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- SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+65Are you joking, the way to lose weight is to cut out meals!?!
I seem to do a great job of eating 5 or 6 small meals (which is highly recommended) that you body can handle fairly easily.
If you run for 30 minutes everyday, that's 3 1/2 pounds per week... sounds pretty good to me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29I have found that you dont really have to cut a meal, just dont eat as much, the main thing is dont get full, and dont always answer your hunger pains with food, try drinking water, worse case drink a coke, or something. You'll be surprised at the results
- MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Errandboy, your advice is dangerously bad. You don't get exercise, as a concept. Probably not unlike lots of people here.
Let me explain it:
You don't just exercise once. You do it multiple times per week. So if you want to lose 5 pounds, you don't run once for 5 hours. You run 2 miles (~20 minutes even if you're slow) 3 times per week for a while. That will reduce your overall caloric input by approximately 5%, which is significant enough to lead to gradual weight loss, and will take off a good 5 pounds from a normal person over about a month. And that's not including the increase in your metabolism, so it might be faster.
Myself, I now run 4 times a week, 25 miles total. I started running again (hadn't seriously since high school) because I started putting on the pudge in my mid-20s. I cut out cola from my diet, started running, and now I can barely maintain my target weight (ie, keep it UP) despite eating whatever I want, whenever I want, including beer.
Fasting is an exceptionally POOR method of weight loss, as it drops your metabolism to starvation mode and you burn calories slower. It also has an impact on your blood sugar, effectively making you dumb from the cognitive impact of low blood sugar. Any dietician worth his/her license will tell you that more, smaller meals helps keep metabolism up better than fewer, larger meals at the same caloric intake.
To recap:
*Exercise to whatever level you can maintain over the long term.
*Cut out empty calories
*Keep your blood sugar steady with frequent small snacks
*Eat smart
Doing the above, I lost 25-30 lbs of blubber in 3 months, did it safely, and now weigh a normal 150lbs for my fairly thin 5'9" frame. It works, you can do it if you actually put forth some effort. - ledavee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Exercise is a terrible weight loss strategy? If you engage in heart-rate raising cardio for thirty minutes everyday, I think you'll find this statement is quite incorrect.
I will admit, however, that exercise is a DIFFICULT weight loss strategy. But ineffective? Hardly. - seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21um, i'm vegan and i have a beer belly, anyone can be unhealthy no matter their diet. it's all about calorie intake and activity level.
just sayin I ain't "constantly losing weight". in fact I joined a gym .. yuck. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Errandboy, I think you're right about the exercise thing, but you're dead wrong about cutting two meals a day out. Every weight loss article I've ever read (and every personal trainer I've ever heard from) says that you should never cut breakfast or dinner out of your meal plan, and you would have to if you were cutting two meals out. This puts your body into starvation mode, if you miss dinner, and if you miss breakfast, your metabolism never gets its jump start.
Some say that cutting lunch out will benefit your diet, but frankly, that's asking a bit much for me. A small lunch will certainly suffice, and many find tremendous succes in splitting the day up into six small snacks, to keep your metabolism up, but your calories down.
I should also mention the headline is inaccurate. The article is about *vegetarians* not *vegans*. Vegetarians eat animal products, just not animals (and also fish, I believe). Vegans eat only vegetables and products of vegetables. - p3ngu1n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Cutting a meal is the worst way to lose weight. You feel like crap, have no energy, are constantly hungry, and your metabolism shuts down, causing you to actually gain weight. Any real doctor or nutritionist will tell you: The best way to lose weight is with a healthy diet and regular exercise. Exercise keeps your metabolism working all day long, and even though you may eat more, as long as you eat the right things, you will lose weight. Oh, and I run marathons, so yes, I do run for hours at a time.
