I'm pitta/kapha consitution too. A lot of Americans are according to Chopra. I'm 5'8" and supposedly big boned according to my trainer but I might dispute that as being medium boned. With one diet in the 1970s I went down to 140 lbs which was too skinny and vata aggravated. The ND who put me on that in the summer would have done well to adjust it come autumn as I started to notice the cold weather more. Dr. Robert Svoboda said we eat for our minds and not our bodies which is why so many people fail on diets because they often can't do their work when on them. I know several people who told me their doctor put them on a diet and when they started losing their judgment skills they dropped it like a hot potato.
Mike Dixon wrote: > I'm pretty much Pitta/Kapha. 5'11", medium bone,185. By the time I had lost > 170 lbs, I'm sure a significant part of that was muscle, thus the current > weight training program I'm following. In January, I was 19% body fat at 198 > lbs., probably about 15-16% body fat at 185, as of now.< Losing muscle mass > will slow the metabolism down, the body thinks it's starving and finds a way > to slow the process down. Gaining muscle stimulates the metabolism and helps > burn calories faster. I think people on vegetarian diets will lose muscle, > thus slow their metabolisms down, making it harder to lose unwanted pounds. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 11:41:05 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bloomberg speculates that Times Square car > bombing because of health care bill > > > Yes, congrats on that. I've been fighting the battle of bulge much of > my life. However I also been going for jogs or walks daily since the > 1970s. My thighs are very muscular from supporting the extra weight. > I'm curious about how tall you are and are you also big boned? That > would make a difference as to how you were perceived as being > overweight. In my case I just look husky to a lot of people. > > Losing weight is not easy except to those vata types who have never had > to do so and they often think it's all a matter of taking in less > calories. What often happens with some folks if when they reduced > calories they lose energy and hence no weight loss. There really are > people who can gain weight on a fast. > > I also think for some people meditation can be fattening because it > reduces the metabolism and some folks don't need their metabolism > reduced any further. In fact for those folks one chiropractor who was a > TM'er and wrote a book I read back in the early 1980s strongly believed > that these folks need to do exercise instead of meditating (or at least > balance the meditation with exercise). > > Mike Dixon wrote: > >> Thank God I don't have one(pace maker)! Dr. Shahzad just keeps an eye on my >> blood pressure which is pretty good after losing 170 lbs. >> >> >> >> > > > > > > >
