time.
Having the calorie counts available for anyone to see makes it hard for anyone to make up excuses for getting fat at McDonald's.
McDonald's has made it obvious that just about any food item you pull off the menu is going to be loaded with calories. This includes the salads, which average about 300 calories each.
Am I saying don't eat at McDonald's? No I am not. But, if you do eat at McDonald's, make sure you look at how many calories are in the items you are going to consume.
If you are a heart patient, a diabetic, a calorie counter, a Doctor Atkins's dieter, a person with high blood pressure, or just a plain old Joe, there is no excuse for messing up your diet any more.
McDonald's has laid its cards onto the table and exposed the truth. Now, no one has any excuses.
Thank you McDonald's... It's genuinely appreciated.
McDonald's I have just one request; just one. Would you please put in a points system for those Weight Watchers out there? They just can't figure out what a calorie is. It's too hard for them. Then they get confused.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Are You A Rabbit?
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182-pounds.
Hmmm, I guess I'm not eating enough Christmas Cookies. I'll have to have some at work tomorrow. Maybe I should buy some.
I got to get like Santa, 'cus nobody likes a skinny Santa.
So You Thing Eating Salads Is A Good Way To Lose Weight?
Someone told me that he thinks he can lose weight by eating only salads.
My first thought was, "Are you a rabbit?"
My second thought was, "Has this guy even studied anything about losing weight sensibly?"
I think that eating only salads to lose weight is a real bad idea. Who can eat just salad anyway?
One of the things that I keep stressing over and over in my blog here is don't kill yourself to lose weight. Eating only salad is a sure fire way to kill oneself.
There aren't enough nutrients in salad to sustain the human body. Since most salads are usually made from Iceberg Lettuce, the amount of nutrients the body will get are practically nothing.
The body has to have a balance of nutrients that come from the different food groups. The body needs fats, proteins, vitamins, and sugars in order to function properly.
I don't have time to go into the science.
Eating only salad to lose weight is unwise, and that method can't be sustained over a long period of time. Like anything that we eat, we crave variety in our diet.
Eating only salads will get boring. Sooner or later that guy will crave a hamburger and French Fries. Then his salad eating days will be over.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 182-pounds.
Hmmm, I guess I'm not eating enough Christmas Cookies. I'll have to have some at work tomorrow. Maybe I should buy some.
I got to get like Santa, 'cus nobody likes a skinny Santa.
So You Thing Eating Salads Is A Good Way To Lose Weight?
Someone told me that he thinks he can lose weight by eating only salads.
My first thought was, "Are you a rabbit?"
My second thought was, "Has this guy even studied anything about losing weight sensibly?"
I think that eating only salads to lose weight is a real bad idea. Who can eat just salad anyway?
One of the things that I keep stressing over and over in my blog here is don't kill yourself to lose weight. Eating only salad is a sure fire way to kill oneself.
There aren't enough nutrients in salad to sustain the human body. Since most salads are usually made from Iceberg Lettuce, the amount of nutrients the body will get are practically nothing.
The body has to have a balance of nutrients that come from the different food groups. The body needs fats, proteins, vitamins, and sugars in order to function properly.
I don't have time to go into the science.
Eating only salad to lose weight is unwise, and that method can't be sustained over a long period of time. Like anything that we eat, we crave variety in our diet.
Eating only salads will get boring. Sooner or later that guy will crave a hamburger and French Fries. Then his salad eating days will be over.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Being Able To Say No Thank You And Mean It
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
Yep I am just hanging around here over that 180 target weight.
No, I Don't Want It
Yesterday I was at a home in Glenview having lunch with a bunch of Senior Citizens from the Danish Home. Along with them came their baker. He was a young man from Denmark.
This young man has diabetes that is the kind someone is born with (Type-1). His body can't develop enough insulin to process glucose in his blood. As a result he has to take regular injections of insulin.
Along with the injections, he has to make sure he eats the right food. If he doesn't, he could suffer some terrible consequences that could prove fatal very quickly.
One of the foods that he has to be very weary of is desserts made with sugar. He also has to limit his intake of sweet liquids. In his case a potently sweet wine that he was given a shot glass full of.
We were eating dessert, and the husband of the hostess saw that most of the dessert had not been eaten. He got incensed and asked why the people weren't eating more dessert. Of course, I was happy to oblige the guy. It didn't bother me to have a little more. (I will explain why.)
He went around the table insisting the woman have more dessert. Then he looked at the baker and told him, "What you don't like my wife's baking?" "Eat more dessert," he insisted.
The same thing happened at the first house that we visited with the luncheon.
