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hi everyone and welcome to my channel
today i'm going to be answering the
question that i get asked a ton
and that is how do you get rid of a moon
face when taking prednisone
i'm going to be sharing exactly what i
do because i have been taking prednisone
for three years now
and i can kind of say that my moon face
is where i want it to be i guess you
could say
um there are some days where it will
wake up more puffy
and more swollen but i will tell you
exactly what you need to do
to get your face more reduced and more
slim
so without further ado let's begin let
me quickly introduce myself for anybody
that is new here my name is cindy flores
and here on my channel
i share my kidney transplant journey as
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let's begin
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first things first i do want to mention
that getting rid of a moon face
does take time i'm going to tell you
exactly what i did
what i recommend for you to do and how
you can really see results
our first thing i want to talk about is
diet and how important
it is when you are taking prednisone i'm
actually not going to drink this juice
in the video because i feel like every
time i drink it because it's super pulpy
i get like food around my lips so let me
put this down real quick
so one of the things with prednisone you
are constantly hungry your appetite
levels are through the roof
and i'm not exactly sure because i'm not
a scientist or a pharmacist i know
exactly
what in the prednisone medication causes
um an increase in appetite but with that
being said
it's easy for us to run to anything and
normally
i know for me like when i was on high
doses of prednisone i would constantly
be eating
and like i mentioned before if you guys
have been following me a while now
you know that i took prednisone back
when i was 12 and i took it for a couple
years
and i gained a ton of weight i actually
gained 20 pounds in one month and it was
not healthy it was actually really bad
i got stretch marks um i wasn't happy my
skin
and it was just very uncomfortable for
me um
so the second time around now that i
have a kidney transplant
i knew i was gonna have to be on
prednisone so i made sure that i was
not gonna gain as much weight as i did
the first time around
however i did i ended up getting more i
gained 35 pounds
um since my transplant and the thing is
i haven't even lost the weight
um so the weight that i gained i gained
it over three months i gained 35 pounds
and i still have not lost the weight
but i look completely different i'm
going to show you guys before
here i was one month post transplant and
this one as well i was one month
now this is a picture of me um i took
this about
two weeks ago and this is now how i look
so you can see the difference my face
isn't as
puffy isn't as swollen and my body looks
more
i guess you could say fit or more
muscular because i
turned that fat and i did turn it into
muscle weights
so that is another reason why the actual
number on the scale has not
dropped but when i go get my bmi i do
see that
i have 26 body fat so after those three
months of just gaining a ton of weight
and not being cautious of what i eat or
really working out
i knew it was time to slow down and
really watch exactly what i was eating
and make a change before i even got on
dialysis i would make my green juices
and like healthy
juices to really detox my body i started
to do my green juice that i was just
drinking that i showed you guys earlier
here on this video
and that for me helped a ton
so parsley one of the ingredients that i
use in my green juice
i love parsley because this is a natural
diuretic and it really you can
really see a difference and you can feel
the actual difference too
from taking green juices at least for me
every single time i take it i'm
constantly
going to the bathroom it really cleans
your digestive system and it really gets
that retained fluid out of your body
and i am aware that juicing is a lot
more work
but it's definitely worth it another
thing that you could change in your diet
is decrease your salt intake so salt
causes you to retain
fluid and a lot of the times the weight
that we are retaining
from the or the weight from the moon
phase is actually retained
water so it's important that you reduce
your sodium intake
because you will see a difference now
let's go to the next important key and
that is
exercise exercise is important because
every time
you workout you sweat you are getting
rid of that extra fluid
especially that fluid that is around
your face because a lot of times
when we start to sweat we naturally
sweat on our face
and like our lip area and our forehead
so you are
getting that extra fluid out you are
helping yourself
one of the ways that you could start is
just even going on long walks
and then picking up endurance and start
to jog and then from jogging
to sprints one of my favorite things to
do which i did
build to get to this point is to do hit
workouts
high intensity interval training and i
feel like that has helped me a ton
um i go to the classes at golds and i
feel like that also has helped me those
classes are very like
very intense a lot of cardio
and i say i burn a good 700 calories
every class all this sweating will help
you get rid of that extra fluid
i notice if i don't work out in like
three or four days i notice my face
starts to get really round and a little
bit more puffier than my usual
so it's important for you to work out
sweat a little
even if you have to because for some of
us it is hard to sweat
if you have to put a couple of layers of
sweater and just go out on a long walk
that can really help that can really
make a difference and if you do that
regularly
you will see results and i'm speaking
completely from my experience
this is not easy um this is something
that
you have to constantly keep up with
constantly do because
if i don't exercise or eat right in
two months i have a complete round moon
face again
so this is constant work and it is
tiring but it is so worth it you're
gonna feel so much better in your skin
you're gonna be happy about it and i'm
telling you this because
i know what it's like to have an extreme
moon face i had it before
it was something that oh i feel like
it was something that for me was super
tough and one of the times it was the
largest was when i was in middle school
so it was a lot of self-esteem issues
that came with it
and i had to build that confidence as i
started to reduce
um back to my normal face so with that
all being said
the two important keys in this is eating
right
or taking green juices or lowering your
salt intake
and exercising make sure you do those
two things and i promise you you will
see results
you will see that moon face slowly start
to reduce
you are sweating you are getting all
that retained fluid out of your system
so thank you guys so much for this video
i hope you found this helpful
definitely check out my green juice
recipe so you guys can see exactly what
i
do and check out some of those workouts
you guys can join me
which i most likely will start a good
morning workout series
um because i feel like a lot of you guys
want to see that a lot of guys have
asked me exactly what i do
so i'm probably going to start a series
let me know give this video a thumbs up
if you guys want me to do that
so thank you guys so much for watching
have a blessed and a beautiful day and i
will see you in my next video bye
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