The "Fish Fasting" weight loss program.

[Waterfoul]

How many of you practice this tried and true method of losing a little weight?  During the summer I would rather make 10 more casts than eat a half a sandwich.   Therefore I always drop some weight during the fishing season.  Down about 5 lbs since mid-May!!! 

Shooting for 15 lbs by August.     That would mean the fishing is great too!! 

[fasttrack]

That's a bit surprising with all the extra Taco Boy meals! If we skipped that every week you'd drop at least 25!!

[Waterfoul]

Not happening!!!   

[thedude]

i usually put some back on between the 10:30pm stops at burger king and copious amounts of miller lite consumed between outings.....

so far so good though. i haven't gained any of 45lbs i lost this winter back...yet.

[djkimmel]

I used to lose 10 to 20 pounds every year during tournament season. Without all the tournaments I'm trying to switch to the 'just lose weight by eating better (most of the time... sometimes...) all year' method. I did lose almost 30 pounds but too many meetings lately are being blamed on putting 5 pounds back on. Need to cut out a few meetings!

[Skulley]

I dropped about 136 pounds since last year at this time.  Health issues that I have had to deal with pushed me to losing the weight.  Now I weigh about 190 and I feel great.  That's less than what I weighed when I started working for Chrysler 29 years ago.  I feel a lot better and I got my blood pressure and diabetes under control.  Weight loss is good and keeping that weight off is the real trick.  A little easier for diabetics.  I have had to change my whole life style because I am a diabetic now.  Not an easy thing to do for a guy who likes to eat as a hobby.  I can still eat, but I have to eat less process foods and more natural foods like steak, chicken, pork chops, beef and or pork roasts, fresh vegetables rather than frozen as well as way less in the bread department.  I've had to give up alcohol also.  Breads and alcohol turn to sugar instantly in the blood stream. One thing that I have to eat less of and it is my favorite in the whole world is ice cream.  Ice cream is the worst thing for a diabetic to eat.  I still eat it, but not as often and not as much per serving.  It's really not as bad as you may think once you get in the routine.  Advice to you younger guys out there, watch what you eat now and eat and exercise healthy often as you will pay the price later if you don't.  I probably could have avoided being diabetic if I had watched what I ate through my 30's and 40's.  Now in my mid-50's, I'm paying the price for my reckless abandonment.  Got Fish?? is in the same boat I'm in.  He's not on insulin yet as I am.  He will be though.  Everybody who is a Type 2 diabetic eventually ends up on insulin.  It's in every medical journal I've read as well as my primary doctor and my diabetes specialist telling me this.  There is no escaping it.  Eventually your body gets conditioned to oral meds and you end up on insulin.  In my case, twice my body got conditioned to oral meds and later they didn't even work.  Oral meds are supposed to trigger your pancreas into making insulin.  But when your pancreas stops working as mine has, you end up on insulin and you still take the oral med to help the insulin work so that your body can absorb the sugar.  You get high blood sugar when your body doesn't absorb the sugar in your blood.  Take care of yourselves boys, the life you save just might be your own.

Here's another little tidbit for all you folks out there.  The medical industry will never cure two things even if they find cures and that's cancer and diabetes.  The reason these two very harmful and fatal diseases will never be cured is because they are multi-billion dollar industries on their own without all the other medical things that are big money.  Diabetes and cancer are big business and if you haven't noticed...........business is good.  Funny but not really.



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[YpsiBass]

Actually I've been diabetic going on 15 years now.  Still type 2.  Still no insulin.  What really helped me get things under control was physical exercise.  I've been able to reduce the dosage and number of meds I'm on as well.  Weight loss up front was big, but without balancing the other parts of your life, it won't stay off.  I work out twice a week or more now.  Even the 30 minute walk at lunchtime helps.  I imagine when I get to be your ages (old men), things will change.  Glad you've got it under control though.  That's the thing about diabetes. It's a different experience for everyone.