SierraSwearingen

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  • Good work! Keep it up, and the pounds will eventually come off. The most important exercise you do every day is to keep on keeping on. Quitting gets you nothing.
  • Add bubbles! King Soopers/Kroger has 0.89 cent 2-liter bottles of flavored, carbonated water, which has that nice refreshing finish that soda has, without the calories.
  • The first time I lost a lot of weight my breasts were the last thing to change. But even thought they did change, they were still full and beautiful. They look bigger on a smaller body. :) It's all about perspective. I went from a 40C to a 36C, so the cup size didn't really change that much. Just a little. Basically, a C…
  • True that! "You can't have the same things only less." Not all calories are created equal. Some are actually designed to make you eat more than you need. (Hi, Frito-Lay!)
  • More feedback: (1) in the grocery store, stick to the outside aisles. If you go into the aisles, that's were all the mega-empty-calorie foods are. You'll feel more satisfied and less hungry if you stick to the meat aisle, dairy aisle (except ice cream and cheese), and fruits and vegetables. (2) Avoid being able to see junk…
  • I feel hungry a lot also. I'm trying to 'make friends' with that 'hunger pang' feeling, rather than thinking it's dangerous. I tell myself that pang is the feeling of losing weight, and it's good! But here are my tricks for avoiding the feeling: (1) I make breakfast the biggest meal of the day, and load on the protein. It…
  • Awful! That sucks. I used to do things like that to my friend (no intentionally!) until she told me she couldn't hang with me anymore. (And she was dead serious.) It was huge. It led to a total change in my own fitness, actually. Not much you can do about co-workers, but maybe you can confront friends the way mine…
  • Nothing beats very, heavy weight-bearing exercise, for making me sleepy at night. Deadlifts. Squats. Full of awesome, and they make you lose weight a whole lot faster than cardio, or those silly little nautilus machines.
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