Pastorius, I'm once again a babe!
At age 60! Yeehaw!
Mr. AOW's A1c has dropped from 6.9 to 6.0 since he went partially onto this diet..
Anyway, this morning, this June 26, 2012 article caught my eye as my weight gain was primarily due to having to take Lyrica for an extended period of time:
We're From the Government, and We're Here to Help You Lose WeightExcept that
While most of Washington is waiting around, nervously chewing on its fingernails in anticipation of the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision (may I have the envelope, please), there are some who are still in the fight. As Melissa Healy writes in the Los Angeles Times:
a federal health advisory panel on Monday recommended that all obese adults receive intensive counseling in an effort to rein in a growing health crisis in America.And much of the increase will be borne by the non-obese, since that's the way subsidies work. But if it slims the population down enough to cut back on the cardio-vascular afflictions, the diabetes, and the other ills associated with obesity, then maybe we should soldier up and go with more government, less personal responsibility, and a spike in the population of counselors instructing grown-ups on the importance of eating more leafy green vegetables.
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Widespread adoption of [its] recommendation would increase ... spending, at least initially.
The panel acknowledged that one problem with its recommendation was that no studies have shown such intensive programs provide long-term health benefits.ObamaCare requires insurance companies to cover panel-recommended weight loss plans.
Now, I'm sticking to my diet like you wouldn't believe although I wasn't technicall overweight when I began this diet. Why?
1) My doctor had advised me to "lose a few pounds" so as to lower my triglycerides.
2) Friends of mine who had used the diet looked wonderful.
3) I'm a determined German.
4) The products are delicious and do not taste like diet food. And I can have steak and seafood on this diet.
5) The diet is expensive.
6) Most important, I CHOSE to use this diet.
7) Results are amazing, and I feel better than I've felt in years.
Forcing people into any treatment program, whatever that program is, typically is not successful, particularly if the treatment program is free or nearly free for them.
ObamaCare, if upheld by the SCOTUS tomorrow, will be forcing people into all sorts of treatment programs AT YOUR EXPENSE TOO. The greater good and all that.
Congrats on your progress, AOW. You always did look good, but this is great.
ReplyDeleteYou listed "the diet is expensive" as one of your reasons for persisting in it.
Is that a typo? Or is the diet actually expensive? And how does that make you persist with the diet, especially when things are not going so well financially for you and Mr. AOW?
The diet costs about $150/week. I'm not quite sure as a friend of mine paid for a portion of it.
ReplyDeletePlus, I buy extra products for Mr. AOW.
How do I afford it? Well, I got a good end-of-year cash gift from the homeschool group. Also, I had all sorts of reward points accrued with a credit card company and got a check for nearly $1000.
If I have to start pounding the payment for a job in September, I have to be able to wear "my good clothes," which are not required where I teach homeschoolers.
At the moment, Mr. AOW is paying only $138/month for health insurance (Medicare and Medigap, the latter of which will be voided by ObamaCare on January 1, 2013, if Congress doesn't act). If not for the Medicare, Mr. AOW would have been paying nearly $1000/month.
So, I took all those signs as meaning, "Get onto that diet! Your health and possibly your employment are at stake!"
Thank you for the compliment. I gained a lot of weight after you saw me -- thanks to Lyrica. It was either take the Lyrica or get into a wheelchair -- that's how bad my back got. I finally had prolotherapy and was weaned from the Lyrica, which also was causing tardive dyskinesia.
Congrats for the weight loss AOW.
ReplyDeleteI was suprised to see this moning that i lost 6 pounds as well, but for other reasons.I been trying to loose weight for the past two and a half years after quitting cigarets, but only gained weight and seize......i know the 'Full wardrobe' feeling.lol
Well "The Salvation army' got better from it.
The Grandma Lena Diet.
ReplyDeleteTake everything you want to eat.
Everything you want - on your plate.
Now put back half.