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What's The Best Diet?

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BranzLS

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I have read and seen posts of people saying how they have almost lost their target weight, and/or have been trying to lose weight/gain muscle....

What I am wondering is, based on your experience, what has worked best for you to lose weight? There's a million diets out there that "work" but for you personally what has worked? Why do you believe it worked while others didn't?

I am trying to lose weight (great time to start since it's the holidays but none the less..) and I want peoples opinions before I start something.. basically, I am 5'10" and about 200 pounds if that helps in comparisons to any of you out there who have gone on diets...

Thanks in advance!
 
You have to give me more info. What changes in your life are you willing to make? Do you want to start exercising? Or do you want a diet that only a change in the foods you eat?
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Exercise + reduction in calories.
Stop eating refined sugar and fast food.
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Correct. Don't..please...try to do the whole Atkins thing. Just for the sake of all the Atkins haters and myself. If you do, don't tell anyone on here you did, or it will cause a flamewar.
 
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Exercise + reduction in calories.
Stop eating refined sugar and fast food.
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Correct. Don't..please...try to do the whole Atkins thing. Just for the sake of all the Atkins haters and myself. If you do, don't tell anyone on here you did, or it will cause a flamewar.
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Why is that?

As for changes, I want to start eating better and do exercising. I don't have a gym membership and I am limited on funds so basically things I can do at home, around home, etc. I am just tired of saying I WILL DO THIS or THAT. I want to actually do something so I am curious what people have stuck to. I agree that the "best" diet is the one you stick to, I guess I am looking for one to start and stick to.

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: tweakmm
Exercise + reduction in calories.
Stop eating refined sugar and fast food.
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Correct. Don't..please...try to do the whole Atkins thing. Just for the sake of all the Atkins haters and myself. If you do, don't tell anyone on here you did, or it will cause a flamewar.
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HURR HURR i dont agree with the lifestyle change so dont do it unless you want an angry flame from me and/or others!!! :|:|:|
 
People get angry over having to change your lifestyle to lose weight? Why because they argue that you do not need to change your lifestyle to do so? Anywayz, what kind of exercising did you people do along with the reduction in calories?
 
Originally posted by: BranzLS
People get angry over having to change your lifestyle to lose weight? Why because they argue that you do not need to change your lifestyle to do so? Anywayz, what kind of exercising did you people do along with the reduction in calories?
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Cardiovascualr. Run Forest, run!
 
cut down on high fructose things. supposedly more likely to be stored as fat then plain sugar😛

increase muscle mass. uses more cal just sitting there, does your work for you 24/7.

drink lots of water. increased metabolic efficiency, and keeps you froma lways munchin
There are many forms of metabolism going on in your body right now, but the one everyone is talking about it the metabolism of fat. This is actually something that the liver does when it converts stored fat to energy. The liver has other functions, but this is one of its main jobs.

Unfortunately, another of the liver?s duties is to pick up the slack for the kidneys, which need plenty of water to work properly. If the kidneys are water-deprived, the liver has to do their work along with its own, lowering its total productivity. It then can?t metabolize fat as quickly or efficiently as it could when the kidneys were pulling their own weight. If you allow this to happen, not only are you being unfair to your liver, but you?re also setting yourself up to store fat.
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http://www.inch-aweigh.com/water.html
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: BranzLS
People get angry over having to change your lifestyle to lose weight? Why because they argue that you do not need to change your lifestyle to do so? Anywayz, what kind of exercising did you people do along with the reduction in calories?
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Cardiovascualr. Run Forest, run!
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Well, cardiovascular anyway. 😉 Worked for me. When I was getting ready to try out for the Seattle Police Academy I changed nothing in my diet, just started jogging. I had never been a jogger before, so I started from just going around the block to where I was jogging to work and back. Dropped about sixty pounds. 🙂
 
Get some exercise, drink TONS of water (helps flush toxins from the exercise and clean out your system), and stop eating out. Try to eat healthy food with low fats. Most diets you'll hear about have certain foods to avoid. If you prepare your meals yourself, you'll find that you know EXACTLY what is in them. The reason food in restaurants usually taste so good is because everything has been soaking in pig grease. Yum....
 
The best diet is not to go on a diet because that implies you will eventually go back to eating whatever it was you were eating before the diet.

