September 19, 2012 4:20 pm
From PRWeb:
“After a very public struggle to lose weight, star of hit reality t.v. show The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Lauren Manzo has lost 35 pounds. In an interview withUS magazine, Manzo tried a few but saw no success with the more popular weight loss programs like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and L.A. Weight Loss, and decided to undergo lap band surgery in September of 2011. And although the method is found to be a success for the reality t.v. star, she took a big risk by getting the surgery. More than half of the patients who undergo lap band surgery had at least one re-operation due to complications or device malfunction. NOTE: No mention of Perricone!!
Most will agree that weight loss surgery is an absolute last-resort for people who are struggling to lose weight, but the option is not available to anyone. According to the FDA, lap band surgery is only approved for those with a BMI of 40 and over or 35 with at least one health condition related to their obesity.
The report goes on to list a number of risks and side-effects that can include: abdominal pain, vomiting, difficulty swallowing, moving of the band through the stomach wall, leaking of the band and many others. In fact, a good number of people require another operation to reposition, replace or remove the gastric band sometime during their life due to complications or because they have not lost weight according to Lerner.
In an effort to help those who suffer the same weight loss struggle as Lauren Manzo, Diet Doc is offering a natural hCG weight loss program that is customized for each person.
THIS is what a person who needs a LapBand looks like!
she’s huge…still
That is exactly what I thought. Also love her vocabulary. “It’s gross.” What??? And you quiz others?
Stop making excuses for your mother. If you had a good mother maybe the weight would have never been an issue. Also- when did she become a star of the RHONJ? Please- these people are all loosers.
Love how LapBandLauren tells us she can still eat a Frosty with a bag of chips. Explains so much! LapBandFAIL. What a waste of Manzo money.
Well said “CH25″ ~ LAUREN SHOULD have gone THROUGH YEARS of Weight Loss Therapy & she SAID it herself ” I CAN GET A BAG OF CHIPS & A MILK-SHAKE & EAT IT ALL” well then Sweet Lauren what is gross is that your MOMMY, DADDY & Ur Dr. did not see that you are not MENTALLY ready for this type of procedure you eat so you feel better it’s ur drug of choice & you WILL gain ALL the weight back & at your age you will have babies what then & that LAUREN MANZO is GROSS……Just Saying!
All she had to do is stop eating, Lauren wasn’t obese she just didn’t want to stop eating the good food thats all.
That’s exactly right….she gained weight from the season she began complaining about it, and each season since. Kathy’s daughter has been gaining weight each year, too. By the time she starts college, she’ll be 200 lbs. I can see it’s genetic, but that’s when to start young, with a running program at least. Oh well, I’ll just let Christopher and Greg figure out their overweight problems, and won’t go on. What is Bravo feeding these people?
BLK water
Because sticking a needle of a pregnancy hormone in your body and then eating no more then 500 calories a day is so much healthier than a lapband.
Stoopid idiots.
Yep. They leave out the part about the diet restrictions LOL! I’ve been losing weight by eating healthier foods and exercising. I can’t sell that method, ironically because it works!
Im trying to drop some by stopping drinking soda I have however picked up the need to hit whatever is close to me, I wonder if the 2 things are connected somehow.
Lisa – I’d estimate about 20lbs of my total weight loss came almost completely from eliminating soda from my diet ( and other refined sugar). Not gonna sugarcoat it ( pun intended ) quitting soda was PAINFUL for me. The caffeine and sugar withdrawal gave me like a 2 week ( on and off ) headache. But once I finally kicked it, I felt amazing and my life-long, recurring headache pattern all but disappeared. Soda is soo soo bad and it’s SO worth it to try to quit. Good luck.
People don’t think of it as an addictive substance, but I swear, it was like my heroin. And I also swear it was a BIGGEST contributory factor in my weight gain over the years.
I heard a 16 oz. soda= 30 packets of sugar.
Yeah, Fab – it’s something like that, and unlike real food, it doesn’t even fill you up. After I quit regular soda, I got semi-addicted to diet soda for a while, but that’s almost as bad, just in a different way.
