Guest guest Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 Rose, 5 days out of 55 years is less than 1 tenth of 1 % of your life. (5 out of (55x365=20,075) = 0.000249 = .025 % of your life. It took 55 years to become 250 pounds. You probably want to lose 100, or so? After 5 days, ..025% of 100 is .025 pounds. So assuming you lose at around the same rate you gained, you should have lost around a fifth of a tenth of a pound by now. Okay, I'm a bit analytical (it's my nature.) But the summary of all that math is: " give it more time, the weight will come off! " Stationary bikes, by the way, are boring. Even with a TV on. Hey, it's spring! Find your local trail and walk there. All the best, Margie On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Rose and Fred Lieberman wrote: > I know I'm in for a fairly long healing journey. After all, it's years of > abuse, I'm 55, I weigh close to 250 lbs. Thankfully, I have no health > problems to speak of, except the obesity. (No HBP, no intestinal/digestive > ailments, no metabolic disorders, etc.) > > The first week I went raw I lost 5 lbs. As I'm detox'g, I've gone through > lots of aches, pains, etc., but now, after exposing myself to various toxic > environments, I find myself steadily gaining a half-pound per day for the > past five days. I've now gained back half the weight I lost that first > week. > > Shopping two days in a row, exposure to newspapers, etc. - they all cause me > some grief. But it is so damned discouraging to be eating correctly, going > through the retracing process, feeling better more often - just to gain > weight. I mean, it's not like I'm a size 8. Weight loss means a lot to me > and I'm not getting there. I bought a stationary bike and am up to 2 miles > per day, and I plan to keep going. > > Is weight loss at the end of this healing process for me? My head says: > " Well, of course it is " , but the scale mocks me and pushes all the right > buttons! > > Aside from that, yesterday was a very good day for me depression-wise, > although in the evening my appetite started to run amuck - I believe I > wasn't really hungry, I believe it was memory. > > But this weight thing! > > Rose > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 Rose: The weight will fluctuate as water content comes and goes...Stick with it, you will be amazed at your progress. In the meantime we should all distance ourselves from the media and the news from time to time. Talk about depressing. Rob > But this weight thing! > > Rose > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 I know I'm in for a fairly long healing journey. After all, it's years of abuse, I'm 55, I weigh close to 250 lbs. Thankfully, I have no health problems to speak of, except the obesity. (No HBP, no intestinal/digestive ailments, no metabolic disorders, etc.) The first week I went raw I lost 5 lbs. As I'm detox'g, I've gone through lots of aches, pains, etc., but now, after exposing myself to various toxic environments, I find myself steadily gaining a half-pound per day for the past five days. I've now gained back half the weight I lost that first week. Shopping two days in a row, exposure to newspapers, etc. - they all cause me some grief. But it is so damned discouraging to be eating correctly, going through the retracing process, feeling better more often - just to gain weight. I mean, it's not like I'm a size 8. Weight loss means a lot to me and I'm not getting there. I bought a stationary bike and am up to 2 miles per day, and I plan to keep going. Is weight loss at the end of this healing process for me? My head says: " Well, of course it is " , but the scale mocks me and pushes all the right buttons! Aside from that, yesterday was a very good day for me depression-wise, although in the evening my appetite started to run amuck - I believe I wasn't really hungry, I believe it was memory. But this weight thing! Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 > But this weight thing! - Plateaus, Rose. Don't concern yourself with slight weight gains. 5 pounds could simply be water retention or as you are doing a bit of exercise you might be gaining muscle and not fat. The detoxing/retracing process works in plateaus. Nothing for a few days then a major dump, then no symptoms for a while and suddenly you'll feel toxic for a while etc. The good news about detoxifying is that the toxins are stored in the fat cells so as you detoxify you burn fat and as you burn fat you detoxify. But beware of counter atacks, depression, discouragement, sudden cravings etc. Your body's set point wants to return to the comfort zone, and it takes a while to re set to a new lower set point. When you feel hunger just give your body a fat snack. That is, say to your stomach and digestive system, " Help yourself to the fat stores " . And feel the fat being eaten up. That little hunger pain is a simple " Chomp " of fat being eaten. And most important, ***get this weight thing out of your mind and STOP LOSING WEIGHT***. Your subconscious will seek to find that which you LOSE. Visualize the size you desire to be as a goal and then " LIGHTEN UP " . Put your scales away for a while and when you fit size 10 then weigh yourself. We manifest what we focus on, [what you resist will persist because your focus is on what you are resisting, in this case weight] so if you change your focus from losing weight to lightening up, the process becomes positive.. rusty. - " Rose and Fred Lieberman " <pyrite <rawfood > Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:38 AM [Raw Food] So discouraging... > I know I'm in for a fairly long healing journey. After all, it's years of > abuse, I'm 55, I weigh close to 250 lbs. Thankfully, I have no health > problems to speak of, except the obesity. (No HBP, no intestinal/digestive > ailments, no metabolic disorders, etc.) > > The first week I went raw I lost 5 lbs. As I'm detox'g, I've gone through > lots of aches, pains, etc., but now, after exposing myself to various toxic > environments, I find myself steadily gaining a half-pound per day for the > past five days. I've now gained back half the weight I lost that first > week. > > Shopping two days in a row, exposure to newspapers, etc. - they all cause me > some grief. But it is so damned discouraging to be eating correctly, going > through the retracing process, feeling better more often - just to gain > weight. I mean, it's not like I'm a size 8. Weight loss means a lot to me > and I'm not getting there. I bought a stationary bike and am up to 2 miles > per day, and I plan to keep going. > > Is weight loss at the end of this healing process for me? My head says: > " Well, of course it is " , but the scale mocks me and pushes all the right > buttons! > > Aside from that, yesterday was a very good day for me depression-wise, > although in the evening my appetite started to run amuck - I believe I > wasn't really hungry, I believe it was memory. > > But this weight thing! > > Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 If you don't have any health problems, what drew you to Raw Foods? Was it weightloss? Something else? Combination of things? I hate scales, I would throw it away (or atleast hide it for a month) Right now I think your scale could do more harm than good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Monte asked: " If you don't have any health problems, what drew you to Raw Foods? Was it weightloss? Something else? Combination of things? " What drew me to raw foods, vegan, etc. is my increasing reactivity to the environment - newspapers, store air, etc. I really didn't come to it with weight loss in mind, but I figured that it would happen as a byproduct. Unfortunately, weight loss doesn't seem to be a consistent byproduct - at least not yet. So, I decided that the morning eggs (something I really didn't want to do anyway) gotta go. But I'm feeling that protein is a real problem in my diet and maybe that's why water weight isn't being lost. So, I'll go toward tofu - maybe make a morning smoothie with it, or an afternoon light stir-fry. But I'm trying to be vegan and mostly raw/live. The weight loss is only a concern as a barometer of my overall body's function. If I gain weight steadily - that is NOT a good sign. That could mean any number of things, from my reaction to the environment, to a weakened heart muscle, to Goddess knows what. Anyway, it was my environmental reactivity that caused me to go to the organic vegan and live/raw foods. Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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