Posts by a-yoyo

Original Post by redkitty:

Smooth Move tea in the evening before bed. Let the bag sit in the water for 10 minutes and drink slowly. Do not make a habit of it but it does work when you are feeling a bit stuffed up.

Other things that really keep me regular are steel cut oats with 2 tbs ground flax seed for breakfast. I also take 1 tbs psyllium husk powder mixed with 8 oz of water/juice first thing in the morning followed by more water. Also try first thing in the morning hot water with a slice of lemon.

And last but not least I take a strong probiotic supplement every night before bed. All of these things keep me regular everyday. I hope you feel better soon! I know it's such an awful feeling to be bloated, but something will work you just gotta try them all out!

I've always wondered where to get the flaxseeds, or the psyllium husk powder... What's probiotic?

• Current Weight: 131
• Weight loss Goal (pounds) for moth of December: 10

One thing that helped me, this might be different for you, is to snack on healthy foods and eat slowly. This sounds simple but I found, especially the slow part, really hard. For example, other than dinner (which is always veggies), I only eat fruit when I snack in the evening. So for example, when I had some grapes today, I first counted (NOT estimate) 20 grapes, placed them into a small bowl so it seems like a lot, and took about 3 bites per grape. I took the time to slowly chew each bite and then only took the second bite when I have swallowed the first. After finishing one grape, I would pause for a second, mostly because I don't eat in front of the TV/doing nothing and thus I needed to continue whatever I was doing(in this case it was homework), and sometimes when I'm focused I forgot I even had food right next to me! This type of controlled eating doesn't make me feel guilty when I reach for another 20 grapes an hour later.

Another important thing is to really learn to tell yourself NO when you want to snack on junky foods. For me, my mom eats whatever she wants and still is skinnier than me, and she loves to eat cookies and sweets and such, so they are always around in the kitchen. But I have trained myself to ignore them and only focus on my fruits. Today I even counted my grapes infront of my mom's 5 lb container of Danish shortbread cookies, MY FAVORITE type for as long as I can remember.

However, if switching to fruit is too dramatic for you, you can start with healthier, but just as sweet snacks, such as fat free light yogurt. My mom comes home late so I eat dinner pretty late (still haven't eaten and it's past 10 pm), but I've never had a problem with eating late because my mom never makes anything other than veggies for dinner. Eating healthy is a much more important focus.

I hope that helped! ^^ Good luck!! 

My motivations come from

1) looking at pictures of myself when I was 12... I was skinny back then and, not gonna lie, had great legs!!

2) anything with fashion, let it be magazines (my fav is ELLE and Lucky), models(Morgane Dubléd!), or clothing (Juicy Couture and Victoria's Secret PINK are my reasons for living), I find that I'm more renewed in my resolution to lose weight after watching VS fashion shows than anything!