Even though we're no longer doing a lot of materials-shopping, such as was keeping us so busy over the last month or two, we're managing to find PLENTY to do to keep us occupied this summer! And as i used to find back in our Texas years when i sewed costumes for the community theatre, the more i work with my hands the less i tend to eat.
It just doesn't occur to me. My mind and hands are engrossed in the job in progress, and the day passes VERY swiftly. Perfect time to do the Strong Medicine regimen!
This is the program i learned about a couple of years ago, and i find it VERY effective for weight loss. In a nutshell -- 16-18 oz fatty meat per day, one cup of coffee with each meal, and water in between. Of course, i'm continuing to take my Nutreince vitamins & minerals, and my few additional supplements (SAMe, phosphatidylserine, glutathione, iron, copper, CLO and T-100) ... but that's it. Some people -- my husband included -- don't feel well on this program, but it suits me very well . In fact i never felt better in my life!
I find it especially valuable to be free of food-related aches and pains now, because creating garments is more physically demanding than most people might guess. Bending over the cutting-table while handling the fabric, working with patterns, measuring, pinning and cutting can be hard on the back! In the old days when i used the dining-room table for the job, it was worse. But even when those phases are done and the stitching starts, one is constantly getting up and down to press seams, etc. Mercifully, in this house, i have the space for all my tools and toys in one big room; i didn't even have to go downstairs for more San Pellegrino. :-)
It was dinnertime before i knew it. I shut up shop and went down to heat up leftover roast beef, and to my utter DELIGHT i didn't suffer the stiffness and pain that i HAVE been known to experience after an afternoon of such work!
Someone once said that nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. That's not nearly as to-the-point as my version -- i prefer to say that nothing tastes as good as BEING HEALTHY feels!
Tess, this is the only way that I can lose weight myself and I definitely don't feel sick. I've been building up to this for I while and I still haven't quite gotten there. But I'm working on it.
ReplyDeleteI wish you the very best of luck with it! I wonder why some of us thrive on this kind of diet and others feel crummy.... gut-bugs perhaps?
DeleteI ordered a box of Nutrience vitamins for my mother. She was taking cyano-whatever B-12, Centrum, and Nature Made vitamin D (which Dr. Davis discovered doesn't work). How long does it take to arrive? I'm going to give her some of my vitamins in the meantime.
ReplyDeletei ordered mine by handing Jayson a piece of paper on the cruise. :-) it got to me a few days after i got home, so i think their shipping department is pretty good. ...i hope your mother likes them!
ReplyDeleteI think being busy with something you enjoy is the definition of happiness. God bless all our hobbies! I also noticed the physical effort and the appetite-killing side-effect while painting a picture which is placed on easel, but recently most of my projects involve knitting and sewing , and even small knitting movements warm me up.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note - I went on Saturday to the performance organized by the pole-fitness studio I attend, as a promotion of such form of exercising, in order to support our ladies and enjoy looking at my craft creations. Almost all ladies claimed the disappearance of inches and pounds as the result of their poling during the promotional event. The lady who inspired me to try myself in that thing (she is slightly older than me, after her three children left home, she decided to do something out of her comfort zone, and in a couple years she turned into a pole gymnast) , she lost 40 lbs during the first year of her practices. I don't experience any weight loss after 10 months of practicing , just my arm muscles look more defined. No, exercise is not the magic weight-loss bullet, especially for the people who are sort-of fit. Probably, the sadden life-style change is the key for many who claim a success.
I hope to develop my own line of pole-fitness accessories, but the problem is I have more ideas than psychical ability to bring it all to life.
it certainly sounds like you've found your niche, and a hobby to keep you happy and active! :-) i'm sure that the extra muscle you put on your arms took the place of fat-weight from all over your body.
DeleteI hope so, but I am definitely far from experiencing a dramatic transformation of any sort. I see it as very ironic - people who have ancestors living a super-natural life-style are more prone to suffer from eating bread and sugar, people who are not weak and have some endurance would benefit less from doing a new form of exercise than a coach potato, the people who have been eating "real food " all their life would never experience the sudden loss of 20 lbs (and then placing comments everywhere -"Just eat the real food, guys!") after dropping all that fast food eating and chips munching. The more irony is in the fact that very often the chips-eating person would be the thinner one on the start.
Deletein many cases, I think the thin-but-chip-eating phenomenon has to do with AGE. :-) yeah, when I was 18, that was me. forty years later and a very different situation exists.
Deletethe real transformation when I went to a low-carb-paleo template was, the "morning fog" ceased to be a problem and I became remarkably illness-resistant. that alone has been worthwhile!
I have been predisposed to chubbiness all my life, my mom put me on my first diet at 13 - 14 yo, I was not allowed to enter kitchen after 7pm for the same reason, and mom avoided keeping sweets and baking for the sake of her own weight control. I didn't look like a fat person most of my life, but had frequent periods of a fat gain followed by equally frequent periods of dieting. My most constantly present symptom of something being not right and which disappeared on a LC was the permanent hunger and dips in energy. If I were in Wooo's shoes, I would have the same degree of obesity by the age 20 or 23.
ReplyDeleteI recently started to think more in the direction that the natural thinness is often the signal that the body can't safely channel the nutrients excess into the fat tissue, and the people with such condition have earlier blood sugar dis-regulation, high blood pressure earlier in life and run abnormal cholesterol levels easier . After reading the last post of Franziska, I thought her being naturally thin may be not the marker of a naturally good health.
as a teen, I was probably malnourished. we had real food for dinner most of the time, but I spontaneously IF'ed a lot of the day.
Deletein thinking about thinness, I think we should remember that during most of history, being plump was considered a sign of health! women USED TO go out of their way to put on a bit of flesh! it was only in the 1920s that twigginess became fashionable.
At least fat Americans live statistically longer than the people in most societies admired for the thinness of population.
Deletei'm not sure our quality of life toward the end is what it should be, in most cases. we tend to "keep people alive" sometimes past the point it would be merciful to let them go.
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