I’m on my usual day at work, I’m now using my 15 minute break time to look for the most cheapest diet fads in the web and I came across with this article about the Banana diet used in Japan. Since I’m also eating banana every breakfast, I’m thinking maybe I can just eat bananas for 15 days, just to maximize the effect of my protein shake. If I really wanted to lose 5 kilos in 2 weeks, then, I have to try everything. Just bananas in 15 days...i hope I can do it.
My last weigh in was last March 4, I used the analog scale of my OB Gyne, since i cant go there this week, i tried using the analog scale of my friend, yep! i lost 2 kilos only. I’m a bit sad because, I’m expecting to lose 5 kilos. or 4 kilos at least? Am I expecting too much? Or should I just use the scale of my doctor? Hm...
If Its really just lose 2 kilos then...I have to change something with my food intake, argh! Or maybe I’m doing something wrong? Or am I just expecting too much...here we go again!
I was about to write lemons in my grocery list, I computed everything and its over the budget, so I checked everything, deciding what to remove on my list. So I googled for the lemon diet again and I almost fell when I saw the second paragraph:
"Drink six to twelve glasses of this lemonade mixture daily. No food is eaten nor any vitamin supplements taken during the cleanse. If you get hungry, have another glass of lemonade."
Anyone can lose 8 lbs with that! So that’s why they call it water diet, I don’t think I can skip my vitamins for 10 days, this is not for me, I have PCOS and my priority to be healthy, I don’t want to starve to death. I want to lose weight, but I want enjoy it at the same time.
I’ll keep looking on the other weight loss article, product reviews that i can find, for now I’ll drink my med, eat right, I may not lose 8 lbs in 10 days but at least its less pressure and it’s more fun!
I’ve been reading some OK magazines lately, searching on the latest and cheapest weight loss products used by celebs. I saw this before and after pictures of Fergie, Beyonce, Ashanti, what’s more interesting is that they all tried lemon diet detox. So I went on and Google some information about the lemon detox and it seems like many people who have tried it said that its effective, and it has health benefits into it.
How to do this Lemon Diet Detox? Here’s what I found out:
For at least 10 days, drink around 10 servings/day of the following:
* 2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice NOT BOTTLED JUICE!! (approx. 1/2 lemon),
* 2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) organic Grade B maple syrup,
* 1/10 Teaspoon or more cayenne pepper (hot red pepper), and
* 1 Cup (8 fluid ounces) purified or spring water, NOT fluoridated water.
This is the equivalent of taking an empty gallon water jug and filling it with:
* the juice of 5 lemons
* 1 1/4 cup of organic Grade B maple syrup
* 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
* 10 cups of water
It sounds intriguing. I think im gonna try this next week for maybe 10 days. Well see if its really effective.
When you're on a diet, never ever watch "Man vs. Food", especially at night or you'll find yourself munching on the leftovers in the middle of the night. Not healthy at all! That’s a lesson learned from the past and it’s an everyday struggle.
Dinner time is always a family time, and it’s been a challenge to have this dinner time lately. They all know you're in this diet, but then your mom cooked you your favorite chicken adobo, asking you for a little appreciation to have at least a bite of this dish, and if you say no, she'll give you that Meryl Streep look. This prompted me to decide not to have this family dinners not until I reach my healthy weight goal of 50 kilos.
I don’t want to depend too much on my protein shake, these weight loss products are nothing if I’m not going to take control of myself, I need to help myself to lose all this excess weight that I have. And to do this, I need to eat healthy food, avoid eating too much and stay away from any kind of food temptation!
I just finished watching this video from my friends facebook. It’s about a case study on "Why are thin people not fat". They asked 8 thin people from ages 20-25 with different ethnicity to do this study. These participants claimed that they have no exercise and basically eat whatever they want but still manage to stay thin. So in this experiment they are required to eat 10,000 calories a day, and forbidden to do any physical activity in 4 weeks. And as the week passes they were measured, the body fat index and all that. After 4 weeks, they all gained 10 kilos. But they were all back to their original weight, 2 weeks after the experiment. And guess what, they haven’t tried any weight loss product whatsoever, they didn’t even try to exercise or diet or something. And because of these results, the following conclusions were derived from this study:
- your mom's appetite or food intake can predetermine your weight when you grow up
- no matter what you do, you body will naturally go back to its original, or shall we say, comfortable form.
Hm..if this study is correct, well i dont wanna blame my mama, heheh! i hope my weight will go back to 50 something kilos. But then again, I believe in a saying "no pain, no gain". Oh no, no more gaining! I want to be 50 kilos! heheh!
