It's your window to weight gain!
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substituteAccording 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.
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.
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"If you cook it, they will eat"
Date: 2003-05-24 12:19 am (UTC)1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes has all sorts of tasty goodness. Each recipe includes the per-serving kind of nutrition information you would normally get from the packaging of a pre-made item at the store. PLUS, the basis of Enigma's Galaticaly Renown Lasagna came from this book.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is not quite as good (in our opinion) as the other, but it does have a number of awards pinned to it--including two from Julia Child. This one seems a bit more "gourmet," which equates to "not as practical for everyday use."
Now, I know that you are not going to go vegetarian--I am not and still eat the occasional shellfish or bird. These books, though, have some pretty tasty dishes made of vegetable matter which are still tasty and filling to the meat-eater and do not consist of "two lentil beans and a grain of rice with a side of brussels sprouts."