Weight Loss

It's that "thing" we all try to do, but fail to do. Weight loss is a lot more than just losing weight: for me it's been a gradual change in my habbits and daily routines. Sit back, grab some water/tea and prepare to read. Hopefully, I can convince 99.99% of my readers to admit they have a problem (if they do), and give a powerful message. The cravings will stop, you CAN make those changes like I have (I've lost 4 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks, and I have a thyroid problem) and feel great. Do you want to feel real again? like your body is light as a feather (although it may not be) and you just "feel" good? It can be done, and it will take some effort to do it. I'm not charging you anything: accept your time to read. The world is corrupt enough, and I hope my words here reach someone who needs them: because I know the problem.

A few years ago I was not doing good for my weight. I had an uncontrollable appetite partly because of my hypothyroidism, but mainly because I just liked food. Potato chips, french fries, cheeseburges, all of that fun stuff that tastes really good. If you are drooling at this point, to my talk of the sour cream and onion chips, the juicy taste of a cheeseburger or the homemade taste of french fries, I have you exactly where I want you. The refreshing taste of that Coke or Pepsi. I was hooked on diet coke for YEARS. maybe 2 years ago or so I got off of the stuff, and I'll explain later why. I was drinking on average 6 8oz cans a day, sometimes a 12 pack. I ate whatever I wanted without question of what it would do to me. I was stressed out with school, life, and all I wanted to do was eat, sleep, and do what I wanted to do. Those 3 things. The food I was eating added onto the stress, and it got worse and worse. So why did I stress out because of eating food? Its a comforter right? Why isn't it working?

Today I am down on soda to 2 to 3 sodas a week, and I have stopped eating large snacks and I skipped meals when I obviously wasn't hungry. I have found, that eating only when you are hungry, and eating only as much that will fill you is the key to weight loss. Your body will use what it is given up to the point where it stops growling. If it keeps growling after you eat, and you didn't eat to gut busting full, that is what snacks are really for ^^. Cereal for breakfast (a bowl without milk) a large lunch at school (pizza is ok, but I mix in pudding, apple sauce and water (Fruit20 is ok too) with the meal, and cut out chips) and if I am hungry, a small dinner. It's not about giving up the foods you like, its eating less of it, and eating it only when you are hungry. That is the first rule in weight loss.

Ok, I'll eat only when I am hungry, NOT. I am still having cravings and it is impossible for me to stop eating!! What am I going to do? Let's say you have an absolute craving for Ice Cream, Haagen Daaz (only as an example) ice cream. If you went on a fad diet (they dont work, stop using them), and I starved you for 5 days from your craving, then went and bought the ice cream and waved it in front of you, you would a) be pissed off b) try to kill me for it or c) both. This is something the food industry never lets people know: all of the junk foods on the market, including stuff with over 50% of the calories contributing to fat: have chemicals injected into the food to screw with a organ inside your brain called the Hypothalymus. These "drugs" confuse the hypothalymus, and give you the idea that you really need that ice cream, when you actually have no interest in it. That's right, your cravings arn't real. Potato chips for example, contain "modified" food starch, chemicals put into the potato chip coatings to make them taste delicious. They are addictive, arn't they? choose your chip of flavor and you would agree with me. The chips are not confusing you: it's chemicals put into the mix to confuse your brain. Do you still want that chemically/clorinated treated ice cream now? Do you want to eat the ice cream that is specifically designed to make you fat so you buy more ice cream when you are sad? That is the goal behind all of this: money.

I am going to knock up McDonalds here for a minute. We all know fast food is bad for us, and here is why. Do you like McDonalds cheeseburgers? they are pretty good arn't they? I've eaten them, and they are great to have once in a while when you are in a hurry. That's fine, as long as it is not a habbit. Here is how the cheeseburger comes to your bag outside of the fast food window. The beef to start is low quality. MOST fast food burgers are taken from the meat of a cow yes, but the cow is chopped into sections and thrown into a grinder. Yeah, a GRINDER. The ENTIRE THING. Tongues, hooves, eyes, teeth, and anything the cow was fed to genetically manipulate it. The meet is dried in a freezer, left exposed to the elements (air) where bacteria can grow. While the burger is cooked and the bacteria die, there are some left (and chemicals from the cow) are inside that patty. Before shipped to the local franchise, they are treated with whatever stuff, then shipped to be cooked, and out to your fast food window near you. Mcdonalds french fries are great, but they are loaded with sugar. Bad stuff.

So what can you trust? well not a lot. The food you may eat now, its OK as long as things are in smaller numbers. Eating differently isn't your only job; rule 3 is to exercise. Yeah, that 8th deadly sin you don't want to even think about. Me, I am a freelance. I can stand a treadmill, but not for long; I am just not a caged hampster. I enjoy weight training, and swapping body fat for muscle fat (muscle fat/weight is GOOD). It also makes you stronger, assuming you are not going over your limits and are following guidelines and/or are being supervised by an expert or trainer. Find something you enjoy doing to burn off calories: I don't run, but I really want to get into kendo or karate again, and that will take physical endurance. I also have a job where I have to stand over 8 hours a day and move boxes of heavy stuff- that is exercise. Burn calories where you can; park far out in the parking lot and walk into the store (I do it) for extra calories. If you feel you really don't need to add something to your meals- don't. Save yourself the calories. You can eat whatever you want, but exercising daily and eating controlled amounts will let you live a good lfie. Combining it with good food and less junk will let you live a great life.
You, like me who couldn't lose weight, can drop the poundage. After all that for 2 months if you see no improvement in your life or how you feel, it's time to see the doctor. I tried all of this and failed, but my doctor spotted a possible thyroid problem that was slowing me down. Hormone replacement, iron levels are back up in my blood, and I am happy and more productive ^^.


PS. I never mentioned why I got off the diet coke. It has aspartame in it, which contains chemicals known to cause brain dysfunction and screw with it, if you drink excessivly large amounts for a long time. Diet Coke contains 10-15% methanol, a component found in your commonly unleaded gasoline.


1.) Dont starve yourself, but dont gluttonize (overeat) with food, either. Eat until you think your stomach has had enough to work on. If you were wrong and get hungry, bring some light snacks where you are going.

2.) Exercise! Do someting you like doing: Rock Climbing, Hiking, Karate, Kendo (swords), a job, or even volunteering. Get community service and weight loss! Two birds, one stone.

3.) Drop the fast food for faster results. It isn't bad for you occasionally (once or twice a month) but fast food can pack back on the pounds. A double cheeseburger, medium fries and a medium soda is enough calories (1,340) to require you to punch a punching bag for over 2 hours at full power to burn it off. If you can get a sandwich at home or where you are going, take that penalty of time and save yourself calories.

4.) Get on a sleep interval if you can! We all have BIOLOGICAL clocks (damned schools), but more sleep will lead to a better life- thus you can feel better sooner. Don't eat after the absolute latest 8:00pm, eating after this time you can consider the calories being packed on in the amount of 2x (100 calorie snack? oops make that 200 now.) Don't stay up late like I am now at 3am! You will get hungry -__-

5.) No matter how large you are or feel, always be comfortable with yourself. What you want will never be good enough, but loving yourself is the key to start living a lot more comfortably.


What are the benefits of all this other than weight loss?
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1) Heart Disease prevention
2) (In cases of lettuce and veggies, if you like them) Cancer Prevention
3) Diabetes treatment or prevention
4) Better posture and less back problems
5) A longer life (you WILL live longer, it's been proven)
6) Better sex (if you are old enough to do so...)
7) Increased libido (ED patients, take note please)

Be good to yourself, and eat smarter =).