Jesse Jackson Jr: How He Lost 50 Pounds

I enjoyed the last comment; "And Jackson... sliced his food intake from more than 5,000 to fewer than 2,000 calories a day."

I get a kick out of this culture, who can't FATHOM that watching your food intake carefully, and simply being more active can work quite adequately to lose a lot of weight. Our bodies don't like being grossly overweight. When they get permission, they get smaller. I lost, hmm. About 45 pounds in around 6 months, and really, it was quite painless. I enjoyed the mystified looks and the questions.. "what are you DOING?" When I answer, "eat less, excercise more", i am frequently met with disbelief and sometimes, chuckles in response to what my audience thinks is sarcasm, coming from me.

I think losing weight, in come cases, and especially if you have a lot to lose, is fairly easy to get started. Losing that last ten pounds, however...

Kat: Spoken so truly. I've seen people with excessive body fat do very little except start walking and cut out some of the fatty foods - and the weight starts to drop off.

Unfortunately I'm at the point where even 5 sessions of cardio and 3 sessions of hard weights per week + eating right doesn't do a thing. My body sure loves that layer of fat - it don't wanna part with it!

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Unfortunately I'm at the point where even 5 sessions of cardio and 3 sessions of hard weights per week + eating right doesn't do a thing. My body sure loves that layer of fat - it don't wanna part with it!
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Jim, I feel your pain!!! 3 years ago I lost 35 pounds, going from 160 to 125 in about 5 months. In the last year, some minor lifestyle changes have all added up to putting 10 of that back on, which I have been trying very hard to lose. I do hard cardio sessions (1 hour) 4-5 times a week and hard weights 3-4 times a week, plus I watch my food intake carefully. The scale has not budged. I'm staying at it, though, because I am determined to get in shape.

Although you know, you're probably more in shape and healthy than many people who have a lower BMI or body fat percentage. And my husband told me that being slightly over your recommended weight is much healthier than being below. I just found out my heartrate is too high. I guess my fitness needs a lot of work. Funny how the whole thing plays out. Ultimately I feel like fitness is way more important than that pesky fat layer.

Maybe we're all getting ready for a famine or something.

Jesse Jackson Jr. had intestinal bypass surgery. He admitted it on WGN radio last Wednesday or Thursday. So much fo "shots"!!!!!!
J. W.

Jesse Jackson Jr. lied about his weight loss. As the comment above states, he had surgery (a very risky type of surgery). Here is the link to the story in the Chicago Sun Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-jackson29.html

There is no magic solution. Reduced calories and increased activity are the only way. And, if you are an emotional eater like me, therapy may be needed to break the link between feelings and food.

Jackson (and his sister Santita) have had a duodenal switch procedure. It is hardly a very risky procedure, but it is most certainly different from the gastric bypass which Al Roker and Carnie Wilson had -- it is much more effective, long lasting, and provides a MUCH more tolerable lifestyle, without the frequent puking and other miseries of the RNY gastric bypass. It is not well known in the US, although it is very common in Europe and South Amercia, and a number of the insurance companies -- influenced by the RNY surgeons' cartel in the US -- are refusing to pay for it unless the patient appeals to higher authorities, which often overrule the insurer. I had my DS almost 20 months ago and I couldn't be happier. My only lifestyle concession to my surgery is that I take my vitamins and calcium religiously, and I stay away from white carbs if I have to in public later in the day, since they give me gas (which, due to having IBS, they did BEFORE surgery too!). I would rather have stayed fat than have the RNY, but the DS has given me my life back. If you get to the point where you are considering weight loss surgery, I hope you will look into this superior surgery too.

I am constantly amazed at pompous little comments like:

"I get a kick out of this culture, who can't FATHOM that watching your food intake carefully, and simply being more active can work quite adequately to lose a lot of weight."

Such ridiculous and self-aggrandizing comments are funny at best. What culture are you speaking of? AMERICAN culture (if there is such a thing)? The one where the diet and health food industries lie to us as much as the fast food industries do? Where so little value is placed on young people being physically active beyond exercising their thumbs on a video game or lifting an order of fries into their mouth?

Fathom this, hon: MOST of the people in our CULTURE need a lot of help, support, education and RE-education about daily diet and exercise habits. I was one of them. And thank GOD I never came across a person like you, poo-pooing our "CULTURE" while aggrandizing yourself.

Shut up Steve.

Reduced calories and increased activity are the only way. alas, if they only worked.

HEY YALL THIS DIAMONDPRINCESS I NEED TO LOSE 45 POUNDS IN ABOUT THREE MONTHS I DONT KNOW WHAT IM GOING TO DO I KEEP EATING I NEED HELP