Gulity of drinking diet soda! probably one of the last things to let go but will give it a try! Thanks for telling your experience:) PJ
I was a Tab addict for almost 25 years. I could down a can in less than 60 seconds. I quit when I started getting severe tooth sensitivity. Switched to seltzer and never looked back. Tooth sensitivity gone within 2 weeks. Fear of the dentist was far greater than my addiction. Good luck to you, you can do this and think of the money you’re going to save!
Thank you Disco,Stain! I’m not fond of the dentist either! PJ
I quit soda about 2 & a half yrs ago. I started taking Spark from Advocare ( a nutritional brand that some athletes use). It’s full of vitamins and does have caffeine. I found it to be a great product. I have energy all day long now. Oh, & I changed my eating habits and started exercising and lost 50 lbs. Guess what lapband, it wasn’t a quick fix. It was a change in habits. It works. A previous poster said this but Lapband is going to gain all that weitght back.
me too lol!
are you at the I wanna punch walls stage yet.
Not yet….but on my way! LOL!
Caroline has given her children everything. Paid for school (for the one that went). Pretty sure she pays the rent and bought them their job. Lauren would have no clue how to work to get weight off. Unless you have a medical issue, it is exactly what you stated pj, eat right, and exercise. We teach our children the habits they will have for a lifetime, enabling them is a horrible thing to do. If you want something, you have to work for it, unless of course “if all else fails, daddy will buy you a lapband.” So why bother trying. I do sometime really feel bad for Lauren, it really is all she knows.
ITA with everything you said and I call BS on LapBand saying she works out for 2 hours every morning. If she did that in the first place, she wouldn’t need the lapband and she has only lost, what 30 pounds in a year! PLEASE! I had a friend who was on the Dr. Oz show for one of his weight loss challenges and she lost almost that much in a few months with just diet and EXERCISE without the help of a lapband.
Thanks fify! It seems there are lots of us out there just moving along…it takes patience! I hope your friends surgery goes well! I have had to really hold my ground with my doctor who is more than happy to discuss surgical and medical “options” with me for weight loss. Not sure why Lauren is still struggling, but I would not have the guts to endorse any diet aide unless it worked for me and I had kept the weight off for a year. That’s a lot of pressure on Lauren, but hey she’s an adult right?
But, they FINALLY have a product Teresa can’t “steal out from under their noses”!
“Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-… That’s all, folks.”
Wow, bright folks hu?
her BMI was not 40 and above!!!!!! also didnt that gay guy on that most eligible dallas show take that homone because he was fat?!?! I also think that he had some metal issues!!!!!!
I can’t comprehend what she is selling now. She had lapband surgery, but she is now shilling for the Diet Doc hGC injections. These idiots will do anything for a freaking buck. Lapband puts her private medical history out there for the entire world to see. She actually claimed on Twitter that because she had severe anxiety and depression they allowed her the lapband. I never heard of such a thing. The reason lap had the anxiety and depression was because her mother and brothers were constantly bullying her because of her weight. I am sure they had to go private, because no way would insurance cover the lapband under her conditions. And she can’t even be disciplined enough to lose the weight, now she needs injections which are are not deemed safe by the FDA for weight loss purposes. What pieces of shit.
Agreed. But I think Caroline is the FAR bigger and much stinkier piece of SH*T in this situation. I can’t stand Lauren, but the more I watch of that family, it’s hard not to take how she got that way into consideration. We all make fun, but Lauren is Caroline’s CHILD and she’s treated her horrendously. She not only oversaw, but participated in the absolute psychological destruction of her daughter. She is a BAD mother. I don’t even like my teenage son to use too much chemical acne cream because I’m concerned about anything that could potentially harm his health, even a little. I don’t think this makes me special mother; I think it means I’m like the millions of mothers whose maternal instincts are considered NORMAL.
Agreed Guilty. She has the nerve to call Teresa a disgrace? Caroline Manzo’s is a disgrace of a mother. It is so damn obvious that she dislikes Lauren. It is just pitiful to watch. My daughter is in her early 20′s and I worship the ground she walks on because I brought her into this world!
