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Date Posted: 10:29:17 06/16/07 Sat
In reply to:
Xpltivdletd
's message, "At the risk of being ejected for causing a disturbance," on 10:33:59 05/30/07 Wed
Congratulations Xpleted!! That is Fantastic!
>I'm pleased to announce, & happy to report, I've kept
>it below 200# for a month (for me, a record, of some
>sort).
>
>Some years ago I was a bit to the north of 260 when I
>found I had entered myself in the famed Diabetic
>Prostate-infection Sweepstakes. Neither condition had
>been part of any diagnosis before then. I inferred
>260 as my "health-alarm" weight, but from then until
>this New Year's, I'd been barely holding 245__250#.
>Under threat of another prescription, I threw the book
>at my blood-glucose & merely kept an eye on my weight.
>
>Now it oscillates about a mean of 197# (give-or-take)
>while my glucose numbers are between 97 mg/dl and 115.
> My Doctor is delighted--as are my still-complaining
>knees when I do a flight of stairs.
>
>There is a school (?) of thought on weight-management
>that denounces the household scale and preaches that
>weight should be ignored. The Navy taught that for
>the last decade I was in. Upon reflection, I believe
>that smacks of a recipe for unpleasant surprises.
>Most of us don't notice that 2# to 5# gain that STAYS,
>by what we see in the mirror, because we see it every
>day. Were we to notice, before it grew to "justify"
>coercive, public "correction" via some
>euphemistically-named program--
>
>--those whose appetite for cheap power over others is
>fed BY such a program would have to go back to their
>day-jobs & earn that power the hard way. This seems
>to explain plausibly the preaching of the
>ignore-the-scale doctrine. The scale would
>show you that small increase, before it quietly
>becomes a larger one that takes longer to fix.
>
>I step on the scale just about every morning, after
>the bathroom but before ingesting anything. If it's
>up a pound or 2 from last time, that's cause for
>ATTENTION but not for ALARM. Water being a tick over
>8# per U.S. gallon, 3# is literally a piddling amount
>and I might drop as much as 4# in a single go. It's
>when that couple of pounds remains more than 24 hours
>that I need to explore its origins. Thus I have been
>able to correct minor sins before they become
>well-entrenched vices (again).
>
>One other secret I'm confident I can share: *IF* you
>can tolerate its ingredients (chicory among those), my
>surrogate vice is Celestial Seasonings®
>"Apple Cinnamon Spice" herbal tea, with a single
>fake-sugar. RKBA! Best regards, all.
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