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Diet & Fitness
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:55
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By George Skye "Skywill" Williams
I never had a weight problem until I turned 40. Being over 6 ft tall, everyone would tell me I could carry the 292 lbs I was pulling around daily. I have always worked out and exercised at least a few times per week, but as I got older, I started gaining around the midsection.
Being so handsome, I have never had a problem with the ladies, as they seem to just love the big man. After I broke my back on a training mission, however, my weight became a major issue and I sought every way known to man to get the belly off.
In my struggle to reduce the spare tyre, I joined a gym and started to eat less. This improved my weight a little, but it was a serious battle. I would come home at night hungry, and hit the fridge, and was getting up in the middle of the night to snack. I was going nowhere. I kept experimenting with all sorts of diets. You name it, I tried it. Then one day I was at a seminar about probiotics.
What are probiotics, you ask? Probiotics are defined as friendly micro-organisms that live in the intestinal tract in symbiotic relationships with humans and animals. In a healthy body, these beneficial bacteria compose most of the gut micro flora and efficiently protect digestive health. A lack of healthy intestinal flora is the result of the use of antibiotics, processed foods, and poor diet. People so affected often suffer from intestinal discomfort, yeast infections, Candida overgrowth, constipation, bloating, and weight gain. Reintroducing probiotics quickly normalizes digestive health, prevents infections, strengthens the immune system, and helps with weight loss.
Studies have found that the type of food you eat can affect the type of bacteria in your stomach in as little as 24 hours, which can make gaining weight easier and losing it harder. This means even if you normally eat nothing but salads, one junk food binge may cause a serious shift in your body, making it easier to pack on the pounds. What does all of this mean? It further substantiates the importance of a healthy diet every day.
Now, I eat more vegetables, especially okras. Sometimes I would eat a whole pound and add broccoli and other vegetables like pumpkin and squash. I even mix red sweet potato and white sweet potato with black beans, or chunks of young green bananas topped with cilantro for flavour. I am always looking for ways to combine vegetables and season them. Broccoli slivers are crunchy and can be substituted for rice and make a great base for a really nice soup. All that, and a steam fish on top make a nice lunch. And If I am in Antigua, I stop at Rambo in Cassada Gardens. On a Saturday, night no one can beat Rambo’s steam fish with either spinach or okras or both.
As I struggled to lose the weight, bouncing up and down and every which way, I decided to try probiotics not for weight loss, but to keep me healthy, protect me from disease, and build my immune system. The key to staying thin seems to be avoiding the junk, and behaviour modification, ie learning how to eat all over again.
A few years ago, I spent about six months in Antigua, and I noticed a lot of amputees. Diabetes was everywhere. I investigated, and believe I have found the problem - bread, butter and cheese... and let’s not forget sausage, a real killer (nothing but flavoured fat) and nobody love more rice pudding (blood pudding) than me.
Today, I have cut back on eating rice, and eliminated anything made with bleached white flour. Last year. I only consumed about two lbs of sugar and plan to use no more than a half of pound this year. The truth is we need to totally eliminate sugar in our diet. By 2012, I plan to do just that.
In addition to diet, fat-causing stomach bacteria can also be increased by stress and lack of sleep. Probiotics have a lot of potential to impact our health in many areas. Research is still new and emerging, but we do know that probiotics support healthy balanced digestion.
Last year on Thanksgiving and Christmas, I was in Antigua and missed that big feast I grew accustomed to in America. That seems to have jump started my weight loss. When I got back, l decided to purchase Culturelle, an over-the-counter form of probiotic. Each capsules contains 10 billion units of good bacteria. I have been taking 20 billion units per day for the last two weeks, and this morning I weighed in at 248 lbs, down from 292, and have lost about 10 of it in the last two weeks. On top of that, I feel fantastic. I feel 20 years younger, and now I’m not only the most handsome man to ever come out of Antigua, but I’m leaner, more relaxed, and clear headed.
I will be back for Valentine's Day, so gentlemen hide your women, because Skyefather soon come. (Not kidding.) In the past few days, I have been dropping about a half a pound a day, and I have not exercised since I came back on New Year's Day. I have started posting my weight on the wall at work. My co-workers stopped laughing about a week ago. Some of them have started saving my lunch money.
I believe this new revelation is fascinating, and I just wanted to share it.
“Don’t just tell the world, show the world.”
Ref: Eur

J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jun;64(6):636-43. Epub 2010 Mar 10.
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tp://www.steposs.com/2008/03/28/probiotics-can-assist-in-weight-loss/
ellisonfitness.com/2009/09/.../top-probiotics-food-supplement/
32 Comments In This Article
Skyewell
If you want to know how water behaves, pick up a physics textbook and a general chemistry text book; it's all in there.
www.randi.org
PFKNR
Skyewell
I have to ask: you continue to refer to your group and your work. Are you, by any chance, involved with the marketing/sales of these probiotic pills you so boldly extoll?