- tehfink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15vegan ≠ vegetarian
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Errandboy, anyone that is taking weight loss advice from you is probably going to end up with a coronary. What you are talking about is crash dieting, cutting out a meal is not sustainable in the long run. Exercising for even 30 minutes has amazing health benefits, including an increased metabolism (extending well beyond 10 hours!). In addition, muscle burns more calories than fat, so strength training also helps boost your metabolism. Since it is clear that you are unfamiliar, that is the chemical process that converts food to energy. This energy is used to maintain normal homeostatis, if you make it more difficult to maintain homeostasis (exercise) you will use more calories. You're weight loss strategy is baffling at best, and at worst the beginnings of an eating disorder
- pype, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22Your blatant callousness toward the defenseless Yeasts slaughtered to make the beer in your beer belly makes me sick. Please turn in your Vegan card at the next meeting.
- coding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12My friend who has been a vegan for 5 years has lost some weight. She certainly isn't gaining weight thought. Also you can't lose weight "constantly" you will eventually reach an equilibrium.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Some of my teeth are pointy... that means I eat animals.
(here, kitty kitty) - kimos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12No, you loose weight because most vegan foods are extremely healthy and low in fat. Think of non-vegan foods: eggs, cheese, milk, cream, and meat. All of those are full of fat, but loads of fruits/veggies along with breads have very little fat in them at all. Even the vegetable based oils are better for you than animal based oils.
While of course it is possible to loose wight through malnutrition, this study is showing more that a vegan diet is healthier and contains way less of the absurdly fattening and decadent foods and "foods" that Americans eat day in and day out. - nappingcracker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Protein is not the concern with vegans. As mentioned before, the only thing that is hard to get is the B complex, namely B-12 (and 6 along with it). There is already a ton of FUD in this discussion, most of it based on 50+ year old FDA recommendations (a lot of the design of the "food pyramid" is lobbied by the industries, dairy, beef, etc).
Just to put some perspective on protein (references via some quick searching):
8oz of steak == ~56g protein (http://www.espn.go.com/trainingroom/s/1999/1104/151285.html)
8oz of seitan (wheat gluten) == ~62g (http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm)
8oz of tofu (firm) == ~60g protein (http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm)
All the tofu and seitan I buy locally is around half protein by weight. I eat more protein than I did when I ate meat and potatoes. You get can get more than adequate starch, fiber, protein, carbs and fat from fruits, vegetables, beans, etc, as well as all vitamins except for b-12. B-12 is very hard to absorb, either through meat or otherwise. Supplements (the one I take at least) is 16,000% of the RDA -- because my body will only absorb a /small/ fraction of that. Algae/flax/yeast are the only vegan sources I know of for b-12, most supplements are blue algae based.
stop the fud about vegetarians/vegans and protein - we generally have more than most. - Author, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I'm trying to gain weight, I'm a vegetarian though not vegan. Vegan is healthy if you're able to keep up with your requirements. I couldn't be vegan, for me that's too hard. I'm slowly gaining my weight and working out alot.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -16/+25Humans are omnivores, and that has worked well for oh, how many thousands of years? If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. The obesity problem for most people stems from junk food and a junk lifestyle. A vegan diet would only be effective to the extent that it eliminates junk food, and one can do that just as easily while maintaining an omnivorous diet. Exercise is another matter, and an omnivorous diet then becomes all the more important.
Of course, the fly in that ointment (in the US anyway) is that animal products have come to be saturated with antibiotics and growth hormones that may be complicit in creating obesity. Going vegan might simplify the fitness process by removing these additives from one’s diet; an unnatural solution to an unnatural problem, so to speak. - mosfet, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15I'm 18, have been a vegan for 5 years, lacto-vegetarian before that for 6 years. I have no health problems, I have a good BMI for my age and have a stable weight, with little exercise (hour a week).
I believe any balanced diet is healthy, but a veggie or vegan one will inevitably healthier in a modern society because the majority of meat-based foods are high in fat, low in protein and pumped full of steroids and antibiotics. - utexaspunk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16just because humans CAN eat meat doesn't necessarily imply that they SHOULD. perhaps we evolved to be able to eat meat in times of scarcity, but in our world of abundance we've taken that ability to mean that we should eat meat all the time. note that our closest primate relatives are all herbivores, and that most animals are either one or the other and not omnivorous. carnivores usually have a very straight digestive tract, unlike humans.
