Hamster's Treadmill
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:38 pm
This is my first post here so let me introduce myself. I’m a 54 year old man living in Brisbane, Australia. Over the past two years I have reduced my weight from 283 pounds down to 210 pounds. It has been a long, slow and frustrating journey with periods of weight loss followed by periods of weight gain.
What I now realize is that my main problem has been with dairy ‘foods’ which is not particularly surprising given their high fat content and lack of fibre. Since eliminating dairy I have been loosing steadily (28 pounds so far). The information on this site has been invaluable in making this decision, particularly the existence of pus in milk.
Another old favourite that I have eliminated is chocolate, partly because it contains dairy but also because it is connected with child slavery in Africa http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/ ... ntentSwap1
My main interest has been loosing weight but as this is starting to come under control (still got plenty to loose) my interest is now turning to regaining health and reducing or eliminating as many of my medications as possible. I hope to gain information and inspiration from this site.
What I now realize is that my main problem has been with dairy ‘foods’ which is not particularly surprising given their high fat content and lack of fibre. Since eliminating dairy I have been loosing steadily (28 pounds so far). The information on this site has been invaluable in making this decision, particularly the existence of pus in milk.
Another old favourite that I have eliminated is chocolate, partly because it contains dairy but also because it is connected with child slavery in Africa http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/ ... ntentSwap1
My main interest has been loosing weight but as this is starting to come under control (still got plenty to loose) my interest is now turning to regaining health and reducing or eliminating as many of my medications as possible. I hope to gain information and inspiration from this site.