Possible to lose 10-12lbs in a week??

[rubberduckyo]

I guess I'll keep trucking, eh?

Uhm.....NO! Your body will have already adjusted to the low carbing and hang onto that weight like crazy! Start adding some carbs back in and keep the water intake high!

I was serious when I said "no more than a week"! Now that you've dragged me out of semi-retirement you'd better listen! LOL!

 

[Brat]

Weighed 162 this morning with 19% BF (Caliper test)...but I'm too high on their BF test to get in...I read at about 35.7% with the tape test...damn hips...anyway...when I meant I'd keep on trucking, I didn't mean I'd keep at the diet thing...heh...I ain't that crazy =)

 

[theHULK9281]

Weighed myself this morning and had lost the 10lbs I thought I needed to lose...went to see the recruiter ASAP this morning...only had lost about 6lbs on his scale..."Five more pounds," he tells me...Had I had the energy, I might have clocked the SOB...Oh well...I'm going out for frozen yogurt tonight with a friend...we're telling ourselves that it's yogurt, so it's good for us...hehe...his idea, not mine!! I guess I'll keep trucking, eh?

They're keeping you from signing up over 5lbs? If so, fuck them......join the Army. Hell, I went into basic training 25 lbs overweight (according to Army standards ) and they worked the "lard" off me.

Anyways, best of luck in whatever you do.

 

[BronzedGoddess]

Hey WBJH, when I was in the Army people would do a juice fast before weigh in. Don't do cardio because you'll probably retain water in your muscles. IS the MEPS in your town? Fast before hand, maybe even hit the sauna. Take a cooler with food and after your weigh in scarf the food down. Also have you taken your ASVAB (or do you need to with a degree) and all that. You don't want to have to do that when you're about to pass out from hunger.

Don't feel bad, I had to go to MEPS a few times because I had asthma as a child and had to get a waiver.

 

[BronzedGoddess]

did you let the recruiter bullshit you into thinking you couldnt ship out later? these fuckin people have no soul. all they care about is getting as many dumb kids to ship out as soon as possible. take your fuckin time and enlist when you can. i got sent to marine corps bootcamp with 4 broken ribs because i was dumb enough to believe my recruiter when he told me if i didnt ship out when i was supposed to they would find out about my ribs and not send me at all. the first month was hell trying to breath but my dumb ass went ahead and listened to my shit bag recruiter.

in my humble opinion youre really really dumb to be freaking out over ten pounds. youll get to bootcamp soon enough, and then youre going to wish you hadnt.

I'm going to have to agree with this, recruiters are lying scumbags!

 

[Brat]

Hey WBJH, when I was in the Army people would do a juice fast before weigh in. Don't do cardio because you'll probably retain water in your muscles. IS the MEPS in your town? Fast before hand, maybe even hit the sauna. Take a cooler with food and after your weigh in scarf the food down. Also have you taken your ASVAB (or do you need to with a degree) and all that. You don't want to have to do that when you're about to pass out from hunger.

Don't feel bad, I had to go to MEPS a few times because I had asthma as a child and had to get a waiver.

Sauna doesn't work too much with me...been tanning and stuff with prep h to draw the water out and stuff...MEPS isn't in my town, unfortunately...if they were, they would be getting some angry phone calls from my bosses, father, gym members who have had to put up with me through this crap...I feel bad for them...

Took the ASVAB already...95 AFQT...lowest line score was 129 I think...It's just annoying because I'm now officially a college grad with a degree in political science and criminal justice (with a minor in philosophy), graduated summa cum laude...could go on to any grad school I wanted to, but noooo...I want to freakin' enlist in the military...*sigh*...heh...it's frustrating, but I have to remember that anything worth doing won't be easy...if it were easy, everyone would do it, right?? So I just keep re-reading some quotes to keep myself motivated and stuff...

"The value of effort is not only in what it produces, but also in what it demands of you. The greatest opportunity in life is not for a free ride. The greatest opportunity is to be fully challenged, and to meek challenge with effective effort. The things we value are the things to which and for which we give of ourselves. There is no way around that. We need the effort, the accomplishment, and the challenge. Without it, life is shallow and empty."

"He who has a WHY to live for can endure almost any HOW." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can never beat a man that's not willing to give up"

 

[BronzedGoddess]

Sweetie don't take this the wrong way, but what are you hoping to accomplish in the military? Are you using it as a springboard to get into the FBI or CIA? I don't see why such a smart woman would want to be a marine ( no offense to any former jarheads)

 

[Brat]

Sweetie don't take this the wrong way, but what are you hoping to accomplish in the military? Are you using it as a springboard to get into the FBI or CIA? I don't see why such a smart woman would want to be a marine ( no offense to any former jarheads)

I'd like to be a military analyst for the CIA someday...I figured the best way to get experience in military intelligence is to, well, work in military intelligence...

 

[DirkMoneyshot]

I'd like to be a military analyst for the CIA someday...I figured the best way to get experience in military intelligence is to, well, work in military intelligence...

You would be better of going and getting your masters degree. I've known some people that have done this only to find out they should have further educated themselves.

Also look into becoming an officer- Leadership is a big plus with employers

 

[Brat]

You would be better of going and getting your masters degree. I've known some people that have done this only to find out they should have further educated themselves.

Also look into becoming an officer- Leadership is a big plus with employers

Beauty of the military - they'll pay for me to get my Masters...and eventually I'll be an officer, but I don't want to start off as one...I have no military experience and I don't think that I would make as good a leader as someone who had that experience...I've talked to a lot of people in the military, and they think it's probably a smart move (although they aren't too sure about me joining in the first place)...