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If you’ve ever had a successful weight loss attempt, how was your mood at the beginning of it? Did you start a diet/exercise routine out of depression and disgust, or were you pumped up by the thought of your new lifestyle?

Right now I’m down in the dumps about the whole weight loss thing and tomorrow am starting yet another exercise routine out of necessity (health). I’ve about had it with dieting and trying to eat healthily. I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

Have you ever felt like that and ended up succeeding after all?

I’m not overweight but I don’t eat as healthy as I should. I know I have a couple extra pounds I could stand to lose before heading to the beach this summer. Problem is, I’m not the best at sticking to a diet. What are some ways to motivate me to stick to a diet/exercise routine? Thanks in advance!

I started having low-grade depression around age 12, then it deepened into more serious "suicidal ideation" depression around age 21. Now I’m 28 and it is still here.

I have been seeing various mental health professionals since 2003, and nothing has helped. I’ve tried MANY depression meds, a few anti-anxiety ones, a few mood stabilizers (usually for bibolar), and even a few stimulants. A couple worked for a few days, but quickly faded and the benefit could not be duplicated. I’ve tried tons of talk therapy with multiple different people, and even group therapy. Eventually the psychiatrists that I’ve seen ran out of ideas and started having me re-try meds that I had already tried without success. Tired of the lack of results I started seeing a naturopath and have changed my diet to be excellent, I’ve started exercising, but the dark outlook still won’t go away. I’ve even done a sleep study to test for sleep apnea, but was unable to tolerate the CPAP machine. I’ve had a CAT scan and my brain looked fine. Hormone tests reveal everything is in the normal range. No thyroid problems. I don’t know what else to try. Therapy, meds, diet, exercise – I have not found somthing that works yet. I would rather not have to deal with the constant irritations of life, but continue to live only because my parents would be devastated if I decided to end things.

Is there another option I should try that I am missing?

Note: I do not consider prayer/religion a viable solution for myself – so please avoid suggesting spiritual ideas.

for a woman who has regular medium/heavy periods. ive heard that diet can have an effect, but i was wondering what some other reasons might be. thanks!
yeah ive had no change in diet, exercise, weight, or stress level so im not exactly sure what’s going on…just wanted everyones thoughts.

So… I made a status of mine on facebook stating that I wanted to lose weight & that I was in search of some diet/exercise partners to follow a 6wk plan with me.

I received a comment from my cousin (that I hardly ever talk to or see) & she began to tell me that her & a friend of hers is doing a 6wk program themselves and she called it the HCG Organic diet.

Now never before this have I ever even heard of this diet until she told me.

She told me that she has done this diet before & lost 40lbs in 6wks.

After searching this diet & reading reviews on it I must say that I am still a skeptic.

The diet consist of HCG injections or taking drops daily in addition to a 500 calorie a day organic diet & you don’t have to exercise.

For the record… HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropins: The major hormone secreted by the placenta. In the early stages of pregnancy.

As I have told her… It sounds like a starvation diet to me & I am very awear of the starvation diet & the consequences because I’ve did this diet for 15 days before & I lost 25lbs in that short amount of time then after the 15 days I began to slowly introduce foods back to my body but the end result was that my tummy seemed to be the place on me where it began to store fat for it didn’t know if it would ever be starved again.

I ended up gaining all of that weight back plus more.

I explained this to my cousin & she stated & I quote… After you complete the 6 weeks you continue to eat the organic foods for another 6 weeks and you slowly introduce other foods back into your diet. If you jump back into eating regular foods after the 6 weeks of course you will gain the weight back. You are (in simple form) resetting your metabolism in the 2nd six weeks to keep the weight off.

So I said to her… So is the diet actually a 12wk program? Tell me cuz? Are you hungry on this diet? Do you get dizzy? & why do a diet that would make you have to reset your metabolism afterwards just as you would need to do after a starvation diet? Im sorry but it’s pretty much sounding like a starvation diet to me except you get 500 calories more than you actually would on a starvation diet. Why not just do a organic diet, not combining it with the HCG injections that you are doing because there is no scientific evidence that the HCG even helps with the weight loss process & instead just exercise?

She says… When you eat a low calorie diet without the hcg you lose structural fat instead of the abnormal fat and your body needs the structural fat.

Yet I read a review that stated that this is not true & although this person did lose an excessive amount of weight he also lost muscle. & in his exact words he says… In my opinion, the HCG Diet is just like any other starvation diet out there today, as far as end results. Only 59% of my weight loss was actual fat. Included in that fat loss was a drop in my visceral fat– this is needed structural fat, the kind that HCG is supposed to prevent. I am here to tell you that it most certainly DID NOT protect me from losing vital fat. And it certainly didn’t protect me from losing vital muscle.

Also I read where some of the sellers are not selling you exactly what you think you are buying. The HCG is not cheap & you could be getting scammed. Wouldn’t it upset you if you found out after you spent hundreds of dollars that it really wasn’t HCG in the bottle & it was something else like maybe saline???

So of course I’d love to lose 40lbs in 6wks but I am asking all that has done this diet & it has been well over 12wks since to give me your review on it because as I said I am still skeptical???

I started a diet/exercise program to gain muscle (where they lift weights and do a bit of cardio 5 days a week), and eat healthy (balanced diet, with emphasis on lean protein and lots of veggies). How many days does it take to get noticeable results?

If you have personal experience with this, please tell me how long it took before you or someone else noticed changes in your body.