This poor kid. He knew he shouldn't eat anymore food. It could kill him right there, or make him very sick. He tried to say, "No, I can't." The old man kept insisting. The kid gave in.
If it had been me, I would have pulled out my injector and said, "Here, when I pass out, you make sure I get this because I am a diabetic." I would have shown him what for. But that's me.
The wife came along after that and was upset when he wouldn't finish off the wine. He told her it was too sweet. She took the glass indignantly.
He didn't have the courage to tell them that he is a diabetic and that he shouldn't, and really can't eat the food.
It had nothing to do with the taste of the food. It had nothing to do with the hospitality. It was that his life depended on abstaining from the food. It was life or death for him.
I am convinced that if he had spoken up and said, "I am a diabetic, I have to watch my food," they would have backed off.
I don't like pushy people. I especially don't like people who push their so called "hospitality" on me. It's no longer hospitality to me, it becomes an issue of control in my mind.
And, it's about that time my mind starts stirring up some incredibly wicked things that I want to say. However, I have to bare in my mind, "consider the source of the frustration." Then I make a concerted effort to curb my tongue. But, oh if they could get into my head, they wouldn't like what's up there for them.
Do We Know When To Say No, And Mean It?
One of the things that I am trying to get across in my posts on this blog is that we have an obligation to ourselves. We have an obligation to take care of ourselves, as long as we still have our wits about us. And, I am not writing it's easy. I have a long way to go in some areas.
This is why I have been writing, "I'm not losing weight for anyone else but me." I don't care if it seems like I am self consumed. I am no good to anyone if I can't live my life to the best I can.
And being over my weight limits was not living my life to the best.
My self indulgent thought is actually a blessing to those around me. Which is a paradox...
Now, when my head is tilted to the side, and and foam is dribbling out of my mouth, and I can't tell who's coming and going, and I am no longer there in my entirety , I will be someone elses responsibility. (God forbid...)
Back to my point. It's our self centered thinking that actually gets us into trouble. We eat because we are trying to fill something. It could be our stomachs, or it could be empty feelings.
So, I have been told. Me, I just get real hungry.
That food we love to consume can be our friend, or it can become the enemy. It's a blessing and it can be a curse.
I am not writing that finding the proper medium to live by is easy. Oh, goodness no. I am not climbing up onto a mighty horse here and looking down with my quill in hand ready to smite the feeble weaklings. In this case my keyboard at my finger tips is my weapon.
What I am writing is that we have to get to the point where we have the courage to stand by what we know we should do. In my case it was learning to EAT LESS FOOD.
What happens to many of us is we don't see that long term future waiting for us. We don't say well what if? What if I keep eating two loaves of bread a day? What if I keep eating a two liter of soda a day? What if I keep giving in to these impulses?
What will be my outcome?
In the situation I mentioned up on top there was an obligation on the part of the baker to put his foot down and say, "NO, I am a diabetic."
If the people didn't back off, then that would prove beyond a doubt they were truly officious people. Their hospitality would have become an offense, and not a blessing.
How about you, and me, are we trying to lose weight? Do we have any idea how much food we can consume to lose weight and still live a healthy existence?
Some people really don't know what they are doing. However if they do, then do they care enough to take action?
We the preponderant ones will run into more people like those I encountered yesterday. They will insist that we break our diets so they can satisfy their foolish yearnings to look hospitable.
They are officious, and they don't even know it.
Do you have the courage to say "NO" to more food? Do you know your limits and have you set them? You ought too.
Ours isn't an instant death from over eating. Ours will be a slow death. It will be lost friends who make foolish assumptions. It will be lost opportunity from our daily life. Our death will come slowly as we creep along in our extra wide wheel chairs.
I strained to make it up the stairs last year. I was in pain. The difference between me and many people, is I really don't complain about it. Not like I could have.
How about you? Can you say "NO" to you?
When I had that extra dessert yesterday I knew how many calories I had consumed already. I knew that with every bite that I took my evening dinner began to become a NO GO. I had to decide dessert, or dinner. Which will it be?
I gave up my evening meal to have my dessert. It was yummy. I had to wait until the morning came.
I woke up at 1:00 AM hungry. I couldn't go back to sleep. I got up, boiled some water, and made tea with some honey in it. Then I managed to fall back to sleep.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183-pounds.
Yep I am just hanging around here over that 180 target weight.
No, I Don't Want It
Yesterday I was at a home in Glenview having lunch with a bunch of Senior Citizens from the Danish Home. Along with them came their baker. He was a young man from Denmark.
This young man has diabetes that is the kind someone is born with (Type-1). His body can't develop enough insulin to process glucose in his blood. As a result he has to take regular injections of insulin.
