Forget Darwin. The rest of you may have swung down from a primate family tree, but at least one of my remote ancestors was a hibernating bear.
Hibernating bears can really pack on the pounds.
Mr. Scale said 174 this morning.
At last! Movement in the right direction.
Good news, George!
My scales are also reporting happy news - this morning they read 100.9kg (222lbs) down from 104.5kg (230lbs) just 10 days before.
Keeping a food diary has REALLY helped me to think hard before I eat anything.
KP
kitchenpete wrote:...Keeping a food diary has REALLY helped me to think hard before I eat anything...
I can't handle the truth.
Reporting additional deflation: 229.6....
What a bunch of losers.
Joe
Up to 134--water weight, but disheartening all the same.
Did anyone else see this news story?
Study: Fidgeting may keep people lean, fight obesity
Researchers found heavy people spend at least two hours more each day sitting still.
By Rob Stein / Washington Post
Christina Paolucci / Associated Press
Dr. James Levine believes that everyday restlessness may play a bigger role in whether someone is fat or thin.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Strolling to the bus stop, fidgeting during a meeting, standing up to stretch, jumping off the couch to change channels and other seemingly minor physical activity can make the difference between being lean and obese, researchers reported Thursday.
The most detailed study ever conducted of mundane bodily movements found that obese people tend to be much less fidgety than lean people and spend at least two hours more each day sitting still. The extra motion by lean people burns about 350 extra calories a day, which could add up to 10 to 20 pounds a year, the researchers found.
"There are these absolutely staggering differences between people who are lean and people who are obese," said James Levine of the Mayo Clinic, who led the research being published in today's issue of the journal Science. "The amount of this low-grade activity is so substantial that it could, in and of itself, account for obesity quite easily."
Perhaps more importantly, Levine and his colleagues also discovered that people appear to be born with a propensity to be either fidgety or listless, indicating that it will take special measures to convert the naturally sedentary into the restless -- especially in a society geared toward a couch-potato existence.
"Figuring out ways to increase physical activity -- not necessarily getting people jogging every day but just building physical activity into a person's day -- are reasonable strategies that have the promise to combat this epidemic of obesity," said William Dietz of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The number of Americans who are overweight has risen in recent years, with more than two-thirds overweight or obese.
"We all know people who can't seem to stand still and others who hardly move," said Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who wrote a commentary on the study. "This is really the first time this has been assessed in this level of detail."
The findings should encourage efforts to make it easier for people to get moving, Levine said. Still, they should be encouraged to move more on their own.
"We can begin to say to people, yes, it would be good if you went jogging and it would be good if you went to the gym. But it's also good to keep getting up, moving around. Fidgeting and doing all those small things will make a difference," said Paul Trayhurn of the University of Liverpool in England.
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He fidgets too much; such men are annoying as Hell.
Up one pound from yesterday. Too much dinner last night and two glasses of wine are totally to blame. I, of course, and completely innocent.
Congrats to all the losers. Hold on through the weekend guys - always a challange for me.
Until recently my body shape has been like Susan Anton's. Lately however I'm starting to emulate Julia Child. How the hell did I go from being Susan Anton to Julia Child?
Quote:Until recently my body shape has been like Susan Anton's. Lately however I'm starting to emulate Julia Child. How the hell did I go from being Susan Anton to Julia Child?
One spoonful at a time--one delicious spoonful at a time.
so, i quite officially have a flu. my head is about to burst, nose started running, i have that sickly feeling inside. that sickly feeling was coming and going all weekend, but i decided to go to the gym - spent 2 hours there, stupidly pushed myself to outer limits (an hour on eliptical, on level 8 out of 10, average heartrate in upper 160s), 15 mins rowing machine, 3 rounds on 'express circuit' weight machines and then some focused work on torso and thighs. i can't wait for eoe to find me out and tell me off. i deserve it. i'll be a dead goose tomorrow.
Dags,
Your goose is cooked !
I ate too much cooked goose for Christmas, that coupled with the recovery from the dreaded Operation late November has led to a sad slide in my fitness and an even sadder increase in my avoirdupoids to an unseemly 198 lbs, from a low last year of 186 lbs so naught boy is going to use th KP "KP" drill and keep a food diary-except mine will be a food AND drink diary, drink being a large reason for my slide from athletic perfection !
p.s. I did swim 100 lengths of my local 25 yard pool yesterday
231.8
Full program starts today.
Dag, were you able to fight off the cold/flu?
J
hiama - understandable slide over Chritmas. My diary also records drink - there's no point eating half a lettuce per week and then drinking 8 pints of Guinness every day!
2,500m swim is good, though!
Dag - naughty girl - that deserves a good spanking!
As for me - keeping at it - personal trainer session yesterday so I'm feeling a bit tender in certain muscles today.
I know how to lose weight. It's a simple method, and foolproof. And we all know who these fools are.
Don't read any further unless you're willing to send me £20 in used fivers. This constitutes a binding contract between us.
OK ready? Here it is:
Tell your wife/ partner you're on a diet, then
EAT ONLY WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN.
No exceptions, no special pleading, no treats, no time out, nothing. No personal trips to the fridge. No backsliding.
If no partner, then you will have to make your own menus list in the morning, with quantities, get it countersigned, then you're away. But it's better if you have a jailer, sorry helper.
I'll give you the address for the money transfer later.
Money on it's way, McTag, in used fivers , of course I can't print here what they were used for !!!!!!!
178.5 and ready to stay serious.
Feel better soon Dag.
chest and back exercises today. No cardio.
uggghggg. no. the flu is here to stay for a few days, i'm sure. kp, you'll have to wait with the spanking, because, although i'm sure it would fit well into your workout schedule, it would most likely kill me. then i would really be supple and lean, but no need to go there just yet. grrr, and i have to go to work, and school, and a reception, and write and stuff. why me? what have i ever done to deserve this?
Dag
Good luck - I was just joking! I just made a cold worse before Christmas by running home from work in very chilly conditions - best to reat when you're ill.
KP
oh, what a disappointment. and i was already looking for flight tickets to london!
Come Wednesday, officially halfway through the winter, I'll clip a mess of forsythia and start Really Serious Dieting.
Tomorrow I'll grocery shop, lingering in produce. I've been stocking the freezer with measured portions of homemade soups and stews.
I have everything except will power.
