Healthy Weight Loss

[JustJo]

Hello healthies

One of my strategies for eating healthier is to make sure there's an abundance of fresh fruit and veggies in the house. Snack and I hit the farmer's market today and came home with:

• corn on the cob
• creamer potatoes
• onions
• peaches
• tomatoes
• kiwi
• pineapple
• cantaloupe
• strawberries
• blueberries
• asparagus
• mesclun salad greens
• cheese rigatoni
• organic marinara sauce
• radishes
• mangoes
• plums
• apples
• papaya
• fresh italian bread

I made a big fruit salad for mid-afternoon snack with strawberries, bananas, oranges, apples, kiwi and mango. For dinner, we had the rigatoni with marinara, steamed fresh asparagus and some of the yummy italian bread.

[Lady_Di]

From one of the Spark People teams I am on...


Dr. Kruse says that most of our problems with obesity, resistant weight loss, and chronic disease are caused by leptin resistance. He has a protocol to reset leptin. He lost over 130 pounds himself, and is now helping his patients and others do the same. Here's his blog:

jackkruse.com/

Here's a link to the main topics in the Quilt. You can scroll down to the explanation of each square of the quilt. He calls them levees. Each levee will eventually have its own thread on this sparkteam, a place for us to discuss them.

jackkruse.com/the-quilthow-to-beat-agin/

Dr. Kruse doesn't have each blog post linked to the position in the quilt, so the best way to start is to go to the archives and start at the very first post (In June) and read them in order. They are quite technical and can be overwhelming, so pace yourself. If you jump in to where he is posting right now, you will be extremely lost unless you are either a biochemist or you have been doing leptin research.

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I found him to be very interesting and for me, right on the money. He is a scientist at heart, so know that his stuff might be a bit challenging to absorb. Do not give up!

[stonewalldog]

I have been eating primally for about a year now. My budget does not allow me to go with the organic, hormone free meat, unless I shoot it myself. I try to get as many organic vegetables and fruit as I can but not opposed to eating conventional.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/#axzz1yoHhBdCV

The primal fitness stuff is good though I do like to ride my bike almost everyday.

Anyway, take a look at Mark's plan and see if you like it. I feel great!

[Lady_Di]

Primal works for me. Though I am far from perfect.

Moderation in all things, including moderation. Now who said that first? lol

but seriously, primal is just basic to me, when I think about what carbs, especially the refined carbs do once they are in our bodies... I like the image of shards of glass floating along the arteries and veins, which oddly enough sugar sort of looks like at the microscopic level. It literally tears at the inner lumen of the cardio vascular system, and then the clots form, on top of that scabbing. One can break loose and all hell can come with it. I personally really detest strokes and myocardial infarctions, which is what most sugar sensitive aka diabetics and pre-diabetics die from. And lets also consider this, there are a lot worse things than death, imnsho. Yes, we can recover from such life altering events, but it is much better to avoid them if possible.

Considering how most of the women and men die in my family, eating my veggies and proteins, a bit of fruit thrown in, low glycemic if possible... is not too much to ask.

And eventually we can alter our taste buds, which is something that Kruse and Mark talk about a lot, heck... even Atkins spoke of that, and Dukan. I suppose the point is we have a lot more power over our hearts and minds, our very bodies than we sometimes think. For me, it has been very empowering.


I posted something a while back from MileHighMamma, from over on Spark People. I have been watching her dramatic change, her labs were off the charts bad news and within one month, HUGE changes, so much so that her doctor is in shock. He wanted her to go on meds, especially for the cholesterol which was close to 1000 or some such. Between diabetes and that, she was ripe for the conventional wisdom of our day. Medication anyone? She fought that and has been arming herself with new knowledge about how her body works. AND has been Working Her Body! Exercise is the one prescription that I think we can all use, no?

Amazing how dramatic it has been to watch. Like many of you here, she inspires me. We never give up on our health and wellness. We love ourselves, no matter what shape we are in and also realize that we are in control here of what goes in and out of our bodies, be it food, drink or thought.

Feeding my brain today and it is doing my body good!

Enjoying a cup with you all here today...

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Lady_Di

Primal works for me. Though I am far from perfect.

Moderation in all things, including moderation. Now who said that first? lol

but seriously, primal is just basic to me, when I think about what carbs, especially the refined carbs do once they are in our bodies...

I'm all about the Primal and low carb these days. Two weeks of no bread, pasta, rice, sweets (etc), and, wow, I'm loving it. Lost some weight and feel great...cravings for carbs are now at a minimum (for some reason, in the evening, I crave sweets now where I used to crave salty). Besides weight loss, my skin has improved (rosacea and breakouts), and I don't feel bloated anymore.

I always thought a carb-restricted diet would be very difficult, but I think counting calories would drive me crazy (and the research doesn't bode well for this method). After the first 3-4 days it became easier, and now it is not a lot of effort at all to avoid high carb food.

Anyway, it's protein and veggies (mainly salads) for me these days, and I hope to continue this way for awhile.

[Lady_Di]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

I'm all about the Primal and low carb these days. Two weeks of no bread, pasta, rice, sweets (etc), and, wow, I'm loving it. Lost some weight and feel great...cravings for carbs are now at a minimum (for some reason, in the evening, I crave sweets now where I used to crave salty). Besides weight loss, my skin has improved (rosacea and breakouts), and I don't feel bloated anymore.

I always thought a carb-restricted diet would be very difficult, but I think counting calories would drive me crazy (and the research doesn't bode well for this method). After the first 3-4 days it became easier, and now it is not a lot of effort at all to avoid high carb food.

Anyway, it's protein and veggies (mainly salads) for me these days, and I hope to continue this way for awhile.

try some low glycemic fruits for that sweet tooth, which is very natural part of our genetic makeup

I simply love frozen wild blueberries, I swear they are better than ice cream!

[JoSchmooze]

Originally Posted by Lady_Di

try some low glycemic fruits for that sweet tooth, which is very natural part of our genetic makeup

I simply love frozen wild blueberries, I swear they are better than ice cream!

Strawberries, apples and oranges
are also low glycemic. They are the
only fruits I am allowed in the HcG diet....