Re: better today!

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Personally, I would never cut carbs out of my diet. I may limit them but carbs

are a necessary nutrient so we need them for health more than anything. I think

I have read in this group that we need some carbs for these high intensity tae

bo workouts. I honestly think that your problem is not necessarily the need to

lose weight but the need to love yourself, specifically through improving your

self body image. I think that it is important that we as women especially need

to protect ourselves from the unrealistic expectation that in order to be

beautiful we must be small.

I think our bigger concern should be why do we comfort ourselves with food?

What is that is missing from our lives that we are trying to compensate for by

overeating and living a sedentary lifestyle.

I encourage you to eat to be healthy and to do tae bo for the same reason. If

your focus is more on weightloss than improving your life, I assure you that you

will abandon any of your weightloss efforts if they do not produce results in a

timely manner. I also believe that you expectations are unrealistic. To expect

weightloss after 2 days of tae bo does not sound realistic. I would say give

yourself 12 weeks of doing tae bo for at least 5 days per week AND eating in a

weightloss friendly manner before looking for significant lasting results. Tae

bo is not a lose weight quickly scheme. I lost 15 lbs but stopped losing

because I overeat regularly. However, because I do tae bo consistently, I have

not gained the 15 lbs back despite significant overeating. TAE BO WORKS! Just

give it and yourself a chance. We don't tend to gain weight over night so we

cannot expect to lose it over night, either. i wish you much success.

Tirra

Date: 2005/09/10 Sat PM 07:53:16 CDT

To: tae-bo_on

Subject: better today!