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Needing advice on weight loss. Would really appreciate it.
"Shauhnathan" wrote in message ups.com... You haven't heard of lipodissolve yet? Do you live in a cave? That was a rather rude response to a legitimate question. I hadn't heard of it either but did a google and came up with this site. Many of us aren't interested in lipo of any form http://www.yourplasticsurgeryguide.c...o-dissolve.htm On Aug 17, 2:04 pm, "Cubit" wrote: "lipo-dissolve" What the hell is that? Your clinic might be run by snake-oil experts. "Shauhnathan" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all. Before I begin, thanks to any of you who are taking time out of your day to read this to help me and give me good advice. I really appreciate it. Here's what I need advice on: I am a 23 year old (in 2 days to be exact) female and am 5'6. I've always been semi- thin, but over the past few years, I have slowly put on pounds. I did work as a waitress and got down to 137 lbs two years ago, then got pregnant and had a baby, leaving me at 160, as of last May. I desperately want to be 130 lbs, which would make me about a size 6. This is ideal for me. Right now, I wear about an 11. Since May of this year, I have been really working out, consistently. I work out about 5 times a week. When I say work out, I mean a mixture of cardio and weights. I typically do a full body workout (given to me by a trainer) about twice a week and the other days I am there, I do cardio for about an hour. This type of activity is much more than I have ever done before in my life. I never consistently worked out before now. I have tried really hard to eat better since I started working out consistently. I only drink water, diet drinks and ocassionally sweet tea. My diet could definitely be better, though. I have my good days and bad. Some days I stay right at 1,000 calories, while others I don't do so well and eat a fast breakfast, like a biscuit and then eat out for lunch and so on. I pretty much always keep a running count of my calories, but food is definitely one downfall to my losing weight. I am very busy so I eat what is easiest to get to and I love to eat out, which I know is very bad. I also tend to gorge at my mother's house when she cooks. She always has cabinets brimming with fatty snacks too that I can't resist. Obviously I have a really hard time dieting, so I usually do extra cardio to try and make up for the extra calories I've had. So, my problem is that I'm not seeing the results that I really want to see. With as much as I work out and do cardio, I've only lost 12 lbs in 3 months. At first, it was slowly coming off, but it has been at a dead standstill at 147 for about 5 weeks now, which is very frustrating. I know that I am gaining muscle which weighs more than fat, but I still think I should be losing more weight than I am. My clothes are fitting a little looser, I feel more toned than I did before I started working out, and my body fat has gone down from 28 to 24, but I still don't have results like I would expect for as hard as I work. My goal is to be where I want by December, and I have been told this is a reasonable goal. I am considering spending a couple hundred dollars on a weight loss clinic to get shots consisting of half lipo-dissolve and half B-12. These are suppose to give you alot of energy and dissolve fat. You can also buy diet pills from this clinic that work with the program to help you lose quickly. I am considering doing the pills too. I will still be watching what I eat and working out while I am on this plan. This seems like my best option for losing the weight that I want to in the time that I want. Otherwise, it seems I will have to eat virtually nothing, stay away from my mother's house ( ) and still keep working out all the time to achieve the results I want. Can anyone give me advice on what I should do at this point or tell me what you think of my proposed next step? Thanks a bunch! |
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I'm sorry (Beverly) that you found my response rude, but when I write
about 6 paragraphs explaining my situation and a person writes, "What the hell is lipodissolve? Your clinic might be run by snake oil experts," that is much more rude than what I wrote in response. Lipodissolve is a big thing is my city, maybe it's not passed around the rest of the world yet, but I assumed it had because I live in TN. We are usually one of last places to catch onto things. Yes, the link you posted is what I am talking about. It is a non- invasive shot that you are given as much as once a week to dissolve fat underneath the skin. I don't know about anyone else, but in my experience that fat is the hardest to get to vanish. It seems like a pretty good option to me as long as the person isn't depending solely on the shot because obviously she will gain the weight back quickly after the process is over. If