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  • Cherries are a fruit, just like anything else with fructose. Eating a bowlful is a good snack, but eating handfuls all day is bad. Many people confuse raw cherries with canned maraschino cherries, which are loaded with sugars and preservatives. Don't think that they're bad just because their sugary counterpart is unhealthy…
  • Work with layers? Tank tops with open button downs and skirts?
  • Don't focus on pasta. Pasta is filled with carbohydrates which are good for you, but bad in large wuantities for your weight loss. Focus on protein. Chicken, fish, and beef. Buy a full steak. Cut it into card-deck sized portions, and freeze it until you're ready to cook with it. I do simple stir fry all the time, a few…
  • Or you could start exercising at home. Just because you work you shouldn't decide to stay sedentary. I have to go to school for the better part of the day, but I get up a half hour earlier to run at least 20 minutes before a 10 minute shower. While it's true that you burn twice as many calories standing as you do sitting,…
  • You put your body into starvation mode. I know it sounds stupid and a cliched term, but it's true. 2600 calories is high, to someone who is in the range of 135 to 200 pounds. Perspectively, it is low to a body of 330lbs. The 2600cals would have easily helped you to lose weight along with that exercise, but because you ate…
  • P90X. No question.
  • Night is when your body repairs itself and wants to rest/sleep. Workouts are better done during the day, when our bodies are naturally burning energy and firing through the daylight hours. Working out does not give you energy, but it puts your body in a false sense of alertness and readiness. Workout in the morning or…
  • Contact your doctor. Some people need more calories than others. However, you could be in a state of low metabolism, which is why you aren't feeling hungry.
  • The only reason you lose weight is because your body begins to starve. You lose the weight fast because your body attacks your muscles and then your fat stores, making you lose a lot of weight quickly. Your metabolism lowers as a survival technique, to try to keep your major organs alive. You lose weight fast, but you…
  • Perhaps they go faster??? Or mayhaps they are being untruthful about the calorie burn. Everyone burns cals differently, though this 700 cals in 40 min sounds off.
  • Gain an attitude. Kick your sedentary side in the *kitten*. lol. Try to get your kids involved in what you do. Play with them, soccor or take them on walks or runs with you. Get a Wii, exercise with the Wii fit. You've lost so much, don't feel discouraged. Finish strong! As a military wife, you are predispositioned to be…
  • Blech! No! Anything like that is bad!!! Retaining water is a sign that your body has a high impurity or sodium level, so it's holding onto water to try to keep you in the balance! The best "body cleansing product" is MORE WATAH! Things like hydroxycut dehydrate your body and other products faux assist you in weight loss.…
  • In a way. It depends on what kind of unwell I feel. If I have a headcold, I'll be out doing everything I normally do, but with more VitC than usual. If it's something that causes headaches or cramps, I'd stick to staying in bed and just not overeating.
    in Do you... Comment by AnnaValek July 2011
  • I know how you feel, I used to hardly drink any water at all. Once I started using MFP, I started upping my water intake, taking a drink whenever I thought about it. I find it easier to sleep throughout the night, I have reduced photosensitivity, I have fewer migranes and cramps, and my body has actually lost weight…
  • I had this problem too, but remember: if you do vigorous exercise during the week, ALL week, for at least an hour a day, then your body can use one or two days over the weekend to repair and grow firmer.
  • I'm forced to get up because I need to drive my father to work every morning at 7:30. So, I decided that I'd use that to get in the habit of getting up early to workout and whatnot. Might as well use the day. (This past weekend exempt...) Gonna go dominate on the Bbal court in a half hour. Right now, I'm off to stretch and…
  • What, no "Before and After I Went Swimming"? :frown:
  • Aim for the middle of the target! You get more points that way!
    in newby Comment by AnnaValek July 2011
  • It'll happen after working out/changing your diet. Your body is adjusting. It is also likely that you are experiencing water retention. DON'T PANIC! DRINK WATAH!
  • -To your 'additional note'--lofl.
  • Blech. I had medications for my "OCD" as the doctor calls it, which made me even more paranoid than I already was. I hate the "CSI" effect, but apparently it's presence in juries isn't too bad as to encourage any additional educationing to be interred.
  • I understand; we good?
  • You were correct in your assumption of my intention, and I'm almost offended that such a Latin term as MO has come to mean criminal. I did not need the definition, I knew what I said. I wanted the literal translation of it, which is "the mode of operating" or, as I word it, "How you do things".
  • Wunderbar. :3 I find that this simplicity entirely truthful. Our complexity has brought confusion into a meaningful topic, and such confusion is not desired nor needed. Thank you, wholeheartedly.
  • I'm not telling you to shut up/shus yourself. I'm asking that you keep posting moods within what is appropriate for a motivationally conductive environment. It's not my fault if you find personal offense from my (intentionally made) neautral-ish posts.
  • Don't make this your third try. Make it your first success.
  • I don't understand your words in parenthesis. "Insinuation"? What do you mean?
  • I'm not saying don't criticize anything. I'm saying: some things are better handled with acceptance. I, unlike yourself, was always entirely conscious that this is a weight loss aid site, not a political site. When I said what I did, I meant it in the lines of weight loss and confidence, not in the lines of society and…
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