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| [Jun 15, 2011, 09:52 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments |
I recently picked up a big bucket of sunflower seeds, thinking these would be a healthy snack compared with chips and the like, especially given you probably burn off some of the calories in each seed just extracting it from the shell. While they are certainly indeed healthier than chips, I probably should have looked at the label before deciding, as it would be helpful to note that these things are 75% fat (albeit mostly polyunsaturated), but more significant is that while the nutritional information says a 50 gram bag of nuts "only" has 5% of your RDA of sodium, this is actually if you shell by hand and just eat the nut. If you crack them in your mouth like I do, the salt on the outside increases this almost tenfold, supplying well over 1000mg of sodium, which is 45% of your RDA right there.
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 16, 2011, 11:54 |
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Oh, and since he asked me to, I'm the person Bats is talking about.
I'm 6'3" and currently 49. When I graduated high school I weighed 150 lbs. When I got out of the military in 1995, I weight about 230 lbs. After that I starting gaining weight, about 1-2 lbs a month. Doesn't sound too bad, except I did that for 5 years. So, starting in 2000, I weighed about 330 lbs. I plateaued there for about 9 years.
In the late spring of 2009 I could tell I was starting to gain weight again -- I needed to buy bigger pants. In June, I finally steeled myself enough to step on the scale. It read 375. Somewhere in my brain a bell went off. Time to do something about this. I signed up for a commercial meal diet plan. It doesn't really matter which one, I'm sure any of them would have worked. The important thing is I actually had the will power to stick with it.
On 7/1/2009, I started the program weighing in at 375. On 7/1/2010, I weighed 217. I lost 158 lbs in 12 months, completely through intake reduction. Never took my lazy, couch potato, movie watching, game playing, desk job having ass out of the sitting position. Well, except to walk to the fridge, car, bathroom, etc...
Now, nearly a year later I am maintaining, bouncing between 215-225. I want to make a second push down to 180, but I haven't been able to muster the will power to do it. And truthfully, I've come to think of the weight loss as a correction of a mistake more than any kind of accomplishment.
And of course, while I am healthier due to the weight loss it doesn't mean I'm fit. I'm not. But, meh -- whatever. Truthfully, it's pretty meaningless to me. I know it's "good for me" to have lost the weight, but it hasn't changed my life in any practical way -- except altering the percentages for how long I might live. *shrug* |
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