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For me, the point about the "no diet" mentality is that if you "forbid" yourself a certain food you might crave it even more, without actually wanting/ needing it. It´s just a psychologial thing. And if you give up that kind of rejection, at the beginning sure it is a struggle to tell yourself you are able to eat anything you want to, but after a while you lose those cravings for those forbidden foods, which makes some people effectivly wanting the "bad" stuff less. because their mind isn´t clinging to "trigger foods".

What sit eh "BS detector"? Here are their 10 principles which is what they talk about more detailed in the book. They prove their arguments with several differnent ressources and surveys.

I just wanted to share this book with you, which Idea I liked a lot: http://amzn.to/12aBYWM it´s about rejecting diets and finding back to your "inner voice". I´m quite sure this wont find a lot of positive response since everybody is actually on a diet or somekind of regimen. I Just wanted to see if there are other "intuitive eaters" gathering around here or people who aren´t on a diet and nevertheless want to improve their fitness, because they like to, not because they aim at a certain weight,

Hey Girls! Thanks for all the support! So this week so far I: running 2x 30 min + strength training 2x cycling: 4x 16km I´m still not back to tracking calories because I just don´t feel like it at all... My workouts aren´t that taff, I don´t really push myself hard enough but at the moment I´m not that strict to myself because I´m just trying to get used to of the whole routine of going to lectures, driving there by bike, doing some sport in additional and PLUS to make everything better I´m trying to adapt a study routine. So at the moment I´m not really serious about this whole weight loss- fitness stuff I´m just trying to get into it. Which means I´ll probably won´t have abs until december. But on the other hand I´m quite confident about my body and the scale doesn´t move at all at 134.5 lbs, which is fine. So my "weight balace" somehow goes down 1 lbs by itself, because before that I was stuck at 135.8. The programm I´m doing at the moment is: dumbell home workout . I actually prefer this a lot more than bodyweight workout. although I´d love to be able to train with my bodyweight itself, because those people can do all fancy things like human flags. And about dieting... At the moment I´m thinking of losing weight in episodes, because right now it seems like I can pretty much maintain my weight without struggeling or counting calories. I was thinking about doing this General Motors: Weight loss programm . what do you think?

I´m back! HI there! How´s everyone?! So I´ll start counting calories on monday again... and I still got 8 weeks left to get into a shape. well I guess 10 months to make my new years resolution happen. Yey! In about 2 weeks not caring about excercise and eating I went 1 lbs down. We´ll acutally I belive that´s only muscle loss! But at least I haven´t gained any weight! Well at least it doesn´t look like that to me. So still I don´t have quite a plan yet... Counting calories obviously would help... Otherwise I´m not sure if I should plan my meals now already, because unfortunatley I eat my lunch at university... There I can only try to reduce the unhealthy side dishes and try to avoid carbahydrates as good as I can... Which appears to be difficult since I´m a veggie. Anyway according to my blood values I´m not eating as healthy as I thought I would- so I better work on that especially for my iron. What I know about my diet: > add some green smoothies with spinach to my diet > variey breakfast more > increase veggie/ iron input > cut out milkproducts and coffein (reduce the ability to resorb iron) > always choose vegetables over carbahydrates at lunch in university > stop comfort eating -> replace with tea / meditation / reading My excercise programm: > drive to university with bike (5 x 16km) > go to karte 1/2 a week (probably once) > add some jogging / mountainbiking on weekends > do strength trainig 3 times a week at home. do some HIIT running sometimes. so this is what I posted on fitocracy in "staring strenght" im looking for a dumbell strenght training workout for at home, if someone could recomend anything? ok so that´s it so far!

I´m back! HI there! How´s everyone?! So I´ll start counting calories on monday again... and I still got 8 weeks left to get into a shape. well I guess 10 months to make my new years resolution happen. Yey! In about 2 weeks not caring about excercise and eating I went 1 lbs down. We´ll acutally I belive that´s only muscle loss! But at least I haven´t gained any weight! Well at least it doesn´t look like that to me. So still I don´t have quite a plan yet... Counting calories obviously would help... Otherwise I´m not sure if I should plan my meals now already, because unfortunatley I eat my lunch at university... There I can only try to reduce the unhealthy side dishes and try to avoid carbahydrates as good as I can... Which appears to be difficult since I´m a veggie. Anyway according to my blood values I´m not eating as healthy as I thought I would- so I better work on that especially for my iron. What I know about my diet: > add some green smoothies with spinach to my diet > variey breakfast more > increase veggie/ iron input > cut out milkproducts and coffein (reduce the ability to resorb iron) > always choose vegetables over carbahydrates at lunch in university > stop comfort eating -> replace with tea / meditation / reading My excercise programm: > drive to university with bike (5 x 16km) > go to karte 1/2 a week (probably once) > add some jogging / mountainbiking on weekends > do strength trainig 3 times a week at home. do some HIIT running sometimes. so this is what I posted on fitocracy in "staring strenght" im looking for a dumbell strenght training workout for at home, if someone could recomend anything? ok so that´s it so far!

