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format_quote Originally Posted by Argamemnon

I have no problems staying in shape.. I mainly eat healthy organic food. I hope you will do the same.. Also, I have rid myself of back acne almost completely by drinking lavender tea and eating the right foods. I have a healthy skin now.. sometimes I also drink fresh carrot and tomato juice although not as often as I should due to time restrictions and laziness... I still eat some junk food on occasion..

I love lavender tea and lavender honey mmm.. masha'Allah..
I am not crazy about carrot juice though, my parents always buy me grapefruit juice which is so tart and delicious and they buy the carrot juice for themselves.. for some reason it seems flat to me but at least it isn't very sugary on the occasion that I do have it, the lack of sweetness is what I appreciate about it.. sugary things are very cloying to me..

^liposuction your ear lobes.

^^exercise ur ears by attaching really heavy earrings, prefeably dumbell shaped.

here are a few more weight loss tips: walk three hours a week and you'll lose a kg a month. that's 12 kgs in a year.
avoid sweets (cookies, candies, etc) as they tend to make you hungry right away. apples also tend to make you hungry.

Went for a half-hour-run with friends this morning. A great way to start the day and to feel energised (and to use approximately 300 calories)!

format_quote Originally Posted by Little_Lion

I want very, very badly to lose weight, insha'Allah. Before my daughter was born, I weighed - no joke - about 80 pounds (I'm 5'2"). I couldn't keep weight on no matter what, and used to have to have high-calorie shakes and drinks between HUGE meals to stay healthy. When I became pregnant, I had morning sickness 24 hours a day, and had to eat constantly to keep my baby healthy because I would lose anything I ate within 15 minutes. The good news is, I put on weight! The bad news is, my metabolism changed so much that even though I now stay at a steady 1000 - 1200 calories a day of healthy foods, I'm 220 lbs. One thing that makes it difficult is that many vegetables upset my stomach terribly, and some I can't even process hardly at all. Especially peppers; I LOVE PEPPERS, but I can't eat them. So taking the further step of adding more veggies to my diet is not an option. Another major downfall is that in the US, non-processed foods are very, very expensive, and a lot of fruits need to be imported to my area, making it even more difficult to open up the wallet for foods that not only cost a fortune here, but are coated with so many chemicals to keep them from rotting during transport that it's probably worse to eat them than not.

I'd love to get down to a HEALTHY range for my height, somewhere in the 120 to 140 area (I'd rather have a little extra padding than not enough). All thanks be to Allah that I've lived to see another spring, and I can start walking extensively. I'm also going to be working brain-tanning hides for leather insha'Allah, which is VERY physical work. My garage looks like a horror movie right now with skins waiting for tanning. But insha'Allah it will bring in a little extra revenue for the family.

ANYWHOO, one thing I'd recommend for anyone whose kids have a Nintendo DS (NOT a DSi, or DSXL) is a "game" called "My Weight Loss Coach". You have to have an original DS, because the game comes with a pedometer that you need to be able to plug into the GameBoy slot to get the program past a certain point; the DSi and DSXL do not have this slot (however, if you know someone else that has one, once you get past that point in the program, you can run it on any DS system). The pedometer is junk, you'll want to get a new one, but the program is full of challenges, tips, and mini-games promoting a healthy lifestyle. It does contain stick-figure animation that I found extremely inoffensive and friendly to all faiths. Before winter hit and I got lazy, it helped me shed 15 pounds slowly and safely, and I was feeling great. Time to fire it up again!

If you get this program, fun tip for parent/child interaction: if your children play Pokemon HeartGold/Soulsilver, those games came with . . . a pedometer! The more you walk, the stronger the Pokemon in the pedometer becomes; I used to take my daughter's with me, because it encouraged me to keep walking more and more and surprise her at the end of the day with how many steps we'd built up. Now I have my own and we go walking together "with our Pokemon". And then I can plug it into the weight loss program, and see how I'm doing for the day. I love mixing fun and health.

there are a few things to increase metabolism. 1. do some exercise daily. try to increase muscle as muscle burns more calories. also, muscle is leaner than fat. fat takes up more space than muscle. so if you burn fat and gain muscle, you will look slimmer even if you weigh the same.
2. don't skip meals as that will slow down your metabolism rate. eat a bit at every meal time.

there is an excellent book (body for life or something like that) that gives great tips. also, ediets.com and efitness.com have tips you can use to help you stay motivated.
threads like this one also help in increasing motivation. i lost quite a few pounds since it was started.

format_quote Originally Posted by .iman.

I love this thread, it is very inspiring. I don't necessarily need to lose any weight, but after going through a really rough time, I have been drowning myself in Ben and Jerrys and just not taking care of myself. I just need to start eating healthy, and exercising again. I used to run 5 miles every morning, and it's been over 3 months since I've done any sort of exercise.

The worst thing is when you condition your body in a certain way and put the time and effort in, if you take a short break all that training you did goes in a few weeks and your body goes back to how it was before you began training.

To the folks who want to lose weight but are too lazy to keep a Food Diary, I suggest you use this site.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

If you have a smartphone you can download it there as well. I have been using it for a while and it has made monitoring consumption much easier because I can easily see the nutritional value of certain foods. Let's go! Whether you want to burn them fats or build those muscles, or even both!

sissssss help i need to gain weight :S

Sis ,
please suggest diet to gain weight.

Do you mind sharing how tall you're and how much you weigh currently?

^sis i'll Pm you

oh ....I think its not good to post such thing here.
When I will join sisters section ,I will post there.
It is hereditary in my family.My all aunts are thin,but my parents are on average weight.
I don't eat non veg,rarely eat and only dray chicken Items.I am allergic to egg.