Hi Vicki:
I'm 52 now and understand.
Don’t have an old pic handy (no surprise
) but there are lots of video on my web site showing the weight:
http://wilsonkarate.com/vids.html
But here is a recent picture that was used for a poster on a seminar I was asked to teach for a Jujitsu school on power striking and striking from the ground (your down the attackers are not):
Rick's Picture
Still more i want to lose but I am feeling great.
Yes I changed ten things about how I eat and ten things about what I eat.
I wrote this out for some folks that asked:
The Ten Changes to “How” I Eat:
1. The biggest change is the simplest and oddly the most effective. We (my wife and I are doing this together) eat off of 8.5-inch dinner plates rather than full size dinner plates.
This is the most effective and simple thing. I am somewhat shocked at how effective this has been. When you fill up an 8.5-inch dinner plate the thing looks very full but if you transferred the food to a regular dinner plate it would not be anywhere near as full as we would normally fill up our dinner plate.
Yet mentally we are eating a full plate and, after a few meals that is all you need to eat to fill up at dinner.
I think almost all of us were raised to eat everything we put on our plates so when we fill up a big dinner plate we eat it all even though we really don’t need that much to be full.
Because it takes something like 15 – 20 minutes before your body registers being full you just keep eating.
2. Of the 8.5-inch dinner plate we usually have 1/3 organic meat, 1/3 vegetable and 1/3 starch (whole wheat if pasta or bread) or 1/3 organic meat and 2/3 vegetables.
3. Don’t let yourself get hungry. In “You on a Diet” the authors say that to control what you eat you cannot let yourself get hungry because that is when you over eat. So, as many plans promote, I munch on healthy things throughout the day.
When hungry and dinner will be a little ways off I eat a palm full of almonds and they handle the hunger urges.
4. If I start to feel hungry I have something healthy to drink. Again “You on a Diet” says the body can confuse thirst with hunger so have a drink and make sure you are hungry before you eat.
5. Make sure I eat protein and carbohydrates for breakfast to stoke the furnace at the start of the day.
6. We eat more often because we are enjoying the taste of what we are eating so cut things up into small pieces and eat slowly savouring eat morsel rather than just shoving in more.
7. After cleaning my plate I have a glass of something healthy to drink and I sip it slowly enjoying it so that those minutes it takes the body to feel full pass by but I am still occupied eating/drinking so I do not notice wanting more of something.
8. I no longer have any extra bread products with dinner only the 1/3 portion of starch.
9. Stay the course and eat properly but if you really need to have a piece of that birthday cake then have it, BUT just do not make it a habit. Make it a special treat.
10. Always ask if I really need what I am looking at eating or do I really need it to look after hunger.
Those are the ten big changes to “how” I eat.
The Ten Changes to “What” I Eat:
1. Back in 1992 I was having a lot of digestive trouble and tracked it down to eating meat. So I stopped.
From 1992 to 2007 I did not eat any meat. I did eat cheese, eggs and a little fish because they did not trouble my digestion and I wanted the B12.
However, this last year I just had no energy. I was not getting the protein or something I needed to meet the demands I was putting on my body training.
My friend Reg had gotten heavy into organic foods and I began to wonder about organic meat.
It had occurred to me that when I was growing up I never had a problem eating meat but I seemed to recall a lot of wild meat. I wondered if that was just a childhood exaggeration so I asked my Dad and he said “Kid you were raised on moose and deer.”
So I tried organic meat and found it did not trouble me and I got my energy back.
Interestingly enough my wife used to have problems after eating steak but does not have any eating organic beef. She thinks it may be the much lower fat content.
We try to only eat about a palm size piece of meat at a meal or around that 1/3 of the 8.5-inch dinner plate.
2. Whole wheat as much as possible. Very little white bread products. No extra bread with meals. A nice French loaf is now in that rare “treat” category.
3. No refined sugar products unless it is a rare treat. Although what we do is have each night after dinner a small piece of dark chocolate (individually wrapped pieces about the size of a Canadian quarter). I eat is slowly and enjoy each tiny bite. This seems to handle the desert craving.
4. No deep-fried foods. I have French fry only as a special rare treat and they had better be pretty darn good fries for me to bother with them.
5. Have rinsed fruit like grapes or cherries out on the kitchen table to munch on throughout the night or weekend. It handles the snacking issue.
6. Have a healthy snack on hand. I am very fond of the new Salsa Sun Chip – whole wheat and no trans fat.
7. Eat low or no fat foods and no trans fat.
8. I take a few snacks to work like fruit or veggies or yogurt or a hard-boiled egg. I try to make sure I have something healthy to snack on throughout the day.
9. No big eating late at night. If I need something I have a healthy snack.
10. Pop has now become one of those very rare treats I allow myself.
I think these 10 are the major changes to “what” I eat.
Again referring to “You on a Diet” they say to faithfully make the changes for 14 days and then see, because after 14 days you have a great start on having changed your eating habits.
These worked for me.
........................I am as skeptical of Fitness gurus as much as martial arts ones.basically I have bought stuff before that really didn't do the job .....or were really not that good.,I have all the stuff by Matt Furey and it is very impressive.......or rather he is.....extremely flexible and strong and a lot bigger build than Scott .........I also have kettlebells in 12 and 20 kg weights and a couple of workout DVDS......and really I have to say I like machines. I know that everyone and his dog is into "Core" strength..but really I like machines coz I can train on my own and safely.and I like to train my quick seperatly from my strong.....and money is a serious issue with me. I won't pay out...when there is so much good stuff Free on the internet
..........I just didn't think that you used weights, you don't have the look......and to be honest weights bore the arse off me.and I only ever did them coz my hip went bad
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