When It Comes to Eating and Dieting Everyone tells you how to eat, what to eat; how to diet and how to lose weight.
So, let me have a go at it.
I have gone from 187 lbs to 155.8(that's as of this morning) in 10 years. Not a lot, you say. I'm only 5'4", that's a lot. My wife from 145 lbs to 123.6 in 10 years (5', she says; but 4'11", true.)
So, what's the secret.
First of all, we eat what ever we want.
Of course we eat health and take our vitamins (about 8 to 10 different one, depending on our supplement needs).
Oh, Your still waiting. Our secret.
We count CALORIES. Yes, CALORIES.
We've being doing it since 1998. We first started by counting our calorie in take for two week. It was over 1800 calories a day. No wander we were over, way over weight.
It wasn't that we were eating anything different than we had been eating for 35 years. It was that we were slowing down. Children off to college. I was retiring at 55 and my wife, a teacher, retiring at 54.
So, we took action. Counted calories and weighed ourselves first thing in the morning (and we kept records, still have them).
We recorded ever item we ate. It's calories. It's salt content. It's fat calories. Every meal, snack, an sneak nibble.
To reduce or weight; we began to reduce our daily calories by 50 each week.
Needless to say, soon we were down to 750 calories. Sure we felt some pangs of hunger. It was for a good cause. We still ate what ever we wanted; just not as much.
Then I realized, we we getting skinny. No, not that skinny. The skinny were you have excess skin hanging down.
So, we started over. We increased our calories to 1000. Watch what our weight scale was recording. Then we adjusted.
For us, we found that 850-900 calories a day is ok, if we want just to stabilize our weight. If we wanted to lose weight (like after we come off a week or two week cruise), we decrease our calories to 750 per day (no less, it can hurt you).
Now, I am as trim as I was when I use to jump out of airplanes in the Army; and my wife can fit into bathing suits, she purchased but could never get on.
This is not for everyone. Talk to your doctor. Know yourself. And above all, be kind to yourself. Live healthy; live long (my father has to 94) and be HAPPY.
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