Any of your assholes...

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

I am - I've lost 30 lbs. in body fat - I'm now 172 - at one time I was 200 lbs. - this diet is bullshit you can't eat anything that tastes good.

 

What stuff do you eat that actually tastes good? what can i grab for a quick snack?

[Guest swan]

meat is good.

 

I was going to try it but I cut out snacks and switch to Diet Moutain Dew. I lost 12 lbs in a month.

 

Oh and the good doctor recently dropped dead:

 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/901572.asp?cp1=1

Edited April 17, 2003 by swan

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

removing soft drinks from your diet will work MIRACLES.

 

I just started drinking juice or water instead, and dropped an astronomical amount of weight.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

removing soft drinks from your diet will work MIRACLES.

 

I just started drinking juice or water instead, and dropped an astronomical amount of weight.

Isn't juice just as bad as soda?

[Guest swan]

removing soft drinks from your diet will work MIRACLES.

 

I just started drinking juice or water instead, and dropped an astronomical amount of weight.

Isn't juice just as bad as soda?

Depends what kind of juice. You have 100% natural and then the 10% fruit juice with lots of suger added.

[Guest starvenger]

removing soft drinks from your diet will work MIRACLES.

 

I just started drinking juice or water instead, and dropped an astronomical amount of weight.

Isn't juice just as bad as soda?

Juice has about the same amount of calories as a soft drink, but they've got vitamins (1 glass OJ = 140% DV vitamin C), no caffeine, aren't carbonated and have some of those good sugars. But if you drink 2L of juice a day, you won't lose weight, but you'll probably feel better.

 

edit: I'm talking about the stuff like Tropicana and Florida's Natural et al, not Sunny D, Capri Sun and the like.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

Juice has about the same amount of calories as a soft drink, but they've got vitamins (1 glass OJ = 140% DV vitamin C), no caffeine, aren't carbonated and have some of those good sugars. But if you drink 2L of juice a day, you won't lose weight, but you'll probably feel better.

Well then fuck that. I want to lose lbs. and feel horrible.

[Guest Zero_Cool]

Dude, I read about him dieing today, and as I read the article about it on MSN, I having my wendy's burgers (bun free, course).

 

I'm on the Atkin's diet too. I've lost fifty pounds. I was like 275-280, now I'm like 225. Booyah.

 

Anyway, a few things you can eat and drink in the diet include like diet soda (mountain dew code red and diet a&w) string cheese, hard liquor, pepperonies make a good snack from time to time, pork rhins are nasty at first but they work if you get a good flavor, salad is badass as long as you don't use carrots or fat free ranch, and strawberries are pretty low in carbs too.

 

Sucks the dude died, the diet has changed a lot of things.

[Guest swan]

Anyway, a few things you can eat and drink in the diet include like diet soda (mountain dew code red and diet a&w) string cheese, hard liquor, pepperonies make a good snack from time to time, pork rhins are nasty at first but they work if you get a good flavor, salad is badass as long as you don't use carrots or fat free ranch, and strawberries are pretty low in carbs too.

I have his book and caffenine is a no-no for the diet as is some hard liquors. Some are ok but many are not. And carb free slad dressing can be found at many groccery stores these days.

 

Do the folks look at you wierd when you order a burgar and without the bun?

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

I'm on the Atkin's diet too. I've lost fifty pounds. I was like 275-280, now I'm like 225. Booyah.

You're still grotesquely fat.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

None of my assholes are on a diet.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

None of my assholes are on a diet.

I don't know about your assholes, but my anus consumes only lean meat.

 

 

That softball just had to be knocked out of the park, even if it was at my expense.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words.

[Guest DrTom]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words. 

That's why dieting has to be a lifestyle change, not just changing what you eat. Yes, Atkins' diet has worked wonders for a lot of people, and proved Dr. Atkins right despite all the scorn he got early on. However, doing nothing to increase your metabolism makes you run a high risk of putting the weight back on.

 

Eat less, use more. It all comes down to that.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Regarding the juice question, all I did was substitute 100% Florida orange juice or water whenever I'd normally be drinking pop.

 

I lost a pretty substantial amount of weight. I started walking everywhere right around the same time, too. Even a couple miles a day makes a big difference.

[Guest swan]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words.

You obviously have never read his book or the studies on his diet.

[Guest starvenger]

Eat less, use more. It all comes down to that.

That pretty much says it all. You don't even need to do a special diet to use that advice...

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words.

You obviously have never read his book or the studies on his diet.

No, but I'm obviously a nutritional biochemistry major at the best program in the country. It's a sham, plain and simple. Obviously in his book he's going to tell you it's going to work. And guess what, it does work. You lose weight. But just like any other sham diet, stop it and see what happens. Go ahead I dare you.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words.

