: Let’s Get Physical!
: By Exercise Physiologist Erwin Kratz, M.S.

: Dear Erwin,
: I have weighed about 230 pounds for the last 5 years, and should
: ideally be under 200.  I have been exercising for over a year, with
: no results.  I started watching my food intake three weeks ago and I
: have lost 8 pounds already.  Why is dieting more important than
: exercising?
:                                                                           -Tim, Saddlebrooke

: Dear Tim,
: You have discovered something very few people realize.  In order to
: lose ten pounds of body fat, you have to cut 35,000 calories out of
: your diet, or you have to exercise those calories away.  If you do
: it through diet, you can cut 500 calories per day very easily.  That
: is about the equivalent of 2 twelve inch flour tortillas.  That’s
: not much food.  At that rate you would lose ten pounds in about 2
: months.  To burn 500 calories through exercise, the average person
: has to exercise vigorously for about an hour.  If you are out of
: shape or have health limits, you may not even be able to burn that
: many calories.  Not many people will exercise every day for an hour.
:  So, if you want something to help you lose weight in a relatively
: short period of time, you need to emphasize your diet.  

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While it is certainly true that you could lose "weight" by
reducing the number of calories in your diet this will be
a short term effect if you don’t ALSO incorporate exercise
into the program. First of all you want to lose FAT and not
just weight. Weight loss achieved by diet alone is usually
lost at the expense of muscle. If you lose muscle mass then you
will decrease your metabolism and have a more difficult time
to burn the fat. The amount of exercise needed to burn a certain
number of calories is very misleading because it only couunts
the number of calories consumed during the exercise and does
not count the increase in basal metabolic rate as a result of
increasing muscle mass. Losing weight by diet alone is a sure
fire way to get into a yoyo cycle of losing and gaining with
the ultimate result of getting even fatter as when you lose
weight ist is a combination of fat and muscle and when you gain
it is mostly fat.

There is little question in my mind that exercise is the key to
maintaining a lean, trim body. I know from personal experience.

Aloha,

Rich

: Let’s Get Physical!
: By Exercise Physiologist Erwin Kratz, M.S.

: Dear Erwin,
: I have weighed about 230 pounds for the last 5 years, and should
: ideally be under 200.  

How do you know what your weight should be, ideally, at your current
age?  Do your think it is what you weighed at 17?  Very few of us can ever
hope to weigh the same as we did at 17 (I do, but it appears that my
father and I are exceptions.)

Years ago, Dr. William Sheldon studied the variation in human physique in
great detail, but he was discredited in his time as being "politically
incorrect".  Yet his studies showed a great genetic factor in people’s
"weight trajectory" throughout life.  However, this idea was rejected by
the passion of his time, which maintained that a person was purely the
result of the forces impinging on him from his "environment".  Nowadays,
of course, with the thought of "interactionism" of the organism with its
environment, genetic background is just as important as environmental
forces.  If anyone is interested, I can refer them to the work of this
visionary who was "ahead of his time".  If you can absorb his thought, it
will really put your mind to rest on the subject about what should be
your *current* weight.

Mickey

I have been exercising for over a year, with
: no results.  I started watching my food intake three weeks ago and I
: have lost 8 pounds already.  Why is dieting more important than
: exercising?
:                                                                           -Tim, Saddlebrooke

> A relative has been monitoring his BG , controlled w/diet and exercise.
> After taking several days prednisone therapy for ?? asthma and finding BG
> of 440  two wks ago,  he stopped the prednisone but has had BG readings
> from 220 to 280  recently.

My son is on high doses of prednisone for leukemia.  We were warned, by
the doctors and the literature that prednisone _can_ cause diabetes.