- mosfet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Why should you need a protein supplement? I've never understood the constant comments I get about protein intake. I have a diet rich in Soy and nuts, and I get plenty of protein, some varieties of tofu consist of 40% soy protein. Any vegan that doesn't meet their RDA of Protein has poorly planned their diet, if at all.
- blacksuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The problem is that most of the meat based foods we have now are not healthful. Grain fed beef (and other livestock) have a higher overall fat content, and a higher level of saturated fat than free range, grass fed animals. If everyone had access to quality meats, not low-grade feedlot stuff, the American diet would contain higher levels of good fatty acids (DHA, omega-3s, more unsaturated fats in general). I'm just not convinced that eliminating meat is the panacea it's prescribed to be.
People who are capable of maintaining a vegan lifestyle are probably much more disciplined than normal people when it comes to eating healthy foods. The idea that you can't do just as well on a mixed diet is nonsense. To me, the key is to pick foods that contain high levels of nutrients relative to their caloric content. This means brocolli instead of potatoes. A potato is just a lump of starch that you convert into sugar, and then into fat. There's no nutrition in a potato, only calories.
My diet plan is to eat no empty foods (relatively low carbohydrate intake, except in fruits and vegetables), no simple sugars (except fruits) whatsoever, and to eat the best meats I can find. I supplement everything with oils, nuts (walnuts are wonderful), and eggs. The only aspect of it that can be called a diet is the food selection. There's no quotas, no counting anything. I eat according to my apetite, and create an appropriate outflux of energy through varied forms of exercise. - ledavee, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I got to tell you, switching to a vegetarian (or vegan) diet isn't just a fad thing -- that's a major lifestyle change. And it's a healthy and sustainable one too (Atkins isn't). If you had millions of people switching over to a vegetarian diet, even if they thought it was just part of a quick-fix weight loss scheme, you'd have a millions of suddenly very healthy people.
- SwornPacifist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Did anyone notice the article didn't mention _anything_ about tests done on non-vegans switching to a vegan diet and loosing weight? It just says that the majority of vegans are thin.
Correlation does NOT mean causality! - utexaspunk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11that's simply not true. if you did any research into it, you'd find that the only thing people worry about is B12, and even then most vegans seem to maintain normal levels of it just from fortified foods, etc.
- xenoputtss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Please, if you are trying to change your diet to lose weight, DO NOT CUT OUT MEALS!! If anything, increase the amount of meals you have through out the day, but lower the amount of food you eat per meal.
Cutting meals will cause your body to store more fat. Eating more frequently causes your body to store less fat.
Also, when ever you are trying to lose weight by cutting your calorie intake, you must also add excercise into your routine (it doesn't have to be lots, just some) as your body will adjust to the lower calorie intake (by lowering metabolism) and excercise will force your metabolism back up.
more meals + excercise is way better then cutting meals. - kodekitten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I completely disagree. You could fry potatoes in vegetable oil and eat that for every meal for the rest of your life. You would enjoy the vegan/vegetarian goodness and tens of extra pounds. Plus heart disease and diabetes!!
You might counter this arguement with the following: "Well, any sensible person should know that eating all that fat would be bad for them. They should watch what they eat and they'll be fine."
I would say the exact same for someone who is a meat eater. You could be extremely healthy by eating lean proteins and cheeses. Meat and cheese are not the cause of obesity. - utexaspunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not everyone who is a vegan is an animal rights freak or anti GMO. I do it because it just seems like a sensible diet, and so far it has definitely proven to be one. I just feel better when I'm not eating animal products.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Or you could cut out all foods that contain High-Fructose Corn Syrup. It's in EVERYTHING (in the USA), so it's hard to cut out, but it's possible. Drink diet soda (or no soda, even better). Eat only bread products that are whole wheat (must have some fiber content), avoid white flour products (this includes "wheat" bread that says 0% for the fiber content). Drink more water, eat more fiber.
