Losing - To Add To Your Preps

An excellent book that will change your thinking about diet and weight loss as well as general health is Wheat Belly. I got it and in reading it it makes sense... simple sense.. and in the 2 weeks I have been following it I have lost 4 pounds with absolutely no sense of depriving myself.

JAB

I've heard SO many people talking about that book and recommending it, I'll have to get it from the library and check it out myself!

I have a couple freinds that have the Wheat Belly, and gave it a huge endorsement as well. One friend specifically had (may still be, haven't seen her in a month) been following it for a couple months and had dropped some good weight...like 20lbs in a couple months+ without too much inconvenience....said it is a great book and recommended to me.
I already had my plan in place for what I was gonna do, but may look at that from a managing tool when I get closer to a place I am happy with.

I have the wheat belly cookbook 🙂 It's really good!

I like threads like this. I posted a similar one back in Sept 2012, but it didn't get the same enthusiasm. I wonder if this one became more popular because it's after New Years. 😉

http://internationalpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=2113

RT,

It's really too bad that your post didn't get the same enthusiasm. It's so much better when you get positive feedback and encouragement. Post your progress here if you want. I'm always checking it out myself since I am trying to get in better shape.

All the best,

Plain Jane

Well, had a friend that had a major medical situation arise back home in NS, that threw me off a bit from my strictness. But, a small detour...took my son and his buddy to Maroon 5 tonight, needless to say two 9 year olds did not make it through entire concert...glad I have lost some weight and began working out...had an 8 block piggy back ride for him that I wouldn't have done a month or so ago...probably a couple weeks ago...but I have done a few good walks as well with my BOB, as per advice from previous poster.

I suppose it's been a couple weeks since I posted, and happy to report even with the detour I took for a couple days, I am at 272...so a further 6 lbs 🙂

I hope others of you that are comfortable can share in some of your successes at some point as well....I tell ya, I really like that BOB When walking suggestion...Thanks BetterSafe.

Any other little nuggets of info that falls in line with prepping that helps with weight loss and or exercise...post em if ya got em!

Cheers all, gotta hit the hay, we are at the rink in 7 hrs for sons championship game tomorrow!

OTP

Long distance running over the last 4-5 years has changed my body type, from a v-shape military torso to a scrawny, wiry guy with sinewy legs.

Therefore, contrary to most, I've been trying to put on some weight over the last 4 months.

I've stopped running distances over 40km, focused more on a balanced, power-endurance set of workouts, and began lifting weights again. Interestingly enough, I broke my half-marathon personal best last month, despite gaining 12 lbs of lean body muscle. I'm focused on breaking target performance goals, rather than focusing on gaining or losing weight. Weight is one of the worst, and least descriptive ways to measure true health. Instead, focus on target performance. I've seen "overweight" looking individuals complete 100km ultramarathon runs in the pro categories, and I've seen skinny guys crawl across a 10 km run finish line.

Cheers

OffthePath: Make no doubt, I'm watching your posts on your progression and am cheering for ya guy. Good work so far! And keep posting your updates. I'll be emailing you a "virtual big mac" when you hit 250!!

A couple of helpful hints per your request:
-Don't eat after 7pm unless thats when your working out. No point in consuming calories to sleep on it.
-Try and eat higher protein foods (but not all protein, you still need some quick energy) at least a couple hours before you work out. Your body will have a chance to start breaking down that energy, and it will also keep ya from getting super hungry a few hours after a work out and chowing down on anything in site! A lot of people have issues with hunger hours after working out. Even a peanut butter sandwich is great beforehand.
-As Rabbit Teeth has mentioned...weight isnt a great guage for fitness. And though BMI is a good indicator of where you should be at, any doctor will tell you it's definitely not the end all and be all, and has it's limits.

RabbitTeeth: Running half marathons is no easy task and hats off to ya! Whats your PB for that run? Do you do 5k, 8k or 10k runs? I don't go farther than 10k's. Wouldn't mind knowing what your times are at. We should talk. I would like to know some of your training routines, tips, etc. and happy to share mine.

thecrownsown - I commute to work via running or cycling (check my thread out: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=2113), but I specialize in 10 km runs for racing, 50+ km on the trails for leisure. I'm very primitive when it comes to a training routine... I just do it often, and as consistently as I can. My wife does intervals, fartlek, and the traditional pyramid training method (base-hills-speed). The PB I set for myself at my last half-marathon was between 1:32 and 1:35 (giving you a range will leave me somewhat anonymous if you decide to check the results). 🙂 Definitely not groundbreaking, but much better than the 1:41-1:43 I've been doing for the last 4 years. I think the cool weather made it easier to run faster, but I think the strength training helped a lot, too. Getting older doesn't seem to mean slower... yet.

