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I’ve Lost 82 lbs

Here is what I did.
Stop eating so much sugar ( high fructose corn syrup) switch to honey to wean your self off all of the sugar.
No more diet soda. ( if you need a drink water is the best) Aspartame is a poison it will kill you.
Try to eat more natural i.e. Fruits, Veggie’s, no dairy if it can be avoided (I still eat cheese every now and then) little to no meat.
Try to only eat 50% of your daily Value of fats. If you feel like you need more eat more nuts.

What helps me is to think of a cave man.

He would forage for food. And mostly eat fruits, veggies, nuts and root type veggies.

Before all of this technology man hardly ever would eat meat. It took a lot of energy to kill an animal.

And some one once told me.
“the difference between Dead people and Alive people is movement, so if you want to be alive start moving.” it’s a race, death is right behind you, if you walk, it will take longer to catch up, if you run even longer.

Start out slow.

Check your weight EVERY DAY to stay motivated!! !
But remember due to the way the human body works you will gain and loose weight all day long. Try weighing your self multiple times a day to learn how you body reacts to the food your eating. (mine can jump 10 lbs a day) So don’t get discouraged if your weight is up one day because it will be down the next.

Get to know your body, Take care of it and it will take care of you.
Oh yeah and It's not a DIET!! !! !! !! ! your trying to be HEALTHIER.

And most important give your self a day off. Choose one, I like Saturday because I’m usually with my family. Then and I can eat any thing I want!

Um, checking my weight constantly makes me feel worse. Especially when I retain water weight and my number goes up. I'm banned from using the scale at my house. I'd only check once a week and I felt like it wasn't helping. I became obsessed with the number. If I gained three pounds even though I was eating well and exercising all week, I felt like I didn't accomplish anything.

No, it's a diet, there's no sugar-coating it. The people who "try to be healthier" are always just wanting to look better and are sacrificing what they want to do it. The people who are already hot eat whatever they want and look at me funny when I refuse to eat wings with them. Lucky people with a high metabolism. D:

It's better to just use one meal a week to get your cravings in. If you're eating bad ALL day, you'll lose all the progress you have made during the week. I only eat one dessert that's not a fruit in a week and I still feel like I'm not making any good progress. Stupid college food. >.<

A pedometer is a little device that you can use to keep track of how many steps you take. I used to think it was a device used to determine who's a pedophile. XD

What's been working for me is to a) avoid sugar like the plague (except as noted below) b) avoid carbs like the plauge (except as noted below) c) I've been avoiding all drinks except water and sparkling water (be sure it doesn't have too much sodium), and drinking a ton of these (1 oz a day for every 2 lbs body weight at least is my goal) - I'm not sure why diet soda / artificial sweetner is bad for diet (though i certainly can understand why its bad for you in the long run, just I'm not sure how it would negatively impact your weight) d) try to avoid sodium as much as possible - makes you retain water. What I have been eating - lots of fruit - grapefruit, apples, grapes, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, grilled chicken, steamed veggies, nonfat Riccotta cheese (very high ratio of protein to calories, like 10 g protein for 50 calories), occasionally some ground turkey or turkey burgers, occasional slice of lowfat cheese, occasional slice of Ezekial bread. Not cheating though is tough. I don't weigh myself, just watch my wasteline. Not making as much progress as I was but I have to admit have cheated a little bit more - those 1/2 day a week cheatings (when I still tried to follow the above rules as much as possible, just having something small that's good) have started turning in to maybe twice a week.

Sometimes I just don't know if I even want to keep going - I made a lot of progress and while I haven't quite reached my goal in terms of my appearance, I feel more and more like its impossible and I really just want to maintain myself where I am now, and am thinking that means eating well maybe 80% of the time and eating what I want just a little bit more often and keeping up the exercising that I've been doing. But it would be so easy to just go back and eat whatever I want for a week or so its hard to keep myself disciplined.

I've lost 9 pounds since late August

Checking your weight every day is not a good idea. Your weight changes and goes up and down every day. So It's better to check your weight once a week in the morning same time every week and same day every week. Sometimes others check it once a month but once a day isn't a good idea.

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Thanks for the list of symptoms with artificial sweeteners. I'm sure in sufficient concentrations over a long enough period of time, any artificial sweetener could cause just about any bad thing you can think of. Yet nowhere in that list do I see anything that indicates it will prevent or hinder weight loss, so again, purely from the standpoint of dieting to lose weight, I don't see how artificial sweetener will prevent that.

Yes, to lose weight lots of water helps. Basically the liver has two functions - back up the kidneys and metabolize (consume) fat. Your kidneys work best when there's lots of water. If you don't drink enough, your liver is busy doing what your kidneys should be doing instead of metabolizing fat. That's why lots of water is important to dieting.

And yes, people's weights fluctuate from day to day, even while overall their weight is trending downwards or upwards. Plus typical bathroom scales (at least digital ones) aren't that accurate, can be affected by things like temperature etc. So for those reason I don't think its productive to weigh yourself every day.

Diet soda contain Aspartame which is a substance that slows down your metabolism greatly. On your list there, it even says "gradual weight gain." So one diet soda every once in a while is okay but I wouldn't drink it all the time. I'm more of a water, tea and juice person.

Lost about 1.5kg in a week. Only 2kg to go!!

I need some advice though - I was reading some of Onioun's earlier posts regarding gluten and dairy. I find that gluten definitely has an effect on me, such that it induces both the weight gain, lethargy, moodswings, and poor mental functioniing.

I've cut gluten out of my diet, and I believe I can stick to this, but I'm not sure I can cut dairy out also on top of gluten. Would would other posters advise in regards to this? Would the difference it could potentially make to my daily functioning be worth also cutting out dairy?

I only want to cut out dairy as a last resort, or a really drastic measure, because it will be almost impossible for me eating at college to go on both a dairy free and gluten free diet, and also I think maintaining a balanced diet without dairy could be very difficult.

Hi sunshower. Individuals vary, so I don't think anyone can tell you but you... It's a case of experimenting.

Personally I went off gluten and dairy for a while, then added a bit of dairy back in, and I seemed okay on it. Then I added gluten back in. These days I find that if I keep my gluten/casein levels low, then I don't have (m)any problems. I suspect that I have a threshold for gluten/casein that if I go above, I get a toxic response.

This is all just conjecture.

And congratulations on your weight loss.

Once upon a time I wanted to lose a little weight, now I'm "underweight" but somewhat toned: 5'4, 105 lbs. I recommend weight-lifting for a year or so until you "plateau", then you can give it up and some base level of muscle tone will keep sticking around even after you stop, as long as you remain active in some way. What also works for me is playing Dance Dance Revolution and doing "The five tibetans" set of exercises and following the macrobiotic diet.

Im doing very well at getting slimmer at the moment

I bought a jillian michaels dvd which is very good and the hardest video Ive done so bound to make a difference, I feel thinner each time I do it!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jillian-Michael ... 992&sr=8-1

Im also following the Marissa Peer hypnotism program which is very good I used to think about cake all day and really struggle with eating but now I dont think about food and dont fancy junk food at all. Its been such a relief to be normal about food and not hungry and bingeing all the time. Ive copied the audio book version and the hypnotism track onto my mp3 player and try to listen to it every day, its made such a difference!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Can-Thin-Pr ... -1-catcorr