11:49 pm - 02/22/2013
She’s proud to say she has dropped serious poundage with the help of the Sensa. “I’ve lost 20 lbs., but I don’t have a pound goal. It’s more to me about being health conscious, because I don’t want to diet, but I know that I need to do things in moderation.”
Still, she doesn’t want to be a stick-thin star. “I think it’s important for me to say that weight loss, for me, has been more about being healthy and being comfortable in my own skin, as I’ve always been,” she says. “Putting my best foot forward at getting healthy, and I’m glad that Sensa has helped me do it.”
“It’s easy,” she says. “You have one choice: you can sprinkle and lose weight, or you can not sprinkle and not lose weight. [laughs] In layman’s terms, that’s how easy it is.”
Aside from Sensa, what are her weight-loss secrets? “Dietwise, I eat what I normally eat. I had a personal trainer before Sensa, and seeing the results from using Sensa, I basically upped it a bit. Honestly, it’s been that, eating exactly what I want to eat, and that’s being 100% honest.”
Catch Octavia presenting at The Oscars, which begin Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.
OK!
ok y'all, what is your diet routines/tips?
Octavia Spencer Reveals The Secret Behind Her Weight Loss!
She’s proud to say she has dropped serious poundage with the help of the Sensa. “I’ve lost 20 lbs., but I don’t have a pound goal. It’s more to me about being health conscious, because I don’t want to diet, but I know that I need to do things in moderation.”
Still, she doesn’t want to be a stick-thin star. “I think it’s important for me to say that weight loss, for me, has been more about being healthy and being comfortable in my own skin, as I’ve always been,” she says. “Putting my best foot forward at getting healthy, and I’m glad that Sensa has helped me do it.”
“It’s easy,” she says. “You have one choice: you can sprinkle and lose weight, or you can not sprinkle and not lose weight. [laughs] In layman’s terms, that’s how easy it is.”
Aside from Sensa, what are her weight-loss secrets? “Dietwise, I eat what I normally eat. I had a personal trainer before Sensa, and seeing the results from using Sensa, I basically upped it a bit. Honestly, it’s been that, eating exactly what I want to eat, and that’s being 100% honest.”
Catch Octavia presenting at The Oscars, which begin Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.
OK!
ok y'all, what is your diet routines/tips?
sometimes i honestly wish my chron's wasn't in remission, so i could stop eating crap and lose weight while laying in bed and watching the food network.
for those just starting out with this whole weight loss thing, what finally motivated you to go to the gym?
i hate the gym.
ugh.
and as someone else whose chronically i've found personally that when i'm in a bad cycle or flare physically, idgaf about food. the last thing i can be arsed to do is eat perfectly healthy. eating habits are usually the first to go when you're stuck in that sort of a cycle. it doesn't matter any argument of you ~might~ feel better because when you're that sick, usually at that moment you could be eating perfectly and you'd still feel like shit, but because you feel like shit and have to take care of yourself you just dgaf. at least that's how i know i get.
so good luck bb. i hope your health lets up and allows you to regain some balance.
i hate the gym too but am starting back, slowly, because ultimately it's a survival thing and i'm going to try and test it and see if i do indeed feel any better or get more energy. because unfortunately when you're sick vs someone who wants to lose weight for whatever reason, those two benefits aren't always as definite or even possible. but somewhere there will be a health benefit.
good luck. i know it's hard.
I find I get motivated to move when I do something I actually enjoy. I loooove lifting weights, so that's mostly what I do. Cardio, I like dancing and jogging sometimes, things like that. Try and find something you enjoy and you'll always be motivated. :)
You just have stick with it long enough to start seeing positive results. Really go for that endorphin high too.
I think the key to any exercise is not to start with too much or it will be painful and you'll want to quit. Just start with small steps, up the intensity as your body gets stronger, and keep going. Plus, if you run, you might get a runner's high, and it's one of the best feelings in the world. :D
Good luck!!!
If you want to quit the junk my advice is to honestly go cold turkey for a couple of days, eat as many raw veggies and as much lean white meat/fish as you want, drink loads of water, perhaps tea - it's a bore but after those couple of days it's much easier to resist sugar cravings, and it'll help you know that you can manage without it. Don't be scared to change. x
Bulimia
it'll get better. <3
or I'll eat <1000 calories a day
but I tell myself (and everyone else) that I'm recovered from my ED because at least I don't have an emaciated BMI anymore.
Personally I did the Atkins a few years ago and I got poisoned with proteins, I couldn't believe that was possible, it took me like 3 years to be capable to put my metabolism back on track.
Now I'm more careful, and even got an exam to see my acids reactions and the doctor told me 5 months ago to cut out 80% of eggs and milk intake from my diet to balance my acids and other things and guess what... I lost like 10 pounds in 2 months, without changing anything else.
If anything looks extreme, it cannot be good. We cannot eat only one type of food, or "the amount you want" without consequences.
i ate like a bushel of kale salad the other day, and let's just say the consequences the following morning in the bathroom was immense.
but yeah.
ia with what you said about not going to extremes.
Now I eat what I want, and because I'm not depriving, I don't go through a guilt -> binge cycle, because I can always have that food if I feel like it. :D So long story short my diet is "eat when I'm hungry".
Tonight I made delicious rice and beans.
Also I love fitvillains and people should follow Chichi because she's AMAZING: http://fitvillains.tumblr.com/
(I wasn't even trying to lose weight or kept weighing myself, so I didn't even notice until I had to keep using my only belt to hold up my pants, but even then I figured out I lost weight when I went home for break and my parents wouldn't stop commenting on it and telling me to eat more. :p)
I do feel hungry all the time, even after I eat, so I just tell myself I'll get to eat oatmeal in the morning to talk myself out of overeating to compensate for the missed meal.
Anyway, this sprinkle thing reminds me of ice cream and now i want it but it's 1 in the morning ;__;
i'm such a backwoods peon.
I weighed myself for the first time since I started working out in July (wasn't focusing on weight, was focusing on getting stronger/leaner) and it turns out I've lost 10lbs along with one pant size!
I have gangly legs and a long torso, so my gut is the only thing that's fat. Dark colors, and lots of jackets because sleeves offset my belly. I have people telling me I'm skinny and inside I laugh because my jeans are cutting into my waist.
I also wear skinny jeans, nothing stretchy, no bodycon dresses etc. Only when I can't no longer camouflage with clothing, then okay, cutting back on midnight snack a bit :p