The Ka-tet Cantina
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I agree that ideally a diet program should have a doctor's involvement. But that's easy for me to say since the diet I decided on is sponsored by my doc. It's Medifast, aka Take Shape for Life. It's not all that well-known as in NutriSystem or Weight Watchers, but I have seen a few TV commercials. The concept of this program is to ultimately change one's eating habits from bad to better, and from better to even better, and it has several steps. The first step is the weight loss one, wherein a person eats six times a day, but most of the meals are what are known as Meal Replacements which consist of 90 to 150 calories only. Depending on the plan of choice, the other meal(s) is what's called a Lean and Green meal, which consists of lots of veggies and 6oz or so of lean meat.
How this plan works for safe, healthy weight loss is by stimulating the metabolism and balancing blood sugar. Weight loss safely happens when fat calories are used for energy. When a person get only 90 to 150 calories in a meal every two to three hours, the metabolism doesn't perceive the body being in an environment where there's no food, and so doesn't start storing calories in fat cells for use later. Instead, the metabolism remains relatively high because another 90 to 150 calories shows up to keep it there, but because there are so few calories, the metabolism starts to tap into the fat cells for energy.
The problem with some plans is that the diet amounts to a starvation one, and though weight is lost, some or most of it is muscle tissue, not fat; plus, when the person goes off the diet, no matter how carefully they eat, they gain weight more rapidly than ever, since the metabolism has been lowered into storing calories as fat.
Blood sugar is balanced because the meal replacements are so nutrient dense they stimulate less insulin than if they weren't; protein is balanced with carbohydrates (sugars) as a kind of slow drip, as opposed to a dumping of loads of sugars. Blood sugar control is very important (please see Deej's testimony above) for a number reasons, one of which is when there's an excess of insulin in the bloodstream a person feels hungry; plus, even though the person resists eating, when s/he finally does, the calories not consumed right away aren't used right away, which are most of them, are stored as fat.
With Medifast, once a person reaches his/her weight goal, s/he moves to step two, which involves learning how to eat in a healthy way in order to maintain the healthy weight. It was at this step when I was on the program a few years ago that I failed because I was not ready to change my eating lifestyle.
Many. I played with a few. Some of the crew had an unfortunate habit of hanging them, though. Growl.
Well, THAT was fun!!!
I need to pee.
Damn, that was fun!
So guess who did an amazing wipeout at the skating rink yesterday? Oh yeah - that'd be me. I going pretty fast and decided it was time to try and turn around and go backwards - but my legs got tangled and I did an amazing splat. Lucky for me my brother in law got it all on video - so we could watch over and over again. I'm lucky I didn't end up in an ambulance. Just a little bit sore in my knee today. Live and learn.
((((HollyGolightly and knee))))
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I got the key.Lepplady said:
Do I know you?
What did you do?
Where are my pants?
that cop's a serial killer
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