I hear those are a PITA to get rid of, but at least they encourage the tourist trade...

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Carbs are the big one you gotta watch for. Many people increase the number of carbs to feel full. Also fruit isn't a bad thing, in reasonable amounts.


Ultimately there is only one effective way of loosing weight and keeping it off. Reduce the number of calories you are consuming, and/or increase the amount of exercise you do. These changes need to be permanent otherwise you will rebound and likely gain more weight.

Also crash/starvation diets are a VERY bad idea (that includes skipping meals), as not only do you put your health at risk, but you train your body to expect lean times, causing it to adapt and be even more prone to convert food to fat (and hold onto the fat longer).

Nothing else works.


Some tricks to cut back on food intake.

• Take 20% less food when serving yourself
• Prepare somewhat less food than you normally eat
• Keep treats out of sight & out of easy reach
• Be disciplined when at the store, and don't buy the junk. If you don't have it, you can't eat it (and you won't be tempted by it)
• Stay the hell away from fast food of any kind, none of it is healthy, not even the salads (especially not the salads)
• Eat slowly and take pauses, it can take up to 30 minutes before you will feel full. Rapid eating will cause you to over eat before you feel full
• Cook your own meals and prepare portions for yourself
• Brush your teeth when you want to stop eating, toothpaste usually does not go well with food.

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So if a Slovenian Ripper starts killing women, we'll point the authorities in your direction. :yep:

I was trying to think of something more profound to write here but have failed :nope:

Maybe a village in Slovenia is not the best place to meet the lovely ladies?

I'm with the red cross, we don't believe in violence :stare: I'll leave a trail of broken hearts after me :O: as soon as I get rid of this gut.

I don't know, the women in these parts tend to be very shallow. If a girl tells you you have a great sense of humor, it's actualy a death sentence. We're to kind, a woman can have a carved-body idiot fo showing off and sweet loving and the ''friend'' who'll do anything for her, for runnning erands and getting gifts and doing what in other countries the man does to get laid. Looks matter my boy, looks matter. Anything else is only a bonus

Well... After reading through this post, I was kind of interested (before OP replied 2nd time :haha: )

I don't know if anyone here knows this or not, but as an athlete competing in Freestyle Wrestling, I have to know how to control my body weight as well as what I eat.

Now, when you said that you were looking to lose 5 lbs for 8 weeks, I thought well, that's pretty easy. I can sweat that out in a two hour practice. However the key word there is sweat. As a wrestler, I can control a lot of my body weight by monitoring and influencing my intake of water. Obviously that's not an option for you, because it is only a short term (24hr) solution to losing weight.

A lot of what's been said in this thread is valid (and I in no way claim to be an expert on losing weight :haha: ) but there are some points that I disagree with...

I won't name them, but here's some pointers that I follow and that I feel could probably help you;

- Weigh yourself morning and night, not after a workout or after you eat because your bodyweight can fluctuate 4-5lbs after a meal or after a workout.

- If you start a weight regimen, your weight will go up for the first few weeks but then gradually decrease.

- Eating, and controlling it, is a mental challenge. Trick yourself into thinking you are full or find foods that have maximum energy potential with the smallest carb/fat number. Eating a nice juicy steak or having a huge pasta dinner is nice (and is needed every once in a while), but realize you have to DO something with all that you've just taken into your body.

- Trick your body into believing there is a lot of food by making a big portion of for example salad. Cut the lettuce really big so that it appears that there is ALOT of it there. As your eating, eat slow as well. This tricks your body into thinking that there is a lot of food and that it is hungry.

-Create a schedule of a swim/spin class in the morning and a jog at night. Start slow and gradually increase the difficulty/length/intensity of what you are doing

- Be careful of your salt intake (f.ex.: salads are awesome, but having that italian dressing means intaking a lot of salt...)

- Know that if you're working your body hard, you're eventually going to need sugar. Don't be afraid to treat yourself every once in a while (every 3-4 weeks..)

All in all you have to be confident and positive. Know that the changes won't happen over night and that it takes dedication. You will get tired. You will get sore. You will get discouraged. But just keep at it and push through and you can reach your goal.

Best of luck!

Krauter

I can vouch for weighing in the morning :DL.

I'm no expert either. I lost about 8 Kg(16 pounds over some weeks by following strict skipping of meal and controlling how much I eat and doing regular exercise).I just needed to lose 4 Kg then but the determination didn't wear off :D

But I think you may fool the mind into thinking that you're eating a lot but you can't never fool the stomach.

When dieting I know I'm doing okay when I feel a tiny bit of starving(not craving food). I'm just saying feeling a bit hungry(starving, just a bit) is always a good sign when trying to lose some weight. Just don't starve for real or do anything extreme.

2.5 kg in 7 days and staying healthy? Forget it. 5lb in 5 weeks - with discipline and a strong will that can be done. 1 pound per week is something that I learned from experience to be realistic and achievable - without needing to eat like a Spartan.

