Weight Loss , lack motivation =/

[iZiggeh]

Hey guy's not sure where to put this other then in this section , if it's wrong I apologize.

I'm 21 , I'm 5'7 and weigh 180-ish pounds last I checked , and I want to get rid of it. When I was in high school I lost a lot of weight , I was down to 130 and I looked great , was in a size 5 and everything . I was confident etc. Before I graduated due to stress and depression I ended up dropping out and finishing everything online , and in that time I gained back everything I had lost. I was up to 210 , but I'm down to 180 now , but motivation is shot. I'm still fighting with depression and that's not making it very easy. I don't currently have a job so that plays into it , but also leaves me a lot of time to try and get myself back on track.

I had the weight watchers books and point counter before and I used that to stay on a decent diet , and thats all I mainly did was change diet , but I have sense lost them , and I don't have the money to get new ones , so I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do now . I still have horses to ride , and I now have a dog that can go on walks/runs with me but I still cant seem to find the Oomph to get anything done , and to be honest I'm not to sure what the heck I should be doing. Since I don't have a job I'm not in control as to what types of foods come into this house so it's a bit hard to get healthy stuff. I also don't have alot of things in terms of "workout equipment" I have a set of 15lb barbells , and a bowflex that's packed into a shed , and I cant dig it out anytime soon. Mainly want to lose weight in legs and stomach.

So if anyone has any suggestions on what I can start doing , I'm at an absolute loss. I've got ideas but I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing/how many of it etc. I tend to over do it or not do enough.

Sorry for the wall of text.

[Boss Man]

Firstly, please don't apologise for what you wrote Ariel . If you hadn't told us that, we as a community couldn't respond as well as I think we can do now, so I must politely decline the apology, as I would feel rude accepting unneccessary apologies from a young Lady .

Secondly, healthy food needn't be an issue cost wise, as there's a raft of things that the buyer can do to help you and themselves.

Things like

1. Red sticker promotions

2. Blue cross promotions

3. Fixed percentage discounts.

4. "Upto" percentage discounts.

5. Buying in bulk from farmers markets.

6. "Downshifting", which means buying own brand not branded goods. However this may not yield a good taste comparison every time.

7. Sometimes supermarkets pitch stuff out and let you have it for nothing.

8. Priced to clear items, either in bargain bins or on the sell by date.

9. Shopping around and walking to stores in close proximity. Good exercise and saves a bit of money potentially.

10. Some places raffle returned stuff off, but sometimes it's pot luck. I.E. a tin with no label containing peaches, instead of soup like you wanted.

11. Buying damaged products I.E. dented tins, but the inidividual should make sure they don't damage stuff on purpose.

12. Large boxes of cereal, to get better value for money.

13. Coupons out of papers, magazines or coupon books.

14. Buying online for discounts, but beware the faceless corporation incase of difficulties arising from this.

15. Free stuff. An example being Kefir growers who often grow so much, they will send some to you gratis. Admittedly though I cannot think of any other examples, apart from hampers won in raffles or given to the zillionth customer in-store and those may contain some questionable food items, depending on what's in them.

16. Market stalls may be able to beat store prices.

17. Good old fashioned haggling on price.

18. Extra free items that say one or two extra in the container, or n% extra free in the container.

19. Farm shops may be able to beat store prices.

20. Grow your own. Minimum startup cost, requring bulbs and seeds. if you have the soil, nothing else may be needed, otherwise growbags will be required, or various amounts of flowerpots.

So these are ideas, some of which that the people responsible for food buying might benefit from.

As for the dumbells, I'd avoid using them. I say this as the growth potential on small muscles would be better than big ones and if you allowed more continual growth particularly in small upper body muscles, you might cause issues if they become disproportionate to the rest of your upper body and your whole body should be targeted, not just the lower part.

The good thing about muscle development in men and women, is that 1lb of added muscle burns an extra 45-50 calories, so it can be useful for weight loss and therefore you mustn't believe any rubbish about hair growth, looking manly, unnatural etc, as the myths and suspersticion surounding female muscle are often complete codswollop and proliferated by people with little to no understanding or common sense on the matter .

Female muscle can be a beautiful, natural and healthy thing, to embraced not reviled .

Using the bowflex would be a good idea and you could schedule a total body workout for yourself 3x a week, every other day and then you could supplement it by adding things into the mix, like pushups and abs stuff like planks, side planks, leg raises, bananas, and reverse crunches as examples.

However if you can't use this, I'd suggest this sort of routine which is one I post quite a bit, which is all bodyweighted and done 3x a week every other day.

