While I don’t make a habit of publicly endorsing software, I’ve been using a PC based diet program since September 9th that is just fantastic!
It’s called Diet Power, and it’s well worth the $50 registration fee necessary to use it past the 15 day free trial.
Set a reasonable goal for yourself and faithfully log your food intake and exercise, and let Diet Power do the rest!
It’s the only diet software that guarantees that you will reach your target weight by the date you specified.
Take it from someone who has lost 23 lbs. and is still losing right on schedule… 1.5 lbs per week until my birthday is my goal.
P.S. If anybody needs the nutrition information for Guinness draught, just e-mail me.
I NEED to do something about my weight after the holidays. I would try anything, out of sheer despair, even jogging or eating less
So thanks for that link.
My wife has lost about 70 lbs in the last 12 months. Her big secret? Walking. She’s up to about six miles a day now, when the weather permits. When it doesn’t, she uses my “torture glide” elliptical glider.
While vigorous exercise that gets the heart rate up is best for improving cardiovascular health, any exercise helps shed weight, it doesn’t have to be vigorous exercise. In fact, from my own experience I’ve found that prolonged non-vigorous exercise (i.e. walking for an hour) is more effective for weight loss than a shorter period of much more vigorous exercise (i.e. jogging for twenty minutes).
Also, when you exercise makes a big difference in weight loss. Doctors say it is far more effective to exercise before dinner than later in the evening. Exercising before dinner increases your metabolism so you digest your dinner better.
Finally, when you eat matters, too. I know when I was in school they taught us that dinner should be your heaviest meal, with breakfast being a little lighter and lunch the lightest. Now, they say that breakfast and dinner should each contain about 25 percent of your calories for the day, and lunch the remaining 50%. Just about the opposite of what they were teaching 30 years ago – no wonder America is fat
(Edited to add) - Oh, and no calories from food or beverages during the three hours before bedtime. Most people can shed about two pounds a week just by following this rule! In fact, there was a heavily publicized “weight loss product” that I believe was finally nailed for making false claims. Their whole deal was “don’t eat for three hours before bedtime, then take a teaspoon of our miracle product, and you will lose weight.” Obviously, it was the not eating for three hours before bedtime that was responsible for the weight loss, the “product” was basically a placebo.
John
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May I say.. yoga, yoga, yoga! , but that involve twisting at the waist. This is because it aids in digestion and the warming action helps get the metabolism going.
There’s a wonderful video out there (great for beginners and intermediates) and geared towards weight-loss. Suzanne Deason leads the video and it’s put out by Gaiam. It’s called Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss… it’s an hour long tape, and you feel terrifically loose and stretched when you finish. I’m not really working on weight loss right now, but I still enjoy doing the tape because it feels so good.
Loosing 70 lbs is a real success - congrats! I was rather thinking about 3-5 kg. Jogging is fine, doesn’t take that much time and helps to improve my breathing performance. After all I need time and breath to play my flutes, brass instruments and whistles. Do not eat late in the evening - ok, don’t drink coke nor beer, and stay away from cookies and chocolate - that should do it. Of course fries, potatoe crisps, hamburgers and camemberts are nasty too, but I’m rather a chocolate addict. So this is the most dangerous season of the year for my weight.
I’m not a doctor…I don’t play one on TV…
but all my readings and practical experience
prove that walking works for me. Trouble is, everyone wants results YESTERDAY forgetting it took some time to get that weight on in the first place. So bundle up Claudine, slip some lively flute music into that portable cassette player and strut your stuff. Before you know it, spring will burst forth in Lux and you can knock the dust off that new bicycle and do some cross-training.
Ain’t life grand!
Sure, walking is great, but it takes so much time. And it’s no fun to walk in the rain.
I couldn’t deal with the wasted time of walking in circles the way my wife does, either. I was doing it, but it was driving me nuts and aggravating my back problems. I bought an elliptical glider so I can watch the news while I exercise.
Treadmills are even better. Of course, to get a decent one that will last you have to spend about 500 bucks. That’s why I got an elliptical glider, the exercise is almost as good as a treadmill, and the impact is even lower than a treadmill, and you can get a decent magnetic resistance model for about $150.
When I asked my cardiologist what would be best he recommended a treadmill until I mentioned that walking aggravates my back pain. So then he said go with an elliptical glider. He basically said don’t waste your money on an exercise bike as few people use them vigorously enough at high enough resistance levels to obtain much cardiovascular benefit from them.
I’ve been using the glider pretty regularly (30 minutes 3 to 4 times a week) for two months now. I’ve only lost about seven pounds, but my pants are fitting looser and I’m beginning to notice my legs getting a lot more solid. Also, my stamina has gone way up. When I got the thing I could barely manage ten minutes on the lowest resistance setting even though I’d been walking 45 minutes every night for months. Now, 30 minutes on the glider at higher resistance settings gets my heart rate up and the sweat flowing, but doesn’t leave me rubbery legged and gasping – In fact, I may have to change my “handle” on this forum…
I have a Nordic Trak non-motorized treadmill so even with resistance set at zero, there’s still more effort involved than you might expect.
I hop on it first thing in the morning (about 6 a.m., usually) and watch whatever morbid forensics TV show that I’ve taped previously. That keeps my brain occupied about 45 minutes (fast-forwarding through commercials), by which time I’m warm enough to do my few outdoor chores before breakfast.
Effective pudge removal is hiring into an air freight firm and heaving 70-lb. mail sacks into trucks and planes hundreds of times weekly. (and yes, weakly)
Two months of this coupled with an aerobic working pace trimmed off fifteen pounds, but not so quickly as a summer stint in a commercial cannery, -requiring
a meal every two hours and still running a calorie deficit. Oh, those were the leaner days of yore!
, but that involve twisting at the waist. This is because it aids in digestion and the warming action helps get the metabolism going.