Kachador (kacha…@aol.com) wrote:

: A relative has been monitoring his BG , controlled w/diet and exercise.
: After taking several days prednisone therapy for ?? asthma and finding BG
: of 440  two wks ago,  he stopped the prednisone but has had BG readings
: from 220 to 280  recently.  He also is taking Bactrim for UTI.  Can such
: high BG readings result from prednisone ?   Does this situation eventually
: become life-threatening???
: Thanks for your info…… Rosalie

kacha…@aol.com (Kachador) wrote:

>A relative has been monitoring his BG , controlled w/diet and exercise.
>After taking several days prednisone therapy for ?? asthma and finding
BG
>of 440  two wks ago,  he stopped the prednisone but has had BG readings
>from 220 to 280  recently.  He also is taking Bactrim for UTI.  Can
such
>high BG readings result from prednisone ?   Does this situation
eventually
>become life-threatening???
>Thanks for your info…… Rosalie

Rosalie,

      I’ve been on insulin for 7 years now.  I was first diagnosed in
1988, and started on insulin immediately.  Two months later, my sugar
returned to normal. I was off of insulin for 2 years, with the exception
of one period when I was given an injection of cortisone for a bad knee.
The doctor FORGOT that I was a diebetic. I had to go back onto insulin
for 2 months after that 1 injection of cortisone. After that, my sugar
returned to normal for about 1 more year, and then little by little crept
up until I had to go back onto insulin again. I have been on it ever
since, and I assume that I will be on it forever. Steroids DO raise blood
sugar. The problem with cortisone & prednisone is that they stay in your
body for a LONG time, even after only one injection.

                                                                RON

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Rosalie, I am not a doctor but I have diabetes and I have been on
prednisone. The medication prednisone is a steroid and will generally
shoot your bg’s very high. My doctor warned me to check my bg’s more
often than normal while I was taking prednisone. I tried to control the
bg’s but the doctors believe that the prednisone shut down my pancreas.
I also remember the doctors telling me not to quit taking prednisone
cold-turkey. They told me to taper off slowly.
I hope this helps.

Take care….Joel Lefkowitz

Bottom line. guiding rule… snuggle up to mother nature.. minimize
processing, leaching, burning.. whether by your hand or some
procesor’s hand…   seek diversity.. and win beyond imagination.

Now…  will he listen to that kind of talk ?  50;50 not, I’lll bet.

To answer a question you asked in your msg, no I’m not diabetic, am 56
and God willing in complete health, but my wife is 26yr IDD with full
range of complications.. stubborn.. nearing dialysis.  In retrospect she
has been the laboratory in which I’ve built the beliefs and protocol
hinted at above..  I want to write a book..  I suspect you are a
"scientist" too in your essence.. "science", L. scientia, to know.
You want to know.  Keep going.  This disease can be eliminated
(prevented, but not cured, darn it).

Best to you,  Regards.. Bill      bill.cu…@wdn.com

>Now, I am sure this will show my ignorance but as a significant other
>I can’t help but notice how ravenous my husband gets at certain times.
>Even eating properly, right immediately after dinner he will hit the
>"left overs" and wipe them out.  His appetite is rarely satisfied with
>the portions recommended by the dietitian.  Has anyone had any
>experience at all with medications that can counterbalance the food
>cravings?  It is almost like a cycle.  The more you eat, the large you
>become, the more insulin your body needs, the hungrier you get…the
>more you eat!  Any success stories or suggestions…

…………………………………………………………….

I have the same problem which poked it head up when I finaly got to an
Endo after a bought with type II and a HMO doctor.  Having type II and
off medication for 4 months I too had a eating problem where I would
wake up at night and head for the frig to binge. Liked the peanut
butter and milk; is anyone supprized? I started putting on weight and
feeling very bad again which I couldn’t understand beacuse the my
glucose varies 80 to 135 with some spikes at 170.

The Endo told me I had hypothyroidism.  From what he says I have a
triple header because my auto-immune is killing the thyroid, panceas,
adrenal glands, and skin pigment (Vitiligo).  Anyway, the eating
problem in my case could be the nonfuncting thyoid gland.  The tests
come back soon. It’s happy honeymoon for me and I’m getting a realy
good "F" out of this marrage so I’m told.

Been enjoying all of your posts,

Steve
Atlanta, GA

=It is almost like a cycle.  The more you eat, the large you
=become, the more insulin your body needs, the hungrier you get…the
=more you eat!

That cycle is possible.  Breaking that cycle requires realizing that you’re
probably using a bit too much insulin, and cutting back the dosage as well as
the amount you’re eating.
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preconceived notions if I’m posting in a serious thread.  Remember:  If you
throw a strawman into a heated debate, flames are likely to be the result.