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Kind of a catch-all of where I came from, healthwise, My eating habits a long time ago when I was 60# heavier, subsequent weight loss to where I still am today, 30 years later, my change of diet to vegetarianism and veganism, and my exercise habits, and how it came in very handy, in the last 3 years, saving my ass. My shift to growing my own food. Activities, and habits.
It all started with "you're fat, do something about it"
Weight Loss Story
Back in in the 1990s, when I was younger, I met up with a guy at a hiking location at Stanford. I did not know that day would transform my life. Not 5 minutes into our conversation, those 7 words that came out of his mouth, would cause many to recoil and defend, but not me:
D: “You’re fat, do something about it.”
Probably expecting an explosion, I came back with
Me: “You’re right, I need to do something about it”
D: “I lost 50# in 6 months, you can too I'll help you."
It was right at the end of a year, so it was a perfect time to do that “cliché thing”, that NY resolution, that 90% break in the first month. Not me. I was determine to drop weight as fast as possible……. I had a poor diet, eating fast food, and drinking copious amounts of soda... two ways to end up unhealthy, At youth, you think you're invincible, but bad habits and our current food network and medical industry, thrive on bad habits. They don't like healthy people.... It's bad for business.
I had two things going for me.... a desire to drop weight... I was having some physical problems at 32, and knew that I continued my way of life, I'd be morbidly obese, support from the guy above, and his clothing that would eventually shrink in to, and then out of. I basically did two things: watched my caloric and fat intake, limiting myself to 1200 calories, and 2gm of fat per day. I put the #, "160" on my mirror, and looked at it every day. Didn't exercise that much at the start, but it picked up a number of months later.
I was working graveyard shift
In the first month, I lost 30#, from 220 to 192 by applying this simple principal. I felt refreshed but knew I had more to go. I continued the routine, and after 5 months, with support and a change in eating habits, I was at 160. I crashed through that and ended up as low as 147, a few months after that because I had a job where I was doing walking and standing for a number of hours. When I got to my desired weight of 160, I stepped into my "fat clothes" and saw that probably two of me could fit where one did before.
Was it easy? Depends... some days, not,, but most days, yes. It may of helped that worked nights. Losing the weight wasn't so difficult, the maintaining of the "new me" was more of a challenge, but there are a few things that drove me to keep at it
- I didn't want to go through the process of doing it more than once. I've seen other family members struggle with the ups and down of diet. I wasn't going to be one of those.
- I wanted to eventually date, and probably had a better shot of finding a relationship, slim,, than overweight. It turns out I met Reed 4 months after I had dropped the mass of weight. Call me vain, but I knew the percentages would favor me being skinny.
- Probably not on my radar yet, but I wanted to stay away from health care, and bad foods.....something that you can end up in easily, if you continue on the road you were previously on.
It’s been 30 years+ since I dropped that 70#), and in only two instances, I edged over 170, only to get completely anal about getting back into a better weight space. I currently weigh in at 155#, and fluctuate between 150 and 158 for the longest time.
I went down into the mid-140s, when I was caregiving for Reed, during his time with cancer (18 months) My friends told me I looked gaunt,, so, it's not a place I want to be.
Current Habits
Am still a vegetarian, pretty strict, and shucking all meat byproducts. I don’t touch them anymore. It’s not because of ethics, but because I correlate meat eating with weight gain.
I stick to the plant based habits shown on some of my links, though, I am my own person. I don’t follow any trend, just do with what resonates with me..
I met someone about 15 years ago, who gave me a guide on better eating and sustainability, which I've pretty much kept at since then.
Eventually, I'll post kind of my eating habits. Lets just say I don't eat things out of a box, and if it doesn't come out of the ground, for the most part, I don't eat it.
Recently , I gave up all dairy cheeses, and am using nutritional yeast as a substitute. It was time to ditch it and just stick with the replacements of vitamin D3 and B12 to get that "animal protein" without the animals.
At my age, I do not take any medications and do annual checkups. I'm in my 60s. I cycle just about every day.
Links/ Resources
- Health links (mind and body) (sites)
http://www.chrisbeatcancer.com
http://www.frn.com Ocean & John Robbins
http://www.ianpurcellmd.com Tinnitus cocktail of supplements.
http://www.nvdentalbraces.com preventing root canals.
nlm.nih.gov (PubMed)
ZONIA (similar to FRN in many aspects) to my health page
(https://zonia.com/cr-episode-1-live-y9q95sim50) It is currently live.
"Unraveling Cancer" They are on day 3. (2/12/26)
some excerpts from day 1: "Treating cancer: they go to same box. SOC, chemo radiation, etc. Looked at disease that they don’t have any clue about, because of no biomarkers (
If you take out the tumor first, you have no idea that chemo will work.
No one explained the why I only found it in the books I read about
we waited for biomarkers we never got results for. During that month + time period we were waiting for results, we could’ve been starting clinical trials because they know full well, SOC does not work. Not enough effort was given exploring clinical trials for the marker information that never came.
Chemo does not kill every cancer cell.
cancer is a sign that our body is calling out for help.
wonder this: (Zach Bush): “what do these 6 pills (chemo) have to do with the reason I got cancer????"