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TuesdayMar17,2020at11:00AM

Wyoming woman recognized statewide

The nonprofit weight-loss support organization Take Off Pounds Sensibly crowned a woman from Wyoming as Delaware Queen for losing more weight than any other female TOPS member in the state.

Joan Duphily lost 45.25 pounds and attributes her weight loss success to the support she receives from her fellow TOPS members, portion control and regular exercise. She started the program as a way to lose weight before a total knee replacement surgery and continued through recovery.

"I cannot thank my TOPS support group enough for all the encouragement they've given me," she said. "Because of this, I will continue to go every week and will be able to keep the weight off the rest of my life.

Delaware tips the scales as the 23rd heaviest state in the U.S., where 31.8% of adults are affected by obesity. TOPS offers an individual approach to weight loss and overall wellness. Consistent group support, health education and recognition are all key components to successful weight management, a representative said.

We are so gratified by our TOPS members amazing weight-loss accomplishments, President Rick Danforth said. Commemorating their life-changing achievements is an essential component of TOPS winning formula, whether by losing weight or maintaining goals.

There are eight TOPS chapters in Delaware. Visitors are welcome to attend their first TOPS meeting free of charge. Membership is $32 per year in the U.S., plus nominal chapter fees. To find a local chapter, view http://www.tops.org or call 800-932-8677.

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Imagine each time a person goes home in the evening, they eat a snack. When they first eat the snack, a mental link is formed between the context (getting home) and their response to that context (eating a snack). Every time they subsequently snack in response to getting home, this link strengthens, to the point that getting home prompts them to eat a snack automatically. This is how a habit forms.

New research has found weight-loss interventions that are founded on habit-change, (forming new habits or breaking old habits) may be effective at helping people lose weight and keep it off.

We recruited 75 volunteers from the community (aged 18-75) with excess weight or obesity and randomised them into three groups. One program promoted breaking old habits, one promoted forming new habits, and one group was a control (no intervention).

The habit-breaking group was sent a text message with a different task to perform every day. These tasks were focused on breaking usual routines and included things such as drive a different way to work today, listen to a new genre of music or write a short story.

The habit-forming group was asked to follow a program that focused on forming habits centred on healthy lifestyle changes. The group was encouraged to incorporate 10 healthy tips into their daily routine, so they became second-nature.

Unlike usual weight-loss programs, these interventions did not prescribe specific diet plans or exercise regimes, they simply aimed to change small daily habits.

After 12 weeks, the habit-forming and habit-breaking participants had lost an average of 3.1kg. More importantly, after 12 months of no intervention and no contact, they had lost a further 2.1kg on average.

Some 67 per cent of participants reduced their total body weight by more than 5 per cent, decreasing their overall risk for developing type two diabetes and heart disease. As well as losing weight, most participants also increased their fruit and vegetable intake and improved their mental health.

Habit-based interventions have the potential to change how we think about weight management and, importantly, how we behave.

The habits in the habit-forming group, developed by Weight Concern (a UK charity) were:

Gina Cleo, Research Fellow, Bond University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article.

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He continued: It was over the oil utilized in mayonnaise as we walked up and down the aisles. Within the early days, we needed to do our personal meals searching for our shoot. And I feel we thought the programme was falling aside actually.

Thankfully, the pair have been capable of shortly settle their variations and have since gone onto to have long-standing cooking careers and friendship.

Talking about their relationship, Dave defined: We cook dinner collectively rather well. Its nice. Its humorous, the final e book that we did, One Pot Wonders, we form of began writing the recipes whereas we have been on tour.

We set ourselves 10 concepts as a result of we had 200 recipes. However it form of snowballed as a result of I dip into one thing after which he dips into one thing.

He added: However we get on rather well. Were in enterprise collectively and its like being in enterprise along with your brother. It simply works actually. Weve spent lots of time collectively. Si has acquired his fianc in Australia and Ive acquired my household, so we do should go residence generally.

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My name is Nance Mendoza (@prettydarnketo). I am 49 years old. I live in Glenpool, Oklahoma, and Im a stay-at-home mom. When my near 400-pound weight started giving me serious health problems, I committed to my weight-loss journey, went low-carb and keto, and lost over 150 pounds.

