Reading Material, Maintenance

The book I referenced a couple days ago had another spot (page 93) that I thought was hilarious and wanted to share:

A cartoon recently caused a national smile when it depicted a very stout man receiving a bottle of pills from his doctor.  They are not for eating, explains the doctor, just spill them on the floor once a day and pick them up one at a time.

That's about the best dietary use for amphetamines and other pills I've come across.

Hahahaa!  I love that!  Maybe we should each buy a bottle of 250 +/- pills at the beginning of P3 for our daily exercise?  lol!  Think about all the crawling around we'd have to do to find those things under furniture and so forth.  Yikes!  Think about the furniture we'd have to move!

I suspect that I'd just have to break out a vacuum and be done with it after the first couple of tries.  Yah.  I use a Dyson Ball vacuum.  I think I did pretty good with drawing it in Paint, too!  I put the picture from Amazon so you can compare.  :)

Reading Material, Maintenance

Recently, I've been reading "Fat Destroyer Foods: The Magic Metabolizer Diet" by Sidney Petrie.  (Inexpensive book, by the way.)  Page 48 states some interesting points:

Proteins, and even fats, are fat destroyer foods.  Put them in the company of carbohydrates and they switch roles.  A protein or fat calorie, paired with a carbohydrate calorie, makes two fat producing calories.

One carbohydrate calorie can change the life style of ten and even twenty calories.  In other words, if you are destroying your fat with 2,500 protein calories a day and you let 100 carbo-cals creep in, you will probably gain instead of lose.

You are better off eating 3,000 protein and fat calories.  You will in all likelihood continue to lose.  But let your carbo-cal guard down for just one beer and your fat destroyer foods are now geared to put he poundage on instead of take it off.

That's pretty close in, when you consider how many calories are in a single slice of toast, for instance.  65 calories.  So, if you wanted to have a sandwich (two slices of bread), that would put you over the 100 carbo-calories and you'd be stuck gaining weight that day!

Holy cow!

What do you think?

Feb2011 Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest in the next issue (Feb2011) has an interesting article on obesity and how to get thin.  It doesn't mention HCG at all, but does get it almost dead-on for what I found to keep weight stable in the Maintenance part of the HCG Protocol.  Basic idea: All-you-can-eat no-carb diet.  If you *must* have carbs, keep your total daily intake of them at less than 20 net carbs.

A few really interesting things found in the article:

The obesity experts are wrong.

What we tell people to do to lose weight -eat less and exercise- is exactly what you'd do if you wanted to make yourself hungry.

Why do you overeat?  People react to this as though I'm questioning the laws of thermodynamics.  I'm not questioning them.  I'm saying they're not relevant.

You overeat because you've developed a disorder in the way your fat tissue is regulated.

For the most part, you can define an obese person as someone for whom eating less didn't work.

The low fat diet that people have been eating in hopes of protecting their heart is actually bad for their heart.

How accurately do you have to match your calories-in to calories-out so you don't gain more than 20 pounds over the course of a decade?  Because if you gain 20 pounds every decade, you'll go from being lean in your 20s to obese in your 40s, which many of us do.  If you take in an extra 20 calories a day and put it into your fat tissue, you will gain 20 pounds every decade.

Points to take away:

1. Don't try to limit fat.

2. Say goodbye to pasta, bread, and rice.

3. Be picky about veggies and go light on the veggies that grow underground.

4. Say no to hidden sugars.  Read the labels!

5. Eat as much as you want when it comes to protein and fat.

All I'm saying to obesity researchers is, Pay attention to the hormonal and ezymatic regulation of the fat tissue. If you do, you'll get a different answer for what causes obesity and what cures it.  Basically, Dr. Atkins go it right with the Atkins diet, although he didn't get all the science right.

You need to eat foods that keep your insulin low & a low-carb diet is key.

On Interrupts: Reader Q/A

Terri asked me: "When you have done interrupts did you gain weight? if not how did you prevent it? I have to take one already and am worried."

