Comments on: My Weight Loss Progression Pictures

By: juliet

juliet — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:16:35 +0000

You are gorgeous inside and out, and I’m so glad you know it.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Wed, 29 May 2013 00:37:20 +0000

Do you mean they don’t lose weight? Their shape doesn’t change? I don’t really care about those things at the end of the day. I’m more interested in people’s health and well being.

I suppose I could have qualified that if you go from where I was – inactive with a poor diet – to consistently making healthy choices over the course of several years, your body will change. And I think that is true for everyone. Not everyone will look like me because they have their own unique genetics. But inactivity and poor diet produce a different metabolic state than regular activity and healthier choices in food.

(I didn’t say you misquoted me, you just left out part of the statement that spoke directly to the question you were asking me.)

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:47:08 +0000

Please don’t intimate that I misquoted you; I c/p’d directly from your post. I quoted the part that I was responding to, which is why i did not include the whole paragraph.

As I pointed out, there are people who make healthy choices, consistently, over a period of years, but their bodies don’t change. They do not have “dramatic results”. Your answer is basically a non-response to my question, which was: how do you explain that? How do you explain the people who make healthy choices, consistently, for years, but who do not have dramatic results?

I agree that health and happiness are much more important than appearance.

By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:27:50 +0000

The actual quote is: “if you make healthy choices, consistently, over the course of several years, you will have results as dramatic as mine. You won’t look exactly like me, because you have different genetics, but you WILL have dramatic results. Your health will improve and your body will change. It’s true.”

Aesthetic changes are insignificant, as I conveyed in my post. Changes to health, self esteem and quality of life are where it’s at, and what we should focus on.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:52:35 +0000

Exactly: there are people who make consistently healthy choices and they don’t experience dramatic changes at all. There are many who “start out obese” and stay that way in spite of healthy choices.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:43:12 +0000

The last time I commented, you asked me to look at other posts of yours. At that time, I actually had already looked at other posts: I didn’t want to judge you and your site based on only one post, and my comment was actually meant to give you a chance to clarify yourself. Tonight I decided to look through more posts and this one definitely caught my eye.

So, in this post, you say ” if you make healthy choices, consistently, over the course of several years, you will have results as dramatic as mine.”

Again, how can you claim that this is NOT a “one size fits all” approach to health and weight loss? How do you explain all the athletes who do make healthy choices, consistently and over extended periods, who don’t have those dramatic results?

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By: Go Kaleo

Go Kaleo — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:50:23 +0000

Isn’t that funny? Because I weigh 165 pounds and am just about to tip into the ‘overweight’ category on the BMI charts. And I look exactly like I do in the last pic in my weight loss progression.

By: Ramon M. Lindsey

Ramon M. Lindsey — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:52:01 +0000

You look extremely slim and beautiful now.

By: Camila

Camila — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:30:34 +0000

something that helped my migraines go away is salt (sea salt is better, but use iodized if you have to). And yes, I come from an ED background too, recovering minnie maud style (3500+cals/day). I’ve been in full recovery for 2+ years. At first I crashed when I began eating again and it took ONE FULL YEAR to BEGIN to feel better (not dizzy, constantly hungry, bloated, achey, depressed). It will come. The reason salt helps is because my ED stressed me out so badly, my adrenals were out of everything, and salt helps support them, as well as put me to sleep at night. I often wound up in the ER due to electrolyte imbalance of sodium, not potassium. Salt your fruits, veg, rice, beans, oatmeal and fluids…keep away from the water at first, it just flushes you out. I’m not a doctor, but living through it, these have helped me immensely. You may want to give it a shot.