OT Diets

George Adams wrote:
Started dieting two weeks ago, and I was wondering if any of you have any
success/failure stories regarding dieting and weight loss. I'm using a modified
Atkins, low carb, but with a greater variety of veggies than allowed an the
strict Atkins regime. Results so far, 8 pounds lost in two weeks. I have had a
bad cold for most of this time, so haven't been exercising. I expect to do
better once I get back on the treadmill. I'm looking to lose around forty
pounds.


George,

I've been on the low carb diet since the end of Sept.. I also started
walking 3-4 miles/day and doing some light weight lifting. I've dropped 26 lbs.
I do eat complex carbs, i.e. veggies but no longer eat bread, drink beer or
consume sugar.
I feel better than I have in years. I think it's possible I was intolerant
of milk products and possibly dairy. My G.I. problems cleared up, anyway. My
triglycerides dropped from 1094 to 554 (high and lows of last 4 years) to 98.
Total cholesterol from 211 to 248 to 187. My wife lost some weight (can't tell
you how much but she is thinner than she's been in 25 years of marriage), as well.
I think the main thing is to cut out refined foods like white bread, potatoes
and mainly sugar. I do know that what I was doing wasn't working and this diet
seems to be accomplishing the things I wanted.

Snoop



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"Snoop" wrote in message
I've been on the low carb diet since the end of Sept.. I also started
walking 3-4 miles/day and doing some light weight lifting. I've dropped
26 lbs.

I probably should have started out walking, but since the motivating event
for my present "get in shape" effort is an impending need to run up and down
a soccer field, I went straight to a slow jog. Obviously I'm a lot older &
in a lot worse shape that I thought, because I'm seeing very little
improvement in the first month. I typically run the first 1/2 mile (uphill)
then walk/run back as my lungs allow. After a month of doing this every
second or third day, I'm still hitting that wall at 1/2 mile. Anybody wanna
offer some encouragement that I'll one day be able to run a mile in less
than 13 minutes and without my legs hurting for two days? :-)

Joe F.

rb608 wrote:

... Anybody wanna
offer some encouragement that I'll one day be able to run a mile in less
than 13 minutes and without my legs hurting for two days? :-)

Run 5 days a week, I skip Monday and Friday, but what's important is the
routine. Here's how I would do it if I were you, given that you can run
1/2 mile now.

Week 1
Mon. off
Tue. 1/4 mile
Wed. 1/2 mile
Thu. 1/4 mile
Fri. off
Sat. 1/2 mile
Sun. 3/4 mile

Week 2
Mon. off
Tue. 1/4 mile
Wed. 3/4 mile
Thu. 1/2 mile
Fri. off
Sat. 3/4 mile
Sun. one mile

Week 3
Mon. off
Tue. 1/2 mile
Wed. 3/4 mile
Thu. 1/2 mile
Fri. off
Sat. one mile
Sun. 1 1/4 miles

Week 4
Mon. off
Tue. 1/2 mile
Wed. 3/4 mile
Thu. 1/2 mile
Fri. off
Sat. 3/4 mile
Sun. one mile

Your 4 week pattern is a hard workout on Wed & Sat, an LSD Sunday
(long slow distance), increasing in distance for 3 weeks then
take a "fall back week". The off days are just as important as
the workout days, don't try to workout 7 days a week. Week 5
should be the same as Week 3, which will be Week 1 of the next
cycle. Don't try to "make up" distance. If you have to skip a day
just jump back in like you didn't.

Disclaimer: I am not a running coach, if reading this causes you
to croak please don't let your heirs sic the lawyers on me. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

"Snoop" wrote in message ...
George Adams wrote:
Started dieting two weeks ago, and I was wondering if any of you have
any
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Snoop





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MID-TERM EXAMS - there goes (at least) another five pounds!

Snakefiddler- stressed out student

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:28:09 -0700, Snoop wrote:

I've been on the low carb diet since the end of Sept.. I also started
walking 3-4 miles/day and doing some light weight lifting. I've dropped 26 lbs.
I do eat complex carbs, i.e. veggies but no longer eat bread, drink beer or
consume sugar.
space
I think the main thing is to cut out refined foods like white bread, potatoes
and mainly sugar. I do know that what I was doing wasn't working and this diet
seems to be accomplishing the things I wanted.
Been on the diet about the same length of time. I'm down about 20 lbs.
and really happy about the results. I have few problems with having
crunchy salads seasoned with cheese as my base. Pure delight.

The absolute best thing about the diet is breaking it.
The wife was raised on rice, I on bread. Over the last 38 years she
has made a firm rice convert of me and now what used to be staples in
both our worlds are treated as luxuries. When we go to our favorite
Japanese restaurant we enjoy the rice & tempura dishes so very much
more now that we know they must be an infrequent enjoyment. The odd
sandwich becomes a reason for celebration.
Those normal, ordinary high carb dishes we used to eat every day are
now indescribable pleasures, savored and enjoyed at levels we never
imagined possible.
A diet of almost unimaginable pleasure?
Who would have thought.

Kiyu

Snoop wrote:

I think the main thing is to cut out refined foods like white bread,
potatoes and mainly sugar.

Potatoes are "refined" food? Pringles, maybe.

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"rw" wrote in message
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Snoop wrote:

I think the main thing is to cut out refined foods like white bread,
potatoes and mainly sugar.

Potatoes are "refined" food? Pringles, maybe.

Amen. Spuds are one of the world's great food crops.......for very good
reasons.

Wolfgang
and atkins isn't responsible for who you are......or ain't.

From: Snoop

I've been on the low carb diet since the end of Sept.. I also started
walking 3-4 miles/day and doing some light weight lifting. I've dropped 26
lbs.

I'm now halfway through the third week. Won't weigh myself again until
Saturday, but I noticed I've dropped one collar size and one belt size already.
My cold is better so I started back on the treadmill yesterday. My intention is
to stick to the first phase until I drop 20 pounds and then reintroduce some
carbs, (more veggies and maybe an occasional slice of multi grain bread). Long
term goal is 40 pounds, and then develop a maintenance diet.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller