50 pounds by June 1st challenge part 2

(((HUGS))) MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you are all enjoying a fantastic holiday. I know we're not officially weighing-in this week but I just wanted to report that I lost 1 lb this week!!! I really expected to gain over Christmas (and who knows, maybe it will catch up with me next week...) but so far so good!

Sorry I've been out of the loop, i'm in PA and net access is patchy at best. will be back in GA Jan 3rd and back on track. I really have derailed my diet and can't seem to get it back. people don't eat right up here and I'm sooo jonsing for a salad!!!

Hope you all had a merry christmas!! :drinker:

Weighed myself this morning as part of my routine and ive lost 2lbs! Not bad for all the food going around at xmas but i just dont seem to have the same appitite as before so kept my portion sizes to my norm. Guess my stomach cant handle the amount of crap i used to put into it :laugh:

All the best to everyone! x

:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
This is where my crying begins!! I haven't weighed. I"M SCARED! My scale keeps looking at me like "come on you know you want to weigh". but I have just ignored it. I have slid backwards before and recovered. I will do it this time. It just makes the by June 1st goal even harder.

I guess I have to get serious. It looks like this article was written for me. This is a guy that I follow (and respect) I removed all of the links so that it wouldnt be considered advertising. This guy is great. His name is Dr Mirkin. He preaches healthy lifestyle and uses sceintific approach and scinetific studiesto health and not magic pill mumbo jumbo that is everywhere. My BMI is 39 so that means i have to lose 80 pounds.




Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine December 26, 2010 Happy Holidays!

BEING SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT SHORTENS LIFE
A review of 19 studies covering 1.5 million people shows that being even a little bit overweight shortens your life and the heavier you are, the more likely you are to die of cancer and heart attacks (New England Journal of Medicine, December 2, 2010).
Two-thirds of North American adults are overweight or obese.
Doctors measure overweight with a Body-Mass Index (BMI)
number: your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. A normal BMI is 22.5 to 25. Having a BMI of 27.5 increases your chances of dying from a heart attack by 50 percent, and a BMI over 40 increases risk by more than 400 percent. Similar increases in BMI apply to death from cancers.

NO SUCH THING AS HEALTHY OVERWEIGHT MEN
"There appears to be no such thing as metabolically healthy obesity," said Dr. Johan Arnlov, author of a 30-year follow up report of 1800 Swedish men showing that overweight middle-aged men are at increased risk for death and heart attacks, even if they do not have metabolic syndrome or diabetes (Circulation, January 19, 2010). Arnlov and his colleagues checked all the men for metabolic syndrome: high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high blood triglycerides (fats), low HDL ("good") cholesterol and a broad waist size (40 inches for men, 35 for women). Metabolic syndrome is the presence of three or more of these risk factors.
Follow-up for 30 years showed that the risk of a heart attack was
52 percent higher in overweight men without metabolic syndrome,
74 percent higher in overweight men with metabolic syndrome,
95 percent higher in obese men without metabolic syndrome and
155 percent higher in obese men with metabolic syndrome.

REDUCING OVERWEIGHT A LITTLE PROLONGS LIFE
Being overweight shortens lives because full fat cells produce immune cells that turn on your immunity to promote inflammation that causes diabetes, heart attacks, cancers, arthritis and other diseases. Losing as few as 10 pounds can reduce an over-active immune system to that of a thin person (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, June 2010).

EXERCISE HELPS TO PREVENTS WEIGHT GAIN
The average person spends a lifetime gaining weight and exercise helps to prevent weight gain with aging. Researchers measured BMI and waist circumference in more than 3,400 men and women and followed them for 20 years. The most-active men gained 5.7 pounds less than those least active, and the most-active women gained 13.5 pounds less than the least-active women (JAMA, December 15, 2010). Many other studies show that exercising regularly helps to protect even those who continue to be overweight.

MESSAGE
Being even a little bit overweight shortens lives, and
exercise helps to prevent weight gain with aging.

***********************************************

Reports from DrMirkin.com


Dear Dr. Mirkin: How can you tell if you have frostbite?

