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- joshrholloway, on 10/12/2007, -4/+105Yes, I am aware that I misspelled "unconventional" in the title. I don't know how that happened, I apologize.
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+431) Eat less
2) Exercise more - rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30I lost 170.lbs in 9 months by eating 1000 calories and walking 4 miles every day, And not eating past 7pm.
Breakfast - Wheaties
Snack - Apple
Lunch - Turkey sandwich w/mustard
Snack - another apple or banana
Dinner - Beef or Chicken flavored ramen noodles with crackers
Thats it, I went from 400 to 230, 58" waist to 36" waist and from walking 4 miles in just under and hour to running 4 miles in 32 minutes. - Negligence, on 11/09/2007, -3/+28My (more conventional) tips to helping lose weight:
1) Replacing regular drinks (pop, juice, etc.) with water. It will seem awkward in the beginning, but you eventually get used to it. You don't need the sugar or the taste. You lose weight and you save money.
2) Cut your portions slowly. Don't do it abruptly, otherwise your stomach will be screaming for more. Eventually, eating less will become the norm.
3) Make healthier food decisions. Cut out the trans fats, increase antioxidant-rich food. Lose the chips, crackers, snacks, and crap like that. Replace a half-bag of chips (or whatever your favourite junk food is) with a pear, apple, or equivalent.
4) Exercise once in a while. The more, the better. Jogging, boxing, swimming -- all great activities. Walking gives you fresh air, but it doesn't do much for weight loss.
5) Swap a glass of water with a frozen fruit smoothie. There are greater benefits to this than the taste.
There are many more small tips that can be added here, but the point is, everyone should be taking care of themselves more than we usually do. Being energetic enough to read the labels for transfats will pay dividends later in life, and that's only one example. - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26RIDE THE SNAKE!!!
- SlackerCSB, on 11/09/2007, -7/+29Welcome to my banned list. *****.
- johnlandes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+213 step program
1. Put down turkey leg
2. log off digg
3. go outside - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27@fronkman: not necessarily. yes, generally, 2-3 pounds a week is the recommended rate. if you consider, however, that 10 pounds out of 50 was probably water weight, he's really only lost 40 pounds in 3 months, which is 40 pounds in 12 weeks, which is less than 4 pounds a week. as long as you continue to get proper nutrients, and you get regular cardiovascular exercise, "50 pounds in 3 months" isn't particularly unhealthy. be interesting to see if he maintains however.
- fronkman, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4450 pounds in three months is too fast, medically speaking. you put yourself at major risk of heart attack, stroke and some pretty serious metabolic disorders losing weight that fast.
- almostmanda, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23"the second i read "buy a digital scale" i knew this was complete bs. your weight doesnt actually tell you anything about ur health...what u need to be focused on is your body mass index (ask any nutritianist...they'll tell ya the same thing)"
Uh....your weight and height determines your BMI. You have to weigh yourself to find out what it is. And BMI is just a rough estimate of health at best. If you have above-average muscle mass, it throws it off. - denytenamun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Well you spelled lose correctly. That alone puts you above most people on the Internet.
- dootisterhans, on 11/09/2007, -1/+17but i love drinking corn syrup
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Dugg for the suggestion to use Google patent search to find diet information. Genius!
- havanese_boy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Nice article and advice well received. Be reasonable and don't "kill" yourself to lost the weigh. It's a process and with hard work one can do it.
Relaxing on weekends is a good suggestion. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Cut off your leg.
- ABadInAlbany, on 11/09/2007, -3/+16See, alcohol is the concept-killer here. He was a Lite beer drinker to begin with, so going from drinking piss, to drinking even lighter piss, is no big sacrifice.
- warmonger48, on 11/09/2007, -4/+15Actually, I'm playing around with the idea of putting tape worms eggs in pill form and then selling them. You take the pill then the tape worm grows and you lose weight. When you lose enough you take a de-wormer and you're done losing weight.
I want to call it "You've got worms".
Haha. - bigstinky, on 11/09/2007, -1/+11Digg comes through for me again. My doctor just told me to lose 50 pounds and quick. I'm at 250 up from the 200 I weighed 5 years ago. I'm 6'2" so 200 is a good goal. The day my wife got pregnant, I gained 15 lbs. sympathy weight instantly.
Some of my friends tell me I have a bit of a weight problem. When I was a child my doctor told me I swallowed a lot of aggression...
Along with a lot of pizzas.
Good, timely post. Dugg. - SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Why is everybody so concerned about losing weight so fast? It's not like they put on those 50 lbs in 3 months (not usually). Instead of insisting on quick fix dramatic starvation diets, just set simple goals. A simple goal like 2-3 lbs a month. If you plan to keep it off, does it really matter how quickly you lose it? At 2-3 lbs a month that's still 25-35 lbs a year. My father made some slight diet changes and started a exercising a little and after 2 years was almost 60 lbs lighter. Now 5+ years later he's hasn't gained any of it back. He didn't do anything extreme, and he didn't punish himself....he just took a nice slow gradual approach and it seemed to really work. How many of the crash dieters can say the same?
