I have done the 3hr diet. If you look at the 3-hour diet forum you will see. I did not have success at it. Although it seemed easy after reading the book, it wasn’t structured enough. It also avocated foods with sugar or white flour and processed foods that will spike youe blood sugar and lead you craving for more. Also I found timing when I eat annoying. I suppose there are people that could be grazers but I am not one. And most people I know that are trying to lose weight, timing their food for every three hours leads to them CONSTANTLY thinking about food which almost always leads to ov ...
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I have wondered the same thing! I would be interested in hearing the answer. I DOn’t think it is the same thing as eating cream at all...I do think there would be some calories lost in the fiber though.?   [End]
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Logger, I was just wondering why you are trying to eat more soy? When you finnish your centrum try to find a better quality vitamin. Centrum is rated very poorly and has little effect.   [End]
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Logger, Thanks for posting your menu for me. It gives me a better idea of what you are up against. Your blood sugar can be raised simply from over eating, Even if you eat low glycemic foods. I suspect that is why you feel so good when you are full and lethargic after eating. I am worried about the stomache stapling though. If you like the full feeling and have your stomache stapled, are you not worried that you will stretch your stomache again? Have you tried any other programs or contacted a nutritionist? I am also concerned about cafeteria food. I know they use a lot of butte ...
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I am the same. I have cut out sugar for several months now and that has help tremendously! How ever sometimes I feel like eating and eating. Protien normally curbs this. I eat a boiled egg or two that I keep in the fridge. We need oils as well like olive oil. Oils help us feel satisfied.   [End]
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Good luck! Please post more to keep everyone updated!   [End]
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some things never change! I am well...and getting better! thanks! Hope you are doing well too! It has been a long time....   [End]
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You are really on your way to diabetes. What you are describing is the high you get from the spike in your blood sugar followed by a low when you are feeling lethargic. Do you also suffer from depression? brain fog? Can you give me your daily menu? What kinds of foods do they serve at the cafeteria? What do you eat there? I know its hard when you are in this cycle. Its hard even to know what to do first. Sometimes we try certain things but when we fail we feel worse and with a sense of helplessness. I can help you out if you like with what I know and have experienced for myself. I ...
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I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I do think cleanses are beneficial. You can cleanse your body through eating a healthy diet though. Learning how your body and lifestyle can be integrated into a healthy diet is the ultimate aim of someone suffering from obesity. After every MC people will always go back to eating. It is almost dangerous to clean your body out then stuff it with toxic foods. Learning to eat healthfully is so important to have successful cleanses. You can cleanse your bowels with a healthy clean diet as well. It may not be so intense as what people do here at curezone b ...
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Yes, I know where you are coming from! usually when I get cravings I add a little more animal protien to my meals and the cravings disappear. I don’t know if you are eating meat besides fish but it does help. Are you eating enough oils? BTW congradulations on your healthy lifestyle! very inspiring to hear that!   [End]
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Good luck to you than! I know it is hard sometimes but it feels much better when you are off sugar. I have had a slip up a couple times since I have been off but I realise them as learning experiencs. I am way better off now than before even if I have a couple slip ups. Watch for people with well intentions! Just because they slaved 10 hours to bake cookies for you doens’t mean you must eat them! ahahhaa... I have had people seem annoyed at me for turning their baking down but in the end they admire my convictions. I always tell people that I don’t eat sugar. When they ask me why, inste ...
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I am sorry, All the liver flushes, bowel cleanses, master cleanses in the world won’t help you to learn how to eat properly. They may benefit you but in the long run you need to make the right food choices. What are you willing to do?   [End]
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I don’t think losing 26lbs in 2 weeks is very healthy. You will end up back where you were. You gained 17 lbs in less than a month. I think you need to get a grip on your eating habits and lose the quick fix attitude. If you want to lose weight permanently the best way is to do it so you will lose 1-2 lbs per week. and while you are losing you will be gaining knowledge on how your body works and what you NEED to fuel it to suit your lifestyle. You are on a yo-yo diet. Running isn’t going to help you. You may stress your joints and bones starting off so intensely at your weight. If you wa ...
