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MarksFantasyGirl -> RE: weight loss advice (1/3/2009 4:55:35 PM)
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This is kind of my fast reply as some of you people write too much! lol
I agree with the Doctor thing. Just talk to your doctor. Find out about your thyroid. It can be a big factor. I told my Dr that I was really tired (at my 6 week check up after my son was born) as a joke... I mean come On, I had a 6 week old. Of COURSE I was tired. But he sent me to get some blood work done, and I found out I had Thyroid problems, and high colesterol. I was trying to lose wieght for over 6 months on the Weight Watchers diet (that I followed religiously), and after that, I found that I had GAINED 2 pounds. It sucked, but that is my thyroid messing with me. My new years resolution is to get back on my meds for that, and go back on my diet. It is a pain to count those points up, but if you do it right, and make up a couple meals, weigh and measure them out into freezer and microwave safe bowls, and freeze them, it's really not so bad. I made my own TVdinners. I would make enough for the whole family, but I was the only one that was eating it, so I would freeze the rest. Made it easy to eat just what I should.
If you are prone to snacking (like I am), Get yourself a hot air popcorn popper, some loose popcorn (I baught a 50 lb bag at Sams club. Yes, It is a LOT of popcorn, but If you can get an air tight container, it keeps for ever), and some parkay spray. Pop a bowl, spray it with the "butter" and sprinkle some salt. You burn more calleries chew the popcorn than you actually take in from it (not to mention the effort it takes to pick it out of your teeth!), and there's not fat, calleries, of trans fats in the spray. It really helps. keep a bowl sitting around so that you can just pick at that instead of any other junk.
Cranberry Juice is good at detoxing your body. (Which is why it is good for UTIs and such) Grapefruit as well. If you can stand it. I don't care for either one. So water helps.
Edit because I forgot what I was going to write! lol
If you are planning on the low carb thing, be sure to check with your doctor first. I tried to do that once, and my bloodsugar dropped so low, that I almost passed out. After just one day. I woke up the next morning, and I could barely get out of bed. But I was taking advise from someone that took it to extremes, and ate no carbs all week, and overloaded herself on the weekends.... Moron.... lol
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