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ShaynaB

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I've been kind of floating around this site for a while now. I figured I'd actually join and say hi to everyone!

I'm a 21 year old college student and I've finally decided that enough is enough. Last year I was diagnosed with high blood pressure (it came on really quickly, too.) uneven heart beat, and a high pulse rate. I'm working with my doctors on what it could possibly be but it was just another kick in the behind to get me started on actually losing weight. If the high blood pressure etc. is because I'm overweight then losing will control it. If it isn't, well then I'll look good in a bikini (hopefully!) and be healthy in general.

I've always been a pretty chubby girl. I've done more diets in my 21 years than I care to think about. Weight watchers twice, Jenny craig, Slim fast, and some ridiculous cookie diet thing that I tried for about 2 weeks.

I think that was my biggest problem. Diet. Well, diet and no exercise.

So this last fall I moved into a dorm and I now have 3 very health conscious roommates, and once I got on a blood pressure pill that actually worked I started to exercise. I'm watching my calorie intake (not dieting!) and eating more fruits and veggies than I ever have before. Of course, about a month into it, I stepped off a curb wrong, broke my foot, and was hobbling around on crutches for 7 weeks. Anywho, I got off the crutches about a week ago now and I'm back with a vengeance.

I'm really lucky that my school has a great little gym in the dorm so I can hop on the elliptical and use the weights and one of my roomies is great at figuring out calories.

My problem in the past has been hitting a plateau and getting frustrated and stopping. I'm not going to weigh myself so often so I don't think about it and get discouraged.

I'm hoping sticking around this site will help me stick to this new lifestyle!
 
Welcome aboard! :)

Realize that weight loss is not a linear process. Depending on how much you currently weigh, not seeing the scale more for a week or two is not something I would call a plateau.
 
I should clarify. It's not a week or even two. I understand that I'm not always going to be steadily loosing weight.

Last year I hit a weight that didn't move for about 6 weeks. It was very frustrating at the time.

Sometimes my wording doesn't come out correctly... (Especially late at night!) I meant that I was going to make it my goal to be healthier and not to obsess about what the number on the scale was.

:)
 
Hi!

I think I'm here for the same reasons as you. :)

I'm 20, and have struggled a lot with keeping my weight under control. I never had the willpower to commit to any type of diet, and the only real success I ever had was eating chicken caesar wraps and playing DDR for hours per day.. haha. (It was a weird schedule I got into my first year of university.. I'm not recommending it, because it gets tiring eating the same thing every meal, but at the time I liked it).

I've also been told I have high cholesterol and high blood pressure.. and I'm unsure of the best route to approach it.

It's good that we both decided to make the leap and start posting here. I bet it will help. :)
 
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Hi Shayna,
I read your post with interest and I had to jump in and defend the cookie diet here. I do believe you are too young to benefit from a cookie diet. I lost a great deal of weight on the R&D Diet Cookie program and I recommend it to a number of my clients. However, the cookie diet is more for people who have already been on weight watcher, jenny craig, atkins, etc. and have had some success with all of them but the weight has come back. It's harder when you try these programs a 2nd, 3rd, 4th time. The cookie diet is great for us who have been yo-yo-ing most of our life. It really is a program that helps us lose the weight quickly and keep it off once and for all. Good Luck in your endeavors and I hope you can lose the weight while you are still young and keep it off! It is harder when the extra weight has been around for 20 - 30 yrs and you've already lost and regained a number of times.
 
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Hi Shayna,
I read your post with interest and I had to jump in and defend the cookie diet here. I do believe you are too young to benefit from a cookie diet. I lost a great deal of weight on the R&D Diet Cookie program and I recommend it to a number of my clients. However, the cookie diet is more for people who have already been on weight watcher, jenny craig, atkins, etc. and have had some success with all of them but the weight has come back. It's harder when you try these programs a 2nd, 3rd, 4th time. The cookie diet is great for us who have been yo-yo-ing most of our life. It really is a program that helps us lose the weight quickly and keep it off once and for all. Good Luck in your endeavors and I hope you can lose the weight while you are still young and keep it off! It is harder when the extra weight has been around for 20 - 30 yrs and you've already lost and regained a number of times.
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Just because you put PhD after your username doesn't mean that your information is any less wrong.
 
R&D Cookie Diet

Jericho said:
Just because you put PhD after your username doesn't mean that your information is any less wrong.
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OH Wow! Jericho... nasty, nasty! I don't know KStraka but I do know the R&D Cookie Diet. I myself lost a total of 50 lbs on them 2 yrs ago and I've kept them off. What part of KStraka's msg do you think is wrong? I thought it was straight forward and actually a positive msg.

He/she said Shayna was too young to resort to a cookie diet. I agree :iagree:

He/she gave their own results.

He/she said the R&D Diet Cookie program seems to help people who continue to yo-yo and need that additional tool to help them lose the weight once and for all. I agree :iagree:

I, myself, lost 30 lbs right away on the cookie diet then I combined it with Atkins and knocked off the last 20 in no time at all. Don't let the name "cookie" mis-lead you. It is basically an energy bar/ high protein/fiber bar just in the shape of a "cookie".

Just because it is not for you Jericho, doesn't mean it is for no one! :chillpill:
 
Rhonda, First welcome to the form..but the man is a fraud. Because he didn't break a rule, I can't just delete the post. However, as a mod, I know I've seen many people come here putting PhD after their username to come off as a professional when (using IP and email backtracking) we know they aren't.

