I have just recieved the following article: "Belly fat may drive inflammatory processes associated with disease." The theory behing the article being that this particular type of obesity activates or exacerbates the inflammatory process, which is such a significant part of our preblem. My response to the person who sent me the article:
The question is how to get rid of it. I exercise like mad, have largely eleminated sugar- no I cannot give up ice cream and all deserts completely- and have taken-horrors- to putting splenda in my sweet tea-the house wine of the South-have cut down-but not eleminated rice, potatoes, bread, etc. And still the disgusting abdomen is there. it will not go away. It is hideous. It is revolting. I am also probably destroying my liver in the process.
You must understand that this has nothing to do with inflammation and everything to do with male ego and vanity. Have you ever been in a men's locker room? No, I am not a pretty sight. but one thing I despise is all these disgusting men with these overhangs down to their knees. The revolting abdomens are appalling. And the place has these mirrors which clearly show you the truth or just how nauseating you really are. Plus the locker room has this set of medical scales which are humiliatingly accurate. Painful.
I remarked to one lovely young thing-I should have known better-that I looked like a pregnant walrus. This cold eyed creature who no doubt had been trained as a very young child to tell the truth-especially where men are involved- looked at me and remarked, "No, you don't! Your fat is in all the worng places." Devastating.
I swim a thousaand to 1200 yards three and four times a week, I walk 3-6 miles six days a week , I sometimes bicyle and still the gut is there like glue. And now you say liposuction does not work. Even if I took a samurai short sword and committed a juiced up version of hara kira it would not work. Sob. So I suppose I shall just have to forget it and go back to porking down the chocolate ice cream and the pastries I love so well. My chocolate pound cake is to die for!!!!!
These lyme people, doctors and all, just kill every joy. we are miserable from the burgdorferies and now what little joy is left is now taken away in the specious belief that this mess will be cured. Well I have been at it for years and am sick as a dog still. i have taken just about every pill and nostrum in the book and now am being killed to no purpose by these damned bicillin shots which hurt like forty hells. Believe me until you cannot get your billfold out of your back pocket because your hehind is so sore you can hardly move you haven't lived. Lovely. It is enough to make a strong man take to drink. I even broke down in the middle of cooking one of my chinese chicken dishes-which has sherry in it-and tonight downed a shot glass of sherry. IF you cant kill the microscopic pond scum maybe you can get them drunk and they will leave you alone. At least you may not feel so bad and or so guilty or so ugly and then you can go off and enjoy some chocolate ice cream. Cheers.
-------------------- Thomas Parkman Posts: 341 | From Columbia SC 29206 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Well, Cave 76, dear heart, you must remember that the writer of the message is a demented and half crazed pseudo-street person who cannot remember anything. You have noticed that not only can I not spell, I cannot type.
I well remember your long list of instructions and the other kind replies of the various members and have tried to carry them out. But dealing with nurses and my whacked up neurological system is a tall order indeed. The first nurse nearly killed me. It was horrible. There was not only the pain-a sore behind is an experience all its own. That is where the infamous sore backside billfold incident occurred and I had these lumps. Then I changed nurses. The first time fine, so much better, some pain but You appreciate the gradations of pain here.
The second time: DEATH. It nearly killed me. The third time one side really bad. I have tried to communicate the instructions as best I remember them. I have told the nurse to give the shots slowly. I have tried getting the gook warm, walking beforehand, warm baths afterwards and still even with lidocaine, the stuff hurts and I have sometimes these knots. Plus I break out in a reddish splotch on my upper chest.
Now I cannot remmeber anything, I cannot work computers worth a damn, and I cannot remember to take all my medicines. The hormones are driving me crazy and I keep forgetting them. I goofed up my Paypal application so badly I will probably not have a dime left in my bank accountand now this. Chastised for not following instructions.
I JUST CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! I went out a couple of weeks ago and bought three half gallons of wonderful very good ice cream on sale, saving a 1.68 per half gallon. I have taken two small scoops out of one. Now I am going home and sit down and eat all of them. So there!!!!! Cheers.
