Evelyn_Gorfram Member

Sorry to hear about your father. :'( I'm like some of the above posters: it's all about prep. When I have to get up super early, it's essential that have everything as ready-to-go as possible: coffeepot filled, whatever breakfast you're going to have set up to be made, clothes laid out, and gym bag/briefcase/lunch packed &…

I have eaten a lot of clean healthy foods. They helped me reach my highest-ever weight of 318 pounds. Key words: "a lot."

Hunh. I always thought it meant you were Italian. Although people tell me that I an animated speaker, too; and my parents strongly disagree with that characterization of my genetic heritage. (*I hereby offer my blanket apology to all actual Italians for perpetuating the stereotype.) (And also for some of the things I do…

Ooh, fun! It's another case of "Where Do You Put The Punctuation/Formatting?" If I correctly understand the way you're reading it, the OP might have conveyed his meaning in a post like this: While, the way I'm reading it, OP could have gotten his meaning across with this: Interesting. :)

I think that lack of knowledge about how to be healthy and not being healthy are two different things. They are related, and both presently big problems in the US population; but they are not the same thing. But now it's time for a statistics joke: It turns out that fully half of all Americans know less about health and…

I used to get very high blood pressure readings because it was so painful when the nurse pumped up the pressure to get the systolic reading. Then I figured out that I needed (and had to insist upon) an extra-large cuff for my extra-large arm, and my BP problems cleared up for a while. When my doctor's office switched to…

Er, I think what @tronjo2002 meant was that willpower is based on mental health...

I like @rsj7799 's theory of aggressive breakfast-table-terrorizing housecats. ;)

Good point. Fat soluble vitamins don't get peed out (doh!). But my pretty decent doctor tells me that, unless you're doing serious mega-doses, the likelihood of getting fat-soluble vitamin toxicity from OTC multi-vitamins is vanishingly small.

Oh, no. I can't stand the milk. It's all cereal-ey and icky. The dread dilemma of what to do with the leftover milk, and of trying to balance the milk/cereal ratio to minimize any such problematic leftover milk, is why I seldom eat cold cereal.

I think that most people have a decent-ish idea of what's healthy; with the glaring exception of how weight loss works, and the inevitable skews caused by the latest food fad or food scare. I think what the OP is seeing is due to custom and herd mentality. Food behaviors are deeply ingrained, and small deviations are often…

As I understand it, the deal on supplements and fortified food is this: Supplements get peed out, if they are in excess of what the body needs and is getting from other parts of the diet. Supplements are absorbed and used by the body, if the body needs them and hasn't gotten them elsewhere. My doctor calls supplements…

Ha! I grew up fat, surrounded by adults with mental health problems, and being constantly told that I just needed "more willpower." From now on, whenever I hear or remember the phrase, I'm going to mentally replace "more willpower" with "less insanity." :) As to addressing my current mental health, I have a support group…

As @vollkornbloedchen said, water is bad for you if you're drowning. Air is bad for you if you're falling. Soybean & brown rice casseroles are bad for you if somebody forces you to actually eat them. (Unless you find them even remotely palatable; in which case I've been informed, often quite vehemently, that they are very…

I'd buy a ticket to see that... ;) Thanks for such a lovely compliment. You're a peach! :) I have a theory that people seem to think that big boobs are associated with vivaciousness. My big boobs seem to make me come off as more vivacious than I really am, and maybe your vivaciousness makes you seem more busty than your…

So, there I was, standing idly in the kitchen, not really engaged in any thought process worthy of the name, when I realized that my pajama pants were slowly sliding off of my hips. :)

You've lost 47 pounds!!! Woot! :) :) :) And you're a mere 13lbs from goal! :) Wooty woot woot! Now that I've said the truly important stuff: Yeah, if I were the "a little bit heavy" heavy coworker who said, “I can’t even see you when you turn sideways,” that would have been all about me. It would have been code for, "OMG,…

Hospitals are required to provide properly standardized scrubs for operating room personnel. For non-operating room positions that call for scrubs, it varies. I think a lot of US hospitals provide a "scrub allowance" - extra money you can put in for that covers the cost of new scrubs (often around 4 or 5 sets/year). If OP…

When I was young, I was an Hourglass. Now that some of the Sands of Middle Age have run through to the bottom, I am a Pear. But the weight I'm losing seems to be coming off my bust and hips, while my waist remains stubbornly static - if this keeps up, I may soon be an Apple. ;)

Okay, some math: OP's weight loss = 350 - 310 = 40 lb OP's weight loss rate = 40 lb/79 days = 0.51 lb/day, and 0.51 lb (7 day/week) = 3.54 lb/week If we make it easier on ourselves by assuming that OP lost weight at a constant rate, we can calculate an average weight for the 79-day weight loss period: (350 lb - 310 lb)/2 =…

A few years ago, I had the dubious privilege of spending a week or so on a Psych Ward (it's a long story). They took my blood pressure once a day, and kept getting really high readings: around 155/90, when I was normally a 130/85-type gal. The blood pressure-taking procedure went like this: some randomly selected time…

I, from my high-horsed seat of advice-giving, hereby decree that this is exactly what you should do: 1) Stop eating like crap. Start eating as well as you can with the food you have on hand; or, if the grocery store is within reach, restock your kitchen with good fresh foods and eat them. 2) Get over your hangover. It's…

Glad my response helped. :) As the previous poster mentioned, BMI is unreliable at the high and low ends of the range; but I don't find it useless at all. It's very handy for getting a "ballpark" idea of whether a given person of group is over- or underweight. And while it's most useful for people of average height, it…

By "crash dieting," do you mean "eating only some extremely small number of calories, like between 450 - 1200 cal/day"; or "eating according to plan all day, but then giving into nighttime cravings for sweets and 'crashing' your diet"?

First of all, you're beautiful. :) You've got a gorgeous face and lovely hair. And weight/body-wise, you're just about perfect by the standards in effect when I was a kid in the early 1960's. For 2018, and IMHO, I think that increased muscle tone might be more helpful to you than lost weight. My guess is that you're in the…

Sure! :) ...Although I should warn you that I oversimplified: assuming I remember right, honey is honey bee-vomit along with honey-bees mucus secretions (i.e. snot) and some glandular secretions very roughly analogous to mammalian breast milk. And, again IIRC, I think that, in molecular terms, it's mostly sucrose.

I never knew this. Apparently I've been missing out on years of free lunches with my older brother! (Although, on those rare* occasions when we do meet up for lunch, I always go in the expectation that we're going Dutch and he always claims the check.) (*Rare because we live 250 miles apart.)

Did your dieticians know you were on an LVAD when they recommended "low cal, high exercise"? That seems like something went wrong somewhere. Exercise-wise: there are exercises you can do even while flat on your back (the "pedaling an imaginary bicycle" one comes to mind), and seated programs like "Sit And Be Fit." A…

Once upon a time, a unicorn wanted to find out what kind of cat he would be. So he sent his tinfoil hat to Oxford Analithica. They stole his sister's identity and used it to bring about the Downfall of Armenian Democracy. But first they sent the unicorn a very nice certificate proclaiming that he was, certifiably: "A Very…

I enjoy the idea of your posterior sneaking around behind your back... Maybe going for some plum duff or cinnamon buns, or glutting itself on a smoked pork butt sandwich or a roast rump of beef (or else some nice halibut cheeks?) - and then washing it all down with a Heineken.. ;)