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so according to that link, basically don’t eat sugar.... While I agree Vit C isn’t the comlete answer, it does help. But the biggest factor is cutting out sugar completely! To answer the thread above this, I wouldn’t agree to cut out fruit. Fruit is cleanses the body. But fruit juice I would agree to cut it out completely. Even orange juice. Just because most of the good stuff is lost before we can drink it so basically you are just drinking sugar. Alos go for whole foods. Forget the white rice and pasta. Brown rice won’t spike your blood sugar and leave you with cravings.   [End]
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Hi, Vitamin C works to some extent. BUT you must get rid of the sugar in your house as well. You can get enough Vit C from changing your food habits as well. You can try adding a bit of cinnimon to your foods or drinks as well. The best thing that works for sugar cravings I found what to eliminate it COMPLETELY from your life! Be very careful with processed foods! The sugar that they put into it is the BIGGEST cause of our cravings. High-fructose corn syrup is used in almost EVERYTHING process. This is and addictive food. They even put it in bread. High-fructose corn syrup switches ...
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hey beej, some even get addicted to curezone...ehehehe Holly, Don’t beat yourself up about it. Although YOU are ENTIRELY in control of what you eat, when you eat and how much you eat, there are outside forces acting against you. DO you know what they put in Mcdonalds foods (all fast food for that matter) candies, pop and other junk foods? Ever hear of high-fructose corn syrop? This (evil) substance is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE and WILL shut down the signals to your brain to singnal that you have eaten to satifaction. Try googling this you will find loads of info. The best thing you can do ...
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It is hard to say with the information you provided. Are you eating enough? If you eat when you begin to feel hungry and eat until your satisfation point, that is enough. Do not wait until you get VERY hungry or eat until you are stuffed. Are you eating to much? Even if you are eating healthy foods you can still be gain weight. What is your menu like? can you post some? Although you say that you are very active the body does get used to the amount of activity we continualy place on it. You should think of varying at least your running, maybe trying hills or wind sprints. Are ...
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Yes, men can sometimes act like you are their mother. The important thing is not to treat them like you are their mother. (big turn off and they almost always rebel) Instead of arguing with your boyfriend just start cleaning and ask him to do some things as you go along. For example, if you are cleaning the living room ask him (nicely...do you mind doing such and such for me..thanks) to bring the dirty dished to the kitchen sink. To avoid an unbearable mess, Clean up after yourself. As soon as you finish dinner WASH the dishes. It is easy to get lazy after dinner and say to yourself tha ...
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Doing a master cleanse isn’t such a good idea to lose so much weight. For a cleanse it is wonderful but to lose 200 or 300 lbs? It is too dangerous. Did you mean just for a cleanse?   [End]
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I have been trying this plan for the past few months. Although not perfectly but I do find when I stick to it I do lose 1-2 lbs per week. I think that is a healthy amount of weight to lose. Plus it also teaches about food portions which is so very helpful to a diet. Since you don’t completely cut out certain foods it is also the easiest plan. However, Like anything else I found it hard to get out of my bad habits and form good ones. Good luck.   [End]
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ok, lets not argue about the mileage anymore, that is not going to solve anything. There is some very valuable information available in the internet which is actually free. Try the diabetes association website. They have a wonderful diet on there that is easy to follow and very healthy. I know it sounds too simplistic but its not a fad diet where you need to eliminate certain foods completely or practically starve yourself. The 3 hour diet is very good too if you mix it with the one from the diabetes association. Exersize is very important. I know you walk a lot during the day but p ...
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hmmmmm... thanks for the butter tip! I think that I will try that! Somethings arent the same without butter and margerine is not an option. But its a good idea to mix a good fat with the butter!   [End]
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I am sorry, I think health care should be free for everyone. A government has a responsibility for its people and their health. However, a gastric bypass is very risky! Although you say that your job is physical, it might not be as physical as you need or think. How many women do housework everyday cleaning and scrubbing carrying loads of laundry and lugging their children everywhere? Being a homemaker is physical work! but at the same time a lot of homemakers are obese. Unfortunatley they arent doing the type of exercise that will help them lose weight and gain health. And eating habits ...