Other than that, don't change any other eating/excercise habits and you should still lose weight. - Nikon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just a note about the title-
The terms vegan and vegetarian should not be used interchangeably.
Vegetarian: diet consisting wholly of vegetables, fruits, and sometimes eggs or dairy products.
Vegan: A vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, as fur or leather. - tremor_tj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I bet we could all lose a lot of weight if we could somehow avoid all the high fructose corn syrup that is infused in almost every packaged foord on the shelves. I've been trying to avoid it for a little while now, and am flabergasted at some of the products that contain the stuff.
- sambqt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The only two vegans I know are both overweight. Not obese by any means, but at least 25 pounds overweight. Neither one exercises, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.
Americans are overweight because we don't do any manual labor anymore. There was a PBS series called "Frontier House" where these people lived like pioneers, growing their own food, chopping wood, churning butter, cutting hay by hand, etc. One guy thought he was wasting away to nothing, but he actually reached an ideal weight which happened to be the same as an average man of his height in 1880. Now we have to substitute an hour in the gym every day for the labor our forebears did. - UprightJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow! You mean if I eat a vegan diet, I'll lose weight? Sweet! I can finally go on my french fry, potato chip, and Twizzler diet. Hot DAMN! Bring on the 72oz Big Gulps too. There's no meat in Coca Cola.
Let's get real here. If you ask people what their goal is in eating a specific diet you'll get one of two answers:
1) Weight loss
2) Health benefits.
If your goal is #1, it's simple. Consumer fewer calories than you burn. Atkins and South Beach both lower your caloric intake in a sneaky way, allowing you to reduce your caloric intake without reducing the amount of food you consume. Other diets restrict calories via eating less. Whatever floats your boat. Eat fewer calories and exercise.
If your goal is #2, good luck with that. Our public perception of what is healthy and what is not is constantly changing. The only rule that I think is relatively well proven is that eating a variety of foods will help avoid having a deficiency in any given nutrient. Beyond that, everybody thinks they know what is healthy but every 10 years or so any given assertion is flipped on its head. - willizm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6First off, I'm a vegetarian, This is a load of crap. Just becuase you are veggie doesn't mean you will lose weight and keep it off. If all you do is eat pasta and ding dongs it's not going to help. The only way to keep weight off is to get in an exercise routine. Pay $20 a month and go to the gym and work your ass off. The magincal diet or new fad should be exercise, because that is the only thing that works. I'm tired of all these people trying to find a quick fix. I was 250 before and now I'm 180 and can run 2.5 miles without huffing to hard. I was a fat veggie and I never eat junk food. If you sit on your ass all day at work like I do you need to get into the gym becuase that is the only thing that will help. People are lazy and want a quick fix.
- utexaspunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm a vegan, and in my experience the weight loss has not been continuous. I lost 10-15 lbs in the first few weeks, but since then my weight has hovered steadily around 250 (I'm 6'4"). I think a lot of the weight loss is probably related to the fact that you're not eating all the fatty dairy products. Vegetarians often end up eating lots of cheese and dairy. An easy trap to fall into with veganism is eating a lot of bread or processed soy products, which definitely do not help you to lose weight, either. I think the ideal diet is probably a vegan diet with very little starches or soy. Lots of greens, veggies, beans, fruit and nuts, and not much else. The difficulty, of course, is being able to eat at restaurants and other people's houses.
- systmc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Vegan diets are not just fruits and vegetables... there's also vegan butter, ice cream, mayo, yogurt, buffalo "chicken" wings, sausage, cookies, cakes, brownies, etc... too much stuff to list...
http://vegkansascity.com/productsguide.html
And what's more, it *tastes good*. A lot has changed in the last five years... - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"The authors found that the body weight of both male and female vegetarians is, on average, 3 percent to 20 percent lower than that of meat-eaters."
^^ Of course.. did we need an expensive research program to figure this out? Vegans generally exercise and care about their body more than the average person who also happens to eat meat. If you gorge yourself on vegetables you will gain weight just like anyone else who overeats. - joelpt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I disagree. Vegan food tastes great.
