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Location: Somewhere around here | Ok so this is the first time in my life I've officially been on a diet and I despise it. My in-laws did Atkins a few times and always lost weight on it so I decided to try it out. A week and a half in, I've lost a few pounds but man do I hate it. I'm so ready just to say screw it and carve out some time just to start working out every day, or at least every other day.
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Location: Missouri | I am a solid believer that you should never diet. I believe that you should change your eating habits so that they reflect healthier decisions with the occasional treat. By constantly dieting, you are not learning how to eat properly. You are essentially purging and then binge eating to make up for what you have lost and gained. Your body may not loose as much weight immediately by eating cleaner and healthier, but over time your body will be healthier and more productive compared to just cutting out certain foods to loose weight quickly. Diets are dangerous and should be avoided. Eating for fuel and health is more ideal then just purging your body of carbs, sugars, protein, or what ever other fad there is. |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | I hear ya! Been trying to lose weight for the last couple of months.... I am on a reduced diet and try to stay right around 1500 cals a day. But it's not doing squat....
I started playing with the Wii fit and doing some yoga every other day and some of the other exercises on there and my weight just goes up and down.... The biggest problem is that I hate vegetables........ and love pastas and bread and everything else that is bad for you...
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Location: Kentucky | mlh0972 - 2016-01-28 7:52 AM I am a solid believer that you should never diet. I believe that you should change your eating habits so that they reflect healthier decisions with the occasional treat. By constantly dieting, you are not learning how to eat properly. You are essentially purging and then binge eating to make up for what you have lost and gained. Your body may not loose as much weight immediately by eating cleaner and healthier, but over time your body will be healthier and more productive compared to just cutting out certain foods to loose weight quickly. Diets are dangerous and should be avoided. Eating for fuel and health is more ideal then just purging your body of carbs, sugars, protein, or what ever other fad there is.
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| I have tried just about everything "diet" and none of that works. Eating clean and exercise like the above reply is what works. Been meal prepping and working out everyday for a solid month now, and even though its slow coming off I know I am doing it the right way this time.
You can really do low carb if you lead a super active lifestyle. Your body has to have good carbs for fuel. Low carb works really well for a sedintary lifestyle. |
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 Straight Shooter
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Location: SW North Dakota | Take a look at the South Beach Diet. The name sounds like it's another crazy program, but there's really nothing to buy except groceries. The basic principle is all about getting rid of processed, refined foods and make your body spend time (and energy!) digesting whole foods. Healthy carbs and healthy fats. There are phases to SBD to help re-set your metabolism. I did SBD in 2004 and lost 40 pounds in 4 months (11 in the first 2 weeks). Cravings for junk food went away, and it was pretty easy to find the right kinds of food anywhere, once you figured out how to make good choices. Definitely more of a lifestyle change than a diet.
For the most part, the weight has stayed off by just remembering the basis of food selection. If I creep up a few (or 10) pounds, I do phase one for a week and P2 until it's gone. It's really not that hard once you figure it out, and after about a week, you'll be amazed at how good you feel! |
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| I'm a Weight Watcher! It's totally NOT a diet. It teaches you how to eat correctly in order to lose weight, and then maintain after you reach your goal.
THAT is the KEY! You can eat anything you want in moderation, there are no limits, no "NO" foods! I'm not saying it's easy, but it sure is better than a Diet that tells you NO, you can't have this, that, and that! This way, if I have a craving, I can have it, as long as it's small! |
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What Name?
Posts: 1994
| Your "Diet" is 90% OF the workout. What you fuel your body with is very important. I agree with the healthy choice method. Diets are based on us behaving perfectly, and lets face it... no one does that. Then you feel super guilty for having a piece of chocolate, because you couldn't stop yourself from eating the entire bar because you never treat yourself.
Meal planning is what I do. Two things I did. Got really creative with chicken and turkey. Got really creative with veggies. =) I cook twice a week, and ta-da! I can focus on my work, school and gym schedules.
