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Old 03-27-2009, 09:12 AM
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Emimily
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a) weighing yourself every day to see progress is ridiculous. your weight will fluctuate on a daily basis for a lot of different reasons... hormones, water weight, what clothes you're wearing when you get on the scale. yeah. you can lose half a pound if you go to the bathroom sometimes, so that's insanity. stop doing that.

b) eat breakfast. eat a GOOD breakfast, with lotsa fiber and protein. make breakfast your good meal, it'll jump start your metabolism.

c) walk wherever you can, take the stairs, find reasons to get up and move around, stretch... anything that gets your blood and body movin is good for you.

d) cardio cannot be replaced by anything else. it will help you lose weight the fastest, and as much as it sucks you'll feel about a billion times better within a month of starting and continuing cardio, even if it's as little as twice a week.

e) strength training will make you look better naked. you won't bulk up unless you're throwing down mad weights with lots of reps. strength training can also be anything with resistence, like swimming or yoga.

f) relax. stress causes weight gain. make sure you get enough sleep, too.

g) love yourself exactly where you're at, because i bet you think worse of yourself than anyone else. god (or whatever you believe in, or don't believe in, or blah blah blah) doesn't make mistakes, so you're about 5'10" of perfection.

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