That’s how I think about my daughter too. For pete’s sake, this is her CHILD. Any woman who’s jealous of her own daughter is a sick puppy.
I always tell my daughters that I love them so much, and I would still love them even if they became serial killers. LOL
fabelloonie now thats a mom.=) btw everyone on this site is great im very happy and proud of everyone who has lost weight and doing things like giving up soda for your health. keep up the great job.
Does it surprise you? She’d be jealous of anyone that’s done something she wanted to do but didn’t have the guts (no pun intended). Her daughter should know enough to laugh it off. Seriously, being insulted by someone like Carowhine is like being insulted by Pee-Wee Herman.
I try not to clown on Lauren too much because I feel bad for her. Her mom will always be up in her grill (pun intended) about Lauren’s looks and diet, but Lauren will someday have to say, “Mom, you have done all you could, but I’m going to take it from here.”
Lauren’s looks are just fine, except for her weight (and 50 lbs is no big deal, esp w/all their money, have a trainer) the others have had so much work done on their features, most of them look strange (Jaq’s nose is about to do a “Michael Jackson”, if she has any more removed – back to Lauren…she has gorgeous eyes, a perfect nose, fab teeth and smile, but her self-confidence is so low, she’s rather blame her paternal genes than just do something about her weight, And, for god’s sake, lost the boyfriend. He’s no help at ALL. nicki
Is that a SPANX commercial?
she is disgusting. fat forever
Consumers need to do their homework in healthcare…..many are too lazy to make the effort.
This girl is an idiot. I feel bad saying that because I know her mother made her that way, but it’s true. As a former chunk, let me give you some advice Lauren:
You have to eat LESS. You have to eat DIFFERENT things – MORE of some things and A LOT LESS of others. You have to drink lots of water, get lots of sleep, watch caffeine and alcohol intake and MOVE more than your current body is used to. You should lose weight SLOWLY, over quite a bit of time, especially if you have a lot to lose. If you lose a lot of weight quickly, you can bet your bottom dollar you’ll gain it all back and then some. You have to retrain your brain away from the concepts of ” temporary DIETS” to ” PERMANENT lifestyle change” and from ” I want to be SKINNY” to ” I want to be HEALTHY”. It isn’t easy and it’s work, but it eventually pays off, not just in weight loss, but improved mental health too.
There. One paragraph. One consultation. 2 minutes. How much should I charge her for that advice? She’s paid tons of ppl, tons of money, for tons of advice, mixes, procedures, injections, powers, pills – where’s MY cut?
Oh, one last piece of weight loss advice: Learn to recognize and ELIMINATE toxic ppl from your life who don’t REALLY care about you or your health. (Cough…Chuck)
And you have to STOP DRINKING so much.
Where is the “like” button when you need it
I agree with everything you just said. I just lost 20 pounds and it took me 20 weeks to do it. I still have another 30-40 pounds to go…it takes time. Sure I would love to snap my fingers and be instantly skinny…but I’m not going to skinny, I’m going for healthy!
Good for you! Thats’s how I lost weight. I stopped putting a time limit on my weight loss. Slow and steady wins the race. Gave up sugar, all soda even diet soda and I walk for an hour every day as fast as I can. now I walk really fast and really far.
Good for you, Half. ( And do you really have 6 kids ?:-) )
if she had depression and anxiety; see a mental health provider. they would even have helped in the
long run, to figure out why she overate. and she overate, and drank, still does. these people are so
stupid, i do not know how they get thru a day. oh they use hatred, and lies to feel like big shots.
disgusting really.
o.k. she had a lapband in her twenties, stupid; then she had it loosened to eat more; really
stupid. a mental health provider was the answer. could help in all her life problems. she
is still a mean, angry, in denial person. so sad.
Are they claiming that Lauren used this product in conjunction with her lapband?? She does look better, but she still has some to lose. No way she is working out 2hrs. per days as she claims.
2 hours per day at 6:30AM no less! UM, LapBand has nothing else BUT time on her hands, why does she always need to reiterate this 2hours a day working out at 6:30AM lie? So strange.
She stresses the detail of 6:30 AM because she is a liar and liars think that the key to lying successfully is in providing specifics.
