Portion control and exercise are your friends........
Let me tell you something few people realize — Fat is an organ and will defend its position and mass. It even produces its own hormones. Losing weight requires cutting carbs and exercise and no carbs ingested after 4 pm. Eat hearty in the morning and sparingly in the evening and never at night.
Smoking worked pretty good for me. I never weighed over 190 when I smoked and was usually at about 180. Got up to 220 when I quit. Back down to 200 now (6’4”).
I lost 40 pounds in the last seven months. I did this by giving up fast food and most processed foods, and I quit drinking 4-6 Cokes a day (now I only drink carbonated water). The wake-up call was when I was carded for alcohol and almost turned downed because the clerk thought I was using someone else’s ID. My face was a lot skinnier in my driver’s license photo. Now I’m happy with my weight of 200 at 6’1”. The BMI charts claim that is overweight, but it seems to be the natural weight for me, as I’ve weighed around 200 since I was 16 and have never been obese (except for that brief period mentioned above).
Diets don’t keep the weight off because folks go back to the habits that made them fat to begin with.
It requires a change of lifestyle. Moving more, eating less still works - but it only keeps it off if you ‘diet’ for the rest of your life.
Lost 25 pounds over 5 years and am now holding steady...because I’m not willing to change my lifestyle. I’m already running/exercising as much as my time reasonably permits, and I don’t want to cut back on eating any more than I have.
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People usually have a real hard time restricting their intake of carbohydrates.
Another blow for the Brussel Sprout industry.
Another blow for the Brussel Sprout Industry.
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The omnipresence of fast food.
Affluence: as more and more people can afford more and more food, guess what?
The food police. Almost every single social experiment they did on eating for the masses led to weight gain.
A couple of examples:
* claiming transfats were better for people than saturated fats and pressuring the food and restaurant industry to finally use these fake fats in everything. Now these transfats are declared "metabolic poisons" and scientists say they are extremely difficult for the body to remove from fat cells once deposited. * claiming a low-fat, non-fat diet was optimal. This led to overeating food that was refined carbs with no "go slow" fat. It led to massive consumption of high glycemic foods (e.g., even low-fat milk has a higher gylcemic index than whole milk).
Weight loss is easy, four easy steps and do these in order.
1) Don’t waste money on books
2) Get rid of processed foods and eat REAL food. Doesn’t have to be organic (sometimes that is worse for you) but does have to be real. If you can’t pronounce the ingredients or don’t know what it is, don’t eat it. And for the love of pete don’t eat fried foods.
3) Eat slower. Give your stomach and brain enough time to react that there is food in your stomach. Don’t starve yourself by eating half of what you usually do and don’t overeat by eating too fast and thinking your still hungry.
4) Exercise. Your body maintains muscle/fat dependent on your activity level, not how much you eat (unless you starve or gorge yourself). Exercise and your activity level changes forcing your body to change it’s muscle/fat ratio.
That’s it. That’s the condensed version instead of a two page post.
Wife dropped 50 pounds (before getting pregnant) on getting rid of processed food alone and she still eats more then I do. She was Diabetic Type-II but is no longer on medication and her A1C says she’s not diabetic. She checks her blood sugar once a day just out of curiosity but doctor doesn’t even require her to do that any longer.
I have a revolutionary idea. Routinely burn more calories than consumed. I know, it’s a really radical idea!
I’ve lost 24 pounds in less than 4 months and it was easy. I got deployed to an Arab country where no alcohol is allowed. (my biggest vice) I only drank water, coffee, and V-8 vegetable juice. I almost never ate any candy except for a couple of times my willpower broke around Christmas. I ate small portions and only had dessert with a meal two times while here. I ran for PT twice a week for about 25 minutes and did pushups and situps three times a week. I’m 5’7” and weighed 195 lbs when I got here. Last Tuesday I weighed myself at the gym and I was 171 lbs.
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How about putting molesters and lowlifes into jail so kids can play outside for a change?
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