Marks new "Getting Healthy" thread.

Mark Wein said:
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I guess. I just REALLY blew it.
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Sometimes a binge is ok. Your body may have needed some specific nutrients, and the indulgence is always a stress relief. Accept it and move on, don’t beat yourself up. A little set back is easily overcome. I’ll be passing a hat around for donations...
 
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Seven years of this and I’m back at it. Not wanting “pre-diabetes” to turn into “full on diabeetus” is good motivation, though, also made a few other life changes that seem to be helping. I’m hoping to hit and maintain 250 by New Years and 240 by my birthday in May. So far I’m down about 20lbs from last year and 10 lbs in the last 2 months or so.

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Mark Wein said:
Seven years of this and I’m back at it. Not wanting “pre-diabetes” to turn into “full on diabeetus” is good motivation, though, also made a few other life changes that seem to be helping. I’m hoping to hit and maintain 250 by New Years and 240 by my birthday in May. So far I’m down about 20lbs from last year and 10 lbs in the last 2 months or so.

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I wonder what happened in 2020 to make you gain that weight? Weird right?
 
MonkeyZero said:
I wonder what happened in 2020 to make you gain that weight? Weird right?
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I used that time (and a busy work schedule, and some med changes that "might cause a loss of appetite for a few weeks" to allow me to) basically starve myself for a few months, then recalibrate my brain for what a "normal portion size" of food is, and when and when not to snack. Once the appetite supression wore off, I had developed some better eating habits and I was able to shave off 50 pounds in that year.

Flash forward two years and I've had a couple bouts of bouncing up and down 5 - 7 pounds.... but instead of 238-242.... I've been able to maintain 188-194 at 5' 11" (depending on the day of the week or weekend binge). :baimun:
 
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Honestly, when my wife was diagnosed with MS we went to a very basic diet and started fasting. I've lost 20 pounds and am very healthy compared to what I was. Still have just a few pounds to go and need to cut the drinking but I feel better. Went from 199 to 182 down to 177 and fluctuating. If I cut my drinking I could probably be 160 at 5'11"
 
MonkeyZero said:
Honestly, when my wife was diagnosed with MS we went to a very basic diet and started fasting. I've lost 20 pounds and am very healthy compared to what I was. Still have just a few pounds to go and need to cut the drinking but I feel better. Went from 199 to 182 down to 177 and fluctuating. If I cut my drinking I could probably be 160 at 5'11"
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That happened when my wife discovered her gluten allergy. She kept the weight off and I absorbed it all.
 
I started my bacon-only thing again about a month ago.
Mostly because I have a closet full of clothes that don’t fit anymore, but also avoiding the pre-diabetes thing.

I didn’t keep track from the start, but I’ve lost 10 pounds in the last 2 weeks or so. I’d guess I’m down 15 pounds overall.
I’m already feeling better. More energy. Less muscle pain when I do stuff.
I’d like to lose another 20. Basically, all of the weight I gained during the pandemic.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
I started my bacon-only thing again about a month ago.
Mostly because I have a closet full of clothes that don’t fit anymore, but also avoiding the pre-diabetes thing.

I didn’t keep track from the start, but I’ve lost 10 pounds in the last 2 weeks or so. I’d guess I’m down 15 pounds overall.
I’m already feeling better. More energy. Less muscle pain when I do stuff.
I’d like to lose another 20. Basically, all of the weight I gained during the pandemic.
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Attempting dietary changes, and some intermittent fasting, to attempt to do the same. And hopefully reduce inflammation related aches and pains/digestion issues along the way as well. I don't have a strong plan yet, but am working on it. My wrist tendonitis that flared up this summer has impacted my normal exercise strategies, but that is improving so hopefully I can get my cardio back up too to help. I have mostly been walking/hiking lately, but need some more intensity, and particular strength/flexibility stuff, especially for my ski job.

And I am doing Mark's old hand/wrist stretches now as well. Have not got a wax bath yet. Cortisone shot in the wrist seemed to help it turn a corner but it is not fully there yet.
 
I’ve been challenged this year by injury and a cross-country move. I had to stop refereeing in March due to the pain and had shoulder surgery in August. I’m still rehabbing, doing 30-45 minutes of exercises a day (depending on the week) and hope to get clearance soon to resume a full workout schedule. Anyway - I ended up with a net gain of five or eight pounds (new fat - muscle mass lost) and it’s my aim to lose that by spring.
 
A decade later and I never got healthy. At the end of school I was 285 and now a few weeks later I'm 278. My hips hurt all of the time and I hurt my knee jumping up and down on stage a couple of months ago wearing Doc Martens.

I'm slowly trying to pull inflammatory foods from my diet and I'm not eating any fast food. Just started back at the gym with my daughter this week and I'm trying to reduce my snacking and eat more fresh foods. I got into such a rut with eating on the run and letting my stress and fatigue run my diet that I'm in a pretty poor place so now I'm trying to reverse it in slow steps to start.
 
I hope you have luck with your latest efforts, Mark. It’s tough to be healthy living a busy life.

I’m not active enough. I need to figure out a cardio routine.

I have had some success maintaining a healthy weight by following 16/8 intermittent fasting. I eat between the hours of 10:30 and 6:30 daily and do a 24 hour fast once a month.

