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| How's everyone doing??? I am doing pretty good! I have lost 7 lbs since I last wrote on here! I had been getting exercise most every day too! Feels great! I have been lazy on the exercise though lately, the last week. So I really NEED to get back on track! Monday I think! I hope! We ahve high speed internet now so that is AWESOME!!!! I may even write on here more now! If anyway ever wants to come back on here & stuff just say the word. I'm up for a challenge/race anytime! And I could always use the moral support! | | |
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Today I will tell you how to lose weight, yet allow you to eat
25% MORE than the recommended amount. This is NOT trying to
sell you anything. There's nothing to buy and no exercise.
This REALLY WORKS!
Here's how I discovered this awesome method.
The cookies.
The cookies looked very good so I picked up the package of
oatmeal raisin cookies and read the nutritional panel. I watch
my diet so I read the information panel to check how much fat,
sugar, salt, etc. is in what I was about to buy.
As I looked at the panel, the cookies weren't that bad.
A little rich but surely that amount of fat and cholesterol from
the cookies wouldn't do me that much harm.
Then I wondered just how many cookies would I need to eat to get
that much fat, sugar, salt, etc. so I looked for the serving
size.
I saw the serving size. I saw the number of cookies I would
have to consume to get that much fat, sugar, salt, etc.
First, let me tell you how big these cookies were. They were
not the gigantic cookies that you sometimes see in the mall.
They were regular sized cookies, about 3 to 4 inches in
diameter.
The serving size: 1/2 cookie!
One half of a cookie! "Who in the world eats one half of a
regular sized cookie!" I thought. I squinted to make sure that
I was reading it right. Maybe there was a stray line and the
1/2 cookie was really 12 cookies. I checked another pack just
to make sure. It was one half of a cookie.
I saw some regular sized muffins. I looked at the information
panel on those to see what the serving size was. It was 1/3 of
a muffin.
This was truly a MountainWings Moment as I realized that I had
discovered the secret to losing weight that anyone could partake
of with great results.
All you have to do is just eat what the cookie companies, the
muffin companies and the other packaged food companies recommend
that you should eat. After all, they have highly paid experts
and they should know. I absolutely guarantee that weight will
start dropping off of you faster than money leaving you at the
gas pump.
However I don't think the half-a-cookie nutritional experts are
generous enough with their portion sizes and I want to make sure
that you not only lose weight, but that you have enough to eat
in the process.
Therefore I am recommending that you increase the amount the
experts suggest by a full 25%. I know this sounds reckless but
trust me, this diet will work even with a 25% increase over the
recommended amount.
So from now on, look at the serving size and boost it up by 25%.
For example, if you are preparing dessert for a family of four
(say a husband, wife and two growing teenagers), put two muffins
on the table for dessert.
Explain to them that the 1/3 of a muffin is the expert's
recommendation and this should feed a family of six but that you
have been reading MountainWings and the writer has suggested you
throw caution to the wind.
So instead of getting only 1/3 of a muffin, they will get a full
1/2 of a muffin for dessert. Watch their faces as the
appreciation for the extra portion shows.
If for some reason they have a problem with a generous half of a
muffin, you can always tell them they can have the expert's
suggested half a cookie.
My suggested 25% extra will equal a piece of cookie about the
size of a quarter, enough to satisfy even the heartiest appetite.
This will save you money as a six-pack of muffins will allow you
to eat muffins daily for nearly two weeks (almost 3 weeks if you
disregard my extra 25%).
I looked at a soup can. Half a cup.
I looked at a pretzel bag. 20 pretzels.
I felt thinner already.
Yessiree, I've got this one figured out for the entire country.
Serving size plus 25% and I guarantee you will lose weight in a
hurry.
There is no charge for this but feel free to donate $1.00 for
every pound you lose http://www.mountainwings.com/donations.html
...or just send us your extra muffins.
By the way: There is a slim possibility that you might feel just a
little hungry but this will pass in a few weeks as your body
adjusts to the new portions.
I am going to start on the program tomorrow as I didn't do so
hot with the cookies today. According to the experts, I ate
enough cookies for twelve people.