I struggled with food for as long as I can remember. I remember sneaking food to soothe myself during stressful situations when I was young, although I was an average-size kid.

Weight didn't become an issue for me until my first pregnancy. I was 135 pounds at my first prenatal appointment and I gained 100 pounds over the course of the pregnancy. In the following years, I continued to gain weight, and I got pregnant again.

My marriage failed soon after that, and I coped with becoming a single parent by bingeing and eating secretively to cope. Food was the balm that soothed like no other, no matter how desperately I wanted to lose weight.

I eventually remarried, and my husband was also overweight. We both liked to eat, so it seemed to be a match made in heaven.

I had high blood pressure and was on two medications. In 2004, I was also diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. You would think that diagnosis alone would be enough for me to make a change to lessen the load on my joints, but I had such a hard time fighting the mental battle of weight loss. I desperately wanted to lose the weight, but knowing I needed to lose over 100 pounds seemed like such an impossible task. At my heaviest, I weighed 378 pounds.

On February 17, 2017, I got a text from my husband that said, "I have diabetes." He had his yearly work physical and the results had come that day. Hearing that from him was the catalyst to my weight-loss journey.

As I started doing more research, I started to learn more and more about the keto diet and eventually shifted to more of a keto approach. Now I've basically combined the two. I keep net carbs under 25 grams per day, and I focus on protein and use fat to satiate.

I also started tracking my food. Having the visual data and seeing what I'm actually consuming helps me make the right choices. I don't love doing it, but it helps me so much. I do full menu planning, too. Menu planning helps keep me on track so I know exactly what I'm going to be eating and gives me something to be excited about. Plus, it gives me an opportunity to look for new recipes and try new things so meals don't become mundane.

I drink lots of water. I didn't realize before how important it was to get adequate water to both stay hydrated and help control my appetite. Sometimes I confuse thirst for hunger, and now when I'm feeling snacky, I try drinking water first. A lot of the time, I'm just thirsty.

Breakfast: I normally fast and just have coffee with cream, collagen, and zero-calorie sweetener. But on the days I do want breakfast, I have low-carb waffles with peanut butter and sugar-free syrup.

Lunch: Bunless burger with mayo and veggies, tuna salad, or deli meat and cheese in a lettuce wrap or low-carb tortilla.

Snacks: Cheese, nuts, iced coffee, or a protein bar.

Dinner: I try to recreate meals the we would have eaten pre-keto. It's important to make meals my daughter will eat so we can eat as a family. I make things like meatloaf, chicken parmesan (no breading), chili (no beans), spaghetti (with shirataki noodles), buffalo wings, and crustless pizza. I like to make sure we have a meat and a veggie if possible.

Dessert: My favorite dessert currently is Greek yogurt sweetened with lemon sugar-free syrup. I like to add pecans or strawberries. Low-carb ice cream is also a favorite.

Walking is the easiest thing for me to do, and I really enjoy it. I also have dogs, so we get out and walk almost two miles several times a week. I went from being hardly able to because of the fact that I weighed almost 400 pounds to being able to walk all over England and Scotland a few months ago on a trip overseas. It was such an amazing feeling!

I'm still not at my "goal" weight, but I'd say I'm pretty close. It might sound clich, but if I can do this, anyone can. At 378 pounds, I was happily married with beautiful children, but I was so miserable with my physical appearance. I started this journey because of my husband's health (he's lost 140 pounds right along with me and improved his health situation, including his diabetes)but of course I knew I desperately needed it for myself.

Slowly, it became more about me. I started to see I could actually do this. I could take this one day, one week, one month at a time and be successful. Each victory was proof to myself that I was worth taking control of my health.

In turn, this journey has made me a better wife, mother, and daughter. I'm happier, and my health and disease are in much better control. I've gone from two blood pressure medications to taking half of one. I'm wearing clothes I've never been able to wear, traveling to places I never thought I'd be able to go to. I've decided to make this a way of life, not just a diet. Living is so much more important to meand Im actually living and enjoying life in this new body I've worked so hard to have.

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London: Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have found that weight-loss surgery is linked to significantly fewer heart attacks and strokes.

The study, published in the European Heart Journal, found there were 60 percent fewer fatal and non-fatal heart attacks and stroke among 3,701 men and women who received bariatric surgery compared to the same number of patients who did not, during an average of 11 years following the surgery.

