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RacerBill · 09-05-2005, 05:55 PM

I want very much to be encouraging, LD, but I'm not really sure what I can say that might help.

I can certainly understand and sympathize with the binging. Just a few days ago I was at my folks' house and my mom had made chocolate chip cookies. I thought I'd have one... you know, just a small treat. And this would be my first cookie in at least a month or two. Then I had to have a second one. Then a glass of milk, and one more wouldn't really hurt, would it. When I finally broke out of my sugar trance I realized I had probably polished off at least ten of the things, probably more. It would be easy to just plead that I'm a recovering sugar addict and I had a minor relapse.

I've read lots of your posts and lurked around your log and I see lots of similarities with myself: a year ago I was 38 and weighed 220 and had been overweight since I was about 16. My initial kick-start came from following TAP and I've been I've been trying to work out regularly and follow a clean diet but there have been lots of weight plateaus and setbacks and sore joints, etc. And recently, based on your recommendation (and a few others) I got TT for Fat Loss and hope it will help push me a bit further.

There have been times I've been frustrated with the plateaus and thought I'd just do that Velocity Diet, too. But wasn't it you who said that it's not worth it to go on a diet that you can't maintain for the rest of your life (I searched for that post but couldn't find it... or maybe my memory's playing tricks on me, or I've reworded it beyond all recognition). I'm not convinced that an extreme diet is healthy. And I suspect the rebound effect when the dieter goes back to real food is going to be profound. Your wife's right to question that approach.

Maybe raising cals would help, as you mentioned. I've made the mistake of constantly lowering calories again and again, until I was eating 1800 per day and still no change. After some experimenting, I've found that changing the balance of macros sometimes works.

Other posters (notably Kaiser) have mentioned that they have seen no change in a Tanita reading but their BF shows changes when measured with calipers. That's something to keep in mind.

That Outlaw Strength & Conditioning sure looks like nothing else. Hope that works for you.

09-05-2005, 05:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
RacerBill On the manga bandwagon Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sugar Creek, MO Posts: 6,535 My Profile	I want very much to be encouraging, LD, but I'm not really sure what I can say that might help. I can certainly understand and sympathize with the binging. Just a few days ago I was at my folks' house and my mom had made chocolate chip cookies. I thought I'd have one... you know, just a small treat. And this would be my first cookie in at least a month or two. Then I had to have a second one. Then a glass of milk, and one more wouldn't really hurt, would it. When I finally broke out of my sugar trance I realized I had probably polished off at least ten of the things, probably more. It would be easy to just plead that I'm a recovering sugar addict and I had a minor relapse. I've read lots of your posts and lurked around your log and I see lots of similarities with myself: a year ago I was 38 and weighed 220 and had been overweight since I was about 16. My initial kick-start came from following TAP and I've been I've been trying to work out regularly and follow a clean diet but there have been lots of weight plateaus and setbacks and sore joints, etc. And recently, based on your recommendation (and a few others) I got TT for Fat Loss and hope it will help push me a bit further. There have been times I've been frustrated with the plateaus and thought I'd just do that Velocity Diet, too. But wasn't it you who said that it's not worth it to go on a diet that you can't maintain for the rest of your life (I searched for that post but couldn't find it... or maybe my memory's playing tricks on me, or I've reworded it beyond all recognition). I'm not convinced that an extreme diet is healthy. And I suspect the rebound effect when the dieter goes back to real food is going to be profound. Your wife's right to question that approach. Maybe raising cals would help, as you mentioned. I've made the mistake of constantly lowering calories again and again, until I was eating 1800 per day and still no change. After some experimenting, I've found that changing the balance of macros sometimes works. Other posters (notably Kaiser) have mentioned that they have seen no change in a Tanita reading but their BF shows changes when measured with calipers. That's something to keep in mind. That Outlaw Strength & Conditioning sure looks like nothing else. Hope that works for you. __________________ Keep your eyes on YOU; don't let the achievements of others dictate your obsessions. -- Alan Aragon Log: 2008 is gonna ROoOoOoOCK!!!