Gee, that was an easy one. - dolface, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i've been vegan for over 3 years, run ultra-marathons, rock climb, and teach a couple of fitness classes a week.
my weight goes up a little when i exercise less, and down a little when i exercise more, but rarely fluctuates more than 3% or so.
everyone's different, and my diet and lifestyle aren't for everyone, but it works for me (and i'm not an animal-rights vegan, i like the way the diet makes me feel physically). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A diet of only cotton candy is not only Vegan, but is also entirely FAT FREE, NATURALLY!
- kodekitten, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Your body could lose lots of weight by cutting out meals, but so many people tend to forget that it's QUALITY AND QUANTITY.
You have to manage your calories, but there's also your sodium, fat, cholesterol, sugar, and vitamins to worry about!! If you only ate 500 calories a day, you may lose weight, but if all of those calories came from nothing but Flaming Hot Cheetos, your body is going to be seriously deprived of essential nutrients.
In other words, you can't just eat less junk food and expect to get away with it scott free. - Qdub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You know what diet I heard works the best...?
ONE THAT BURNS MORE CALORIES THAN YOU EAT.
Seriously though, there are no "magical diets", sure the vegan diet may be a good one because of low calorie and low fat foods, but you don't get every necessary part of a balanced diet. All you have to do to lose weight is eat small portions that contain all kinds of food. You metabolism is like a fire, you throw a log(huge meals) on it, it will die down, if you build it up with sticks(evenly balanced meals) it burns almost anything. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I know (of) some fat-ass vegans. You can definitely pack on some empty calories without a hint of animal product.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You know what causes weight loss? Not eating like a ***** pig.
Yeah, mod me down, but it's the truth. All these fad diets and miracle discoveries are bunk. Lower your caloric intake and you'll lose weight. It's really that simple, but it requires discipline and patience which is not something most people want to hear. - KilgoreCarp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This digg headline is misleading. There are far more factors at play than simply meat vs. no meat in determining weight. People who made the choice to become vegetarians are probably made up of a much higher percentage of health nuts than the general public. You can just as easily be an unhealthy vegetarian. How much red meat and fast food one eats would be very telling as well. All the research really says is "people can enjoy unlimited portions of high-fiber foods such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to achieve or maintain a healthy body weight without feeling hungry". This is totally obvious, but can also be incorporated into an omnivorous diet.
I've been vegan, vegetarian, and now I eat fish because it's *****' tasty and nutritious as hell. As a rule at this point, I really don't care about any quotas, limits, or titles. I don't care if you persist entirely on meat. But I think its important to support and ingest organic produce and hormone free vegetarian fed dairy, free range eggs, etc. as much as possible. ***** factory farms and cruelty, but cheers to good food and culture. There's a balance to be achieved. We need to support responsible agriculture (hell, the food that results is usually better), but something like not eating refined sugar (for example) isn't going to change *****. - masonxm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"...with some cold water fish on the side."
Or the much cheaper and less poluted flax seed. - daze, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6first line in the link = "Public release date: 1-Apr-2006"
april fools! - pantsman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5uhhh, yeast is vegan, its not an animal. its a microbe! a bacteria! nobody cries for bacteria.
- gtlogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I've gone through several diets, from your standard omnivore diet, to atkins, to vegan, to vegetarian. Lets take a look at some misconceptions.
1. Vegetarians don't get enough protein: So very wrong. Unless you somehow restrict yourself to an exclusive diet of rice cakes and cotton candy, it's pretty difficult *not* to get enough protein if you get enough calories. If anything, you should be worried about getting too much protein these days, even on vegetarian diets. The key is that you want enough % of calories to be protein, and most foods (it's tough to find foods that don't satisfy this) meet that requirement. The bottom line: eat enough calories and diversify your foods = you'll get enough protein. And I say diversify because not all protein is created equal - you want to balance different protein types. Do your research.
