Right, time to lose weight.

Ron Anders

I got up to 189 lbs and saw my dad ( who at one time must have hit 250+) coming in the mirror, so I went low carb. Yippy down to 160. It just melted off. When you starve you body of carbs I has no choice but to convert that fat into energy. I found out that is was carbs I really liked all along. :-D

Munchies_Matt

I like spelling 'learned' as 'learnt', the way it is pronounced. it is a valid spelling still though not common. English is basically a mess though, I think we should just spell stuff how we like, it always was that way. :)

Munchies_Matt

Thanks! :)

Munchies_Matt

Apparently it slows the passage of food out of the stomach, so it doesnt hit the small intestine so fast, and give the sugar spike, so even if you eat carbs, ACV means a lower spike.

Munchies_Matt

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

120 kg is enough to work as a bouncer

I am 6 ft 4 (195 cm) and pretty hefty, I have a 120cm chest measurement for example, but also fat. A gut. And it disgusts me. :( Yeah, kimchi too, any fermented stuff (except beer and wine) has good bacteria. And yeah, no takeaway. I dont like takeaway anyway, I can cook way better at home, better than most restaurants, easilly. Thats part of the reason I got so big, I love food, I love cooking, and I love wine.

Munchies_Matt

Aint asking, just telling. :)

Munchies_Matt

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

You're going to fail in the long term because you've bought into the fitness-industry-myths

But I am not doing any 'fitness' so I cant have.

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

doomed to fail.

I am dropping half a kilo a day. It works. It works for others, and it will work for me (In fact I have got down to 109 before doing the same diet) so you are wrong.

Munchies_Matt

Yep. It works. Plain as that.

Lost User

Munchies_Matt wrote:

it disgusts me. :(

Any motivation will do :) And after a bit time you'll get new rewards to keep you motivated - like having to buy lots new pants :D --edit

Munchies_Matt wrote:

I dont like takeaway anyway, I can cook way better at home, better than most restaurants, easilly.

Never trust a skinny cook! But indeed, not very helpfull if you can cook great.

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F ES Sitecore

Munchies_Matt wrote:

But I am not doing any 'fitness' so I cant have.

"Fitness industry" meaning the "health and fitness industry" so not just exercise but diet too.

Munchies_Matt wrote:

I am dropping half a kilo a day. It works.

Probably not for the reasons you think though, and I said you'd fail in the long-term. When your weight loss stops, and even returns, you'll turn to the same sources to get a different set of lies and you'll then think "ah, so *this* is the right way to do it", and when that ultimately fails you'll repeat the process. Why do you think so many "new" diets come out and why the advice changes on a weekly basis? To fool you into thinking something new or different has been discovered, to fool you into thinking the fault was the fault of the last process you followed but *this one* will be better. You will continue on that treadmill endlessly, always repeating your mistakes. 1) Eat less 2) Move more 3) Win "Hey look, I've stopped going to Dominos and Burger King and I've lost some weight...the only possible explanation for that is because I'm eating fewer carbs".

Munchies_Matt

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

Eat less

That is what I am doing. Why so negative?

Foothill

After reading a lot of the comments I figured I should throw my two cents in here as well. Forgive me, this might run a little long. Calories in == Calories out is a myth. It's way more complicated than that. It also helps to know a bit of bioligical chemistry since our bodies are just big chemical machines.

Genetics plays a large role on how your body handles fat
Calorie type is important.
How calories are consumed is important

For the role of genetics, you have to think about where your ancestors lived. Over generations, our ancestors bodies adapted to maximize survival chances in different ways. Tribes in areas where food is abundant in summer and scarce during winter, such as the Scandinavian countries, have adapted to put on fat quickly and to lose it slowly due to a slower metabolism (I know several people of Swedish decent like this). It can be quite the opposite for folks descending from tribes in areas with a lot more stable food supplies where fat can come and go quite easily. Genetics can make it really difficult for some people to lose weight in a safe way. For some, loosing weight is an uphill battle. There are lots of things your body needs to maintain itself. Micro-nutrients: these are the vitamins and minerals needed to keep you alive Macro-nutrients: these are your sources of energy (i.e. things that can be readily converted to glucose) Basic Macro-Nutrients Protein: needed for cell building and maintenance. Also provides energy in the absence of glucose. Carbohydrates-Monosacchrides: long chain sugar molecules. These get broken down into glucose. Examples are fats, starches, and fructose. Carbohydrates-Disaccharides: simple sugars that can be easily converted to glucose such as sucrose and lactose. Right here I could drone on about how all of these are used in the body but that would be the size of a post-grad's thesis so I will cut to the chase: how these are consumed makes a great bit of difference. If you consume any of these in their natural state, your body first has to digest them. This does two things: it consumes energy and it slows down absorption in the intestines. Slowing down digestion of sugars is imperative for weight control. I will use the obesity problem here in America as an example. The one thing that I would argue that has attributed the most to our little obesity problem is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Since the U.S. decid

W Balboos GHB

Alas, you've must have gotten a hacked copy of the diet book I was thinking of writing. "The Eat Less Diet" Page 1: Eat Less Page 2-144: (blank, for your notes) Based on the premises that: If you eat fewer calories than you burn you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight. Anything else is just a gimmick.

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Munchies_Matt

Yep, you are spot on.

Foothill

Thanks. I see lots of ads for the latest fad diet and it never fails to amaze me how many people throw their money at them. It's a lot of wasted money when the right way to loose or maintain weigh is simple: know your own personal biology at take advantage of it.

if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016

Munchies_Matt

My brother is skinny, always was. Me, I am very carb sensitive. I can really pile on the fat, easily. I guess it is my viking genes coming through.

Lost User

F-ES Sitecore wrote:

Why do you only get an obesity crisis in countries where manual labour is rare and food is in abundance?

Lots of sugar, the low price of protein (and fat) and no excercise. Compared to a diet of rice, beans and hard labour. Never understood why people pay for fitness :)

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F ES Sitecore

Foothill wrote:

It's way more complicated than that. It also helps to know a bit of bioligical chemistry

If it's complicated and requires knowledge of biological chemistry then why is there no obesity in developing nations where people have no real education, can barely read or write never mind do chemistry, but do daily manual labour and don't have an overabundance of food? I mean the whole calories in vs out thing is a myth after all....

F ES Sitecore

Munchies_Matt wrote:

Why so negative?

I'm not being negative, I'm being realistic. Your weight is a product of your lifestyle. If you can't maintain the way you eat now forever then only one thing can happen....you'll go back to your old lifestyle, so you'll also go back to your old weight. When the weight gains slow and possible even reverse what are you going to do then? Look for the next fad diet and start the process over. The proper advice is out there, but you can't force people to follow it, the allure that losing weight and being healthy is some complex mystical science just seems more appealing to a lot of people for some reason.

Munchies_Matt

Yes, that is why I am changing my lifestyle.