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My Weight Loss Journey Begins - Trying to lose 40 lbs... - Video
by Mike Cole on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:49PM
The formula to lose weight is pretty simple. All you have to do is cut down on your calories and what you eat and work out regularly. Of course, it's never that easy, but the blueprint is pretty basic.
Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum of all people felt that he needed to slim down before returning to the Giants for spring training. After shedding 25 pounds in the offseason, it appears that Lincecum has achieved that goal.
Yahoo's Big League Stew blog has the story of how Lincecum shed the weight, just a year or so after deciding that he wanted to add weight. The two-time Cy Young winner reasoned that if he could add weight to his wiry frame, it would help add durability.
In doing so, though, Lincecum kept adding on the pounds, to the point that he realized he needed to slim down some. One of the first steps was to improve his diet -- particularly cutting fast food.
"You take your first bite of a McDonald's burger and it's like 'Why did I buy this?'" said Lincecum, who went from 197 pounds down to 175. "You feel instantly sick. That's what ended up happening with all these places and why I started eliminating them. I take a bite and I'm like 'I can't even finish this.' So I just started going for stuff that made me feel better. I'm not crushing vegetables by any means, but I'm definitely eating better."
Lincecum also said that he's dedicated himself to a swimming regimen, in which he gets a good workout by swimming against a current in a specially designed pool.
Giants fans will surely appreciate that the dominant right-hander still has the "hunger" to succeed even after recently signing a two-year, $40 million contract extension.
See more from Lincecum in the video below from Bay Area Sports Guy.
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Reality slapped Marshall Porterfield hard when he watched a 2008 video of himself on vacation in Jamaica.
?I realized I was a lot more overweight than I thought,? Porterfield said. ?I was disappointed and embarrassed that I let myself get to that point.?
Porterfield had packed on pounds, without really realizing it, until he weighed 275. With the help of a nutrition consultant and regular exercise, he gradually lost fat and added muscle. At 5 feet, 10 inches tall, he got down to about 195 pounds, with a body-fat reading below 20 percent.
During that yearlong journey, Porterfield says the biggest lesson he learned was: ?The way you eat is more important than anything.?
Porterfield, 33, thinks he used to be like most people: He didn?t put much planning or thought into what he ate. He just ate on a whim ? whenever he felt hungry or had a craving.
?I would say that, compared to everyone around me, my peers, I ate ?normal,?? he said.
He?d drink beer several nights a week. On weekends, he?d eat chicken wings, hamburgers and pizza with his buddies.
?I didn't eat breakfast. I'd stop at a gas station, and just eat a candy bar ? or nothing,? he said.
He later learned those habits were making him fat, causing his metabolism ? the rate at which he burned calories ? to go sluggish.
Now he eats six to seven times a day and mostly plans ahead for what he?s going to eat and when.
As his new, leaner physique began to emerge, his closest friends and family confessed: ?I was getting kind of worried about you ? you were getting too overweight.?
None of them had breathed a word to him when he was at his heaviest, Porterfield said. ?I think it's kind of a taboo thing?people care about you, but just don't want to say anything,? he said.
The changes in Porterfield?s outward appearance have affected how he feels about himself and how he thinks others perceive him.
?I think you walk into a room with a little more confidence when you know you are in shape,? he said. And he thinks other people seem to have a better impression of him, too.
Porterfield said he wants to encourage others who have significant weight to lose: Don?t let the number of unwanted pounds intimidate or discourage you.
?If you just look at it like, 'I've got to lose 80 pounds,? you might feel like you can never do it,? he said. ?But for me, when I look back, I think 80 pounds ? that?s amazing ? but after I learned a new lifestyle, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.?
Porterfield says works out about four days a week, mostly doing weight training.
He allows himself to deviate from his meal plans occasionally, mostly for holidays and other special events.
?For me, that's the way I'll be, I think, for the rest of my life,? he said.