Perhaps Lap Band thinks waking up and pouring a tall glass of vino for brekkie is exercise.
Pitiful in a way. But do you expect Carowhines kid to be healthy overall? Unless this bitter/sad stuff she’s been showing us the past couple of seasons is new to her life , how could her kids be healthy? Good at trying to hide it maybe, but not healthy overall. Not if momma’s got that kind of anger & unhappiness in her.
From what I’ve seen, I don’t think this girl will ever be happy. Too many people in her life that are making too many excuses for her, including herself! Sad. Sad. Sad.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! hcG is ***NOT*** natural in any way, other than if you’re pregnant! This is still an unsafe, dumb (IMO) way to lose weight! Besides being injected with hcG (women’s pregnancy hormones), they inject you with B12 because you’re on a 600 calorie/day diet. Yah, anyone will lose weight just b/c of the extremely restricted calories! Duh! As a former diet/nutrition counselor, I could tell you that this plan makes you lose weight too quickly and unsafely. Anything more than 2 lbs (after the first 2 weeks–which is the “big drop”), is unhealthy. You’re actually eating away at your muscle mass, rather than fat. Your skin will definitely droop and sag. You’ll have a very unhealthy look. Everyone I personally know who has done the hcG diet, gained it back asap. PLUS, it’s very expensive. **waste of time** in my opinion. I put my clients on a calorie-appropriate diet for their specific needs, and that changes with your weight. It can be done with the right foods and exercise.
i was gonna say how does HCG help u lose weight
Lisa: It’s the hormone + LOWWWWWWWWW calories + B12 shots. Any 600/day calorie diet would work, if you don’t pass out from it! D’oh!
is it even safe to eat that few calories that wouldnt keep a Gnat alive
Nope. 1200/day is the lowest limit while losing weight, even for a small person. It’s dumb.
I call BS for the following reasons:
It’s a “no fat, no carb, no sugar diet” with very low calorie intake. So, the 2 hr a day work out is absolute BS. She would pass out. They recommend “light exercise only” on HCG.
When you stop the diet it takes about a month for your hormones to go back to normal, and during that time period the possibility of gaining weight back immediately is a huge danger unless you are VERY careful and follow the directions of going on Atkins for a few months AND follow Atkins to the “T”, so her “Frosty and a bag-o-chips” issue will completely screw that up.
It takes A LOT of self discipline and going through “carb and sugar withdrawl” which makes you an absolute BITCH. (I’m on Atkins, so I’ve been there.)
In theory, she would lose “a pound a day!” so if she’s been on it a year, she would be anorexic.
And, if you actually READ the Atkins diet book, (I know, Lauren DOESN’T READ) it emphasizes “LOTS of good healthy veggies,then accentuate with nuts, protein and fruit” and how your body uses the sugars it processes. Actually really interesting logical stuff. NOT “eat all the bacon you want”, but instead, how to reintroduce healthy foods back into your diet and find out what foods cause your body to gain weight and why.
I’ve learned bread is not my friend. I LOVE a nice slice of sourdough with butter, but now I have to think of it as I do cake, “once in a while is OK, just not every day”. Never been a sweet person, but OMG…. breeeaaaaaaad!
It’s how you think and follow through that counts.
mememe: Atkins is good. Dukan diet is even better. Like Atkins, you just need the book. It’s similar but updated. My husband lost over 60 lbs (slowly) on it. If you have the $$ for protein and veggies in the house, you’d succeed, and he didn’t miss his carbs/sugar at ALL! (that goes away within a few weeks). Carbs make you crave more carbs. So does sugar. Horrible cycle. The food industry knows this. Anyone will lose weight on 600 calories/day, but it’s DANGEROUS. To add vigorous exercise is INSANE. I used to tell my clients to slowly add exercise.
