weight loss diet

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Yea, thats why I asked. I don't understand why taking it while dieting would be a good thing....?

I think blue is a diabetic (from what I've seen in her journal) and she probably wasn't adherring to an insulin schedule so her dad made an agreement, keep healthy with insulin shots for a diabetes and he'll keep healthy by losing weight. Or so what I'm assuming

This is going to sound so much like an infomercial but I'll do it anyways. I recently lost 25 pounds over 5 months using Nutrisystem (google it). I've had a weight problem all my life, my lowest was 90 pounds during high school and my highest was probably 150 last year and I love food so I'd pretty much resigned myself to just having a love hate thing with it for the rest of my life.

I'll be the first to admit Nutrisystem is nothing special, the only reason it worked for me was because it forces you to control your potion sizes and encourages you to eat more lean protein, fruits and vegetables. Pretty much that's all there is to losing weight, you exercise a lot, eat less of everything, eat a lot of stuff that everyone knows is good for them and cut out the stuff everyone knows is bad. For breads and rice and things, I've pretty much switch my consumption over to whole wheats and brown rice. Because carbs, unlike what mainstream would say, is not bad for it, it's what kind of carbs you eat. Brown rice tastes like shit for a couple days but like everything, you get used to it just like white rice.

Also eating a lot of little meals during the day instead of 3 big meals helps you lose weight, you keep your blood sugar and metabolism stable which encourages your body to burn more fat instead of retaining it and you're more satisfied and won't binge as much.

What weight loss boiled down to, for me at least, was portion control and exercise. I used to eat far beyond the point of satisfaction and just eat to the sake of eating. Also exercise is key, I used to hate exercise and while I still do, now I move more and that really helps, even if it's taking the dog around the block.

Jam it back in, in the dark.