The nutrition consultant who worked with Porterfield, David Pertuset, describes the approach he uses with clients: ?When I do an intial assessment, I don?t I don't ever tell people that it?s good or bad?I say, ?Here's our starting point; here's how long it's going to take us.??
If they balk, he says: ?I tell them it would be better for you to start right now and rectify the situation rather than get discouraged and start two to three months later and possibly have more weight to take off then.?
Pertuset, a 26-year-old from Mount Washington, said he often sees people in denial about their weight problem or making excuses as to why they cannot attack it ? until they reach the tipping point that Porterfield did.
?Disgust is one of the biggest motivators in life ? and I think he got to that point,? Pertuset said. ?I don't let people tell me that they can't do it?Ultimately you are the only person who really truly cares about your results?you are the only one who is in control of it.?
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By Chad Henage - February 2, 2012 | Tickers: MED, NTRI, WTW | Comments
Chad is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited.
It's the beginning of the year, how many people have kept their resolutions? The better question if you're an investor is what is the No. 1 resolution people usually make? The answer is to lose weight. Since there is an investment angle for pretty much any issue let's see how three of the weight loss industry's companies are doing. The three I have in mind are Medifast (NYSE: MED), Weight Watchers (NYSE: WTW), and Nutrisystem (NASDAQ: NTRI).
Name
Price
P/E on '12 earnings
Growth expected
PEG
Yield
Medifast
$15.96
9.98
17.50%
0.57
0.00%
Weight Watchers
$71.16
15.61
14.03%
1.11
0.98%
Nutrisystem
$11.32
11.55
13.00%
0.89
6.18%
The market sure differs in how to value these companies. Many times companies that sell for less than their growth rate are having issues. Another possible reason for a discounted price is the market doesn't believe analyst expectations. In addition, whenever I see a large dividend in comparison to the company's peers, I have to wonder if it's sustainable. Let's dig in a little further and see what we find out.
Cash flow can be a useful metric to compare companies. I like to look at the companies' cash flow after they have paid capital expenditures and dividends (if any). If a company is cash flow positive after these two costs that's usually a good sign. In the last year these companies show the following average quarterly cash flow:
Medifast = $5.2 million positive cash flow
Weight Watchers = $88 million positive cash flow
Nutrisystem = $9.1 million positive cash flow
It's difficult to tell which company is more impressive. Let's compare their cash flow to total assets. After all, if a company can generate more cash flow with less assets, the company would be more desirable. Comparing the three companies, we find the quarterly cash flow is the following percentage of total assets:
5% of the total assets of Medifast
8.09% of the total assets of Weight Watchers
6.06% of the total assets of Nutrisystem
In short, Weight Watchers generates more cash flow per dollar of asset on average than the other two.
We should also look at the balance sheet of each company. To make this as simple as possible we'll compare net cash position. A company with a positive net cash position has flexibility and should be a safer investment. In this case we find:
Medifast = Positive $33 million net cash
Weight Watchers = Negative $1 billion net cash
Nutrisystem = Positive $42 million net cash
This is interesting because while Weight Watchers clearly has the superior cash flow, it's needed to service the debt load that the company carries.
Last but not least let's look at the PEG+Y for each company. This ratio adds the company's growth plus dividends and divides by the P/E. This allows you to compare companies that pay dividends to those who don't.
The PEG+Y for Medifast is 1.75, Weight Watchers is 0.96, and Nutrisystem's ratio is 1.66. If Medifast's growth rate is correct, its higher PEG+Y indicates it might be the best value. Nutrisystem shareholders don't have to rely on as high of a growth rate. Since Nutrisystem has positive net cash flow, and a positive net cash position, the dividend should be safe. Weight Watchers shareholders fall somewhere in the middle. Weight Watchers doesn't pay the dividend that Nutrisystem does, and isn't expected to grow as fast as Medifast.
There are pros and cons for each company so use this research as your starting point and see which company might help you beef up your portfolio by helping others slim down.
