Thu, Jan-31-02, 17:24
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,193
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Plan: mostly paleo
Stats: //
BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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Sure, sweeteners could be slowing you down--besides, they keep the addiction to sweet taste in place, which will only lead eventually to gaining our weight back. Why not eliminate them or save them for very rare occasions?
Yes, Paxil can slow loss too.
Never ever compare yourself to a man in weight loss. You will lose every single time! (yeah, it makes me want to tear my hair, too, sometimes) For a variety of reasons--hormones, a quicker reponse of the "fat conservation response" (so that we can always make it through a pregnancy even if food supplies are low--it's why humans didn't go extinct long ago!), a higher level of LPL (that helps store fat), where we store the fat, and on and on....we will just lose more slowly. But we live longer, tolerate pain better, and all our pairs of chromosomes match, if that makes you feel any better.
You absolutely can go off the plan--if you're looking for permission, I'll give you mine! But then...what next? No weight loss method will make you lose 50 pounds in two months. Drugs provide only short-term relief and at great health risk. We really have only three choices--gain weight, stay the same, or lose weight slowly. Yeah, I know it's one of those horrible realizations of the way the physical world really works, but there you have it.
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