-------------------- Thomas Parkman Posts: 341 | From Columbia SC 29206 | Registered: Feb 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Thomas Parkman: Dear Members of the List: The question is how to get rid of it.
It's the fault of all those manufacturers of tasty food. How dare they force us to eat it!
But, seriously, in the past when I strictly followed the anti-candida diet (basically an Atkins, low-carb diet), I could not keep the weight on. I actually had to force myself to eat more!
Another trick: avoid caffeine, except consume some (without sugar) a few minutes before exercise. Caffeine has the special ability to liberate fat cells, which will then be burned by your exercise.
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bettyg
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thomas, you moved my spirit again today; keep it up my friend!
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treepatrol
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I dont have belly fat I have a Fat Belly !!
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treepatrol
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Ill get rid of your ice cream Thomas
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tree, i love your quote, "i have a FAT BELLY" !!
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I sit here laughing, jiggling all the belly fat.
Maybe that will make it go away!
Thanks for the chuckles!
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Thomas,
Personal trainers can work wonders!
You are going to have to learn to love steamed kale instead of vanilla ice cream, my friend.
And actually, the final indignity is not male belly fat -- it is a jowly neck and sagging breasts for women! At least you can work those stomach muscles...
take care
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Your problem is transfats. Transfat is a product of man made cooking oils. The body cannot digest transfat it stores it the belly or rear end as fat.
Avoid all fast foods. Avoid junk bakery items, cakes and donuts (fried in transfats). Avoid artificial sweeteners, corn syrups, and high fructose sweeteners is man made also. Therefore no soft drinks..
Go on the Atkins diet. Eat lots of natural eggs, cheeses, and meat. Eat high grain bread sparingly. Coffee, tea, water and milk (if your tummy can take it).
You lose weight because you are not so hungry anymore. You body is getting what it needs.
Also the diet will improve your blood sugar levels.
Use coconut, olive, bacon grease, to cook with.. Coconut is best, plus it will boost the immune system...
Works for me.
Forget the silly low fat diets. This just propaganda to sell junk foods...
Good Luck
Tj
P.S For more info google Dr. Mary Enig..
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Cave, dear heart, You must remember that I come from Columbia, SC. It is a geological wok. the surplus fuel from Columbia goes to supply Hell. so YES I Can Take the HEat. !!!! What precisely do you mean by syringe. I am using a 22 gauge one now.or rather being impaled by not one but two. I have heated the gook as best I could and the last time I asked the nurse to inject it slowly. so please tell me what syringe, etc you mean. The nurse seems to do what I suggest to her. The last time I had a big lump on my right side. No fun.
As for the gut, i am more and more convinced that all this body fat, apart from being disgusting is just not good for you. I also know I have serious inflammation problems. So the GUT MUST GO!!! But it is agony. Further if I reduce too much I will have to replace all my clothes. I have lost eleven pounds, through blood sweat toil and tears, not to mention chlorine poisoning and I am shrinking already. But there is so far to go.
Can you imagine the fear you must live in with the idea as you walk down the street that not only will your pants fall down but your unmentionables too with all the world to view the ghastly protruding belly fat. So you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Like everything else with the damned disease. Cheers.
-------------------- Thomas Parkman Posts: 341 | From Columbia SC 29206 | Registered: Feb 2003
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Jill E.
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Thomas,
While your poetic posting focused on what is wrong, I just want to point out all the great things you have going for you. Specifically, you can exercise like a healthy person! Your regimen sounds like what mine was pre-Lyme. You swim, walk and more - all for long periods of time. Now I can just walk around my neighborhood. I haven't done anything terribly aerobic since getting sick - I just can't.
You deserve a big pat on the back (not the backside, where it hurts from Bicillin) for what you have achieved!!
Speaking of Bicillin, my Lyme doc said my butt is now leather from the one year of Bicillin shots. Just what a gal wants to hear.
In addition to Cave's great recommendations of what to do just before and during the shot, remember to either ice the area for about ten minutes beforehand, or get lidocaine cream or patches to put on an hour or more before.
I do both, but found the icing helps the most.
You can send the chocolate cake and ice cream my way. I don't care anymore what the cute young things (male in my case) say about me. I just want to feel better.
Take care, Jill
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