WATERMELLEN

https://thefastingmethod.com/the-ultimate-weight-loss-cause-hormones-vs-calories/?utm_source=The+Fasting+Method+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bf2d1f05a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_05_03_06_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a0ea3e617-bf2d1f05a5-123067223   I found this recent brief vlog by Dr Jason Fung particularly useful in articulating why counting calories in (nutrition) and out (exercise) very often does not result in the fervently desired maintainable weight loss. He summarises the long-term research and explains the role of hormones: both in stimulating the overwhelming perception of hunger which without fasting can result in over-eating,  and in governing basic metabolic calorie burning.  The majority of calories we eat go to sustain these metabolic functions -- far more calories than we can burn by vigorous exercise, which taken to excess so often results in injury.  Generally, I'm a fan of Dr. Jason Fung and the Fasting Method. And I practice moderate i...

It's a cool grey morning here on Prince Edward Island and the air smells wonderful: fresh and flowery.  Henry has had his long walk, snuffing at everything assiduously and letting all the neighbour dogs and rabbits and foxes know he's been by.  Well, that took a lot of vigorous leg lifting!!   And he had to dance on his hind legs a couple times to let me know how much he enjoyed it!!  And perform a few prance steps too, just out of general joie de vivre!  Because moving just feels so good!!  And after that, rehydration with a BIG bowl of cold water -- tasted so good!  Licking his black lips!! Now he's ready to do pretty much nothing for awhile.  Nobody does nothing better than Henry! And, following Henry's fine example, nothing is what I've been doing a lot of also.  Well, I've been reading blogs over at Spark People and leaving a few comments here and there as people "take to the lifeboats"!  Since it was announced June 6 that the ...

https://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=6277456   Way back in December 2016 over on the SparkPeople site I'd written a blog about the struggle to maintain weight loss as we get older.  And today, a good Spark friend BROOKLYN_BORN  dug out that old blog to comment on it at the ex-Sparkie google docs site.  When I weighed 240 pounds back in 2000 (that was a typo in yesterday's blog -- I first lost the weight which I've kept off in 2000 and not 2020) I could actually eat "more" calories because I was burning a certain amount of fuel lugging around that excess 90 pounds.  Yeah.  Those extra pounds were just like carrying around, 24/7,almost 2 big bags of dog food: and pumping blood through it, too!!  Well, pretty clearly with my weight creeping up and up back then I was still eating more calories than I was burning but I COULD stay steady at the obese weight while eating more than I could eat after losing the weight. And an...

Yes, here I am!  Another "refugee" from Spark People which is so sadly closing down its site August 17 2021.  So many of us liked to blog there: so I'm putting on my special watermellen shoes and strolling over to join those who've already swum to this particular life raft!  No no no: not implying that I'm capable of walking on water . . . the shoes aren't so special!  I'd need my water wings for that! (And . . . technical assistance with the new platform too, thanks OKM!!    This looks like a good place to continue my stories of Henry, our beloved golden retriever.  And all our adventures exploring our new retirement home on Prince Edward Island! Where right now and probably for a week or two more, the lupins are in bloom pretty much everywhere.  All right then -- a Henry story. We have been very lucky to be accepted as patients by a new PEI doctor.  And she has been diligent about ordering and following up on standard blood work.  But ...