I just saw a picture of the (3) amigos, Carowhine looks like a slob, Babywhine is fat again, and JAXSASS looks plastered to the wall……
Anything more than 2 lbs per week (other than the first 2 weeks of any diet where you lose a significant amount), is BAD. You’re losing muscle mass. Your skin will sag and you’ll look sickly + you’ll gain it right back! Doing any exercise while only intaking 600 calories a day is DANGEROUS.
its a very weird diet, it was big in mo a few yrs back. you can eat everything you want b/4 the diet i think for a while like a weekof eating JUNK. 2nd phase is the low calories also you have to change your tooth paste lotions,deodrant ect.it oils interact w/diet
I had a friend who did this. Sure she lost weight–anyone would with only 600 calories a day. But then you cannot exercise at all. And then of course she put it all back on after she was done with the injections. Totally stupid.
And do you know how EXPENSIVE it is? It’s insane–it’s about $300/week!
she should just go on the biggest loser ranch…..i wish i could
Thank you!
Any time!
And obviously she will gain it back as she still hasn’t learned healthy eating habits. She should have stuck with Weight Watchers. She is still looking for that quick fix.
Most people are, lobstah!
Pathetic.
STAR….is she a star of a reality show??? Delusional as her mother.
Has she lost any weight? Maybe a few pounds. Im sure as a little girl she has always dreamed of being a weight loss spokesperson.
She looks the same to me. She is the poster child for what NOT to do when you are trying to lose weight. I hope her family gets the Bravo Boot!
when i read her tweets its about eating…..
This pregnancy hormone diet is a huge fad and like all fad diets it does not work. You gain the weight back plus more because of the low calorie intake. Two of my friends became very very sick on this diet. The only way to lose weight is to change your attitude about food. Food is fuel. Frosties and chips are never a healthy choice. It’s sad that Lauren was so desperate for her mother’s approval that she would have surgery to lose weight. You want to knwo how to lose all that ugly fat you are carrying around? Ditch your mother. You will be pounds lighter instantly.
You know what annoys me more than the quest for the quick fix and the almighty buck with this chick? You KNOW there are girls looking at her and saying well, if her mother thinks its safe for her daughter then it’s alright for me too. I would be much more impresssed by LBL if she was a positive role model for young girls instead of touting snake oil…
she a bad role model even for ppl who reallly need the band….
I’m 46 and have lost 35 pounds since January of this year. It’s hard work — exercise and eating right. No surgery required. Shame on everyone involved in making this girl think she was obese and then leading her to surgery rather than healthy lifestyle choices. Without having learned good nutrition and exercise habits, she’ll gain her weight back. Oh, and there’s no way she’s working out two hours a day. I’ve accomplished my goal on one hour a day…and we all know it’s much harder to lose weight in your 40s and beyond compared to losing weight in your 20s.
Excellent Swizzle! I’m doing the same thing! I’m 48 and my goal is to be Fierce at Fifty:)
She can’t keep her mouth shut and with her brothers owning a restaurant watch the pounds come right back, double.
LOL!!! You know THAT’s the truth!!!
They never showed the lapband discussion on this whole last season, I have always believed they were going to be pushing the Perricone diet as spokespeople,(scamming people out of more money) while she really had a secret Manzo lapband. Hooray for whoever in the surgeons office let the lying cheating cat out of the bag.
I can hardly stand Lauren but I will say when she smiles she is very pretty. Too bad she only shows her ugly side on the show and it’s not just this past year…she has been that way since the get go.
She’s uneducated money grubbing trash just like her mother and brothers.
This is gonna sound really mean. But she is still no where near the point to wear that red dress!! She may be smaller than she was, but not near small enough to pull that off. Maybe after the natural HcG…and another lapband…..LOL!
I must say I grew to not like Lauren this year. She used to be in the background so you could give her the benefit of the doubt as to her personality. Now that we’ve seen how obnoxious she is. How lazy she is. How whiney she is. I don’t care for her. Bravo we love the show but the people you have on this year and are promoting are turning people off. The Manzo kids are not what I watched when I first started watching the show. And the husbands were sort of in the background.
Get rid of those annoying people before people turn away for good. Because once you lose them (the audience) they won’t be back. The younger kids are sort of funny to watch. But watching Caroline have such angst over a bunch of grown up, really getting old, kids is ridiculous. She still talks about how proud she is to be raising them etc. Give me a break! Those “kids” are going to be older then me pretty soon.
