Hi all! Newbie here and in a slump any help would be great

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*carrie*

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Hi! My name is Carrie.
I am asian/american, 5'4 I weigh about 169:rolleyes: I have a MASSIVE sweet tooth and a carbaholic!

I am wanting to lose about 30 lbs

I have started to go to the gym. I do about 30-45 min on the elliptical but what is hurting me is that I don't have self control when it comes to sweets or carbs.

I know I NEED/WANT to lose weight but then think oh I can start tomorrow again or whatever.

What can I do/help that CURBS my sweet tooth/carb addiction.
I am thinking of REDUCING my calories.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
 
Leverage and will power.

Will power is natural and it sounds like you are lacking... Work on it. Stop complaining about your weight and then pigging out. Either don't talk (whine) about it and go on living the unhealthy lifestyle you have been... Or, do something about it. Walk the walk, don't talk the talk.

Leverage = use the fact that you are obese and unhealthy and decide RIGHT NOW that you want to make a life change. Put down the chips and twinkies and pick-up celery and raw almonds. God woman! It is easy. Understand that if you keep this up, you will wake up one morning tipping the scale at over 200 lbs. It only gets tougher to fix with each passing day.

Eat smaller HEALTHY meals throughout the day (5-8 meals per day).

Drink 90+ ounces of water every day (only ~8 oz. per 30 minutes).

Cut out ALL trans fats and wastful (unhealthy) carbs. E.g. SUGAR!

Stop drinking soda (including diet). Replace this with healthy fluids and water.

Replace regular peanut butter with Natty PB.

The weight is literally on your shoulders and none of us can do anything except give advice. My advice, stop copping out on the, "I have an addiction..." crap. Make an adult decision and stop. NOW!

Hate to be so blunt, but sometimes that is what we need. Wake up and realize that you are damaging your body and health. Fix it.

When you do your aerobic workout, work at keeping your HR in the 75-85% of your MPHR range. And, keep it there for 45+ minutes. Do this 3 or 4 days per week.

Throw in some weight lifting 3 days per week hitting the major muscle groups with strength training (3 or 4 sets of 10 reps per exercise).

Do all of this = create a healthier you.

Don't = die fat and unhealthy after living a miserably tough life of excuses.

Choose. And, as Rush says, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

-Rip
 
Myself went the diet route. I thought I would die because I was so hungry all of the time. What I have found works best for me is to simply not buy the sweets and junk food carbs i.e. Lil' Debbie cakes, twinkies, etc. I also avoid junk food restaraunts most of the time unless I have to because I am away from home or in a big hurry. I used to eat a bowl of ice cream every night before bed so I quit buying ice cream. I started buying things like grapes, apples, bananas etc. It may sound dumb but if it is not lying around handy you won't eat so much of it.

For help in conquering fast food cravings I find that it helps to ridicule them, especially when you see one of thier commercials i.e. McDonalds becomes McNasty booger, Burger King becomes Booger King, Taco Bell becomes Taco Hell and Long Johns becomes Long (censored) :) well you get the picture. It does help train your mind of thinking of these places in a less positive way so you don't want their fat laden products so much. (Watching the movie Super Size Me helps too.)

The less you are eating of the unhealthy foods the less you crave them and actually your appitite will go down also because you are not craving the crap foods so bad. At least mine did.
 
Thanks

rip said:
Leverage and will power.

Will power is natural and it sounds like you are lacking... Work on it. Stop complaining about your weight and then pigging out. Either don't talk (whine) about it and go on living the unhealthy lifestyle you have been... Or, do something about it. Walk the walk, don't talk the talk.

Leverage = use the fact that you are obese and unhealthy and decide RIGHT NOW that you want to make a life change. Put down the chips and twinkies and pick-up celery and raw almonds. God woman! It is easy. Understand that if you keep this up, you will wake up one morning tipping the scale at over 200 lbs. It only gets tougher to fix with each passing day.

Eat smaller HEALTHY meals throughout the day (5-8 meals per day).

Drink 90+ ounces of water every day (only ~8 oz. per 30 minutes).

Cut out ALL trans fats and wastful (unhealthy) carbs. E.g. SUGAR!

Stop drinking soda (including diet). Replace this with healthy fluids and water.

Replace regular peanut butter with Natty PB.

The weight is literally on your shoulders and none of us can do anything except give advice. My advice, stop copping out on the, "I have an addiction..." crap. Make an adult decision and stop. NOW!

Hate to be so blunt, but sometimes that is what we need. Wake up and realize that you are damaging your body and health. Fix it.

When you do your aerobic workout, work at keeping your HR in the 75-85% of your MPHR range. And, keep it there for 45+ minutes. Do this 3 or 4 days per week.

Throw in some weight lifting 3 days per week hitting the major muscle groups with strength training (3 or 4 sets of 10 reps per exercise).

Do all of this = create a healthier you.

Don't = die fat and unhealthy after living a miserably tough life of excuses.

Choose. And, as Rush says, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

-Rip
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Thanks...yes I know its on me.
 
Tropicana makes a really good sugar free popsicle that will help curb cravings. You can alos try sugar free jello or ice water.
 
Im a pastry freak myself. Doughnuts, cakes, muffins, etc and I melt. I thought I would die when I gave them up.

If you can muster up the will power to stay away from them for a week or 2, it gets easier to pass them up.
NEVER leave yourself hungry. Eat all day long. 5-8 small meals. Eat every 2 hours or so, even if you're not hungry. Make sure you're eating good food though. (Lean Protein, Complex Carb, and a Veggie)
Remember, you eat a lot less by preventing yourself from getting hungry, than you do if you wait until your "starving".

Rip gave some excellent advice as far as working out. Just make sure you start off light and slow with the weights or else you'll get so sore you wont want to do it anymore.
 
no diet expert

all these fellow board members have great advice, and I to have a hard time staying away from certain foods. I switch to 1 cup of coffee and eating a 1/2 cup of oatmeal in the morning. Grilled Chicken salad for lunch.

My weakness, unlike chocalate, is buffalo wings, I love them, I switch to skinnles grilled chicken dipped in buffalo sauce.

here is a good article for women to read, especially starters, makes alot of sense to me....when my wife gets me mad. I tend to do something around the house, burn off the "anger" I suppose, when she gets upset....cookies, Ice cream....luckily she has a good metabolism, because she still looks great at 35. 5'0" 112lbs. (3 kids all natural)

here is the article:
 
We can do it, Carrie!

Hey Carrie,
I relate to your post. My favorite all time bad carb is sour gummy worms.... but I'm also fond of Cookies, Cakes, Pies - anything sweet and chewy! I have been working hard for the past few months (about 6)on cutting back on carbs - and what they say really is true - the less you eat, the less you crave that bad sugar stuff. I really believe it (sugar) has an addictive quality to it. Keep up just cutting back and subsituting even an orange or other sweet fruit for refined sugars, and eventually, you'll be surprised how much easier it is to pass up those empty carbs! Don't keep it in your house - I will keep a package of red licorice for those times I really need something sweet and chewy and allow myself only one or two whips a day at the absolute most. This is a HUGE jump from how much candy I used to eat on a daily basis. You can do it - just keep working on it, excersizing, eating healthy, and before you know it, you'll be on track!
Amy
 
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