Julie/Mrs*Pink - your DH

&d&m&y

Can you tell me again about his weight loss? Didn't he do it by giving up dairy? Did he change his eating/exercise habits in any other way?

A coworker is reading the book Skinny *** and it basically says it will blow your mind how much weight a person can lose by giving up dairy. Giving up dairy sounds impossible to me, but I'd be willing to try to at least scale it way back if that really works. TIA!

Mrs*Pink

#1 step was no dairy.  He was lactose intolerant and just using the pills, but would get sick every day.  His physician recommended cutting dairy for 2 weeks, and he felt so much better that he never went back.

#2 step was counting his calories (another physician recommendation).  He used calorie-count.com and found that he was eating way too much daily.  He still uses it, but is in more of a maintenance phase, though he finds if he "blows out" too much on calories even for one meal, he feels bad again.  He has a tender digestive system, I guess.

He went from 205 to 140-ish.

Mrs*Pink

Here's a pic that was taken a couple months before the big change:



And one taken his first day teaching at OWU in August.

Mrs*Pink

Sorry meant to say that he started losing weight at the end of January and was to maintenance (140's) by the summer, if not earlier.

joescop

I'm butting in, I'm sorry!  Julie, I knew your hubby lost weight, but WOW.  What an inspiration.  Maybe I need to cut out dairy!

&d&m&y

Wow...I'm amazed every time I see his change. That's so great!

And the book is Skinny B!tch. Let's see if that works.

I'm already pretty good about counting my calories on sparkpeople, but I wonder if there really is something to the dairy thing. I eat a TON of dairy stuff.

LittleHowell

 I lost a ton of weight with sparkpeople.com and have been maintaining for a year.  I went from 150 to 120 in about 4 months.  I can't imagine cutting out dairy!  I eat so much cheese and it's high in calories, but it's good for protein and calories.

Mrs*Pink

He used to looove cheese, so it was hard at first.  But it boiled down to how he felt after.  Otherwise, milk = soy milk, butter = margarine, experimenting with different types of sauces, etc.  And he pays a lot more attention when we go out to eat about how things are prepared and making substitutions and such.

Honestly I wouldn't recommend completely giving up dairy as a female, but maybe thinking more about how your food is prepared.