Obesity in the "Body" of Christ

[Sepharad]

I have devoted 60-90 mins per day, 5 days per week, for the past 8 years, to exercise. I get up at 5 AM to work out. I don’t work outside the home but I homeschool two children, and until a few months ago, was the 24/7 caretaker for my elderly and very ill mother.

I managed…I make exercise a daily priority, which is how I always find the time.

As for healthy food, we shop at this place traderjoes.com and they have organic, healthy food at reasonable prices.

 

[blessedtoo]

I have devoted 60-90 mins per day, 5 days per week, for the past 8 years, to exercise. I get up at 5 AM to work out. I don’t work outside the home but I homeschool two children, and until a few months ago, was the 24/7 caretaker for my elderly and very ill mother.

I managed…I make exercise a daily priority, which is how I always find the time.

As for healthy food, we shop at this place traderjoes.com and they have organic, healthy food at reasonable prices.

Outstanding!

And I love traderjoe’s! Used to live just a few minutes from one but now I’m an hour away! Boo-hoo!

 

[thomfra]

No, it doesn’t always work that way. You’re ignoring metabolic differences. People will often hit a plateau while dieting, even while continuing with the same restricted calorie level, because the body switches to starvation mode and lowers the metabolic rate. If you keep cutting intake lower and lower, eventually you’ll get over the plateau and start losing again, but then you’ve got a whole host of other problems. Then, once you’ve messed up your metabolism, it’s very difficult to reset it to normal.

What you say is very true. But again, to loose weight there must be a calorie deficit. If you lower you metabolic rate (by starving yourself), then yes, you burn less calories/time, and would have to excercise even harder to loose weight.

But the energy balance applies. The trick is to have a very small calorie deficit over a long time. then you don’t go into starvation mode etc.

 

[thomfra]

I have been overweight my entire life. So has my mother, grandmother, father, other grandmother on my fathers side, all my uncles, aunts and most of my cousins. I constantly ate the wrong foods and too much of it, and didn’t get much excercise. But recently, I have been trying to lose weight by eating right, portion control and lots of excercise. (Karate, walking, high cardio work outs and swimming) I have lost about ten pounds so far, and is starting to get close to needing some new jeans! I really enjoy being healthier really. My energy level is up, my self esteem is higher, and it’s getting so much easier to work out and motivate myself to eat right.

Good for you. You are on a roll. Keep it up.

 

[christcnection1]

and you have statistics to bear out your statement? I think not. Why not land on the parishioners who make inappropriate gifts, rather than the recipients who graciously receive them (and who 90% of the time pass them on to the needy in my experience).

I doubt there are any studies done on this, but if you have any to suggest otherwise, I’m happy to look into it.

Actually, I did suggest that parishoners do not give these types of gifts, but maybe not in that particular post.

I agree with everything you said. God bless you.

 

[Denae]

Good for you. You are on a roll. Keep it up.

Blush thanks.