new in the OR/WA area

LordBear

33, m , rainier oregon .. 45 min nw of portland.. woo hoo..lol

always been a big guy... usually weigh around 220...then i injured my back and the weight started climbing and my health started failing. worked its way up close to 430. but not much you can do with ur back messed up, doctors telling you that there is nothing wrong with your back or anything else your just fat, and insurance not doing jack..so after i lost my job i did what little i could at home for 5 years while fighting for disability..now that i have it..im more active, can actually go to the gym now..which i cant do much but i do bust my azz.. and am doing more than the damn physical therapists had me doing... when i did that the lady was huge as well and she is telling me how to do things and what i should or shldnt be able to do?????? not saying you have to be tiny to be a trainier of sorts..but come on at least know what your supposedly trying to get people to do.

any who... im doing what i can and it is not easy doing it alone. would like to find some one i could go to the gym with and or maybe a trainier who knows a little something that they are talking about.. watched couple of the trainiers at the gym i go to..and they just seem to put people in to a routine. that they do with everyone...? if that is all there going to do..just take a class its cheaper..lol

fitzie63

Suggestion: contact 2 of my MFP friends on here: spennato and fitzpoppa

These two men are very nice and are having some great success. Remember, stay with YOUR program, one meal at a time/one day at a time, faithfully, and you WILL achieve success.

Claire

fitzie63

Here is what I sent to an MFP friend who was struggling with weight plateaus:

"1) How many fish meals are you eating each week? Recommended: a minimum of four fish meals (more is better).

2) How many red meat meals are you eating each week (includes pork, sausage type, hot dogs, etc.). Recommended: Try to eliminate all those from your menu plan if possible.

3) Switch to white meat of chicken and turkey (without the skin…that skin is 100% fat and that includes the good-tasting crispy stuff too).

4) Avoid all deli meats, sausage meats, hot dogs, etc. They are all very high fat and high sodium. E.G. Four ozs. of sliced turkey breast from the deli in the market = more than 1000 mg. of sodium. Considering the newest RDA guidelines only allow us 1500 mg. in 24 hours, it doesn’t give you much else to eat for the entire day.

5) Two-thirds of your lunch and dinner plate should have low calorie vegetables. Stay away from loading them with butter, margarine, etc. Avoid the creamier salad dressings. Instead: try the balsamic vinaigrette dressings and be certain to measure with individual measuring spoons while leveling off excess with a knife (don’t use the eating spoons for measuring).

6) Stay away from eye-ball measuring (use those individual measuring cups/spoons). That goofy comparison measuring will make you fat (e.g. the size of a deck of cards, the size of tennis ball, the size of your fist, etc.). That’s a bunch of rubbish. I know because I piled on an additional 10 lousy pounds on top of what I already had using that method. The reason it doesn’t work is: we’re hungry when we use that method and our sub-conscious mind causes us to over-estimate the portion sizes. Guess-ti-mating portions makes us fat.

7) Eating out: try to avoid doing that as much as possible. To begin with, the restaurants load the food with higher sodium content and those tasty chicken strips at McDonalds are both high fat and high sodium (body water retention, big time).

8) Dump all the soda pop drinks. Yes, even the DIET sodas will make you fat … more water retention. Perrier water: loaded with sodium. Club soda: loaded with sodium.

9) Alcoholic beverages: even the “light” beer is not only loaded with sodium but alcohol messes up the metabolism factor in your body. Alcohol metabolizes, like everything else, through the liver. It turns immediately to glycerol which raises the TRIGLYCERIDES in your total CHOLESTEROL profile. That converts to FAT. Every alcoholic drink (beer, wine and mixed drinks without sugar content) destroys liver cells. The destroyed liver cells are replaced with FAT, therefore, an alcoholic or regular social drinker (person that has 2-3 drinks every day) ends up with a fatty liver. How do you think they got that fat gut they’re packing around? Too many alcoholic binges on that fatty liver ends that person up in the emergency room and getting admitted to the hospital for a big time G.I. bleed (from their mouth and/or their rear end). Watching a patient die of liver cirrhosis in the ICU is not a pretty site. It’s heart-breaking to see that good person suffer."