It's your window to weight gain!

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According to my physician, I am at risk for, or may already be in, insulin resistance syndrome. It's now called "metabolic syndrome" which seems insufficiently precise to me. But he makes a convincing case.

Therefore, the best thing I can do for myself is to get to my target weight of 200 lbs in one year. This will be ~50 lbs, or 1 lb per week.

I repeat, I have to lose 50 pounds in one year.

Aiiigh.

I'm already eating a much better diet than I was a year ago. This is why I weigh ~250 rather than 275, which is where I started on this journey. However I suck at the exercise. There is an exercise machine in the house that my mom used before that I can make use of, so I shall. I sweat like a freaking PIG when I exercise and hate to do this in front of strangers so the health club is a big washout. Paxil is great for making the depression go away but it makes me into a kind of perspiratory fountain apparatus.

And walking is to smile. It burns like 1 calorie per 1000 miles. Anyone else tells me to try walking, I'm splattering lipids all over them from my bulging midriff.

It surprises me that I am overweight. I was always a skinny kid. Stupid depression, stupid depression meds. Blurg.

Comments

Re: PS

[stimps.livejournal.com]

That's cool, but corn and potatoes do get turned pretty quickly into sugars, which is pretty dangerous when you've got insulin and blood-sugar related problems like I do. If I eat a big serving of potatoes, I get high and sugary in a verrrry short period of time; same with corn. Whole wheat pasta, no prob. So I'm just sayin'. =)

[scromp.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. eating a raw potato spikes your blood sugar higher than eating *a cup of sugar* because it's metabolized easier. That makes my head hurt just a little bit.

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

But from a calorie perspective, the potato totally wins.

[scromp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's very much a special case for diabetics. Potatoes also have a lot more vitamins than a cup of sugar if you eat the skin. :)

[stimps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that freaked me out too, when I first found out. WHAT BUT I READ OH SHIT. This explains so much not only of my pre-diabetic stuff, but also why I had so many problems with getting tired (the spikes & all). Sigh. Oh well, I'm MUCH BETTER NOW... I think.

Re: PS

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's why I included the YMMV disclaimer above. From a calories-to-food-mass perspective, there's nothing inherently evil about corn and potatoes, so if blood sugar isn't an issue and weight loss is, you're a lot better off sating your snack urges with those kinds of things.

Re: PS

[stimps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the poor old potato gets such a bad rap. I mean, they're so USEFUL! =D I love potatoes personally, I just have to watch it, or eat them with a lot of things that take me longer to digest or I get the carb floaties. =)