You obviously have never read his book or the studies on his diet.

No, but I'm obviously a nutritional biochemistry major at the best program in the country. It's a sham, plain and simple. Obviously in his book he's going to tell you it's going to work. And guess what, it does work. You lose weight. But just like any other sham diet, stop it and see what happens. Go ahead I dare you.

Good factual post, except for the elitest ego-masturbation.

 

I was about 200 lbs. and I'm trying to get down to about 160 - that way when I get off of the diet, and run a few miles a day regularly - I'll only balloon up to about 175 - which is where I ought to be.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

You guys are playing with fire. As soon as you stop the diet you're going to gain most if not all of the weight back. Mark my words.

You obviously have never read his book or the studies on his diet.

No, but I'm obviously a nutritional biochemistry major at the best program in the country. It's a sham, plain and simple. Obviously in his book he's going to tell you it's going to work. And guess what, it does work. You lose weight. But just like any other sham diet, stop it and see what happens. Go ahead I dare you.

Good factual post, except for the elitest ego-masturbation.

 

I was about 200 lbs. and I'm trying to get down to about 160 - that way when I get off of the diet, and run a few miles a day regularly - I'll only balloon up to about 175 - which is where I ought to be.

Well, if you are going to under lose weight in preparation for the weight baloon (which a good diet wouldn't have) that's a wise decision. I'm just saying...and I really wish I had time to dig up literature...is don't be surprised if you gain more.

 

I also did this diet when I was in high school...I lost 15 pounds, gained 20 back. And you're right, I presented no facts, but that's only because i don't have the time to look for them. They're out there.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

Ok, this is all I got on short notice.

 

A huge meta-analysis of the wildly popular low-carbohydrate diets has proved, yet again, that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Such diets often promote the idea that pounds can be shed by avoiding bread, pasta, and other carbohydrates while eating as much fat and protein as one wants. But in a new study, a team of doctors from Stanford and Yale Universities have found that any weight loss achieved on a low-carb diet comes from consuming fewer calories, the crucial factor in a standard weight-loss diet. Carbohydrate restriction had nothing to do with it, they say.

 

Low-carb diets have spawned a huge industry of books, diet aids, and prepared meals in recent years. Diets such as Sugar Busters, The Zone, and most famously, the one espoused by Dr. Robert Atkins in his perennial best-seller, Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, have become all the rage despite skepticism expressed by much of the medical Establishment. Atkins has argued for more than 20 years that the bodies of most overeaters produce too much insulin, which converts excess carbohydrates to fat.

 

STICK WITH IT.  By switching to a diet that's extremely low in carbohydrates, insulin production is decreased, food craving dampened, and stored fat burned off, Atkins has claimed. Adherents can eat steak, eggs, cheese, and butter but virtually no bread, pasta, fruit, or sugar -- even many vegetables are banned. Numerous medical associations, however, have warned that over time high-fat diets can lead to kidney, liver, and heart problems.

 

The new report published in the Apr. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. is the first of its kind, a review of all the scientific literature published on low-carbohydrate diets from 1996 to 2003. The researchers analyzed a total of 107 diet studies involving 3,268 people from around the world.

 

Although the studies differed in their carbohydrate and caloric intake, among other variables, the team was able to draw one overriding conclusion: "The greatest predictors of weight loss appear to be caloric intake and diet duration," says Dr. Dena Bravata of Stanford's Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research.

 

WHAT ABOUT EXERCISE?  People on diets of 60 or fewer grams of carbohydrates a day (a threshold used by many low-carb diets) did lose weight, but the loss was invariably associated with eating less and dieting longer, rather than carbohydrate intake. "The findings suggest that if you want to lose weight, you should eat fewer calories and do so over a long time period," says Bravata.

 

Interestingly, the researchers didn't recommend for or against low-carb diets, concluding that not enough evidence is available to make such a determination. Most of the studies in their analysis didn't last longer than 90 days, and none had participants with a mean age over 53 years old. Bravata says more studies are needed on the role of exercise in weight loss, the long-term effects of low-carb diets, and their safety for people over age 53.

 

 

You're losing weight due to calories...you're raising your cholesterol unduely due to the high amount of fat you're consuming. The weight is going to come back, and I'm only saying that in your best interests. Flame this post if you want, but it's not going to be pretty for people who do this diet for long periods of time.

 

It's pretty damn hard to argue with a meta-analysis of 107 studies, truly.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

I've started drinking green tea. I've been drinking mainly diet sodas (Diet Vanilla Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Lemon Lime drinks, etc) and the occasional regular soda (trying out the new stuff, or when I can't find something I like in diet) for quite some time now.

