“52 percent of people 57 and older […] said they’d rather die in 10 years than adopt a strict diet,” Freep reports.
“[Executive director for the Alliance for Aging Research, Daniel] Perry speculates that the 57-and-older crowd may be fed up with diets that don’t work. He called it ‘diet rage,’ or disgust with the demands of getting healthy.”
Confession: I’ve been dieting for about three weeks now. I have a salad for dinner every night. Very little low-fat dressing, fresh veggies, raw spinach, etc.
And yet, I seem to be gaining weight. So I know how these older folk feel.
I never should’ve quit smoking. Simple as that.
Holy Oprah–are you washing down that salad every night with 10 beers, Batman?
Have you ever tried the Atkins diet? After I quit smoking in 1997, I ballooned up to 270, did the Atkins thing (low carb, high protein), and am now a svelte 215 (at 6’2″). I have maintained this weight for five years. I suppose there are risks to the diet, but being 270 is a much worse risk, eh?
No beer. Diet Dr. Pepper—though at night I have a bourbon and water or something.
I also do lots of crunches. I think the real problem is I sit in this freakin’ chair all day, writing this shit. I need a treadmill, so that I can blog while standing up.
Ah. I remember when I could stand up…
Simple fact: computer centred jobs—and the Internet—make you fat. I’m trying to lose 40-50 pounds by the end of the year and I know that it isn’t easy when you’re in thrall to the silicon.
Crunches? Good for your core stength, totally irrelevant to losing fat.
Can you get out of the house first thing in the morning with a Walkman or MP3 player and just walk for 30/60/90 minutes?
Work out with weights three times a week, too: you will see a nice little metabolic surge after each workout and the extra bit of muscle mass you put on also burns some extra calories every day.
Well, hell, let’s open a diet self-help center here. I dumped a three pack a day habit of several decade’s standing last July 1. I gained fifty pounds. Since then, I’ve been on the Atkins low carb thing, and I’ve been biking daily for 60-90 minutes. In SF, that means a lot of up and down, although it seems like a lot more up than down.
I’ve lost six pounds. In eight months. I’ll be 56 in two weeks. And I *really* understand how these folks feel.