Another top question with a pretty straightforward answer. How to I get to be a lower weight than I am now, once I know how much I want to weigh? Check out the Basal Metabolic Rate you will be when you get to the weight you want to be. Eat that, adding in calories for your best-effort exercise caloric [...]
Posts Tagged ‘weight loss’
15 Mar
Harvard Asks and Answers, “Whats the Best Diet?”
Re-posting a fascinating result from Bill Phillips …. emphasis mine at the end: The doctors, recognizing the vital importance of coming up with effective solutions to help people reduce their weight and improve their health, worked diligently, carefully monitoring the test subjects for two years. The final results revealed a very significant finding: All the [...]
1 Mar
What’s your success story?
Whenever you’re trying to lose weight, break a bad habit, start a good habit, or change in any meaningful way, it’s not an easy thing. It’s not like learning to brush a physical skill, where you’ve just got to repeat something enough times to make it somewhat of a foregone conclusion that you’ll continue to [...]
27 Feb
What to do when losing weight sucks
I really wish the self-denial involved in losing weight came easily. It just doesn’t. And the rosy testimonials we see in the media really don’t help in that regard. It’s not joyful. It is no fun at all to feel hungry. It’s not fun to pass up free food. Not being able to eat what [...]
25 Feb
Nutrisystem vs MediFast
This one is in answer to a reader question about how to choose between the two. Nutrisystem is, foundationally, a food delivery service. Some of the entrees are (or were) made here in the Cincinnati area at a plant that also makes military MRE‘s. They’re a collection of packaged MRE’s, with an optional add-in of [...]
24 Feb
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
24 Feb
Is it sometimes ok to have a different food plan for losing weight than for keeping it off afterwards?
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
20 Feb
Frozen grocery store meals, or home delivery diet?
Thanks for the question, by the way. Happy to share a few thoughts on the subject. According to Consumer Reports, both NutriSystem and Jenny Craig are helpful, if somewhat expensive home delivery food. It arrives as a collection of little boxes in a big box, you divide it up day by day, adding your veggies [...]
18 Feb
Green tea for weight loss?
Yes, there are studies that would indicate a modest increase in metabolism and somewhat better success overall. There’s always somewhat of an artifact in studies like this; people who report that they habitually drink their several cups of tea are likely also pretty habitual about control of their dietary intake too, so you never know [...]
16 Feb
What’s the next thing
It’s easier to get overwhelmed by the enormity of the work involved in losing a lot of weight — or, for that matter, any long project. How to cope with that? Ask yourself right now, what is the next thing I need to take care of. Getting a healthy dinner for tonight? Picking out those [...]
