tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post2955603385922216940..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LOSE WEIGHTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-8715747577339240022012-09-28T16:49:34.825-06:002012-09-28T16:49:34.825-06:00Dear Herdis,
I was already a "high androgen&...Dear Herdis,<br /><br />I was already a "high androgen" female, so I decided to just go with it! Not lesbian, but more energetic and passionate than some women. What's wrong with that?<br /><br />But I do prefer hazelnuts. It's an Oregon thing.<br /><br />Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-65465406110673801832012-09-28T16:41:03.955-06:002012-09-28T16:41:03.955-06:00Hi Mary.
I am reading up on your old diet-blogs, a...Hi Mary.<br />I am reading up on your old diet-blogs, and 1, enjoying them for your good sense and good sense of humor - I am either giggling or laughing my head off. My cholesterol count is way too high, so I am changing my diet and also trying to loose weight and exercise more.<br />I noticed, that you allow yourself peanuts. I have kept away from peanuts for years, because they contain male hormones, which have a bad influence on a skin condition I suffer from.<br />BUT - I have also read, that eating almonds should be a good thing for slimming down on that potbelly of ours - yeah I am appleshaped too - and maybe they are a good substitute for peanuts. AND maybe our facial hairs will not grow so much - on the other hand a nice moustache might camouflage the smoker's wrinkles around my upper lip :-).<br />I do enjoy your posts, though some of them are above my head.<br />Best regards and good luck with your diet and health.<br />Your friend and reader in Denmark<br />HerdisHerdishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13099613836208482547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-52706810230595187392009-06-09T09:37:08.192-06:002009-06-09T09:37:08.192-06:00Though herbal approaches are interesting, I would ...Though herbal approaches are interesting, I would use them with caution. Thin hair, fuzzy chin, can be from polycystic ovaries which can be treated with with metformin, also used for diabetic disorders.<br /><br />My own case is hereditary and probably from hormone levels. To treat hormone levels without careful measurements can create a mess.<br /><br />Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-65658969032354486312009-06-09T08:44:38.675-06:002009-06-09T08:44:38.675-06:00For thinning hair, excess facial hair in a female,...For thinning hair, excess facial hair in a female, I use Saw Palmetto. It helps visibly. Not 100% (maybe I should take more). Depends on your age too. I'm in my 50s and just past menopause.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-59888005886193148452008-01-04T20:27:00.000-07:002008-01-04T20:27:00.000-07:00Hooray for nutrition! I like the idea of kelp. I...Hooray for nutrition! I like the idea of kelp. I was raised in Portland, OR, in the days when seafood was the cheapest thing around, but now I'm in Montana and rarely eat a fish.<BR/><BR/>My winter salvation is an electric mattress pad. The cats love it, too, and, of course, they themselves are nice and warm.<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-71621626821277881352008-01-04T20:12:00.000-07:002008-01-04T20:12:00.000-07:00I had thought I was aging quickly and would not be...<I>I had thought I was aging quickly and would not be able to maintain this house much longer. Now I don’t feel that way. (All I need is money!) Who knew that this could be achieved NOT through medicine, NOT through buying beauty aids, but simply by NOT eating some things.</I><BR/><BR/>Amen to that.<BR/><BR/>I had an impulse a couple of months ago to look into the whole "anti inflammation" notion. I didn't need to go any further than a few Internet articles. I doubled my daily dose of fish oil capsules, added CoQ 10 to my (modest) supplement regimen, cut back on refined carbs, and started using my juicer more faithfully. <BR/><BR/>Almost overnight, myriad little aches and pains disappeared. I thought they were the inevitable from hunching at a computer all day--but it was diet. Now my shoulders no longer hurt, my right wrist doesn't hurt, my neck doesn't hurt. My migraines are less frequent. The swelling and pain that had cropped up in the knuckles of my left hand has almost completely disappeared. It's amazing . . . I'd begun to resign myself to the notion of becoming more & more stiff & achey as I aged -- and here's this sudden reprieve. Talk about a revelation. <BR/><BR/>Another (random) response to your post -- thinner definitely means feeling chillier during winter. I tend to be thin, but I notice the difference from even a few pounds fluctuation up or down--and the nicest winter I ever had was when I was pregnant.<BR/><BR/>What seems to help me is to take kelp tablets -- presumably it boosts my iodine levels which in turn cranks up my thyroid a bit. But I'm experimenting blind with that so this is purely anecdotal, and messing with the thyroid can get tricky . . .