It’s a typical Friday afternoon, all work is done and now I’m just using my spare time to browse some weight loss products, and stories and all that, and my officemate, Walter, who was standing behind my chair, also browsing my desktop, interrupted me and said, "there you go again, you've tried so many of that stuff before, will not work on you, that’s for sure, aren’t you getting tired of all that". I’m so pissed, but then managed to shut my mouth and not talk back at him. He obviously felt awkward because of my silence so he walked away instead. I’m thankful I didn’t lash out and talk back to him. I kind of understand from where he’s coming from, he’s fatter than me, and I feel that, he’s only saying that because he frustrated at himself.
This only proves that i need to stay focus and motivate myself more, words can’t bring me down this time, I know I can do it, if others can, why can’t I..
I’ve been absent for two days last week because of my headaches. I thought it was another migraine attack, but guess what! I've had a period! After 4 months of waiting, and 1 month of diet, cleansing and medication, I’ve now lost a few pounds and I’m a woman again.
I used to hate it everytime I have my period. But when i had this hormonal imbalance after giving birth, I started having irregularities with my menstruation, my acne is getting worse, my body is getting fat, and my mood is always upside down. Now I know how important it is to have my period every month. I now learned how to embrace femininity.
The other day, my husband told me that, I look slimmer nowadays and it made me feel good about myself. I think the protein shake meal replacement and the aloe extract are now working. My pimples are gone and my face is starting to get lighter. I think these cleansing and weight loss products are worth it! My next weigh in is on Monday, I’m going to find out how much weight I’ve lost with one month use of that protein shake meal replacement and aloe extract. So we’ll see…
I just finished all my tasks today. I was about to go to our pantry to get a banana and then I saw my highschool classmate, let’s just name her J, who happens to be the wife of my co worker. I remained seated, put on my headset, to give her an impression that I’m occupied with my work, and so that she will not approach and talk to me or something. Why do I do that? Because I’m insecure. She's always been pretty, she now has 1 kid but still looks stunning. Always the Prom Queen, and I...I look like I had 6 kids already, even octomom is still pretty! Argh! I promised to myself that I’m not going to be insecure, i need to fight it. And so, because I’m busy, “trying to look busy”, I’ve had this wishful thinking again, daydreaming again of the things that I’m going to do once I reached my healthy weight goal of 50 kilos. Here it is:
-Buy a flowing, floral dress. Hm…I’m going to buy MORE feminine clothes for my new sexy body! And sexy new underwear! yeah!
-Go to church and say hi to “that old lady who loves giving me those unsolicited advice”
-I’m going to have a regular daily stroll with my daughter every morning.
-I’m going to have my fabulous comeback to our highschool reunion.
-Well have a 2nd honeymoon to Boracay Island.
-My office attire will be more corporate, feminine and sexy looking! Haha!
Maybe by that time I’m more confident to talked to J. Once I reached 50 Kilos, I’m still going to drink my protein shake as my breakfast meal replacement, and I will convince my husband to lose weight too so that both of us are healthy. I’m going to stay away with those weight loss products such as pills, we’ll always include fruits in our diet, ion detox will be twice a month. Whew! I really hope I can do all this..I just know I can…
16 years of yoyo dieting, yep! name it! ive almost tried it all! Ive tried the after 6 diet, south beach diet, atkins diet, oatmeal diet. This time..rice diet?
Besides from adobo, rice play a big part of where i came from, its our staple food, even the poor people from our country can survive with just rice and salt in their meal time. Most of our well know dessert are also made of rice. And because of eating too much rice, the number of diabetic people in our country is also increasing. And if you became diabetic, you cant just take any weight loss products because of your condition.
So whats this rice diet? Its a bit similar to south beach diet, it involves low GI diet, allowing you to eat brown rice, chicken breast no skin, no fat meat something like that. And you can lose 10 kilos a month. Im already thinking about it, but i think im gonna starve myself to death! Im not being pessimistic, its just that, ive been there done that, i think im gonna stick with my protein shake for now. It tastes good, its healthy, and its low calorie, i can burn it more faster and easier.
What even more depressing beside the Japan's tsunami? My cousin is now in the hospital because of diabetes, he’s just 17 years old! He really loves to eat, and he eats more when he’s depress.
He's an only child, he always have new clothes, expensive stuff, but he never had a happy childhood. He was being bullied because of being fat and being adopted. He did tried to fit in, he tried all these weight loss products, but he still end up being depressed and unsatisfied. We are both ridiculed by our own relatives because of being fat. He maybe adopted, but I love him, I treat him as my own little brother.
It’s not too late for us. I know I can still help him. I’m going to be there for him more. We'll lose weight together..
