Stop eating ALL grains, even matzah. Cut way back on starches like bananas, potatoes, beans, etc. and stay away from all processed sugar. Drink more water and eat more lean protein.
I promise you will drop 10 pounds in a month and your workouts will go better. I've been keeping the weight off for the past 4 months, nice and steady without doing anything special besides not over doing it on the junk food. I've lost 32 pounds since May and I feel great!
I was So good for a while with the no grains and no sugar or starches..but it never lasts more than 2 weeks before I'm snackin on matzah crackers. Shabbat is particularly hard because having to eat a little bit of bread and stopping is SO HARD!!
Sometimes I just tell myself "this week NOTHING processed" and even then I screw up. I seem to have lost a bit of the motivation to eat "right". Thanks for the shove in the right direction :)
Every time you want to snack on something starchy, drink a glass of water instead. If that still doesn't work, have a half an apple.
Most importantly, ask yourself WHY you want that starchy snack. If you can't give yourself an honest answer, then that tells you that it's not about the food.
You CAN do it, and if you can hold on past the first couple of weeks your tastes will change. You'll find that old cravings start to disappear, and healthy food will actually taste better. If you can hold out for two months, when you decide to have some junk it will taste HORRIBLE and you'll wonder how you ever ate that stuff. From then on it's easy to keep the weight off because you've broken the cycle and you're not tempted anymore.
I'm doing okay. Got let go from my job last week so am in recovery mode from that. Not panic mode yet. Just kinda... "Well that happened" type of thing. Applied a couple of places already, reconnecting with some folks in various social networking things, even went to karaoke which I haven't done in freakin forever. It was fun.
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Glad to see all is well, please do keep in touch!
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Don't look for progress with the exercise thing; it only discourages. Just keep doing it and do more weight training than cardio for the calorie burn.
We should do somethin' or somethin'. :)
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Stop eating ALL grains, even matzah. Cut way back on starches like bananas, potatoes, beans, etc. and stay away from all processed sugar. Drink more water and eat more lean protein.
I promise you will drop 10 pounds in a month and your workouts will go better. I've been keeping the weight off for the past 4 months, nice and steady without doing anything special besides not over doing it on the junk food. I've lost 32 pounds since May and I feel great!
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Shabbat is particularly hard because having to eat a little bit of bread and stopping is SO HARD!!
Sometimes I just tell myself "this week NOTHING processed" and even then I screw up.
I seem to have lost a bit of the motivation to eat "right".
Thanks for the shove in the right direction :)
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Most importantly, ask yourself WHY you want that starchy snack. If you can't give yourself an honest answer, then that tells you that it's not about the food.
You CAN do it, and if you can hold on past the first couple of weeks your tastes will change. You'll find that old cravings start to disappear, and healthy food will actually taste better. If you can hold out for two months, when you decide to have some junk it will taste HORRIBLE and you'll wonder how you ever ate that stuff. From then on it's easy to keep the weight off because you've broken the cycle and you're not tempted anymore.
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Every moment is a new moment though right? So I can start fresh.. agaiiiiinnn right NOW.
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I'm doing okay. Got let go from my job last week so am in recovery mode from that. Not panic mode yet. Just kinda... "Well that happened" type of thing. Applied a couple of places already, reconnecting with some folks in various social networking things, even went to karaoke which I haven't done in freakin forever. It was fun.
Sounds like things are going well for ya.
We should hang! It's been forever!
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