People are so misinformed about this fact it sickens me. Actually, I must say it's downright frightening given how ill informed people are about food in general. Every time I tell someone I'm vegetarian, here is how the dialog goes:
Them: "Wow, you're vegetarian?" (I'm 6'3", weigh 202 lbs, with a fairly thick muscle build, so people never believe I'm vegetarian - and I got this way while being vegetarian mind you..).
Me: Yep.
Them: "How do you get enough protein??!? loLz!1"
Me: ...
Lets face it folks, people who complain that vegetarians are all pussies, couldn't possibly get enough muscle, and must all be really skinny, are people who are:
- Ill informed. They have no grasp of nutrition yet make bold claims about diet.
- Insecure about themselves. Anytime someone busts a vegetarian for being a pussy, you're just covering up your own insecurities. This one always puts a devilish smile on my face because it is SO OBVIOUS.
- Are frustrated because you're fat and don't have enough discipline to change anything about it. These are the people who are jealous of your results. Very sad actually, I pity these people.
2. Cut out the meat and you'll lose weight: That again is so not true. You'll feel much better when you convert to a vegetarian diet because you'll generally have more energy. I really capped out with running on an omnivore diet at about ~3 miles. Now I can run marathons on a vegetarian diet. I can't attribute it entirely to vegetarianism, but I can say that proper nutrition can have drastic effects on your energy and well-being. Being vegetarian just made that process easier for me.
I don't meat for health, ethical, and environmental reasons. Meat these days is just not the way it used to be or should be. It's pumped full of antibiotics, hormones, etc. that just don't belong in your body. Lets face it, to sustain our meat-centric diet requires desperate techniques from the meat industry because they must find ways to keep costs down and supplies up. And that gets into the ethical and environmental reasons.. which I don't even want to get into.
I strongly urge everyone to do a little research into this. Your body is your most precious tool you own, why not spend a little time and learn about it? Most people spend more time learning about their computer or car than they do about their own body. That is sad. It's like saying you have a Ferrari Enzo yet can’t get an oil change because you’re too busy building your model airplanes. And lastly, your diet has drastic effects on the well-being of this planet. The least you could do is be informed about where your food comes from. - xagoln, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There are some pictures here:
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/
and
http://www.mikemahler.com/photos.html
They don't look like they're having trouble maintaining muscle mass. - mercatfat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I lost 5 pounds a week using DDR's workout mode (5 times a week, 1000 calories per session on average) and eating smaller meals (1700 calories on average; I would eat more like 2700 on the off-days). The exercise is both fun and low impact, but surprisingly effective. I also felt entirely fine during the process, although I'm not sure why.
For the record, a person burns about 1000 calories a day just sitting, breathing, shifting, etc.
It wasn't a "healthy" amount of weight to lose so fast, but hey, I'm young enough that I've still got plenty of years in which to recover. - Beej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here's what worked for me:
* Eat less. My body's not going to fabricate fat from nothing, and if it did, I could probably take home a Nobel Prize.
* Part of eating less is calorie counting. I'm a tall guy, but wanted to lose weight, so I gaged that I should eat, say, 2000 calories a day. Maybe more if I was going on a big bike ride or something (don't bonk.)
* Overestimate the number of calories in a piece of food when tracking your total.
* If you're still hungry after eating your meal (happens often), grab a big glass of water. You won't be hungry after that.
* Weigh yourself often. Remember that your weight can fluctuate on a daily basis by up to 4-5 pounds or so. If you want to geek out, save the data and pipe it to gnuplot for the best fit curve. ;-)
* Patience. I lost weight at a pound a week.
* Vitamin supplements--just grab a multivitamin thing.
* Cook for yourself. It's astounding how much healthier things are for you. You'll cook a lot more vegetables anyway since meat is a relative pain. (Except baked cod...mmm.)
* Allow yourself to eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want. For me, this turns out to not be that many, since I tire of them. I would never tire of eating fig neutrons, and could eat 1500 calories of those in a sitting.
But now my BMI (for what it's worth) is above the centerline, but well in the "normal" range, and my friends have told me to not lose any more weight because I'm looking too skinny. -
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