I’m going to visit him today. Hoping that he'll be okay as soon as possible.
It was Thursday night and our mass just ended. As I was walking out of our churchyard, this old lady from our church, (she's one of my husband’s church acquaintances but I really don’t know her that much, I don’t even know her name), she walked beside me and asked me something about church stuff, after that, she suddenly blurted these intruding rude advice I didn’t asked for, she said, "you know what, you can use Colgate toothpaste to dry your pimples" I was shocked, I felt humiliated, irritated and at the same time! But then I tried to be calm, and told her, "Oh..I see..Well I can t just do that, I have pimples because of my illness". I can’t mention that I have PCOS, were on the sidewalk, and were not close. But then she the next she said, really irritated me. "Oh no, you should try it, I had lots of pimples before, and I used it, I’m now ok!” Stupid old woman! She doesn’t even have a college degree to say that, and she’s not even my friend! I bet she doesn’t even know my name to tell all this crap?! I said, this time in a not so friendly tone of my voice, "I really can’t do all that right now, because, I AM SICK, ok?". I think she got it now, because she suddenly became quite and I stopped talking to her, and she went ahead and walk with her husband. I’m so pissed, I walked ahead with them and gave her the nasty look.
I felt good after our church worship and suddenly my mood turned upside down because of that rude old woman! I texted my husband and told him about it. He only said that she was just concerned and kept assuring me that I don’t have to feel bad about myself because I looked all fine. But really, I still feel crappy about myself. It’s always hard for me to bounce back from adversities. I felt like I’m being looked at, being scrutinized for being fat. I need to heal from this PCOS, because of this PCOS, I have pimples. I need to lose weight, because of this weight, I’m being laughed at.
These weight loss products should work, or I’m going to make it work! I'm now taking a protein shake twice, as a meal replacement for breakfast and dinner, I’m also taking this aloe extract to take out the toxins in my body. I really hope this will help me for weight loss, and also to treat my pimples and my PCOS too. I really hope that it can make me happy and healthy too....
Hmm which one is worse, unsolicited advice from a stranger or from your own mother? hm...difficult huh?!heheh!
After the looming result of my APE, I went to have this Ion Detoxification. I was skeptical at first, though explained to me it has scientific basis and the good thing is, it’s their promo today! So I went ahead and tried it. Not longer than 1 minute I felt something tingling on my feet, and there it was, some oily orange like bubbles and then green stuff coming out of the water. As 30 minutes passed, the water became rusty colored and its looked disgusting. I checked for the results and it says that those orange and green bubbles are toxins from liver and reproductive organs.
I Goggled about it and it says it takes out cholesterol and that it aids weight lose. I think I’m going to do this every pay day, twice a month detox sounds good huh? Healthy and cheap! Much better than the last detox I’ve tried, that South Beach Diet thing, I was starving to death! And I’m certainly not going to do that again.
Failing the Annual Physical Examination (APE) is like getting an F in you class card. Today, i found out that my Uric acid, SGPT, SGOT(or something..), triglyceride are high. Surprisingly, my cholesterol is normal? Weird huh? This is the first time I’ve failed my APE, and I feel so bad about it.
A month ago, I was diagnosed of having PCOS(Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), my OB said, i was lucky enough i was able to have a kid because she said I also have retroverted uterus. I am now taking Metformin and some iron multivitamins to treat my illness.
I want to lose weight fast, these diet pills are tempting, but i need to keep out of pressure. Hmm...If I can’t reach 50 kilos in 3 months then, maybe the feasible date would be on September perhaps, just in time for my 26th birthday I really hope that I'd be 50 kilos by then, it would be my greatest gift to myself! A happy, healthy, new me..
I’m not a fan of fruits. The last time I craved for fruits was when I was 3 months pregnant. And so I was once again browsing for weight loss products, I came across with these berries, Acai berry pills to be exact, i looked at the price, and well it’s kind of affordable, but since I’m a bit of a cheapskate, heheh! I choose to buy lots of bananas instead. Why bananas? well it’s much more cheaper compared to grapes and apples, it has potassium, more fiber and it has low GI. Wow! I sound like my nutritionist already! haha!
I just ate 3 bananas for lunch and I feel full already. Tomorrow I guess I’ll try grapes so that I won’t get fed up with the taste of bananas. I’m currently mixing my protein shake with bananas, it’s so delicious, I’m going to have my protein shake every breakfast and dinner. I hope this thing will work. Next weigh in will be on April 4. Let hope for the best! GTG, will be walking home now to burn those calories.
