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platy, aloha

hey...perhaps you have me mistaken for someone else...i never advocated the atkins or any other diet plan to you.
although, several of atkins 'observations of fact' are indeed correct...his original point of nutritional questioning
came from his medical practice as a cardiologist who noted frequent incidence of diabetes amongst his customers.

if you read more here, I am one of those heretic, non-believers that calls their NSD diet a religion not science.

the 'diet plan of a quack' is a non plan that lets you get to being 60-80 lbs overweight and then lets you think
that walking from the car to mcdonalds is 'exercise'...just plain coddling fiddle faddle.

now many, many years ago i weighed 150 kg...so i do know a fair bit about this subject...i am personally
one of those once 'morbidly obese' who lost greater than 100 lbs and kept it off for 30 years.

what i can't get over is the ' Minister of Funny Walks ' who insists on the pedometer.

have you had a basal metabolism test ? how many kcal's per hour do you burn at rest?

and, again, i humbly suggest the persuit of the question of a hernia as the source of that original
complaint of muscle spams around/under the diaphram...this is something common and fixable.

all the best
aloha Ben$h



Ben,

you still have it totally wrong regarding the reason for wearing a pedometer. You have it totally wrong about the measuring of steps to say McDonalds.

The purpose is to ensure that I am making the effort to walk because it is such an effort to walk when my feet are hurting. This is exactly why I am trying to get through to people that they are looking at this in the wrong way.

Also, I started wearing a pedometer well before my doctor began actively encouraging me to wear it. That is a part of what you have not understood, and most who have responded have failed to understand.

The pedometer is a measurement tool. It also acts as a tool for encouragement. For example, if I have an agreement that I will try to get to 7500 steps per day, and I am actively going above this point because I am taking those walks, then I am feeling encouraged to keep on going knowing that I "can do it".

I have excruciatingly sore feet. They swell in the heat and the humidity. It is even more difficult to get moving when my feet are in that swollen condition painful condition. That is why, if I can report that I have taken 9000 of my size steps (which is probably the equivalent of a daily walk of 2 miles) I am being encouraged because I know that I can keep the activity going. Those 9000 steps were costly with the pain levels, although I did spring back a bit better than in the previous week. The difference happened to be that I had more fluid during the day and was not hit so hard with dehydration.

I went through three pregnancies where I could not walk very far because of nausea and in the first pregnancy the need to go to the toilet if I walked any distance. I have not been able to lose all of the desired weight since the birth of my youngest son almost 23 years ago. I get it down, and then it shoots up again. This could be caused by my diet or it could be caused by lack of exercise due to the consequences of falls and sore feet.

I maintain that exercise is the key to my success in weight loss. I am not talking about excessive exercising. I am talking about having a consistent sensible program so that I am daily increasing my activity levels. I have been run down because of fatigue issues. I feel so drained that I do not want to get in that walking exercise. The pedometer acts like an added incentive and it gives me a goal. I can see nothing wrong with that. I am very angry that you dare to critize my doctor when he has spent his time trying to help me through all of this pain and to encourage me to get moving so that I am helping myself.

Maggie

Today is the first day of the rest of my life