Conditions were ripe for a bad weigh-in, and I did not disappoint. But, as my doctor said, “at least you didn’t gain weight and that’s good this time of year.” So yes, it’s good. No, I’m not going to obsess on it. I’ve been sick for about 2 weeks and continued to work long hours. I’m still eating ...
Down to 325 from my starting weight of 345 two months ago. Nothing glamorous, just a steady 2-2.5 lbs per week. My portion sizes are way down, basically at the size of a normal person's helping. No snacking between meals, no sweets, no junk food. ...
I had my monthly check-up with my doc this morning, something I'm doing during the initial stages of my diet to help enforce some accountability, along with monitoring some real-world medical issues. When I started the diet, I agreed not to weight myself between visits because she didn't want me focused on short-term variation. If ...
On the heels of my post about mice getting the benefits of dieting without the diet, I came across this site: Turn Fat People Into Mice Mostly, there’s a bunch of posts about medical research involving mice. I think the doctor writing the blog thinks they should be doing the research on humans: Since we are experts ...
Knowledge @ Wharton published an article last week about a company that is avoiding rising health insurance premiums by creating incentives for employees to lose weight. They use a BMI of 30 as the discriminating factor between employees that pay a lower insurance premium and a higher insurance premium, and incentivize employees to make progress during ...
Peter Bregman, in To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing on the Harvard Business Blog pointed me to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize. When I state that I am agnostic with regard to weight loss programs, ...
I feel my first week of dieting has gone moderately well, mostly because I kept my expectations modest. I weighed in at my doctor’s office last Friday (345 lbs, didja hear?) and the first thing she told me was to not weigh myself at home. She only wants me focused on the long-term weight-loss, not ...
Never before have you seen a man more in need of diet and exercise. Right now, I am 345 lbs, just 4 lbs shy of my top weight. Three years ago I lost 60 pounds in 6 months before petering out. I watched every calorie I put in my mouth and I did an outstanding ...