Low Carb Diva

April 12, 2010

If dieting was easy no one would be fat and the diet industry would not introduce a new gimmick or product for quick, easy weight loss every five seconds. The secret to losing weight is perseverance. Without this you will keep gaining and re-losing the same 20, 50, 100 or more pounds over and over.

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June 8, 2009

Well the Summer Boot Camp Weight Loss Challenge is over and I lost 3 pounds for the month!

That's 3 pounds less I now have to lose but boy oh boy do I long for the days of eating 500 calories a day and losing 20 pounds a month.

3 pounds a month is just a tad to slow for me. I need to lose at least 6 to reach my goals. After all I am not getting any younger here.

For the next 4 weeks I will be keeping my calories at around 1400 and change up my exercise routine. More resistance training and maybe a few 2-3 second sprints here and there.

I will keep y'all updated weekly on my progress. Good luck to everyone and may this month bring us all fat loss (even if the scale doesn't reflect it).

June 3, 2009

My mother turns 65 this year and for as long as I can remember she has always been on one diet or another. She has tried every fad diet out there and all have ended in failure. But she is 65 and still has not been able to conquer her weight demons. Up until last year I was following in her same path.

What is different now than a year ago for me is I started acknowledging the price that I have paid for being morbidly obese. I also now know that my future at 65 would be very bleak and dismal if I continued to eat myself slowly to death. Yes, weight loss requires discipline because when those good feelings of having lost your first 5-10 pounds wears off you realize that you have a long road to travel without the benefit of the constant praise from friends and family.

In fact most of the time you will be greeted with people trying to sabotage your efforts as you lose weight. Like telling you that you don't need to lose anymore weight (even though you still have 50-75 pounds to go).

Decide today that you are worth it. Look at your old junk food friends as the enemy that they are. Their comfort is only short lived and will only make you fatter.

For today refuse to spend another year wanting to do something but paralyzed by fear and doubt. Reading blogs and weight loss success stories can go a long way to motivate and keep you inspired when you want to give up.

June 1, 2009

Can you believe that it is June already? Personally I can't wait until the summer is over. I am just so tired of all this bad economic news and am praying that the fall will bring everyone a little relief and breathing room.

Sticking to a weight loss plan when you are worried about being able to pay your bills can be difficult but it is not impossible.

I am not using this economy as an excuse to pig out and neither should you. Yes I have a slip up every now and then but the secret is to get right back on the next meal. Believe me this is harder than it sounds. After all once you start eating all of those forbidden carbs the sugar beast wakes up.

It is almost like that little cute orange monster in those weight watchers commercials.

I think the key is to try to have more on plan days than off and hope that it all evens out.

May 26, 2009

Did you know that all those extra pounds you are carrying are not only uncomfortable, but they also store and hold toxins? If this isn't bad enough as you lose weight these toxins are released back into your body. This can cause acne and even stall your weight loss as all of these toxins can wreak havoc on yout thyriod.

Perhaps this is another good reason why we should lose weight slowly and not yo-yo back and forth on the scale.

I have not found anything tangible about how one can get rid of these toxins and since I do not recommend detox or colon cleansing I can offer this as a solution: drink enough water, lose weight slowly, in the morning have a cup of hot water with a tbsp of lemon juice, exercise to help sweat out some of those toxins and get plenty of sleep.