Well, what else are you using to track your progress? If you're doing weights and cardio, there's a good chance you're losing fat and gaining muscle. With that, you'll not lose weight but perhaps have a lower body fat percentage, clothes fit better, measurements improving, etc.

I know it's more satisfying to see the scale go down though so...

How often do you eat? Do you keep your metabolism up?

If you think fasting will help, I would suggest starting with juice, that way you still get SOME calories and nutrients and sustenance, and some sort of satiety when you're hungry.
Spend some time researching how you'd like to do it, decide on how you'd like to start, whether it's jumping right in, starting with a couple juice meal replacements a day, etc.

Once you've detoxed a little, your body will crave healthy foods and it will be easy to kickstart your metabolism again with good weight loss foods like lentil soup, salads (my fav dressing lemon juice/avocado/sunflower seeds), fruit salad, etc.

I once lost about 70 lbs in a very short amount of time. I did a few juice fasts, 7 days, 21 days, etc but I lost the most weight once I started eating again because I was CLEAN! I felt great, my body was clean on the INSIDE and I had the energy and motivation to exercise more and eat right and not focus on the weight loss...of course that's when it all really falls off. I had no idea how thin I'd gotten until I stepped on the scale when my two female roommates wanted to compare weights and saw it at 104 lbs.
Juice fasting is WONDERFUL.
I'm on one right now because 6 years later I gained it all back (don't let that discourage you, I made bad choices and went through really dark periods as a result.) We'll get there :)

hmm

well I was just reading Dr Neil Bernards program for diabetes book last night and he talked of a study when they took young average weight people who had a parent or grandparent with diabetes and did a fasting glucose test on them and then put them on the following program

1 vegan diet

2 little to not fat of any kind

3 foods low on the glycemic index

They had found that even those they did not have diabetes or obesity they were already having insulin resistance which can lead to metabolic syndrome (high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides) You do not necessarily have to have all of these only one to have metabolic syndrome.

When these young adults switched to the plan above they began to not have insulin resistance possible saving them a lifetime of future diabetes and the suffering it causes.

I feel knowing this info might help you. Allow me to explain what happens when one has insulin resistance...

The person produces insulin fine, their neuronrectors site are fine...he likens it to a lock and key both fine however, lets say we put gum in the lock..it jams it up so it worked work right and we cant get in.

With insulin resistance, it s like a working lock and key but it is gummed up not with gum but with fat...the fat makes it so the insulin is not useable or resistance..it cannot get into the cell and so it stays in the blood circulating and causing the dangerous high blood Sugar and its resulting damage to tiny blood vessels.

Inside each cell, are mitachodria cells that are fat burning organelleS (That is a subset in a cell with a specific function--in this case to burn fat). Unfortunately, because the cell itself is gummed up with fat, the insulin the mitochrondria needs to burn the fat cannot get it and so it does not work.

You may have noticed that often people with diabetes are obsese and people assume the obsity caused the diabetes but actually, the insulin resistance they may not even know they have yet may be causing the obesity in a which came first the fat or the diabetes chicken vs egg scenario.

Bernard states although genes may be involved so can other factors like diet bring this on and that this diet can and has overcome a family history of blood Sugar problems.

In many cases such as myself, I had at a normal weight decades before I was diagnosed with diabetes, gestational diabetes when I was pregnant and had to do one of teose ryapy glucose tolerance test like the test subjects had showing I would have been like them and their future if their diet is not changed may be like mine.

In several studies, Bernard and others did, it began almost immediately reversing the diabetes, insulin resistance and obesity even though participoants were told they could eat all they wanted as long as it was vegan, little to no fat and low on the glycemic scale. they were also told NOT to exercise so the diet along could be checked. Despite eating all they wanted and not exercising, they all lost weight steadily.

Mnay diabetics were kind of afraid to eat all those carbs as they had by doctors/nutritionalists been told to carefully measure carbs and so they tended to eat meat, chicken etc

Dr Bernard got them over this fear of carbs and starches by pointing out in China they ate huge amounts of rice and grains etc but had (as long as they stayed on traditional diets) very low rates of diabetes and overweight/obesity.

