Posts by slonik

Thhq ... It is great you lost that much weight! Years ago before I had kids:) I took a class how to lose weight by counting calories and our nutritionist told us to eat not more then 1000 and use BMR of the "goal weight".. After 4 months I lost  40 pounds, I did not eat more then 1000 and made sure I eat enough fiber and at least about 30 gm of protein a day.. So, it was pretty healthy diet - lean meat and lots of veggies! Eating 1400-1500  never worked for me... I would lose first couple pounds and then the weight loss would stop...

Actually, there are researchers showing that the less we eat the longer we live:)

You are very pretty young lady!

Sleep longer, feel better, lose weight faster!

Original Post by fantoom:

Yeah I spent a whole week trying to figure out if I was going to let myself have wine tomorrow or not. Well, I've reached a decision and unsurprisingly I'm going to have a glass..or two, knowing myself. The bad thing is, after a few glasses, I tend to lose my guard about the food portions.

 Try to make a commitment to have wine after certain time in the evening (I do 9 pm) and give yourself a promise not to have any snacks with it.... Just think about wine as it is your snack!!! "The snack of the day"

ohtobethinagain
My doctor says: sleep as long as you need!  and you will start losing weight faster! First, you have less time for thinking about food or eating. Second, the body recovers itself and uses the needed storing nutrients while we sleep.. Third, it helps women to look fresh and young!

We are all different, I personally do not eat breakfast as I am never hungry in the morning... I hate to eat when I am not hungry! I enjoy my cup of tea.. sometimes with a whole grain cracker... and I have a meal later afternoon... When I tried to force into myself the "healthy breakfast" - I felt tired and wanted to eat more and more.. it always ruins my day... Well, but I do have my supper very late, after 9-10pm... as I go to bed late as well... 7 years ago, when I first started to count calories I used to eat around 10-11 pm.... and I used to save 200-250 calories for that time - I lost 40 pounds withing 5 months...

Thanks! It is cool! I had a goal to lose 40 pounds by 25th of December (my birthday:) ) and it showed me the 30th of Dec - very close!!!

There are books written by doctors who wrote the testimonies of those people who were fasting on water under their supervision and got rid of many diseases It does cleanse the body from the junk that you can not get rid of by just drinking water and eating fiber and healthy food.. The cleanse during long period of fast is much deeper in cells.. My friend was over 220 lb and had the worst form of diabetes, doctors could not help but prescribe medication.. plus he had asthma and it used to take him 20-30 minutes to get upstairs on the 2nd floor, he could not be active with his kids, any family events, wife .. and he was just in his early 40s.. He read some books about fasting, studied how to do it right and I think the longest he did fast was 40 days.. After that he became a new man with great eating habits (no junk, no bad stuff) and lost 60lb, got rid of diabetes and asthma, and became physically very active! One of my friends was an alcoholic and smoker, after 3 weeks of fasting she quite both and never started again... she loves to fast once 3-4 months.. My neighbour for 11 years could not have kids, she spent 21 days fasting in one of the clinics and 2 months later got pregnant..    And I do agree - fasting is not for everybody.. Some people can not skip lunch physically or mentally, they can not go even a day without food.. We all are different!

 abunaimah

You fast for 30 days .. you do not eat for 30 days at all or you do not eat just during the day? It would be 2 different things As an Orthodox Christian I fast every Wednesday and Friday, plus there are 4 long fasts during the year.. we do not eat any animal products and trying to eat as less as we can.. But it is not the same as you would not eat AT ALL for 3-7-14 days.. the body reacts differently!

Wow! I moved to USA from Russia 6 years ago and never heard from anyone about fasting! I thought only Russians are crazy enough to do it!:) I used to fast and the longest I went was 14 days, but first 7 days out of 14 I was on so called "dry fast" - no water.. It helped me to get into fast without water first 2-3 days.. I MISS the feeling of fasting.. it has been 2 years since my last fast! I had some friends in Russia who used to support me, here it is much harder..

I used to fast with the purpose to fix my metabolism, lose weight and clean my body, I read a lot of books about fasting and found that fasting regularly helps to keep metabolism going! I lost about 40-45 pounds withing 3 months (what I did is I fast 5-7 days every 2-3 weeks.. ) and what helped me not to gain weight back is to fast 1 day a week (Monday works great) and counting calories.. I would not eat more then 1000-1200 first 1-2 weeks after fast, then I would eat 1400-1600 but I did not eat more..

I think you should count calories and increase the amount with each week... And, next time when you are ready for the next fast would you let me join you?