Food/Losing Weight Tips 8)

treecow_ · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: Food/Losing Weight Tips 8)

• Don't starve yourself! Skipping meals only tricks your body into thinking its survival is threatened, and it will hold onto its fat stores for dear life. Icon_drinking01

• Eat slowly and chew each bite completely to decrease your appetite. Icon_bored1

• Eat three small meals and two snacks daily instead of two or three huge meals. Icon_movingon

• Don't work while eating. Separate all of your activities from your meals, so you can concentrate on what and how much you're eating. Icon_ohlord

• Beware of the wall you may hit at 3 Surprised

0 p.m. Many people feel the urge for a caffeine or sugar lift at this time. Have some fruit or crackers on hand to combat this. Icon_hot_dog

• Read labels carefully. Some low fat items are very high in calories. Icon_ahh

• To slow yourself down, eat with the opposite hand you usually eat with. :icon_wavetowel:
• Stay away from energy bars, which imply that they will transform you into a fit person. Most of them are loaded with calories. Icon_nono2

• Make your own smoothies. Those made commercially usually contain fattening syrups, but your home-made smoothies (without the gunk) are very healthy. Icon_relax

• If you need whipped cream, whip up chilled evaporated skim milk - your creation will contain only half a gram of fat per cup. :icon_yahoo:
• Substitute pureed tofu for two thirds of the butter in cake and cookie recipes. This will cut out 43 grams of saturated fat. Icon_applause1

• Chew sugarless gum. It speeds up the digestive system, burning more calories, and sometimes kills a craving. :icon_thumbsup:
• Grab something to drink. Sometimes, cravings for food are really thirst in disguise. :icon_Happy_932:
• Reward yourself regularly, (don't use food as a reward) buy a new outfit, get a new hair style, even if it's just a grin of approval in the mirror. Icon_gimmefive

• Don't weigh yourself every day. Instead, get on the weight scales once a week to avoid discouragement. Icon_bolt

• Instead of obsessing over your weight, keep track of your waist measurement, body fat percentage or clothing size. Icon_ten_out_of_ten_emoticon

• Don't skip breakfast. You will lose weight more quickly if you have a bite to eat in the morning. (speeds metabolism) Icon_ohmygod

• Drink hot water with lemon. Icon_meditate

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i find not snacking at all helps. and green tea is great

st3ph · miss you D 05/05/92-06/16/08 (L)

these are great tips Happy

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crazykiki · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

ill remember the wall at 3 pm now that i think of it, its true at 3 i usually get home and i go for the sweet stuff Shocked

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st3ph · miss you D 05/05/92-06/16/08 (L)

^same i always eat crap after school.
haha
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treecow_ · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject:

^haha i still eat all those bad stuff for me after school...even though i said months ago that i would stop.

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annabelle · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

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jousy · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

Get LOTS of quality sleep. A solid 8 hours does wonders. According to Chinese medicine, your body does most of its repairs+regeneration between 11:00pm and 2:00am so make sure you get your shut eye at around 11:00pm Happy

10:30pm if you want to give your body a "head start"
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pink · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

^ no wonder i have no body fat
i get cranky if i have less than 9 hours of sleep i usally get 9-10 hours
and beer goes straight to your stomach and hips

r.naka · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

^yeah, beer is packed with carbs.
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t3hmimo · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:27 am Post subject:

^ yeah and not only that, but alcohol can't be "metabolized" or "burned" like carbs can, that's where the beer gut comes from, some of it always stays in your body.
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shortiee · Beauty Queen Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 100 Smiles: 0 69

that's what i always do, and now i need to GAIN body fat in my chest and butt area =/

neongloss · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

I don't understand how some people can skip meals and/or not eat for an entire day and manage to lose weight. :/
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pink · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject:

^well they would not lose the weight that same day but (just like when you are anorexic) when you dont eat, first you ACTUALLY get bigger and THEN you lose the weight
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--baybiee. · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

thanks =) this is relly help IM GOING BOOKMARK IT! lol :icon_yahoo:
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Nothing Better · Supermodel Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 830 Smiles: +16 428

^^Actually, you WOULD lose weight if you skipped meals or fasted. Your metabolism just wouldn't be AS fast as it normally is because it had no fuel to "start it up". So fasting or skipping meals is less effective overall for weight loss than exercising and eating smaller portions and better foods because you ARE slowing down your metabolism.
The weight people gain when they have disordered eating habits come from the binging phases.

--baybiee. · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

^ ohh really i always thought that you get fat before you get skinny
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^ No, you do lose weight, but it's a lot easier to regain it afterwords. Because you've slown down your metabolism, once you start eating normally, your body doesn't use up everything you put back into it. So then you gain weight. That,s why, if you go on a fast, you need to slowly come off it with small portions of healthy and easy to digest foods. Otherwise, either your body will hoard it or you won't be able to keep it down because it's too rich and your body isn't used to that. Then of course, there's water weight. When you fast you may lose some, so you think you've lost "fat" weight when you've actually only lost water that your body needs to function. Those are the two reasons you usually gain weight after stopping fasting.

--baybiee. · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject:

^ ohhh kool wow i didnt know that well thanks =)
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--baybiee. · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject:

^ ohhh kool wow i didnt know that well thanks =)
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labella · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

Wow. Great tips. Thank you!!
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_TNA_ · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

those are good tips. luckily i am really skinny no matter what i eat! haha. i still it healthy cause i know if i eat rap, one day it will catch up to me.l so if anyone else is like that, dont eat crap even if it doesnt make you gain wait. in the long term it is better for you. plus, right away your whole body feels great. when i eat junk, usually i feel sluggish and yucky after. haha./

Puddingcup. · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

if you make a cake, you can omit the eggs and oil for caramel or almond tofu, 35 calories compared to 129. =)
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--baybiee. · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

^^ lol omg you dont gain any wieth oh i hate you ... lol jp yehh my friend is like a black hole she eats so much junk food and doenst gain half a pound..
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--baybiee. · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

_TNA_ · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

^^haha i know i am lucky!

emysusie · Fashionista Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 49 Smiles: 0 59

i am another one of those lucky people who never gain weight. i just have a freaky metabolism.

i know it's been said before, but i can't stress it enough- don't skip meals!! i read an article a little while ago that said if you want to lose weight, always eat breakfast. it really speeds up your metabolism more than other meals do. when you don't eat, it tricks your system into staying in sleep-mode so your system isn't really doing anything except storing more fat. if there is no food in your system, there's no calories to burn. but when you eat, it wakes your system up big time and gets your metabolism working for the rest of the day.

oh and eat lots of small meals of course, too. sometimes i have two suppers, but i make sure i don't eat too much.

Autumn Leaves · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject:

Awesome tips Happy

My trick also is not eating after 7pm...i just have some fruit if I do get hungry after that time, it helps when wanting to lose a few extra pounds.....
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