Good luck to you though! I can't diet for crap, but meal planning I've been doing for a few years now. |
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Location: TEXAS | Girls, ya'll need to give zeal a try! Taste great and soooo easy. I make my lunch and breakfast with a shaker! Doesn't get any easier. With each shake only 100 calories and only 3 net grams of carbs you are sure to lose weight.   |
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Location: ~Kansas~ | You should never feel like you are dieting... I did that for years.... with Zeal, Plexus, body by vi, Advocare, Atkins, Medifest, Ideal Protein. you name it I tried it. they all made me sick, or put me in the hospital and seemed to be such a quick fix that I gained it all back plus some after I quit taking the products. You should never be hungry either.
I started eating healthier and less in April 2013 along with getting proper supplementation into my body as it was lacking in all depts. I have lost 70lbs and 54 inches for the 1st time in years I have lost inches and weight. I have 100 more pounds to go but still a work in progress.
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| I am right there with you!!! I have been on a "diet" for almost a month now. The first few weeks were miserable, I felt bad for my husband dealing with my crankiness. But this past week I finally feel the change. I stopped weighing myself every single morning hoping for a change and feeling let down when I didn't see it. I have found numerous websites that use healthy alternatives which are shockingly good tasting and quick. I have only lost about 2 pounds this month, but I feel a ton better which is all the motivation I need.
What has also helped is the fitbit! I have daily competitions with friends which make me get up and at least walk. The competitive side comes out so every evening when my household is asleep I find myself simply walking around my living room. My dogs seem to appreciate the fitbit too, they get plenty of walks now. :)
Please feel free to message me if you would like some help with healthy recipes! You don't need a shake/patch/pill to make healthy lifestyle changes or lose weight. |
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Location: MD | change your lifestyle. I agree with MLH. |
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| I recently lost 100 pounds since June. I " Started" with the medifast program. I do well with structure and programs. Tell me what to do and what not to do and I can follow the directions. lol Basically you eat 5 smaller meals daily a few hours apart then you have one bigger well balanced meal. I met my goal weight and just keep following that general guideline. I eat between 5-10 90 calorie smaller meals/snacks about every hour or so then just plan out one healthy balanced meal a day. I think before I put ANYTHING in my mouth and I weight EVERY SINGLE DAY. That way I know I am staying on track and can adjust. |
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Location: Idahome | Started the beginning of January with P90x3 and I am loving it. The workouts are only 30 minutes long 6-7 days a week. At first, waking up at 5 am was hard but now it helps start my day. Started eating healthier, no specific diet. They have a recommended calorie intake for your weight and percentages of fat, carbs, and protien to shoot for each day. Nothing specific just trying to reach those goals on a daily basis. I have found it much easier to follow eating what I want as long as it is healthier and stays within my goals for the day. We are doing a Biggest Loser contest at work and some of these ladies complain about being hungry all the time, but no matter what you say, they don't realize the starving themselves isn't doing anything for them. If you would like the name of my Beachbody coach, PM me.
ETA: I still have cheat meals but I find myself not wanting bad food as often and I don't feel the best afterwards.
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Location: 31 lengths farms | In my early 20's I had let my weight get out of hand. I grew up a gymnast and so could eat pretty much whatever I wanted and not gain a pound with the 6 day a week 5 hour workouts. Then I took a big growth spurt between my 8th grade and freshman year, went from 4'9" and 85lbs to 5'4" and 110 lbs between June and December. Took some time off from the sport because it my knees and hips hurt so badly, then when the growth spurt seemed to slow down tried to go back and struggled to the point I was missing over half the skills I needed. Took another growth spurt the next year and called it quits for good. My eating habits were hard to change and at first with the growth it didnt' catch up until my freshman year in college. Then the weight came on fast between then and around the age of 25 I was up to 185 the last time I got on a scale, I topped out height wise at 5'8". I quit getting on a scale but I know I gained some more weight after that as the jeans I was squeezing into at that time were so tight I dare not button the top button. It wASn't until I bought a younger horse to eventually take the place of my old HS rodeo mare that I realized I was handicapping her with my weight too, why would I spend money to buy a younger faster horse and "handicap" her with the same weight disadvantage. I knew myself well enough to know I dont' diet very well so I started going to a gym a night for about 30 minutes and just doing the stairmaster for @15 minutes is all I could do at first. After a month I had lost about enough weight my jeans were actually a little loose on me. It was easy to commit then to 25-30 minutes on the stairmaster and some more weight came off, I had to go buy a couple sizes smaller jeans by the 3rd month. By then it was so exciting to see the weight come off it actually made it easier to make some changes to what I ate. I still would have a hamburger but skip the fries, or I'd have the hamburger and fries and hit the stairmaster for 30 minutes, do some abs and hit the stairmaster again for another 15 minutes. Eventually the food choices became easier and easier, but I also had the candybar if I wanted the candybar. I can remember standing there looking at it asking myself "is this worth an extra 20 minutes on the treadmill tonight?" somedays it was some days it wasn't and I'd choose not to have it. All in all I ended up losing @60+ lbs in about 8 months just mostly by adding the work out on the stairmaster and then making better choices of what and how much I ate. I have kept my weight off by pretty much following these same guidelines for the last 20 years. |
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| Diets don’t work long term. Instead, educate yourself on how proteins/carbs/fats work in your body. Carbs are good if you eat the right ones and, as always, moderation.
