"DIETING WITHOUT EXERCISE" ==> My Opinion

Just to be clear, I don't like the word Diet, it implies "deprivation" or "elimination" of something and it just doesn't work, unless of course you are eliminating "bad" things from your dietary intake, like white sugar or white (enriched -- ABC) flour.

If a person is just out to "get skinny" any fool can starve themselves and get results... results that include possible organ damage, hair loss and gum issues, just to name a few.

A lifestyle change usually takes coming to a point... it can be a heart attack, a medical diagnosis like diabetes, or just plain fed up with your physical appearance.

This change should start from the inside out...





I remember being in the shower the other day and thinking to myself... The only difference between most of us who are either obese or severely obese today in North America, to those in the Biblical days who practiced gluttony is they kept a bucket right beside the table and would purge... then eat again... most of us don't purge, we just wait a couple of hours for that sick, over full feeling to pass, then we get something else to munch on.

When I started on the workout phase of my lifestyle change, I did a program on my treadmill, Level 1, just to get going... it was an "Interval" program which required me to walk at a pace and run at a pace. I picked what was comfortable and proceeded to try the program... thought I was going to need a bucket at one point, like the people on Biggest Loser lol! *So feel for them when they reach that stage*

I had to slow the pace down a couple of times... it has a Polar chest strap that tells me my heart rate and I know that if I hit 200 bpm, I am GOING to see God. I hit the 170's a few times and hovered in the 150's for the most part.

Now, after almost 2 weeks of doing this same program, my heart rate hovers in the 140's and my top end is in the 150's.

THIS tells me that the muscle in my chest, yes, its a muscle, my heart, is getting fit. It is taking less BPM (beats per minute) to do the same thing I did a week ago.

THESE are the measurable goals that I mentioned in the beginning... Heart Fit is just one of them.

If an individual just changes what they eat, as I said, you can be "skinny" on the outside and totally unhealthy on the inside.

Opinions are like noses... everyone has one... its not too often someone will pick someone else's. :o)