Along with the injections, he has to make sure he eats the right food. If he doesn't, he could suffer some terrible consequences that could prove fatal very quickly.
One of the foods that he has to be very weary of is desserts made with sugar. He also has to limit his intake of sweet liquids. In his case a potently sweet wine that he was given a shot glass full of.
We were eating dessert, and the husband of the hostess saw that most of the dessert had not been eaten. He got incensed and asked why the people weren't eating more dessert. Of course, I was happy to oblige the guy. It didn't bother me to have a little more. (I will explain why.)
He went around the table insisting the woman have more dessert. Then he looked at the baker and told him, "What you don't like my wife's baking?" "Eat more dessert," he insisted.
The same thing happened at the first house that we visited with the luncheon.
This poor kid. He knew he shouldn't eat anymore food. It could kill him right there, or make him very sick. He tried to say, "No, I can't." The old man kept insisting. The kid gave in.
If it had been me, I would have pulled out my injector and said, "Here, when I pass out, you make sure I get this because I am a diabetic." I would have shown him what for. But that's me.
The wife came along after that and was upset when he wouldn't finish off the wine. He told her it was too sweet. She took the glass indignantly.
He didn't have the courage to tell them that he is a diabetic and that he shouldn't, and really can't eat the food.
It had nothing to do with the taste of the food. It had nothing to do with the hospitality. It was that his life depended on abstaining from the food. It was life or death for him.
I am convinced that if he had spoken up and said, "I am a diabetic, I have to watch my food," they would have backed off.
I don't like pushy people. I especially don't like people who push their so called "hospitality" on me. It's no longer hospitality to me, it becomes an issue of control in my mind.
And, it's about that time my mind starts stirring up some incredibly wicked things that I want to say. However, I have to bare in my mind, "consider the source of the frustration." Then I make a concerted effort to curb my tongue. But, oh if they could get into my head, they wouldn't like what's up there for them.
Do We Know When To Say No, And Mean It?
One of the things that I am trying to get across in my posts on this blog is that we have an obligation to ourselves. We have an obligation to take care of ourselves, as long as we still have our wits about us. And, I am not writing it's easy. I have a long way to go in some areas.
This is why I have been writing, "I'm not losing weight for anyone else but me." I don't care if it seems like I am self consumed. I am no good to anyone if I can't live my life to the best I can.
And being over my weight limits was not living my life to the best.
My self indulgent thought is actually a blessing to those around me. Which is a paradox...
Now, when my head is tilted to the side, and and foam is dribbling out of my mouth, and I can't tell who's coming and going, and I am no longer there in my entirety , I will be someone elses responsibility. (God forbid...)
Back to my point. It's our self centered thinking that actually gets us into trouble. We eat because we are trying to fill something. It could be our stomachs, or it could be empty feelings.
So, I have been told. Me, I just get real hungry.
That food we love to consume can be our friend, or it can become the enemy. It's a blessing and it can be a curse.
I am not writing that finding the proper medium to live by is easy. Oh, goodness no. I am not climbing up onto a mighty horse here and looking down with my quill in hand ready to smite the feeble weaklings. In this case my keyboard at my finger tips is my weapon.
What I am writing is that we have to get to the point where we have the courage to stand by what we know we should do. In my case it was learning to EAT LESS FOOD.
What happens to many of us is we don't see that long term future waiting for us. We don't say well what if? What if I keep eating two loaves of bread a day? What if I keep eating a two liter of soda a day? What if I keep giving in to these impulses?
What will be my outcome?
In the situation I mentioned up on top there was an obligation on the part of the baker to put his foot down and say, "NO, I am a diabetic."
If the people didn't back off, then that would prove beyond a doubt they were truly officious people. Their hospitality would have become an offense, and not a blessing.
How about you, and me, are we trying to lose weight? Do we have any idea how much food we can consume to lose weight and still live a healthy existence?
Some people really don't know what they are doing. However if they do, then do they care enough to take action?
We the preponderant ones will run into more people like those I encountered yesterday. They will insist that we break our diets so they can satisfy their foolish yearnings to look hospitable.
They are officious, and they don't even know it.
Do you have the courage to say "NO" to more food? Do you know your limits and have you set them? You ought too.
Ours isn't an instant death from over eating. Ours will be a slow death. It will be lost friends who make foolish assumptions. It will be lost opportunity from our daily life. Our death will come slowly as we creep along in our extra wide wheel chairs.
I strained to make it up the stairs last year. I was in pain. The difference between me and many people, is I really don't complain about it. Not like I could have.
How about you? Can you say "NO" to you?
