Insofar as prosletyzing, I'm a big fan of pull not push mechanisms. If me blogging about running gets others to think about their fitness, awesome. Otherwise, I feel like, enh, not my place to push this onto others.
Now I'm curious how the control group just using the restrictive diet fares. Still, pretty interesting. :)
Alyse also read a book talking about exercise which differentiated between body looks and fitness. That was helpful to both of us: we want to be very active as we continue getting older, so "go on cruises because we can't walk around anymore" is not for us - doubly so, because we find cruises to be pretty boring. (It'd be totally different if we found them awesome in and of themselves.)
Well, the control group is Atkins, which has about a ten percent rate of significant sustained weight loss after one year. :) Interestingly, she did do a controlled study with the cardiologists she worked with developing this regarding to weigh or not to weigh. The patients who weighed themselves lost half the weight of the ones who didn't. I attribute that to min-maxing--all the tricks that make weight loss LOOK better today on the scale, but actually slow it down, like fluid restriction.
I love cruises, but it would be inconvenient to be mobility limited unless you were in a wheelchair. We would generally get 3-5 miles in a day going back and forth to things not counting shore excursions. The mad dash alone from early dinner to comedy show should have been an athletic event.... ;) I love only unpacking once, so that is my plan for a whirlwind tour of Europe one of these days....
i think that talking enthusiastically about what worked for you and made you feel better is 100% fine. i also think the inverse is valid: talking about what went wrong for you in an efort to encouarge others to avoid it (ie: Dave having a heart attack).
the thing is, nothing we do or say will make up another's mind for them. you and i both know that: *they* have to decide. so you don't bear the ultimate responsibility or credit, either way.
i think being able to share the new wonderfulness of life is part of why we journal openly. i think 7" lost is INCREDIBLE. congrats!!!
Good luck with it! Russ is a little concerned that I might have a malabsorption issue, which is a possibility with CVID, because my wedding ring is kinda loose. The simple fact is that the semester ended early December, and I'm only taking one class this semester, so I'm not eating fast food for lunch twice a week.
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Now I'm curious how the control group just using the restrictive diet fares. Still, pretty interesting. :)
Alyse also read a book talking about exercise which differentiated between body looks and fitness. That was helpful to both of us: we want to be very active as we continue getting older, so "go on cruises because we can't walk around anymore" is not for us - doubly so, because we find cruises to be pretty boring. (It'd be totally different if we found them awesome in and of themselves.)
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I love cruises, but it would be inconvenient to be mobility limited unless you were in a wheelchair. We would generally get 3-5 miles in a day going back and forth to things not counting shore excursions. The mad dash alone from early dinner to comedy show should have been an athletic event.... ;) I love only unpacking once, so that is my plan for a whirlwind tour of Europe one of these days....
I like your pull rather than push approach.
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the thing is, nothing we do or say will make up another's mind for them. you and i both know that: *they* have to decide. so you don't bear the ultimate responsibility or credit, either way.
i think being able to share the new wonderfulness of life is part of why we journal openly. i think 7" lost is INCREDIBLE. congrats!!!
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