Frostbite means that your skin is frozen. You have
plenty of warning before that happens. Your normal skin temperature
is around 90 degrees. As your skin temperature starts to drop,
blood vessels close and your skin turns white. When the temperature
reaches 59 degrees, your body attempts to re-warm your skin by
opening the blood vessels, causing your skin to tingle, itch, burn
and turn red. When this happens, get out of the cold. If you don't,
the blood vessels in your skin will close down again and your skin
temperature can drop below 30 degrees and start to freeze.
The most effective treatment for frostbite is to warm
the skin in water set between 100 and 108 degrees Fahrenheit for at
last 30 minutes (Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings,
July 2010). This is painful, and allowing the temperature of the
water to rise higher than that can destroy the skin, necessitating
skin grafting.

***********************************************

Dear Dr. Mirkin: How can I get the most benefit from my
daily walk?

Walking is one of the safest and most effective sports for
fitness, but to become fit, you have to move fairly fast. You
should exercise vigorously enough to increase your heart rate at
least 20 beats a minute more than when you rest. Walking at a
leisurely pace will not raise your heart rate very much. You can
increase your speed by taking longer steps or by moving your feet
at a faster rate.
To lengthen your stride, swivel your hips so that you reach
out further forward with your feet. This causes you to twist your
body from side to side, which forces your toes to point to the
outside when your feet touch the ground. By pointing your feet
forward after your heel strikes the ground, you will gain a few
inches. To move your feet at a faster rate, you have to move your
arms at a faster rate also. Every time one leg moves forward, the
arm on the same side moves back and the arm on the other side
moves forward. For every step forward, there is an equal number
of arm movements forward. To move your arms faster, you have
to keep your elbows bent. The fulcrum of your arm swing is at your
shoulder. The straighter your elbows, the longer your arms swing
as a pendulum from your shoulder, reducing the frequency of arm
swings. Bending your elbows shortens the swing and allows you to
move faster.

***********************************************

Recipe of the Week:

Pink Beans and Brown Rice

You'll find lots of recipes and helpful tips in
The Good Food Book
http://
ml ***********************************************

BACK ISSUES of the eZine from 2004-2010 are available at
http://www.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COPY the e-Zine's contents for
use in your own newsletter, company or club publication,
BLOG or website. Please give proper credit and a link
back to http://www.

The e-Zine is provided as a service. Dr.Mirkin's reports and
opinions are for information only, and are not intended to
diagnose or prescribe. For your specific diagnosis and
treatment, consult your doctor or health care provider.
For more information
visit http://www.

We DO NOT sell, rent or give your e-mail address to anyone.
Copyright 2010 The Sportsmedicine Institute, Inc.
http://www

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
10901 Connecticut Avenue, Kensington MD 20895, USA

:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
This is where my crying begins!! I haven't weighed. I"M SCARED! My scale keeps looking at me like "come on you know you want to weigh". but I have just ignored it. I have slid backwards before and recovered. I will do it this time. It just makes the by June 1st goal even harder.

OMG i can so relate! mid-week, i stepped on and was UP four FOUR!!!!! pounds.. Yes, i know i didnt go over by 14000 calories, so some of it is water weight... still.... I was happy to not weigh in this morning. I got up determined to eat better and then my 6 year old wanted waffles with the new waffle maker. Damn. That thing should be for daddy to use only! I ate 2 1/2 waffles between breakfast and lunch. Fortunately only 1 Tbsp of real maple syrup, but eeeks not at all the greek yogurt and granola that i wanted. Its crazy because i didnt even WANT waffles. I just ate them because they were there, all steamy and fresh. Damn those things!!!!!

I have a 5k on saturday and for me, its a big one. Its the one i said i was going to remain RUNNING the WHOLE TIME. Not caring about time, because i know i will have to sacrifice speed to keep in running-mode. Yet i have some shin pain in my left leg and i am dreading the treadmill (bizzard outside) plus the waffles are sitting like cement blocks in my belly. God help me!

Argh!!!!

I have stayed at 190 but I am so disappointed in myself...I have had several opportunities to workout but I have chosen to be LAZY....I need to get back into the swing of things and start kicking butt again!!!

Don't be too hard on yourself...there are lots of us who have skipped workouts during the holiday season. And I know that I will have to work out at home right now because my gym will be packed with all the resolution people.

Don't be afraid of that scale. I'd dropped one pound just after last Monday's weigh in. By Saturday I was up 3 pounds but this morning the sale still showed the 1 pound loss from last week's weigh in so the three pounds were water, or waste or something else.

Weighing on Monday morning and Monday morning only is a much better practice than daily weighing and fretting!!!

This week is going to be a two pound loss week. Seems to be every other week.