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Name: Aaron Detweiler Age: 26 Height: 5'11" Before Weight: 263 pounds
How I Gained It: In my early 20s I was in really good shape, but after I started working full time I lost all ambition for working out. I would eat fast food almost daily for lunch, and even had more days than I wish to count where I had it for lunch and dinner. I work in an office, so on top of my horrible eating habits, I was in a chair eight hours a day and after work would just go home and eat dinner and watch TV. The scale slowly climbed -- first to 220 then 240, and I kept telling myself I wouldn't get heavier than that. In June of 2010, after a vacation to Texas, I got home and the scale read 263.
Breaking Point: After a few months of telling myself I was going to lose all the weight every Monday only to be back to my old habits by Tuesday, I got to the point where it all clicked one week in November of 2010, and I haven't looked back.
How I Lost It: The first few months were just eating healthy and completely eliminating fast food and snacking at night. I dropped around 30 pounds in six weeks by just doing these simple things. The first week was really difficult, but after I developed my new eating routine it never even fazed me.
During the week, my dinners are either chicken or fish with rice or pasta and a lot of raw veggies. On the weekends, I will loosen up a little with what I eat, but I try not to overdo it on portions if I do eat something unhealthy. Usually lunch is either a tuna sandwich or a leftover chicken breast and veggies from the night before. I always eat breakfast, either eggs or oatmeal, and I hardly ever snack between meals. I found hrough logging food on myfitnesspal that just a handful of snacks here and there throughout the day can easily add up to 300 to 400 calories, and you don't even know it.
Once I began to see my body changing it kept the fire alive and pushed me even harder. After the first few months I began lifting weights and running, which sped up my weight loss. I was down to 210 pounds by March of 2011. I have slowly been losing the last 20 pounds by working out five days a week, running and lifting. I started the process wanting to get to 200 pounds, and when I got there, I wasn't satisfied. Now I want to get in the best shape of my life.
Now, I have 20 times the energy I used to have. At my heaviest just playing nine holes of golf, even with a cart, would make me tired for the rest of the day. I can run around all day and rarely get tired. I'm so thankful I finally committed to doing this now, because I was going down an unhealthy path that could have led anywhere. I've completely rebooted everything I knew about eating and will carry these principles with me for the rest of my life. When I think back to how I used to eat and how lazy I was, I still get mad at myself, but I am thankful I was given the strength to correct it and start over before it was too late.
After Weight: 188 pounds
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Posted: May 25, 2012 at 9:12 am
Not to upset the apple cart, but things are changing at the Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History Center.
The newest exhibit, "Getting to the Core: The Story of the Apple Industry in Fremont County," will blossom June 1 with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum, 612 Royal Gorge Blvd. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Museum.
"Some of the artifacts that we will have on display are ribbons from the Fruit Days, one is dated 1899; the traveling band competition trophy that started in 1973; a fruit-picking ladder and an apple-picking bag," said Archivist/Curator Lisa Studts.
Photo boards showcase the Fruit Day Festival that originated local festivals, including the May Day Festival, the Blossom Festival and Penrose's Apple Day Festival.
Assistant Archivist Sue Cochran said early-day miners played a key role in the formation of Fremont County's rich and long-standing apple industry.
"The miners that came out here went into the hills with very little prep time," she said. "They were living on dried-meat and biscuits -- their diets were horrible."
She said miners needed a way to get fresh fruits and vegetables into their diets, but canned goods were not available on the frontier, and there was not a railroad at that time in the area.
"There was a handful of guys that came along that said there's a buck or two to be made here, and they started growing the fruits and vegetables for the purpose of supplementing the miners' diets," Cochran said. "The big surprise was that the soil here was just really, really good for that."
The exhibit will be up for about two years. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and admission is free. For more information, call 269-9036.
