An excellent plan, Nathan. If everyone in this country followed your lead
it would likely cut healthcare expenditures by 30%.
Charlie
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I think I found the good combination (for me) about 4 years ago: dumped
> the cigarettes, started exercising (cycling, later added some weights too)
> moderately, progressively increasing the distances and elevation gain, some
> modest changes to the diet (more veg, less meat) but nothing radical,
> continued reliance on beer as the basic food source. I have lost a bit of
> weight, something like 20 pounds, and could use losing another 20 or so,
> but that is not the main goal. I feel better than I did 20 years ago and
> can do things I could not do 20 years ago.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> On Jul 25, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
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> >> Losing weight is great but there can be consequences. There was an
> >> article in the local paper a few days ago about a local man who
> developed
> >> Type II diabetes after getting up to 300 pounds. His doctor gave him the
> >> death talk and he took it to heart. Drastically cut back on food
> >> consumption, started exercising 2-3 hours per day. Now he is down
> to....118
> >> pounds...and currently undergoing psychiatric treatment for anorexia
> >> nervosa. At the time of the article he was up to 135 pounds. His doctors
> >> tell him when he gets up to 160 pounds, he can exercise one hour per
> day.
> >
> > When I graduated from high school, I was up to about 240. Then went
> > the other way, suffering the same thing, but stopped at about 156 or
> > so. Fought it for almost ten years. Looking in the mirror now, it
> > could be said that I'm "cured", but maybe physically, but the "need to
> > lose weight" is definitely there. In the past few years, I bopped back
> > up to 240 again, but have been getting that under control very
> > carefully.
> >
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