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Virginia pastor Steve Reynolds is preaching a radical message: He says that Christians can glorify God by leading a healthy lifestyle and getting a "Bod4God." TODAY.com's Kyle Michael Miller reports.
By Melissa Dahl
We attempt to lose weight for all kinds of reasons: to impress old friends at a high school reunion, to fit into a favorite pair of jeans, or simply to better our overall health. But Steve Reynolds, head pastor at Capital Baptist Church in Annandale, Va., suggests that better motivation may come from a higher power: Do it for Jesus.
At his church, Reynolds leads a weight loss competition program that has helped his congregation lose more than 12,000 pounds since 2007. Reynolds himself has lost a staggering 120 pounds. "I want to show people -- all types of people, especially Christian people -- that we're made by God, but we're also made for God, and we need to honor him with our bodies," he told TODAY.com's Kyle Miller.
The program -- and subsequent book, with its catchy title, "Bod4God" -- bases its weight loss concept on one of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." In contemporary Christian churches, this verse is usually interpreted to mean simply, "Put God first." Reynolds believes that some American Christians who struggle with their weight may be unwittingly valuing food over their faith. (He certainly isn't the first to recognize the link between religion and obesity: A study published last March showed that young adults who attended weekly church activities were 50 percent more likely to become obese by the time they reached middle age.) Giving junk food like cheeseburgers and fries too much power over your life undermines your relationship with God, Reynolds says, while expanding your waistline.
Reynolds, of course, isn't the only person in the country to attempt a faith-based fitness program. There is also Christian yoga, Christian tai chi, Christian Zumba and something called Gospel Dance Aerobics. And if you'd rather run or workout at a gym, you can load your iPod with contemporary Christian albums specifically designed for workouts.
Successful church-based programs may work, at least in part, because we generally have more success exercising together than we do on our own. A fascinating 2009 study on Oxford University rowers found that the athletes were able to push themselves through more pain when the team exercised together than when the individuals exercised alone.
In another recent report, researchers used Biblical passages to develop a 12-week lifestyle program for diabetes prevention, and found that nearly half of the overweight and obese African-American participants dropped at least 5 percent of their body weight -- what's more, they successfully kept the pounds off for six months. Parishioners' close ties with each other, combined with a belief that they're losing this weight for a purpose greater than themselves, may explain the program's success. (An added benefit: a church-based weight loss program may reach people who wouldn't seek such a program out on their own.)
"It gives you power to know that you're never alone, that God is with you," Reynolds says. "And that he gives you that motivation and that willpower that you need."
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(Reuters) - People trying to lose weight may swear by specific
diet plans calling for strict proportions of fat, carbs and
protein, but where the calories come from may not matter as
much as simply cutting back on them, according to a study.
Researchers whose results were published in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition found there were no differences in
weight
loss or the reduction of fat between four diets with different
proportions of fat, carbohydrates and protein.
"The major predictor for weight loss was 'adherence'. Those
participants who adhered better, lost more weight than those
who did not," said George Bray, at Pennington Biomedical
Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who worked on
the study.
Earlier research had found that certain diets -- in particular,
those with very low carbohydrates -- worked better than others,
Bray told Reuters Health in an email, but there had been no
consensus among scientists.
Bray and his colleagues randomly assigned several hundred
overweight or obese people to one of four diets: average
protein, low fat and higher carbs; high protein, low fat and
higher carbs; average protein, high fat and lower carbs; or
high protein, high fat and lower carbs.
Each of the diets was designed to cut 750 calories a day.
After six months and again at two years after starting the
diets, researchers checked participants' weight, fat mass and
lean mass.
At six months, people had lost more than 4.1 kg (9 lbs) of fat
and close to 2.3 kg (5 lbs) of lean mass, but they regained
some of this by the two-year mark.
People were able to maintain a weight loss of more than 3.6 kg
(8 lbs) after two years. Included in this was a nearly 1.4 kg
(3 lb) loss of abdominal fat, a drop of more than seven
percent.