Diabetics even if they go on the American diabetic association diet, often eventually hear, the diet alone is not working, we need to start adding drugs.

If they get on the diet they can often prevent ever going on them to begin with or reverse/improve their situation with the right diet which Bernard outlines.

He also says pasta is ok as it is processed differently than breads and is low on the glycemic index.

Since you are already semi vegan you are almost there on the most difficult part for most people. Just go all the way, read the book on the little to no fat part (this is the same thing Dr Esselystyn from film forks over knives used to reverse heart disease (vegan, no fat diet).

also check out the glycemic index for which foods are lower --nearly all fryuits are ok but pineapple and watermelon.

if your meal is too high add cherries which are very low and an acid like lemon juice of vinegar to help lower the total glycemic index of the meal. Both Bernard and Esselsytn's book have little to no fat recipes, dressings, etc.

see if that helps.

another things to do would be to find some sida cordifolia (kind of hard to find)...this is a metabolism herb similar to ephedra that so many used to lose weight; however, unlike ephedra, this fat burning herb has none of the bad side effects of ephedra like hart racing etc. Both of these herbs increase brown fat.

We want brown fat as it is fat burning unlike white fat and as one ages, they lose brown fat and with it leads to middle age spread as one's metabolism slows down.

Finally in the book by Dr Christopher ( herballegacy.com ) called school of natural healing, he has an anti-obesity formula one can make using organic bulk herbs that he had great success with obese people when combined with the mucusless diet

http://www.herballegacy.com/Mucusless_Diet.html


Male a tincture with the sida cordifolia and one can add other metabolism raisers like green tea to it.

IN addition to this, I want to add they did an other study using people without diabetes and feed them high fat diet and almost immediately they started developing insulin resistance (which leads to obesity and diabetes) very rapidly..they were surprised how quickly that fat made one insulin resistant which rendered the fat burning mitochondria useless.

That small amount of non vegan foods you are eating might be the problem...go full vegan..and get that book by bernard that goes into more detail.

Generally juice fasting is safer than water fasting. You might want to go to torrentz and download the film fat, sick and nearly dead for what juice fasting can do and to motivate and encourage you.

You might want to get this inexpensive book by Linda Rector page

http://www.healthyhealing.com/catalog/ProductFamily.aspx?id=113&srcID=84&srcT...


It is where I read about the sida cordifolia and brown fat. She lists six reasons for oberweight and how to trweat each one naturally if this is the same book I used to have which I think it is. I believe she probably still sells the weight loss formulas containing sida cordifolia and other metabloism boosting herbs,.

Also go here and type in things like obesity overweight weight loss pounds and read the testimonies using the hallelujah diet (85% raw vegan whole foods)..more raw heals everything.

http://www.hacres.com/library/testimonies


Dave the raw food trucker (see the videos I posted)lost over 225 pounds by switching to a 100% raw food diet (plus cured cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease) with lots of green juices, juicing and juice fasting.

Well it definitely seems like you are going in the right direction and losing the inches off your waist means that you are making progress regardless of what the scale says. I would recommend that you stick to eating fruit whole and only juicing vegetables (no tomatoes or carrots). I know this makes juicing a little more boring and less tasteful but it will be better if you want to lose weight. In clinical studies, fruit juice (even freshly juiced) is processed by the body exactly the same as Sugar or glucose. In fact, fruit Sugar (fructose) and glucose have the same molecular formula. If you are going to do a juice fast, you can use fruit and vegetable juice but in your everyday juicing I would skip the fruit, you will have much better success with weight loss. I agree with the person who recommended the juice fast instead of water fast. Both are good for those who are overweight, but a Water Fast will slow the metabolism more than a juice fast and your metabolism is already probably very slow.

Exercise and physical activity is really the key to healthy weight, but not all exercise is created equal. I am very keen on the sprint 8 method. This technique stimulates muscle growth, fat loss, and greatly increases growth hormone production. Watch this video on how to do this technique and see what you think. Pay particular attention to the intensity at which he trains as this is really the key factor. We can exercise for hours and never make a big change for our body, but this 20 min. exercise really affects the body.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7j9FRiJpg&feature=relmfu


Good luck

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I also lost a lot of weight, in about 1 month - 30 lbs after completing the detox programs from Dr. Schulze .

