Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: mad-dan@keepitloud.com (Mad Dan) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Dr. Atkins Diet Date: 15 Feb 2004 18:14:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0402141514.4874edc6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.144.156.122 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1076897661 8336 127.0.0.1 (16 Feb 2004 02:14:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12083 worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.0402141514.4874edc6@posting.google.com>... > "Murgi" wrote in message news:... > > Want to lose weight? Exercise. Don't eat after 7:30 pm, and don't get > sedentary at night (go for a walk, go shopping, etc.). My friend and I > both lost a good deal of weight by simply not eating after 7:30 and > taking a good walk an hour or so after eating supper. Take the steps > to your office, and if your office is high up take as many flights of > steps as you can (elevator halfway, something like that). Don't ride > the escalator in rail stations. Every day there are tons of little > things you can do. Don't go on a diet; if it's a diet, run from it > like the plague. Atkins is just a fad; it might be good in many ways, > but the reality of weight loss is to burn more calories than you eat, > and to try to eat healthy. Eating healthy is pretty easy. Lightly > steam some brocolli (sp) with every meal. Take an apple or some fruit > and eat it for a snack at work. There's absolutely no reason for > someone to go on a 'diet'. Just eat sensibly, exercise sensibly, and > live sensibly. > > John W. This is the most sensible post on this topic. Amongst all the drivel BYJW watches on TV, she saw this show which showed a "diet" with (apparently) an 80% success rate - simply weigh yourself every morning (when you're at your lightest) and every evening (heaviest), and plot it on a graph with a HUGE scale so that every 100g change looks like a mountain (or valley). After a while, you notice patterns ("Whoops! Too many biirus last week!" or "Hey! That drop's the day I had a bit of a lark around the park with the kids!") and gradually, without any stress, you begin to change your lifestyle. I've done this for the last six weeks - and have lost 6kg so far (Never mind the 5kg I had to lose first to get within the range of the scales!) It's working for me anyway - it approaches it from the other side. Instead of "Right! No more beer!" or any other ultimately self-defeating resolutions, you START by seeing your weight change and you're actually ENCOURAGED by it. It's also sustainable - because it causes a genuine change in your lifestyle without any instant upheavals. Well anyway, it's working so far. I'm still a fat bastard, mind... (PS Does "not getting sedentary at night" involve sleeping standing up? That's a bit harsh!)