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Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way
urbazewski writes "As spring gets underway (in the northern hemisphere anyway) it's a good time to start undoing the effects of a winter's worth of websurfing and gameplaying on your physical condition. A meta-analysis of studies of currently popular low carbohydrate diets by doctors at Stanford and Yale reveals that they are really just low calorie diets in disguise: 'findings suggest that if you want to lose weight, you should eat fewer calories and do so over a long time period." John Walker's 'engineer's approach' to losing weight is built around this astonishing insight, as described in his online book/weight loss plan The Hacker's Diet. The spreadsheets are out of commission, but the basic insights are an excellent antidote to fad diets." Ramen, Ramen, Ramen is not on the approved list.
This is another American lie. The weight was not lost: the invaders were chased into the desert and utterly destroyed.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Here is my Idea for the Ultimate diet:
STOP EATING!
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You'll lose weight and muscle is overated anyway.
As opposed to John Walker Lindh's 'terrorist approach' to losing weight that is built around hanging out in a flooded prison for a week with no food at all.
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...but my high-caffeine, low-sunlight diet has kept me at or below my ideal weight for over a decade.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
I wait until mid morning to go into work.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Just be sensible if you want to lose weight. A lot of health guides in my opionion are bad... 5+ servings of grain a day? pfft.
I lost 100 pounds over the past 8-9 months and it really wasn't hard. How? 30 minutes of weights daily to build up my heart rate and get the blood flowing. Then I would run 30 minutes. Initially it was walking of course. At 300 pounds my ankles couldn't support me running!
As for the diet I did go for lots of protein. But I didn't neglect other things like the importance of vegetables and fruits I had neglected over the past 10 years. I ate more of these in my 8 months than in the past 10 years. Iron, Zinc, Calcium too... I'd eat pure whole grain multigrain bread with all these crazy seeds and stuff in it. Yeah thats right. CARBS. So what. As long as you don't eat too much they aint a bad thing so screw what those diets of the week say. Just eat a balanced diet. I'd only eat 2-3 grain a day at most.
In order of most to least of the food groups:
1) Fruits and vegetables I cannot stress this enough... tons of goodness in them... VERY low calorie and easy to fill up...some of them taste quite good.
2) Poultry + pork. Chicken is very lean and low calorie. And really high in protein. Ham has more calorie but its a nice to alternate...couldn't eat chicken 24/7. Add something to them for taste.. don't eat them plain, they will taste like cardboard and you will drop your diet faster than a peter north's pants in front of a woman
3) Dairy. 3 fat glasses of milk daily. A fair bit of cheese too.
4) Grain. The lowest but still important to have some in your diet for obvious reasons of staying regular (if you eat too much fruit it does this 10 times more though!) and the added benefits that other groups don't necessarily have.
My immune system is a lot better. I've not got any colds during cold season, ive not even got the flu at all or been sick. Feels great. So much energy. Really if you weigh as much as I did or are at least overweight, lose it. Its so much easier to breath. I can take huge deep breaths now while sitting. Before I could only breath shallowly and it was scary.
Realize it takes time... I finally had to do that. I feel so great being thinner now. Still have to lose some weight but I'm no longer in a danger zone. I found the worst thing about being healthy was not my cravings and hunger. The major reason I ate junkfood was time. Its easier to microwave buttery popcorn than to chop up carrots. Secondly was stress. I'd eat after a long hard day at work. But now my stress-releaser is exercise...and boy it works great especially on kickbox night... exercise, if anything, not to lose weight, but to feel good and release more endorphins.
Heh...in all seriousness, DDR has slimed down many a geek...including me.
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I lost 40 lbs just by going from one pack a day to two! Try it, it works!
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"The most effective diet in the world is the only-eat-foods-you-don't-like diet."
All these fad diets, when they are successful at all, are only successful because they make people eat less. If the only thing you're allowed to eat is spinach, well, it probably won't take very long before your caloric intake has dropped significantly. Humans are wired to like a diversity of foods, but we're also very bad at counting calories (because over evolutionary timescales, more calories was always better).
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Bascially give up potatos, rice, sugar, and beer. Not very hard at at all and it feels nice to be thin again.
Not very hard??? I'd rather give up meat than potato, rice, sugar and beer.
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He said drink. Guiness is a meal.
Just out of curiosity, does your excercise routine involve repeatedly HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY? Because if it doesn't I wish you'd knock it off.
Don't beleive me? Fine, but don't come crying to me when you have a heart attack and die.
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I suspect you won't have many of those
Actually I would take a slightly different approach. If you take a look at the Guinness Pearls of wisdom fact number 6, it states that: "At 198 calories a pint GUINNESS® has fewer calories than a pint of skimmed milk or orange juice" So basically any time you get hungry, you can have a pint! You can even win some money by betting you can get hungry more than 20 times in an hour.
Well said. Of course, you can't build muscle by just eating protein. So start lifting those 22" trinitron monster monitors!
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Aha! Something we can finally blame the LCD monitor manufacturers for!
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