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Topic: Watch Ian Lose Weight
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 04-24-2004 09:54 AM
Ian,
You have a sensible & caring Mom!
Drastic weight loss should be under a doctor's guidance. Your MD will probably recommend a thorough blood analysis to start, and a monitoring of your blood pressure throughout. And perhaps an EKG and stress test should any regularities in your heartbeat
be noticed.
Avoidance of alcohol would be sensible, and in India the food has an intoxicating effect besides. I felt giddy and slightly dizzy after a sumtuous repast in India, without alcohol, which was hard to come by anyway. Daily downpours, temperatures above 100'F and 100% humidity are best endured with small meals and mid-day siestas during monsoon.
I avoided milk in tea, which in Nepal is cream from the milk
of water buffalos or yaks, with a very high fat content, not pasteurized and perhaps partly fermented. But tea, which requires boiling water, is preferable to cold drinks. Beverage sellers on the street have been known to fill their bottles in the basement, as can be detected when they save the rusty caps. I ate only in air-conditioned restaurants in India. Cheaper restaurants added so much chili to even scrambled eggs as to burn a hole in one's stomach.
Best wishes for success in your diet-plus-exercise regimen!
Gerard
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 04-24-2004 11:17 AM
quote: Ian Price
Today’s intake: Glass of grapefruit Juice
Wow, that's showing restraint compared to me. I'm utterly addicted to the things, and eat between three and five pink or red grapefruits in a typical day (don't like the yellow ones - they're tasteless). I'm sure a researcher at some university will publish findings suggesting that this is really bad for my health one day, though. All that citric acid must be rotting something or other.
I don't think my diet is too bad. I'm allergic to saturated dairy fat, meaning that I cannot touch anything containing butter or cheese without a very nasty reaction. My protein of choice is fish anyway (simply because I like the taste of it more than most meat), and I really like green veggies. So in terms of cholestorol I don't think I have a big problem.
The one issue I probably do need to look at is alcohol, of which I probably consume well over the government's recommended limit (for an adult male) of 21 units per week. Although I hardly drink at all on a weekday evening (driving at 0610 the following day rules that out), several ginormous G & Ts are my weekend stress relief device of choice.
Have fun in India! A spicy prawn balti would be just up my street. That having been said, an Indian expat friend recently told me that, having recently returned from a visit home, she thought the Indian restaurants in Yorkshire actually produced better 'Indian' food than the ones in its country of origin! Figure that out...
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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 04-25-2004 01:29 AM
Ian,
I was going to suggest to you the "Half a Million Dollar Diet" that both me and my wife went on last year when we opened the drive-in. Since you own and operate your own theatre, you've probably already been on it for several years.
It wasn't an intentional diet for us, but the pounds did come off. Somewhere between the stress of opening the theatre, dealing with the contractors, bankers, suppliers, the first two months of operation... I actually lost 35 pounds, and my wife lost close to 25. I was at 235, and have leveled off at 200, and lost 4 inches in the waist.
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Chris Medley
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 180
From: McKinney, TX, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 04-25-2004 02:32 AM
Ian,
I can in a way feel where you are coming from...I was healthy my whole high school career..I was a football player, powerlifter, wrestler...all that...then I became a manger at my theater. I don't know what it is, but I think we have one of the highest levels of over weight people(besides cubicle jockies) in the work force. Anyway, long story short, I went from being 5' 8" and 145 to being 5' 8" and 190 in a couple of months.
I agree...you need to see a doctor and that doctor needs to be kept up to date all the way through the diet.
The only bad part about the Atkins diet is that yes...it is "ok" to eat a bowl of bacon in the morning for breakfast...why??? becuase old Doc Atkins was had most people so hooked that they didn't take the time to stop and say "lets look at the saturated fats..nope, all they cared about was low carbs.
One of the other managers I work with was a good 50 pounds over weight and he just basically started eating healthy...when he was hungry for sugar he ate an orange or apple..it was rough for about two weeks, but once you get your body used to a different kind of food intake you will do fine. I would look into exercising with friends...I do it and it alwasy is easier and more enjoyable when you have others there to motivate you when the going gets tough. I took what he did and built on that. I don't have time to cook meals or make salads so I went to my local SAM'S and got some precooked chicken breasts and some mixed veggies and I would put two or three portions into plastic bags, then throughout the day when I was hungry I would eat some fruit and other healthy stuff then when I went to work i would grab one or two of the baggies from the freezer...I would put them up at work, then when i had a brake I would pop then in the microwave for three mins....some salt and pepper and i had a body healthy meal that wouldn't give me heart attack in 30 years with the Doc Atkins diet..withe excerise I am down to 165 and on my way back to where i need to be.
One more note on the excerise...you have a good amount to loose, but as someone else said, take a picture and then compare. So many people get hung up on the weight lose aspect that they don't focus on the body change aspect...yes you will loose a lot of weight, but with the excerise you will gain muscle which may slow your "weight" loose, but you are becoming healthier..so focus on that and good luck!!
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Will Kutler
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1506
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 04-25-2004 03:09 AM
Atkins and other crap fad diets are just that... ![[bs]](graemlins/bs.gif) !
How to loose weight...simple...
Cutting out all of the junk food on a daily basis.
Like nicotine or alcohol, junk food and soda pop can be addictive. Nothing wrong with a little junk food once in a while just to settle that craving. But I will state this with authority: once you are on a healthy diet, the junk food will not react well with your body, and can make you feel quite ill!
Constantly "snacking" on healthy food throughout the day so that you never feel hungry. One of the worst things you can do to your body is overeating in one meal!
Excersise!
I literally lost over 60lbs in three months by simply changing my diet and doing an hours worth of aerobics (tread-mill, stationary bicycle and stair climber) every day.
And btw, Atkins says carbs are no good? 'n HORSEHOCKEY! I would ensure that I ate healty carbs prior to my workout, which provided me with energy, then would have a light healthy meal following.
Counting calories is no big deal. You should be able to determine you daily caloric needs by your age, gender and height/general structure. Keeping within the daily requirements is no big deal to figure out.
The amount of weight you loose within a given period of time should be controlled! You should combine other forms of excersise with your aerobic routine to help tighten up skin as you loose weight.
Fact of life: sometimes obese people who have really slimmed down may need to have that excessive skin that wont tighten up surgically removed.
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