True but I think her kids are pretty much all she’s got. Other than coming up with ways to insult others, she really doesn’t seem to have her own mind at all. & you know the whiny thing comes from Caro-whine ;P But yeah she’s clinging wayyyy too much to those “kids”. I don’t think she’ll find happiness until she figures out what SHE wants & makes the effort to obtain that. Until then it’s Pee-Herman time….
Lil lap band is doomed to be fat. Sadly it’s the only way she can get five min. Of attention from mamma lapband who is too busy nursing her boys. More of mammas meatballs Albie? Manja, manja.
Wait a sec. Is that me go’s forehead?
Just my two cents but weight loss is a very serious health issue. I was always quite thin til my 40s and was diagnosed as diabetic and hypothyroid. So the combination of needing heavy doses of insulin and synthroid has added lots of pounds and in full circle I am extremely lethargic.
So, I am attempting to bust my way thru all this by eating the right foods, eating less and swimming every day (live in Fl w/pool – lucky me). My best friend, no health issues, was extremely overweight, did hcg and looks great – but now is getting 2 major surgeries due to really, gross excessive skin. She is happy with a boyfriend. Everyone is different and I applaud her being able to starve herself,I can’t or I would die. Just saying, fat or thin, just don’t judge. And yes, Lauren is so naive I almost feel sorry for her.
Hey duh. I have same disease. I’ve been on synthroid for twelve years now. I don’t sit I lay down all the time. I walk two miles everyday, watch my calories and drink lots of fruit juices. Diet and exercise keeps you healthy. Laurene lap band is a cry for help. Chuckie is a bad mom.
Lauren is a grown women who makes her own choices Why is her choices Caroline fault or make her a bad mom Blame Lauren she dosnt have to do what her mom says.
Can’t drink much fruit due to sugar but drink gallons of water, plain water soetimes with lemons. Can’t walk due to foot issues but do swim and would like to do more but feel if I can just get this weight off I will want to do more. Lauren, w/o any health issues, is just lazy. She needs to move away, far away from her co-dependent family. She needs to find out what motivates her. And that fat boyfriend Vito is a loser. It is like that is all she feels she can attract.
I know. Hang in there duh. You are awesome.
“”In an interview withUS magazine, Manzo tried a few but saw no success with the more popular weight loss programs like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and L.A. Weight Loss”"
That’s because Lauren didn’t follow the programs! She probably ate 3 Jenny Craig meals at each sitting as opposed to all day long (main meals) , didn’t pay any attention to L.A. Weight Loss ( I did that program after I had my 1st baby – had gained 70lbs, was left with 30 to lose after he was born, lost it all and THEN SOME and had a little guy to take care of, wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, had to make the time to exercise, had a business to run, a house to keep in order, etc. ….what’s Lauren’s excuse?) guidelines, and she probably saved all her Weight Watcher points for alcohol (or NOT). Then got the munchies and forgot she ate all the meatballs and cannoli’s and everything else in the fridge.
This is nothing other than, IMO, an attempt by Lauren to excuse herself for being a LAZY MANZO.
How STUPID does she think everyone else is? Could you imagine when she hits her 40′s and has a “family night’ and pops in the episodes of RHWNJ with Lapband being such a douchette? Everyone grows up and in less than 20 years, when LapbandLauren is in her 40′s…what is she going to have? Other than meeting a peer of hers at a PTA meeting and it’s going to go; “Manzo…why do I know that name? Why do I? Please explain, because I feel the need to smack you upside your head”.
Because you KNOW Lap Band will NEVER give up her “Manzo”.
Its simple. Weight watchers and la fitness said…. No lauren manzo. You cant be our spokesperson.
LOL LOL LOL. You probably hit that right on the nose!
She did the Lapband! Carolying os lying. Dady Al even said he’d buy it for her. No way did that fatass lazy Lauren go on some 600 calorie diet given by diet Dr. The Breakfast that pig eats has more calories. She has medical help. She is disgusting at any weight. exercise & eat healthy Lauren have some discipline! Spoiled hog. I don’t care what she did she’ll be 400 lbs by age 30.
