I think I need to be airlifted - Page 2

I have trouble believing any of these fad diets are really a good idea for the long term. Keep those portions small and those jogs long.

When I got out of college in May, I was pretty overweight. I realized, finally, that this was bullshit and now I'm slowly, steadily getting rid of the excess. All I really did was:

1. No pop (yes it's called pop!). I might have one a week at most, but I drink water and milk almost exclusively. And Vodka.

2. No chips. Or at least, hardly any. If I get a bag, I try and get one of the little ones. My willpower when it comes to Doritos is not to be trusted.

3. I walk. Try to do two miles every day, but what I really end up doing is walking until whatever CD I'm listening to is finished. I find this also has the extra positive of allowing me time to think (especially if I'm writing or preparing to write).

I'm losing it slower than I probably might be, since I still eat fast food a couple times a week and I don't really eat that many fruits/veggies. I'll probably have to step it up soon, but for now it's progress and I'm happy with it.

So, you could try that. Otherwise:

1. Find Gun
2. Point at head
3. Pull trigger
4. ???????
5. PROFIT!

Hope this helps.

Exercise is hard. I say Eat less, Shit more, the results are basically the same.

It belongs in the Misc. Couch-y section?


Swimming in shark infested waters is a guaranteed way to lose weight, chum (see what I did there?).

The only advice you need:

"If the food says 'Hostess' don't eat it the mostess."

LOL I'm sorry man, wasn't trying to be a dick.

At any rate it was stupid of me to use an anecdotal example to try and convince someone on the internet that they're wrong... so, my bad. It worked great for me, maybe it works like hell for others. At any rate, good luck with the weight loss OP.

I'm surprised no one has brought up Slater's experience with the Atkins diet yet.

No, that doesn't work. You end up as fragile as a Ming vase. Fad diets don't work either. You simply have to change your life.

You're probably just cranky. I hear Atkins can do that to some people.

Just found this thread so here's my story.

I'm a fatass.....Easily admit it.....didn't really care about my body or how I ate....Usual for me was one meal a day......Double whatburger with bacon and cheese only.....I was a mess and in june I was nearly 300 pounds

End of june comes and I get a urinary tract infection....I didn't know and it spread.....It got bad and soon i'm in massive pain.....I go to the doctor who almost calls 911 from the office as my Blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and everything else had gone thru the roof.....The doctor thought I was gonna stroke out right there.....3 hours later I get stablized and that's when the doctor says to me.

"Change it now or die before 40".

The look on my girlfriend's face was all I needed....I swore to myself from that point I would never make her cry like that again.


Since the end of June I have not eaten anything from a fast food joint.....Now I cook constantly....But I still eat bread.....Still make my chili with chorizo.....Last night I had crab stuffed pork tenderloin with mashed potatos and cheddar and garlic biscuts.

Stopped drinking a ton of soda every day but still drink it.....now I just drink jones sugar free black cherry and sprite zero.

Excersise....I started going to the mall and walk.....At first I could barely get around the mall once.....Now I can walk it for a hour straight.....Always taking the stair instead of the escalator.

At the end of June I weighed 280 and was wearing a size 40 pants.......As of last week I weighed in at 234 and now I need a belt just to wear size 36.

Blood pressure?....Take the pill every morning and now my BP hovers between 120/80 and 135/90.....Doctor says the way i'm going I'll be off the medication soon.

Morgan Spurlock was right......That shit we shovel down our throats from all these drive thrus will kill you.

You're sweet, but I don't have a skinny genetic predisposition - wish I did. However, Mad Man Mundt is correct in that something like Atkins can work for some, not for others. For me, I was one day away from finishing the two week starter period, and I was coming up the subway steps, when I suddenly just couldn't breathe anymore. I just hung onto the railing till my breath came back. Also, the "bursts of energy" for me were just the shakes - I would just sit there and shake like a chihuahua. I do know others that it's worked for, but I've heard many more failure stories, including my own. So I'm willing to chalk it up to "Good for some, but possibly not for most." I do have the tendency to get low-blood sugar, which probably figures into it somehow. I've always done best with just eating light, cutting out snacks, and exercising.

Absolutely. Adapting the "eat less & well/move around more" plan for weight loss and general health is more sustainable and likely to work than following a diet that asks you to cut out staples of the human diet (like bread). I think that people like to pretend that a fat- and sugar-heavy, vegetable- and whole grain-light diet is normal and, thus, you have to do something freaky in order to lose weight. Having to purchase a bunch of books and pills and videos essentially says "It's not my fault that I'm a lardass! Look at all of this crazy stuff you have to do to stay thin!!"

I'm going to go reheat my leftover root vegetable soup now, have a big piece of bread and butter with it, and go to yoga.

Bread's not really a dietary staple. Sugar is definitely not a dietary staple, and that's the big problem in the USA - just about everything has sugar added. Trying to get off sugar here is really difficult. Even 'healthy' foods have lots of added sugar.