<BR/><BR/>Less tricky is this thing my dad gave me for xmas a year ago. I call it my polar fleece sack. It's a kind of long sleeve zippered robe that is sewn together at the bottom except two ankle holes. It's a PIA when I need to use the toilet but you couldn't ask for a warmer wrap for hanging out this time of year . . . we just had a cold snap with highs during the day in the low teens, and I lived in that thing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-67880995821207049552007-12-25T21:16:00.000-07:002007-12-25T21:16:00.000-07:00What's happened with the Crohn's? Evil stuff. Di...What's happened with the Crohn's? Evil stuff. Did the diet and so on help?<BR/><BR/>Our food and our moral standards both corrupted by corporations. It's just too much. Where to start rolling it back? Awareness, I guess. No wonder they want to control the Internet.<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-58087038161580676272007-12-25T19:35:00.000-07:002007-12-25T19:35:00.000-07:00So interesting. Most of my life I was thin or unde...So interesting. Most of my life I was thin or underweight, so my first experience with altered diet came with the onset of Crohn's disease--my effort to stay off the most toxic meds and put *on* much-needed poundage.<BR/><BR/>The diet excludes di- and polysaccharides, which means almost all processed, bad-for-you foods. (I still eat a diet high in fats, even animal, but all non-processed.)<BR/><BR/>As a completely unintended and unanticipated (but welcome!) side effect, my energy probably quadrupled on this diet. And once my weight normalized up, my appetite decreased. Bacon, but only *once* per week; full-fat (homemade) yogurt, but only once per day.<BR/><BR/>The whole experience gave me much insight into the way food works--or doesn't.<BR/><BR/>Of course, diet is often a YMMV thing. <BR/><BR/>I can, however, confirm that that crappy circulation thing is a side effect of low weight. Asslessness is another.the communicatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15261608424565258366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-39732532751429929822007-12-22T14:22:00.000-07:002007-12-22T14:22:00.000-07:00That is a lovely way to put it!That is a lovely way to put it!Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-18229067047715248302007-12-19T23:44:00.000-07:002007-12-19T23:44:00.000-07:00Elizabeth Taylor's diet is simply to order the sam...Elizabeth Taylor's diet is simply to order the same food as usual, then divide everything on the plate in half and throw away half. It works for her. When she does it.<BR/><BR/>I meant to say that there are a couple of drawbacks to losing weight. I have a small butt anyway, and now it's bony. I'm cold much more of the time than I used to be, esp. my feet.<BR/><BR/>But I have some elegant red pumps I haven't worn for many years and I think I could now. More than anything else, my viscera (one's hollow organs, I saw them described somewhere) have room at last -- as I lost weight it must have been coming from among them. The sensation was rather like having a very crowded bus inside and as the people leave, the remainder sighs and spreads out until everyone has a proper seat.<BR/><BR/>Prairie Marymscriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567509503405689139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-2428876742077873702007-12-19T12:45:00.000-07:002007-12-19T12:45:00.000-07:00Fascinating. I became overweight owing to depressi...Fascinating. I became overweight owing to depression and lost a lot of it by similar means to you -- it was blogging that restored some of my will to live and helped me to do it. I concur with your comments about poison. Scientists working in the obesity field refer to it as "food intoxication" - how we slowly poison our bodies over tens of years by putting too much stuff into it. Corn syrup, as you note, is a particular problem in the USA, as it is "snuck into" so many processed foods.<BR/>You mention about your hat size -- I have large feet and found it surprising but pleasant that my feet got thinner, making it easier to fit into shoes that previously had pinched by the end of the day.<BR/><BR/>I read a newspaper article about a British comedian/actor named Stephen Fry who recently lost a lot of weight for a part. He was being interviewed, and was asked whose diet he used. He replied "I wanted to lose weight. I stopped eating so much. End of story". Celebrity diet gurus should take note, the best way to lose weight is to do it the way you describe -- I find exercise boring but at the end of the day it is an equation of in vs out, and your and your friend's approach of identifying the highest calories in the intake is great -- it both works and means you don't have to make the celeb diet gurus any richer than they already are!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com