But many of the people who started in the study dropped out,
and the diets of those who completed it were not exactly what
had been assigned.
For example, the researchers had hoped to see two diet groups
get 25 percent of their calories from protein and the other two
groups get 15 percent of their calories from protein. But all
four groups ended up getting about 20 percent of their calories
from protein after two years.
"If you're happier doing it low fat, or happier doing it low
carb, this paper says it's OK to do it either way. They were
equally successful," said Christopher Gardner, a Stanford
University professor uninvolved in the study.
"They did have difficulties with adherence, so that really
tempers what you can conclude," he added.
In the end, he said, people should choose the diet that's
easiest for them to stick with. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/zUm9ep
(Reporting from New York by Kerry Grens; editing by Elaine Lies
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Cheese, milk, yoghurt and other dairy foods could help dieters
lose those extra kilograms, a new scientific study suggests.
Researchers have reviewed 14 clinical trials involving 883
adults, which delved into how consuming dairy impacted on
people's weight, body fat, waistlines and lean muscle mass.
The authors of the article, published this month in the
International Journal of Obesity, said they wanted to reveal
more about the relationship between weight loss and dairy
consumption, which they argued was "still to be fully
explored".
Boosting dairy intake without cutting energy intake might not
lead to a significant change in weight, but if adults included
three to four servings of dairy per day in an energy-restricted
diet they were likely to experience weight loss, as well as a
shrinking of the waistline.
"Dairy consumption would help people to lose weight from fat
compartments of the body, particularly from abdominal adipose
tissue, which has been reported as a main determinant of
cardiovascular risk factors," the review found.
Dairy Australia dietician Glenys Zucco said the organisation
had nothing to do with the study but welcomed it.
She said more research was needed to understand how dairy foods
helped in weight loss when dieting.
Ms Zucco said earlier research suggested that dairy calcium
might help people lose extra padding by decreasing the amount
of fat absorbed from foods.
"Dairy protein and calcium are thought to help control
hunger, particularly in a calorie-restricted diet," Ms Zucco
said.
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Myla Dalbesio admits she used to 'throw up' after eating in a
bid to lose weight.
The model - who has been hailed as the the new Crystal Renn -
admits she used to be desperate to shed some pounds so resorted
to drastic measures.
The 24-year-old beauty told Claph Magazine: 'I tried for a long
time to make myself (lose weight). I tried throwing up after I
ate and that's awful. That is painful - I would never wish for
anyone to do that ever.
'And then I'd go through weeks where all I ate was black olives
or pickles because they have no calories and nothing was
happening. I wasn't losing weight, I was spending hours in the
gym. I have a really large chest and it's never going to go
away.'
While she is now enjoying success, Myla says she wants the term
'plus-sized' to go as she thinks it will help improve the
confidence and self-esteem of women everywhere.
She said: 'I think that this division between straight and plus
is really harmful. The term 'plus size' is outdated. To get rid
of the term 'plus' would be a step in the right direction.'
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By Charles Stuart Platkin
Special to the Star-Telegram
Trying to lose a few pounds? A large part of eating too much is
about our appetite; if we could get that under control, the
weight would simply fall off. Here are a few strategies.
1. WaterCan water help you stay
full? I know after I drink several glasses of water I eat less.
In fact, some studies support this notion. Water can help you
lose weight by keeping you feeling full and helping to reduce
your consumption of other high-calorie drinks (and foods). A
recent study found that over the course of 12 weeks, dieters who
drank water before meals three times per day lost about 5 pounds
more than other dieters. Try drinking about two 8-ounce glasses
before each meal.2. NutsThere are
many types of nuts with health benefits. In addition to other
benefits, nuts (almonds, pistachios, walnuts, etc.) can help fend
off hunger. They're high in fiber and protein -- both hunger
fighters. Just limit portions to about 1 ounce, because nuts are
high in calories, too.3. Naturally
occurring fiberFoods that are naturally high in fiber
(e.g., 100 percent whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes)
fill you up because they take up room in your stomach and slow
digestion. Why only "naturally occurring" fiber? According to the
journal Nutrition Review, inulin
(often added to foods as fiber) may help you go to the bathroom
in the same way natural fiber does, but it doesn't have the same
effect on slowing down stomach-emptying (making you feel full
longer) or helping to lower cholesterol.4.