How are these things not dietary staples? In some form or another, they've been major parts of most cuisines for centuries. Whether they're part of the food pyramid or whatever, they're still what we consider "staples." Bread of some sort has been a huge part of many diets for ages, and it's not as if every society that consumed it regularly developed obesity problems. It's easy to shift the blame to the food here, but it really all comes down to choice and self-restraint. If bread's causing your weight problem, eat less of it; don't blame the bread.

And one of the chief problems with the U.S. consumption of sugar is that a huge amount of it comes from high-fructose corn syrup, which is quite a bit worse for you than the naturally occurring sugars you find in fruits and in sugarcane. Avoid foods that contain corn syrup rather than real sugar, and you're already probably doing better, diet-wise, and you're also doing your part to withhold support from the U.S. corn industry, which is just a quagmire of questionable ethics.

This is true. Bread is refered to as "the staff of life," for a reason it is common in one shape or form to every culture and has been for untold centuries. What isn't (or shouldn't be) common is what the mass-production, profit-oriented American food industry does to bread and what the FDA allows to be sold in the American grocery store under the pretense of being bread.

Yeah, I was a fatass up through my Sophmore year in high school before I decided to do something about it, and bread in moderation has never been a problem with me.

The key word is moderation. You can't eat half a loaf and expect to make any progress, but a reasonable amount of bread in your diet isn't going to hurt anything. Actually, I've never had any problem with carbs at all, now that think about it. I lost all my weight eating a relatively substantial amount of bread and pasta. The important thing is portion control, knowing when to step away from the food, cutting out junk food, and exercise.

Everything in moderation, including moderation. This rules applies to every facet of life, in moderation.

What I said was not even close to what Atkins died is. Breads, noodles, potatoes, and white rice are not good for you. There are very little true whole grain breads and on the market these days. I have yet to see a true whole grain noodle yet. Whole grains are good for you, but proceed grains are not. If you are trying to lose weight you need to keep you sugar, fat, and carbs intake as low as possible. Also if you are trying to lose weight eat food with carb, like whole grains and carrots in moderation and only in the morning. If you are not trying to lose weight you need to eat the right kinds of fats and carbs, and keep you sugar intake as low as possible. To lose weight the best food to eat are nuts, fish, eggs, olives, and avocados. Although if you eat fish you need to drink the right kind of teas.

Or you could EAT LESS AND EXERCISE.

No, no, no - we have to make up WEIRD RULES about healthy food. Mashed potatoes are the buttery minion of the devil. THE DEVIL!

What stores are you shopping at? If you shop somewhere like Whole Foods, they have more whole grain breads and noodles than you know what to do with. Even the shitty supermarket in my neighborhood has plenty of whole grain breads to pick from in the regular bread aisle, and they have an organic aisle with several grain noodles. I mean, if you know where to go and put a little effort into hunting these things down, it's easy to have a very healthy lifestyle.

There are not a lot of whole grain breads here in California. Lots of bread with "grain" in the name, but not actually whole grain breads.

I can get whole grain frozen toaster waffles, though.

What the FUCK is up with Hardees....I swear I think they are out to kill everyone.



2 egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, Hash browns and Sausage Gravy.....Wrapped in a flour tortilla

Sounds yummy.....It should

920 calories
60 grams of fat

I felt my arteries clog just by typing that.

Curiously, it's the spitting image of a cross-section of the arteries of the people who eat it.

That and a Monster Thickburger sounds like a nice between-meals snack.

Edit: For what it's worth, I REALLY want to eat that. I won't ever do it, but I'll want to.

I actually expected it to be more calories than that. That's comparable to burrito places. Most Baja Fresh burritos are in the 800-900 content range, and Chipotle regularly tops 1100 (depending on your toppings choices).

I'd like to see the content of that Burger King bacon sausage cheese biscuit burger, or whatever the hell it was that was out a while ago. That shit was disgusting.

For being such a health nut, I find it odd that you constantly want to eat as bad as possible, but still have the willpower not to. I definitely DO NOT want to eat that.

Oh yeah.....I took one look at it and said....."Hungry"

Then I read how much fat and calories that thing had and logic and self-preservation kicked in.

4 months since i've eaten at any fast food joint....Yeah i'm missing my double whataburger with bacon and cheese but I won't miss it that much when I go home and have my Crab stuffed pork tenderloin.

I have iron will, like Drago!

Also, Hail to the King, baby!

Jesus, my heart just wept a little reading that.

Actually.....Those are pretty healthly compared to others.

The Meat'Normous Omelet sandwich....3 slices of Bacon, 2 slices of ham and a sausage patty sandwiched between two omelets 2 slices of american cheese and toasted bun.

Calories: 770
Fat: 40

That is shockingly reasonable, all things considered. Amazing what NOT USING SAUSAGE GRAVY AS A CONDIMENT can do for your body.

Sausage Gravy is the delicious sauce that thinks it's a lubricant.

And here I sit, unable to rep you for that.

Monster Thickburger and Meat'Normous are what Alex should actually have named his rats.

I love how they all sound dirty.

I know. I thought they'd be great names for either the rats or porn actors, but it just seemed so obvious.

I thought they sounded like children's storybook characters. Meatnormous and monster Thickburger.

But America is the land where it can be both!

You mean it's not????

No wonder my girlfriend has been so angry with me.