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Barbershop quartet singer, weight-loser, philosophy student of life

  • Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure

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  • The psychological weight loss strategy | Laurie Coots

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  • I see your point. Perhaps so, we can also see that she has now used that experience and is distributing her experience for free and publicly on a video like this.

    She weighed 300 pounds, and is exposing that fact publicly. It is a fact that most people would be embarrassed about. She disclosed that she was an over-eater, a fact that some people might judge negatively.

    With data that is freely available and tools that are free for us to use, most of us can mimic her methods and achieve the same success.

  • Fill in the blank: I cannot complete the task(s) of __________ without listening to music.

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  • Working out with weights

  • The psychological weight loss strategy | Laurie Coots

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  • [Text from the video (her story, not my story)]

    So, that was me in 2006. I weighed over 300 pounds. I had triglycerides of 500, and I had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

    Now, type 2 diabetes is when your body doesn't use insulin properly, and I like to imagine it as this sugar sludge going through my bloodstream to the soundtrack of "Jaws." Like 29 million other Americans, I was sent home with a diet, a prescription, and a little booklet about my disease. As I dug into it, I learned a dirty little truth – two, actually.

    The first says that in America, if you're diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you carry the same health risk as somebody who's already had one heart attack. The second is that the object of the game, unlike cancer or anything else, is to manage your diabetes, not cure you. So, your doctors will work very, very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you.

    I knew that this was not going to work for me. I was a hard-charging type-A global executive, and managing my diabetes was not going to be an option. So, I enlisted the help of the people at Canyon Ranch in the medical department, who I knew were a little bit more ambitious.

    And here's what we learned on a lesson on a journey that actually took us five years. I learned that even though I was 300 pounds and had type 2 diabetes, my body was absolutely perfect the way it was – for the way I was feeding it, the way I was moving it, and the way I was resting it. Quite frankly, if I wanted a different body or I wanted different health, I had to change the equation somehow.

    The second thing I learned was that if I imagined my future healthy self and started living that life now – what kinds of foods I would eat, how many calories I would need to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime – that would be the way I would achieve my goal. I had to come up with strategies that I could live with for two days, two weeks, two months, two years.

    Now, when you do this and you live this way, interesting things happen – like magic. You wake up two years later and you're almost at your goal. I learned that I had to keep track of everything. So, I used iPhone apps like "Lose It!" and I used my UP band to track how much sleep I was getting and how much exercise I was getting along the way. And this really helped me to keep the game kind of rational instead of emotional the way it can get.

    This was a big war. I had to break this down to the smallest battle I could win every day because I have a short attention span. I had to take it down to the cellular level – what would make my cells happier and healthier every single day. And with every drop of glucose or every drop of blood I fed into my glucose meter, I could tell immediately if I was moving in the right direction. I became my own science experiment, and I learned a lot.

    For example, when I didn't sleep or I jumped time zones or took a red-eye, my blood sugar was 20 points higher the next day and I craved carbohydrates. Well, I didn't need to eat; what I needed was a nap. Portions were always my biggest downfall. I come from the land of all-you-can-eat shrimp and endless platters of pasta. When somebody showed me what a real single portion of something was, it was a huge disconnect for me. So, I needed to really figure out how to do that.

    I started eating with smaller plates, eating with chopsticks to eat more slowly, and I promised myself I could have anything I wanted as long as I ate it with a knife and a fork. Trust me, it feels ridiculous to eat a Snickers bar like this, but it helped me be more conscious of what I was eating.

    I learned to be in perpetual motion all day, every day – looking for ways to move and to fidget because fidgeting can burn 200-300 calories a day. I counted steps, I got a standing desk, and I learned that my one hour of walking every day was as good for my head as it was for my body.

    And finally, life's too short to live without ice cream. When I was first diagnosed, I made a list of all my favorite foods, and I went and did a glycemic index with my glucose meter of each one. Then I went back to each food and I tweaked it, adding a little fat, removing a little sugar, until everything fit in my plan. And now, I plan for a perfect scoop of premium ice cream every day. What I learned is that, given half a shot, your body will recover. It's an amazing adaptive machine, self-healing. Mine did.

    I lost over 110 pounds. I now have a perfect lipid profile. I have had a healthy, normal blood sugar without medication for more than five years. I am no longer a type 2 diabetic. [Pause for applause] So, thank you very much.

    So, if any of you have a health issue that you need to deal with or a life change you need to deal with, I urge you to imagine your healthy future self and start living that life now. Break your journey down into little battles you can win. Become your own science experiment and come up with strategies that will last for two days or two years. And most of all, you need to start eating like your life depends on it because it does.

