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no carbs or sugar- why am I not loosing?
I need toloose ten pounds. I was told cutting out carbs and sugar will do the job. So I cut out all carbs and sugar (ill have very minimal amounts)
Its been 3-4 days already and no results. I havnt lost anything ! Not even .1! How is it possible? I cut out carbs and sugar!!! I don't understand and its making me so upset and ruining my self esteem. I want to loose these ten pounds and I'm struggling so much and its not even paying off
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Go high carb, low fat, whole foods, plant-based VEGAN! It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I went vegan this year and have lost 40 pounds, with minimal exercise, and eating AS MUCH as I desire bringing down my BMI from 30 to 24. I weigh less now than I did throughout high school, as an overweight teenager, even when I exercised for hours while on Junior Varsity and Varsity sports teams. I went to my annual physical earlier this month, and even my doctor was in shock.
My goal for next year is to lose 30-40 more pounds, I just need to start exercising on a regular basis. Nothing crazy, just 30-60 minutes of jogging, Ballet Beautiful, bike riding.. things like that.
I think it's amazing what I've accomplished so far, just by changing my diet, though. It's a lot easier to go vegan than it seems. I was never vegetarian, I went from being able to eat an entire box of pizza or entire tub of ice cream in one sitting to a full-fledged vegan. I now spend a lot less money on groceries, have more energy (never need caffeine, and never feel lethargic like I used to on a regular basis), have more concentration, am learning to cook, and etc. Try it for a week, that's how I started, and I felt so good that I just kept going, and it's now been 5 months! You can get every nutrient from plant foods, including protein!
Where do you get your protein?! 10 comebacks from a Vegan.
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The only vitamin you need to supplement is B12, and one I personally recommend is Garden of Life's B12 spray (cause I personally hate swallowing pills, and methylcobalamin is better than cyanocobalamin). You can buy it at any health foods store (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, etc.), or online.
More on vitamin B12
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These two movies turned me into a vegan overnight.
Forks Over Knives
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Processed People
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Cowspiracy
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Here are some good YouTube channels that have helped me, too.
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Good luck!
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Well, that's not how fat loss works. If you want to lose fat, you need to burn more calories than you take in. Here's some math:
Everyone has a Base Metabolic Rate - this is the number of calories your body would burn by doing absolutely nothing all day. There are lots of calculators online, like this one [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Then you have the number of calories you burn from moving around, doing your normal day-to-day things, plus whatever exercise you do. Again, there are a lot of calculators for this online, like this one: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
Add these 2 numbers together and you get your daily caloric burn.
Eat less than that amount of calories and you will lose weight.
Your caloric burn will change per day depending on how much you move.
It IS possible to put on weight by eating (for example) too much broccoli! You will not lose weight if you simply cut sugar or carbs if you then make up for it by eating a lot of other types of foods. Cutting carbs may give you some initial water loss, but this is not actual fat loss and the weight will come back on as soon as you start eating carbs again.
3-4 days is not a long time in the weight loss world, by the way. Give yourself a week before you weigh yourself.
Hope this helps.
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Okay so loose the ten pounds. Okay don't listen to peoples ideas of how to lose weight... especially with cutting stuff like that out. What you need to do is... go back to eating it BUT
dont cut all the carbs and sugars out.. you need to LIMIT it... limit it with all your other foods and most important EXERCISE DAILY! Im talking 2-3 hours a day and no junk food what so ever! Well some junk food.. just dont over do it. Go out and run or even in the house do something that keeps you moving dont sit on your butt asking what to do to loose weight but go out! I would suggest a personal trainer but dang they are expensive so dont worry about that! You have to wait a while to see results.. not after 3-4 days.. it wont happen till two weeks or so. OH!!!! I know! You know what you should do!? Try Zumba? have you ever tried Zumba , you can buy it or you can go to the local gym.. you loose up to 1,000 calories IN ONE CLASS!... well thats putting in effort. I HIGHLY recommend it trust me.. you wont be dissapointed... look up testimonies on people... you can lose WAY MORE then 10 pounds.ITs a great way :)
GOOD LUCK :)
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It takes weeks to see results from most lifestyle changes. The only way you'd see a difference in 3-4 days would be if you were doing something completely moronic - like deliberately starving yourself.
You want to speed up the results - exercise.
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