Hi i just manage to get some Xenical (orlistat 120mg) and would like to know if any of you had tried it?? does it work???

 Fasts longer than three days are often hard to break, as you sometimes don’t want to stop the fast. After about 3 or 4 days you get almost a euphoric feeling that is so good you don’t want to interrupt it with food. We often have to convince a person to stop after ten days, as they feel they can go on ‘forever’. Remember the longer the fast the slower the reintroduction of food.

SOME LINKS: 

IF YOU WANT TO MAINTAIN YOUR WEIGHT LOSS, YOU MUST:

LOVE U ALL <3

I JUST INVENTED this:
 is only 65 kcals...  I was trying to have something sweet but i was surprised!!!! it tasted really good and filled me too:

I WAS PLANNING ON HAVING 600...  but i will just call it a day now: there was a huge fight AGAIN and (i feel too upset to let myself have more than this).

I don't know why i let them get to me (my parents) It should not since i am too old for being affected.  i will only live here for a few more months.... (damn passport)

WATER FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.  so sad

The Health Benefits of Water Fasting
By Stephen Harrod Buhner 

Fasting is an exceptionally ancient, and powerful, approach to healing many common disease conditions. It allows the body to rest, detoxify, and to heal. During fasting the body moves into the same kind of detoxification cycle that it normally enters during sleep. It uses its energy during a fast, not for digesting food, but for cleansing the body of accumulated toxins and healing any parts of it that are ill. As a fast progresses the body consumes everything that it can that is not essential to bodily functioning. This includes bacteria, viruses, fibroid tumors, waste products in the blood, any build up around the joints, and stored fat. The historical record indicates that human beings are evolutionarily designed to fast. It is an incredibly safe approach to healing and the body knows how to do it very well. 

A salt water flush flushes out toxins from your colon just like an enema. Before doing a salt water flush you need to skip one meal beforehand, such as dinner. One usually does a salt water flush in the morning, as soon as you wake up. Choose a day when you don't have work, or don't have to go anywhere.

 heres some lovely quotes you all might enjoy 

"the man who never starts, is the man who never feels a sense of power"
"you may have to fight a battle more than once to win"
"you may be dissapointed if you fail, but your doomed if you dont try"
"when things are tough, you fight one more round"
"the lust for tomorrow murders the soul"
"either you deal with it now, or it will deal with you later"
"a friend is alot of things, a critic he isnt"
"when work is a pleasure, life is a joy, when work is a duty, life is slavery"
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
"life only demands from you te stregnth you posses. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away"
"wherever there is a human being, there is an oppertunity for kindness"
"it is healthy to want. if we got everything without working for it. we would be bored with our lives"
"people dont lack stregnth, they lack will"
"if you stop, you will never reach your dream"
"you must do the things you think you cannot do"
"smile at people"
"nothing in life is so hard that you cant mak it easier by the way you take it"

But don't panic. With just a few improvements in your training and nutrition habits, you can rekindle that fat-burning fire. So step away from the phone, toss that fad-diet-of-the-week brochure into the circular file, and try these nutritional tips to help pop you off your pesky plateau.

I lost 4.2lb yay!!!! 
Thats almost two kilos in ONE week which makes me feel soooo good everyday i get closer to my final goal yay!!! and so i have to keep on going (i cant believe my mom was skinnier than me when she was my age than i am now it is soo sad) she is so much better than me :( BUT i will be so so so perfect :) i hope she likes me then lol... sometimes i feel she just settles for me and tries to be happy (i know she'd like a better daughter)

my-calorie-counter.com    The webs free Weight Loss Tracker

 well i thought i might share this with you guys for suggestions... my next two days plan (still have to plan for the day after that bcuz i wll be at my BF's and hs mom gets on my case I HATE IT) ...but everyone makes me feel so guilty about everything!!! 

WELL I HAVE LOST ANOTHER 5.5lb   ADDED TO THE 12lb I LOST BEFORE.....

I HAVE LOST 17.5lb  YAY!!! INALLY I AM GETTING BACK MYSELF (since they made me a fat pig at recovery) !!



STAY STRONG MY LOVELIES  XOXO
.........you are such a motivation and support i love you all!!!!        <3

 

 well i want to post my answers (I DROPPED LIKE 5.5LB IN A WEEK) and hope they hepl someone here!!! 

Watermelon Raspberry Mint Salad
beautiful red and green

1.5 c of seeded and cubed watermelon
as much minced fresh mint as you wish
1 c fresh raspberries
2 packets of sweetener or sugarfree honey
1 tsp lime juice

115 calories, less than 1 gram of fat

                                               


*One lime contains just 20 calories!

