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Four years ago I did some diet and lifestyle coaching for a 35 year old single mom and her 8 year old daughter. mom is 5’3” and weighed about 300 lb. Her young daughter was also obese and being bullied in school, poor grades, etc. mom was not a binge eater, but short of time, ate mindlessly and was bored and lonely.. Over the course of one year the mom lost 175 pounds, stopped taking meds for type 2 diabetes and no longer takes meds for hypertension— all without going on a diet—her words, not mine. The daughter lost as well and became a runner. I mean a real runner. She attempted, at age 12, her first marathon in February. Didn’t quite make it— she wisely stopped at 18 miles but she is so close and she is determined. The mom also runs because she had to go with the daughter. . The daughter has developed a nutrition and basic anatomy and physiology of digestion program that she now presents every year at an assembly. They have started their own running club, THE GENERAL’S ARMY, because she is brutal when you go out running with her. She cheers everyone on and corrects your form. The mom went back to school and spent 2 years studying to become a weight loss and lifestyle change coach and just started a new job at a health maintenance organization. She has also become engaged to be married. She met a guy who is also a runner/walker, lives the same lifestyle they do and loves THE GENERAL with all of his heart. We call him SARGENT.
Last night the MOM asked me to go to a lecture with her- an in-depth look at 6 of the most popular diets that are being practiced today.. there was an cardiologist, endocrinologist, bariatric surgen, a representative fro the American Heart Association and the American Diabetic Association, physical therapists and personal trainers and several people who were considered experts in their specific diets. This was not a lecture to sell anything or get people to buy books or anything like that. The audience was comprised of people like my friend and I who want to be as knowledgeable as possible in the good, bad and ugly of what was out there, and a lot of medical people. Long night— 4 hours, but so worth the time.
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1146 kcal
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Fat: 40.16g | Prot: 43.92g | Carbs: 158.70g.
Breakfast: Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Chicken Sausage, Oroweat Master's Best Winter Wheat Bread, Food Club Large Egg, Maxwell House International Cafe Orange, Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice. Lunch: Mangos, Daisy Low Fat 2% Small Curd Cottage Cheese. Dinner: Avocados, Pure Leaf Honey Green Tea, Pure Leaf Unsweetened Green Tea, Oroweat Jewish Rye Bread, Marketside Baby Kale & Spinach Blend, Grape Tomatoes, Spaghetti. Snacks/Other: Nuts Online Roasted Golden Chickpeas, Pecan Nuts, Walnuts. more...
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1740 kcal
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Exercise:
Housework - 1 hour, Swimming (slow) - 2 hours, Resting - 13 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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