Posts by mommycarlen3

climbing stairs..skip every other step so you can make deep steps. It'll jack your booty up to the ceiling big time!! it worked for me and I had a soggy bubble butt cause of my weight loss.

okay, unless you are dancing and really active all night you won't be burning any significant amount of calories off what you drank. I know an 8 oz drink (wide mouth glass) of a whiskey sour is 630 calories. A shot of vodka is 55 calories. So if you got drunk (depending on size)  I think it's safe to say you drank well over 3000 calories the other night. So any calorie burning you did manage to do didn't make much of a dent.... :( --sorry!! 

Try taking your dumbells on your walk with you...while you're speed walking do overhead presses with your thumb placed behind the bar rather in front, That little change will isolate your shoulders and triceps and biceps. It really burns bad but do as many as you can. I promise your arms will shrink, I did it this same way and lost an inch and a half in each arm in a month. My trainer is the one who taught me this trick. In fact my profile pic shows what my old arms used to look like, as of right now I have 13in arms that are much more sculpted than the blob like 14.5 inch arms I had before.

Honey, you have nothing to worry about...You are young and still trying to figure out how to be in a relationship with the opposite sex. How you feel is normal, everyone at some point in time has felt this way while dating. Sex isn't required in a serious dating relationship, so those times your feeling insecure about the solidity of what you have with your boyfriend think about it this way--take confidence in his patience and reverence for you as a person you don't have to have sex to relate to him better. Spending time and taking your time is how you form a close relationship, and if you give it (sex) all away now what will be left for him to wait for? Be glad that he is willing in spite of his "guyness" to control himself for you. Just because he isn't having sex with you doesn't mean he isn't attracted to you or is going elsewhere for satisfaction. Remember: You don't have to be a victim of your passions, you are in control of them and so is he. Sounds to me he's a KEEPER!

I tried it when I was desperate to pull my body out of a platuea, it worked and I lost about 8lbs in a week. There is a HUGE draw back though...Something called rebound water wieght retention. As soon as you stop using it you'll gain all of it back AND thensome, rebound water weight retention happens when you start taking any concentrated amounts of food or herbs that act as a diuretic in your system. Your brain turns on hormones to tell your body to hold more water cause you're loosing water too quickly (this happens even if you stay hydrated because the water you drink gets flushed out just as quickly), the longer your body stays dehydrated the more your body will produce this hormone. Herbal quick fixes such as Slimquick can work and do but you have to stay on them. When I got off SlimQuick cleanse I gained 12lbs in three days and it took nearly two weeks for it to come off, after that no more herbal cleansing for me, Thanks! You might do better eating your way to a cleaner body and drinking more water. But be careful cause some of those cleansing diets can be dangerous.

WAY TO GO!! I say screw the "nay" sayers and as long as you are maintaining your current weight whatever you eat is just fine as long as you eat well balanced meals...Congrats!!!

i agree...it really pisses me off! I am in a family of five and we've had to get saavy about how we feed our kids on a healthy budget. We do the rice and beans instead of mac n cheese, we also do lots of oatmeal (plain), which is very cheap if you buy in bulk. Low income families always are looking for ways to fill up their kids with out breaking the budget, including us. What I've found is buying in season fruits only (inbulk) and buying the 8lb bag of veggies normandy for $5.00 from costco. really helps. In fact, I spend $114.78 buying yogurt, veggies, chicken, fruit, and cheese for my kids and Hubby/Me at Costco. Then spend $95.54 at Walmart for the other items like zataranz boxes of dirty rice to mix in with the bulk rice I buy and since we don't eat the entire baked chicken for the dinner I take the left overs and mix them in with the dirty rice for dinner the next day. This lasts us two to three weeks. So eating healthy doesn't have to break the bank its all about what you choose. But I do wish the berries and certain fruits and veggies were cheaper. But from what you listed those things may be healthier to eat but you might want t o change your consumption of those items, the pricing on seafood may never go down.

my personal fave is christina aguilera-fighter....I have noticed real heavy metal helps...its angry~ so it revs you up. My husband got me started listening to metal while I lift weights, I've found I get through the burn a lot easier if I get myself a little pissed off, and well....heavy metal can do that. But A Word of Warning you'll be exhausted at the end of your workout cause you'll really push. It sounds silly and I didn't believe my hubby until he turned it on but he was right.

~~I found this explanation from one of the mediators (folks with an orange Astrix by their name), the mediators are the bunch who'd be able to tell you why the logs are set up a certain way... they help run the website~~

The green line is your Trend line -- it takes your last ten weights and calculates which direction your weight is heading.  It has the effect of evening out many of the minor fluctuations that happen with weigh ins (particularly if you are a frequent weigher).

As long as the green line is still going down, don't freak too much about blue line up and downs

well, from what i understand working at 75% for longer periods of time (60 min- utes) is much more effective than 30 minutes of 100% intensity, when it comes to burning fat. Your body is made to conserve it's fat stores at any cost to survive, which means that giving it a super intense workout will force it to tap into more nutritional stores to keep the brain and organs running properly. Most of our bodies nutrition is stored in our muscles. If you workout at 75% capacity your body will tap into its alternate energy stores (a.k.a. FAT) because it is not scrambling to keep itself operating at optimal efficiency. I hope that answers your question.

you will see some weight gain possibly a pound or two depending on how high the level of salt is in the items you ate. Not to worry! Just drink your water and exercise and it'll dissappear next day, cause its not a real pound. most things that are high in fats are also high in salts so the effect looks alot scarier than it really is. So remember if you do gain it is just water.

to everyone....you need to eat more calories than 1300 or 1000 if you are working out...the reason is because your body will cannibalize itself and your wieght loss efforts will slow dramatically....Cannibalization happens when you are not eating enough and burning too much; your body will actually tap into your muscles for nutrients to feed itself. Muscle actually contains a higher nutrition level then fat cells ...so instead of loosing fat you'll loose muscle and be at the mercy of some serious water wieght gain fluctations cause your fat cells hold water and show bloating far easier . All your working out will be for nothing, and you have to ask your self this as well, will i be able to keep up 1000 calories a day for the rest of my life? cause in order for you to stay where your at or smaller (when your body canniblizes itself) you'll have to continue to starve. Its an ugly cycle to get in. Feed Your BODY!! Tone your muscles!! and then you will have something to burn the fat. It wont do you any good not eating enough-- from what i understand the optimal calorie intake is between 1400- 1600 calories a day to loose wieght for a woman. I eat 1600 a day and run three times a week and do wieght lifting 4 times a week I have lost 20 lbs since Jan 7th 2008.

hey there! my kids are napping and my laundry is almost done so i just wanted to drop a line and say hey! you guys crack me up!! i like reading your conversations whenever i get the chance to come into the forums. its fun for me to see friends chat....Anyways, thanks for the kudos ennazus520, i needed the encouragement. I know I'm doing pretty good and staying right at 1700 cals a day --but I was feeling pretty annoyed with myself in spite of my progress. I hate being on my period this happened last month too, in spite of my wieghtloss I was feeling down on myself, I even went and remeasured myself to prove to me that I'm doing a good job (my measurements were a huge reassurance) and I found myself STILL dissappointed. But Today is a better day!!

MY husband has noticed too  which made me smile *giggle*...I know I'm doing great, I just need to hang in there till my period passes so I can stop being annoyed with myself. Periods SUCK!!!!