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ORIGINAL: slaverosebeauty

I can't totaly empathize, but, I do know ways of dropping weight and gainign muscle, they are simple ways and work VERY well. I use them most of the time for normal stuff and living, or when I have a shoot, I just do as many as I can in a short period of time. I also get winded walking for short distances, I am asthmatic and my asthma is slowing getting undercontrol, so hardcore worksouts are still out of bonds for now.

Simpel little things ~

• take a bit, then put your fork down and your hands in you lap, chew and swallow completly before picking up your fork.spoon again; this gives you stomach the chance to feel 'full' if thats what you are going for and to savor your food.
  
• eat until you are staisfied, NOT until you are stuffed. this may take a bit of time to understand you own body clues.

What's the difference? I'm not satisfied unless i'm stuffed, and that usually takes a lot of food. :( What can I look for in a difference?

• for every glass of soda you drink, drink 2 glasses of water; plus drink one large glass of water before every meal

Water is no problem for me as I happen to like water. I have one of those huge 32 oz bottles with a sip top and usually drink 4 - 5 a day.

• use smaller plates and bowls, if you are still hundry after eating, wait 20 minutes before going back for 2nds, or remove the tempatation all together, after plateing up food, then put the rest in the fridge, so its not out and the temptation is out of sight.

Wouldn't it be better to just not go back for seconds? That of which i'm completely guilty of.

• when you are driving or eatching tv, clinch your butt muscles at the stoplights/comercials.
  
• when you are watching a movie, get on the treadmill and walk at a compfortable pace turning the movie, when/if anyone is running on the screen, run with them.
  
• do NOT tell yourself I will NOT have 'xyz' once you do that, you crave it more, instead say, "I will have one scoop' or 'one handfull' etc, that way you KNOW your limit and put the rest of the temptation away
  
• keep carrot sticks and celery sticks in the fridge where you can grab them, use a little low fat dressing to dip...
  
• Park a farther back than normal when shopping, etc.

Ok.. I have a bunch more little things.. but hopefully that willg et you started. Good luck.

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ORIGINAL: HutchGarahl

• eat until you are staisfied, NOT until you are stuffed. this may take a bit of time to understand you own body clues.

What's the difference? I'm not satisfied unless i'm stuffed, and that usually takes a lot of food. :( What can I look for in a difference?

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• use smaller plates and bowls, if you are still hundry after eating, wait 20 minutes before going back for 2nds, or remove the tempatation all together, after plateing up food, then put the rest in the fridge, so its not out and the temptation is out of sight.

Wouldn't it be better to just not go back for seconds? That of which i'm completely guilty of.

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ORIGINAL: slaverosebeauty

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ORIGINAL: HutchGarahl

• eat until you are staisfied, NOT until you are stuffed. this may take a bit of time to understand you own body clues.

What's the difference? I'm not satisfied unless i'm stuffed, and that usually takes a lot of food. :( What can I look for in a difference?

Nope. You THINK you are. BIG difference. Your body doesn't need as much food as you think it does. Mys on can eat MORE food in one sitting than I can, he needs it, he burns it off faster than I do. Satisyied is {bsaed on 1 to 10 scare... 1 being starving/famished and 10 being overfull/stuffed; you want to stay about 6 or 7}, you want to be comforatble, but NOT so full that you have 'food coma' as my best friend and I say. Where you are so full, you think 'I won't need ot eat for days, etc.'

Boy have I got my work cut out for me.  I have eaten so much i've made the statement.."I can't eat another bite" or.."Won't eat for a couple days", yet find myself digging through the fridge a couple hours later.

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• use smaller plates and bowls, if you are still hundry after eating, wait 20 minutes before going back for 2nds, or remove the tempatation all together, after plateing up food, then put the rest in the fridge, so its not out and the temptation is out of sight.

Wouldn't it be better to just not go back for seconds? That of which i'm completely guilty of.

Use a smaller plate, if the plates you use now are 10in in diameter plated, use 6in plates, do NOT 'fill' aka 'mound' your food. Also, remember to NOT eat off other people's plates. Leave a little bit of off on your plate, the world will NOT coem ot an end if you leave a few bites on your plate. If you are guilty of going back for seconds, then plate the food in the kitchen and put the rest in the fridge.

That's one thing I don't do. I have this thing about catching germs. But ye...I can do this...smaller plates.  OK! I will try to do this.

If you want more tips, PLEASE email me, I have a bunch. Very easy ones.

I will...thanks.  But for now, i'm heading for the rack. 7am comes early and the fish don't wait. Got a pole just dying to get tossed.

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ORIGINAL: santalia

Greetings

i have quite a bit of weight to lose. It's not because my Master necessarily wants me to, but because i know i need to for health reasons. i find my hips knees and ankles are aching and with the least bit of strenuous activity (or even an acre walk to the back part of my family's property where we grow our blackberries) i'm winded. i'm tired of feeling like this, so i'm going to lose weight.

i'm about 265-270 and wear a US size 24 pant now. i want to be back where i was in high school, which was about 160-170 and a size 16 pant.

How do i plan to achieve this? *sigh*    any way i can.

Seriously, though. i have already cut out all candies, cakes, and stuff like that because they just don't seem very appealing to me anymore. i have not yet cut out my beloved Dr. Pepper. i know i have to and will be doing so immediately because it's loaded with all that extra sugar i don't need. Over the past week i've been taking walks to the blackberry patch and back (which, as i said, is about an acre one way, so total of 2-acre walks so far). i don't want to overstress my body at the very beginning. If i do, as i have done in the past, i end up hurting and not wanting to continue. So, i'll begin my exercise routine by taking a walk to the blackberries at least 4 times a week, if not every day, then extend it to longer and longer walks.

i want to lose enough to be down one to two pant sizes by August. That is when i go to visit my Master and i want to be looking better than i do now for Him.

i will be posting updates and information on what seems to be working for me, and what isn't. One thing i know for certain that works for me is eating one pint of blackberries a day. Having a blackberry farm has its advantages *smiles*  Last year when i was doing nothing all day every day but sitting in the booth selling blackberries, i'd eat about a pint of them every day and by the end of the season i'd lost 10 pounds. And i did nothing but adding blackberries to my existing diet! :) Did i say i love blackberries? lol...

Any encouragement will be very much welcome and appreciated.

-santalia{JR}

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ORIGINAL: CassandraAlexis

Currently I am swearing by Sparkpeople.com . They will do all your nutritional and fitness calculations for you. However, I wouldnt use their suggested meal plan, you can turn it off and do your own and aim to stick in the ranges they give you. Spark group Love to Cook and the message board of recipe requests is a great place to get ideas. Their offshoot Sparkrecipes.com is also a great place to find recipes.

Work your way off of soda type stuff and to water really helps, need to be doing a minimum of 8 glasses a day, most people need even more than that. Generally the rule is for every 25 pounds you are over your weight range you should add one more glass. But work up to that over time, otherwise you are going to feel pretty sloshy and take up residence in the bathroom.

Making exercise a habit is another thing. Start with 15 minutes and work your way up.

If you want to know more about SparkPeople let me know.... that place has been so motivational and helpful, lots of information in one spot, best of all, its all FREE!  

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ORIGINAL: santalia

But, i was contacted by someone who suggested a regimen that seems like it would be easy to follow. i'm going to try it and see how it works. It's a 7 day regimen that has specific things i can eat every day, naming pretty much exactly what i can eat that particular day during the regimen. So, i figure why not give it a try? i'll post here as i'm going through it to let you all know how it's working. i'll be starting tomorrow and finishing the week-long regimen next Saturday.


-santalia{JR}