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Posted by: Rob | Jul 16, 2008 3:38:29 PM
Im a 22 male living in Jamaica and have been overweight for, i would say about 6 years. I tried everything, i used to ride (bicycle) for about 5 years and was very fit but wasnt losing the weight, i was just super fit and eating twice as much! I got a new girlfriend and she took up most of time, which seemed better at the time but she gradually made me stop riding...Needless to say we broke up and i still havent started back as yet (about 3 years now lol). So i continue to eat the same way, same junk, same late night hours, same everything, and it only got worse...the scale meter was revolving more now and the numbers only got bigger...Before i started to ride i was at 180 lbs and riding caused me to build muscle mass and gain weight to about 200 - 210 lbs. When i stopped riding, it increased slowly but surely and slowly but surely i was at 267 lbs.!!
This is when i decided that it was time for a change. During this period i was soon to begin a new relationship with the girl of my dreams. She is very health slim and trim and doesnt eat half the junk i do. One day i said to her that i couldnt deal with this weight anymore so she said she would help me. In jump starting me, she enlightened me on Nutritiondata.com and told me i should learn how to watch my calories and keep a track of what i eat daily. I was like no way i was going to do that, "its a waste of time!" By the next week i was on the site reading about what i was eating etc. I made a bold and disciplined decision to just stop the crap and get down to business...
My first step was to cut out rice (one of my main problems) and rice is very staple in Jamaica so it was very hard, sooner or later i was out of it! NO MORE RICE! I only ate Chicken, Pork (no skin), Beef and Fish with alot of greens or yam, banana, dasheen or pumpkin...NO RICE!! Then i went on to cutting out sweet drinks, all i drink is water now...NO SODA, NO FRUIT JUICES, NO MILK DRINKS ETC...I went on to cut out fried foods and foods cooked with oil, no matter waht kind, whether peanut, vegetable or olive oils! In the end, which is now...I dont drink sweet drinks, NO RICE! no starch basically, only ground provisions and ALOT ALOT ALOT of vegetables like lettuce, carrots, pumpkin, cabbage, callaloo, stuff like that...No fried foods, i may dabble with something sweet to feed a craving but never too much...The one thing which helped me is drinking alot of water before, during and after i eat, it fills you up alot...and eating slowly...
All this from January 5, 2008 to July 16, 2008, i've lost a total of 58 lbs :) :) :)!!! I finally did it, oh i forgot i didnt exercise one bit! but im getting into that regime now...Im very confident now and know that anything is possible once you put your mind to it!
Rob
Posted by: MizFit | May 10, 2008 7:18:10 AM
not vegan.
havent beat cancer.
old(er)mama.
working.
juggling fitness (to try and prevent genetic nongifts such as high cholesterol, macular degeneration etc) and LIFE.
and NOT letting it consume my life at all.
over and done with in 40 min a day.
life is for LIVING not exercising or obsessing.
M.
Posted by: Dr. Ruth Heidrich | May 3, 2008 10:18:24 AM
Just to let people know, I'm a 26-year vegan triathlete and this is the way to eat! A low-fat vegan diet of primarily raw fruits and veggies allowed me to beat breast cancer, win more than 900 gold medals in not only the Ironman Triathlon (the first cancer patient to do so) but more than 60 marathons, ultras, track, pentathlon, road races, even 8 golds in the Senior Olympics. I've been so enthusiastic about this lifestyle because it lowered my cholesterol, blood pressure, perfect blood sugar levels, perfect body fat %, high bone density, and lowered my risk of all the degenerative diseases that we Westerners are prone to. Go to my website, www.ruthheidrich.com and check out my three books for more information and to contact me directly.
Posted by: Kazoo Spartan | Apr 22, 2008 4:00:36 PM
To make things easier I have posted my journey on my blog. http://kazoospartan.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Muhammad Irshad ansari | Apr 17, 2008 4:55:21 AM
I am a Food Technologist , I am using ND to calculate nutrition facts for those product which i am developing myself. ND is a powerfull tool for FT professionals
Posted by: JB | Apr 15, 2008 6:40:41 PM
I haven't ever taken dieting seriously, how seriously can you take it when you are 14. But just recently my eyes have been opened to an entirely different world. I was diagnosed with cancer and several other health problems right after my parents went through a sloppy divorce. There was a ton of stress on my body, and this just added to it. I was sent to therapy and went into remission, but the stress of even being diagnosed had already hit me. I was suffering from several disorders and problems which lead me to spiral into a deep state of depression. I gained weight and then was forced into therapy by my mom. I started to lose weight and I started to regain my confidence and my strength. I became a stronger person, and when I found this program I became even healthier. I have lost 60 pounds and gained back confidence. Although the cancer will eventually come back, I will look at it with a new front and I will conquer it.
