Weight Loss Tips

 

Losing weight is rarely easy—you need to find the mix of eating and lifestyle habits that are best for you. That said, there are some universal tips to follow… and many of them aren't the ones you think you should be following.

"We've been so programmed to think that improved health is dependent on restricting calories, cutting out food groups, and eating less palatable meals—like grilled chicken salad for lunch and dinner every day," says Laura Burak, MS, RD, author of Slim Down with Smoothies. "Or that we need to buy a diet program made up of pouches of powder, processed snacks, and frozen meals."

For starters, those unappetizing and costly efforts can't be sustained. "Ideally, something that's done today for weight loss should be doable for the long term," says certified health and wellness coach Alisa Bloom, MPH, RDN, CHWC, ACLM.

So, if you want to lose unhealthy excess weight, try following these sane, science-backed suggestions from top dietitians and health experts. And for even more weight loss tips, check out our list of 15 Underrated Weight Loss Tips That Actually Work.  READ MORE

Losing Weight

I will not know for sure how accurate our scales are until the end of this month when I see my Oncologist and have my monthly infusion because whenever I see the doctor, my weight is taken and I believe that their digital scales are more accurate than mine. 

And while my appetite has all but disappeared, my weight is steadily decreasing from one day to the next...   it seems hard for me to believe that this current weight is coming from simply eating right around 1500 calories each day.

It is also odd, at least it seems to me, how my fatigue is off again on again along with a couple of days of flu like symptoms and then it all disappears...  My monthly infusions would not suggest that this behavior is associated since its onset was quite immediate and not gradually, nor would one think that receiving IVIG every other month is often enough to prevent what is happening either.

Kinda like being caught between a rock and a hard place and the only open door that is not quite shut is the CT scan I will be having tomorrow on my upper chest to ascertain if the tumor in my lung is growing and if so, is it big enough to perform a biopsy?  Now that could be the culprit of it all.