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you might not be losing so much weight because rice is quite binding and kinda high in calories...how much rice do you have to eat?   [End]
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I drink caffine... cant miss my latte! but now I drink it with 1% milk.. and not quite as much. Actually I dont follow the meal plans in the book. I just do the 3 hour plate which is very similar to what the diabetes association pamphlet my doctor gave me suggests. Except I dont have quite as much protien in the morning. Try lowering your glycemic load to help with your cravings and add vinegar or lemon juice to your meal (salad maybe) because it levels out your blood sugar level. A major point in this diet is to keep our blood sugar levels from shjooting up and plummeting quickely. tha ...
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sounds interesting. At least you get some nice flavours in your food and you get to eat something!Alot of rice! Good luck!   [End]
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hi rachel. I am back at it full force as well. Doctors orders actually. apparently because of my pcos I have insulin resistance. He said thats why I have gained so much weight in the past couple years. I am supposed to follow a low glycemic diet and eat every three hours to keep my blood sugar at normal levels and keep it from sky rocketing. Apparently this will help me get pregnant? So I am following a low glycemic diet along with the three hour diet. Strictly. So far so good. But I have good motivation.. getting pregnant. Also avoiding type II diabetes ia a good motivator as well! Its s ...
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I have to asy that I havent been too good at folowing this diet with all my latenight studying and early morning classes.. seems to really mess my schedule up and my eationg habits. However I have tried to stick to eating every three hours, sometimes not so successfuly and yet when I weighed myself today I was down 6 lbs since I started this diet. I was very astonished! I though that I might have even gained some with all the binges I do when I study... weird... maybe this three hour thing does work. Although I think that I didnt quite lose that 2 lbs a week since I started this diet but ...
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what in the world is no calorie carb water? ahahahahah doesnt sound like such a great diet to me! 8lbs a week... sure...   [End]
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shelly... I didnt see you post. Are you still keeping up with the diet?   [End]
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its hard to try to accomplis everything at once. I think I have been looking for the easy answer without actually having to do the owrk for it, and the suffering. Along with the battle of wills! my will! I seem to want to resist everything that is good for me and latch on to the bad things! the bad things seem so much easier!   [End]
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you better get it checked out by the doctor right away. It could be pco but they would need to do an ultra sound to find out. They will also do some blood tests... but go to the doctor!   [End]
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hahah.. that good! always nice to get into the skinny pants! I have no balance with anything right now... with all the studying and classes and assignments... whew.. I am up until 2 am then wake up at 630am normally I am so tired when I get home at noon that I have to crash for a couple hours...then back to studying... my diet is outta wack but three more weeks left of this torture... yippeeeeee!   [End]
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that sounds interesting. How do you take the rhubarb then? I know what you mean, the package stuff makes me nervous as well. especially the price! I dont know about oxy but it sounds likea laxative to me... if I can do it more naturally... its better.   [End]
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interesting... I hear that fats lower the appetite. Do you take suppliments? omega3 or anything?   [End]
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its wednesday already? I am up a lb... I read that the most muscle the average woman can gain is up to 2- 3 lbs per month. anyone confirm that?   [End]
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Trying to change a bad habit while your life is filled with stressful things is NOT easy! However, I am still trying to continue with the diet, even though most days I dont follow it to the letter. The biggest change that I have made so far is that I make sure I eat something for breakfast with in 1 hr of waking. Now it has become a habit. I try to eat every 3 hrs but my crazy time table doesnt allow it. so sometimes I might not eatr for 4-6 hrs. Well, I shall see how things go, I am going to do a weigh in tomorrow morning and see how well I do next week!! I hope everything is going wel ...
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congradulations! so it IS working! I have been on and off of the diet with all those stressful exams and hardly any sleep. Wow.. hard to function that way! I have another exam tomorrow night and have just started summer session where the courses are condensed into 3 weeks... I might drop summer session, my other 2 evening courses are a lot as it is... anyway enough complaining.. so far I have put on anything the I had lost. Exams were stressful and I wasnt prepared to fix my diet around them, but at least I didnt gain! like I did last term. I went back on the diet today, I shall let you ...
