Chasing away Chubby

Getting started

Posted lodyangel on July 5th, 2007 | Filed under General

Hello everyone.  I keep signing up for these new blogs and then I keep losing them.  I think this is my 3rd blog so far.  I will keep this one, I will use it very frequently as I am officially back on the shrinking wagon!

  Well I am back with a new diet plan.  I have been trying to lose weight for years and I have had some success just to gain it back, plus some.  I have been having some stomach problems and the Docs have no idea what is causing them.   I have started a “contoversial” diet, I have thought up myself.  It goes like this.  I am on a liquid diet for much of the day.  I can drink all I want.  I typically drink V8, water, juice, kool-aid, tea, lemonade, broth, and eat Jello if I get really hungry.  Then I eat one meal a day.  Usually my meal is dinner, but I can eat  whenever I feel like doing so.  I can eat whatever I want also, so if I want chocolate…I can have it later.  I  want a Big Mac, oh I can eat that later too.  No food is forbidden so I can stay with it. The funny thing is that I don’t get hungry if I can drink, so I am not starving myself.  This helps control my incredible overpowering urges to just shove everything in my mouth all day long.  I have had some people say to me like…you should eat, this isn’t safe, blah, blah, blah.  Well it is not safe being this overweight either.  How safe is it living with this weight, knowing that I could drop dead from a heart attack, or that I could develop diabetes?  I am not hungry, I am not starving… 

We live in a society where food is readily available to us.  Everywhere we go there is food, drive down the street you will see fast food restaurants, venders, grocery stores, the list goes on and on. At home there is food in the refrigerator, food in the cabinets, on the table, on TV, we are reminded to eat constantly every single day.   We are bombarded by food!  Is it any wonder we are overweight?  Nature did not intend for us to eat as frequently as we do.  That is why we have that little mechanism in us that stores excess calories as fat. Because the body thinks there will be leaner times ahead of us and it stores the fat to ensure that we will not die from starvation.  However, in this great nation, those times just don’t occur for the great majority of us.  Thanks to our social services, even the poorest among us has food to eat daily.  If you ever hear of a child starving it is much more likely that, that child is a victim of neglect than there wasn’t any food around for the child to eat.  For this reason I think that maybe the 3 squares a day is just a little much for some of us.

We live sedetary lives, we sit watching our TV, watching the computer screen, exercising our fingers, and not our bodies.  Honestly, how many calories a day does it take to run a body that is mostly at rest?  Even I who am a little more active, am not needing at this point more than one meal a day to survive.  That may change as I become, more active, and lose more weight.  There may come a time when I can eat lunch too, since I need the extra fuel.  But at this time, no I don’t need it, so why eat it?  It goes back to what doctors and other experts have been telling us all along.  “Eat when your hungry.”

 This is an experiment.  It may fail.  I may find that in a few days that one meal a day is leaving me foggy headed, or I just can’t do it anymore.  My food addiction may just get the best of me and I may just give up.   But it’s worth a try.  If I can get any type of success out of this at all, that is one step closer to me being healthy…and that is a step in the right direction.

I am including my “before pic”.  This is me a few days ago, awarding my t-ball team their trophies.  That adorable little boy with me is my son.