Betty asks…
How did you go about losing pregnancy weight?
What worked for you? I’m still pregnant (26 weeks) and am already thinking of things I can do to get the weight off. I know everyone is different but looking for some ideas 🙂
weight loss cardiff answers:
I also breastfeed. (Absolutely no formula.) I eat whole, real foods. For the most part, I avoid enriched (white) flour, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, hydrogenated oils, artificial colors, artificial flavors and anything that looks as though it was created in a lab by humans and not in nature by God.
Some days, I don’t eat as much as what I should. These are days when my 8.5 week old son wants to spend his days eating, or I take advantage of his naps and catch up on housework thinking I could technically eat while he’s eating, or we’re busy and I don’t get a chance to eat much. I am already down about 25 pounds from the 50 I gained. (That being said, I was at least ten pounds underweight when I conceived.) Also, like I did pre-pregnancy, I do go out, but on the next day, lighten up a bit. Last night we went out for dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I chose the veggie stir fry with fried rice, guacamole, beans and three tortillas. (I had more fat in that meal than what I had all week.) My husband talked about having pancakes tonight for dinner, and we could eat them around his meeting. (Whole wheat banana pancakes are our Sunday dinner.) l said I had been thinking about that, but we should eat a little lighter today since we’re eating out tonight. (He is overweight and trying to lose weight as well. However, he has much more to lose than even my initial 40– I don’t count the ten that was lost just from giving birth.) So, for dinner he and my daughter will have hot dogs from the local organic meat market and I will have a veggie burger and we will have it with whole wheat bread and baked beans.
I’m just basically doing what I was doing before my first pregnancy three years ago– Eating whole real foods. When our Christmas tree comes down (probably today) and we put the living room back, I’ll have room again to work out. However, that might just be dependent on when both kids are napping, or my husband has our daughter, etc. Yet, when the weather warms up and we can go outside (even in pants, sweaters and jackets), we’ll go out for walks and to play. I miss doing my yoga and will look into a friend’s Holy Yoga class at a local YMCA. Even if I feel more comfortable bringing my son, so we don’t have to worry about him not eating, it will still be nice to get out.
When I was pregnant both times, I didn’t worry about my weight or taking it off. I just figured it would come off when it was supposed to. When I found out I was pregnant the second time, I was about 25 pounds lighter than what I was when I found out I was pregnant the first time. Granted, I didn’t eat much at the time and I actually gained ten pounds just to try and get pregnant. I don’t want to be that skinny again, just small enough that I can fit into more of my clothes. (Oddly, only one of my 12s fits, but two of my 11s do, but I think that is due to the khakis and the jeans being a cut that just goes over my hips and both have stretchy material. This morning to church I wore my khakis that were slipping down because I couldn’t easily get my belt through. However, I did deliberately wear my black underwear to go with my black shirt, and wore a long cardigan, just in case.
I digress.
Charles asks…
Is the selling of carbon offsets nothing more then a scam?
There are some things you just gotta do yourself. Someone else can’t lose your weight, quit your addiction, parent your kids, or confess your sins.
You have to do it. And, just as you can’t buy indulgences that allow you to go right on sinning without any consequences, you can’t buy carbon offsets that allow you to go right on polluting without any consequences, either.
Neither God nor science works that way.
Yet, the selling of “voluntary carbon offsets”—eco-indulgences—is a $55 million per year industry, involving over three dozen companies worldwide. Total sales are anticipated to double both this year and next, and entrepreneurs are clamoring all over themselves for a piece of the action.
And it’s all a scam.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankPastore/2007/09/09/carbon_offsets__eco-extortion,_green_guilt,_and_the_selling_of_indulgences
weight loss cardiff answers:
Watch the movie below, and you’ll understand the incredible hoax that is man-made global warming, these carbon credits are a clever scam to enrich the people who want even greater control of the world economy.
First, the paltry millions of dollars you cite is nothing compared to where the global warming elite want to take this. Sooner or later, they’ll have practically every business contributing. I’ve even heard that companies would be taxed based on number of employees, and how far they must drive to work. Yes, it’s insidious, just like the Tollway system, which was first presented as a SHORT TERM way to pay off the tollways. We were told after 10 years they would be eliminated. Ha! That was fifty years ago.
