Posts by plumtree13

your probably able to eat less and be more conciouse of your diet because you've been working out every day, not because of the hoodia.

save your money and do this weight loss right girl.

hi there girl!

This is all a matter of choice here.  There are many reasons people do and people dont, just make sure you know who YOU are and what you are trying to stand for in every aspect of life.  What image do you want others to see you as?  I'm a girl in the military and the military is known for party'ing it up sometimes worse than college kids.  They do it for the feeling of course, not the taste. I don't participate and I still have many friends who except me.  I dont drink for religious reasons but there are many things you can say to people who ask why you dont want to.  It's pretty unhealthy, fattening and dangerous. Most people dont notice your not drinking after a while because they are so wasted, infact, I tend to be more of myself and uninhibited when there are drunk people around me because I know they wont care and I like it well enough! 

But seriously, I dont want to sway you in not doing it if you feel like you want to, but just please be careful and smart...your in college now and you need to bring your A-Game of Responsibility.  You don't want to be that ''stupid broad in the dorms" all the guys talk about.  You seem like your very well rounded and have a fantastic personality so good luck, be safe, and have fun in college-however which way you choose to have fun

huh sushi? healthy?! Can i just say SODIUM!!!!  And don't get me started on the sugars in the rice in order to make it ''sticky''.  Yeah, its way better than fried food, but if I was only worried about the calorie content alone, I'd stick with a slice of pizza anyday over 1 6pc california roll.  Just dont be suprised if you get on the scale the next day or so and see that you've gained 10 lbs lol, i'm exaggerating a little on that.......but I guess you'd have to analyze what you ate as far as the sushi...some of that stuff is good, some isn't.  Be carefull on what ''seems'' healthy....sometimes it's not.

ps, I DO LOVE SUSHI though....but I realize that it's only good in moderation....as with all the foods I love to eat....sigh.....if only in a perfect world....

Yeah that WILL happen but I promise you by the time 2 months go around, you will realize that your getting better at your choices, your needing to eat less and you have more energy to burn at your work outs.  STICK WITH IT! PLEASE!!!!!!!

 If you still have the binging problem maybe your body is craving/in need of a particular food and nutrient that you may not be getting enough of so just try out new foods or give your fridge a food makeover and stock things that maybe you wouldn't care for or binge on, that way the food you love is no longer available to you.  Some times, you have to treat yourself like a child and say "No. You're not allowed to eat this or that, put it back"

I bought foods that didn't have any sugar because I remembered years ago my grandma (she's NOT diabetic at all) cut out real sugar almost completly from her diet and she is in amazing great shape.  So I figured since I have her same type of body structure, that'd I'd buy only foods that had no added sugar. Boy what a difference that made!! I simply just tricked my body, which had been so used to processing the same types of foods I loved and storing them in my body lol!

Did you lose a few lbs and then gain back more?  This happened to me (10 lbs difference! I cried) and I thought it was due to the fact that for a month  I'd been on calorie count but I was still having my bursts of bringes and thought I was gaining it from that.  But our bodies will not adjust so quickly (remember, some of the small bits of lbs we put on happen maybe in a year! But it ads up!) So it wasn't until almost 3 months later, one day I realized that my boobs where smaller and I thought I had imagined my skin felt a bit different (a little looser i guess) and thats when people started to notice (im 21, 5''8'' and lost 22 lbs and didn't realize!) .  Especialy people who only hadn't really seen me in about two months came up to me and were like "WOW'' and boy that little moment on their faces just made me SOOOO motivated.

So if your losing motivation and this website isn't doing much for you, just think of someone, ANYONE that you havn't seen in a long while and imagine if you walked up to them in your new toned body and relish what they're reaction might be!!! It's SO great.

I agree with jamminatorr, I just want to feel comfortable in clothes again!

I hear the average american woman is a size 14 i think? somewhere around there. Anyways, I always have a hard time finding my size (perhaps because its a popular size?) I see a lot of 9's and 5's....I guess I just want to feel more special and unique and somehow I believe I'll be more special if I were thinner. SAD though huh? Well there is my honest, uncensored opinion of 'Why".

I know its not good to think that, so right now my goal is just to get a healthy body fat range.

jeez did you guys get in a really bad 'food' fight at school when you were young?! Most of the foods you've all described you can find at school menus in the cafeteria. A strange relation to the horrors of growing up I suppose? lol

CELERY.

Cant stand HEARING it or SEEING it be eaten by others around me.

yeah i ride! I LOVE IT!! It's totally worth getting your liscense Remember your TCLOCKS and such lol, and the good thing about when I did my motorcycle saftely course was that it took up most of my day and I logged like 5 hours each day on my activity meter and burned a good amount of calories You don't realize how much strength and muscles you use while on a bike!  Altho your wrists are gonna be kinda sore for a couple weeks when you start riding regularly but it will be worth it.

