What's a good way to lose weight?

[FUAU]

I know this isn't the best advice, but I managed to lose fifteen pounds these last couple of months completely on accident. For the record, I didn't even know I had weight to lose, I'm 6' 3.5'' and I used to weight 180 pounds, which is pretty skeletal if you ask me. Now I'm down to 165, which I'm pretty sure falls in the completely unhealthy category.

Anyway, what happened is this: I started my freshmen year at college. Which is weird, because freshmen are known for putting on 15 pounds, not losing it. I like to call it my freshmen negative fifteen.

Basically, I started cutting meals and inadvertently exercising a lot. I only ate one meal a day, sometimes none at all. Mostly this was because I didn't really have the time to eat in-between classes and studying (which I took to quite religiously) and two because college food is way overpriced, and I figured that any money I don't spend on food is money going toward tuition.

Secondly, my college is very vertical, which meant a lot of staircases to climb. Sure, there are elevators, but they're prodigiously slow and stop on every floor, every time. So I found myself traveling up and down 10 flights of stairs on my slowest day, and 25 on my busiest.

Mind you, I lost all this weight in the first three weeks of school. After that, I started eating more just so I didn't blow away.

TL;DR -- I lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks by barley eating and exercising a lot. I imagine if one were to take this concept to the extreme, he or she would lose much excess weight in hardly any time.

 

[Larmo]

Only eat when your hungry it works pretty well for me

 

[DustyDrB]

I know this isn't the best advice, but I managed to lose fifteen pounds these last couple of months completely on accident. For the record, I didn't even know I had weight to lose, I'm 6' 3.5'' and I used to weight 180 pounds, which is pretty skeletal if you ask me. Now I'm down to 165, which I'm pretty sure falls in the completely unhealthy category.

Anyway, what happened is this: I started my freshmen year at college. Which is weird, because freshmen are known for putting on 15 pounds, not losing it. I like to call it my freshmen negative fifteen.

Basically, I started cutting meals and inadvertently exercising a lot. I only ate one meal a day, sometimes none at all. Mostly this was because I didn't really have the time to eat in-between classes and studying (which I took to quite religiously) and two because college food is way overpriced, and I figured that any money I don't spend on food is money going toward tuition.

Secondly, my college is very vertical, which meant a lot of staircases to climb. Sure, there are elevators, but they're prodigiously slow and stop on every floor, every time. So I found myself traveling up and down 10 flights of stairs on my slowest day, and 25 on my busiest.

Mind you, I lost all this weight in the first three weeks of school. After that, I started eating more just so I didn't blow away.

TL;DR -- I lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks by barley eating and exercising a lot. I imagine if one were to take this concept to the extreme, he or she would lose much excess weight in hardly any time.

I lost like 20 pounds my first semester of freshman year. Then I hurt my knee and foot on a hiking trip, so I didn't exercise, got lazy and played video games all second semester. Then I got chubby.

But then I got back in that next summer. Talk about fluctuation

 

[Felgy76]

Reading this is a good place to start. http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html

 

[MassiveGeek]

Cut back on snacks, sodas and dishes stuffed with carbohydrates and exercise regularly.

... It's not too hard actually. Drink lots of water too, it's really good to cleanse your system and stuff.

(I personally don't follow this because I'm far from overweight, but my mom tried this diet one summer, it worked great.)

 

[Kurokami]

Other then simple exercise, what's a good way to lose weight? Specifically belly fat.

How do you lose weight?

Buy 'The Fight' if you find normal exersize too tedious, it's actually quite fun, though if you play it enough your arms will hurt for about a week afterwords.

Alternatively, I don't mean to sound harsh, but cut down on the food. Your body uses a certain ammount of energy, do some research and find out how much energy you're getting from the food you eat and try to avoid eating more than, I think it's 2800 Calories a day. Also eating a little alot, IE: Snacking a bit during frequent periods of time during the day. (I don't know, grab an apple or something every one in a while) should quicken up your metabolism.

Personally here's my suggestion, just stay away from foods which are obviously bad for you (Lollies, snacks like chips and shit, butter/margarine, suger so on), feel free to eat home cooked food but stay away from bread and I wreckon you'll lose some weight.

If you're looking to lose some belly fat do sit ups or other exersizes that fit that region, it will help you lose the weight and lets face it, abs are sexy.

Good luck! =]

 

[Paksenarrion]

To get rid of belly fat?

Simple, long term way: just stretch more. Stretch when you wake up, stretch when you get out of a chair, stretch when you feel sleepy, stretch whenever you damn well feel like it. Feel the stretch in your arms, legs, and stomach.

Fast, short term way: crunches and nature hikes. Start off with 20 crunches every day for the first week, then add 10 more each week until you reach 100 crunches. Then try to do 100 crunches in two minutes. Start from 100 crunches in 5 minutes, drop down to 4 minutes for the next week, and so on...

Continue doing 100 crunches in 2 minutes every other day.

Nature hikes: bring lots of water (and grapes, oranges, yogurt) in a hiking pack. Find a local area with hills. Start at a leisurely pace for a half a mile. Do this every other day, if possible. Add another half mile every week, until you reach 3 miles (or 5km). Take water breaks as needed.

