Re: Off the wagon......

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For those of you falling off the wagon. Thought this might help. First of all, don't stay off the wagon. You can mess up with a thing or two, but get right back on. Heck, sometimes when I mess up, I even lose weight, but if I kept messing up, I would just gain all my weight back. I'm pretty determined. I've been on the plan for a little over a year. (The 8th was a year) And I have lost 60 pounds. It can be done. You just have to stick with it. This might also help. http://hussman.org/fitness/index.htm

This site is mostly for the Body for Life plan BUT the plan uses foods low on the glycemic index. There are a ton of helpful hints on the page, and I went by it last week and lost 5 pounds. So you might give that a shot. He does stress a free day (you can also check out the www.bodyforlife.com

site), no exercise, eat a little higher calories, even though we don't count calories, but I find now that i lost so much I need to watch calories or I don't lose. I'm not telling anyone to switch plans at all. Please don't take it like that. They use the same basic foods. There are just some things that work well together with both plans. Little things like instead of 3 big meals and 3 snacks, they eat 6 "rations" meals. One portion carbs (can be whole grain, fruit or dairy) with protein for each. He also talks about Cortosol, the stress hormone that your body produces and collects fat around your middle. If you take vitamin C after workouts, when you get up, and before bed, it stops Cortosol from being produced. And your workouts need not be long, just more intense. It stresses building muscle because muscle burns more calories than fat, up to 400 more a day and up to 4 hours after your workout ends. So I just thought that it might help a few people here better stay on plan. The reason for the day off is one to let your muscles rest, and for the little higher calorie day is so that your body does not get used to what you are eating all week and stall. There are good points on both sites and on the bodyforlife site, it tells some really good exercises to build muscle. So please don't think that I"m trying to take away from SBD, I am not. I love the plan and would recommend it to anyone. I just thought they both work together well for those that keep falling off the wagon or those that want to work on building more muscle with plan. I hope this post is okay. Carol

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Thanks for all of your encouragement gang, this is just what I needed today after a bad weekend!!!

Debbi

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Thanks for the new ideas, Carol. I'll read them shortly.

Steve

> For those of you falling off the wagon. Thought this might help.

First of all, don't stay off the wagon. You can mess up with a thing

or two, but get right back on. Heck, sometimes when I mess up, I even

lose weight, but if I kept messing up, I would just gain all my

weight back. I'm pretty determined. I've been on the plan for a

little over a year. (The 8th was a year) And I have lost 60 pounds.

It can be done. You just have to stick with it. This might also help.

http://hussman.org/fitness/index.htm

> This site is mostly for the Body for Life plan BUT the plan uses

foods low on the glycemic index. There are a ton of helpful hints on

the page, and I went by it last week and lost 5 pounds. So you might

give that a shot. He does stress a free day (you can also check out

the www.bodyforlife.com

> site), no exercise, eat a little higher calories, even though we

don't count calories, but I find now that i lost so much I need to

watch calories or I don't lose. I'm not telling anyone to switch

plans at all. Please don't take it like that. They use the same basic

foods. There are just some things that work well together with both

plans. Little things like instead of 3 big meals and 3 snacks, they

eat 6 " rations " meals. One portion carbs (can be whole grain, fruit

or dairy) with protein for each. He also talks about Cortosol, the

stress hormone that your body produces and collects fat around your

middle. If you take vitamin C after workouts, when you get up, and

before bed, it stops Cortosol from being produced. And your workouts

need not be long, just more intense. It stresses building muscle

because muscle burns more calories than fat, up to 400 more a day and

up to 4 hours after your workout ends. So I just thought that it

might help a few people here better stay on plan. The reason for the

day off is one to let your muscles rest, and for the little higher

calorie day is so that your body does not get used to what you are

eating all week and stall. There are good points on both sites and on

the bodyforlife site, it tells some really good exercises to build

muscle. So please don't think that I " m trying to take away from SBD,

I am not. I love the plan and would recommend it to anyone. I just

thought they both work together well for those that keep falling off

the wagon or those that want to work on building more muscle with

plan. I hope this post is okay. Carol

[Guest guest]

I guess the one thing I can't understand is all the nutaholics, why do you buy them. STOP IT! lol Just kidding sort of. But I had to honestly not buy them anymore. And have you ever really taken a look at calorie count (I know we don't have to count but I can see why they would stall weightloss, and believe me, they do)? I put them into fitday.com and nearly fell over, quit right then. I could rack up a heck of a total in a matter of minutes. I put everything I eat into fitday so I can keep up with what I eat calorie-wise and also with nutrition. I like knowing that I got in all my vitamins and minerals for the day. Under reports it tells. There's also a journal there where I write down what I have for each meal so I can look back and check. Just thought it might also be a good sight to keep track of things. Good luck. Working out really reshapes your body and helps to lose inches. Also makes you feel strong. Carol

Re: Off the wagon......

Carol,

Thanks for sharing this very interesting website with us. I hope to start exercising after week 2 is done...so next Monday I plan on hitting the gym. I am hoping that it will be easier when I'm a few pounds lighter! I like a lot of the ideas on the site...especially writing down the things you eat so you can count the calories if you haven't lost as much as you hoped. I think those of us with a penchant for nuts would "back away from the nuts" (as my hubby keeps telling me) if we accounted for all of them. I also like the idea about not eating while standing up because you don't realize how much more you will shove in! Interesting!

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