by greendawn 30 Replies latest jw friends
Congratulations on your success so far Emma!
We can always keep this thread going with our ups and downs, highs and lows can't we? I'll have to get on the scales and I'm kind of waiting until my trousers fit before I do!
However things are desperate - I'm going to a very posh dinner thing in two weeks at the Savoy and I have nothing that fits at the moment and I feel dreadful!
I hate to say it to myself but i may have to cut down on my booze intake - and that for me is drastic measures!
wow 175lbs - that is awesome! Are you happy with your weight now or still trying to lose some!
I have nothing that fits at the moment
Crumpet, just buy or borrow something! Don't let this stress you out or take the joy out of your big event.
Yeah, booze packs a lot of calories. Try, first, to limit what you drink; nurse it along, as my mom used to say. Sometimes you have to give something up completely for a while if it's a real diet breaker.
Neon, have you gone through maintenance yet? I'm wondering how to do that, stop dieting and learn to keep my weight steady. I've even thought of going to weight watchers for the last few pounds so I can get help with it. Did it take a while for you to adjust to the new you? I found I was unsettled once in a while by things, but I love being "thin" now. What was your motivation?
Emma
Hi Greendawn!
Whats going on with the nuts and chocolates!
Could it be that you've eaten too many of them because your body is craving magnesium?
Cravings for these foods are sure signs of magnesium deficiency. If you get a magnesium supplement for yourself you could experiment and see if you're still wanting to eat those things. Start with about 300mg a day and if you're still 'thinking' about nuts and chocolate gradually work your way up to 600mg spaced out throughtout the day. You'll know when you're getting too much mg because you may get a little diahorrea.
I find it best to take one of the osteocare supplements because you need to balance your calcium intake with magnesium. They help to absorb eachother.
If it's any help to you, I found this was the best way to have NO food cravings and keep my weight right down. After having five children I still way only 5 pounds more than I did when I was eighteen so I KNOW that taking magnesium controls MY appetite. If I stop taking it for a few weeks I start to crave foods and pick at food inbetween meals. If I get straight back on the magnesium within a few days I have appetite control again.
Anyway, if it is mg deficiency this will help. If not STAY OFF the nuts and chocolates!!!!
Hey Gill!
I was hoping you;d show up - Gill is our resident homeopath-cum-dietician. She's given me some excellent advice in the past so listen real good to her!
I tend to crave salty and fatty things - cheese, bread and meat mainly and potatoes. I very rarely eat chocolate or sweets and don't crave them at all. I do eat stacks of fruit and salad vegetables. Could there be anything I could do reduce my cravings? I have found that eating more fruit than I actually want for breakfast helps me not stuff myself on other snacks before lunch.
wow 175lbs - that is awesome! Are you happy with your weight now or still trying to lose some!
Actually, I'd like to lose about another 25-30 lb. I still have some flab I'm not happy with. I'm right around 250 lb. now. I guess if I never lost any more, I'd still be a whole lot better off than I was, and I certainly look and feel 100% better. Weight Watchers would actually want me to get down to about 195 (I'm 6'2"), but my doctor doesn't think that would be a good idea at my age (53). He says I'd look emaciated at that weight. Besides, he used to nag me about my weight and now he's fatter than I am . But he and I agree that 220-225 would probably be about ideal. However, the weight is coming off much more slowly now than at first. I've probably only lost a net of 10 pounds or so since last Thanksgiving - I gain a few, lose a few, etc. Plus I occasionally take "days off" from my program for special occasions, which always results in a gain that has to be lost again. But like I said, I'm much better off now than before, and, being diabetic, I have to eat this way for the rest of my life anyway (however, my blood sugar is nearly always within normal range now that I've lost weight). So I'll eventually lose the weight, but if it takes me another 2 years to shed the last 25-30 pounds, what's the big deal (well, except for the $12 a week that I won't have to pay Weight Watchers after I become a lifetime member)?
What a great story neomadman! I hope JWs pass you in the street and think despite themselves how leaving them has done you wonders physically!
Your doctor might be right, but then again maybe he's jealous you weight less. 195lbs sounds very low for 6'2" though (I'm not awfully far off that myself and I am only 5'6"!
Hi Crumpet!
Funnily enough, craving salty foods is also a symptom of magnesium deficiency.
For example, if someone is suffering with IBS the cause may be candida yeast in the bowl growing with a vengeance. This does two things, 1, makes you crave carbohydrates because carbs revert to sugar and candida LOVES sugar and grows on it. 2. candida prevents you absorbing sufficient nutrients and you become low in many of them very quickly.
Craving anything shows that your body is missing something.
So, first get rid of the candida in the gut. Things like citricidal added to water or citricidal tablets. Candiclear tablets which actively KILL candida yeasts and taking probiotics everyday. Within three months the yeast should be under control (No one ever gets rid of them completely)
Also, women with candida in their bowels that are proliferating will tend to suffer badly with PMS as certain yeasts will make a very powerful oestrogen and they will also be low in essential nutrients like calcium and magnesium that keep you mentally calm and happy.
So, try killing any possible yeasts in your bowel as thats the best way to get your colon absorbing all your essential nutrients. Within a few months you should be getting all your nutrients again especially if you top up on calcium and Magnesium and then it's just a matter of maintenance.
When you're back in balance you are not craving fattening foods be it chocolate, nuts, carbohydrates, sugars whatever. It becomes very easy to keep your weight under control.
Magnesium is also the 'happy mineral' so you're less likely to eat just because you're miserable!
Thanks to your advice re the probiotics I do take a pill every day without fail and at least one of the special yoghurts and this has got the candida under control. If I forget to take them or can't as I couldn't find the right yoghurts in Canada it resurfaces but its fairly easy to subdue it now I know what to do.
Does Gaviscon fluid of magensium in it - as I take that for indigestion sometimes?
What a great story neomadman! I hope JWs pass you in the street and think despite themselves how leaving them has done you wonders physically!
Fortunately, I moved to New Jersey when I remarried (to a non-JW, my high school sweetheart that I had given up 30 years earlier to get into the "truth"). I was never active as a JW here. So none of the JWs around here even knows who I am. Well, actually, some may know me as that nasty apostate who goes around teaching against JWs at local churches .
Your doctor might be right, but then again maybe he's jealous you weight less. 195lbs sounds very low for 6'2" though (I'm not awfully far off that myself and I am only 5'6"!
He's a pretty ethical guy, I don't think he'd try to keep me fatter than I should be just to make himself feel better. If I were 25, I'd be shooting for the 195 mark, but I just don't think that's realistic at my age. I think I am already starting to look older because of the weight loss...more wrinkles, my former double chin has become a bit of a wattle, etc. My skin is slowly tightening up and looking better, I guess due to working out, too (but that's starting to make my arthritis hurt more). I'm shooting to have the hottest body in the nursing home in about 30 years...
If you met me, you probably wouldn't think I was overweight very much if at all - people keep saying to me, "You aren't going to lose any more weight, are you?" But that's partly because my clothing hides some of the fat. I still have a "spare tire" and some excess fat in other areas. You can't tell when I'm dressed up, but if you saw me naked you'd know what I meant (*ahem* ).