she uses the lipodissolve as a jump- start the fat loss process, then maintains it by working out properly and eating properly, I think it's a great idea. On Aug 18, 8:49 am, "Beverly" wrote: "Shauhnathan" wrote in message ups.com... You haven't heard of lipodissolve yet? Do you live in a cave? That was a rather rude response to a legitimate question. I hadn't heard of it either but did a google and came up with this site. Many of us aren't interested in lipo of any form http://www.yourplasticsurgeryguide.c...o-dissolve.htm On Aug 17, 2:04 pm, "Cubit" wrote: "lipo-dissolve" What the hell is that? Your clinic might be run by snake-oil experts. "Shauhnathan" wrote in message roups.com... Hi all. Before I begin, thanks to any of you who are taking time out of your day to read this to help me and give me good advice. I really appreciate it. Here's what I need advice on: I am a 23 year old (in 2 days to be exact) female and am 5'6. I've always been semi- thin, but over the past few years, I have slowly put on pounds. I did work as a waitress and got down to 137 lbs two years ago, then got pregnant and had a baby, leaving me at 160, as of last May. I desperately want to be 130 lbs, which would make me about a size 6. This is ideal for me. Right now, I wear about an 11. Since May of this year, I have been really working out, consistently. I work out about 5 times a week. When I say work out, I mean a mixture of cardio and weights. I typically do a full body workout (given to me by a trainer) about twice a week and the other days I am there, I do cardio for about an hour. This type of activity is much more than I have ever done before in my life. I never consistently worked out before now. I have tried really hard to eat better since I started working out consistently. I only drink water, diet drinks and ocassionally sweet tea. My diet could definitely be better, though. I have my good days and bad. Some days I stay right at 1,000 calories, while others I don't do so well and eat a fast breakfast, like a biscuit and then eat out for lunch and so on. I pretty much always keep a running count of my calories, but food is definitely one downfall to my losing weight. I am very busy so I eat what is easiest to get to and I love to eat out, which I know is very bad. I also tend to gorge at my mother's house when she cooks. She always has cabinets brimming with fatty snacks too that I can't resist. Obviously I have a really hard time dieting, so I usually do extra cardio to try and make up for the extra calories I've had. So, my problem is that I'm not seeing the results that I really want to see. With as much as I work out and do cardio, I've only lost 12 lbs in 3 months. At first, it was slowly coming off, but it has been at a dead standstill at 147 for about 5 weeks now, which is very frustrating. I know that I am gaining muscle which weighs more than fat, but I still think I should be losing more weight than I am. My clothes are fitting a little looser, I feel more toned than I did before I started working out, and my body fat has gone down from 28 to 24, but I still don't have results like I would expect for as hard as I work. My goal is to be where I want by December, and I have been told this is a reasonable goal. I am considering spending a couple hundred dollars on a weight loss clinic to get shots consisting of half lipo-dissolve and half B-12. These are suppose to give you alot of energy and dissolve fat. You can also buy diet pills from this clinic that work with the program to help you lose quickly. I am considering doing the pills too. I will still be watching what I eat and working out while I am on this plan. This seems like my best option for losing the weight that I want to in the time that I want. Otherwise, it seems I will have to eat virtually nothing, stay away from my mother's house ( ) and still keep working out all the time to achieve the results I want. Can anyone give me advice on what I should do at this point or tell me what you think of my proposed next step? Thanks a bunch! |
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Needing advice on weight loss. Would really appreciate it.
Shauhnathan wrote:
Yes, the link you posted is what I am talking about. It is a non- invasive shot that you are given as much as once a week to dissolve fat underneath the skin. And it's a total scam. Don't waste your time or money, and don't insult the group by suggesting that we're somehow ass backwards for not knowing about it. Most of us have seen a scam just like it somewhere along the way. Eat less. Exercise more. Repeat forever. 12 pounds in three months, by the way, is perfectly fine. A plateau after initial good loss, by the way, is perfectly normal. You need to butch up and continue doing the sensible thing, not give in to some stupid scam. |
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Needing advice on weight loss. Would really appreciate it.