As far as will it work? Sure, as long as your calories in are less than the calories out, you will lose weight. Do you need it? No. If you feel like it helped you, great, but there is no magic trick to it. It's just another way to get calories into the body. The same for Atkins. It's all calories in vs calories out. You eat 400 calories at dinner then 5-6 of these meal bars during the day. Well each cookie is about 68 calories according to the website. So you are taking in less than 800 calories a day (more or less)..want to tell me that eating that few is healthy or wise? No. That is why I'm against it. It's an hype weight loss plan that isn't healthy for most people. To go that low in calories for most people is dangerous to their health. I tend to be very against plans like this because you never actually learn what you need to lose weight and keep it off the rest of your life. Not to mention the cost of these things..2 weeks of cookies is 70 bucks! Come now..

But if you think I'm nasty, well, so be it. Trust me, you aren't the first to say it here. I might come off as nasty but I'm also passionate and informative about my information.

PS: Hard to know if you are real when you say you are born in 1975 but claim to be 50. You are off by over a decade.
 
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Now, now, people... let's play nice. There is no one-program-fits-all. I'm sorry Jericho, I have to vote on the side of R&D Diet Cookie here. I too yo-yo-ed my whole life and the best thing that ever happened to my weight was the cookie diet. It's not a lifestyle so don't look at it as "living on 800" calories. But yo-yo-ing isn't healthy and being very overweight isn't healthy... I didn't eat healthy when I was fat so yeah, going on a very low calorie diet for 3 months of my life I think is healthy and a good decision. And yes it does teach me valuable lessons to keep the weight off! I learned how I really should feel instead of being in a carb-fog. I learned I don't have to have 3 square meals a day. I learned I can function just fine on far fewer calories than I used to eat. I learned I can lose weight without being hungry. I learned how to take control of my eating. I learned it was probably the bad carbs that used to give me heartburn (don't have it anymore). etc. etc. etc.:cheers2:
 
Jericho said:
Rhonda, First welcome to the form..but the man is a fraud. Because he didn't break a rule, I can't just delete the post. However, as a mod, I know I've seen many people come here putting PhD after their username to come off as a professional when (using IP and email backtracking) we know they aren't.

As far as will it work? Sure, as long as your calories in are less than the calories out, you will lose weight. Do you need it? No. If you feel like it helped you, great, but there is no magic trick to it. It's just another way to get calories into the body. The same for Atkins. It's all calories in vs calories out. You eat 400 calories at dinner then 5-6 of these meal bars during the day. Well each cookie is about 68 calories according to the website. So you are taking in less than 800 calories a day (more or less)..want to tell me that eating that few is healthy or wise? No. That is why I'm against it. It's an hype weight loss plan that isn't healthy for most people. To go that low in calories for most people is dangerous to their health. I tend to be very against plans like this because you never actually learn what you need to lose weight and keep it off the rest of your life. Not to mention the cost of these things..2 weeks of cookies is 70 bucks! Come now..

But if you think I'm nasty, well, so be it. Trust me, you aren't the first to say it here. I might come off as nasty but I'm also passionate and informative about my information.

PS: Hard to know if you are real when you say you are born in 1975 but claim to be 50. You are off by over a decade.
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Hard to know if I am real? Based on what number I put in my profile before I clicked on "keep age and birthdate PRIVATE"? Not that it is any of your business but I was born in 1960. I want everyone to be careful what info you put in your profile. Even tho' you mark "keep it private"... we have a moderator who feels like he can tell our secrets. I don't know if it was a typo or if it was already in there and I just left it. Since I marked "keep my age private" I didn't think it mattered.
As far as you being passionate... I can appreciate that but I don't understand where you have the right to condemn a program that worked so well for ME! I know I am a special person but I also know I am not that unique and there are probably many others that will do just as well on the R&D Cookie Diet as I did!
As far as informative... Admit that you are just saying what the "experts" have been teaching for years now. And it makes sense... eat healthy, exercise, make gradual changes... etc. But look at how well it has worked! Obesity has become an epidemic in the USA! What you endorse does not work for all of us. FOR ME... the cookie diet is the closest thing to that "magic bullet" that helped me lose weight quickly and keep it off.
I bid you good day, sir.
 
Ok, goodbye to you too.

Just because the USA has an obesity problem proves that the science is wrong? Really? No. We have an epidemic BECAUSE of the science. Eat too much, move too little..aka calories in vs calories out.

and finally, anyone says it helps 'lose weight quickly' screams problem cause weight loss isn't quick and isn't ment to be.

Why are we even talking about a post that is over a year old? Because a spammer (note not a single post since) dug this post up and suddenly there is all these other cookiers.
 
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So all the replies to my original post popped up in my email even though I haven't been here very much... I think I'll clarify.

I think anything anybody calls a diet will work for someone out there. I didn't mean to offend, tick off, agitate, or disrespect anyone with my post. I'm going to say that for me, the cookie diet was unreasonable. FOR ME. If it works for you, more power to you. The severe calorie restriction was too much for me. FOR ME. But like I said, if it's good for you then it's good for you.

By the way, in the last 2 years I've lost over 100 lbs. Just in case anyone was wondering... I eat healthy and get my bum to the gym. For me it was about changing my lifestyle.

I hope all is well with everyone in their health endeavors.
 
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