When I had that extra dessert yesterday I knew how many calories I had consumed already. I knew that with every bite that I took my evening dinner began to become a NO GO. I had to decide dessert, or dinner. Which will it be?
I gave up my evening meal to have my dessert. It was yummy. I had to wait until the morning came.
I woke up at 1:00 AM hungry. I couldn't go back to sleep. I got up, boiled some water, and made tea with some honey in it. Then I managed to fall back to sleep.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Up The Weight Goes, And Down It Goes
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.6-pounds.
I am at a relatives home. I am getting ready to go to work. Before that time I turned on the computer. There was a link on Yahoo to Diane Sawyer and ABC news. The title was, Woman Loses 500-Pounds.
In the video she states that she was saved by the Internet and faceless people. She said that eating all the food she ate was only because she was stuffing her feelings. OK.
I am glad she lost all the weight. I am glad she was able to shave off 500-pounds. I have a question. How did she do it? She did it without surgery. That's amazing.
When I can I will copy the link to my site. If you wish to find it, go to ABC news. The woman's name was Nancy Maken.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it it...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.6-pounds.
I am at a relatives home. I am getting ready to go to work. Before that time I turned on the computer. There was a link on Yahoo to Diane Sawyer and ABC news. The title was, Woman Loses 500-Pounds.
In the video she states that she was saved by the Internet and faceless people. She said that eating all the food she ate was only because she was stuffing her feelings. OK.
I am glad she lost all the weight. I am glad she was able to shave off 500-pounds. I have a question. How did she do it? She did it without surgery. That's amazing.
When I can I will copy the link to my site. If you wish to find it, go to ABC news. The woman's name was Nancy Maken.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it it...I'm David Dane
Monday, December 3, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Why More Woman Are Having Heart Attacks
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.4-pounds.
Hmmm, I guess I just haven't been eating enough.
I did have a real tasty dessert yesterday. It was some sort of pudding with pound cake, strawberry jelly, and rum. I had a giant Sugary Christmas Cookie. Yummy... Oh, the terrible shame.
It's Christmas, what can I say?
A Cardiology Nurse Told Me Why More Woman Are Having Heart Attacks
Two days ago I was talking with a nurse who works in a cardio-ward, and with cardiologists. She was telling me and the other woman involved in our conversation why more and more woman are having heart attacks. I asked her if it wasn't because more woman are over weight. She said yes.
She said, "Most illnesses that she and doctors see are food related." She said, "Woman and men are eating too much food, and it's having adverse effects on the body."
She said that,"Woman in America are eating too much food, and getting fatter." She thinks that obesity is an epidemic in this country.
She also said that she has seen more and more children who are experiencing food related illnesses. And this is only because they are eating more food than we need to survive.
Ooops...
There really isn't a whole lot that any one can do about it. At least not until a person comes to the conclusion that he/she has a problem. For the people who have suffered the heart attack or have developed diabetes as a result, the solution has come too late. The damage is already done.
As for me I had always wanted to be thinner. I knew that it was going to take some dramatic event to change me. I just couldn't figure it out.
Well, I did, and here I am sixty pounds lighter. I have twenty pounds left to go.
Tonight I Ate The Northern Pike
Back in October I caught a 29.5 inch Northern Pike up in Wisconsin. I filleted the fish and froze it. Today I cooked it in the oven and then ate it.
I haven't figured out how many calories I consumed. I'll figure it out when I get home. I haven't exceeded my calorie count for the day. Tomorrow I do expect to see it on the scale. That's not because I have gained weight, it's because it hasn't left yet. (You know what I mean.)
The fish was yummy. I baked the fillets in the oven at 400 degrees. I put the fillets in a glass baking dish. I covered them with butter and lemon, and some salt. I then put some bread crumbs over the top of them. I covered them with aluminum foil. Next I baked them for 15 minutes. I pulled them out of the oven then flipped them and basted them with the juice. I put them into oven for 20 more minutes.
Oh, that fish was so good. I have one more pike in my freezer at home. I also have a Catfish that has to be eaten soon as well.
I am trying to figure out if I want to fry them, or bake them.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180.4-pounds.
Hmmm, I guess I just haven't been eating enough.
I did have a real tasty dessert yesterday. It was some sort of pudding with pound cake, strawberry jelly, and rum. I had a giant Sugary Christmas Cookie. Yummy... Oh, the terrible shame.
It's Christmas, what can I say?
A Cardiology Nurse Told Me Why More Woman Are Having Heart Attacks
Two days ago I was talking with a nurse who works in a cardio-ward, and with cardiologists. She was telling me and the other woman involved in our conversation why more and more woman are having heart attacks. I asked her if it wasn't because more woman are over weight. She said yes.
