Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics - POSTED ON: May 23, 2016
How to Lose 50 pounds and keep them off. by Dr. Arya Sharma, M.D. See Video Below Physiology: the way in which a living organism or bodily part functions. Biology: the physiology, behavior, and other qualities of a particular living organism. Physics: the study of matter and its motion through space and time; energy and force.
Beliefs - POSTED ON: May 03, 2016
I’ve been researching the Three Principles concept and how it might be useful to me in my struggles with food and weight. This has led me to reflect on the issue of beliefs… the beliefs that we all carry around with us.
A belief is just an idea that, for various reasons, we have picked up and entertained. Basically, we’ve picked up a thought and repeated it inside our heads so many times that we come to believe it is true. When people hear or see something a great many times, they often mistakenly consider it to be Truth. We are often totally unaware of many of the beliefs we carry around, and even when we see how they limit us, we are not inclined to let them go. If we feel really threatened we can think some seriously stupid things in order to defend our Beliefs. Like: “I’d rather be dead than be fat”. Even if we don’t mean it literally (although some people do), and that statement merely resonates within us, there’s no mistaking the fact that a Core Belief is inside us, which is a belief we are willing to fight for. We tend to protect our beliefs because even when we know they limit us, they give us a feeling of safety. Sometimes we don’t care how strange we might act, or how miserable we make ourselves, just as long as we feel safe. We have blind spots about many of our beliefs. Deep down inside we might know they’re there, but at best, we only can get a sense of them. They hide in the shadows of our minds, creating confusion with whispering voices. While not all beliefs cause discomfort, it could be useful to be able to see the ones that do. Recently, I heard a Three Principles person say: …That the first step to freedom from our limiting and unwanted beliefs is to see them; that when they become clear to us, it is easy to determine which ones we might wish to keep, and which ones we want to get rid of. …That once we see the true nature of such a belief, it goes away all by itself,…. because it is merely an idea, made of thought. And because beliefs=thoughts have no life of their own they hold no power over us once we decide to let them go. It is like having unwanted guests in your home, like thoughts, the best way to get them out of your home is to stop entertaining them. A thought cannot think itself.
That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it. - POSTED ON: May 02, 2016
After’The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight by Gina Kolata, - New York Times, May 2, 2016
Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage. He had won Season 8 of NBC’s reality television show “The Biggest Loser,” shedding more weight than anyone ever had on the program — an astonishing 239 pounds in seven months. When he got on the scale for all to see that evening, Dec. 8, 2009, he weighed just 191 pounds, down from 430. Dressed in a T-shirt and knee-length shorts, he was lean, athletic and as handsome as a model. “I’ve got my life back,” he declared. “I mean, I feel like a million bucks.” Mr. Cahill left the show’s stage in Hollywood and flew directly to New York to start a triumphal tour of the talk shows, chatting with Jay Leno, Regis Philbin and Joy Behar. As he heard from fans all over the world, his elation knew no bounds. But in the years since, more than 100 pounds have crept back onto his 5-foot-11 frame despite his best efforts. In fact, most of that season’s 16 contestants have regained much if not all the weight they lost so arduously. Some are even heavier now. Yet their experiences, while a bitter personal disappointment, have been a gift to science. A study of Season 8’s contestants has yielded surprising new discoveries about the physiology of obesity that help explain why so many people struggle unsuccessfully to keep off the weight they lose. Kevin Hall, a scientist at a federal research center who admits to a weakness for reality TV, had the idea to follow the “Biggest Loser” contestants for six years after that victorious night. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise. The results, the researchers said, were stunning. They showed just how hard the body fights back against weight loss. “It is frightening and amazing,” said Dr. Hall, an expert on metabolism at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “I am just blown away.” It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes. Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended. What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the s...
Allergic to Food - POSTED ON: Mar 12, 2016
Before & After Photos - Weight History - POSTED ON: Mar 01, 2016
My weight has yo-yoed all during my lifetime. I began dieting in puberty, for weight-loss and for maintenance, and I continued doing so during every year of the next 60+ years. During non-dieting months, my weight increased. At three separate times in my life, I successfully lost 100+ pounds, and a great many times, i lost 30 to 50 pounds.
The borderline between a “normal” and an “overweight” BMI is 25. The borderline between an “overweight” and an “obese” BMI is 30. As a child, my weight was normal. As a teenager-young adult my body fluctuated between a 21 & 24 BMI. At age 20, after the birth of my first child, my body had a 36 BMI. Several years later it dropped to a 23 BMI. My body rose to a 43 BMI. Several years later it dropped to a 26 BMI. About 24 years ago, at age 47, My body reached a 52.9 BMI, and I had a RNY gastric bypass, with no removal of any intestine, which means that all the food I eat is still digested. Since that time:
24 yrs ago = 271 lbs = BMI 52.9 - weight-loss-surgery 21 yrs ago = 160 lbs = BMI 31.2 - low weight without dieting AFTER weight-loss-surgery 12 yrs ago = 190 lbs = BMI 37.1 - regained weight while dieting AFTER weight-loss-surgery 11 yrs ago = 115 lbs = BMI 22.5 - weight-loss after diet using computer food journal Past 11 yrs = maintenance (115-130 lbs) BMI 20.3 at my lowest; BMI 27.3, at my highest
The chart below is a helpful way to visualize my Maintenance Weight Range. Here are a few o...
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