thomasjbrock Member

Read Joel Fuhrman's "Eat to live". I've lost 270 pounds in 17 months. Carbs are what's making you hungry. It's time to get serious about your health.

My advice to my daughters is simple. If you don't look for an AH you'll be less likely to find one. You're a cute kid. Change your taste in men.

We don't always pay for eating like an idiot now. Sometimes it takes a while to clog arteries, leach the calcium out of your bones, and destroy your kidneys. One thing is for sure. Nobody that has an education in nutrition brags about eating **** for their health. When what you love is nutritionally dead food it's because…

I'm a tough love kinda guy. Your son is your biggest asset. Surround yourself with more people like your son, and let the touchy feely enablers find someone else to torture with superficial crap. Support from people that won't kiss your butt are what really work. Be strong and win this battle, and just do it.

Muscle milk light is lactose free. Phage zero yogurt is only 100 kcal and 18 grams of protein. 50% of the carbs in beans are resistent starches, which means you don't assimilate them. I always go to the manufactures web site to verify these things just in case. Only trust your own research. I buy prebuilt shakes of muscle…

Your weight loss is amazing, and Taubs is an amazing character. Joel Fuhrman is another incredible nutritionalist. Eat to live is another great book. The more we know the better we can deal with the diet issues. I just finished another book by John J. Rately called spark. How exercise builds cognition. I've lost 240 pounds…

I'm not very good at figuring out how to do the forums, but here goes. Let me suggest a few books. Why we get fat by Gary Taubes, and Eat to live by Joel Fuhrman. The products I use for protein are Muscle Milk Light ( 20 grams of protein) Phage zero Yogurt (18 grams), and bean with bacon soup (18 grams) I eat one piece of…

I've lost 211 pounds in 11 months on MFP without exercising more then my normal routine. The nutrition side of MFP is great and it works. Everybodies weight and metabolism is different. If you walk 30 minutes a day and you're losing the weight you want to lose keep it up, If you want to lose more weight add additional…

I always enjoy hearing about peoples success beating the dreaded type two. I had bariatric surgery last January 23rd and was off diabetic medication within a week. I started backing off carbs a year and a half ago but until I virtually eliminated them my a1c was only slowly coming down. Overall I've lost 235 pounds, and…

Member for about 11 months. 6'3" tall, 440 pounds now 210 pounds. BP was 210/120 now 115/70. Total cholesterol over 200 now (140) LDL 78 HDL 42. Type two diabetes a1c= 5.7 was 11 No longer diabetic. size 62 pants+ now size 38. Bariatric sleeve Jan. 23rd 2012. Love to hear about successful MFP users.

A cheap heart rate monitor from walmart is more useful, and your Doctor will tell you it's a better tool for the job. Before spending money always ask your doctor. Gym bunnies make a living out of selling you crap you don't need.

Fit bit is cheaper in the long run and it works with heart360.com for free. I use a cheap pedometer and just record it on heart360. You get all the same stuff. Fitnesspal works fine too. Pedometers start at about $10. Save your money The calory function is bogus. It's a guess that isn't accurate. Heart360 will do the same…

Torani sugar free caramel flavored surup is the cure. I just found this stuff and it can turn the worst protein shakes into something good. I went 6 months choking down everybodies favorite protein powder. A cap full of this stuff and all the stuff you didn't like becomes really good. It's cheap and can fix the worst of…

I'm afraid it all tastes like crap. I use muscle milk premade shakes. I buy it at Costco because it's cheap. I hate Vanilla, I can tolerate chocolate, but cookies and cream, and butterscotch are pretty good. I've had a gastric sleeve so I'm pretty much stuck having to drink this stuff a couple times a day. I had the…

Check out these web sites for a wake-up call. http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html/ Scroll down and watch the graphic. http://nutritiondata.self.com/ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ http://www.webmd.com/ http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/

Almost every diet out there says the same thing. Eat less food, eat healthier food, exercise, and think possative. I think that next to this is to get envolved in your diet. Research the foods you eat, use web MD, and Medline for information you can trust. The only way to lose weight is to follow the rules, and they're the…

You've made some tough choices and it paid off. Give yourself credit for having the tanacity to hang in there. Self esteme comes hard to those of us that have allowed ourselves to get as big as we have, and surgery is not the end all to our problem. The surgery is a tool, but sooner or later we have to make the mental…

The sleeve is done laproscopically. I have 5 scars about 1/2 inch long. I felt virtually no abdominal pain at all. At first eating is quite unpleasant, but after 6 months I'm very happy with the result. There are many issues to contend with after the surgery, but pain from the surgery really wasn't one of them. I had the…

So many great success stories. People can make the tough choices and succeed.

I too had the gastric sleeve; January 23rd of this year. There are many trials and tribulations involved after the surgery. The sleeve seems to work best on people that don't eat often, but when they do they eat they eat alot. Dehydration is common and stressful, and getting in the protein can be a real task. The…