The results, taken together with the wealth of emerging evidence on the benefits of bariatric surgery, focuses not only on weight loss but also on the management and prevention of obesity-related health problems, said study senior author Sanjay Purkayastha.

In addition, the study found, that patients who had bariatric surgery lost significantly more weight (an average of over 10 kg more), and type 2 diabetes was more likely to improve to the point where the patients no longer required medication to maintain normal blood sugar levels.

The results indicated that the rates of heart attacks and strokes were significantly lower in those who underwent bariatric surgery, said study first author Maddalena Ardissino from Imperial College London in the UK.

For the findings, the research team analysed data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) database, which holds information on over 11 million patients from 674 general practice surgeries in the UK, dating from 1987 to the present.

They extracted data on 3,701 patients who had a body mass index (BMI) of 35 kg/m2 or more, who had not suffered a heart attack or stroke when the study started and who had undergone bariatric surgery.

They also looked at a control group of 3,701 patients who matched the first group in age, BMI and gender but who had not had bariatric surgery.

They adjusted for factors that could affect the results, such as high levels of cholesterol in the blood, smoking, alcohol and cocaine use, exercise and use of medications, such as statins, beta blockers and hormone replacement therapy.

During follow-up, there were 37 fatal or non-fatal heart attacks or strokes in the bariatric surgery group and 93 in the non-surgery group.

This means that bariatric surgery was associated with a 1.5 per cent reduction in the absolute risk of heart attacks or strokes; 62 patients would need to have bariatric surgery to prevent one heart attack or stroke, Ardissino said.

According to the researchers, rates of acute is chaemic stroke were similar across the two groups, though very few events were recorded.

The study revealed that there was a 60 per cent reduction in new diagnoses of heart failure during follow-up, 22 in the bariatric surgery group and 46 in the control group, and death from any cause was 80 per cent lower among patients who had bariatric surgery compared to those who did not: 45 versus 182 deaths respectively.

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Lee Jamieson, aged 41, from Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, was on holiday in Dubai in 2016 with his mother and got into a taxi.

The driver made a comment that he would have to charge double fare because Lee, who weighed more than 24 stone at the time, was the size of two passengers.

Lee said it was at that moment he knew he had to change his lifestyle. I didnt really take much notice but, perhaps subconsciously, it had got to me, he said.

Ive always been big, right from infant school. My attitude to being big was, Im not bothered, Ill just buy a bigger size, and the health implications never really concerned me.

At that point, I was 37, bigger than ever, constantly tired, suffering with constant agonising lower back pain, which required joint injections for pain relief, and generally feeling pretty miserable.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the lightbulb came on. I could either carry on gaining weight and suffer the consequences or do something about it.

The Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner started out by trying several diets, but struggled to lose much weight, and realised he needed some extra help.

He joined a Weight Watchers Re-imagined (WW) workshop at Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre and found it was exactly what he needed.

From the very first time I went to the workshop, I could just tell the support would be there when I needed it, he said.

There was absolutely no judgement, just encouragement for having made that first step of joining. Id got a lot of weight to lose, so I had to commit and accept that there was no easy fix. It was going to be a long haul.

Over the next six months, Lee dropped three and a half stone and now, nearly four years later, he has hit a healthy goal weight of 13 stone 9lbs.

He said the changes in his life have been evident since he dropped the weight in terms of food, fashion and health.

He said: My eating has completely changed. Gone are the unhealthy grab and go lunches replaced with fresh healthy soups, sandwiches and salads.

I now have the confidence to wear clothes from normal shops, even slim-fit styles and Im not embarrassed to even go in and browse.

Its fair to say weight loss has opened up a whole new wardrobe and I am a happier version of me and feel much better about my appearance.

Im no longer considered pre-diabetic and my back pain is well under control.

Lee credits the WW tools and programmes with his weight loss and new lifestyle and has this to say to anyone thinking of trying it.

He said: WW works if you embrace the plan and are prepared to change as no food is really off limits. You just need to think ahead.

Its a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, not a diet and I think the fact that I have been able to stick with it for over three and half years demonstrates how liveable WW is.

I dont feel like l miss out on anything and Im now a healthier, happier and considerably smaller version of me

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