She said, "Most illnesses that she and doctors see are food related." She said, "Woman and men are eating too much food, and it's having adverse effects on the body."
She said that,"Woman in America are eating too much food, and getting fatter." She thinks that obesity is an epidemic in this country.
She also said that she has seen more and more children who are experiencing food related illnesses. And this is only because they are eating more food than we need to survive.
Ooops...
There really isn't a whole lot that any one can do about it. At least not until a person comes to the conclusion that he/she has a problem. For the people who have suffered the heart attack or have developed diabetes as a result, the solution has come too late. The damage is already done.
As for me I had always wanted to be thinner. I knew that it was going to take some dramatic event to change me. I just couldn't figure it out.
Well, I did, and here I am sixty pounds lighter. I have twenty pounds left to go.
Tonight I Ate The Northern Pike
Back in October I caught a 29.5 inch Northern Pike up in Wisconsin. I filleted the fish and froze it. Today I cooked it in the oven and then ate it.
I haven't figured out how many calories I consumed. I'll figure it out when I get home. I haven't exceeded my calorie count for the day. Tomorrow I do expect to see it on the scale. That's not because I have gained weight, it's because it hasn't left yet. (You know what I mean.)
The fish was yummy. I baked the fillets in the oven at 400 degrees. I put the fillets in a glass baking dish. I covered them with butter and lemon, and some salt. I then put some bread crumbs over the top of them. I covered them with aluminum foil. Next I baked them for 15 minutes. I pulled them out of the oven then flipped them and basted them with the juice. I put them into oven for 20 more minutes.
Oh, that fish was so good. I have one more pike in my freezer at home. I also have a Catfish that has to be eaten soon as well.
I am trying to figure out if I want to fry them, or bake them.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane
Saturday, December 1, 2007
I Don't Want To Keep Reducing Calories To Lose Weight
Hello weight losing fans...
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 184-pounds.
I am here up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. It's snowing like crazy here. I don't know what it's like where you are. However, I got into this area at 10:00 AM and the snow started then. There is now about three inches of fresh snow on the ground at 2:00 PM. Wow.
Well, what does this have to do with weight loss; Umm, nothing at all?
It did almost prevent me from posting on my blog today, since it's kind of hard to drive in this stuff. I was tempted to stay where I was. I will be home too late to get to an open library; seeing as it is Saturday.
But, I braved the snow and found an open library, just so you could keep up with my progress. Or in my current status, my digression of weight.
It's the Holiday Season, what do you expect? Just kidding.
It's tough to keep shaving off the pounds. I have hit a point where my body is standing still.
And to be honest, I really don't want to cut my calorie intake down to 1,400 calories. I just don't.
It's hard enough keeping my calorie count at 1,500 calories, and then trying to keep it there. I get so stinking hungry some times.
I woke up in the middle of the night hungry as a bear. I had to get up and make a cup of tea with some honey in it. I just could not fight the hunger anymore.
The honey helped a little bit.
If you are like me, hunger is your stumbling block to lose the weight. I don't have this compulsion to binge as much as I have the need to satisfy the hunger.
It gets hard. Real early this morning it was hard. It may get real hard for you. But, you have to hang in there.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 184-pounds.
I am here up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. It's snowing like crazy here. I don't know what it's like where you are. However, I got into this area at 10:00 AM and the snow started then. There is now about three inches of fresh snow on the ground at 2:00 PM. Wow.
Well, what does this have to do with weight loss; Umm, nothing at all?
It did almost prevent me from posting on my blog today, since it's kind of hard to drive in this stuff. I was tempted to stay where I was. I will be home too late to get to an open library; seeing as it is Saturday.
But, I braved the snow and found an open library, just so you could keep up with my progress. Or in my current status, my digression of weight.
It's the Holiday Season, what do you expect? Just kidding.
It's tough to keep shaving off the pounds. I have hit a point where my body is standing still.
And to be honest, I really don't want to cut my calorie intake down to 1,400 calories. I just don't.
It's hard enough keeping my calorie count at 1,500 calories, and then trying to keep it there. I get so stinking hungry some times.
I woke up in the middle of the night hungry as a bear. I had to get up and make a cup of tea with some honey in it. I just could not fight the hunger anymore.
The honey helped a little bit.
If you are like me, hunger is your stumbling block to lose the weight. I don't have this compulsion to binge as much as I have the need to satisfy the hunger.
It gets hard. Real early this morning it was hard. It may get real hard for you. But, you have to hang in there.
Bye for now...
And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane.
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