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Today was my oldest brother's birthday. RIP to my dear brother. Feeling sad.This is a weight related entry.
A lot of good and bad memories are on my mind. I have two brothers and two sisters. This was the oldest brother. When I was a child and teenager he teased me unmercilessly about being larger than others. I never let him get by with his taunts :) That is another story. He taunted my other siblings over their weight too. He was very active as a teen, physically fit, won trophies as a excellent high and low board diver, and did well weight-wise until he was in the Navy. My other brother and I were very active too but seemed to stay on the heavier side anyway :)
Eventually, of course, we mended our fences and enjoyed talking to each other. As an adult he gained a lot of weight, smoked a lot, loved his beer. He never was concerned about his weight. Didn't matter to him what the doctor said. He adjusted to carrying around an oxygen tank. He became diabetic, etc. His final days, the doctor put him on a liquid diet. He weighed over 500 pounds when he died. I will not go into the struggle he went because of his weight.
I will not give up on trying to lose this weight, exercising, and trying to be as fit as possible. Let it be God's plan when I die, and not because of my not trying to take care of this body.
Hopefully, this post helps someone stay on a healthy eating and exercise plan.
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1293 kcal
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Fett: 61,29g | Eiw: 88,90g | Kohlh: 94,94g.
Frühstück: Coffee, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Butterball Everyday Turkey Bacon, Eggland's Best Large Grade A Eggs, David Seeds Original Sunflower Seeds, Flaxseed Seeds, Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Soy Flour, Kirkland Signature Japanese Green Tea, Adirondack Lemon Spring Water, Lipton Mango & Peach White Tea Island Beverage. Mittagessen: Green String Beans, Mueller's Sea Shells Pasta, Colby Cheese, Roasted Broiled or Baked Chicken Breast. Abendessen: Hunt's Tomato Paste, Jennie-O Ground Turkey 93/7. Snacks/Sonstiges: Chocolate Cake (with Chocolate Frosting). mehr...
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2861 kcal
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Bewegung:
Ruhen - 10 Minuten, Sitzen - 5 Stunden, Gehen (Langsam) - 3 Km/h - 30 Minuten, Hausarbeit - 30 Minuten, Schreibtischarbeit - 9 Stunden und 10 Minuten, Schlafen - 8 Stunden und 40 Minuten. mehr...
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Mary Charity, I made a little crepe "pancake" for a low carb "bread". Egg, flaxseed, sunflower seed, water, pinch of salt with the tablespoon(s)soy flour. I could use l tablespoon of whole wheat flour but avoiding the carbs and soy has protein. Sometimes I will put both if my carbs are low on my meal plan for the day. I experiment if I'm looking for a solution to wanting bread or pizza crust for my concoctions :)
30 Mrz 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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Sorry to hear such a sad story. Definitely a cautionary tale - for ourselves and those we love.
30 Mrz 15 vom Mitglied: br_e_co
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Thank you br_e_co. So many people aren't ready to struggle to lose the weight to be healthier or have the idea that tomorrow is soon enough.
30 Mrz 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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Dear, allow me to share my viewpoint with you.
Kattay you are right, people tend to be sluggish (indeed, not all), I think it’s a hard road and difficult fight the reason I think like that because you are fighting yourself, I am gearing up with my motivation, imagination, plans, and music.
My motivation always parallels to an action which is based on my vision. My vision draws my plans out with sets of tasks and actions. Every day I revise my vision so I can concentrate on my goals.
I always imagining myself where I want to stand or what I want to look, this helps me to beat myself, to get fired up. Some others took celebrities as their model role; I don’t encourage this, just be better than yesterday.
Music, without it I am not able to do my exercise right, its help me to drop down all my responsibilities while I am on the gym. As well I use chewing gum all the day in the particular practice time to keep me breathing well.
01 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: izenfx
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I like your viewpoint izenfx. Thanks for your input. I have worked on this weight issue since moving to a new school years ago where I realized I was a bit larger than some other girls. Never mind that I had a bigger frame than them, I just wanted to fit in better. So..up and down the scale I seemed to roam. I had lost a lot of weight before I saw how my brother had gained so much over the years. We only talked occasionally over the phone. He lived states away. Joined Facebook and finally saw pictures of three of my siblings that I hadn't seen since 1998. Major shock. He was large in 1998 but only (probably) in the higher 200s. We should have kept in touch better. I do use music to do most of my exercise. Love it! I certainly don't look to celebrities for anything but entertainment. Some of their plans are just ridiculous :)
01 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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Thank you for sharing this
01 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: Rockiesfan
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Kattay, if your brother was deployed, it is not impossible that he was suffering from PTSD, which brings addictions and psychological complications, and can end up in extra pounds. It is becoming a way of self-medicating and a way out...I am sorry for your brother. I see the PTSD in my family, and I can recognize it. It is a complicated thing. Take care and thank you for sharing. I too had a brother, (and still have, and also mended some of the fences)who was torturing me growing up. My only sibling. It turned out to be the typical first-born syndrome. He never got over the fact that a little baby girl was born after him, and "took away" the attention...Even now in his 60's he tells me "Well, how would you react? I was right" He never got over that...It took me a lot of wisdom and patience to not stop talking to him entirely...
03 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: auroraioanid
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Thanks auroraioanid. No, my brother wasn't deployed. He wasn't in the Navy long enough and he had a desk job. He told me he loved the mess hall food and there was plenty of it. He bragged about what and how much he could eat. He was a chef at a seafood restaurant. He loved creating and tasting new dishes. He was very outgoing with friends and he loved having them over and cooking for them. He loved his own cooking is an understatement. Both of my brothers and my son are great cooks. When I visited him before he moved he was telling me it was normal for him and his wife to go through 2 cases of beer a day. He had beer stacked up to the 7 ft high ceiling and was telling me he didn't think it would last the week. I was hoping he was joking. Smoking didn't help his heart either. I don't know how he could stand smoking after being around my dad who suffered from throat cancer. Tubes in his throat to breathe, etc. Doc said that dad's throat cancer was directly linked to smoking. Just a shame to lose a someone, especially for something that can be beaten, albeit with a struggle, before it is too late.
03 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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wow, Kat, what a story and such a sad one too. Luckily you have learned from everything. Take care, and enjoy the power you have gained during your journey!
03 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: auroraioanid
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wow, Kat, what a story and such a sad one too. Luckily you have learned from everything. Take care, and enjoy the power you have gained during your journey!
03 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: auroraioanid
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Kattay, thank you for sharing; I empathize with your loss. My younger brother and I fought each other like cats and dogs growing up, but we put that behind us when we got older. He died of a rare melanoma that started behind his ear and spread to his throat within a couple weeks and he died. My son died a few years ago from weight related diabetes. My first wife and I both struggled with weight issues, and the cards were stacked against him from the beginning. I was fortunate to be in the service and forced to stay in shape. But he and I were out of touch for a long time and I never knew he had gained all that weight and developed such health issues. I was devastated when looking for his current address on the internet, I found his obituary.
04 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: DairyKing
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06 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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So, so sorry DairyKing. Your loss of both son and brother is heart wrenching. I feel for you. If I hadn't reached out to my brother on FB several times, and then again, on a game site we both visit, I would have never known he was so sick or had time to get to know him for the person he had become. Still hard to fathom that he was so ill when he did pass. We all get so caught up in our own lives and we think everything is good in our families that don't live near us. Time passes so quickly.
06 Apr 15 vom Mitglied: kattay
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