Wondering About Warrior Diet
From: Breton
Subject: Nutrition
Date/Time 2008-03-21 11:22:33
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Alt,
If you don't mind me asking, since you lost alot of weight in a short period of time, do you have any loose skin on your body? I've seen people that lost 100+ pounds in a year that had loose skin under the arms and in the stomach but you said you lifted weights and I was wondering if that prevented it to some degree.
I know this may be personal, and if you don't want to answer it please ignore my intrusion.
From reading your post you've reached the STUBBORN FAT stage in your diet and exercise program. You've already cut calories and junk food to the point where you can't really go any lower. My advice would simply be to be patient and keep doing what you're doing. Plateaus usually cause people to give up what they're doing even though it's worked for a long time.
If I were you I would stop worrying about it and see of the plateau has anything to do with stress and mental expectations. Marc David has an excellent NightingaleConant program called "Mind Body Nutrition" that focuses on (obviously) the Mind's role on what your body looks like. His breathing exercises alone can cause you to lose 5 lbs the first month you do them without doing any other changes in diet or exercise. Stress and cortisol (spelling?) unfortunately are not dealt with in typical diets or exercise programs, even those focused on hormones. It's worth checking out and it comes with a $$$ guarantee. Losing 130 lbs in a year is an amazing achievement but it sounds like you've done all the physical things that anyone can do. It's worth seeing if the problem isn't mental and maybe a shift in perception about the totality of your life as a whole may be what's needed next to help you get past it.
If you find Marc's program enlightening and want to take it even further, Veritaspub.com has a program called "Giving up Illness through a course in Miracles" that will completely change your whole paradigm about mind and body. I know it doesn't sound that macho to be recommending something this sissy-ish on a bodybuilding website, I myself used to laugh at spirituality, but this 3 cd set is a bit different, to say the least. Holding on to weight is a form of illness and it starts in the mind which creates the body.
You got the physical component handled, I don't think that changing your diet or exercise is going to do anything. You're eating better than me, less than me, and exercising more than me and eating less food than me. I think the only thing left to do is to do something with your mind that you may have never thought of doing.
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