Hi all--

This web site seems like a tremendous resource; I'm surprised there aren't more registered users yet.

I'm posting mostly to share briefly what has worked for me and also to point to my new web site with more info about this topic.

Just to briefly share what has worked for me (down 50 pounds in 14 months, and doing much better with glucose control). Basically, I discovered the following:

--Diets (food deprivation) simply have not ever worked for me
--*Smarter* eating has helped a bit.
--A half-hour of exercise 2-3 times a week was barely helping my weight or blood glucose.
--What finally got me losing the weight was an hour of vigorous exercise *daily*.

I had bought a recumbent trike for outdoor biking fun, errands, and exercise in 2005 and a year later I also bought a recumbent indoor exercise bike (an "exerbent"). But it wasn't until November of 2007 that I had seen a couple articles on the net and TV about the necessity of an hour of daily vigorous exercise for obese folks like me to actually lose weight and become healthier. I decided to try it using my exerbent indoors for a month (too cold for outdoor biking). I lost a few pounds, so I kept going. Here I am about 14 months later and 50 pounds lighter and still committed.

I was so impressed by being able to use this method for long-term weight loss when nothing else worked for me that I registered the word "exerbent" on urbandictionary.com (perhaps some day it will appear in regular dictionaries!), and instead of just blogging about my success, I created an entire web site with my story, suggestions, and so forth: http: //www. exerbent. com/ (remove the spaces).

Over the past couple years I have also collected detailed program/level data from my Schwinn exerbent and I share that information in easy-to-use viewable and printable graphs.


My best to all; I will likely link to this forum from my site.

--SDP