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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 253564" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>About the chocolate - yes, it's standard chocolate, with some sugar, with some fat, but by limiting myself to two squares only, and making it the only exception, it acts as my only treat that stops me from going totally screamingly cold-turkey.</p><p></p><p>But I have found a treasure - ice cream with no added sugar, also low-fat! I double-checked the nutritional info, it really is both low fat and low sugar. Therefore it's also low calorie. And the real miracle - it tastes and feels like the richest vanilla ice cream, it's fabulous! I've been having it as affogato (a shot of fresh, strong espresso coffee poured over ice cream). Or in summer, with a fresh mango.</p><p></p><p>I've been a bit naughty today, I had a couple of chocolate biscuits. But I normally avoid eating those by simply not having them in the house.</p><p></p><p>Jane, the most important thing you need to change is often your attitude to yourself. Sometimes with the reality TV weight loss programs, the people lose buckets of weight but if tey don't change how they feel about themselves, they're going to have a struggle not gaining the weight back.</p><p></p><p>What made me lose weight, was my desperation for my health. I just needed to be motivated enough. My appearance - not a factor. I had long ago given up ever looking young or attractive again, I had resigned myself to always needing to buy 'fat' clothes from special 'fat' stores. But because my mental target was improved health, THAT was my payoff. Losing 5 Kg meant I was breathing better at night, which made me more comfortable at night. That gave me the motivation to keep going.</p><p></p><p>But as my looks changed (improved, mostly) it gve me added motivation to never go back to the way I was. And hopefully, I won't. My health still needs me to stick to my diet, and actually looking better now is making it more difficult - the mirror tells me I have won, I don't always have blood tests in front of my eyes to say, "The war's not over yet."</p><p>Losing the weight turned around the borderline diabetes. It knocked down my high triglycerides and cholesterol (they're now beautifully low). The insulin resistance - gone. And it could be insulin resistance that is making your weight loss so difficult, which is why cutting out ALL sugar (except for my two squares of chocolate a day) may be necessary, at least to begin with, to make it happen. </p><p>But the liver enzymes - still in the hundreds, when they should be in the teens.</p><p></p><p>So maybe a suggestion, if you feel you really need to get it all in balance and perspective - see your doctor and discuss the problem. Get the tests done (LFT, triglycerides, cholesterol, BiPolar (BP), fasting glucose, fasting insulin). Maybe also get your hormone levels checked (thyroid hormones, adrenal hormones, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, the various hormone binding protein levels) just to make sure there isn't an explanatory underlying problem needing to be dealt with.</p><p></p><p>Having those levels as a beginning benchmark can help you see how your efforts are going, overall. because maybe even if you don't actually lose any weight, if you can bring about an improvement in your test results, then you are doing a good thing for your body. Something to be proud of, just for itself.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 253564, member: 1991"] About the chocolate - yes, it's standard chocolate, with some sugar, with some fat, but by limiting myself to two squares only, and making it the only exception, it acts as my only treat that stops me from going totally screamingly cold-turkey. But I have found a treasure - ice cream with no added sugar, also low-fat! I double-checked the nutritional info, it really is both low fat and low sugar. Therefore it's also low calorie. And the real miracle - it tastes and feels like the richest vanilla ice cream, it's fabulous! I've been having it as affogato (a shot of fresh, strong espresso coffee poured over ice cream). Or in summer, with a fresh mango. I've been a bit naughty today, I had a couple of chocolate biscuits. But I normally avoid eating those by simply not having them in the house. Jane, the most important thing you need to change is often your attitude to yourself. Sometimes with the reality TV weight loss programs, the people lose buckets of weight but if tey don't change how they feel about themselves, they're going to have a struggle not gaining the weight back. What made me lose weight, was my desperation for my health. I just needed to be motivated enough. My appearance - not a factor. I had long ago given up ever looking young or attractive again, I had resigned myself to always needing to buy 'fat' clothes from special 'fat' stores. But because my mental target was improved health, THAT was my payoff. Losing 5 Kg meant I was breathing better at night, which made me more comfortable at night. That gave me the motivation to keep going. But as my looks changed (improved, mostly) it gve me added motivation to never go back to the way I was. And hopefully, I won't. My health still needs me to stick to my diet, and actually looking better now is making it more difficult - the mirror tells me I have won, I don't always have blood tests in front of my eyes to say, "The war's not over yet." Losing the weight turned around the borderline diabetes. It knocked down my high triglycerides and cholesterol (they're now beautifully low). The insulin resistance - gone. And it could be insulin resistance that is making your weight loss so difficult, which is why cutting out ALL sugar (except for my two squares of chocolate a day) may be necessary, at least to begin with, to make it happen. But the liver enzymes - still in the hundreds, when they should be in the teens. So maybe a suggestion, if you feel you really need to get it all in balance and perspective - see your doctor and discuss the problem. Get the tests done (LFT, triglycerides, cholesterol, BiPolar (BP), fasting glucose, fasting insulin). Maybe also get your hormone levels checked (thyroid hormones, adrenal hormones, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, the various hormone binding protein levels) just to make sure there isn't an explanatory underlying problem needing to be dealt with. Having those levels as a beginning benchmark can help you see how your efforts are going, overall. because maybe even if you don't actually lose any weight, if you can bring about an improvement in your test results, then you are doing a good thing for your body. Something to be proud of, just for itself. Marg [/QUOTE]
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