Have you ever been on a diet?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by sue-fl

Drinking lot's of water

Good advice provided it is tap water. Water helps you keep healthy, loose weight, and not feel hungry. But some of the minerals in bottled water tend to lead to your body retaining the water, which makes you look fat. Tap water does not usually have these minerals (the regulations in both the US and UK are much stricter on what can be in tap water than they are on bottled water).

[SheepGuy]

Eating at night and drinking gallons of milk with every meal made me fat. I stopped eating at night and at first I had a hard time sleeping because of the taste of a days worth of cigarettes in my mouth, so I started gargling with mouthwash before bed and slept well. I quit milk for everything except cereal and drank gallons of water instead. I also completely cut out anything that was fried and limited myself to pizza once a month. I stopped drinking bourbon and rum and cut back to 6-8 beers a day.

Just doing that I lost 128 pounds over about 3 years and dropped to 160 pounds. I'm now up to 195 again because I've started eating before bed. I'll cut that out and drop to 175 by summer, which is about what I should weigh.

[Zio]

I'm fortunate enough to have a rabid metabolism so I never had to go on a diet, but I do have a dear friend who is a very responsible MD (a nutritionist of course) and, while talking the other day, he explained to me that, when it comes to diet, it is very important not to overdo it.
One must not try to lose more than 1kg (2.2pounds) a month because your brain adapts to your weight (whatever that weight may be) and will fight to get you back to it because it intersprets drastic weightloss as a negative condition, so 2.2pounds a month seems to be the acceptable loss for your brain to go along with it.
Another thing that he mentioned was that way too many people go the do-it-yourself way and that's not a good thing. Spend a couple of bucks and consult with a nutritionist (an MD of course). I also have a dearest friend who is a on a wheelchair and she has done this and had some very good results with the help of a good nutritionist: weight down, energy levels up, overall parameters in the norm.
Other than that, being an Italian I would point you in the direction of the Mediterranean diet which is widely acknowledged as the most balanced and more satisfying of diets.
Good luck with it!

[oldbrad]

I had a starting weight of 265. Stayed at that weight a couple years til i decidided to get back in shape. I started eating 6 times a day and exercising.

Like most things, after 2 weeks it becomes habit and much easier to stick with.

6 meals a day with a 40/40/20 split. protein/carbs/fat.

Eat about 3 hours apart and have a meal directly after exercise.

20 minutes of high interval aerobic activity 3 times a week.

45 minutes of compound movement weightlifting 3 days per week (alternating upper and lower every other day).

Simple as that. Eating more frequent meals, drinking tons more water and exercising.

I gained muscle (lifted weights for 1 month solid before changing diet and reducing calories) and lost fat over 5 months or so. try to either lose fat or gain muscle, dont try to do both at the same time. I went from 265 and probably 35% bf with no muscle to 215 at 11% with a decent amount of muscle.

I'm about to do it again and maintain it as my weights been rising again, i just like fast food too much

I followed a diet very similar to the body for life book, i'd recommend it.

[Linkster]

oldbrad - that sounds very similar to the one that Ive been using - that definitely works - it is not a diet - it is a lifestyle change
Tom Venuto has a great program and his website is http://www.burnthefat.com/
He really does dispel every myth in diets/low carb BS/supplements and does it scientifically - and I havent been hungry once - 6 meals a day (5 for women) lots of tap water, and good sensible exercise - and yes you can even have caffiene(coffee) - and it works extremely well. I paid for the entire book I was so impressed and he has a complete support forum with loads more info/recipes/science as well as just plain motivational crap that you may or may not need
Other than this stuff I picked up in Vegas(no not the money LOL) Ive been sticking to it with no effort other than some small changes in my schedule that are well worth it - cause even with my heart in the shape its in I can do this and that makes it fantastic for me

[Simon]

"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating,
and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks." - Joe E. Lewis

-- and that's the best results I've had with diets too.

[stuveltje]

i am dealing with diets since i was 15 , but there is only one thing what will help to loose you some weight........: eat 3 times a day (normally healthy food) and do some sports, and yep i am that person also who use those short time loosing alot of weight diets, but i have to agree: all you have to do is change your eating habbits and move your lazy butt, now even i am talking that wise about it, i have some weigth problems everytime too, why? because i am to lazy to do sports or moving my butt and i like bad food and eat when i want to

[JackDaniel's]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

i am to lazy to do sports or moving my butt and i like bad food and eat when i want to

That is extremely encouraging

[Arafura]

Low carb/Atkins is awesome. I ate an amazing ribeye steak this morning and slathered it in butter. Yum! All the studies have shown that fat is not harmful unless you eat it in combination with a bunch of carbs. It's like a seesaw: you wanna eat a bunch of carbs, cut back on the fat. If you like fat, cut the carbs. But you have to pick one approach and stick with it, so it just becomes a matter of figuring out which you enjoy more. I'm going with bacon every time.

[Lot]

It worked. But it should be done unde doctor's control for sure after all necessary tests

[zandre]

i think it is much better to start exercising if you wanna lose weight

diets could be dangerous, and if you do some sport you will also improve your health and condition

don't be lazy and do not rely on diets - that's my advice to you

[Musson]

Folks, diet is death.|shocking| No, really. I was keeping to a diet one day. But it didn't help. I lost some weight. But then... I gain 10 pound more.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Musson

Folks, diet is death.

Yeah, as Garfield once said "Diet is just 'die' with a 't' added."

[Musson]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Yeah, as Garfield once said "Diet is just 'die' with a 't' added."

|rasta| I agree