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Posted: May 25, 2012 at 9:12 am
Why Yesterday's Diets No Longer Work - Yesterday's best weight loss diets focused on calorie reduction, "bad foods" elimination, or restriction. This strategy actually worked in the past for 3 reasons: 1. Food was not as nutritionally deficient or chemically loaded and toxic as it is today. 2. People burned more calories with N.E.A.T. (non exercise activity thermogenesis) than they do today. 3. Life wasn't as hectic and stressful as it is today so hormones were more balanced than they are today.
Today's Weightloss Diets Need to Do More - Today's diets for weightloss need to do so much more than just cut calories and bad foods. A good weight loss diet must balance hormones and help your body detox from chemicals, additives, preservatives and toxins. It also needs to help you manage or reduce stress hormones, plus help you build or maintain lean muscles mass while burning fat stores. Most diets out there still don't address any of these important weight loss factors. They're stuck in the past which is what keeps you stuck at an unhealthy weight!
How to Choose a Weightloss Diet That Work - So if most diets don't work then how do you find a weight loss diet that gets results? The best way to choose a diet that will help you lose weight is to stay focused on the health benefits. Use the 10 questions below to determine if a diet you're considering will improve your health and your body's ability to burn fat.
Is the diet going to improve your health? Is the diet going to boost fat burning hormones? Is the diet going to help you reduce stress hormones? Is the diet going to help you have balanced eating habits? Is the diet going to boost energy levels so you can be more active? Is the diet going to help you detox on a daily basis? Is the diet going to help you have a healthy food attitude? Is the diet going to be simple and easy to follow and maintain for life? Is the diet going to help you maintain your weight loss results for life? Is the diet going to improve your lifestyle?
If you answered no to even one of the questions above then you should continue searching until you find a diet that will allow you to answer yes to most of the questions above because today's weight loss issues require a healthier more holistic approach.
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While neurologists have known that a high-fat and very low-carb diet, known as a ketogenic diet, reduces seizures in epileptic patients who are resistant to medical therapy, the why to it all has always been a mystery.
But today, some scientists say they may have found the answer. Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School said seizures might be linked to a protein that changes metabolism in the brain, which is why patients respond so well to the ketogenic diet.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures, or convulsions, over time. The seizures represent episodes of disturbed brain activity and cause changes in attention and behavior, according to the National Institutes of Health. The condition affects about 3 million Americans and 50 million people worldwide, according to the Epilepsy Foundation.
The ketogenic diet mimics aspects of starvation by forcing the body to burn fats instead of carbohydrates. The diet produces ketones in the body, organic compounds that form when the body uses fat, instead of glucose, as a source of energy. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood reduces the frequency of epileptic seizures.
The study, published in the journal Neuron and conducted in genetically-altered mice, found that the effect of the ketogenic diet on epilepsy can be mimicked using a much more specific and non-dietary approach by manipulating a particular protein in mice, said Gary Yellen, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the study.
This points toward potential new ways of treating epilepsy in patients for whom current drugs are not effective, said Yellen.
Yellen said that while the connection between epilepsy and diet has remained unclear for nearly 100 years, he has seen childrens lives change drastically after changes in their food intake. In the past, some patients have also seen improvement when they cut nearly all sugar from their diets.
Experimenting in mice, the researchers found they could mimic the effects of the diet by altering a specific protein, known as BAD. Seizures decreased in the mice.
While the research must first be replicated in humans, Yellen said, in the long run, scientists should be able to target this pathway pharmacologically.
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By Elizabeth Lopatto - 2012-05-23T16:00:00Z
A fatty diet that helps control epileptic seizures may do so by triggering a chemical change in the brain, a discovery that could lead to new treatments, according to a Harvard University study.
The diet may force a protein to switch the brains fuel to fat byproducts called ketones from its preferred energy, glucose, according to a study in genetically manipulated mice in the journal Neuron. Making the brain operate on ketones is known to shut down overexcited neurons that cause seizures.