Here’s what’s happening. There is a sinister group of people like George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and others who believe that capitalism is bad, and wars could be prevented if our robust economies were hobbled by extensive taxation, under the theory that if a country does not have a lot of money to spend freely, they can’t afford to wage war. (obviously, they don’t remember Nazi Germany and the Treaty of Versailles)
When the Cold War ended, these people realized an ingenious way to get more power. The anti-war crowd (who had no cause to champion once the USSR dissolved) joined forces with the rabid environmental crowd. Their plan? Tie capitalism with destruction of the planet. Squeeze capitalism to death while funnelling the profits to areas that will supposedly help the environment.
It’s easy to verify this. Now that more and more scientists are bravely stepping forward to denounce the global warming hoax, the proponents of man made Global Warming are switching tactics. They will say, “even if we are wrong, and global warming is not caused by man, we will be doing the environment so much good”. That…. Is like a chess player proudly announcing “Check, and MATE !”
Who is going to reap the benefits of these carbon credits? Al Gore and others who have established companies to accept these carbon credits.
If you had one major volcanic eruption, it can easily spew out more CO2 than all of mankind’s activities for a whole year. Therefore, my suggestion is this: to placate the rabid Global Warming crowd, let’s find an active volcano, and cap it by throwing in lardbutts like Al Gore, Michael Moore, and George Soros. I regret that Sean Penn is such a scarecrow, but he can hold hands with Rosie O’Donnell.
Ken asks…
How to lose 50 lbs by the time school starts?
Um, anyone know if and how i can lose about 50 lbs by the time school starts? I really want to go back and have people looking at me like i’m a new person.
weight loss cardiff answers:
Hey I know how ya feel so do I and my 10 year old cousin answer my question about her!(see it on my profile) to loose weight here
1. The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. This means either eat fewer calories, or exercise more. Preferably both. (Weight loss is not for anyone who is pregnant or nursing, nor is it for growing children unless advised by their doctor to do so.)
2. It is not how much you eat that puts on the pounds, but what you eat a lot of. You cannot get fat on a mostly raw food diet. This means you can eat all of the raw veggies, sprouts, salads and fruits that you want. You need never be hungry while losing weight.
3. An easy way to lose weight even if you don’t want to become a raw food vegetarian is to become a regular vegetarian. Meat contains fat, and even lean meat is over 10% saturated fat. Drop meat, and you drop weight.
4. Another easy way to slim down: simply skip desserts. Whenever I want to drop a few pounds, I drop dessert. For me, doing so results in a sure-fire one-pound-a-week in weight loss. If that does not seem attractive to you, remember that it means 10 pounds off in 2 1/2 months; over 50 pounds in a year. Instead of ooie-gooies, end your meal with fruit, especially dried fruits. Yes, they do contain sugar, but no fat. Now you just try eating two handfuls of raisins or dates. It is very hard to do, because the natural mix of sugars, minerals, and fiber in fruit have a self-limiting effect on the appetite.
5. Sweeten with honey or molasses. Again, these are sugar sources but you simply cannot eat a lot of either. I know I could gobble up a box of chocolates easily, yet the very thought of eating a half cup of honey stops my appetite cold.
6. Want to control your appetite without even giving up dessert? Adopt the motto of a 94-year-old Vermont friend of ours: “Life is short: eat dessert first.” Seriously, if you do eat a bit of sweet food about 15 minutes before your meal you will eat less at the meal. This is at least partly because appetite is linked to blood sugar levels. Do you remember what your mother said? “Don’t eat that candy now; it will spoil your appetite.” Exactly!
7. Yoga stretches are one of the best forms of exercise I know. The basic postures are described in books at the library, such as The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga. Yoga classes are inexpensive; check your local high school or college for a beginner’s course. I learned yoga on board ship while crossing the Pacific in 1973, and I’ve used it ever since. As a college student, I could JUST BARELY touch my toes. Now with my kids headed for college, I can touch my palms to the floor. I can’t wait to see how flexible I will be at age 100!
