Posted on 01/01/2009 6:50:26 AM PST by inkling
For the first time in a decade, losing weight will NOT be one of my New Year's resolutions. The reason? After years of piling on the padding (and a few failed weight-loss attempts) I've lost 60 lbs. over the past four months.
I've only blogged about diet once and did so hesitantly. But that two-year-old post is still getting consistent hits. Everybody is Googling for the silver bullet to shedding pounds. They think that there must be some secret diet, high-tech fitness equipment, or miracle pill that will finally give them health.
As I said back then, fat people offer the most dieting advice. So I swore that I wouldn't address the subject again until I was a much thinner man. Now that I've achieved a moderate level of scrawn, I wanted to share several counter-intuitive observations about weight loss. Every diet works.
South Beach, Jenny Craig, Atkins, Slim Fast, Medifast, Zone, Modified Zone, Nutrisystem, Jared's Subway Spectacular — each one of these mainstream diets works like a charm. As will any diet or exercise program that takes in less calories than it expends...
(Excerpt) Read more at exurbanleague.com ...
It’s a guy talking....just sayin’
The key is just to stop eating. I could go about a week without food and still function. Today starts the diet!
You mean by exercise and not eating crap you can lose weight? Why wasn’t this made public before now?
Getting fat 101 ... If calorie intake is more than calories burned you will gain weight.
Quite simple, even for the simple minded.
Just say no.
I’ve never understood these kinds of problems. Don’t people have will power anymore? If you’re overweight, eat less!
WHY HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING THAT A SECRET?
IMAGINE HOW MANY FAT PEOPLE WOULD BE HELPED IF THEY ONLY KNEW THAT FORMULA!
I’ve found a great diet that I’m starting today... well actually tomorrow. I’m going to get down to my birth weight and then I’m going to share it with the world... on Oprah of course.
Self control....they don’t teach that anymore either.
I had the best results with a modified Atkins and exercise. White meat and fish only and veggies. Dropped 40 lbs in 2 months. Then I met woman who was a fabulous cook. (sigh)
Self-control can’t be taught, but it can be valued as a personal attribute.
That’s not realism at all, actually. From what I read, the guy’s got a way to take off the weight, but doesn’t seem to have a viable way to keep it off. While it’s true that accepting that health is more important than a donut is very helpful, when he’s reached his goal, the choice will change. Health won’t be at stake with one donut. So, the donut will seem okay. Then the next one and the next one, then we’re back where we started again.
The key is to find one of these systems that you like and tweak it to be sustainable for you. That will probably involve you losing weight much slower, but if you’re happy with your new, chosen, lifestyle, you won’t gain the weight back.
I know that nobody wants to hear this, but as a person who’s gone through this multiple times, if you’ve lost 60lbs that fast, you have next to no chance of keeping it off for good.
The best way to keep off weight is to avoid starches and get a weight lifting regimen that works to muscle collapse. The muscle regeneration keeps your metabolism up and you gain muscle and tone which looks good in and of itself. You can supplement it with your basic cardio such as biking too.
There is no such thing as an old fat person.
Every few months I treat myself with one meal of complete cheating (last time it was a Wendy's double cheeseburger with super-sized fries).
For exercise, check out Crossfit.com...it is based in part on the Tabata method (short, but intense interval training) and is now adopted by the Navy Seals and increasingly the USMC and Army. The Crossfit program can be scaled down so that anyone, at any level of fitness, can adapt it to fit.
WHY HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING THAT A SECRET?
IMAGINE HOW MANY FAT PEOPLE WOULD BE HELPED IF THEY ONLY KNEW THAT FORMULA!
Bush’s fault
I know scads of people who lost weight, but then couldn’t keep it off. There’s nothing more glum than someone who lost 30 pounds and then put 40 back on.
If you can stop drinking alcohol, especially beer, that will go a long way.
The author is full of it. I followed his advice for 7 minutes, and NOTHING HAPPENED.
I was anorexic for a time.
Two days without eating and the energy boost is amazing. You don’t sleep either.
Then after a time, your hair falls out, your eletrolytes got out of balance, you start fainting.....
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