Once you're confident in doing a 3 mile stretch, do a half mile of fast walking and the rest at a leisurely pace. Add a half mile of fast walking each week until you can fast walk 3 miles. This might take longer than being able to leisurely walk 3 miles. Take water and snack breaks when necessary.

 

[balanovich]

They said in a movie that you can lose weight by doing 2 things:

1- Swallow cum.
2- Deepthroat until you puke.

I think it was a porno....

 

[Danpascooch]

Eat less.

Bad idea, that actually slows your heart rate and causes you to burn less calories because your body thinks it needs to conserve the energy it has.

You need to eat BETTER, not less

You need to eat less calories than you need. Your body will burn fat to make up the difference. You can lose weight on junk food if you eat a sufficiently small amount of it.

That's true, but it's a less healthy way to do it than eating properly.

Not only is it less healthy for your body than eating properly, it's harder to do too, since to overtake the effect of your body trying to conserve the calories it has left, you will be hungry literally all the damn time.

Of course you CAN lose weight through pure deprivation of food, otherwise nobody would ever starve to death, it's just that your body trying to conserve energy makes it much harder than just eating the same amount of healthier food, this is why skipping breakfast can actually contribute to GAINING weight, because not only do you eat more later, but until lunch your metabolism slows and you burn less calories.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I just want to say I really appreciate all the help and advice you people have given me.....well, except for that one guy...I'm looking at YOU Mr. Porno Man!

 

[SimuLord]

Of course they do. They'd much rather sell you pricey medical treatment for cardiovascular diseases (statins) and expensively treat your II-diabetes, than see you fix all those problems with a few simple diet changes.

That's the same reason they never recommend adequate vitamin D3 dosage either: it doesn't bring them any extra money, because D3 is cheap and cannot be patented.

Let's see, who to trust...

Clinical nutritionists and doctors, who spend a decade learning everything there is to know about medicine and the human body, proper nutrition, and hard science, and who practice that day in and day out, or...

Some nutter with a book to sell (Gary Taubes) who relies on "what the medical establishment" (ooh, scary, never heard THAT one before) "DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!"

Get off it. I'll take hard science and decades of study of clinical nutrition over someone whose medical credentials are about the same as mine getting a case of diarrhea of the pen and plagiarizing Atkins. Gary Taubes has about as much credibility as, well...his followers spouting his pseudoscience and bullshit on the Internet.

I cannot stress enough how anyone reading your posts should ignore them, perhaps laugh at you, but under no circumstances take your advice. I'd say what I REALLY think, but mod wrath ain't worth it.

 

[x0ny]

Lots of great advice here. My advice to you would be to cook your own meals using raw materials.
For example, you wanted a roast chicken, don't get it pre-marinated/pre cooked, you won't know what they've used to marinate the chicken with. Get the chicken raw, and marinate it yourself (try salt, lemon juice and oregano). Not only will you know what's gone in your food, but you'll also know how much has gone in.

Get a recipe book, you'll be quite surprised how easy cooking is.

 

[GoldenEyedScout]

Eat healthy, for one. It's not too hard to make a salad for lunch or to go with your dinner, and it makes a difference.

Working out, of course. But rather then doing exercises that work one group of muscles, like the bench press, try total body exercises. Since you're working so many muscles at once, you burn more calories, with the benefit of improving coordination.

Squat presses, jump shrugs, lunge presses etc. etc. are just examples.

 

[Skaven252]

pseudoscience and bullshit on the Internet.

Look, could you just write some actual counter-arguments and facts here instead of going all dramatic about how wrong someone is without backing it up with anything? Your only counter-argument so far was "ketoacidosis" which was a factual error.

Sure, Taubes is a nutter with a book to sell. The medical estabilishment is a bunch of nutters with drugs to sell and money to charge from insurance companies. "Who do you trust?" is a trick question if we're talking about the USA, where everyone is only after your money.

I cannot stress enough how anyone reading your posts should ignore them, perhaps laugh at you, but under no circumstances take your advice.

How exactly is "avoid processed foods, eat organic, do your own cooking" bad advice? Why is "keep your insulin levels and blood sugar under control by avoiding sugar-heavy beverages" unhealthy? Please explain.

Please be more specific and explain why it is "dangerous and irresponsible".

. I'd say what I REALLY think, but mod wrath ain't worth it.

Popadoo posted a link to the paleolithic diet, which is basically the same thing (all low carb, high fat, moderate protein diets are related). Another target for you?

 

[Danpascooch]

That's true, but it's a less healthy way to do it than eating properly.

Not only is it less healthy for your body than eating properly, it's harder to do too, since to overtake the effect of your body trying to conserve the calories it has left, you will be hungry literally all the damn time.

Of course you CAN lose weight through pure deprivation of food, otherwise nobody would ever starve to death, it's just that your body trying to conserve energy makes it much harder than just eating the same amount of healthier food, this is why skipping breakfast can actually contribute to GAINING weight, because not only do you eat more later, but until lunch your metabolism slows and you burn less calories.

I dropped thirty pounds by simply eating less. I didn't change my diet in any other way. It's not that hard to eat less than you need, and if anyone thinks losing weight is going to be a pleasant experience their head is in the clouds. You're going to feel hungry, you're going to feel sore after exercising, it's par for the course. So I don't really buy that as a reason not to.

Congratulations, but that's not the most healthy or efficient way to do it.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Ignore this post and go straight to the second one. Collect 200 dollars.