    (Transcript auto-generated by YouTube. Punctuation and paragraphs by ChatGPT.)

  • The psychological weight loss strategy | Laurie Coots

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  • All of this resonates with me.

    It didn't dawn on me right away that living like I was already at goal weight would result in goal weight in 2-3 years; that realization came later.

    Like her, I had diabetes type 2 and was losing from a weight of 300 lb. The diabetes has gone away and I've been free of it for 8 years. I weighed in this morning at 172.

  • how is Lemmy going for you?

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  • Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

  • Star Trek Just Weirdly Revived a Very Old Gene Roddenberry Original Series Idea

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  • I've convinced myself that using his name practically in the title is about marketing. People watched it just because his name was on it.

  • MAS*H in space?

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  • One of Roddenberry's first series was called The Lieutenant which aired on NBC for a season -- until it was canceled due to a falling out between the Marines and the network over a race-based episode that nobody wanted but Roddenberry forced through (too preachy they worried). Episodes of this are available on YouTube and you will see some of the Trek stars that appeared in Where No Man has Gone Before.

  • why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

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  • Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]

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  • Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord

    I can't even verify if this was posted on their site.

    • Discord is currently up. It's usually up.
    • https://lemmy.world/ is currently down. (Cloudflare - bad gateway.) It's often down.

  • Eating Your Way to Happiness | Ocean Robbins | TEDxAlexanderPark

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  • Google Discover getting air quality (AQI) card

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  • If you have the Google app on your phone, Discover is a choice on the bottom bar.

  • SV+NSV: 85lbs lost, below 300lb for the first time in a decade.

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  • Well done! Thanks for sharing and inspiring! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • Check-in (of sorts)

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  • I'm of the concept that there is no wagon. Perfection is not required. If we get off course on a road trip, we keep going and just get ourselves back on course. This is a test that nobody scores 100% on. By the end of the day, we all fall a little short of our best intentions. All we can do is improve over time.

  • Check-in (of sorts)

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  • Those work snacks are particularly challenging. The concept of free food just messes with my head!

  • how did you lose weight as an adult?

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  • how did you lose weight as an adult?

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  • This is too severe and unhealthy.

    Your body is burning not just fat tissue, but lean tissue as well, and likely so fast that it can't replace it fast enough to keep up. Even with 5000 Fridays, you're taking in 8000 a week which is less than 1200 a day, less than some old short inactive grandma would use to lose a few extra pounds (not from 270).

    Weight loss puts increased demands upon the body. Gallstones, malnutrition, dehydration, and electrolyte imbalances can happen when those demands exceed the body's capability to cope with them. More minor side-effects include hair and nail problems, irregular female menstrual cycles, constipation, dizziness, fatigue, and headaches.

    I just saw your post. Wanted to say hi. I lost from 298 and also lost pretty fast, but didn't need to go all that severely. I also had a few goal-weight adjustments but I've kept it off basically for 8 years now (170s now, at 5'11 male).

  • Check-in (of sorts)

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  • I am a bit in this weird situation that I need to strengthen my back as past yoyo dieting has somewhat atrophied the muscles of the core, while I also should lose weight now as a lot of things in life are now in a place where I think sustainable weight loss is now a possibility. [...] messing up regeneration at a deficit.

    We can handle a moderate deficit, especially if we're keeping a positive bias to protein (such as eating 25% of calories from protein, basically keeping protein portions decently sized). I do it without any supplements, but with meats, eggs, yogurt, legumes. Our protein is where we get our dietary cholesterol from which we make cells, and it's also an energy source so while we need all kinds of nutrition, keep that one from falling during a deficit to answer your concerns.

    feel free to add your story

    Doing well. 8+ years maintaining. Logged 9+ years and going for 10. I owe it all to logging. https://imgur.com/a/DQtLCYL ... I'm pretty loose about enforcing any limits but try to keep the general average around 1950-ish.

  • Almost to 260

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  • It's amazing how those miles can add up! I mean, while I know how addition works, it's still astonishing to think of hoofin' it for 100 miles in a month!

  • LoseIt: Lose the Fat @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Eat YOUR foods

  • LoseIt: Lose the Fat @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Recaps, Highlights, Lowlights, Feats of the Day, Self-Commitments, Primal Screams -- How ya doing LoseIt?

  • Reddit Was Fun @lemmy.world
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    RiF let me participate, even moderate, from my hospital bed

  • LoseIt: Lose the Fat @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds - NPR

    www.npr.org /sections/health-shots/2023/06/26/1184390543/intermittent-fasting-effective-weight-loss