Dietary change comprised of two parts. The change in diet that made me lose 175,000 stored calories, and the change in diet that made me lose 105,000 stored calories and reconfigure my inherent physiology.
Going from a 250 pound fat guy to a 200 pound fat guy was a journey that was average daily metabolic rate minus 137 calories a day. To assist me in this journey I had help from two friends:
1> Club Soda
The all purpose inert beverage filler that helps mitigate the damage caused by fruit juice. Club soda has ZERO calories. Since 1970, the Average North American diet has added surplus calories and over 50% of the added calories that have been added are net beverage based calories. Back in 1970, people drank more milk than today, and the milk they drank was 3.25% to 3.5% butter fat whole milk at approximately 160 calories per 8 fluid ounce glass. Today very few people drink whole milk, and instead they drink 2% at 125 calories per 8 fluid ounce glass. Or 1% milk at 100 calories per 8 fluid ounce glass. Skim milk at 80 calories per 8 fluid ounce glass. Or finally if one is fashionably lactose intolerant, no milk.
Where do the surplus beverage calories come from? If the person is a slob, the calories come from sweetened soft drinks. If the person pretends to be health concious, the calories come from fruit juices and athletic drinks. In both cases, watering down your soda pop, fruit juice or athletic drink 50% with club soda should be sufficient to stabilize your weight.
2> CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid)
This is an essential fatty acid that humans used to have more of in their diet in the past than they have in their present diet. It came to us in our meat and dairy products through the rumination process. An animal ate a cellulose based food such as grass. Bacteria in the animals multiple stomachs ruminated the cellulose. The animals digestive system turned the ruminated cellulose into protein. We ate/drank the ruminating animals milk, blood or meat and we as humans got CLA in our diet.
Today things are different. The animals that we drink the milk of and eat the meat of have diets that are different from the diets they ate 40 years ago. In the past, cows ate grass. Today's cow's have a different diet than their ancestors did, they eat whole grains. End result eating the products created from today's cows gives us far less CLA in our diets than we got in the past.
CLA appears to operate by telling our brains that our stomachs are full. When I weighed 250 pounds I started taking CLA (3 grams per day, 27 additional calories), and I started watering down my fruit juices 50% with club soda. Three and a half years later with no conscious effort I had changed from the 250 pound fat man to the 200 pound fat man.
Environment & Exercise
Other than going for the odd walk here and there, I did not exercise to transform from the 250 pound fat man to the 200 pound fat man. I did it for a reason, my physician had told me that if I took up jogging at my impressive girth, I would have destroyed my knees, ankles and hips. No impact exercise until I hit 200 pounds, Doctor's orders.
There is only one way to lose weight and it is to have your body metabolize more energy than you make available for your body. This metabolism deficit can be accomplished by either; exercising more while keeping food intake constant; decreasing food intake while keeping exercise constant; or finally playing God with your own metabolic process (Atkins diet, South Beach Diet, etc).
There I am 18 months ago. The 200 pound fat guy thanks to a little help from my friends, Club Soda and CLA. I was no better than the 250 pound fat guy. I had gained the ability to sit comfortably in an economy class airline seat. I had lost the ability to live for four months off of only water and a multi-vitamin a day. I was nowhere near the ability to do a pull up.
I was ready to visit Herzegovina and Croatia for the first time ever. I was in for the shock of my life. The world as a knew it was going to be torn to pieces over the next few weeks, and I am still in the process of trying to put together my altered perceptions.
Me during November of 2000, weight 250+ pounds.
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