SleepWhen you're tired you're less likely to make healthy
food choices. And many sleep-deprived people believe they
"deserve" to eat something sugary and fatty. A few studies have
demonstrated that lack of sleep leads to an increase in the
hormone ghrelin (which tells the body to eat) and a decrease in
the hormone leptin (which tells your body to stop eating).Studies
show that you need roughly 7.5 to 8.5 hours of sleep to get the
benefits for diet and exercise. You should have a regular bedtime
seven days per week. Also, check your mattress and box spring.
When was the last time you replaced them? Make sure your room
temperature is comfortable. Get rid of the TV in the bedroom. And
make your sleep environment quiet.5. Watch
a comedyAccording to an article in the
journalAppetite, watching a comedy can reduce your
appetite. In the study, one group watched a 7.5-minute clip of an
animated comedy with a plate of cookies in front of them, while
the control group did not watch the film. The comedy group ate
about one medium chocolate chip cookie less than the control
group.6. Eat more
veggiesVeggies help you lose weight because they're high
in fiber and water (see above), plus you get a lot of food for
few calories. For instance, for the same 227 calories in one
brownie you could eat 7.5 cups of broccoli.7. SoupBecause soups are water-based, they tend
to make you feel less hungry without adding too many calories, so
you eat less. Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition at
Penn State University, has led several studies that show soup can
help you lose weight when consumed prior to a meal. One study
found that eating soup prior to your meal could reduce total
consumption by as much as 100 calories. There are many
great-tasting, low-calorie soups by Campbell's, Healthy Choice
and Amy's Kitchen. Just watch out for sodium and keep calories
under 100 per cup.8. Limit
alcoholAlcoholic drinks are like liquid doughnuts. Alcohol
impairs judgment, which means that you eat and drink more. To top
it off, most people enjoy eating high-calorie, high-sodium snacks
when they drink. Alcohol can be especially harmful to dieters
because it may cause blood sugar levels to drop, which can
stimulate your appetite.Try some good, lower-calorie drink
options: red or white wine, wine spritzers and drinks made with
seltzer or club soda. And steer clear of drinks that are really
desserts (e.g., cream or ice cream drinks).9. Reduce stressWhen you're stressed, your body
releases cortisol, a hormone designed to help you either fight or
flee. But when the cause is not a lion about to attack but rather
a stressful e-mail, the cortisol may trick your body into
thinking it has done something active in response to a perceived
threat and send a signal to your brain to refuel your body.The
other biological reason why stress can derail your diet is that
carbs help you feel better. Judith Wurtman, Ph.D., co-author of
The Serotonin Power Diet (Rodale,
2008), was the first to connect food with mood when she found
that carbohydrates boosted a potent brain chemical called
serotonin, which controls mood, sleep and appetite and, when
elevated, helps you to feel more relaxed and calm.When stressed,
we long for comfort foods such as brownies, doughnuts, candy, ice
cream, pizza, mashed potatoes and fried chicken. One reason is
that your parents probably gave you an ice cream when you had a
bad day at school or when you lost the big game, so these are
what you're used to having in times of discomfort.10. Eat less saturated fatA study done at the
University of Cincinnati and reported in Brain Research proposes that human beings can
learn how much food they should eat to be at a healthy weight.
However, the researchers found that diets high in fat impair the
function of the hippocampus, which results in less ability to
notice the "stop eating" cues. Bottom line: Lower your intake of
saturated fats by eating lean meats and low-fat
dairy.Charles
Platkin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a nutrition and public health advocate
and founder of DietDetective.com.
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