Losing Weight?

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Women tend to lose weight from the top down (sigh!).

+1 on the food diary. It keeps you from popping things into your mouth & forgetting about them.

Water helps fill you up. Some say it flushes fat out - but there's no evidence of that.

-1 on South Beach. You need carbs. Carbs help drive protein into your muscles. Good carbs = complex carbs.

+1 on weight training. Building muscle helps burn more calories at rest. Think of your muscles as your body's engine. A bigger engine needs more gas (calories) even when resting (idling.) We don't build muscles as easily as men, but it can be done. Put down the pink weights. Pick up something that will make you crank out 10-12 reps in good form. Now do it again.

This is SO encouraging. Thank you.

I got some real 10lb weights and one of those twisty foot thingies from Everlast, the thing you stand on and twist, for core training. It's got rubber tubes for arm work, too.

And I did 25-miles on my bike today. I am working up to 50, and then, eventually, I'd like to do centuries. I want to look like the woman at the top of this page instead of a giant pear in lycra.

Thank you, thank you!

Roxy, not giving up carbs