I think obesity has a direct correlation with poverty across racially groups. When I was a mail carrier I got to notice many details about people’s daily lives. You see their mail and back then you knew how much they were receiving in food stamps, you see the post card with electric bill, the recycle bin, and so much more.
Poor is poor, the parallels are to many too list from one neighborhood to another, even of the racial balance varied greatly.
The social structures and poverty culture mores hold people back more than the economics. Unfortunately the diets and child rearing practices can result in poor nutrition during important developmental stages. This can result in even more life long challenges some of which cannot be reversed. This is why WIC exists.
I don’t think anyone here would attack you, maybe just disagree about one or 2 things:) Thanks for your knowledge. Very interesting…unless you get into religion then people thinks it’s fair game for attacks for some reason.
Correction to my post above, it’s Brilliant Light Power in Cranbury, NJ.
It’s amazing technology and just one of some a real game changing technologies emerging in the energy space.
The owner of the Hydrogen House in Hopewell Township, NJ had proven hydrogen powered cars could get hundreds of miles per cf, however the State of NJ killed it. (He was the fleet manager for the State, with tens of thousands of vehicles in the fleet. He proved he could save the State tens of millions of $$$ per year but the Governor fired him and shut the program down.
He then developed it on his own and the State went after him with zoning violations initially, then lawsuits and finally big oil. They kept it off the market via lawsuits, intimidation, etc for at least 10-15 years. He eventually wound up partnering with Toyota to bring hydrogen fuel cells to market.
There are many different energy solutions out there that work, however they’re being squashed unless big oil and/or billionaires like Gates, Bezos, Musk, etc. are involved.
Just to expand on Brilliant Light Power, it can produce massive amounts of electricity at 1/10 the capital cost of fossil fuels and at $0.001/kWh with zero carbon emissions.
It doesn’t require the bulk of the distribution network that’s currently in place.
It can power industry, commercial and residential applications. It can also be used in communications, eliminating the need for wires, cables and satellites. Dial your phone in the US to call a person in China and your call is instantly connected.
Current fossil fuel rockets are estimated to take about 10 years to reach Mars. With this energy source that could be reduced to 2-3 days.
It can be used to power a home using only the humidity from the air. In dry areas, 17 liters of water could power a 2,500 sq ft home for 1 year.
All the components of the system are off-the-shelf and readily available except for a ceramic capacitor, which Bright Light makes.
The technology (turning hydrogen into plasma and dark matter) is proven and is now being tested in commercial and industrial applications.
Recent read (listened to) the book Glucose Revolution by a scientist not a doctor.
Not weight loss but many lose weight managing Glucose spikes.
My wife and are just changing the order in which we eat our foods.
Lots of easy to follow ideas that do not have you counting calories.
Maybe that last 10lbs will like it??
Yes, I’ve been paying attention to glucose and how important it is not to spike blood sugar. I’m mostly keto anyway, so I doubt i have much glucose to manage.
I think it’s gonna be willpower to get that last 10 pounds gone. I’ll need to get myself onto the exercise machine and tolerate feeling hungry most of the time.
My goal is a weight of 140. As of this morning, I was 149.4. I was so glad to break below the 150s, now I just gotta keep it moving in the right direction. If I can push through in a hurry, maybe 2.5 months, a pound a week, then I can get to a maintenance weight and not feel so hungry all the time.
Thanks for the advice! May we all find good health.
Best of luck @swampmama3
I am hoping to find the glucose management “hacks” the glucose goddess presents will keep the 30 lbs i just lost stay gone!!
For me, i essentially eat the variety she talks about all i need to do is change order not quantity - seems too easy Lol. No doubt many
Techniques work.
I used to use the Noom app to track my food intake and activity. While reading in the online community, it was repeatedly noticed by the users, that there is a somewhat narrow calorie range that is optimal for losing weight. For this reason the app programming gives back calories as one increases activity levels.
So many folks would be moving along nicely and would be happy with results then up the game on calorie restriction then plateau on losing weight. As soon as they added that couple of hundred calories back they would start losing.
I also saw this with my husband who used to be a yoyo dieter. He would be happy and want more faster and restrict more and exercise more then plateau his progress because his body was in starvation mode.
Just tossing it out because you mentioned being hungry all of the time.
Go hiking! It’s the perfect time of year for it, you’ll build your biggest muscles, and bigger muscles need more food for maintenance while you rest. AND you’ll be doing something proactive (getting stronger, spending time in nature, connecting with yourself or others, improving your cardiovascular health and physical competency and endurance).
Pro-activity is much easier to maintain, than subtractive or deficiency activities like removing pounds, calories, temptation, wrong-thoughts. If, for instance, just before you go to sleep, you realize you didn’t stick to the diet, didn’t go to the gym, forgot to call your mom, you can lay awake for 2 hours, call yourself unflattering things and go to sleep grumpy, using past “failure” to convince yourself to do better tomorrow.
Or you can get up, eat one floret of broccoli, text a just-because “love you” to mom, do five air squats and go back to bed knowing you did three things today to move towards your goals.
I will be 66 in September and God give them strength not to throttle some gold geezer (almost always younger than me) that moves like a sloth and thinks because they’re old, fat, slow and stupid the world should kiss their butt.
I live in nature. If i want to hike, i just go outside my garden gate and walk the forest trails around our property. I get plenty of outdoor time tending to my animals and garden.
I don’t want to ‘hike’ on public trails much anymore because it’s become fashionable for others to be on the trails with their pittbulls off leash. We were attacked last year and almost had to shoot someone’s dog. I try to avoid public stuff now, because the public is stoopid and rude, generally. I’d rather run up on coyotes in the woods than someone’s darling snarling pittbull.
The elliptical machine in my living room will do, along with the time outdoors working in the sunshine, and prayer. That’s 3 positive things. Thanks! I like the idea of feeling accomplished because I did 3 positive things. I tend toward anxiety if I let my mind sit idle, so ‘3 positive things’ is helpful.
Yes, i may be on a plateau. There’s not a huge difference between my weight loss calories for a day, and my weight maintenance calories for a day. That makes it slower going. I hope my body doesn’t think im in starvation mode and slow down my metabolism, but it’s possible. my weight loss daily calorie goal is 1406. I hear you’re not supposed to go below 1300 or metabolism slows down. My weights for the last 3 days have been 149.8, 149.4,and 149 this morning, so it is moving down slowly. I’ll be thrilled when it goes down to 148, as I’ve been hovering between 149-151 for the past several months.
It’s so hard and its not fun feeling hungry most of the time, but it does help develop willpower.
I’m using an app called MyNetDiary. It’s free and has helped a lot.
then people thinks it’s fair game for attacks for some reason.