 Pile into a big bowl in the order listed:

4 C shredded romaine lettuce - 34 cals
1/2 C canned red kidney beans - 109 cals
1 pinch taco seasoning - 4 cals
1/2 C low-fat cottage cheese - 82 cals
1 T salsa - 4 cals
1/2 small tomato sliced - 10 cals
1/4 C sliced cucumber - 4

Total According to FitDay:
Cals - 244
Fat - 2g
Carbs - 33g
Fiber - 13g
Protien - 25g
 

 INGREDIENTS:
2 eggplants
2 tbsp lemon juice
5 cloves minced garlic, preferably roasted
1 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp parsley

PREPARATION:
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
Slice eggplants in half and pierce with a fork in several places. Roast for about 45 minutes, or until soft. Allow to cool slightly, then scoop out inside of eggplant, leaving skin behind.
In a blender or food processor, process eggplant with remaining ingredients until smooth.

BREAKFAST
2 Oranges and ONE of the following (to rotate through the week):

Spray a pan with cooking spray, add egg whites. When half cooked, sprinkle cinnamon over to taste. Flip and cook all the way through. Then sprinkle with sweetener (like Splenda) and enjoy. :D

You can alsoeat your egg whites with Sorbee maple-flavored syrup (1/4 cup = 10 calories), or ketchup, or in an omelette (mushrooms & egg whites, then topped with diced tomato).

But from what i found out about them i must have a disgusting colon (agh gross i know!!!) here is what i foound out:

( BASIC BUT HELPFULL(i hope) ABOUT IT )

i hope this is helpfull.... I thought it was so cool that i was thinking of doing it over the weekend (just to try) while i am at the beach!!! since my boyfriend never bothers me about eating :)

Dietary fiber is made up of undigestable complex carbohydrates. The body does not absorb fiber, so it has no calories. Dietary fiber helps in digestion and elimination.

Fiber foods are generally lower in calories, allowing you to consume a healthy portion of food but with fewer calories.

BREAKFAST:
1 Big glass of grapefruit juice (or two grapefruits whole)
1 cup of diced papaya
coffee or tea wth a little non-fat milk


                                      -----------------WATER, WATER, WATER AND WATER------------------


LUNCH:
1 huge bowl of broth
1 huge salad made of ONLY this veggies:lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cactus leafs, radish, cucumber, watercresses, tomatoes, coliflower and celery.
400gr OR LESS of ONE of this meats: chicken, beef, OR  fish (even tuna), BUT almost no fat or oil. 
1/4 cup of All-Bran


                                    -------------------TEA, TEA, TEA, AND COFFE COFFE COFFE-------------



DINNER:
1 cup of All-Bran with
1cup Non-fat milk
1 big salad (ONLY with the above mentioned veggies) AND/OR 
1 graperuit



                                      -----------------WATER, WATER, WATER AND WATER------------------

pillow :)

Q. How big a factor is drinking alcohol in weight gain?

A. Calories from alcohol do not seem to be a major factor in weight gain. On the contrary, drinking may even cause weight loss. This is the consensus of a high-powered 1993 scientific workshop on alcohol and calories sponsored in part by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

As you may know, most of the calories in beer and wine come from the ethyl alcohol. The remainder are mainly carbohydrate calories-- an 8 ounce glass of table wine has 204 calories, 163 come from ethanol, 40 from carbohydrates, 1 from protein. A 12 ounce can of regular beer has 150 calories, 93 come from ethanol, 55 from carbohydrates, and 2 from protein. On the other hand, all the 70 calories in an ounce of scotch, bourbon or whiskey come from ethanol.

The total number of calories in these drinks, particularly beer and wine, is obviously high. A glass of wine, for instance, has nearly as many calories as a small bag of M&M's. Yet, based on an extensive review of animal and human studies, the consensus of the workshop scientists was that alcohol doesn't make us fat. Here, are three of the more interesting human studies they considered.

The basic implications of these and other studies are: Drinkers are no more likely to be obese than non-drinkers. Alcohol calories do not contribute to body weight. And large amounts of alcohol seem to interfere with the ability of food to maintain body weight.

Why this is so isn't well understood. One theory is that the ethanol "turns on" some unidentified "energy-wasting" mechanisms in the body. This "wasting" converts the bulk of the ethanol to carbon dioxide. As a result, relatively few ethanol calories are left. So without ethanol calories, and only carbohydrate calories to worry about, you would have to drink 6 glasses of wine, or 4 cans of beer, to consume the calories in the small bag of M&M's. Theoretically, hard liquor would have no fat producing calories.

All this is not promoting alcohol as a dietary technique. And it's surely not advocating drinking. It's well understood that the physical and psychological problems associated with overdosing on alcohol can be devastating to the individual and the family. The point is, there is little evidence that drinking itself contributes to weight gain. 

Patrick J. Bird, Ph.D.
Keeping Fit
Column 379
1994