I did gain weight, initially, Terri. That's when I came up with the concept that if you eat at least one meal per day with either the apple/cheese combo or a steak/tomato combo, it seems to correct the potential gain.  

Those options are the two that result in the largest (what I call) "Pre-Correction. Oft times, I even witnessed a lower weight coming off of Interrupt than when I started it by up to 5 pounds following this little rule. 

But, every day when I'm on an Interrupt, one of my meals is one of those two options.  

Having just two choices of meal makes it nice and easy.  

Pre-Corrections works on the premise that your body needs the protein/fat as well as a diuretic to ensure the water you're drinking pushes through your body in an efficient manner.

P2+: BLIMEy It's Hot Popsicles

Thought I'd check in real quick.  We're having quite a busy summer so far, but it's time to start thinking about gearing up for the end of next month.  I gotta say, even though I'm really enjoying the size 18 this summer (as opposed to the 28 I was in last summer), I'm looking forward to the size 8 I plan to be in next summer!

So far, so good on the maintaining thing.  It's been easy peasy.  I am able to eat *anything* I want and just stay right where I'm supposed to!  LOVE it!

If all goes as the calendar says it should with cycles, I'm thinking August 30th is the next round start date.  Anyone want to join Mom and I for the next round?

We're planning a few surprises for the next round, too.  I'll be able to report about the tests I've been running while figuring out the secrets to maintaining.  I promise I'll tell - but I want a good solid test before I go yapping about it, k?

For now, I thought I'd share a great little summertime treat that we've all decided we like around our place (including the kids!).  It's easy.

BLIMEy It's Hot Popsicles
1t lime stevita
1c water
Mix those together in a measuring cup, so you have a "spout" to pour out of.  Pour into some of those cute little popsicle thingies they've got out these days.  Freeze at least 4 hours and savor those wonderful treats!  You could also use the other flavors, too - grape, tropical, and orange all sound great to me.

Slackers

So, I'm kinda (ok, really) slacking off this summer while my niece and nephew are home from school and all. No HCG for the duration. It's the perfect time to test out the MMS and long term benefits where maintenance is concerned, though!

The results so far are great! I've actually lost cellulite like crazy and am not nearly as concerned about what my body looks like in shorts. I'm looking forward to it finally warming up for the summer (we're still getting down to ~40 degrees here in Oregon) so I can get my MUCH skinnier behind into a swimsuit. That's a first in several years, let me tell you.

So, I'm not dropping any more on the scale, but the MMS getting rid of cellulite (really just stored toxins) took me down one more whole size. So, I dropped to a 20 with HCG and took off one more with MMS. That means I've gone from a size 28 to an 18 since September 2009! That's just so awesome I can't hardly believe it.

What's really funny is that when I get out of the tub and no longer avoid the mirrors. I still have some spots that I'm looking forward to slimming, but I'm just so pleased with what's in the mirror right now. :)

Anyway, I'm getting "classes" together for my niece and nephew, who are both attending the University of Aunt Jay. Hehehe. We've learned how to *make* journals from scratch so far and we're all decorating them up and making gifts for others. We fold the papers, bind them together with waxed linen thread, then make a "hardish" cover for them and decorate those up. They can't wait to learn the next thing - even though I don't quite know what it is yet. ::grins:: Things I've got on the possibilities list are:

American Sign Language
Kirigami
Make a home built letter press
Stamp making
Thaumatropes
Music Composition
Astronomy (Star gazing, not telling the future)
Geology trip (we have to wait for this one though, until the rains pass and the ground dries)
Letter Boxing
Build a Marimba
Tea education (how to make tea)
Learn Morse Code

What do you all think?

We're still doing the Sugar Ticket thing with them, too, throughout the whole summer. It's pretty exciting to see a 9 or 10 year old LOOK at the label on the foods that they want and CHOOSE to put it back on the shelf because they don't like how much sugar is in the product. :) I love that.

Anyway, I'm pretty excited about the summer, over all, but it does mean that I'll be out in the TechVoid quite a bit. So, I still think about all of you who are reading here on the internet and am sending Skinny Thoughts to you!!