8. We all have learned to walk by about age one, and most of us have since forgotten how. Walking is probably the greatest exercise of all. Did you know that a mile of walking burns just as many calories as a mile of running? And the walking is easier on your knees and ankles.
9. Good weight loss need only be one, perhaps two, pounds per week. Crash diets often crash right back, with weight gained back almost as quickly as it was shed. Take your time. A pound lost each week is 50 pounds a year (with a two week vacation allowed for!)
10. The ultimate weight loss plan is vegetable juice fasting. It is nourishing, safe, and feels great. I’ve written about this at length in other articles posted at this website. A search for “fasting” from the www.doctoryourself.com mainpage will quickly find them all for you. Books by Paavo Airola, N. W. Walker, and Dick Gregory also contain very helpful information on fasting.
As with any weight loss diet, vegetable juice fasting results in permanent weight reduction only when combined with regular exercise. Exercise seems to reset the appetite at a lower point.
11. You’ve seen those weight-loss powders and liquid meals. How would you like to make your own? Here’s what I make mine with. It is a modification of the breakfast developed by Dr. Jacobus Rinse to help clear plaque out his arteries. (It worked, by the way.) I used this approach to lose 25 pounds myself.
Combine two tablespoons of lecithin granules (a lipotrophic or fat-transporting substance), half a teaspoon of vitamin C powder, and a teaspoon of calcium-magnesium powder with your favorite sweet fruit juice. Stir it well and drink it. I usually follow it with a “chaser” of some more “undoctored” juice. This stops my appetite for hours, easily taking me to lunchtime. To improve the value of your breakfast drink, you can add a teaspoon of nutritional yeast for the B-vitamins. Alternatively, you could take a B-complex supplement. I always take a multiple vitamin and 800 International Units (I.U.) of natural vitamin E along with the mixture.
12. Please remember that if you walk away from all of this at some point, you have not failed. You only fail by not coming back. We’re in no hurry. Nature has been patient with us for years.
There is no trick to losing weight. It is simply a matter of deciding to, knowing how, and following through. I’ve worked with people so overweight that they had difficulty squeezing into an armchair. I have seen them lose up to 65 pounds by following even some of the ideas mentioned above. The side benefits are tremendous: more energy, better self-image, and a longer, healthier life.
If they can do it, I believe that you can do it.
Here’s what one reader from Oregon says:
“I am seventy years of age and morbidly obese. Diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure four years ago, have enlarged prostate, diverticulosis (itis?), chronic esophagitis, and GERD to name some of what my Doc says. I do not have high blood pressure, but have a chronic arrhythmia that occurs when exposed to any significant amount of caffeine. I abused coffee when I was younger. And I am a pensioner with no resource except my Social Security and two other tiny pensions. I didn’t mention the joint problems with two knees and the lumbar spinal region.
“A mess? Surely, but a little over three weeks ago I started on your “eat for $12.00 per week” plan (http://www.doctoryourself.com/eatwellcheap.html). I follow the diet almost exclusively, but do go out occasionally for a veggie omelet. I bake my own 100% whole wheat bread, gobble frozen veggies, brown rice, have become a juice drinker (100% juice with no additives, of course). I haven’t had any kind of a soda since I started, and I almost
always did one of those a day before. I make bean soup to enjoy even in the hot weather. I feel good and will start supplements when I have a few more bucks to spend. I feel better now (three weeks mind you) than I have in a very long time.
“Your web site is a favorite of mine and I can only offer my thanks for you turning the light on in my elderly cave. I am losing weight slowly, but steadily. Does your plan of nutrition work? Absolutely! Thanks.”
For further, slightly humorous reading:
Put on your helmet for my infamous “Crash Course in Vegetarian Cooking”: http://www.doctoryourself.com/cooking.html
Face it: my beloved Mother was a lousy cook: http://www.doctoryourself.com/moms_cooking.html
Please don’t eat the aphids: http://www.doctoryourself.com/aphids.html
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