Just trying to look like most of you!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Victor Pond on January 24, 2012 at 2:32pm

Hi Tony, you big ol' hunk of a man....believe it or not the jury is still out on the whole obesity "crisis" issue. It seems like our Public Health officials in collaboration with the Big Pharma have to alarm us at every step, I guess to scare us into taking their pills or simply control our behaviors with fear. I agree with Randall in that if you want to loose some weight for your own reasons, then do that. But don't allow doctors who know very little about the Black body to give you a one-size-fits-all diagnosis. Equating "fat" with heart disease, etc. has been proven to be an exaggeration. Many "skinny" people die of heart disease. Loose the weight to achieve better symmetry or just to increase your energy (if that's an issue for you). Please check out this site: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/obesity_epidemic_or_myth/

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Permalink Reply by john reddick on January 24, 2012 at 3:53pm

Victor pond,i agree with you on the comments about black bodies. I am skinny the prblms. that i am having with my health is cancer.  My body is producing more portion to fight off diseases as those portions are killing off my red blood cells.  Just a reminder most skinny people die of some form of cancer.  Tony the bottom is lose the want for your own reasons.  If, you do not want to lose the weight don't.  Just monitor your health.  I am skinny in my early 60's now as i just feel tired all of the time for me that is a sign that something is wrong.  Just monitor your health if you feel bad go see your daughter.

j

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Permalink Reply by john reddick on January 24, 2012 at 6:50pm

BRUTHA'S  "looks" isn't everythang!  I SEE BRUTHA'S DAILY WHO LOOKS GOOOOOD BUT, HAVE A BAD ATTITUDE.  STOP LOOKING AT THE OUTSIDE . LOOK AT US BRUTHA'S FROM THE INSIDE  INTERNAL TO REALLY KNW. THE CHARACTER OF US BRUTHAS.  IF, YOU KEEP LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE U WILL START FEELING BAD ABOUT YOURSELF.  PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS TRY JUDGING US BRUTHAS FROM THE OUTSIDE FINDING SUMTHIN' WRNG. WHEN I WAS EVERYONE TOLD ME I WAS TOO DARK, WORE HAND-ME-DOWN CLOTHING, ETC.  AND THAT I WAS POOOOOOR THEREFORE I WAS NOT LIKED.  MY EGO REMANDED  IN THE DUMP UNTIL I BECAME ABLE TO WORK AND CARE FOR MY SELF. THIS IS MY PRAYER FOR YOU: God, help me cope with my eternal challenges, also Lord, so that i may internally aligned me with your will. Help me to reach my goal with this weight challenge that all of us are facing,

Amen.

If, you not to religion disregard this prayer.

j

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Permalink Reply by zarathustra on January 31, 2012 at 6:41pm

Hi John reddick I am so sorry about your predicament and I wish you all the best for the future.

I agree entirely with the second part of your reply here, you put it in better words than I could have mustered. All the best from me zarathustra.

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Permalink Reply by roughcane on February 3, 2012 at 4:31pm

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS : YOU ARE A VERY GOODLOOKING CHOCOLATE MAN : GET RID OF ANY WEIGHT ON YOUR THIGHS AND THE STOMACH. THOSE TWO AREAS ARE THE WORST PLACES FOR A MAN [ OR ANYONE PERIOD ] TO CARRY WEIGHT.   DID I MENTION   >  YOU ARE A GOODLOOKING CHOCOLATE MAN  < AIN'T BUT ONE YOU  SO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF BUDDY.    LOVE YOU

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Permalink Reply by Black Attraction on February 13, 2012 at 4:01pm

HEAT. Your internal furnace reacts to outside influences. First, walk whenever you can, rather it be taking the stairs at work or walking to close by stores instead of driving. Stand and pace instead of sitting: this can be a change, but when wanting to just think, stand and pace instead of sitting. Break a sweat everyday. Do something that gets you going and breaks a sweat everyday to stoke that internal furnace. Sprinting has to be done carefully with a friend or trainer around, but even short burst can break that sweat and poke that furnace knob. Also, sprinting causes heat right in your belly region and burns the fat away from that part, exposing abs.

