I so want in on this!! I've been banded 4 years became complacent and stopped losing. I've go 50lbs to go and I want to get back on track!! All about liquids tomorrow!
Day 2. Got all my shakes in and Water. Do have a headache. Trying a new Protein shake it is good it is premier, ready to drink, 30 grams Protein 3 grams of fat, sugar 1 gram, carbs 5, 160 calories at sam's 18 for 17.99. Last night was hard for me as I eat at night good and bad stuff as I do not go to sleep till at least 3 or 4. But nothing last night but Water. My husband is out ay 10 pm still have to work out tonight though
Keep up the good work ladies!!
Cheri
Ok me too!!Me too!! I've kind of been neglecting my band the past 9 months and gained 16 lbs on top of what I still need to lose! Booo! I got a fill a few days ago, and I'm focused to just do it! I want to lose another 30 lbs! Let's go girls!!
I so want in on this!! I've been banded 4 years became complacent and stopped losing. I've go 50lbs to go and I want to get back on track!! All about liquids tomorrow!
found this post on internet??
The Myth of Starvation Mode
I want to start off this post by saying that I don’t think you should starve yourself to lose weight. I think it’s unhealthy and unsustainable. You learn nothing about managing your food intake if you starve yourself. If you’ve read anything I’ve written about how I’m going about losing weight you’ll understand that. But, that being said I don’t like the idea of a group of people (dieters) collectively deluding themselves about something that doesn’t exist, to wit, starvation mode.I’ve never used the expression “to wit” before, I don’t think I ever will again.Case in point, 50 Cent.
You may have read the news story last week that 50 Cent lost 54 pounds in 9 weeks to play a cancer patient.How did he do it? He went on an all liquid diet and got on the treadmill 3 hours a day.
Shouldn’t his body have gone into “starvation mode”? Shouldn’t it have shut down and stopped burning calories? This is what many diet books and your fat aunt will tell you. But this just isn’t how things work in real life. And we know this because we can look at people who actually starved. Ever seen a picture of the holocaust? Or a guy who has been adrift at sea for a few months? Magically everyone who actually starves somehow resists the mysterious starvation mode. Was Elie Wiesel’s metabolism less than yours? Well, yes, but that’s what happens when you get down to about 70 pounds.
Here’s your basic biology lesson. Your fat is stored calories. Let’s say you need 2800 calories to function throughout the day. You can either eat your 2800 calories, or you can eat 1400 and your body can burn 1400 stored calories, or you can eat nothing and your body can burn 2800 stored calories. Your body still gets the calories, it just gets them from your stored fat. So when people say, “Don’t go under [some arbitrary number] of calories, because your body needs that just to survive.” What they’re not understanding is that your body still gets that number of calories it just gets them by burning your fat instead of the food you ate. This is all weight loss is.But starvation mode must exist, right? I mean you hear so much about it. It can’t all be bulls**t, can it?Well, kind of.Let’s clarify some things.
Yes, eating will raise your metabolism. But it doesn’t ever raise it enough to make up for the influx of calories you take in by eating.
Yes, your metabolism will lower as you lose weight. But that’s just how things work. It takes a lot less gas to move a Mini-Cooper 100 miles than it does to move a Hummer 100 miles. Your metabolic rate is, essentially, how much “fuel” you need to get you through the day. So,of course, it’s going to decrease as you get smaller.
Yes, starvation mode exists. But it’s not something that happens to you as you try to lose weight. Starvation mode is what your body goes into once all the fat is burned. It’s your body using your muscle and internal organs for fuel because it doesn’t have anything else to use. You can’t be fat and in starvation mode. It’s like saying, “I have a lot of expendable income. And I’m bankrupt.”
Listen, I’m not a doctor… or am I? (I’m not.) But I’m completely capable of reading the scientific studies about calorie reduction and metabolism and I can’t find a study that shows anything about the existence of “starvation mode” as people use the term in the dieting industry.Again, I’m not suggesting you starve yourself thin. You’ll deprive yourself of nutrients to keep you healthy and you’ll likely feel like sh** too. But I’m against the idea of perpetrating the myth of starvation mode because it needlessly complicates the issue of losing weight, and people are confused enough already.
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