~excerpted from the book, FAT2Fine at www.HitBooks.com~
I got this from an email & I think it was meant as a joke, but.....it's a thot! I have been thinking of that before this. I wonder if I should just shut this down. I haven't noticed a lot of footprints on here even! I decided that although I am VERY determined to lose my weight I AM NOT going to be obessed about it! I am not talking about it to my hubby at all & I hope to do better & maybe not report anything about it on here until I have lost 5 lbs! i just need to get in control of myself.......SOMEHOW...........And I will......I refuse to just accept faliure & give up! I WILL NOT! I know I can do this. I know of at least 3 people who have lost lately & I am encouraged that it CAN be done! It might not be easy but it CAN be done! | | |
| Ok! I have been really wondering if I am wasting my time writing on here! I thot I'd have lots more response by now. I see that a few people have come on here, there are 75 footprints for this week. Anyway below is something I wrote on my other site. I decided to put it on here.... I am trying to start dieting (weigh down) & maybe walking so that I can get some weight off of me! I have been writing on my lose_that_weight site again so if you are interested you can go read it over there! And also join in! This is such a trial for me! I NEED to lose it & I try & try but can't have enough self control! Please say a prayer for me that I will have more self-control! I am not looking for an easy way out. I just want to lose my extra before I get preg. again so I can be healthier & before even more piles on! I just get SO sick of being fat, of thinking about it, of trying & failing, and I wonder why??? if I really am sick of it & want to be thinner than WHY???? don't I do it????? It's like I am stuck in a prison I can't get out of, a body that I really don't want to be in. I know it can be done! Now to add to that...I am feeling very discouraged about it all. I just feel like giving up! I know that the more I think about it & put myself into it the worse I seem to do! I have a question for discussion...Should you diet (in any way) while breastfeeding??? I don't want to step on toes here, just want to know what people think. First I will say that I have read in baby magizines that it is ok to do 'weight watchers' while nursing only they add on a little more calories you should get each day. Now as to what I think....Why not???... IF..... you are not starving yourself, taking some kind of pills, or deprivinig yourself of certain food groups?? I feel like if I am eating healthy food from every food group & following by body cues- waiting for hunger, stopping when satisfied & not too full, then it is fine. My baby will not suffer. Losing weight is not going to deprive my baby either. For me if I wait till I am all done nursing then I may as well forget it. I am always nursing or pregnant, I just keep getting fatter & fatter while I am at it. Am I supposed to be fat just because I am a Mom & nursing??? What about healthy & happy??? I just feel like why should I settle for that? The longer I wait, the bigger I get the harder it gets to lose it. I look at all these obese people & they look SO unhealthy to me. If I were to let myself go & get like that then what kind of life would that be? I wouldn't be able to enjoy my kids & life that way! That said I DO wonder if I am trying too hard, thinking about it too much. Maybe God wants me to just focus more on my family & the weight will come off when ready?? I am praying about this. I am also trying to figure out what to do about excerise, I walked 3 months without missing a day & never lost a pound! Not one! So I think why waste my time? It did tone me up some much I'm not sure if it was a lot! I think I felt better about myself & just plain more happy & energetic though so maybe it is worth it! I have to be dedicated to it though. I haven't walked at all since Monday when I wrote last. That day I mowed the lawn also so got double the exercise. Anyway I think I ran out of thots for now. | | |
| Hello! I sure haven't been on a lot or gotton a whole lot of response here! BUT I am not giving up! I have been doing worse with my eating but that IS going to change today!!! I weighed again (can't remember which day) and was still the same! Thankfully! The kids started school today so I decided this is MY day to start anew & get back on track! I have done my walk & am hoping to not miss any days for this whole week! Of course I plan to go longer than that but this is a start! I am only going to eat a small amount of food today to get going. Veggies, fruit, snack bars, ect...I don't have alot of groceries right now. Anyway I am going to make a chart for my walking today. I have decided to put a picture on that I HOPE will somday be my before picture. I don't like it much but that is the whole point soo....... 
I guess that will be all for now. Hope you all have a good week & will join me soon! God Bless! Helen | | |
| How are you all this fine morning??? The sun is shining here! Just think here is a brand new day to start your diet again! Or hopefully continue it! It isn't supposed to be very hot today either! Something I am happy about! So I meant ot write on here sooner than this but we had internet problems for a few days... But I am back now & that's what counts! I have done my Pilates workout before going on here!!!!! Yay!!!! My first time since baby! I'm sure I'll know it by tomorrow. I also weighed! I was 156 when I got pregnant & am now 166. I have a new scale but it is a digital one & it says I am 170 today. It has been saying I am between 170-177 lately. I just don't trust it too much & so I got on my old one & it is less! I know my old one is accurate with myh doctors. I was down to 160 after I had Larissa & then went up to 168 by my 1 month check-up. So I am going by my old scale for now (who wouldn't since it is less???) & I am starting my weight as 166 as of today! Anyway one who joins me here will have to give me a new starting weight & we are starting fresh! I haven't decided when I am going to weigh again. Mayber in a few days! I have been stuck on my eating! I just keep doing good but not good enough! Grrr.......and not too bad! It's like I am stuck in the middle! I might take a before picture & put it on if I dare! Teresa! (my sister) I am waiting for you to join me on here!!! Here are a few pictures of my little dolly girl! Larissa Dawn-2 months 
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