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- MrSidnet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+147You know what the treadmill was modeled after right?
Walking. - fober, on 10/11/2007, -3/+69He lost 28 lbs. and his blog service.
- Makubex, on 10/11/2007, -3/+68For the love of Christ, stop with the "title says it all."
If you have the motivation to take the time to post an article, you could at least spend thirty seconds writing a small description. - camknows, on 10/11/2007, -4/+64He'd lose a lot more weight if he ate more healthy and actually went ouside and exercised. =/
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -4/+37I lost over 50lbs last summer, and ate real food. My secret was riding a bike for several hours a day in the forests near lake Michigan, while listening to a really good musical collection. Twice as fast as the Wii and much more fulfilling.
- 60effects, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29Watch the KMBC video on the right and you'll see that he's proudly sporting a Diggnation shirt.
- Daedalus81, on 10/11/2007, -8/+34Losing weight is really simple. Let me give you the trick :
Eat less than your body burns in calories.
Aside from that stay away from processed fats / food. - merdiesel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17All I have to do is swap the beer for Slimfast and I'm golden.
- allenhuffman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20Mothers from the 70s and 80s are turning over in their midlife crisis right now :-) All my Atari VCS ever exercised was my thumb.
- PureBias, on 10/11/2007, -7/+23As simple as it seems just standing up while playing any game is technically exercise.and to correct some misleading information; It doesnt really matter what you eat, as much as it matters how much and how often you eat. Of course, the most important is how much you burn.
You could hypethically eat trash so long as you are burning it off. Granted you will not see muscle growth; youll only see fat burn. Just throw some actual protien in the diet and youll be hitting two birds with one stone, sort of. It's simple;
(intake(calories/carbs) - activity ) +/- genes - metabolism
*shrug... something like that anyways
Going outside and exercising? Who has time "these days" to do that? Unless of course you are very unhealthy and need to make time for it. I have played Wii Boxing a few times and let me tell you it's quite a work out if you get into it, or play another real person. I consider myself to be in great shape and i was still dripping with sweat.
I give this guy props for doing what hes doing. Instead of standing back bitching and moaning about how unhealthy the US is he's creating plans for the people that need them, instead of creating plans that apply to only a select few and very rarely work. What more could you want in a "diet program" ?
This proves that you can just alter your diet a little, throw some cardio into the mix, and oh... play some games will doing it, and lose some wgt. Sounds good to me. - Eldorian, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19Is eating healthy, just so happened that one particular day there was some pizza that was eaten. If you read the other 75+ days you'll see the food choice isn't as bad as that particular day was.
- totallyAMAZING, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14In other news, "Man's liver and other internal organs are begging him to stop with the Slimfast and pizza diet."
- arcooke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Apparently we don't need a mirror seeing as how the title says it all.
- illahtech, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12God you people are so cynical it's ridiculous.
"You want an accomplishment? Go lift some weights and do 30 minutes of cardio a day while adhering to a strict, healthy diet and drop down to below 15% body fat. Until then, stfu."
Let's say fat dude started doing that and got down to 200 lbs a few months from now. Still nowhere near 15% bodyfat, but a 71 pound weight loss none the less. That's not an accomplishment?
Goals are only accomplished in steps. If you're huge you can't get to 15% bodyfat without first going through 35%, 30%, 25%, etc.
Give the guy a break. There are millions of fatasses who are doing nothing at all, and millions of healthy people who aren't 15% bodyfat (which is also a somewhat unnatural state BTW, only maintainable by high activity and limited caloric intake). - Lumiras, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12@hootpie
you have to start losing weight somewhere, jackass - Yareking, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9He is like, Ok the tv is comming should i wear the diggnation ***** or my hd-dvd tshirt code?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7No need for questions - title says all.
- gregfadein, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Daedalus81 said, "Losing weight is really simple. Let me give you the trick: Eat less than your body burns in calories."
Thank you for your advice from the '50s.
But, since what your body burns is directly affected, among other things, by what you eat, you're flat-out wrong.
If you consume less than about 1200 calories, or cut too much fat out of your diet, your body goes into starvation mode and starts hoarding fat while eating away muscle, giving you a sickly, marshmallow-y look. A balanced and sufficient diet plus both regular aerobic and anaerobic (weight-lifting) exercise is the only natural way to lose weight. - Takfam, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9@TDot1980
No matter how much weight you gained or lost, you'd still be a judgmental prick.
You're probably one of the first people to complain that fatty-fatties are a drain on the economy and drive up health insurance costs (probably without providing adequate statistics because, ironically, you're too lazy to get off your ass and find them), and yet when one starts doing something good for himself, you cut him down.
As a fatty undergoing a diet and running program (I'm already up to about an hour of jogging a day after a month on the program), I am more than qualified to speak on behalf of the working fatties:
You, sir, can kiss the fattest part of my still-fat-but-ever-shrinking ass. - djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6How come these 'Title says it all' posters can't figure out that nobody likes that bogus description? Every single comment thread with this description has multiple posts on how much the Digg community dislikes this phenomena! What's next...TSIA? For the love of god, make it stop!
Thank you. - titlesaysitall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Excuse me? Who ever decides to use Title says it all in ANY description will get their ass slapped with lawsuits and DMCA take down notices. My wrath will be swift and painful to those who go against me.
- vann, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I don't know about you, but I'm in pretty good shape and found that if you get into the Wii it can be pretty strenuous. Wii Boxing, especially. After 10-15 minutes of jabbing, hooking, and dodging like I meant it I was definitely working up a sweat and getting short of breath.
