Everything Eaten Yesterday

I can't see it as I've already spent my twenty clicks on NYT for the month, free.
But, I know most of that before I could read it.

I've lost gradually over five years. Among other things, I cook my own food most days, because I have to re money, and also like to cook but not always - and I can't afford junk most of the time even when I still like it (certain tortilla chips). I've always been a fan of slow weight loss, but I've also never hit 200, though I was close at 5 - 5 1/2" and can understand remedies past that.

Recently I read that weight loss for elders can be a sign of incipient alzheimers, a matter I have excellent familial reason to fear.

You can't win for losing.
Who knows.


On the article, I was acting snotty, not having read it. Could anyone send me the text? I'll give an email if so.

I remember first looking at this thread and being surprised at the weight you were maintaining based on what you listed as your food here. I'm 5'6' and most of my life weighed under 135. I could never just eat whatever I wanted, but I could control my weight within an acceptable range without making myself too crazy. Now at 50 plus I've put on about 15 very stubborn pounds. I'm really careful with carbs and I'm very active, but still eat more than you by a few hundred calories. I would probably lose weight if I was as careful as you are.

I think it's normal for people to lose weight after a certain age. I think in part it's because as we age we lose appetite partly due to a decrease in our sense of smell. The body physically shifts and people don't look as thin, but I think weight tends to go down after 70.

You didn't sound snotty. I think the article is too long to cut and paste (it's in the mag. section).

I'll see if I can pick up the article for you at work tomorrow. I think we've got some kind of dealio as I know our group alone looks at more than 20 articles at the NYT site in a week (and we're the smallest group internationally). No guarantees, but I'll give it a whirl.

I've been off and on, nothing fast either way, just inexorable at the times.
I was maybe 128 at 28, 5 - 5 1/2
136 at 37, when I became swimming queen;
ballooned in landarch school and working (awake nearly 24 hrs a day) to the 150's.
Down to let's say 148, just after.
Up to 160's, woke up, started running again. Went down to 126 for about five minutes. I don't remember eating differently.
Thinish on my first trip to italy at 47. I'll guess 144.
Gained on arriving back in california, over a few years.
Stopped that in early nineties.
Marital problems, larded on.
Marital dissolution in progress, stopped that, busy walking anxiety off.
Time went by, moved something like 4 times, settled in, fatted up again.
Got hit with ****, breast cancer and eye surgery fuckup in early 2000's.
Lost weight again, not all bad, enjoying life around me.
Needed to move, pudged, was probably at 180 when I showed up in Abq.
Down to around 150 a couple of years ago and something like 143/4 now.

Well, I don't run now.

I can't access the magazine section now without paying. I don't have bucks to spend on articles, past the twenty I've already clicked on. I'm an old nyt reader. Twenty articles is nothing to me re my past usage, so I'm having trouble taming myself to that little.

Just click on the link I provided and you can read the article

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1

CJ - Ossob has used up the number of times she can access articles on the site for the month. Clicking on the link will just lead to a request for $.

Oh, I didn't realize that, thank you!

True.

Yeah, I understand that. I wish they would just charge a few cents per article after the first 20 and then people could budget themselves rather than get locked out.

I usually pace myself, but I went wild this month. (that's an exaggeration, but my total is up there)
Think of me as a person who used to click on something like 500 articles a month.

Plus, I'm getting rid of my backlog of saved nyt articles on architecture and art and whatever the hell interested me. Rather painful, but clicking on them out of interest is at cost.

Does this sound political? It partly is. I think not being able to read the nyt is stultifying.

Not that I have easy answers.

But this all fosters the us/them thing even more than is in progress already.

Do you have a library near by? Most libraries have a subscription and you can use their computer to read as many articles as you can in the time they allow for computer access.

Not very near by, not easy for me to get to. That library has the most lame newspapers and magazines I've probably ever seen. I've been to a lot of libraries.

I suppose I could use their computers, wherever in the expanse they are, and I do see your point if I figured out to use that subscription. But I have a perfectly good computer I pay a lot of money to have access from, for the nonce, and I do mean nonce - not knowing how long I can keep it up.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Oatmeal, 2 packets
Almonds, 1 oz (22 whole kernels)

Lunch: McDougall Thai peanut soup
sensible foods soy nuts, 1 bag

Dinner: Skim milk, 8 oz
14 oz mixed greens salad
Slow cooker penicillen, 1 serving
Low salt matzoh balls, 1 serving
2 rice cakes
Guacamole, 1 T

Snack: Strawberries, fresh, 1 cup
Yogurt, Stonyfield Farm fat free plain, 1 cup
Fiber One chocolate bar, 1 serving

CALORIES 1696 CARBS 226 g FAT 54 g PROTEIN 73 g Sodium: 1826 mg

B: Toast, 1/2 grapefruit, four prunes, coffee
S: bagel, no butter
L: Tuna salad on a roll, coffee
D: clam chowder, toast, prunes, two ozs of jack cheese.
6/194.9/-3.0
4 days down (2 in a row is the record)
2 up
0 even

I love reading the conversations here. I'll try to chime in tonight.
Joe(be well)Nation

B: Oatmeal w/ brown sugar, coffee w/milk
L: chicken and romaine salad, Orange, Coffee, Bread and butter
D: minute steak w/garlic, onions and Worcestershire Sauce, Toast
S: Six prunes
7/194.7/-3.2
5 Days down (2 in a row is the record)
2 up
0 even
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I use Weight Commander (look it up) to chart things.
Here's the whole numbers:
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What a revelation! I just looked up the whole record.
The Weight Commander says
1109 loss days
1135 gain days
2316 days in all ( that 6 and third years!)
My start weight was 218.90. (My top weight seven years ago was 274.)
Weight today is 194.7o
So that's -24.20 pounds

BUT, since starting this thread, I've lost 5.4 pounds. 200.1-194.7.
I am three pounds smaller than one year ago.

Joe(I need to pay attention)Nation

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Oatmeal, 2 packets
Almonds, 1 oz (22 whole kernels)

Lunch: McDougall lentil masala soup
sensible foods soy nuts, 1 bag

Dinner: Skim milk, 8 oz
Turkey burger
2 pcs fiber one bread
Broccoli, 1 c
Almonds, 1/2 oz (11 whole kernels)

Snack: Strawberries, fresh, 1 cup
Yogurt, Stonyfield Farm fat free plain, 1 cup
Fiber One chocolate bar, 1 serving

CALORIES 1753 CARBS 247 g FAT 54 g PROTEIN 75 g Sodium: 1776 mg

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Cheerios, 1 c
jam, 1 T
low fat peanut butter, 1 T
2 pcs fiber one bread
blueberries, 1 c

Lunch: Chicken, 4 oz
Mixed salad, 1.5 C
cucumbers, 1 c
vinaigrette, 2 T
white rice, 1 C

Dinner: Skim milk, 8 oz
Cod, 4 oz
14 oz mixed greens salad
Broccoli, 1 c
brown rice, 1 c

Snack: Strawberries, fresh, 1 cup
Yogurt, Stonyfield Farm fat free plain, 1 cup
Fiber One chocolate bar, 1 serving

CALORIES 1661 CARBS 271 g FAT 28 g PROTEIN 103 g Sodium: 1443 mg