Years ago whilst pregnant and because of medical issues I was confined to bed for extended periods of time...recipe for disaster and I gained heaps of weight.
I started having heart attacks after the birth of my son and was again in hospital for extended periods and gained even more weight.
I went to a naturopath that a nurse recommended (she said to help with stress), anyway I went and saw her about the heart attacks and she put me on a liver detox.
The liver produces heparin, heparin keeps the blood thin...I had worked as a printer for years and my liver was not functioning properly because of all the chemicals I had used, the body also stores chemicals in fat as it is safer than floating around the body.

So I started the liver detox and all those chemicals came out in my sweat...to say I stank is an understatement, even a shower couldn't improve the smell for more than 5 minutes 😕
When the chemicals were removed the fat had no reason to be there anymore, so over just 20 days I lost 21kg (46 lbs). It sounds a bit gross, but my poop turned totally white and there was heaps of it...yep I pooped away all the fat 😉

That was almost 20 years ago and over that time a bit of weight has slowly crept back on....so I have just started on a liver detox again, so far in 18 days I have dropped 5kg (11 lbs).
When doing the liver detox I have to avoid all dairy, meat and grain, so I am pretty much just eating fruit and veggies. I find this to be very easy as I was raised as a vegetarian and it was pretty much a normal way of eating for me, but I do miss my butter, I sneak some in when I cook mushrooms as it is nicer than coconut oil 🙂
I had a personal trainer for a couple of years and he wanted me to try the Body For Life program...and just to prove that one program doesn't suit everybody, I gained 15kg (33 lbs) of muscle and didn't lose so much as even a few grams of body fat 😯 He wasn't expecting that...but I was 😆
Damn so now I was even heavier and was terrified of turning into a she-man 😮
I always gained muscle really easily and could leg press 340kg (750 lbs), I was the strongest woman he had ever trained...but fat burning was always the hard part!

So if losing weight isn't working with just diet and exercise maybe it is due to needing to detox one or numerous organs and getting the body functioning correctly so fat loss then becomes easy.

Excess estrogen is really hard to avoid in this modern world 🙁

Congratulations on your personal experience with this. Would it be possible for you to site the sources for your information? Especially the transformation of estrogen to testosterone...
As it has been said and cautioned here multiple times personal experience does not make something safe or beneficial for everyone. IF you are contemplating doing something like this be careful, seek medical advice and monitor your liver functions through your MD. Some of the liver "detox" regimens are harmful and can cause permanent damage. Also in some a large risk is dehydration due to the use of diuretic salts.

JAB

Could you give us some details of your liver detox program?

Sources are straight from the mouths of practicing alternative practitioners I have used and was in conversations with them in regard to my problems...that's the best I can do, it wasn't hear-say or just info picked up from Wiki or similar, nor was it a detox that I picked up off the net or over the counter. Whilst yes it is my personal experience, it was all under the guidance of a qualified practitioner 🙂

The liver detox was simply using one supplement called Lipogen (available in Australia) and is from a 'Practitioner Only Range' of supplements so it can't just be bought over the counter.

The blurb on the container says....

Lipogen
A liver tonic that aids digestion.
Lipogen is a combination of herbal antioxidants, vitamins and amino acids.
These herbs support liver and gall bladder function and promote liver detoxification in traditional medicine. Choline is important for normal metabolism of fats by the liver and gall bladder. Cyanocobalamin, olic acid and pyridoxine enhance the metabolism of methionine thus helping maintain healthy homocysteine levels.

It was recommended that I avoid all grain, meat and dairy whilst doing a liver detox.

The fat cell being endocrine organs I learned whilst studying naturopathy and I would look in my text books if I hadn't lost them in the house fire a few years ago, so this link will have to do, it pretty much says the same as the text books only simplified...

'Adipose: Under-Recognized Endocrine Organ
Fat tissue is now being considered a part of the Endocrine System that is independent of control by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. How does fat tissue behave in a manner that would make it part of the Endocrine System?
Fat cells have an enzyme called estrogen synthase (aromatase), which converts whatever male hormones (androgens) are in the vicinity into female hormones (estrogens). This phenomenon, which occurs in both men and women, means that the more fat tissue one has, the greater the estrogen influence in the body. This increased estrogen influence is problematic because it increases risk for breast and uterine cancer in women and risk for prostate health problems in men. (Please see our pages on breast and prostate health on this website.)'
http://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/brain/male-brain.php