Squats, 2 sets, 10 reps

Lunges, 2 sets, 10 reps

Good mornings, 2 sets, 10 reps

Vertical flyes, 2 sets, 10 reps

Bent over rows, 2 sets, 10 reps

Shoulder presses, 2 sets, 10 reps

Planks, 2 sets, 10 reps

You could combine this with a walking mentality, as you could do the cardio 7 days a week, if you were limiting it to around 20 minutes a day so as not ot be too overtaxing on yourself.

I'd do it after a bodyweight workout, as you'd have the dog and / or possibly some music to stop it being humdrum.

The thing to remember is this is the rest of your life and it could be a beautiful life as well. You ARE worth the time and effort and you DESERVE to make the time and effort for yourself.

Don't focus solely on the cosmetic changes either, consider the other things you can't see like bone density, cholesterol, blood pressure etc, as the biggest reason for weight loss should be to improve the inner workings of your machine, but it's understandable when people can't see those, that they get a little frustrated sometimes with small changes on the scale and don't consider possible small benefits internally.

So keep the bigger picture in mind

You could also use a mantra style system. I've talked about this before now on here.

You write a few short sentances that you can try to remember like

I AM WORTH IT.

I CAN DO IT

I DESERVE BETTER

I CAN SUCCEED

I WILL MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

You stick to about 4 or 5 sentances and write them in colourful capitals and large font, then print one or more copies out and put them in prominent places where you will see them, like a wardrobe door for example and every day mutter them to yourself, or recite them in your head at some point, as a daily affirmation process that can become habitual and like a form of learning, so you can think of some or all of these at times of doubt or concern.

Maybe this will be a motivator of some kind for you .

As for the depression you talked about and please do forgive if I ask anything that may upset or bring negative emotion to you, as that's sincerely not intention, how has it affected you in the past and now and do you medicate it, or take any herbal alternatives like St Johns Wort?

Again sincerely no negativity intended, I'm just wondering if perhaps there's aspects of your emotional and mental outlook, we could try to help you develop or improve, as mind and emotions in synch, can really help a physical goal become more realistic and if we can, we like to try and help the whole person, not just the physical part of them.

Whatever happens though, or however much you chose to say, or whatever else you want to ask, GOOD LUCK and best wishes and if you let us, we'll try to do what we think is best, to look out for you and help you do what you want.

I want to finally tell you that I knwo it will be difficult in some ways, but I am really proud of you for taking the time to love yourself and care for yourself more. You seem like someone who is quite beautiful on the inside and you should be proud of yourself and I found the things you said beautiful, in their own unique way, not tragic or pitying in nature and that's why I'm happy we can do something to help you, because you deserve it and you ARE worth it .

[jezzthomaz]

@Boss Man: Your reply is really motivating and informative. I loved the 20th point you gave, ''Grow your own''. Of course by cultivating on your own, you can save much cost and also eat healthy food. And it was a new idea for me that ''1lb of added muscle burns an extra 45-50 calories''. So muscle development can be useful for weight loss and at the same time it's beautiful. And writing down and keeping in your mind these short sentences like ''I AM WORTH IT, I CAN DO IT etc'' can really motivate you.

@iZiggeh: Gal, we got you that you are jobless and depressed. Please don't give up hope. Chase your dreams and dreams will come true. The reply given by #BossMan can really inspire you and also his 20 points can really benefit you for healthy food buying and its practical.

From side I'll recommend you Yoga. Its really effective in cooling your mind and body and alleviate your depression. Also its helpful in weight loss and weight maintaining.

Good Luck gal We definitely would like to hear from you once you are far better from your depressed condition.

[Allison08]

You might want to give Prescopodene a try. I have tried it and found it very effective in suppressing appetite and in boosting metabolism. stubborn weight started shifting as early as the 2nd week, without much exercise and with zero side effect.

[Boss Man]

One of those suspcious products as per usual.

This is not meant as an aside to you Allison but the following observations of the companies website give me grave cause for concern, causes for concern many users of such products fail to notice, or just completely don't think to look out for, believing anything the wesbite tells them, as if the website is preaching some kind of new fangled religion to them, until they convert and buy into the product.

The one testimony has no pictures and no proof the person even exists, or that the quote isn't made up and they said they read an article by a journalist, who had used it, but there is no proof of who that was or what publication the article came from, to verify the truth of this claim, by this supposedly existant user.

The ingredients are not even listed for quantities; just to prove they exist in the product, which is poor.

It's reccomended by so many specialists it says, yet only one was willing to be pictured and named. I'd expect all these people to want to be named and photographed if they could, so there was more transparency and frankly I find it immensely unethical for any medic to be endorsing such things in the first place.

