Update

[katastrophe1592]

I may have mentioned a while ago that I started a diet blog. So far Ive lost about 7lb and today Im wearing jeans that have sat in my closet for a good deal of time. Needless to say Im pretty happy and almost excited to see what my cholesterol levels are now. As a consequence I've been actually more active on that site. Here is something of a cross

Comments

[sad1225]

Cut out Red Meat and Cheese to reduce cholesterol!? During the time that I was in med school (like 4 years ago now) they made it very clear that it was all about blood sugar. That is to say, you'd have to be on a hardcore atkins diet for the amount of cholesterol in your diet to affect your actual blood cholesterol.

I blame people feeling guilty for eating delicious things.

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My buddy K has dropped about 60 lbs using thedailyplate.com . Basically it tracks how many calories the foods you eat have. I find it very useful because it's shown me how if I can eat 1000 calories worth of jelly beans and still be starving, but fill right up with a 400 calorie sandwhich that has a good mix of carbs/fats/protein. You might want to give it a try because it can work hand in hand with something like southbeach.

It also has a part where you can enter the exercise that you've done. That really important for me because on some days (like today) I've already done 800 calories worth of exercise by noon.

[katastrophe1592]

Neat website! So far im enjoying weight loss without counting calories and as long as things go well I hope I wont need to. Counting anything was always something that made diets seem so laborious and undesirable to me.

Loosing the saturated fats in cheese and red meat was all the rage in lowering your cholesterol back when my mom was first told she had to do something. She cut out all the stuff you were supposed to and nothing changed. She still maintains that her genes make it impossible for her cholesterol to be lowered by anything but medication. Thankfully modern science knows better now. She still refuses to know better but that just means I have my work cut out for me. Im trying the lead by example approach for now. If nothing else the easy weight loss in my mid section might at least encourage her to try the diet.

Exercise is my next goal. Worst come to worse Ill whip out the old dance dance revolution pads my roommate has :D

Wii

[anonymous]

"the usual slump and high pitched reminder of 'you're overweight.'"

Wii Fitness tells you you're overweight!?! That's motivating and really makes me want one now. (Note the sarcasm.)

Re: Wii

[anonymous]

I forgot to sign my name. :)

-Janelle

Re: Wii

[katastrophe1592]

Yeah, its a big hit with children who have been enjoying a whole new low level of confidence they hadn't seen before. BMI is a pretty crappy indicator, especially for kids.

The sound has actually been turned off for a while now. I just turned it up the one day. I do like the exercises and games on the WiiFit but the Bar Graph + Annoying voice seems like over kill. I cant imagine how it would feel if you go out of the overweight category and into obese.

Re: Wii

[anonymous]

Some people need that for motivation, but I think it should be something that you could opt to turn off.

I think it would be depressing enough to make me go eat a gallon of ice cream. ;o)

-Janelle