I don't know .. lol Never saw the gym ! For me 8 months .. My official weight in tomorrow morning .. Crap I can't wait =D But I think is secure. APRIL come Fast =D
Same weight for me over the weekend... But i'm not too upset considering eating hasn't been that great...
192.4 this morning =D .. Next week I need to be 191.4 or less I'M so freakin happy =D We will work hard again this week for my next objective !! Glad the 200 pounds are going far from me .. I can feel myself more energetic, and I cut a lot on sugar. Except around noon I like to have my fruits but it less quantity ! Keep working for next week
You are doing awesome!!!!! No wonder why you feel so proud of yourself, you deserve to. Keep going, girl!
Hi everyone! More I read these forums, more I get impressed! I'm now really happy I've found you guys! So it's time for me to join you guys! This last trip to TTR I was feeling bloated and huge, comparing to how I used to be the first three times I've been there. After that I decided to get really more serious about working out and diet. Reading your posts was really helpful to motivate me more! Time to hit the gym and prepare a sexy body for October! Cheers!
Down a little more... again... lol TRX workouts are really kicking my ass... EDIT: Welcome to the thread BrazilianBarbie. Can you do me a favor and change your avatar? Your boobs are very distracting...
LOL !! You're funny hahhha !! Ok So do you need a kick right on the but ? So you will hit the gym... I want to see you in shape in April =D We will CHEERS .. for our efforts Since you suppose to be there a couple days after us If not I will seriously have a conversation with you head to head with a Mango Tango .. Dammnn ! :sunny: Welcome here BrazilianBarbie, I hope your motivate, there's Dikfore Here, and he don't work enough hard LOL !
lol... Sounds good. Hopefully i'll be down another 15-20 lbs by April, but more importantly with a lot lower BMI... I was 38% body fat (NOT BMI) last winter, and I am down to about 31% now. Hoping to be like 25% by April...
WOOOHOOOO =D Keep in doing Hahaha, well for me I start I was 199 something 200 .. i'm only 5'5 ft! But nobody believe me .. Since I start seriously about a month ago I'M down to 191.8 2 minutes ago.. So 8 lbs is better than nothing.. If I can loose my 50 pounds I will be really happy but I know sometime shit happens, so 20 lbs less I will be at 179 and I will be really happy my BMI are around 33, but I'm very atletic, even my knees are bigger than my bf. LOL I have fat only on belly, and arms, and boobs of course lol !
This is what I have figured out for me.. I just found this info today...as I said last week I mentioned I am trying to listen to my body and I have realised that exercising makes me eat and im unable to maintain the lower calorie level I personally need to do to lose weight... perhaps this is not for everyone but make perfect sense to me.. Want to lose weight? Whatever you do, DON'T EXERCISE! Constant craving If you want to lose weight, there’s one thing you must do…stop exercising. And that’s not some trick way of saying do more weights than cardio or make sure you only run in 3-minute bursts. I mean stop exercising. Back away from the treadmill, put down the weights, put your workout clothes away and cancel your gym membership. I’ve been saying it for years. And now, a 20-year study proves I’m right. But I didn’t really need a study because I know it works. In fact, I lost almost 50 pounds without exercising at all. Dumb belle I’ve told you before how much I hate exercising. I used to really envy the people that loved it. I thought I could never get in shape or get healthier without torturing myself at the gym. But then I figured something out. I wasn’t overweight because I didn’t work out. After all, people have been thin for millennia before the advent of the treadmill, stair climber and running shoes. I was overweight because of food and how I used it. I didn’t eat for sustenance. I ate for entertainment. Once I learned how to stop doing that, the weight came off on its own. I lost about 50 pounds in 7 months and have kept it off for years. The proof is in the (chocolate) pudding Now I know what you’re thinking…that I probably ate lettuce-wrapped tofu and drank hot water with lemon. Well, I have done that (and grapefruit, apple cider, etc.), but none of that worked for me either. So I designed my own plan to address my personal issues with food. I ate literally anything I wanted, but focused on when I ate and how much. With that guiding principle in mind, here are five quick tips I built my plan around: 1. Don’t eat until you’re hungry. Don’t plan in advance to eat at a certain time. Don’t automatically eat breakfast or 3 snacks a day. Wait until your body tells you it wants food. (In fact, I never eat breakfast and I hardly ever snack.) 2. When you get hungry, don’t eat yet, wait a little longer. Not an hour but 15 or 20 minutes. Try to push off your hunger when you can. 3. Stop eating when you’re not hungry anymore. That means when the edge is off your hunger. Don’t eat until you’re full. If you eat out a lot, like I do, this usually means finishing less than half the food on your plate. 4. Always leave at least one bite on your plate. (I leave one bite of anything bigger than a cracker.) Once you decide to do this, you have to pay attention when you’re eating. You can’t just mindlessly shove food in your mouth. 5. Don’t eat after 8 pm (or 2-3 hours before you go to bed). I did this, plus a few other tricks here and there. Not only did I lose weight but my blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides all got in a healthy range (if you care about those sorts of things). All without exercising even one day. Once I lost 42 pounds, I did start exercising because I wanted to tone and found out that I liked seeing some actual definition in my arms. But for losing the weight, it’s about the food and making the changes that you’ll be able to live with long-term. The real biggest losers That was my story. Now let’s see what happens when you DO exercise. First, let’s look at some shocking numbers… Take 3,500 young subjects. Follow their weight gain and activity levels for 20 years. What do you get? A lot of people who still look a lot alike. This study, reported recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that men with low activity levels weighed, on average, less than six pounds more than men with high activity levels. Less than six pounds! In 20 years! And the average difference between their waistlines was only an inch. So you have to wonder: How can all that stairmaster/exercycle/treadmill burning of calories result in such poor results? It’s actually pretty simple. When you burn those calories, your body craves replacement calories. And you’re going to respond by eating. Maybe not at first. But the demands of your body will wear you down and win out. You’ll start by bargaining. You’ll reward yourself with a little treat here, a little treat there. But those little indulgences are exactly the fuel your body craves and needs. Before you know it, those rewards completely offset your gains. And then, if you’re anything like me, you just give up altogether. I mean what’s the point of exercising and eating right if it doesn’t show on the scale?! Pass the pizza! No question, I know from my own 20-year struggle that dealing with food and exercise separately is the best formula for effective, healthy, long-term weight loss. Sources: “Maintaining a High Physical Activity Level Over 20 Years and Weight Gain” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 304, No. 23, 12/15/10, jama.ama-assn.org