As for the clinical trials, listing a load of supoposed results with a graph means nothing. It doesn't say how the trials were conducted and whether they conform to known industry standards or were peer reviewed, especially as the product is made in Panama, a well cited and lauded hotbed of medical breakthroughs NOT and whose clinical standards and quality control are something I have no knowledge about and I doubt most if not all product users know about either.

Nor do I know exactly what standard medics and scientific proffessionals in Panama have to reach, to be licensed and allowed to operate in their field or to be able to work on such products.

They don't even name the placebo used in the trial, which seeing as the trial is now over, they might as well do, because it won't invalidate the outcome(s), unless it was going to be used in future trials of equally dubious products, in which case I could understand that.

Another product seemingly based on lack of transparency, smoke and mirrors and questionable ethics and I think the only placebo effect would be when the individuals using diet and exercise lost weight, but by using the pills as well, convinced themselves the pills had something to do with it too.

Effectively the placebo becomes a mental state of false and more than likely, underserved worship for the product.

The contact form, might help you to find all the answers you sought, like what tests were done, who did they use, how many of them, who are all these people endorsing it etc, but even if you got a reply ot such deep meaning ful questions, which you might not, what's to say test results and data would not be made up?

You claim it worked, but can you prove it?

The diet and exercise you would have used, are age old rememdies for weight loss, so they would be proof of results alone. This product isn't, because it's an unnatural way to lose weight. Nature gives you answers in it's own way(s) through diet and exercise and not by taking a bit of nature and stuffing it in a capsule, thereby tricking people into believing nature is again applying its handywork to the situation, because it contains green tea extract and bit vts etc, not some chemical with a long name that some people have never heard of and often just trust not to be dangerous.

The length of time claimed to get a suppressed appetite is likely to be true, but then if the person is given a little tempting morsel of truth, they even they could verify without test results or the endorsement of a slew of industry proffessionals, it would be easy to mistake that one little positive, as evidence of so many others the product claims to do.

It doesn't even list side effects, I.E. interactions with medications, nor does it say you can't get any which is worrying, because if you can the product should say so, I.E. taking it when megadosing on vit c supplements, then due to the vit c content in the Prescopodene, increasing diarrhoea risk. If you can't get side effect at least say so to prevent oncern to your potential customer, because not listing side effects doesn't mean none exist.

You'd be better off getting the B and C vits from food and drinking green tea. You could stimulate thermogenesis to some extent by adding cayenne pepper to your diet and that hordenine substance can be found in barley, as could the vit B, then you add milk to your barley based cereal, get some vit c and magnesium as well and there you go, you're pretty much good to go.

Frankly the main reason these products work is by lining the manufacturers pockets. They create a false dependance on the user, when the user believes they cannot achieve something without the product. This is down sometimes to lack of self belief or not exploring enough ways to overcome weight problems, I.E. using paid for diet or exercise advice, using groups to help you, or people you know to train with and often the "I've tried everything" statement people use, comes without the tagline "I know of".

The fact is anyone who is hotwired to gaining fat by their actions, can be hotwired to do the reverse, barring issues relating to thyroid and medication. The brain and mind can be reprogrammed to believe more in what is possible and achieve more by default, when they are cultivated to do so by the right circumstances.

Pills of any kind were never needed before and are not needed now and many turn to them instead of exploring more avenues of exercise and diet and motivation from others, than they previously did.

If you wanted the quercetin just have an apple or two later in the day, or things like peas, lettuce, onions and peppers work just as well.

This product gets a massive FAIL from me, for total lack of transparency, albeit about what ingredients were used and one of the supposed long list of people endorsing it.

honest verdict to anyone reading this.

AVOID.

[ChipPaulson]

We are all gonna die one day, how about doing what we can do live the way we want?
How`s that?

[mikehanigan]

You could consider trying a weight loss supplement? When girlfriend decided she wanted to lose weight, she used one, and it really helped with her energy. Here's a website with a pretty good selection: http://www.ephedraconnection.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good luck!!

[Boss Man]

In fairness though, people could get more from an increase in carbs, not overtraining, consuming coconut oil, as the fats convert to energy in the liver and having more sleep, plus other things I can't think of just at the moment.

Weight loss products absolutely blow big time. They are a total waste of money and don't work, because when people use them in conjunction with other things that can stimulate weight loss, I.E. exercise and better eating, they can't prove jack squat about them as they are not isolating the effects.

Plus many are tested in frankly laughable ways. Check the test procedures listed on XLS medical's site and tell me how much of the two tests actually makes sense, as you'll find little does.

[philmont]

not everyday, to prevent overtraining

[Alinshop]

I suggest looking in to yoga, kickboxing, zumba, step class, in line skating etc...your local library might rent some exercise videos for free. Find something fun that you enjoy!