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JodiM

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Hi all

I starting my journey to loosing weight about 2 weeks ago.

I am doing herbalife, gym ( treadmill, bikes and rowing machine) and walking at home.

The first week I put on a kilo:( The day after weigh in day ( after 7 days) I hopped on the scales again and I had lost the kilo. But nothing more.

I am getting really frustrated as we are going away at xmas and I wanted to have lost 8-10 kilos by then and time is running out.

I am not cheating with my diet, drinking heaps of water. Drinking Greentea as well in the hope to speed up the metabolism as well.

Please help with some tips to shed the kilo's;)
 
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Are you taking in enough calories? Your body needs fuel for all of that exercise, if you are not taking in enough calories, it will go into starvation mode. Your metabolism will lower and it will make it even harder to lose weight and keep it off.
 
I am not counting calories. I am doing a herbalife program which consists of protein shakes for breakky and lunch, with light snacks in between and a healthy nightly meal.

Examples of nightly meals..

Chicken and salad wraps
stir fry's
Tuna salads
I have cut out everything bad and fatty. I dont use oil in my cooking, I sometimes use the spray oil to lubricate the pan however. I dont have sweets at all, I dont have softdrinks, no juice.

I feel like I am getting nowhere. I feel very low today:( The Herbalife lady said to me this morning that she wants me to stop exercising this week and see if that makes a difference, but I enjoy it now and dont want to waste a week if you know what I mean?

I feel like curling up in the corner :(
 
I don't know much about the herbalife program or products, but I'd advise against curling up in the corner. *grin* I also don't know how hard or how long you are exercising, but again, it might be too much for how much you are eating. Try scaling back the exercise for a week, maybe take a walk instead? Sorry I'm not much help.
 
I havent been to the gym for about a week because of transport issues but in place of that I have been having a morning and evening walk for about 40 mins on average.

Sure you are helping!
 
How many calories are in the herbalife shakes? Are you getting enough roughage? I personally don't like the idea of those `meal replacement' things, but if it's working for you, then it's good!
 
JodiM said:
I starting my journey to loosing weight about 2 weeks ago.

The first week I put on a kilo:( The day after weigh in day ( after 7 days) I hopped on the scales again and I had lost the kilo. But nothing more.
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As you already know, it takes longer than 2 weeks. Your weight fluctuates naturally all the time! Don't give up because of these crazy variations. That's not enough time, and really, if you want to look at that short of a time you really need to be averaging your weight and attempting to be uniform. Here's some weigh-in tips:

1. Weigh every day, but don't compare every day. Instead, write your weight down every day. At the end of the week, average everything together. This is what you should be comparing, not day to day changes. I see people gete upset over a small amount of weight that they "gained" from a week ago, but there are too many variables there.

2. Don't obsess over a kilo, especially on a day to day basis. Water weight, the weight of the food in your digestive tract, the weight of human waste that you haven't expelled yet, and the weight of your clothes all fluctuate constantly and all contribute, yet has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of fat you're burning, which is what you're attempting to measure.

3. Weigh at the same time every day, wearing the same stuff, if anything at all. When I weigh in I do it first thing in the morning, after I use the toilet and take a shower, not wearing anything. This way I minimize any fluctuations of waste weight and water weight and I have no clothes weight. Variations will be much smaller if you do this.

4. Unless you have a really nice scale, the way that you stand on it may have a significant impact on the weight that it shows. Roll your feet around and concentrate your weight on different parts of the scale, and use the weight that is the highest shown... consider that to be your true weight. On cheap scales, if you don't watch it, it can easily appear as if you weigh 3-4 pounds less than you really do, or anything in between those two points, so it can appear to be fluctuating wildly even if it's perfectly constant.
 
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First thing, don't think of the whole "lose weight for christmas" thing. Lose it because it will make you feel great. If you try for christmas you're just setting yourself up to fail, and even if you did lose a few before you're very likely to put it on straight away afterwards.
You cannot switch a diet on and off. If you seriously want to lose weight then you're going to have to change your lifestyle forever. Thin people aren't skinny by luck or any bullshit like that, it's because of their lifestyle. Sure, some people will eat 5 x what you do but if you look at their daily routine you'll find that they're alot more active than you are.
Most overweight people tend to be lacking in activity and exercise rather than excess food consumption. Some skinny people may keep their frame simply through a balance of lots of food / lots of exercise. For you it may be no exercise / medium food consumption. There are two ways you can really go if you want to lose weight, the easy and the hard way;

1. Little to no exercise / Little amounts of good food (strict dieting!)
2. Lots of exercise / Normal amounts of good food (easy!)

Trust me that #2 is sooo much easier. With #1 you'll feel constantly hungrty /weak and depressed and lose weight slowly. With #2 you'll feel fit, happy and lose weight much much faster.

Here's my advice to you. Forget christmas for the moment. Forget calories. Forget exercising to a strict routine you found on howtoloseweight.com. Just eat 3 meals a day of the good stuff (you don't need someone to tell you what is good for you or not! you can tell). Try not to snack.. Exercise in a way that makes you tired and out of breath and leaves you knackered, but one you feel you can sustain. Try and find one of your own - everyone's different so find one that suites you. If you don't get very tired exercising then you're not going to lose weight.
Do not check the scales.. ever. Judge it by how you feel. Just keep it up and possibly (if you must) weigh yourself only after a few months.

Too many people treat dieting like a science nowadays, with minimum/maximum calorie intake and all that other crap. Just eat 3 healthy meals, get alot of exercise and you'll lose it in no time.

Best of luck to you,
(praise allah)
steve99.
 
The reason I want to loose as much by xmas is because we are going on holidays and I want to feel good about myself.

Since I first posted that first post, I have gone on to loose more weight.

I have made a huge lifestyle change and I am in it for the long run, but I am also wanting to loose as much as I possibly can until then

I am working my butt off exercising and I am eating very sensibily. I am starting to see results now and I am thrilled.

Thanks everyone:cool:
 
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The Herbalife lady said to me this morning that she wants me to stop exercising this week and see if that makes a difference,

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So, rather than advising that you get in a few more quality calories to compensate for your increased caloric needs from the exercise, her "professional" advice was to cut out some of the exercise in order to reduce your caloric needs?

wow. that's scary.
 
Yep, which is why I didnt listen to her.

I love my exercise now and do it everyday without fail. I would never have dreamed that I would enjoy it..
 
yeah don't quite working out that's kinda crazy! Try adding some more veggies when I do herbalife I snack on veggies and it helps.
 
Well, quit smoking and losing weight, look at you!:)

Quitting smoking is really tough, if you did that, this will be a breeze in comparison.
 
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