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I'd just like to know what secrets people have used, any certain foods to help bring on a whooshie.?
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I'd just like to know what secrets people have used, any certain foods to help bring on a whooshie.?
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Re: whats the secret to a whooshie
I'm new to this, what's a whooshie? -
Re: whats the secret to a whooshie
A whooshie is a sudden drop of (water) weight of a couple of pounds or more
Horseradish is meant to be the main thing and I have also heard celery is good and mustard too. There is a recipe for whooshie pie in the recipes and it does seem to work!224/200/165
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I hang stockings from the fireplace, pace a tooth under my pillow, and leave brightly decorated eggs in a basket.Comment
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Re: whats the secret to a whooshie
Exercise & plenty of water!
Erica, 30, Female, 5'5"
StartDate: Feb 23, 2007
SW: 180+, RRRRSW: 160, CW: 152, MGW: 140, GW: 125
2010 will be the year I accomplish my weight goal!!!!Comment
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Re: whats the secret to a whooshie
Horseradish, they say. The key ingredient to whooshie pie.Before and after:
PLEDGING FLIGHTS
Completed: 1st set of buildings and mountains (Everest,M.Blanc & Kilimanjaro, twice); Tower Masts & Chimneys; More virtual buildings; Challenger's Choice x 2 (volcanos and mountains on Mars). Currently climbing: Mount Snowdon again: 416/475
Start 10 Jan 2005. Maintenance since Aug. 2005.
F/56yrs/5'.4"
SW:77.7 LW:56.5 CW:60.1 (kilos)Comment
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Many will disagree with me on this one, but while some foods might work better on Atkins than others (eating 5 g of carbs from veggies helps more than eating 5 g of carbs from mayo, spices, cream, etc.), I don't believe in stuff like whooshie foods. There's something called a whooshie pie, but I believe it just causes your body to get rid of a little more water (it has diuretic ingredients like horseradish)... thus the drop on the scale. If you are in this for the long run and not for dieting to lose 25-50-100 lbs, then what you need to care about is fat, not water, and inches, not pounds. Sure, it is very encouraging to see the scale go down (and don't get me wrong, I weigh daily and I do my chicken dance every time I'm down a pound), but I saw people who lost a bunch of weight without losing inches and people who lost very little weight, but a lot of inches. I only envy the latter.
There's no magic food or pill that will repair what years of bad eating have broken. If something like this would exist, we'll all be thin and happy, eating ice cream one day and whooshie pie the next."Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't recommend this method but last week I had the stomach flu. I couldn't keep anything down (including water) for 3 days. Lost 8 pounds.
Again, not recommended
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
~Orson Welles
Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
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"Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."Comment
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Georgiana is right... the horseradish (and certain other foods) whooshie is really water weight, nice though it is to see... and encouraging.
As for the whooshie fairy... that's another matter! She comes! Oh boy does she come! But... only to those who truly believe!!!
Before and after:
PLEDGING FLIGHTS
Completed: 1st set of buildings and mountains (Everest,M.Blanc & Kilimanjaro, twice); Tower Masts & Chimneys; More virtual buildings; Challenger's Choice x 2 (volcanos and mountains on Mars). Currently climbing: Mount Snowdon again: 416/475
Start 10 Jan 2005. Maintenance since Aug. 2005.
F/56yrs/5'.4"
SW:77.7 LW:56.5 CW:60.1 (kilos)Comment
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I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE.....
Will she come now.. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezeComment
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Before and after:
PLEDGING FLIGHTS
Completed: 1st set of buildings and mountains (Everest,M.Blanc & Kilimanjaro, twice); Tower Masts & Chimneys; More virtual buildings; Challenger's Choice x 2 (volcanos and mountains on Mars). Currently climbing: Mount Snowdon again: 416/475
Start 10 Jan 2005. Maintenance since Aug. 2005.
F/56yrs/5'.4"
SW:77.7 LW:56.5 CW:60.1 (kilos)Comment
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Re: whats the secret to a whooshie
Originally posted by cherribom1 View PostExercise & plenty of water!^^^^^^^^^^^
This!!!!!Comment
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