I lost 50 lbs just by exercising and watching what I eat. I didn't want to do any fad diets that I would eventually fall off of and then gain the weight back.
 
Originally posted by: TheAudit
The best diet is not to go on a diet because that implies you will eventually go back to eating whatever it was you were eating before the diet.

I lost 50 lbs just by exercising and watching what I eat. I didn't want to do any fad diets that I would eventually fall off of and then gain the weight back.
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That's a good point. I feel the same way as well. I have started making my own food and eating at home as oppossed to anywhere else and exercising only takes a small part of the day that could be wasted otherwise by doing, well nothing. It seems like most of you did the same thing... in a sense, ate less/better and started exercising.
 
Originally posted by: BranzLS
Originally posted by: TheAudit
The best diet is not to go on a diet because that implies you will eventually go back to eating whatever it was you were eating before the diet.

I lost 50 lbs just by exercising and watching what I eat. I didn't want to do any fad diets that I would eventually fall off of and then gain the weight back.
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That's a good point. I feel the same way as well. I have started making my own food and eating at home as oppossed to anywhere else and exercising only takes a small part of the day that could be wasted otherwise by doing, well nothing. It seems like most of you did the same thing... in a sense, ate less/better and started exercising.
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You don't really have to eat less if your eating better, healthy foods are really low in calories compared to junk foods so you need judge amounts for yourself. I'd start off by cutting out starches and super high fat meats. Eating oats, chicken, lettuce and vegetables of any form and using dressings for flavor will get you loosing weight quite quickly while keeping you full and cool on energy.

I'd take it easy on the exercise at first while your body adjusts to the different diet plan, jogging a few miles a day is perfect. Add in some pushups and situps 3 times a week. It's important that you eat 3 meals a day for weight loss. People will tell you snacking speeds up the metabolism but in my weight loss ventures I've found a little hunger gets you a long way, and to be honest it gets you feeling like you've accomplished something.

Don't skip meals. Building up a caloric defict on a regular basis is just plain bad for you, especially if you exercise.

All you really have to do is eat out of a health food store to loose weight/get healthy man, meats should become a big part of your diet, and vegetables should replace your complex carb intake.
 
Originally posted by: BD231
Originally posted by: BranzLS
Originally posted by: TheAudit
The best diet is not to go on a diet because that implies you will eventually go back to eating whatever it was you were eating before the diet.

I lost 50 lbs just by exercising and watching what I eat. I didn't want to do any fad diets that I would eventually fall off of and then gain the weight back.
Click to expand...

That's a good point. I feel the same way as well. I have started making my own food and eating at home as oppossed to anywhere else and exercising only takes a small part of the day that could be wasted otherwise by doing, well nothing. It seems like most of you did the same thing... in a sense, ate less/better and started exercising.
Click to expand...

You don't really have to eat less if your eating better, healthy foods are really low in calories compared to junk foods so you need judge amounts for yourself. I'd start off by cutting out starches and super high fat meats. Eating oats, chicken, lettuce and vegetables of any form and using dressings for flavor will get you loosing weight quite quickly while keeping you full and cool on energy.

I'd take it easy on the exercise at first while your body adjusts to the different diet plan, jogging a few miles a day is perfect. Add in some pushups and situps 3 times a week. It's important that you eat 3 meals a day for weight loss. People will tell you snacking speeds up the metabolism but in my weight loss ventures I've found a little hunger gets you a long way, and to be honest it gets you feeling like you've accomplished something.

Don't skip meals. Building up a caloric defict on a regular basis is just plain bad for you, especially if you exercise.

All you really have to do is eat out of a health food store to loose weight/get healthy man, meats should become a big part of your diet, and vegetables should replace your complex carb intake.
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Negative. Complex carbs are good. Eat whole weats and vegetables, and meats do not have to become a big part of the diet.
 
Lots of sex...that one has always worked for me.

Seriously though, any kind of controled consumption of food mixed with a decent amount of exercise (which a LOT of sex would fall under) will keep you in decent shape. Only a little more drastic approach will help you loose wait.
 
Lots of sex...that one has always worked for me.

Seriously though, any kind of controled consumption of food mixed with a decent amount of exercise (which a LOT of sex would fall under) will keep you in decent shape. Only a little more drastic approach will help you loose wait.
 
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