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Comment by BeeAsleep on July 8, 2009 at 10:34pm

Hey Mike, that sounds like an awesome book. Big Food, that is funny, it should be called NOT Food. I just finished Jillian Michaels book, Master Your Metabolism. It is all about eating whole natural organic foods, not using bad plastics, bad cleaning products,etc. It was pretty overwhelming, I think it would be super easy to do if you live in a commune in Oregon and never leave the compound. :>D So I decided to buy as much organic dairy as I can afford and eat as clean and natural as I can. I guess that means no diet coke, sweet n low and crappy frozen fake food...hummm. But I am exercising 5 days a week every morning doing circuit training. I do love it and it gives me energy all day long. We will see...

Comment by teresa g sullivan on July 8, 2009 at 8:21pm

hi, a question, am i not suppose to be breathing out of my mouth when i have the full mask on?




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Comment by teresa g sullivan on July 8, 2009 at 8:02pm

i too have started to weight watchers , in hopes weight loss will help my osa. just want to feel better and hopefully can stay on program.

Comment by amott1973 on July 8, 2009 at 7:30pm

I can agree with those statements about Big Food. It's amazing how much junk they add to foods. I've been relying more and more on just buying the actual ingredients and cooking while on Weightwatchers. It makes controlling the points easier for me.

I don't know for sure if losing weight will eliminate my OSA as it seems to run so strongly in my family, even in the thin folks, but it surely will help in so many other ways!

I did gain a little in that trip to disney, but I got right back on the plan and showed a good loss for the next week. As of Monday this week I've lost 22 pounds since Mother's day! I hope I can keep this up. This is the best I've ever done.

Comment by Mike on July 8, 2009 at 12:33pm

from Sleep Apnea Ed: 'I am taking a few days away from the office and I have with me a copy of Mark Bittman's new book - Food Matters A guide to Conscious Eating - which is part ecological/dietary manifesto and part recipe book.

My inspiration for reading the book is the fact that Mr. Bittman was formerly a sleep apnea sufferer, along with having high cholesterol and being pre-diabetic.

I don't know the details of Mark's OSA, but according to him, losing the extra weight he was carrying around eliminated the apnea symptoms. Quoting him - "[M]y apnea was gone; in fact, for the first time in probably 30 years, I was sleeping through the night and not even snoring."

I think we all know, or we should be aware that the food production industry in this country is not an improvement over what existed before. Bittman's argument is, that if anything, Big Food as he calls it is fouling the air, the water and our bodies by its over reliance on meat, corn and soy.

Food Matters reinforces the argument made by Michael Pollan in his recent book In Defense of Food that Americans need to reassess our eating habits especially if we want to improve our health. Mr. Pollan's maxim - "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" makes a lot of sense especially if you understand that a by-product of that way of living you can reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, do your joints a favor by reducing the amount of weight they need to carry and perhaps eliminate weight-induced sleep apnea.

I don't know about you, but I know that losing weight would very likely help me with a number of health issues I am currently dealing with, so I will give some of the recipes a try and see what happens.

Happy eating and more importantly happy sleeping
ED"

Comment by amott1973 on June 17, 2009 at 9:32pm

That's awesome sleepycarol!

Well I pretty much let loose at Disney. I just focused on not ever getting too full and just stopping when satisfied. I literally was walking all day though, I have the blisters to prove it, and so I'm pretty sure I did ok.

The hard part has been getting back on the wagon since getting back! I'm recording everything, but each day I've gone over my points. Tonight I made a big batch of zero point soup though. That should help with getting the hunger under control. I'm interested to see what the scale says this weekend though. I hope I didn't gain, but I'd be pretty surprised if I lost anything.

Comment by Mike on June 14, 2009 at 12:34pm

that's terrific news, Sleepy Carol. We just moved to a new place that is next to a really, REALLY good ice cream place. And it's hot outside, so we've been there something like 3 out of the 5 past days. It's sooooo good, though. I'm afraid. Very afraid. I have to control myself better.

Comment by sleepycarol on June 14, 2009 at 11:49am

I have pretty much stopped weighing myself daily. It is too depressing and actually if you follow recommended diet protocol and lose 2 pounds a week -- you won't see much difference weighing daily. I weighed myself Friday and have lost a total of 25 pounds since April 17, 2009. I am feeling better and am more active than I was -- still need a significant amount to come off though.

Comment by amott1973 on June 9, 2009 at 11:53pm

I'm hoping I can get up the initiative to start exercising at some point.

And ugh, speaking of pizza I totally fell off the wagon and ate an entire pizza yesterday. It was pretty low points, Kashi's thin mushroom and spinach trio (15 points) but STILL! I just recorded it, used 6 of my extra 35 points for the week and moved on.

I'm going to disney world with my husband, 3 year old son, and mother in law Thursday-Sunday this week. I'm going to try to make good choices, but I'm not going to drive myself crazy. We'll see what the scale says the next weekend.

Comment by BeeAsleep on June 9, 2009 at 10:55pm

I decided today that exercising is so much easier for me than the food. So I have decided to really focus on the exercise and get up to 5 workouts in a week, and keep my food what it is now. I eat healthy and I don't down 3 pizzas at a time, so I have decided to focus on one thing I think I can be successful with. I have a friend who did a triathalon this last weekend. She is probably 40 pounds over weight. So it is possible to be strong and healthy and still be heavy. She is my hero. :>D (Amott1873, Weight Watchers really works!)

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