My experiment....

Ok so. Last week I wasn't taking any of my diet pills and I followed the clinics program perfect and worked out or walked a mile or so every day. So that brought me to a loss of 2 pounds. See my mother is dieting as well. Her and I are exactly the same. I have the same exact genes as her.  Seriously I'm a clone. haha.  Wish I would have gotten my fathers metabolism but hey. Anyways! She lost 7 punds last week! WHAT! She gets to eat cheese, and turkey bacon, and miracle whip, and low fat ice cream! What the heck. So her and I were talking. She thinks that maybe the "nutrients" that I get from the clinic are stalling my weight loss. Because I know I can lose weight, and back in the past I have done it and lost good amounts its just I never kept to it.  This week, I am going to try my own thing and see what happens.  Go back to my diet pills. Incorporate things I like to eat but are healthy. Like no sugar added low fat ice cream.  Light Miracle Whip, cheese every once in a while. Still all fresh veggies and fruits. Leave out those "nutrients" and my normal work out routines. Guess we will see when Saturday comes around.   P.S. I just bought these new jeans last week because all my old ones ahd holes...lol. And well I am going re shopping this weekend...I need new ones. Yippee...hehe. New size oh yea down one size by the end of the week. Thought everyone should know. ---Christa

When did your mother start her diet routine?  If she started at the same time as you then there may be some clout to your theory.  If she started a week or two ago then I suspect she's still losing the water weight.  Either way, it's worth a shot to try it out.  I gotta change things up this week too but I'm not sure what to do yet. Perhaps I should start back on the pills, I noticed when I stopped my hunger increased and my weight didn't drop. Maybe there's something to the pills, even if it is mental.  I wouldn't think the vitamins are slowing your weightloss but then I don't know what's in them.   Either way, I can't do a diet that restricts my foods. I have to be able to eat whatever I want. I'm okay with eating less of it because it's not as good of a choice as other foods but don't tell me I can't eat something and that I must eat dry boring bland nasty foods.  My 44s are getting loose on me now.  That's weird since I haven't lost any weight. Go figure.

She started at the same time she's down I think 13 or 15 pounds. I don't know I don't keep track of hers. Well see they're not vitamins, vitamins are good for you lol. These are what they call "nutrients". They're powder mixes, for like making puddings, hot cocoa, cappucino's, soups. Things like that. my mother said maybe they have something in them to stall you on purpose. Ya know for the company to make money? So I'm going with my theory.

Woohoo Lose pants! You might be losing inches.

 

---Christa

Ahh yes.. that makes sense. perhaps they do have something in their making you lose more slowly. It's definitely worth a shot! I'm still not gonna go buy new clothes though.  Not till size 40. :)

I'm going to buy like one pair of jeans. I can't do these anymore. Everytime I go down the stairs the bottoms cover my whole shoe and the waist is like falling off my hips. I can't walk in them because they keep sagging. I have some old pairs of jeans that are one size down so I will wear them but I am going to porbably buy one pair and one pair of capri's or something then I will wear them until I totally can't wear them anymore. Because I will need another 20 pounds before another new size.  For a total I am down 16 pounds. Wow!  I actually started dieting in December...but slacked. So yea, I'm rambling!

I through out all my old clothes a few months ago because I had given up. I held on to them for about a year and finally said oh well. I'll never be this size again.  Off to the salvation center they went.  That must've been 100s of dollars worth of clothes.  Sizes 38-42 and XL-XXL.  Wish I woulda kept them all now!  So anyways, I'm not gonna buy anything till 40 because I can just cinch up my belt extra tight. :)   You should see the 46's on me now though. I do my best not to wear those because it's rather uncomfortable. But like I said. Not buying anymore clothes for a while so if everythign else is dirty then I'll put em on with my belt. Speaking of belts,  I do have a size 42 left and I suspect I'll have to use it soon because my 44 is already on the last hole and I really need 1 more hole.

See you shoulda saved the clothes. I always do because I always hope. And I am so glad i saved the 2 pairs of pants that I have that are smaller.  I'm not a belt person, I dislike them. Or wait they really don't sell many plus size belts for girls. They do at Lane Bryant but umm I'm not paying 20-30 bucks for a freakin belt. When I meet my goal weight yes there will be many awesome cool HOTT belts lol. Along with HOTT clothes hahaha.

Ahh yess, the clothes. I can't wait. I think that's my biggest excitement. I love to look good and wear nice clothes. I can't wait until I can do that.  When I was a size 36 I had to squeeze into them. If I had lost another 10lbs I would've been set and I coulda shopped to my hearts content. I've never been able to wear clothes like I've really wanted to. God I can't wait!  Although I just looked at some 2007 fashion for men. OMG, everyone's going GAY.  Take a look, just do a search on mens fashion.  It's horrible.

Congrats on the smaller jeans!!

Heya Christa,      Do they give you the nutritional information on their "nutrients" so you know things like calories, sodium, etc...?     And if you'd consistently been taking diet pills before, stopping abruptly will give you a sort of rebound effect where your metabolism will be even slower than it normally was, but the effect is easy to counteract with about a week of exercise.        But 2# is very good anyway in a week (that's what I shoot for each week)...especially when you'd just stopped the pills.