Posted by: Troy Loferski | Apr 15, 2008 1:21:07 PM
With the help of ND, I have figured out a healthy way to fine tune a vegan diet to build muscle! I had previously thought a vegan diet would be impossible to build muscle on but using ND to sort out protein rich plant based foods, anti-inflammatory foods and foods high in omega-3 fatty acids, I have acheived great results and I am continuing to make gains every month. Thanks ND, this site has been an enormous help.
If you'd like to see my BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES go here:
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9625
My food blog is here:
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8649
Posted by: Varghese Thomas | Apr 11, 2008 1:11:04 PM
I have won 2 weight loss competitions by using ND website I was able to reduce from 260lbs to 206lbs. It has helped me carefully measure my caloric intake and help me maintain a stable diet. I always recommend this website to all my friends. In fact ND is only website I have seen that gives a detailed description on any kind of food thus giving a clearer picture . Awesome website and I am fan for life :)
Posted by: Steve Parker | Apr 7, 2008 6:54:18 PM
I have been a practicing physician for many years, at first in office-based primary care, most recently as a hospitalist. Although nutrition is not covered very thoroughly in medical school, my patients often ask me for nutritional advice. I supplement my comments by referring them to NutritionData. When I need nutrition information, I can often find it at ND. ND is reliable and evidence-based.
Increasingly, I view food as "medication," whether for treatment or prevention of disease. The NutritionData website clearly documents which foods, and in what "dosages," are the best medications.
One of the most helpful ND features, to me, is the Pantry which allows me to input ingredients to a recipe. Then I hit a button and up pops the formal, detailed nutritional analysis. Believe me, there are much harder ways to do this! Think about pasta e fagioli, a soup. There are literally hundreds of recipes for it. I can tinker with the basic ingedients and come up with one that optimizes various phytonutrients, fiber, minerals, and vitamins, while minimizing saturated fats. I then refine it in the Parker family test kitchen. The result is published in my healthy lifestyle book, "The Advanced Mediterranean Diet: Lose Weight, Feel Better, Live Longer."
I also enjoy the two-way exchange with ND's experts on their blogs. These guys know their stuff. Between the blogs and Nutrition News, you can easily stay up to date on practical nutrition breakthroughs.
I often refer my overweight patients, if interested in losing weight, to NutritionData. ND is an antidote to all the poisonous mis-information on dieting available on the web.
Readers of my healthy lifestyle blog were directed to ND a few weeks ago: http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/?p=25
-Steve Parker, M.D.
Posted by: Mike Reeves-McMillan | Apr 6, 2008 6:10:38 PM
I'm currently studying nutrition, among other subjects, to improve my work as a hypnotherapist. (People come to me for weight loss or healthier eating, and I want to be able to give them some good advice as well as motivation.)
Through my studies, I realized it was time to do something about my lifelong problem of being underweight. Nutritiondata.com is helping me to figure out a diet that will support that goal (much easier than copying the tables from my textbooks into Excel).
I've blogged about my use of nutritiondata.com at: http://hypno.co.nz/blogs/index.php/2008/03/31/eat_as_if_you_were_the_weight_you_want_t/
Thanks for collecting so much great data in one place, and making it so easy to use.
Posted by: Kristin | Mar 31, 2008 7:29:23 AM
Two years ago I started working out regularly. It was hard at first, but gradually became easier and, more importantly, became a habit. A little over a year ago, I began keeping a food journal and needed a quick, easy way to find calorie, fat and fiber information for everything I was eating. I stumbled across ND on Google and made it my homepage. It is so easy to use, and there is so much great info on all the foods I eat, that it was easy to keep my food journal up. To date, I have lost 60 pounds. I have a goal to lose 20 more, and I know that whenever I get off track, my food journal and ND are there waiting to help get me back on!
Posted by: Frank | Mar 30, 2008 10:24:15 AM
Back in Oct 07 I weighed in at 230 lbs. Today I am 185 lbs. and I feel great! ND helped me take a close look at what I eat and what not to eat. I work out alot and ND helps me put the right high energy foods I need. THANKS ND!!
Posted by: Bob Walpole | Mar 21, 2008 3:54:27 PM
I turned 60 in January. On Oct 30 2007 I underwent an angioplasty procedure. Having been pretty healthy and not accustomed to the hospital it was a real scare for me. They found a 90% blockage in one of my coronary arteries and installed a stent.
I discovered ND while looking for a way to track my nutritional intake and have been logging in meals almost every day since November.
ND has helped me go from 218lbs to 178. I continue to use ND daily for reference and keeping track of daily food intake. This is a great site and I would be glad to share my story.
Thanks!
Bob
