sarahleeroy

Insulin promotes fat storage, so it makes sense that the less you secrete insulin, the less fat you'll store. I have read that continuously snacking throughout the day doesn't give your body a chance to use it's glycogen (fat) stores for energy since you're constantly feeding yourself. However, on a low calorie diet I…

I'm not vegan anymore, but here are some tips that helped me a lot: 1. Buy some cookbooks. Isa Moskowitz has some amazing ones that helped me get started. My first vegan recipe was the pumpkin casserole from Veganomicon....sooo good. My favorites cookbooks of hers are Veganomicon, Appetite for Reduction (this one is…

I know how you feel. My first set of progress pics were extremely shocking! And then even after I had lost a lot of weight, I felt like I still looked the same (awkwardly shaped), only smaller. It passes though so keep your head up! I am now getting to the point of changing my overall shape and looking more fit so I'm glad…

I agree with this. Don't let the scale determine your progress so much, especially if you know for sure that it's not a correct representation.

How long have you been CONSISTENTLY eating this amount and exercising? As in, sticking to it for more than a few weeks? If you have truly been consistent with this plan and have not lost any weight, then you're going to have to either eat less or exercise more. I agree with the above poster about eating more fats in the…

Figuring this out would make you a billionaire!! But hey that's why they make padded bras, right? ;)

Most vitamin supplements contain much more of certain vitamins than the body needs, b/c you don't absorb all of the vitamin and your body gets rid of it. All vitamins except for A, D, E, and K are water soluble therefore your body easily excretes what it doesn't need. B vitamins are almost always in very large amounts in a…

And OTC pill from target made of green tea and caffeine? Yeah sounds pretty dangerous to me.

One thing I did was keep telling myself that I was tired of being fat and not liking my body. Enough was enough. It also helps to do workouts that you enjoy and look forward to doing. For me, my favorite thing is putting on my workout playlist which includes a bunch of very upbeat poppy music that gets me going and go for…

These OTC diet pills are innocent enough, but I don't think they are very effective. The only true appetite suppressants are by prescription. I take Adipex (prescription) which works wonders, but not everyone is a good candidate to take the drug. Anyway, I don't think it could hurt to take them, so report back if you got…

LOL at people who still think one should eat MORE to lose weight. That just doesn't make any sense. The whole "crashing your metabolism" myth has been debunked many times. This myth is why I tried for years to lose weight and I never could.

The scale can be so misleading...I weigh myself every day, and there are some fridays where I do weigh more than I did on the last friday, even though overall I am losing weight. No the weight is probably not muscle from the exercise because putting on even one pound of muscle takes longer than one week, and no you have…

It seems to me like you really shouldn't have kept taking it with all of the side effects you experienced. Migraines, terrible mood swings, etc are adverse effects of the medication, not something to be expected. It's obvious your body did not react well to the drug, and then you continued taking it. I have been on adipex…