Still on the subject of HEAT, my next two suggestions are very off kilter. They aren't suggestions although you can try if you'd like, carefully.

1.Sweat suits are a god send to me. They keep me hot and a little dewy at times. If it's comfortably cool in your house, put them on. Sometimes if it is warm, briefly put them on. I start my work out with them on to break a sweat faster and you'll feel yourself getting hot. When you get hot enough for you - take them off and continue your work out.2. Warm liquids and HOT foods stoke your metabolism/furnace. Go for hot teas and drinks when the weather calls for it and if its just cool in the house. Come to like spicy foods and add hot sauce to non spicy foods. Not to the point of pain, but spicy/hot food raise your metab, even hot temp wise. Remember, HEAT.

DIET: Snack and replace meals. They say breaking three meals into six can help you loose weight, which is true, but it can make you very hungry. I find that three meals plus three high protein snacks is better. The meals can be normal size, but not huge. A good guide is: a fist size of meat, a majority of the plate in vegetables, and fist to half fist size of a starch or carb. Yes, health food is best like no fried or fast foods. However, check QVC for oven bake sheets. These are pricy at $30.00 but they are MAGICAL. They evenly crisp breaded fish and meat in a way that it turns out just like fried, also french fries and burritos. You'll get the fried taste with none of the grease. A can of tuna is a perfect snack, just right now before you become a nutrition guru. Eat your normal three meals a day, maybe reasonably slimming them down by not choosing fast food and fish or boneless chicken as your meat and have two cans of tuna in the day for snack. Just gulp them down, it takes a second. Yes, it taste horrible. It's a great low fat high protein food.If you feel it, replace a meal with some tuna and vegetable or rice. Tilapia, cat fish, and boneless/skinless chicken are great alternatives to tuna, but tuna is cheap and goes down in a flash.

Trying to go completely health nut to fast doesn't work. it will leave you hungry and make you binge. Slowly tweak your meals taking out some of your bad habits. leave some of them too for the energy it gives you and the guarantee you won't fall off the wagon. Your body will be more equipped to use the left bad anyway because of the cals lost by the tweaking.

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Permalink Reply by john reddick on February 13, 2012 at 10:00pm

Thank you for the advice BlackAttraction.  I johnreddick is past age 50 i will walk more so than run.  I try to bake everything already.

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Permalink Reply by john reddick on February 14, 2012 at 2:46pm

Diets dod not work!  Learn what to eat that burns fat from yr body.

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Permalink Reply by Will on February 16, 2012 at 8:40pm

I'm certainly no doctor...However, judging from the oversized t-shirt it's kind of hard to give an honest opinion. Perhaps, more fitting attire one could make a better assesment of the weight question. I certainly hope your doctor has a keen ideal of your situation, and is able to give you credible advice. What works for millions of people is diet and excercise, at least they say it does. I know for me, I did not step one foot in a gym, I quite frankly modified a few things in my diet and voila... I was down twenty pounds. What also helped to inspire me was that I had a really thin health teacher, who repulsed me to no end. That was a great motivator.

Good luck, do your research and no matter what you decide make  the healthy choice. Because, your simply worth it.

Regards,

Will

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Permalink Reply by john reddick on February 17, 2012 at 2:03am

Brother you are so on-point with your information about weight loss. Will thanks for the info.

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Permalink Reply by larry faye estes on February 19, 2012 at 12:17pm

Dear Mr. Anderson ... If your doctor is asking you loose weight I am sure has a reason ... or even reasons ... perhaps he has talked to you about your heart or some other internal organs he may have concerns about ... I know it is important to listen to the doctor's advice and ask plenty of questions when you do not understand him ... if he can't give you answers you can understand ... it is time to go doctor hunting.   your friend in BBM ... larryfaye...

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