Mon, Jun-15-09, 21:55
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,960
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 160/103/115
BF:
Progress: 127%
Location: Edmonton, AB Canada
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Maintainers, with their determined ferocity about preventing regain have discovered valuable secrets. They have learned how to be healthy by using the scale as a kind of thermometer that takes the temperature of their general well-being. When weight starts to rise, a return to cleaner eating, brisker physical activity, better relaxation, longer sleep, and increased mindfulness will lower not only pant size, but blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol as well.
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This is true, and it's the reason I've stuck with the weekly weigh-in. It tells me both when I can indulge a bit and when I need to be a bit more vigilant. And being more vigilant has meant not skipping exercise as well as taking more care with what I eat.
Because most of the medical establishment is so leery of Atkins, it also caused me to look closely at the nutrition value of my diet. I track that for a month once a year every year on Fitday and adjust accordingly.
I love the phrase "determined ferocity." That's true, too. I don't care anymore if my diet bothers people, or if I have to send the server back to the chef to find out if they put sugar or flour into a dish. Tough. My body, my rules.
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