Caves have many advantages. Temperature control can be less expensive and
sharing leftovers with bears leaves little cleanup after meals. [/end sarcasm] Thanks to a link provided in the thread I found: "Because different doctors use different ingredients for lipo-dissolve, it is difficult to give a meaningful prediction of results from past procedures. There are no significant studies demonstrating where the medication travels or how it may affect organs, what the proper dosage or ingredient requirement is, the short term side effects, or long-term complications." I had read about a side effect of colagenase that is the dissolving of fat. However, the lipo-dissolve folks do not seem to be using that, and it certainly is far from *approval* for such use. I stopped hoping for treatments like this, when I learned how direct caloric restriction acts, and found that I was comfortable with an Atkins-like approach. "Shauhnathan" wrote in message ups.com... You haven't heard of lipodissolve yet? Do you live in a cave? On Aug 17, 2:04 pm, "Cubit" wrote: "lipo-dissolve" What the hell is that? Your clinic might be run by snake-oil experts. "Shauhnathan" wrote in message ups.com... Hi all. Before I begin, thanks to any of you who are taking time out of your day to read this to help me and give me good advice. I really appreciate it. Here's what I need advice on: I am a 23 year old (in 2 days to be exact) female and am 5'6. I've always been semi- thin, but over the past few years, I have slowly put on pounds. I did work as a waitress and got down to 137 lbs two years ago, then got pregnant and had a baby, leaving me at 160, as of last May. I desperately want to be 130 lbs, which would make me about a size 6. This is ideal for me. Right now, I wear about an 11. Since May of this year, I have been really working out, consistently. I work out about 5 times a week. When I say work out, I mean a mixture of cardio and weights. I typically do a full body workout (given to me by a trainer) about twice a week and the other days I am there, I do cardio for about an hour. This type of activity is much more than I have ever done before in my life. I never consistently worked out before now. I have tried really hard to eat better since I started working out consistently. I only drink water, diet drinks and ocassionally sweet tea. My diet could definitely be better, though. I have my good days and bad. Some days I stay right at 1,000 calories, while others I don't do so well and eat a fast breakfast, like a biscuit and then eat out for lunch and so on. I pretty much always keep a running count of my calories, but food is definitely one downfall to my losing weight. I am very busy so I eat what is easiest to get to and I love to eat out, which I know is very bad. I also tend to gorge at my mother's house when she cooks. She always has cabinets brimming with fatty snacks too that I can't resist. Obviously I have a really hard time dieting, so I usually do extra cardio to try and make up for the extra calories I've had. So, my problem is that I'm not seeing the results that I really want to see. With as much as I work out and do cardio, I've only lost 12 lbs in 3 months. At first, it was slowly coming off, but it has been at a dead standstill at 147 for about 5 weeks now, which is very frustrating. I know that I am gaining muscle which weighs more than fat, but I still think I should be losing more weight than I am. My clothes are fitting a little looser, I feel more toned than I did before I started working out, and my body fat has gone down from 28 to 24, but I still don't have results like I would expect for as hard as I work. My goal is to be where I want by December, and I have been told this is a reasonable goal. I am considering spending a couple hundred dollars on a weight loss clinic to get shots consisting of half lipo-dissolve and half B-12. These are suppose to give you alot of energy and dissolve fat. You can also buy diet pills from this clinic that work with the program to help you lose quickly. I am considering doing the pills too. I will still be watching what I eat and working out while I am on this plan. This seems like my best option for losing the weight that I want to in the time that I want. Otherwise, it seems I will have to eat virtually nothing, stay away from my mother's house ( ) and still keep working out all the time to achieve the results I want. Can anyone give me advice on what I should do at this point or tell me what you think of my proposed next step? Thanks a bunch! |
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Thanks for the tips. That's why you get several opinions and not just
a few. There is a very well-liked morning talk show guy in Knoxville that seriously talks about lipodissolve about every day. Then there's a new weight loss clinic in my hometown that opened up recently that people my family know are swearing by. They say they feel better, more energized, and they are losing weight. And hey, it never hurts to ask what people think about something like this. I, myself, will probably not be trying it now. And by the way, was not trying to imply that anyone here was "ass backwards," I was just saying that I'm surprised it hasn't gotten around more because we in Tennessee are usually one of the last to know about things. I was implying that I am "ass backwards." |
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On Aug 17, 8:21 pm, Shauhnathan wrote:
So it sounds like I should stick to around 1500 and make a daily effort to stick to that and not go over. Will a person still lose 1 lb a week while doing weight training 2-3 times a week? I know muscle weighs more than fat, so I just want to make sure I am striving for a realistic goal here and not expecting to lose weight when actually I should be staying the same because of muscle gain. Also, can any of you give me tips on how to keep from going over 1500 calories a day? I have tried a food log and that wore off. I don't keep it anymore. Maybe I'll try keeping it on here, so I can get a spat on the hand when I eat bad stuff or go over my limit. One big problem is I love to go out to eat and I can never resist the free appetizers, like the bread, chips and salsa, etc. I know that if I took my lunch to work everyday or went to subway over going out to eat, I would be saving many calories, but who wants to sit at work and eat a packed lunch and not get out of the office for an hour?? It's really hard to find the motivation to just sit at work for an hour and eat a crappy meal to save the calories. I also need tips on how I can go