MENA diet/exercise thread

[Nasturtium 500]

I agree with you, Julianna - no pain no game, right?!? I usually am dying when doing mine since I am so out of shape but after I'm done I take a nice shower and feel and enormous sense of accomplishment - so it's a great motiovator.

I guess I finally realized that it's time to start taking care of myself for a change ... now if I can just learn how to like myself then I will be all good... but as they say - baby steps, right...

Same here. Totally dying while doing it, but remembering how thin I was 2 summers ago when I stuck to it! And you do feel better and sleep better, etc.

Yeah, the learning to like yourself is a different path

[mrsartis 10]

Hi there, im not from MENA but i definitely want to lose some weight before my wedding day.. please sisters help me.. i know weigh 140lbs.. i think im on plateau... coz i have been doing some crash diets but im not losing anything.. ill be leaving for California in august 8.. and i want to lose a bit from this day on till my wedding day on September 13.. please please please.. any help would be deeply appreciated..

[Nasturtium 500]

Hi there, im not from MENA but i definitely want to lose some weight before my wedding day.. please sisters help me.. i know weigh 140lbs.. i think im on plateau... coz i have been doing some crash diets but im not losing anything.. ill be leaving for California in august 8.. and i want to lose a bit from this day on till my wedding day on September 13.. please please please.. any help would be deeply appreciated..

How many pounds are you hoping to lose?

[mrsartis 10]

How many pounds are you hoping to lose?

Thanks juliana for your reply.. i want to lose atleast 10 pounds before my wedding day..

[Nasturtium 500]

How many pounds are you hoping to lose?

Thanks juliana for your reply.. i want to lose atleast 10 pounds before my wedding day..

That's going to be kind of hard because that's over 3lbs/week. You'll definately have to drink a ton of water and not any soda... and then maybe focus on exercises which tone your muscles and ticghten them since you'll lose inches faster than weight itself. Do you have a specific target area you'd like to thin down the most?

[mrsartis 10]

Do you have a specific target area you'd like to thin down the most?

Yes please.. my arms,, thighs and belly..

[Jenn! 918]

I'd like any tips that you have Julianna on target areas too! I've always heard that you can't really control *where* you lose the weight from, but there must be *something* you can do.

I'm frustrated that my legs are great but my arms are still flabbalicious.

[caybee 21]

This slacker is back again. I started back on WW yesterday. Hubby has always been overly nice -- "You look fine. You don't need to do anything." -- but he's finally telling me the truth so I have him in my corner. We played hard at the beach last weekend and did some hiking the weekend of the 4th, and I'm not in as bad a shape as I had feared, but I want to be back to running up the stairs at work without getting out of breath. My first mini goal is 10 pounds. I need to lose a lot more than that, but that should come off pretty quickly, and I know I'll feel the difference. Continued good luck, everyone. Your success stories are great motivators.

[doodlebugg 10]

[caybee 21]

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[doodlebugg 10]

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that's my guilty post.

i just had two peanut butter cookies.

[polarbear 0]

ick... I really have to agree with the doctor that I do feel better the less chemicals I eat (including caffine )

So now I'm on a diet that includes no caffine, no aspertaine (no sugar additives period), no red meat, fish okay and chicken sparingly, and no pain pills for my joints bc it can affect my blood levels. I'm also having a hard time digesting raw veggies or processed and cooked veggies ::sigh::

Yay for fresh steamed veggies and natural diet!!

We'll see how long we can stick to this one

[doodlebugg 10]

ick... I really have to agree with the doctor that I do feel better the less chemicals I eat (including caffine )

So now I'm on a diet that includes no caffine, no aspertaine (no sugar additives period), no red meat, fish okay and chicken sparingly, and no pain pills for my joints bc it can affect my blood levels. I'm also having a hard time digesting raw veggies or processed and cooked veggies ::sigh::

Yay for fresh steamed veggies and natural diet!!

We'll see how long we can stick to this one

If you don't take pain pills for your joints..........what are you doing for pain? Pain management is sooo frustrating and to relate it to dieting (since we're in the dieting thread) when I do take the medications that I'm supposed to be on I gain an automatic 10 pounds within 2 days due to water rentention. Even when I don't take the meds if I don't take my water pills then I'm a big fat blimpasaurus, like now. I have been out of hydrochlorothiazide for 3 days due to sheer laziness on my part of not going to cvs to pick up the script and my pants are tight, my feet look like water baloons with indentations where my sandal straps are and my fingers are like tiny sausages.

If I press my index finger against my shin right now it leaves a good inch deep indentation for almost a full minute.

[polarbear 0]

ick... I really have to agree with the doctor that I do feel better the less chemicals I eat (including caffine )

So now I'm on a diet that includes no caffine, no aspertaine (no sugar additives period), no red meat, fish okay and chicken sparingly, and no pain pills for my joints bc it can affect my blood levels. I'm also having a hard time digesting raw veggies or processed and cooked veggies ::sigh::

Yay for fresh steamed veggies and natural diet!!

We'll see how long we can stick to this one

If you don't take pain pills for your joints..........what are you doing for pain? Pain management is sooo frustrating and to relate it to dieting (since we're in the dieting thread) when I do take the medications that I'm supposed to be on I gain an automatic 10 pounds within 2 days due to water rentention. Even when I don't take the meds if I don't take my water pills then I'm a big fat blimpasaurus, like now. I have been out of hydrochlorothiazide for 3 days due to sheer laziness on my part of not going to cvs to pick up the script and my pants are tight, my feet look like water baloons with indentations where my sandal straps are and my fingers are like tiny sausages.

If I press my index finger against my shin right now it leaves a good inch deep indentation for almost a full minute.

Get to CVS girl!

I admit, that I am of the lazy type that would put that off until the last min.... but the water retention thing doesn't sound fun

[doodlebugg 10]

It isn't fun and not to make excuses but it's one reason why I'm not into dieting a lot because I get sooo discouraged when I retain fluids. I can diet and be real strict for a month and gain weight due to water. There's not explanation for it either since my liver and kidneys are fine. I just look like a water baloon half the time if I don't take my pills and my breathing becomes labored (like now) because it effects every organ. Actually I did go to CVS last night but forgot to take the pill this morning.