PFKNR
@ @ PFKNR...LET'S MAKE A BET
If Caribarena will publish it we both will research the Video. if I post it within the week. You buy me Lunch. pepper pot and Funji. Since I am not in Antigua everyday. You will take it and give the lunch money to may assistant, Jessi at my Antigua Office, deal and if I don't. your call of equal reasoning..DEAL ?
My way and Tenman witness please. If He say Deal I will do my best. I may not find the video but I will try hard Since I was a little hard, I did not verifi that the link I gave you guys was not the one I wanted you to see.
Skyewill
@ my way of helping
jlt
@ PFKNR
Skyewill
@ PFKNR
Skyewill
Skyewell
You posted a video about prayers and snow flakes when asked for evidence to support your claims about boiling water altering its "cels" (sic), now you are telling me to do my own research. I have. Over several years. There is no foundation for any of the claims you are making about water. You are making supernatural claims without offering any supporting evidence. Please give me some links to look at which support your claims, since your claims about the nature of water are quite arbitrary and unsupported by actual science, it is impossible for me to know where to look for valid research. Help me out a bit here.
PFKNR
@ PFKNR,
PS @ PFKNR, USD please - What your man wife name?
Skyewill
@ Skyewill
Morris
Mr. Skyewell
1.) that is not research. That is a guy posting words followed by pictures of water crystals. There is no experimental procedure outlined, there is no independent confirmation of his findings (whatever they may be), there's nothing which can be replicated. How can an adult be persuaded by such a vapid show of pointlessness?
2.) The physical nature of water is well defined and REAL experimentation over several hundreds of years directly refutes your assertions. The video is nonsense.
3.) Yes, yogurt has active cultures. So what? How does that in any way validate your health claims about said cultures? It is a non sequitur; the mere existence of yogurt says nothing about it's health benefits.
PFKNR
@ Skyewill
I think it was national geographic and this man was bottling water directly from an underground spring. I am not sure if he was talking about the molecular make up of the water but i know he said because of processing his competitors had to add back all those elements that usually comes in pure water back into it. while his spring water had them all in naturally. They even showed them adding the things (iron, sulphur and a few more) things back into the water. but i think the molecular make up stays the same, just the additional elements which accompany good water are lost, so both of you seem to be right according to the documentary on national geographic on netflix.
my way of helping
@ TC check out the vedio
skyewill
Check this on water PFKNR,
@ human good show chap
skyewill
@ Tenman
skyewill
@skyewill
TC
skyewill
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tenman
human,,,,my way of helping, JILL,
skyewill
@ PFKNR
skyewill
@ Which Photo,
skyewill
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human
excellent
I also started running, more serious than ever in life before then. I'm now at 170 for the past couple years, and at 38 I would far outpace myself at any other age. I'm now up to 10 miles running when I train regularly....
human
I am very happy you wrote this article and hope that Antiguans at home will read it carefully instead of grieving and wondering where they will have dinner since KFC was renovating their building.
JILL
Really?
Umm, I'd love to see that research. Water is a simple molecule, it is not comprised of cells. Boiling pure water does nothing to change its molecular structure, only the average speed at which the molecules are moving. After it cools down, it is impossible to tell boiled water apart from water which has not been boiled.
You may want to hold back on the probiotic testimonials and promises of good health. Most of the claims of probiotics are based on very limited experimental data and unfounded extrapolation. The article you link to is very limited in its scope and looks at a very small sample size, so drawing any conclusions on the findings is a bit premature. I hope the hype about probiotics is warranted, but like most forms of "alternative medicine", I think we'll find over time that they are not all that remarkable.
PFKNR
photo clarification
Which Photo
@ SKYE-WILL
I congratulate you on the perseverance and dedication, I have witness people trying to loose weight and it was hard so i commend you and know you will continue to practice what you preach.
Your Article shows love and need to help. Thank you so much.
my way of helping
@ Beauty
Skyewill
@ Skyewill
Beauty
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tenman
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@ morris
CORRECTI ON: My first name is George Skye, (like Betty-Sue, Mary-Ann) Last name is Williams
Skye is not a nick name. and the reason they call me SKYEWILL is because in my early Air Force days, Col Bradley was assign to manage projects. he called me "the get it done guy" so I was promoted ahead of contemporaries so I could be in charge. So when the question was asked who will get the mission complete the answer was: SKYE WILL and my friends call me Skye Williams, I stop telling lies over 10 years now, never been a thief, Big fan of God, Six Sigma Master, jedi Knight.
Skyewill
@ Skyewill
However, great article!
Morris
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