I purchased the supplements I am taking last Tuesday, started taking them on Wednesday. I have not added any further step, since, such as purposeful sensible eating or moderate exercise. Nope! Not a bit of it.
In fact, yesterday, I was so ravenous and out of sorts, due to being tired and generally icky feeling, that I ate two pancakes with extra egg, wheat germ added and a little strawberry jam on top, a bowl of spaghetti (mostly noodles, light tomato sauce, a little black olives and tomato with kale and parsley, and, an even littler amount of chicken), and, a bowl of oatmeal with Stevia, coconut oil and apple chunks for breakfast - pretty much, one right after the other. None of them were large amounts, mind you, and, it did take me some time to eat the oatmeal and spaghetti. Just saying, it was a crazy day.
I went on, later, to drink a diet cola with lemon and lime juice (2 litre) and eat a King size Baby Ruth. Followed up, hours later, by a moderate bowl of a pretty healthy soup I made a few days ago. So, not a horrible day, but, not a low-calorie day, by any means. Plus, it was a stressful day.
Why am I telling you all this? It's a build up. Can you feel the tension mounting.
Today is Tuesday, April 29th. It is around 6:37 am. I am not feeling terribly bloated, but, I am not feeling terribly unbloated, either. I just measured my waist, both were the indent is and then where Dr. Peter Crook, author of the Hilton Head Metabolism Diet, says your waist is when you want to calculate your B.M.I., which is, for your information, directly above your hip bones.
My waist, as I have been measuring it, was 45" ; the other waist was 49".
Terrible sounding, isn't it? Silly! Not for me, it isn't. Last time I measured them, when I was feeling not so bloated/not so unbloated (which is about the best I can hope for, this time of year), they were 46" and 51".
Dr. Oz has said that taking this supplement and eating foods high in it, and, balancing your gut bacteria that way, will help you lose weight, and, especially, melt your belly fat. He might just be right. 1" off one area of my waistline and 2" off my somewhat lower abdomen. Pretty good for 6 days, no?
Now, back to the ickiness. I have yeast overgrowth. I know this about myself. It is an on-going battle which, unfortunately, I often abdicate from in favor of chocolate. Bad idea, I know, but, it is so hard not to, when one needs the energy to do work, cook meals, etc. Because, the die off reaction from the bacteria is something terrible - headaches, fatigue, insomnia, bloating, fevers, rashes. I didn't expect it to be so pronounced with taking the supplements, and, without doing any serious meal planning. I thought it would sort of just get me started on the journey and I would, then, begin to make purposeful efforts to eat better foods when I get some money to do so, and, viola (that'a joke, not ignorance) I would be well on my way ...
There was nothing in what I read from Dr. Oz that suggested taking the supplement was of such importance or that it would be key to bringing about such results. In fact, it was listed as optional. I decided to buy it, and the probiotic, as the start to my ever-improving steps, because, I did have enough money for those and I did not have enough money to replace all my food.
Right now, I am excited and full of hope. No idea if I lost weight, of course, but, quite sure I lost inches, in an area of my body where, before, every 1/4 " was hard won to get to leave and easily put back on. It really makes me want to eat cantaloupe and be a better person, because, right now, I feel like it's worth it.
I have not measured my chest. in quite some time, as I am never happy with the results. I am sure many females know what I am talking about.
I meant to start Step Two, yesterday, and, sort of did, but, it wasn't entirely purposeful, I must say. So, I will start it today.
Step Two is about non-exercise something another blah dee dah. I have forgotten what it is called. Helpful, no? The basic point of it is - that I just looked it up. Non-exercise Activity Thermogenesis, or, NEAT, for short. It is the theory, now well studied, that some of why people are thinner is that they fidget and some of why people are fatter is because they are tired, more efficient in their movements, or chained to a desk job with little or no chance for getting up and walking around.
You need to move at least once, every hour, in a purposeful way. Once every 40 minutes is better. Keeping on moving, throughout the day is even better than that. It can be standing during phone calls, getting up and taking a little stroll, or, even just tapping your foot, flexing your muscles, stretching in your seat. They now, having studied it more, say there are specific cells in the body which are activated by this moderate sort of activity and when they are activated they help regulate blood sugar and fat burn. They are only activated by mild to moderate exercise, though. You cannot sit on the couch and at the office, like the slug the world would have you become, and, then go to the gym and work out like a mad fiend, and, have them activated enough to be helpful.
People often ask what the purpose of our existence is. What are we made to do and be. I tell them that if they read the Bible , they'd know that we are built to be gardeners. That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't do other things, as well; but, seriously, the more they research how the human body works, the more it proves it.
The Bible says that the worker deserves his wages. This is a statement in 1st Timothy, about eating and drinking. It is more specifically about how to accomplish your ministry, but, even if you do not have a ministry, the saying is true. The worker deserves his wages. The wages we would have from being gardeners is fresh, healthy produce to give us oxygen and nutrition, a good relationship with the animals on the planet, clean air,less stress, and, now, it is found, it would give us exactly the sort of exercise we need to be slim and trim (coupled with all that lovely, bouncy produce!). To whit, lots and lots of mild to moderate moving about, occasional bouts of running or lifting something heavy, satisfying periods of rest in-between. That's what we all need to be healthier, happier people. Just ask the scientists.
Silly people! They rarely notice when they start to agree with Jehovah God. Instead they wrap it all up in pithy acronyms and act as if they discovered it. Well, I suppose they did, in a way, but, if they had just gone gardening, they could have discovered it more cheaply and in a way that was healthier both for them and the environment. Or, they could have read the Bible, looked at all the fat non-gardeners, developed a theory and went from there.
I am now off my soapbox and getting back to the point. Ready?
Today, I start reminding myself to get up and do a little physical work, every now and again, or a little dancing, or to sit where I am but flex or chair dance in some manner, often, throughout the day. It's a good time to take this step, as I have a LOT to clean up and organize, inside and outside, and, the ever-looming yard sale to get things ready for, still. It shouldn't be hard, then, to do a little work, several times a day, as there is a lot of work to do.
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