CajunCher2005 Member

Sorry about your hip. Maybe once you've lost more weight, it will correct itself.

Weigh. If you weigh less, you've lost fat.

Microwaves can cook just about anything you want (except toast), and usually with less hassle than conventional ovens or pots and pans. Example - Rice: Two parts water, one part rice. Cook at 50% power for 17 minutes. Fruits and vegetables can be eaten raw. Or perhaps you should volunteer to help out with cooking the meals…

This procedure reminds me of nicotine gum and patches to help you quit smoking. As soon as the gum or patches are removed, the person starts smoking again. You just have to get your mindset in place and not rely on a quick fix. Period.

Stop drinking water.

I don't ever eat back my exercise calories. I'm just not that hungry when I exercise at least 45 minutes to an hour a day. However, when I don't exercise, I get very hungry. I've gained nearly 15 pounds since losing 35 because of that. The game starts again.

Four or five pounds is doable - about a pound a week, which is burning about 3500 calories more than you consume. Anything more is probably unhealthy. Not just that, but after starving and over-exercising, could cause you gain it all back plus more afterwards. I speak from experience.

She's just talking about lunch, not total calories a day.

I think hula hooping is a great idea! I read that it burns about the same number of calories as a brisk walk. It doesn't take up much space and it would be easy to do while watching TV or listening to music.

I have a fitbit zip and I only use it to count steps. But it's giving me far more steps than I'm actually walking. I tested it and walked 75 steps and it gave me credit for 87. I wear it in my pocket, so I'll try clipping it to my waistband instead.

That's great that it's going so well for you. But if it slows down, don't get discouraged. Just keep trucking.

If I nibble a lot, I log it as a Costco graze. If I nibble a little, I don't count it any more than I count steps outside of the steps I'm taking for a planned walk.

Two weeks isn't nearly enough time. It takes some people 4 weeks or longer before the pounds start dropping. Took me eight weeks.

Corn starch works great as a dry shampoo, and a lot cheaper.

Most people who drink do not lose weight, but gain it. Not only does alcohol have a LOT of calories, but it makes one want to eat high calorie foods and definitely discourages one to move less as in falling asleep watching television instead of sprinting around the neighborhood for half an hour.

Yogurt, V8 Juice, and if I'm feeling really spunky, a boiled egg. Other times an English muffin with a microwave poached egg and a slice of cheese.

Exactly what I do.

36 years later, I still have loose skin from my children. Skin has no muscles, so exercising doesn't do much good.

Wish it was that easy. Plastic surgery is probably your best bet.