I really, really like the book Thinner, Leaner, Stronger. It has a lot of information on diet myths, breaks food down so you can understand how it works in your body, and gives you a good place to start.
Track your food - everything you eat! MyFitnessPal is a great, free, app that will help you meet your goals. I use it and have it set to 40% Protein, 30% Carbs, and 30% Fats @ 1650 cal per day. It really keeps me accountable and made me realize I was snacking a little too much!
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Location: Missouri | This is what I tell everyone I coach, based on Christmas Abbott's own eating, eat in bricks.
I break my bricks up as follows:
1 brick equals
7.5 grams of protein
5 grams of carbs
4.5 grams of fat
I allow myself 14 bricks per day. I calculate this based on my height and goals.
Meals:
Breakfast: 4 bricks
snack 1: 2 bricks
lunch: 3 bricks
snack: 2 bricks
dinner: 3 bricks
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| Get a good probiotic. If you are already taking one great! Drink LOTS of water and don't diet. Yes you will lose weight faster if you cut out carbs but seriously, who wants that!
I recently got a FitBit. I frigging LOVE this thing! I used to think I was fairly active during the day but to my surprise I was more sedentary than I could have ever possibly imagined! It records your steps, your activity levels, your sleep patterns, plus you can manually enter your food as well to help you keep track of what you are eating. On the phone app for it, you scan the food sku bar and it will automatically input it or you can add the calories manually. Biggest thing is not to cheat yourself and make sure you add everything. You can add how much water you have drank, set your activity, weight, water, and caloric goals and you can challenge your friends with a FitBit to little competitions. |
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| I agree- get a good probiotic. I also don't "diet" and have lost 37lbs this year. I follow the "if it looks like it came from a plant or an animal, and you can identify what part of what plant or animal...eat it!" If you don't know what it really started as...LEAVE IT!! I also follow an 80% 20% approach so that there is no forbidden food.
But once you change your eating habits, like others said...your taste buds really change. Pizza, soda, ice cream, milk chocolate- all DISGUSTING now! And I will easily take a huge salad with lots of different veggies or a piece of pineapple over junk food. |
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Location: Montana | I too hate diets. I think the last true diet I want on was about 7 years ago, when I got out of high school. I wasn't really overweight, but heavier than I wanted to be. But I was hungry all of the time, but I stuck with it. Self denial is a big thing that helps without dieting, just saying no to that soda pop or that cookie. I work a lot, too, so so far I haven't really had to watch what I eat, more so in the winter, but not as much. We eat really pretty healthy at our house, but don't cut out the good stuff either. My great grandmother believed that everything in moderation is the key, and she was right (lived to be over a 100 for it too). Part of the reason I hate diets is I get low blood sugar. I'm not diabetic, but when I get low blood sugar I get dizzy and feel sick, so I'm one that has to make sure I have something to eat. I usually do pretty good, but I do better if I eat something. But once again, I'm a really active person, so weight (so far) hasn't been an issue with me since I've been out of school. |
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