I started with the Vitality Program,then the 5-Day Bowel followed by the 5-Day Liver Cleanse and finished with the 5-Day Kidney Cleanse.

I did this the whole month of December during the holidays on purpose to avoid the junks, sweets and massive amounts of food.

I also gave up meat entirely for lent, all 40 days, and never felt better since.

I purposely find times of the year to help me make these healthy choices so that I can stick to it.

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Last year I had an awfull time losing weight. No matter what I did I kept gaining. I got to a certian point of obesity where the weight just went out of control. I couldn't figure out why.

I found the reason why...it was carbs and sugar. When you consume any Sugar product it will make you hungrier soon after. Drinking agave nectar juice is going to cause you to be more hungry later...drinking juice is now being considered as being as bad as drinking pop. It is supposed to be healthy for you but causes your glucose levels to spike...then you get hungrier right away. Drink water instead of juice...I like glacier water cause it tastes good (it has no Sugar in it to). Eating fruit is okay...but juice is counterproductive...eating vegetables are even better than eating fruit because of less Sugar in vege's.

Eating any wheat or grain is the equivalent of eating tablespoons of sugar.

I'm on the Paleo Diet...it's not the kind of diet you are used to where you deprive yourself of food. The diet is simply changing to natural home cooked foods. In the diet you only eat foods that paleolithic (cavemen) man used to eat...foods that humans ate before agrarian society. Before 10,000 years ago man never ate milk products or grains, or food additive such as sugar or nutrasweet etc...

Eat nothing that is prepackaged or highly processed.

There is a book called "Wheat Belly" you might want to look into...it explains why wheat is making our society so fat. I went and ate at Subway a few times last week after being on the Paleo Diet...eating the bread in the Subway sandwich's caused me to literally put on 10 lbs within the week. Wheat causes the weight to come back very fast.

I also lift heavy weights...look up body building on youtube...bodybuilders can consume huge amounts of calories and still stay slim. Using light weights for weightlifting will be less effective. I also go on a steep hike at as fast a pace as possible a couple times a week.

By following this I have slimmed down. Think of transforming your body rather than losing weight. At first you might start gaining weight because you will immediately start building muscle under your fat. You will slowly start to see yourself start to slim down.

Hi my advice is to learn Transcendental Mediation (www.tm.org) then your weight will normalize. Its a bit expensive now, but worth it :)

Most weight loss programs have a few things in common.
1. Low caloric density of the foods
2. Foods low in carbs or low glycemic index make bulk of food.
3. Avoidance of processed foods.

I will also add that people in France don't suffer from obesity because they take their time eating very small portions. Their plate is gonna be 1/2 as small as an Americans plate. That way they can get away with desert with no ill effects.

With a vegetarian diet like Dr. Fuhrmans it's hard to go over your caloric need by eating those vegetables. It winds up being a type of low carb diet.

I like Paleo and low carb. You can feel much more satiated for longer on these type of meals. Meat and fat continue provide energy to the body long after eaten.

There is intermittent fasting that I'm sorta doing. It can jump start your system. Fasting not really to lose weight but so you can recondition your body to believe you can subsist on smaller portions. So much about eating is about routine that we conditioned ourselves to think. Also there is the point on "forcing" the body to use fat instead of carbs as a fuel source.

I would ditch the juices. The body prefers solids. You could be taking in too much carbs and spiking your blood Sugar that way. Also to move bile and thus fats and wastes out of your system you'll need some kind of fiber. I do take an occasional green drink but it is blended not juiced and I add some fat and protein to round it out. A kind of green smoothie I guess. Best if taken after a workout when a blood Sugar spike would have the maximum usefulness in restoring glycogen stores.

Many people have reported it is beneficial to not eat anything after at the latest 7:00 pm since the body does not burn much calories when asleep. I think one bodybuilder does not eat anything after 5:00pm.