to my mother's house in the evening to pick up my son when she is cooking a really good meal and not over-eat. I have tried eating before I go there, so that I'm not hungry when I'm there, but I still can never resist eating something there because she has so much good stuff, so then I end up having even more calories. I will really try my best to eat fewer calories and see how the results go. Thanks for the help. Yes. Muscle does weigh more than fat, but you will still lose weight on the 1500 cal/day. For one thing, you'll lose fat quickly, but muscle builds much more slowly. Also, no matter what, you will also lose a little muscle while on the diet. If you do the 1500 cal, it shouldn't be significant, but there will be some muscle loss along with the fat. People who diet have extra proteins in their blood that comes from the muscle breakdown, is how they know. The biggest pitfall is that you might not carefully count calories. If you aren't religious about it, it is very easy to get an extra 200-300 calories too..... just a few cookies that you conveniently forget about, or fudging on portion sizes, or just guessing about caloric content, etc. I've been there and done that (lots of times) and perhaps you have too. NO CHEATING and good luck. Let me know when you reach your goal. Actually you can pretty much determine that: there are 3500 cal in 1 pound. At 1500 cal you are undereating by about 500 cal per day (since we estimated probably very accurately that you are presently burning 2300 cal per day. 3500 divided by 500 = 7 days to lose one pound. Initially you might lose even little more, but it would most likely be water and temporary. As your weight decreases, so does the 500 calories though and for a couple of reasons: 1) Your body recognizes you are starving yourself (relatively speaking of course) so it becomes a little more efficient getting extra work out of those calories you are eating and 2) You burn fewer calories as your weight decreases. A really big person burns more calories walking for 1 mile at 4 mph than a thin person. Here the fat person AND the thin person is YOU. Because of these mathematical changes, you might want to re- estimate your needed calories after a month or so, especially if you are losing a little more or less than you expected, but I think it will work like clockwork for at least 3 months and by then you'll be down 12 pounds and at least one size clothes smaller..maybe even 2 sizes. Good luck. dkw |
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On Aug 18, 3:52 am, wrote:
dkw said NO SPLURGING ever. That's my 2 cents anyway. Mary responds: I didn't express myself properly - what I meant by splurge....was budgetting calories to allow the occasional spontaneous little treat - so you have enough "give" to have a little frozen yoghurt if the whole family is at the beach and decides to go for it, or have a nibble of cake when its someone's birthday at the office. I didn't mean going on a total blow out bender. I've been maintaining about 3 years now, and if I have can't EVER have a spontaneous and unplanned for treat, I end up feeling deprived, particularly in social situations. I do keep them small, but because I make my eating plan run about 100-200 calories lighter than I need for maintenance daily, I have that little bit of freedom to let me have an unplanned biscuit when you take me out for a coffee! M. That works. dkw |
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It seems to me that you can't stick to a set calorie intake by
counting calories each day. My advice is don't bother. Eat 5 meals per day no more than 3 hours apart. Each meal should have 30g approx of protein (fish, chicken, turkey, egg white, lean beef or cottage cheese). The rest of your plate should be full of salad or vegetables and nothing else. You will find it difficult to eat too many calories this way; it is very healthy and will kick your metabolism into shape. Every 3 days add a large potato or some pasta to one of these meals only. Make it the first meal after your exercise. Once a week have 2 meals with the added carbs again after exercise. See that you exercise virtually everyday for about 30 minutes but make it hard exercise, which should get out of breath. Try this for 3 weeks and you will see and feel real results. I can recommend a great resource to use if you wish. Good luck |
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On Aug 18, 1:30 pm, Fred wrote:
It seems to me that you can't stick to a set calorie intake by counting calories each day. My advice is don't bother. Eat 5 meals per day no more than 3 hours apart. Each meal should have 30g approx of protein (fish, chicken, turkey, egg white, lean beef or cottage cheese). The rest of your plate should be full of salad or vegetables and nothing else. You will find it difficult to eat too many calories this way; it is very healthy and will kick your metabolism into shape. Every 3 days add a large potato or some pasta to one of these meals only. Make it the first meal after your exercise. Once a week have 2 meals with the added carbs again after exercise. See that you exercise virtually everyday for about 30 minutes but make it hard exercise, which should get out of breath. Try this for 3 weeks and you will see and feel real results. I can recommend a great resource to use if you wish. Good luck Your recommendation is very general and good diets and exercise routine might include nothing you mention and also the specifics you mention will definely NOT work for lots of people. If it works for you, that is the main thing though. There are lots of good ways to diet and maintain weight and muscle tone and health, I think. dkw |
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Thank you DKW and Fred for the really good tips! After tonight, I am
definitely going to watch my calories much better. Today was my birthday, so I had some delicious birthday cake tonight, so I'm sure I went over my calorie count. The thing is for me, since I am now working out alot, plus am somewhat conscious of the calories I'm eating, I am doing much more than I ever have in the past, and it's showing. People are noticing my weight loss that haven't seen me in a while, which I am stoked about. If I were to keep doing exactly what I am doing, I would slowly, slowly lose what I want to lose, I think, but I definitely want to lose it faster than it's going now. I am definitely going to be more diligent about the calorie thing. You guys are awesome to give such good advice. Thanks so much. 3 |
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