 

In the 2 weeks that I've been drinking green tea (2 glasses a day) I've lost 4 pounds, and haven't changed anything else. That of course is optimal amount of weight that you should lose in a week, as losing more than 2 pounds in the course of a week screws up your metabolism and you are more prone to gaining it back. Of course at some point I will stop losing weight, since I also need to change what I eat, but its nice to give the diet a jumpstart.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

You're losing weight due to calories...you're raising your cholesterol unduely due to the high amount of fat you're consuming. The weight is going to come back, and I'm only saying that in your best interests. Flame this post if you want, but it's not going to be pretty for people who do this diet for long periods of time.

 

It's pretty damn hard to argue with a meta-analysis of 107 studies, truly.

That's just not correct. I've simply reduced my caloric intake before to eating small meals twice a day - and lost a bit of weight. However, i've NEVER gotten the results of weight loss that I get with a low-carb diet.

 

Also, I don't plan on gaining the weight back because I was a fat fuck who did not excercise. Now I excercise for 2 and a half hours daily along with dieting...

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

You're losing weight due to calories...you're raising your cholesterol unduely due to the high amount of fat you're consuming. The weight is going to come back, and I'm only saying that in your best interests. Flame this post if you want, but it's not going to be pretty for people who do this diet for long periods of time.

 

It's pretty damn hard to argue with a meta-analysis of 107 studies, truly.

That's just not correct. I've simply reduced my caloric intake before to eating small meals twice a day - and lost a bit of weight. However, i've NEVER gotten the results of weight loss that I get with a low-carb diet.

 

Also, I don't plan on gaining the weight back because I was a fat fuck who did not excercise. Now I excercise for 2 and a half hours daily along with dieting...

Well then it sounds like, to me at least, that the diet isn't the sole reason for your weight loss. In all facets of diet, exercise is far more important.

 

Perhaps you're giving too much credit to the diet and not enough to the amount of calories you're burning by exercising?

 

For me personally, I eat whatever I want for the most part, and I stay in the same 5-10 pound radius (205-215) by weightlifting and doing cardio all the time.

 

Exercise is the key.

[Guest starvenger]

Perhaps you're giving too much credit to the diet and not enough to the amount of calories you're burning by exercising?

 

For me personally, I eat whatever I want for the most part, and I stay in the same 5-10 pound radius (205-215) by weightlifting and doing cardio all the time.

 

Exercise is the key.

I really only exercise in moderation, so all I can honestly say that I do is watch my caloric intake and eat sensibly. I've lost about 10 pounds since late Jan. No, it's not dramatic, but by doing it gradually I don't have to change my eating habits too much. I really should use the elliptical trainer more though...

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

For me personally, I eat whatever I want for the most part, and I stay in the same 5-10 pound radius (205-215) by weightlifting and doing cardio all the time.

You're fat and you're giving advice on weight loss?

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

Fat? You know those guys that are the reason we post on this board, you know the big guys who weigh like 250 pounds and aren't fat in the least.

 

I'm 6'1 and I grew up playing football until I got to college. I still work out all the time. At 205, my body fat is pretty damn low. Much lower than most people who are in the 180 range.

 

I was trying to be rational but you keep proving yourself to be not too bright (except when it comes to the East/West rap fued, where that was honestly a really good post)

 

I guess I'm done with this thread. All I'm gonna say is good luck with the diet fatass. You need all the help you can probably get. Don't post a message crying on this board when you're still fat in 6 months.

[Guest My Eyebrow is on fire]

You had no reason for flaming me other than I called a spade a fat fuck.

 

You are fat. If you are over 190 lbs. - you can pinch an inch. If you can pinch an inch - you're fat. You might not look like the clown from Spawn - but you're fat.

 

It's not my fault your ab muscles are burried under a layer of tissue - and mine are in plain view under the skin. It's obvious you envy me with your incessant pissing, moaning and quoting of 8 million indy studies (which I'm to accept as being credible on your testimony alone).

 

I'm glad you're leaving this thread, fatso.

[Guest Bosstones Fan]

You are fat. If you are over 190 lbs. - you can pinch an inch. If you can pinch an inch - you're fat. You might not look like the clown from Spawn - but you're fat.

Michael Jordan weighs 215 pounds. Is he fat too?

 

It is possible to weigh more than 200 pounds and not be "fat," particularly if you hit the weights and get some good muscle tone built up.

 

As Mik said, 205 pounds on his 6'1" frame is a pretty good - especially if we works out as much as he says. Hell, I'm 6' and weigh about the same as Mik. While I'm not as toned as I'd like to be (mainly because I don't do any weight work), I'm certainly not someone you'd consider fat.

[Guest TheArchiteck]

lol...you guys take the numbers of weight a little too literally. At least go by body fat percentages.