Finally my hardwork has paid of. I’ve now lost 1 kilo in 2 weeks! 29 more kilos to go and ill be back to my healthy weight again! Its not much but it’s a good start. So what’s this basic math I’m talking about? It’s all about ”Burning calories according to your food intake”. Since I’m a working mom and I don’t exercise that much, I only burn 1,500 calories in a day, that’s according to my nutritionist, I only need to consume up to 1000 calories , to lose weight.
I wonder how those protein shake works. One protein shake is 220 calories, so if I am going to have 2 protein shakes in one day, replacing breakfast and dinner meals, then that’s 440 calories only, plus rice and chicken for lunch so that’s maybe 300?
440 + 300 = 740 calories!
I’m only going to consume 740 calories so that’s good! Hmm…I hope it tastes good. Anyways, I’m still going to try it on my own first before I go ahead and buy these weight loss products.
Burning calories, hm…? I don’t have an exercising machine at the moment, but I think what helped me lose the weight is the cardio workout I get from my baby. She’s always running around at night and I keep chasing her, begging her to sleep. Speaking of exercise machines, I saw this infomercial about Gym Form Vibromax? I wonder if those vibrations can help you lose weight. I don’t know, maybe I should Google it first before I buy it.
I was informed just now that our Highschool reunion will be held on May, that’s 2 months from now. I just started my weight loss regimen and I don’t think im ready for it. Hmm? Can I lose 30 kilos in 2 months? Nah, I don’t wanna be preassured, ill just skip this reunion this year, than go there and be humiliated with my weight. I just don’t think Im ready. If im going to go there, then I want to be confident enough to be there.
Last reunion ive attended was May of 2008, a month before that ive tried this weight loss pill xenical, to lose weight fast. It was yucky! I was always farting and it has oil on it! It was worth it, for a while, because I was able to lose 5 kilos in one month. That reunion was fun!
Its me against my pride again, but sorry, I don’t think I can see my highschool friends this year. Not now..
But Im gonna make my comeback next year, that’s for sure…
I was watching MTV this morning and I saw this Jonas Brothers video “SOS”, man! those jeans are tight! It reminded me of that year 2007, that was 15 kilos ago. Everyone is wearing it, the tighter the better. It was December at that time and I was rushing to the store looking for a new casual dress, this sales lady talked me into buying this skinny jeans, telling me that it will surely compliment my curves and all that, and so I ended up with skinny jeans to wear on our family reunion. I went there, greeted my relatives, and as I headed down the buffet table, my aunt approached me and said “oh you should not eat that, it will make you bigger, look at your jeans it won’t fit, it’s too tight!”. And I was I like, “ thank you for your concern tita, let me just eat and enjoy, its Christmas! And besides, it’s just the jeans you know”. So I sat down beside my aunts and cousins, they are all wearing skinny jeans including my 60 year old aunt, and all of a sudden my cousin approached me and asked me, “ hey cuz, how are you?”, and I’m like “I’m ok, and you?” she was like, “I’m doing fine, I’m actually busy with my business”, and she started telling me about her weight loss products. I was so annoyed and told her that “come on cuz, its Christmas, lets not talk about business for a while, lets just eat ok”. She said, “ill give you a big discount just try it, you won’t be disappointed with the results, you can wear those skinny jeans on tv”. And I’m like, “cuz, I am wearing a skinny jeans right now”. And that the end of skinny jeans for me.
But now, I kind of of missed wearing it, I wished I should have wore it more when I was a little bit lighter, but now I can fit to any skinny jeans coz it really is too tight for me now.
I still cant believe that I am now 80kg. I only have myself to blame from all this. I was too busy that i forgot to take care of myself for awhile. Ive always been struggling to lose weight since i was a kid, but it keeps on coming back. Ive tried all those weight loss products on TV, but why am i still fat? Truth really hurts. I guess i need to answer my own stupid question huh..
- im always trying to lose weight just to please other people
- i procrastinate a lot
- i dont appreciate myself
- im insecure
Im gonna be different this time. Im going to do this for myself. I wanna live longer for my baby. Im going to be healthy and happy.
I gonna reach my healthy weight(50kgs) goal this year. It will be a lifestyle makeover and im gonna keep the weight off this time!
Im a 25 year old working mom of a 1 year old kid. Ive been Yoyo dieting since the age of 10.
Looking at the scale right now, yep! im now 80kg, my heaviest weight ever! Found out recently that i cant have another baby because ive developed PCOS.
Im still young, but i feel like dying already. I need to live longer for my daughter..and i still want to have another kid..
I need a lifestyle makeover, that's the best way to lose weight!
No more excuses! Operation Healthy Sexy Mama, now begins.