Wow vegan & paleo! I´m non of both but I´m vegeterian. So paleo means you don´t eat carbahydrates? I mean all the "white" stuff & no processed food? I guess I should try that green smoothie thing as well because I have an iron deficy. How do you handel that? But Isn´t it real taff. do you make the green smoothie with spinach EVERY day?

haha wow I guess 12 ct more for dog food is a fortune if one has 100 dogs or so. but no reason to think the world is going down or something- so I totally agree with you! Sorry for you bereavement..... well my birthday is on the 20.12... And I´m gonna be visiting my family in south africa for two weeks and my grandma want´s to get me a bikini for my birthday, so I´d better look good ! And I´m about 136 lbs now... But I just can´t get those last 6 of... well not at the moment anyway The week of the 7th october I´ll start working out a plan! Can´t be that difficult, I mean It´s not a ton of fat left on my hips but we´ll see....

Mh that sounds so yummy! So that´s pretty much the perfect attitude I think! But did someone "give you crap" the last challenge? I´m so with ya! but not now I´m writing my last two exams on monday and thursday. after that you´ll have to give me some support to reach my damn goal weight ov 130 lbs before my 20th birthday! Ithought of starting cross fit but it´s so expensive here! Can you believe it 130 € for visiting that thin 10 times? That´s a fortune! Burpees are great, unfortunatley I can´t do them in my roof apartment So how´s the quit smoking going? Is loseit better than MFP? why? good progess so far! keep going!

allirep! MFP support team ! go for it! I think you made great progress so far! I think you are making constant progress! just keep going!

My one and only fito support team ! We can do this! You´ll rock this challenge with a wise quote like that

So Week 1, Update #!: starting weight 135,8 lbs Monday: 4km brisk walk, MC Day 7 Tuesday: 4km of running: Intervalls 9 min of running /35 sec sprinting, didn´t manage to keep that up though Not stressing myself too much on eating though because of the upcoming exams..

really that sounds like a superhero power ! Thank you! Yup I definetley have to keep a couple of veggies I´d like to snack in house! And I bought myself Dark chocolate at Aldi. But those are several "mini chocolate bars" ina one pack. so only if I reaaaallly feel like chocolate I´ll discipline myself to only have one choclate... Yes, well that itself is a challenge.. Well I think that´s the thing I hae to work on most... So plan for this week: Monday: 3km running + 16min bodyweight training Tuesday: HIIT , 4km, 30 min Wensday: 3km running + 16min bodyweight training + 16km on bike to university Thursday: Try the new cross fit gym! Ouuhhhh I´d love to have - maybe cross fit is the sport that might boost my body till my 20th birthday on 20.12? Friday: 3km running + 16min bodyweight training Saturday: HIIT, 4km, 30 min Further plans for this week: > no kellogs this week > max. 1 chocolate bar this week, otherwise no treats > starting tracking on MFP again > noting down every snack, to "Identify the cues" of comfort eating > I´ll try and do meditation, tea drinking, reading or the "bodyscan" if I feel stressed/bored or like a break > take measurement tomorrow

Yup, I have a confession to make. I failed my 2nd challenge. And I don´t even care. My "weight loss & fitness car" was standing on a railway and got hit by the "study stress train". So life got me when I was busy playing my fitness role game. Studying hard and failing the exams I studied for made me quite upset and I went back into comfort eating. I gave up my whole summer for stuying that crap! But hey, I managed to stay 3lbs below the weight were I started the 2nd challenge... I actually wanted to make it really happen. On the 1st of Ocotber I´m having a kind of "which colour suits you best" seminar and after that I´m going shopping with mom, since I feel really uncofortable with my oversized black clothes. I wont be buying clothes in size 36 (EU) but at least, they´ll fit a bit better and I do feel more confident about my body than I used to. I still have two exams a head. Then finally I´m on holiday on the 4th of october. Which means I have still 800 flashcards to study and I wont be able to update my challenge progress, especially because I will only really take action after the 7th of october. Nevertheless I want to enter the challenge because I love the support on this forum and It keeps me reflecting on my progress weekly. So 16th of october the new semester starts: New semester new beginning I used to break everything down and set myself a whole list of goals, but this time I´m really trying to keep it simple (especially because I should be studying know ) and try to focus on little things which should be possible to do: So I want to... carry on with the max capacity training - takes only about 20 minutes so no excuses. find the cues to my comfort eating and then insert new routines instead of eating redesign my diet, which means I´m going to try to plan my meals for one month in my holiday. And life goal get an efficent study routine during the semester. Which means I´m going to read the book I bought myself about different study techniques... And other additional things I´ll try: carrying on with the "minful eating program"- meditating, food journal and so on logging food on MFP, weight on formilabs Diethack continue the HIIT running plan go to karate once a week, when the semester starts. I´m quite optimistic that as soon as I´m not hanging around at home all day, getting some distraction from thinking aobut weight loss the whole time, and I´ll start riding those 16km on my bike each day PLUS doing some bodyweight training & running AND being cutting down food a bit in the evening, weight loss shouldn´t be such a struggle anymore. Every year my new years resolution was "change something about my body"- and this is going to be the first year in my lifetime that I´m going to make this happen! And I still have two months to go!