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Program That Helped Me Was Thin Within

A personal story in the experience: I Need to Lose Weight
Y ou just journal what you eat everyday.  Our stomachs have a fuel gauge in them just like the dashboard on a car.  If you become body aware, you can feel this gauge click when you've had enough to eat.  Our stomachs are about the size of our fist, so eating more of anything than that size is putting too much in there.  I like pretending I'm on what I call "The bariatric surgery diet" - I have 3 spoons full of whatever and that's it until I feel a bit hungry again.  I have lost 40 pounds in this manner and do not feel deprived.  I find I'm a carbohydrate addict so try to limit the carbs.  Also another thing - the more color in the food you eat - the better it is for you so that leaves out most carbs.  Another thing - we are composed of mostly water - I forget the exact percentage - like 75%.  So to keep our bodies thin we need to eat things that have a lot of water content. 
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Posted Jul 13th, 2009 at 12:44PM
Great ideas! Keep us updated on your progess :)
     
Posted Aug 15th, 2009 at 6:25PM
wow im going to try that do you write down prtions to or what?
     
Posted Aug 16th, 2009 at 2:43AM
Well, progress is progressing but way too slow. I need to get hold of myself and go back on cheese omelets for breakfast with salsa and cottage cheese and a slice of bacon or two thrown in. That's how I did it before. I've been eating carbs again and you can tell. I certainly can tell. A breakfast such as this gets me going for a whole day. If I need a snack it will be cheese, piece of jerky, piece of bacon or something protein. There were days I ate bacon as much as I wanted and lost weight. Gotta get back on that regime again. Been walking 3 or 4 laps in the parking lot of the school near my house - it comes to about 1/2 mile and my goal is to get to a mile and keep adding miles. I think I need to walk to GA from CA for some good reason like health, old age, or just to be an "x" in the middle of the world for awhile. Would love to hike the Appalaitian trail and the Rocky Mtn Trail clear to Canada. If I did this, I wouldnn't have to have a diet. And I wouldn't have to have a thrashed body that nobody wants. If they could get past that, they'd have the best time! I've been so bad I'm good. But, I look so bad I'm past having fun I guess. Time's a wastin. Oh well.
     
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