Weight Loss Thread

Tuco_sl said:

I'm not trying to join in on the accuracy of calories, but yes, your body stores water all over the place.

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yes I'm sure it does, in the bloodstream and in muscles etc Clearly when the guy is able to pinch a significant chunk of flesh from my gut then it's all water! rofl retards.

fun fact, not measuring the amount of oil you use in cooking and just going by guess doesn't work too well when you finally measure 1tbsp and see it's about 1/8th what you have been using twice a day, fml.

Ossoi_sl said:

yes I'm sure it does, in the bloodstream and in muscles etc Clearly when the guy is able to pinch a significant chunk of flesh from my gut then it's all water! rofl retards.

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Oh my LAWD! Lol

Knytestorme_sl said:

fun fact, not measuring the amount of oil you use in cooking and just going by guess doesn't work too well when you finally measure 1tbsp and see it's about 1/8th what you have been using twice a day, fml.

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Yeah this is the biggest mistake people make when trying to eat better/healthier. It's incredibly hard to "guesstimate" your food portions unless you've been accurately measuring them for a while. Half the people who post stuff on forums like "I'm eating cleanly but not losing weight" aren't actually measuring their food using teaspoons/cups/scales and eating way more calories than they think.

Oil can be a killer, definitely. Other killer things are things like cheese, sour cream, etc. Very deceptive fuckers.

http://www.biggersmallerbigger.com/

Anyone seen that? I don't even know where to start.

I eat a lot of buffalo wraps and grilled chicken w mozz & red peppers type stuff, and I always use these wraps. They're pretty decent, but the main thing is the fiber. It's 27g per wrap, and the calories are whatever because the wraps are pretty fucking huge, so I usually put in about 6-8 oz of chicken with some lettuce and tomato and homemade buffalo sauce (I just use Frank's Buffalo + half a tablespoon of Marie's Bleu Cheese) or some fresh mozz, roasted red peppers, arugula, and balsamic vinaigrette (also homemade, careful with that oil SON).

arkktheseaotter_sl said:

http://www.biggersmallerbigger.com/

Anyone seen that? I don't even know where to start.

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HAHAHA. Why would ANYONE even THINK of doing this?

It's all about the...
http://dashdiet.org/

Convo_sl said:

It's all about the...
http://dashdiet.org/

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Is that where you eat a Paleo type diet, except for the fact that you eat grains, oatmeal, peanuts and pretty much all the foods that make it Paleo, in other words, you basically just eat The Food Diet?

And get this..it was invented to reduce hypertension in people... Doctor approved!

Long read but interesting imo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/ma...food.html?_r=0

NYT Article_sl said:

In the months leading up to the C.E.O. meeting, he was engaged in conversation with a group of food-science experts who were painting an increasingly grim picture of the public?s ability to cope with the industry?s formulations ? from the body?s fragile controls on overeating to the hidden power of some processed foods to make people feel hungrier still.

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NYT Article_sl said:

"The company?s Yoplait brand had transformed traditional unsweetened breakfast yogurt into a veritable dessert. It now had twice as much sugar per serving as General Mills? marshmallow cereal Lucky Charms. And yet, because of yogurt?s well-tended image as a wholesome snack, sales of Yoplait were soaring, with annual revenue topping $500 million. Emboldened by the success, the company?s development wing pushed even harder, inventing a Yoplait variation that came in a squeezable tube ? perfect for kids. They called it Go-Gurt and rolled it out nationally in the weeks before the C.E.O. meeting. (By year?s end, it would hit $100 million in sales.)"

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McCheese_sl said:

Yeah this is the biggest mistake people make when trying to eat better/healthier. It's incredibly hard to "guesstimate" your food portions unless you've been accurately measuring them for a while. Half the people who post stuff on forums like "I'm eating cleanly but not losing weight" aren't actually measuring their food using teaspoons/cups/scales and eating way more calories than they think.

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On a show dealing with obesity, they had a segment about how people grossly overestimate serving sizes. They had a group of people who should have been losing weight based on their food diaries. But when the researchers actually saw what they were eating, they saw the logs were totally inaccurate. A man recorded one serving of pasta when it was a whole package of pasta and jar of sauce. A woman recorded one serving of rice when it was a full plate of Chinese fried rice.

For most people, especially the overweight, it is critical to measure instead of guesstimate.

WHO the fuck guesstimates a WHOLE PACKAGE of pasta as ONE SERVING? That dude just wanted to eat.

Itlan_sl said:

WHO the fuck guesstimates a WHOLE PACKAGE of pasta as ONE SERVING? That dude just wanted to eat.

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Don't underestimate the stupidity of the average Walmart-going American.

I've actually had great success so far this year with losing weight and toning up. My dad always used to say that if you want to save money write down everything you spend, and when you actually see on paper all the stupid shit you spend money on it will stop you wasting money.

So I figured I'd try the same technique with food. So every meal I put down in an excel document, and try to keep the daily calories to about 1800 and since mid december last year I've lost about 15 pounds of blubber, and look and feel much healthier for it.

Can anyone recommend a P90X style program? I've had a lot of success with P90X in the past, but a tad bored of it plus a lot the workouts are really tough on bad knees so want something that is a little lower impact (the yoga and plyometrics are the hardest).

Insanity? I don't know a ton about it, but I believe it's the next "step", so to speak, after P90X.

Or you could try that Diamond Dallas Page Yoga that is so popular in screenshots at the moment. Apparently it can make cripples walk again.

You can do all the fad diets you want, but at the end of the day it's simply a matter of burning more calories than you eat. Nothing else matters. Last time I seriously tried to lose weight, I used the My Fitness Pal app on an iPad. It's free. I think there's a web version and a PC version and stuff, too. It takes some discipline, but if you want to cut out all the BS and just measure calories in and out, this is the easiest way I've discovered. You set your weight loss goal and date. It tells you what your daily calorie deficit needs to be. It lets you put in all your food relatively easily. You can even scan food barcodes with the camera if you want to get crazy with the ipad/iphone version. Then you enter any exercise you do. So you can see clearly that you're NEVER going to run far enough to offset that entire plate of cookies, fatty. Worked pretty well for me last summer.