As a general rule, avoid carbonhydrates, especially potatoes, pasta, sweets, rice, cerealies, and bread (eat bread as rarely and in as small quantities as your discipine allows to go!).

No sweets.

More specifically, avoid high-glycemic carbonhydrates, focus on consuming only low-glycemic carbon-hydrates.

No sweets.

Eat more protein.

No sweets.

Eat as much as you want/need in order to not be hungry. If you feel hunger, the body sooner or later reduces it's energy-balance, and your diat will become in vein.

No sweets.

No soft drinks, no chips, products with baked flour of any kind (pie, crackers).

Hunger can be easily avpoided when filling your stomahc with Tofu, eggs (best form of animal protein you can eat), and especially meager curd/quark. It is good to eat fish (fat is better than dry) and white meat (chicken), red meat should be reduced, better avoided.

Fats and oils should not be a problem if you do not exaggreate their coinsummation. But "gesättigte Fettsäuren" are forbidden. Take vegetable oil that was cold-pressed, or butter. Avoid margarine.

Avoid like the plague all meals-ready-to-eat, frozen instant dinners and dried meals that you need to cook with hot water. Avoid almost all canned food with sauces. Avoid corn in cans, and - surprise surprise, but true! - crop in general: no mueslis, that is. No sweet Kellog' cornflakes kind of stuff either. Or more easily: don't even enter a regular supermarket.

Understand the basic principle of avoiding a high glycemic load.

You must not need salad. Everybody knowing the stuff a bit knows that eating salad, cucumber and green gras is completely pointless - there is no vitmaines, minerals, or anything else in them. You could as well eat blanc paper. Salad is a waste of money, and time for preparation. If you like the tatse of green salad, okay, it will not harm you. But there is zero physical benefit from eating green salad or cucumber.

I use to lose around one pound per week when doing so^, in the first 6-8 weeks. After that, weight loss slows down, but can be managed to cintunue nevertheless. I am currently down from almost 90 kg down to 84 in around 13 weeks, I plan to drop below 80 kg (at a height of 178 cm and an age of 44).

Loosing weight by sports: you need to know one thing: it is illusory to lose wieght be sports if you do not do sports several hours a day, becasue sport so intense that you swweat for the first 30-45 minutes of activity will not do anything to your weight. Now go figure. It only works when yoiu reduce your inout of carbinbhydrates at the same time: sufficient that the body needs to tackle the fat energy-reserves, but not as much that the body calls "food emergency!" and reduces its general energy balance. The training most likely wll not directly affect your weight, but indirectly, by slowly chnaing some parameters in your organism, and affecting cardiovascular system. If you think: "I wll go jogging 40 minutes every morning now, and in four weeks I have lost 2 ilogramns due to that", you better stay in bed and watch another episode or your favourite TV series.

What it comes down to: it is a combnation of several factor that decide your weight: general living style (including both stress and sports), quality of your food, quantity of carbonhydrates consumed. Alcohol and coffee can be tolerated in reasonably quantities, but better avid hard drinks, and alcohol. Coffee does not add to your carbinhydrates balance, but coffein directly stmulates the production of insuline - which helps to turn carbonhydrates intoi fat reserves. Try other coffee or tea without coffein.


Stop smoking.

Be aware that industrial convenience food has many bad things in its sauces, that are hidden in the small print: sugar, too much salt, bad fats. Avoid convenience food alltogether.

The "eat less, move more" diet is a sure winner. :yeah:

What the food is exactly comprised of is more important that just its energy content tbh.

Keep a strict diet of bugs found in your backyard. :up:

this may sound strange but here's how I got back to my regular weight. due to a death in the family I end up with a 3yr old shi tzu .I could not stand it when she stared at me while eating.So I eat when she eats morning and at night. no more snacks at all hours.the weight just fell off. I guess all that nibbling adds up.

Unless he's in Australia. You might actually gain weight on that diet down there. :O:



OTOH you'd get a lot of extra exercise running away from some of the nastier ones.

Luckily I did not have weight problems, burning pretty good, and it is important to be in shape, :yep:

are you guys serious?? if you are an American, fatness is inscribed in your DNA...
Ok, one serious advice- you won't lose your weight making threads like this. Forget about your Mustang, PC, and McDonald's and start exercising something more than your fingers. Go run somewhere, to the nearest state or sumtin'

I disagree with increasing protein intake. The key reason being that the body will break it down into energy, and breaking down protein for energy leaves behind a lot of toxic compounds, which puts stress on the body. Western society tends to eat far to much of the stuff as it is (often by a factor of 10 times higher than it it should be).

Oh another one to avoid is alcohol, especially beer. Alcohol metabolizes into a form of sugar that the body either needs to use right away, or convert to fat. Beer is full of carbs + alcohol

Plus it may have been mentioned by others, but rapid weight loss is usually due to water loss, not fat loss. When changing your diet you can expect the rate of weight loss to slow down after the first week.