Curious: Did you walk it? Run it all? Or little of both?

It took me longer to walk a mile^_^ I guess it depends on how tall you are too....

About a month.

I had gone from no activity and no restrictions on food to all of a sudden going to the gym for 30 minutes a day for six days outa the week and completly making over my fridge supplies to substitute EVERYTHING for much much healthier foods.

Lost 8lbs initialy by the end of the month and then it slowed down...and I got annoyed that it was barely 1lb a week but the compliments started to ROLL IN!!

Yes, definitly be patient.

People dont compain when they go as little over as you did.  The worry starts when its over a 1000 calories more. Thats hardly a bing girl.

Thank you for all your encouragement on this but remember, I'm not 100% sure if it was the Sea-Thin that made my weight jump so rapidly.  I wanted to post this topic because I HAD tried to look on the internet to see if anyone else had tried it even though it is still really new on the market.  I found nothing, and I am basing this strickly on my experiences while ON this supplement and I hope to caution others when they browse the weight loss section....

I'm definitly not taking it or anything else right now and still eating right and excersising.  I am definitly new to the whole weight loss thing since all the other times I've lost weight, it's usually from grueling physical training with my job and I really didn't NEED to watch what I ate or a pill.  So I definitly learned my lesson on deit supplements-either weight loss ones, or the ones that claim to speed up metabolism-I'm not touching any of it!!!

Mmmm, assuming that you hardly ever ran as a sport before, I would say just be carefull at first.  Listen to your body and always give yourself every other day to recoup especialy if your gonna up your run time in so fast a time and in twice a day!

You know, always stretch before running and always give yourself a 5 min walk time after your finished with your run (it's the best way to keep down the sorness too) pretty basic stuff.

Once you start going at it, you'll also most likely encounter what is known as "shin splints".  You know, the achy burny sharpy pain in the front of your lower leg.  It happens when your pushing yourself too hard in a short amount of time or running for like 6 days a week without building up to it.  Just lengthen your strides and breath in deeper breaths to try and lessen the pain from them.  If its' pretty bad, then stop because Shin Splints can get pretty sever and even incapacitate people for a period of time.

And you know that sharp stabbing pain you get in your ribs sometimes? Just practice good breathing posture.  Breath in DEEP through your nose and exhale deep through your mouth. It's gonna seem like your suffocated at first and it will be uncomfortable but , wolla, after doin it at a constant rate, you should get rid of those nasty pains!

Also note that running on a treadmill is a LOT different than running out in the wild.  I've heard people swear by this: running out the nature burns more calories in the same amount of time they would be on a treadmill in a gym! Because you have a visual end to your destination, I guess people are more excited and push harder.  Also, running in a light summer rain is so EMPOWERING! Try it sometime, you'll definitly feel ''tough'' ^_- like in those gatorade commercials LOL!

But please don't run when lighting is an issue. Thats a leading cause of death in joggers if you live a state that is prone to them (like Florida) no kidding.

When you feel like your finally almost like super man or atleast a pretty hard core runner and runnin', always remember that it's not over.  My mom runs marathons (its like 26.2 miles, cant quite remember) and she describes some weird thing that happens to runners when you try and run that long and your not used to it.  It's call "the WALL".  It's were your body has burned up all it's calories from that day (most of it is the food you ate pretty recently) and there is nothing left but to have your body start eating itself to get energy to keep moving forward. 

 Sounds gross, but you'll feel like crap and litteraly want to curl in a ball when you 'hit' this "Wall".  Don't be discouraged though, because you can train your body to be less effected by this (or this would be the time to gulp down that nasty energy goop stuff-eww) and you'll be able to keep it going until the finish line. Not to mention you'll burn a lot of calories runnin' a marathon!!!

Well sorry this is long, but thats all I can think of really right now.  Good luck in your running adventures!!

PS get a good pair of runnin' shoes. Most important thing to invest in.

I've been doing this for about the same time and I've learned that its not really WHAT I'm eating thats a big change-I love healthy food just as much as non healthy really- but I'm having a HUGE problem with portion control.  I think this is why I too havn't lost a whole lot and I've been working my but off 6 days a week at the gym!  I just have to change how much I'm used to eating in one sitting!

It's good you've got 4 lbs down in three weeks! Thats a little more than 1 lb a week which is soo good.  That means this weight will be harder to gain back because I'm pretty sure your doing this the 100% RIGHT way.  Don't give in if it doesn't seem to work as much as you hoped! I won't if you don't!

WOW thank you all!  It's great to have some advise and support pouring in especialy since I'm pretty darn nervous that my efforts will be futile when I go. I just hope that if I DO lose the weight while on deployment, that when I get back, I can KEEP it off! LOL!

THANKS!

Im 5'8, in average shape and hardly outa breath when I walk on the treadmill but I have to do a pretty brisk walk with long strides to keep up on 4.0.  without falling off!

No worries.