This so-called ketogenic diet is used by epilepsy patients who arent helped by seizure-reducing drugs. The patients are only allowed a saltine crackers worth of carbohydrates daily, said Gary Yellen, a study author. Thats hard to do, and new treatments based on the diets effects in the body may lead to better control of seizures, he said.
There are kids who go off this diet because they and their parents cant manage it, said Yellen, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Having a pharmaceutical to help them would be important.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes repeated seizures, where neurons fire in a disorganized and sudden way, according to the National Institutes of Health. About 3 million Americans are epileptic, according to the Landover, Maryland-based Epilepsy Foundation, an advocacy group.
Yellens coauthor, Nika Danial, an assistant professor of cell biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is working on mimicking the protein. That may lead to a treatment, or help researchers look through chemical libraries for something similar, she said.
The diet is very high in fat, with some protein and almost no carbohydrates, triggering the body to use fat as its source of energy and imitating the effects of starvation on the body. That releases ketones, which can provide energy to the brain in lieu of sugar.
In epileptic mice, the scientists tinkered with a protein called BCL-2-associated agonist of cell death, or BAD, to promote ketones and lower levels of glucose. While their seizures decreased, there was no effect in mice that had been genetically altered to take out the protein, providing evidence for how it worked, according to the study.
The switch is much like changing from diesel to unleaded fuel, causing fewer seizures, Yellen said. Something about the swap prevents neurons from firing too much, though the full extent of the changes isnt clear. Additionally, a ketogenic diet may be effective in some neurodegenerative disorders, Danial said.
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Posted: May 25, 2012 at 9:11 am
(CBS News) Children with epilepsy who don't respond well to anti-seizure medications are sometimes treated with a strict "ketogenic diet" that's high in fats and low in carbohydrates, including foods like bacon, hot dogs, butter and eggs.
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation, the diet is so effective for some kids that they can go off "keto" for a few years and remain seizure-free. In 2010, the New York Times profiled the diet as "Epilepsy's Big Fat Miracle" and despite being prescribed at more than 100 hospitals around the country, researchers weren't exactly sure how it worked - until now.
In a new study of mice, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston have found that a child's ability to stave off seizures is tied to a protein that affects metabolism in the brain. The protein, so-called BCL-2-associated Agonist of Cell Death, or BAD, also regulates metabolism of glucose.
The researchers discovered that by modifying this this, they switched metabolism in brain cells from glucose to ketone bodies, which are fat byproducts.
"It was then that we realized we had come upon a metabolic switch to do what the ketogenic diet does to the brain without any actual dietary therapy," study author Dr. Alfredo Gimenez-Cassinam a research fellow at Dana-Farber, said in a news release.
The researchers used genetically modified mice to alter the BAD protein to increase ketone metabolism in the brain, and seizures in mice decreased. The findings suggest the BAD Protein could be a promising target for future epilepsy drugs. The study is published in the May 24th issue of the journal Neuron.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by repeated seizures, likened to electrical storms in the brain, that can appear as convulsions, loss of motor control, or loss of consciousness.
"I've met a lot of kids whose lives are completely changed by this diet," study co-author Dr. Gary Yellen, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, said in a university news release. Yellen was introduced to the ketogenic diet through his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, who directs the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at MassGeneral Hospital for Children. "Diets in general are hard, and this diet is really hard," said Yellen, "So finding a pharmacological substitute for this would make lots of people really happy."
About two in 100 people will experience a seizure at some point in their lives, according to the Mayo Clinic, and at least two unprovoked seizures often are required to diagnose epilepsy. Anti-seizure medications such are often prescribed and brain surgery is a possibility for some people whose seizures originate in a small, well-defined area of the brain not involved with vital processes. Some children may even outgrow the condition with age.
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Posted: May 25, 2012 at 9:11 am
As drivers prepare for the Coca-Cola 600 scheduled for May 27 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, there is one story that is getting an inordinate amount of attention. The obsession with Danica Patrick's diet and how she will handle the 600 mile race is only growing. Her diet was part of the May 24 press conference and revealed a ridiculous focus on something other drivers handle without incident.
