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I wear a very tightfitting abdominal binder with
an oversize shirt. What in the presence of others, I sit more erect in the
chair causing my oversize shirt to drape over my Quad belly therefore hiding the
bulge. If I wear the correct size shirt or something quite tight, my belly
is even more pronounced.
T. Houston
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:05
PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] LOSING the Quad
Gut!!!!!!!!!
wear firmer fitting clothes.....if wear loose clothes gives
room to expand...if i wear sweats... i expand a
tad.....
Houston809 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I lie down it disappears. Get
in chair look like Im pregnant with twinz. Guess Im going 2 have 2 accept
& live with it :)
On 4/20/06 6:39 PM, "Stacy Harim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'm not a
quad but paralyzed right below my chest so I have no ab muscles. I
also have a very long torso so my tummy looks big. I lay down and
it's almost gone.
Stacy
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From: tahouston <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:18
PM
Subject: Fw: [QUAD-L] LOSING the Quad
Gut!!!!!!!!!
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From: tahouston <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brien <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:18
PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] LOSING the Quad
Gut!!!!!!!!!
Quad belly or Quad
gut has hardly anything to do with diet. It is the result of
nonactive stomach muscles not able to hold firmly your stomach,
intestines, and other inner organs. Your stomach becomes
very pronounced when sitting in the chair because the weight of
your upper torso pushing down on your muscle less stomach causing
your midsection to expand.
T. Houston
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From: Brien <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Houston809 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; quadlist <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:04
PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] LOSING the Quad
Gut!!!!!!!!!
You may benefit from Dr.
Pericone's book, The Pericone Weight Loss Diet. The
book treats nutrition at the cellular level and offers
convincing evidence and strategies that developing health at the
cellular level will provide a healthy platform for overall health.
http://www.nvperriconemd.com/
I have completely changed what I thought
WAS a healthy diet and added all the recommended supplements to
my diet. With moderate exercise including free weights and
using a hand cycle to crank my heart and cardio rate up (this
is the best device to substitute for using our big leg
muscles to get cardio rate
up!!!!!!!!!)
On Apr
18, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Houston809
wrote:
I
like 2 eat & I drink beers. Coronas is my preferred beer.
Now Im drinking Budweiser Select since being in STL.
Ive tried dieting or eating less seemed like I was
continuously tired & hungry. But nothing happened 2
stomach. :(
On 4/18/06 2:59 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You
have to really eat light. I eat 2% cheese and open
face sandwiches with lettuce and tomatoes. I drink Slim fast
twice a day and just eat a regular meal in the evening.
I don't really eat very much beef, only occasionally.
I mostly eat turkey, chicken, fish, and I like lean
cuisine dinners occasionally. They have a great
macaroni and cheese lasagna in dark turkey with green beans.
When I wear it really feel like I want some comfort
food, I eat the cream beef with the gravy like mixture over
light whole-wheat bread. I don't eat a lot of bread or
potatoes, but a lot of fruits and vegetables and a lot of
salads with light dressing which helped to fill you up . I
do eat sweet potatoes with just promise, but I just found
another, that was a little more healthy (I will have to look
at that for you) . I just started eating Activia
yogurt, which is really good and taking acidophilus everyday
. I I was being bloated, but that has has taken most
of it away. I thought I had gained a lot of weight,
but it makes my makes me fairly flat, although I have gained
some weight I am sure. Another thing that helps with
bloating is gas x or one of the many similar products.
I take there a lot of vitamins. I usually buy
things that are reduced fat. I do eat chips, trail mix
, Kentucky fried chicken and other things that are not low
in fat, but I eat in moderation, which is the key . When I
go out to eat, I usually eat seafood, turkey or chicken,
although I sometimes feel like a backyard burger or veggie
pizza with thin crust. I really love the lower calorie
popcorn, although I also buy the kettle corn in individual
bags, which is not low calorie. I don't get to the hospital
that has a scale very often that you roll onto, but you must
keep track of the weight of your chair. I had gained 5
pounds last year. It's always much easier to try to
lose in the summer, as I don't get as hungry. I also get
those weight watcher cheesecake , South Beach peanut butter
cookies, snacks to eat if I'm hungry. I also like
light cream cheese and light and peanut butter spread very thinly
over fat-free saltine crackers. I also love ice cream and a
light just doesn't taste as good. Ha ha Baskin-Robbins
does not come in light unfortunately, so I have to splurge a
few times a year .
I look forward to
getting ideas from other quadlist persons that battle the
quad gut.
the never ending battle that we must face,
because we don't have stomach muscles.
It would
be so fun to just eat anything you wanted all the time,
wouldn't it?
Dana
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