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Andygal:
Maybe I should think about going to the gym and getting in shape before I get older then. Don't want to end up with loose skin hanging off...ugh.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Andygal on 2005 October 26, 17:26:44
Maybe I should think about going to the gym and getting in shape before I get older then. Don't want to end up with loose skin hanging off...ugh.
ive only seen the loose skin issue occur on people who were more than 30 lbs overweight
Hook:
Quote from: Bangelnuts on 2005 October 26, 17:24:27
yes his aunt is much healthier. her diabetes dissapeared ,her blood pressure is now normal etc
Those were benefits myself and my wife enjoyed as well. Her doctor told her she no longer has to take her blood sugar levels every day. She still does, so she knows what to eat for breakfast. My blood pressure runs below normal now, but the doctors are content to leave it there. No sense courting another heart attack.
After losing from 300 to 240, I have a bit of an "apron" but not enough that I can go without clothes. :D Somehow I don't think it's going to go away on its own.
My suggestion: stay curvy. Lose whatever weight you wish, but don't try for the supermodel look.
I recently carried some groceries in from the car and noticed how much pressure was on my feet. So I got on the scale while still holding the groceries. It read 300, the same weight I was a couple of years ago. I can't *believe* I was putting that much pressure on the rest of my body!
Hook
Lynda:
I hate to drag this thread even further off topic, but I will anyway. Regarding weight loss, exercise helps as far as the extra skin goes. (this is my experience, not a scientific opinion) I believe this is one of the reasons why it's so important to exercise when you're trying to lose weight. The skin is very elastic, so if it's being treated right, it should eventually adjust to your new body.
In a case of extreme weight loss (over 100lbs) I don't know how possible it is to exercise the skin back into an appropriate form though.
I've lost 50 lbs since April (still have another 50 to go though. Sigh) and thank the heavens, I haven't noticed any extra skin hanging around yet. It's a huge fear of mine.
I want to be skinny, but not THAT kind of skinny. :)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 26, 14:09:25
If calories consumed were the major criteria, a single pat of butter every day is enough to cause you to gain or lose weight. Is it even possible to control your calories that closely?
A single pat of butter every day *WOULD* cause you gain weight. However, conservation of mass dictates that you certainly cannot gain more weight than that butter weighed from eating it. That extra mass doesn't just appear out of the ether, you know. And yes, yes it is.
It's very simple: If you are putting on weight, you are running a surplus. If you're not saving that surplus for some reason, such as fattening up for winter, and don't want to become fat and lazy, you're going to have either cut intake or increase usage. It's that simple. A little fluctuation is normal.
On the other hand, if you're just willing to accept being fat, that's fine, too, but it doesn't mean you're not a lazy glutton. And that the rest of us can't consider this a character vice viewed with great disfavor. Why couldn't you take up a more interesting vice, like greed or wrath? Gluttony and sloth are such unbecoming character vices.
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