calvin2hikers wrote:
Fucking healthy from now on.
I went to the doctor because I had a very sore throat and found out that is was a viral infection. But, the worse thing to me is that I was weighed and am 270 pounds. I've gained 37 pounds since I stopped smoking. And the weight scares me quite a bit. So it's going to come off. I'm not fat by any means, because I'm kinda tall, but it's still better for me to drop 40 or so.
Subject near, dear, to my heart. 15 years aog I had the double problem of being obese already, AND I had to quit smoking. I was almost 40, about 215 (fat for my height of 5' 9"), eating bad like a typical American, and smoking a pack a day. I got up one morning and felt a tingling in my fingertips (after my 3rd morning cigarette and 3rd cup of full caffine strength coffee). I had a $300 deductable on my insurance and I figured I could spend it on a doctor who will tell me to quit smoking, lose weight, and start earting right), OR I could spend the $300 on a Nordic Track and a pulse monitor, and quit smoking start eating right.
I was obviously not a person prone to exercise, but I was happy to find that real exercise was only 1/3rd the difficulty I'd imagined it would be. If I hadn't used the pulse monitor I wouldn't have discovered that, and "made it." Forr the first two weeks the monitor was telling me to slow down, slow down, slow down, (and i was thinking 'yeah but that slow is not exercising'). I believed the monitor instead of my instinct, and two weeks later 4 pounds were gone. I couldn't believe the "low" exercise rate the monitor was telling me to stay at was really the correct rate, and dropping the weight so fast, in 8 months I went from 215 to 155...and because I was eating much better, I was actually eating MORE than before. The difference was an hour a day of LOW level aerobics. I never thought exercise was fo me, fuck that...but now I put my earphones on and escape for an hour a day, I couldn't live without it(:
Here's an interesting link:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/conte ... nually.asp
The obesity-cancer link is largly below the radar on the tube, but 90, 000 obesity related cancer deaths a year is more than double the deaths from car crashes, that's fairly profound.
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