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Pretty good advice.
Ive lost 35lbs since august.
All I did was start walking a couple of miles a day and stopped eating junk food. If you're a fat ass, its so easy to fix it, just do it.
The scale thing id argue with...your weight can change 1-2/lbs a day for random reasons. I weigh every day and log it, but its the trends im looking for, not the daily OMGZERS I Iost .192891283 lbs!!!!
The free weekends thing is good too, just watch yourself. I take 1 day, not 2. Usually its going out to dinner with friends and family.
Other little tricks help too
avoid junk carbs (sugar, corn syrup, etc)
eat 5-6 *SMALL* meals (helps you feel less hungry)
I dont eat anything < 3 hours before bedtime - sutherlanderic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Everyone knows the fastest way to lose 150 pounds is to divorce your wife....
- agent888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I've lost 54 pounds in 10 months,
1) Eat less > meaning NO FAST FOOD, light breakfast + lunch, nice healthy dinner...lots of water
2) Exercise more > find a hobby (I found tennis) and enjoy it
Now I'm part of a gym and working on putting some good weight on. - seeohpee, on 11/09/2007, -4/+13Glad to see that I'm not the only one who had an image of a Sam's club database with each member's weight logged away.
- rubberbrush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9New business:
Start an on-line service.
People send a naked picture of their fat selves to you site.
They state their weight lose goal.
If they don't reach the goal in the stated time you publish the picture.
It would be like blackmailing yourself. - catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Methamphetamine works wonders.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10bad math. you have to BURN that number of calories, not simply not consume them. drastic calorie reduction can slow your metabolism, leading you to burn fewer calories at your basal rate, and have less energy to spend getting your heart rate up to a target zone that's effective for calorie-burning cardio or lifting.
- monosyth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+93) and always have a "cheat" day (saturdays worked for me). it's what will get you through your week.
- nickj6282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@curiousgrge
Maybe he's going for a job at Verizon and he's hoping they'll see this page. - curiousgrge, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16"Buy a digital scale. This seems easy enough. I recommend that before starting a diet, buy a scale that is accurate to .2 (two-hundredths of a pound). I will explain why below. I also recommend either buying a scale that can record your daily weight, or manually logging your weight everyday. I bought a scale that was accurate to .2 and logged my weight at Sam’s Club for $22. It has been a great investment."
.2 is two tenths. C'mon now, you learn this in elementary school! And you reference this several times so it wasn't like it was a mistake.
.X is tenth
.0X is hundredth
.0XX is thousandth - stellamaris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think your tips are way better and healthier than the jock who wrote the article. I think one of the first, easiest thing to do is stop drinking soda. I used to drink 2 or 3 sodas a day (at least), and now that I've stopped, that's 60-150 GRAMS of sugar (depending on the soda) that I'm no longer consuming each day. Plus, now that I'm not drinking caffene constantly, I can drink a soda when I'm tired to get me through class and actually feel the effects.
- Spytap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There's some good advice there, someof which I've been following myself with much success. Here's how I did it:
#1 - No more soda. Period. No regular soda, no diet soda, none. Water, lemonade, iced tea, regular tea in the morning with a splash of milk. Buy good tea, it's worth it (not part of the diet, just my personal opinion.)
#2 - No fast food. Period. No chicken sandwiches or smaller hamburgers, none. Hamburgers are fine, just cook them yourself. I tend to prefer no toppings, making it easy to just have bread, meat, bread.
#3 - Wake up 30 minutes early, and before anything else, put on some sweats and go work out. The gym, your living room, the ***** workout room at your apartment. When that's easy, do 45 minutes. Then an hour. Every day. Period. First thing I do when I wake up is throw my feet over the side, pull on sweats, and walk down to the gym. Some days I lift weights, some days I just spend 30 minutes on the bike reading a book or newspaper. Monday through Saturday. Sunday I workout in the evening and play Zelda all day. =)
You make a decision, you stick to it. January of this year I made that decision, and with only one exception (Jan 1st, due to hangover), I have worked out every day of this new year. 5 pounds less, but more importantly, more muscle definition (yes, it's already showing, and yes, people have commented. It's not just my imagination.) Stuff like that really helps you with motivation. When your girlfriend, or a friend or a friend's girlfriend says something about that shirt looking good on you, or making your arms/shoulders look nice, it's a spark. You might not notice it at first, but other people do. - unicronband, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Actually...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CKpn-5uc4 - albatross5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Unconventional way of losing 50 pounds in three months... works every time.
Month 1
- Cut off left arm
Month 2
- Cut off left leg
Month 3
- cut off right leg - Calculon64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You fat slobs broke the site.