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yikes! I had better get on it then! you guys had a head start!...ahahahha   [End]
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Hi I acquired a hydrotherapy machine that has helped me tremendously.   [End]
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Do we know how we are going to do this contest/challenge? by lbs or by percentage? I was looking at some old photos with a friend of mine and had a good laugh at my teen age ones but wow.. I was kinda a babe when I hit my early 20’s! I know I cant erase time but I can at least get my weight back down to what it was before! Anyway... I am ready to start, just say when!   [End]
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thanks, I was hoping to find a place locally that sells shea butter, I dont really like ordering stuff off the internet if I can find it in my city... I was thinking about trying this recipe at this site... its not body butter but it seems easy and uncomplicated. However, I would really like to try the body butter! http://www.canadianliving.com/CanadianLiving/client/en/Crafts/Detailnews2.asp... let me know how yours turns out!   [End]
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while I was looking up body butter I found these... http://www.pvsoap.com/recipes.htm http://www.betweenfriendstoo.com/recipes/ I like this one... http://www.soapdelicatessen.com/soapmaking/toiletries//   [End]
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I probably will actually once I figure out where to get all the ingredients!   [End]
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I am not sure if you are still looking but I was interested as well so I did a search for anyone else thats interested... I actually spent 15$ a month ago on a whipped body balm that has olive, grape seed, castor, jojoba, oils in it, plus shea butter and vit e. smells wonderful and its very nice ubt there is only 70g of the stuff and if I can make it myself...so much the better! http://www.candlesupply.com/how2bodybutter.html http://recipes.herbalsoapsbyrj.com/recipes/category.php?CID=29   [End]
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oooh... thats kind of what I was imagining in my head when you mentioned walking videos, walking in place in front of the tv. hmmmmmm... might be a good idea! I disconnected our cable 4 weeks ago though...ehehehe although I do allow my husband to watch tv in the bedroom occasionally whilst I study. But that might be a good idea to get my 10000 steps in, maybe not in front of the TV but I can turn on the radio or something. Its going to be cold here the next few days and I dont really want to go out if its going to snow, I had already packed my winter stuff away! I should have known! I am ...
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ah,ok.. on a treadmill! I was wondering how you are supposed to walk in front of the tv! Anyway, I enjoy walking outside, we live downtown and there are plenty of nice places to walk to and get some fresh air. Unfortunately its snowing outside today! and I screwed up my body by staying up late for 3 weeks studying and working on my deadlines. now I cat get to sleep until 3am, last night it was 4am and I got up at noon today! I feel all screwed up!someone told me not to go to sleep at all and then just go to sleep the following night. I think they are nuts, I neeeeeed some sleep! I have ano ...
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sorry heidi but I just cant sit here with a closed mouth while someone attacks another person without cause. I dont like that at all.. there was no reason for it, she could have just commented on the post without calling her annoying and attacking her personally... not cool.   [End]
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I dont get how there can be ’walking videos’, I am a bit confused by that one..ahahah...how do these videos work? I dont know if I would by them though, I was a bit choked about having to shell our 32$ for that book.. I will, however, meet your challenge in a different way, I am still doing the 10000 steps a day, you still want to see who loses the best at the end of may?   [End]
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you know what is annoying? people who say ’darlings’ and people who patronize others. and people who cant accept other peoples ideas without insulting them personally...I am all for debating a subject and proving proof to back up ones arguement but to say a person is ’annoying’ is not providing proof of your own arguement or contributing anything useful...that is annoying..   [End]
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I think that diet has a lot of potential! I have had 6 exams, 3 papers and 1 project plus 2 major assignments due the past 3 week. I was under a bit of stress I would say! and probably not a good time to start a diet. but I am going to continue on with it and see what happens! one thing to note is that you are only suppose to lose 2 lbs per week on the diet. So if you are looking for quick weightloss it might not be for you. If you want a diet you can live with and nothing is restircted (meat, carbs, sweets,COOKED FOOD, etc)... you might want to give it a try!   [End]
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I have to agree that exercise is the most important aspect of losing weight. I was a runner for a few yrs. I ate what I wanted to but since I was exercising I WANTED to eat healthy. It is important to exercise while dieting so you dont lose muscle and if you gain muscle while you exercise thats even better since one lb of muscle burns 50 cals per day... the more muscle the better. Besides that when you exercise you burn lots more calories that if you dont and you keep burning more calories even after you stopped exercising. Exercising gives you a natural high as well! if you are feeling ...
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