Lauren needs to get out of her parents house and be on her own. Make her own money, pay rent, buy food and tell her mom to get a life. The doctor asks Lauren a question and carowhine answers it. Grow up lauren and become an independent, self-sufficient woman. Take control and responsibility for your life and your choices. Tell your mother to STFU.
Thank you marsh!
You are not suppose to drink alcohol with the lapband and you are required to have a psyc evaluation to determine if you would be able to give up alcohol. All Lauren talks about is drinking – she is a terrible role model for young people with the lapband.
OMG. I’m so OVER LapBand Lauren and her story. She makes people with weight struggles look bad. She makes people who have had weight loss surgeries look even worse.
Lauren, please take your cheese, salami, frosty, and chips and SHUT UP.
Im doing weightwatchers and it is hard but I’ve lost 12 lbs in a month. I am exercising 1 hour to 1 and 1/2 hours a day eating healthy food and watching my carbs. I am losing more inches than lbs but I’m feeling better and less lethargic. I try to only drink water and yes I do slip up, but you just have to balance out the bad food with extremely healthy food.
Congrats, Basil! Don’t worry that you are losing more inches than pounds. That is actually a good thing. It means that you are developing more muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat. Use your clothes as a guide, and don’t obsess over the scale. As women, the scales can fluctuate wildly with our cycles.
Make sure you change up your exercise routine once in awhile. Do a bit of research into HIIT training.
Congrats to all of the ladies who have shared your stories about making yourselves healthier the correct way. Keep going!!!
I real all of the responses saying it was Carolyn’s bad parenting that made her the way she is. That may be true the Lauren is an ADULT and is responsible for what she does as an adult. I’m not a Carolyn fan but in the end Lauren’s choices were her own after the age of 18. Our society gets so stuck on “poor parenting”. No one’s parent is perfect and everyone has bad things happen to them in life. It’s how you deal with it as an adult that matters.
I’ll concede that she’s an adult. BUT and it’s a biggie – her life and lifestyle is fully maintained by her parents still. They still pay her bills, her apt, her everything. Her choices are financed and supported by her parents. Because she still is very much involved with her mother I do not consider her independent.
I agree completely. It would be nice if caroline wouldnt expect other people to treat them with kid gloves…. Because they are her children. Kids are off limits….you, caroline dont have kids anymore. Fair game.
Caroline please go away! All I hear her daughter saying is that she wanted to lose weight and it wasn’t happening fast enough…boo hoo!
I don’t understand why they are so mad at Tre – for what? All she said is that she likes people who lose weight naturally. Big deal. What’s the anger about?? It’s not like it was a secret that Lauren is using a lapband to lose weight. She obviously was not ashamed of it if she is went on Bethenny’s talk show to talk about it. Or posed for that cheesy US video.
Hey Lauren – Tre has NOTHING to do with your weight issues. Tre had NOTHING to do with your decision to take a drastic measure to lose weight. We all know that it is your family that has given you your problems – from your brothers calling you fat all your life to your mama feeding you greasy fried meatballs. You are an adult now – recognize these problems and resolve them. You are displacing your anger onto Tre which should be placed on your very own dumb-ass-low IQ family.
I would rather watch Honey Boo Boo than any of the Manzos.
Come to think of it they seem to be kind of related. I mean Pumpkin reminds me of Lauren. And Sugar Bear is quiet like Mr. Manzo. June is like Caroline. Replace the other girls with the Manzo boys and really they are the same family.
Carowhine and Lauen Lappy make fun of Tre. Compare Gia Giudice to Lauren. Gia has been dancing for years. She is talented BUT SHE ALSO PRACTICES. Tre has supported Gia in her dancing activities.
I’ll put my money on a Giudice child (one of Tre’s) any day before Carowhine Manzo’s offspring. I think Milania’s IQ is probably off the meter. Gabriella is a beautiful and artistic child. Little Adrianna? Just an angel.
SO THERE, Manzoids. Back off of Tre and her kids.
Sorry – just had to get it off my chest.
Lauren lost the weight but gained attitude, disrespect for elders, with her mother’s approval!
No wonder why Dina doesn’t like her own family!