The Diet
On May 24, NASCAR fans received a lesson in Danica Patrick's diet preparations for the Coca-Cola 600 thanks to a press conference committed to ignoring the hard questions. The topics ranged from the types of snacks that Danica will have in her car to general diet inquiries. Patrick responded by explaining that her diet is "healthy all the time" and that she will have a special drink mix in the car for the race. Danica Patrick admitted that her trainer will provide input in her snack preparations.
Contributing to the Problem?
Danica, who is just slightly over 5 feet tall, has had her weight in the spotlight since her time in IndyCar. Since she weighs 100 pounds, drivers initially accused of her having an unfair advantage due to low body weight. Modifications in the rule books to total car mass have made sure that this type of advantage is not possible, but her weight is still in the headlines.
While other drivers faced questions about their season and the upcoming race on May 27, Patrick's press conference was absorbed in dissecting her snack choices. Can Danica be blamed? She has brought up the topic of her diet frequently, and her new sponsorship with Coke Zero is contributing to the problem. She has even posted pictures of a minuscule cheese platter on her Twitter account. However, the media's bias was still visible as male drivers were never asked about their diets.
The Danica Patrick Fit Fuel Concession Stand
The Charlotte Motor Speedway seems to be benefitting from the hype surrounding Danica Patrick's diet. The track has added a concession stand that provides healthier options. The Danica Patrick Fit Fuel concession stand provides veggie burgers, fresh fruit and sliced vegetables. It is an interesting contrast to some of the other items offered at the Charlotte Motor Speedway that include deep-fried cupcakes and fried cheese sticks.
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WEIGHT-loss surgery not only rids people of their fat, it may also abolish alcohol cravings.
Some people choose to lose weight by going under the knife to decrease the size of their stomach. One such surgery - the Roux-en-Y procedure, or "gastric bypass" - involves stapling the stomach to leave a small pouch at the top, which is then connected to the small intestine. Food then bypasses most of the original stomach and a chunk of the intestine too. This significantly reduces the amount of food a person is physically able to eat and the amount of nutrients they can absorb.
Jon Davis and colleagues at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio collected outcome data on 80,000 people in the US who had had weight-loss surgery, including Roux-en-Y. They found that only those who had the Roux-en-Y procedure reported drinking fewer alcoholic drinks after the surgery than before. People who underwent other types of surgery, such as a gastric band, saw no change in alcohol use.
To investigate further, the team carried out Roux-en-Y surgery on rats bred to prefer alcohol, and found that they also stopped drinking it afterwards. This held even when the team used established psychological experiments to associate alcohol with a reward (Biological Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.01.035). "It's a real phenomenon," says Davis.
His team thinks that the sudden drop in alcohol consumption may be down to a hormone called GLP-1. When partly digested food hits the middle section of the small intestine, called the jejunum, GLP-1 is produced. This triggers the production of insulin, which in turn acts to lower blood glucose levels. After Roux-en-Y surgery, this part of the intestine is much closer to the stomach, causing it to be exposed to a much higher level of nutrients than it normally would be. Davis thinks this may be ramping up the production of the hormone.
It is this extra GLP-1 that may be influencing cravings, he says. The hormone is thought to play a role in limiting how much food we eat once we are full. "GLP-1 travels through the blood to get to the brain, where it is thought to stimulate an aversion to food," says Davis. He thinks it may be eliciting a similar effect on alcohol consumption because alcoholic drinks can contain lots of calories.
Carel le Roux at Imperial College London says the finding fits with his own results that suggest weight-loss surgery not only reduces hunger, but also the reward associated with food. He says it may be that "the surgery makes you less bothered about your favourite 'sin', whether this is food or alcohol".
Davis's group is now testing a diabetes drug in mice that acts to increase levels of GLP-1, in the hope that it might help alcoholics give up alcohol.
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