Of course you can also play by just using small hand motions. But what's the fun in that? - Cerebral, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"I disagree, air boxing can be a crazy good workout, especially with arm weights."
Yea just ask Billy Blanks, he's made million$. - Tazzin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Thumbs up for the Diggnation shirt!
Hey Kevin and Alex .... put this on the Diggnation Podcast! - joewashere, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3uhh...jared lost like 100 pounds...he lost like 28
tell me again why jared is taking it? - RummTumTugger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Hey good job, guy! Too bad about the blog service, but we digg you! 28 lbs is nothing to sneeze at! I did the treadmill thing and found that I exercise better at home because:
1: I exercise longer (no commute time, and most exercise tapes are 60 minutes)
2: I am not as embarrassed (I hate people looking at me while I jiggle)
3: The bathroom is familiar and I am not creeped out by the shower.
My family knows to stay out of the living room while I am huffing and puffing like a beached walrus. Then I take a luxurious hot shower and curl up in bed with a good book (on weekday nights). - kaffein, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I lost 30lbs from switching to Pepsi ONE (from sugar/high fructose colas), and non-enriched wheat bread. (from enriched white and wheat bread)
Didn't really exercise much at the time, maybe a game of disc golf every few weeks at the most. - Eldorian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Nope, still alive and kicking and planning on staying that way. Thanks for the concern though.
- fearthepenguin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Hacker Diet was meant for folks just like us. I used it to drop 60lbs last year alone. The key is to make it entertaining to the engineering type. Instead of just saying "count calories", it becomes counting calories that you then drop into a spreadsheet and run some math against to get rid of water days, then plot and trend that data, then analyze your week days, etc etc. All about the love of turning data into information. Check it out yourself!
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html - crazydiode, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6***** "Title says it all".
- yelow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2rockin the diggnation shirt, too.
- hydratedsquash, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Digg shirt on in the video! Props!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Oh all this talk about health and what's right and wrong for people. Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. In either case, the mortality rate eventually ends up at 100%.
- shinynew, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@throadgrommel
everyone hates it when someone bitches about being dugg down. - mogdor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2STOP SAYING "TITLE SAYS IT ALL"
- rdoger6424, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@crimson117
Actually, if it was hard-boiled eggs you could just eat the egg whites and ration out the yolk
Egg whites= all the good stuff (like protein)
Egg yolks= all the cholesterol - evilblueyoshi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Slimfast pong anyone....no?
- diggdong, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That's weird, I play with my weewee all day long and I never loose a pound.
- crimson117, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Lately I've been motivating myself to go to the gym by including "vanity lifting" in my workouts. I never lifted weights before, but I asked a friend at the gym for some easy freeweight exercises to do, and he taught me how to do bench-press and curls.
Being able to flex your arms and look at a nice shaped muscle (not huge, but defined) if really great motivation to get you back in the gym the next day.
And don't worry about starting with low weight. I started a few months back bench pressing just the 40 pound bar by itself! Now I'm up to that same bar plus two 45 pound weights (130 total). It's not much compared to regular weight lifters, but hey, it's fun, it's vane, and it keeps me going. - ubuntuedgy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I agree. Instead of bashing this guy or pointing out flaws, we should be impressed that he IS losing weight playing video games. That is actually pretty damn cool.
- djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@LocalDocal:
Aside from the fact that the 'title says it all' never actually does say it all (why even have an article then?), I think one of the reasons people are so bothered by this is we're just sick of reading useless internet memes. For example:
But will it blend?
In Soviet Russia...blah, blah...
All your [whatever] are belong to us.
That's not a hair question!
After awhile it just gets stale. - Shizlak, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4BREAKING NEWS! Eating less and exercising makes you lose weight!
And he said he only ate pizza for 1 day. Its not like he was on an all pizza diet. - ohhoe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I don't know why you're so pissed about peopling digging you down.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ate pizza every day, and those dudes are buff. - papatictac, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Why are people giving this guy crap for playing games and exercising instead of going outside and exercising. Bottomline: the guy is losing weight, he's healthier, the guy is getting it done!
Kudos to you!
Keep up the good work. - newsspotter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I am trying weight watchers for losing the weight and so far so good, but the exercise part is what kills me. After working for eight hours, having the motivation to "exercise" is hard to find. I have tried the Nintendo Wii and found it to be fun. I think this guy has found the one thing that keeps him motivated to workout and that is the whole battle with exercise. Most people don't because it's not fun. Congrats on doing so well so far.
- jiggawoot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@ J4320
Indeed, if the title truly does say it all, then I have no need to read the article. - Eldorian, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@logicbomb
Could you please read the site and please come to a realization that the whole site and everything I have been stating on the site is about making these lifestyle changes you are touting? - hydratedsquash, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hehe! he burned you!
- ChiIotaStigma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So what does he do, drink the wii and that makes him throw up the other stuff he ate?
If you can't, for the life of you, come up with anything better than "Title says it all" then why don't you type "I am a *****" instead? At least it's amusing. - otterpops85, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's stuff like this that proves what pricks most of you people are.
you rag on fat people -- and then smack down the ones who even try to do something.
It's really sick, honestly.
It also just proves that most people really don't give a damn about anyone else's health,
they just want something they can feel superior over them about.
Every time there's any kinda article relating to a fat dude suddenly 95% of the males on the internet are doctors and nutritionists. Haha. -
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