Fortunately, I don’t drink soda, because I figured out that it was causing me stomach issues years ago. I recently quit coffee because of the caffeine. I like lattes, so I bought 3 different coffee substitutes and settled on one that works (zero caffeine). I allow myself a real espresso latte once a week.

I try to make somewhat healthy food choices. However, my wife, son and I all have a sweet tooth. I can avoid buying sweets at the grocery, but then my wife and son bring home junk and I eat it.

At my old job, I was very active, only slept about 5 hours a night and that seemed to work for nearly a decade. Now, my work is a sedentary, desk job, and I need more sleep. I try to get 7 hours but sometimes wake up after 6 hours.

I’m 61 with stage 3 kidney disease. By old medical data, I would be dead by 71. But, based on modern medicine, I could live longer. My kidney doctor says my condition has stabilized and that I’m his only patient without hypertension. So, he thinks I’ll beat the odds. I’m not worried. It’s not in my nature to worry about dying. Don’t fear the reaper.

I also have a damaged bladder and all the drugs caused unpleasant side affects. The 3rd one I was taking had milder side affects. I took it for a long time anyway, just sucking up the headaches and fatigue. When, I finally stopped taking the drug, my bladder seems to have healed quite a bit. So, I’m glad I toughed it out as long as I did.

Every day above ground is a good day. :thu:
 
Mark Wein said:
A decade later and I never got healthy. At the end of school I was 285 and now a few weeks later I'm 278. My hips hurt all of the time and I hurt my knee jumping up and down on stage a couple of months ago wearing Doc Martens.

I'm slowly trying to pull inflammatory foods from my diet and I'm not eating any fast food. Just started back at the gym with my daughter this week and I'm trying to reduce my snacking and eat more fresh foods. I got into such a rut with eating on the run and letting my stress and fatigue run my diet that I'm in a pretty poor place so now I'm trying to reverse it in slow steps to start.
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This is not a recommendation just my journey. June 2020, I was feeling terrible. I was weighing about 375. Doctor had me on cholesterol meds, a thyroid medication and antidepressant and an aspirin. I had been on a CPAP machine for a few years I gotten to the point where I just felt so bad so groggy that I decided to make a change I stopped taking everything but the aspirin kept my CPAP machine and came up with a meal plan. A month later, my wife passed away. One of my issues is hemochromatosis. It’s not off the charts high at the moment, but I have to watch it. The treatment for that is basically given 400cc of blood consistently for a few weeks a couple times a year. It took me a year but I lost 150 pounds. I got down to 230. Once upon a time I looked fat at 230. I looked at a picture yesterday when I was at that weight and I looked sickly and thin and gaunt. It looked a little scary. Today, I’m about 260 and I’ve been able to hold it there. My exercise is walking my dog several times a day we get at least one long walk of over a mile in and it’s up and down to terrain. My lady friend bought a house nearby and it has a pool. I started swimming a few times and I’ve noticed a difference in how good it’s made my legs feel.
My diet, I’m a creature of habit and have eaten the same thing for the last four or five years. I try to eat single ingredient foods and cook with them. For instance, I’ll buy 4 pounds of chicken breast and boil that and pepper and garlic water and put it back in the fridge. my favorite meal out of that is a garlic chicken salad. Simple lettuce, tomato cucumber with diced chicken that I fry up in olive oil with three or four cloves of garlic and pepper. I’ll probably eat that four nights a week. For lunch, I’ll make a chicken wrap and it’s just diced chicken lettuce ranch dressing on a keto tortilla. I go light on the dressing unless I make it myself. Seed oils, I try to avoid as much as I can. I have not gone to a Mc anything in 5 years. I’ll add sharp shredded cheese to that. I buy the block cheese and shred it myself. You look at bags of shredded cheese and they are full of preservatives. For breakfast, it’s plain Greek yogurt. The brand is FAGE and once you open it, you have to finish it within five days. So I’ll eat that 170 g of it with a banana 2 tablespoons of peanut butter on another day, I’ll take the Greek yogurt. Mix a cup of blueberries, frozen or fresh, and eat it like that. I’ll also eat eggs for breakfast, scrambled along with cottage cheese, boiled with peoper, on on a tortilla with cheese hot sauce and ketchup. Once every 3 months or so I’ll make myself pancakes with maple syrup. About the time frame I’ll have pizza usually 2 slices. I too like to snack too, usually one mid morning and one mid afternoon. That’s keep to peanuts or almonds, roasted or an apple with peanut butter. I try keep protein in mind, and single ingredient.

Beverages: Black coffee or water. Mixed drinks I’ll take cranberry juice, not from concentrate, with no added sugar, Saratoga sparkling spring water and a
lime wedges.

We go out to eat once a month to the same mexican restaurant and get the exact same food. Gotta walk the dog.

I still only take an aspirin and use a cpap. All my other levels so far have remained in the normal range. So far my VA doctors kick ass. I’m currently 62 years old.

Food: It is hard to change a diet when you feed another person in addition to yourself if that person can’t eat what need to eat. When I started back when I took a shelf in fridge and in the cabinet and I had to shop and cook for me.

Best wishes in keeping it happening.
 
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