- chubbymidget, on 11/09/2007, -14/+20"I bought a scale that was accurate to .2 and logged my weight at Sam’s Club for $22. "
Why is he logging his weight at Sam's?
What kind of club membership does he have? - sbassin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Last year I lost weight in a similar fashion. Cutting down on portions instead of cutting out types of food worked for me. Red Flag weight is also a key.
- Kinsbane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm going on the Christian Bale diet. Pretty soon I'll be a Machinist, too!
- docshapiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The atkins diet makes you crazy after a week or so. Its too much of a shock to the system.
- rebotfc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6His advice is good, well written article too.
Currently half way thru a diet following a similar regime and have lost 28 pounds so far. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51.) sell your car.
2.) buy a (decent) bicycle. (if you get a good (i.e. from a bike shop; couple $100 minimum) bike, you'll want to ride it more)
I bike everywhere (10-20 mi a day or more) and it makes me feel great. Definately has had the most impact on my health than any other life change; even going vegepreferian (*almost* no meat) didn't have as much of an effect on my health and appearance.
mcdavis941:
Backpacking is excellent too; I try to make all my vacations backpacking trips. Sometimes it's hard to make it a regular thing though.. - mynameistim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i once lost 30 pounds in 7 weeks on a modified atkins diet (i ate nothing except for chicken, veggies, cheese, vitamins) and drank nothing except for water and scotch.
i went from being a fun, normal, happy, friendly guy, to being a complete dick to everyone. very short temper. angry a lot.
it sucked.
now i'm back to being fat again...fat and happy. - bigtymer1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"This seems easy enough. I recommend that before starting a diet, buy a scale that is accurate to .2 (two-hundredths of a pound)."
With this great understanding of place value I am not sure that he really lost 50 lbs. - Triffid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Body Mass Index is the worst estimate of "overweight" out there. It may be ok for "obese" but I wouldn't know. I have been in the "overweight" category since I've ever used it and if you could see me you'd lol. V Torso, 6 pack... that kind of thing. I roll my eyes every time I hear the "65% of Americans are overweight or obese" thing... knowing they use BMI for that.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What worked for me was:
1) Exercise more
2) ... nothing
I didn't have to make a goal of eating less, because my body self-regulated much better when I was in the habit of lifting weights and running 3 miles 4-5 days a week -- if I ate poorly, I would feel like crap. I quit drinking pop (soda) and reduced my portion sizes because it made me feel queasy sloshing around in there, and things that make you feel queasy become unappetizing *very* fast.
I'm 6'4", and went from 290 lbs down to 230 lbs (a good weight for my body type) in the span of one college semester without any conscious dieting -- solely through making a routine of exercise. - MrVisible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, it is dangerous. Below 1400 calories a day, your body starts consuming muscle to start making up for the calorie deficit, and the muscle it consumes includes your heart. Bad idea.
There's also other damage that can occur; when Matt Damon lost 40 pounds in 100 days for a role, he stressed his adrenal gland so badly he had to be on medication for years, and he was lucky to emerge without permanent heart damage.
What's the rush? Lose 2 or 3 pounds a week, and you'll get to your target weight in a few weeks later than a crash diet would have gotten you there. You're doing this to get healthy, right? So why risk your health?
Don't believe me? Ask your doctor. - grant1080, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dieting is for suckers in my opinion.
I see the route to successful long term weight loss as a lifestyle change. The most important thing about losing weight, and keeping it off - Whatever method you use to lose the weight, must become an everyday part of your life to keep it off.
I've lost 45 lbs over the past 6 months by simply being active 4-5 times a week, as well as eating much healthier. Now I workout daily, and I've never been in such great shape. - Buga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I suggest using Traineo ( http://www.traineo.com ) to track weight loss. I'm using it and it's turning out to be a great motivation tool. Even if the calorie loss isnt correct for my daily workouts, I still try and push for more calorie loss than the day before. It really makes me work harder seeing it mapped out in a chart...
- Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Jesus.
50 pounds in three months?
Isn't that.....Dangerous?
At least, that's what I've heard from various places. - betterth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7wtf? who dugg you down?
This is solid advice! People don't understand that you shouldn't diet to lose weight, and then change back. You should permanently alter your intake of foods and your exercising. This isn't temporary, and gradual changes like he's talking about help you form habits, making the shift easier. - bubbadoo989, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The problem with weight loss advise is everyone's different. The dude in the article appeared younger, so allow for his faster metabolism. Since metabolism slows over time, the older you are, the harder it is to burn off excess calories.
The rule I use is common sense. Don't rush it, eat well (i.e., balanced diet, lots of greens, fruits, grains, fish and chicken) and not to excess. The big problem for most is finding time and motivation to exercise, but if you're able to make it a habit, it can help extend your life. -
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