Narse and Byohtsemoh on "shedding for the wedding"

[Ksandra]

like you can with the lap band

wat


Do you know what the lap band is?

[Despain]

I don't think it's the only way. I think its -A-WAY-. Stop taking in so many calories every day, and surprise, you'll lose weight.

edit: Be a vegan for a month and tell me how you can remain fat without eating like pounds of peanuts and cashews at a time.

Gonna have to disagree with this.

I ended up gaining about 80 pounds after graduating from High School, and I recently lost it all. People's bodies are different, but its already been said so many fucking times in this thread... If you spend 8 hours a day, take an hour to go exercise.

Not eating is NOT the solution. If you do not eat, you will not lose weight, depending on how fat you are. Eating healthy isn't the solution either (i.e., eating salads, fruits, "healthy" shit and restraining yourself from eating junk food).

Not trying to derail this thread and make it into a how to lose weight thread, but people need to realize everyone's body is different. I ended up losing a shit ton of weight and becoming healthy again, and I eat McDonald's about 3-4 times a week. However, I don't drink soft drinks at all, and drink about 4-5 bottles of Dasani on a daily basis. I hardly put any sugar in my body unless its in my coffee, and I drink about a Red Bull a day for energy (work grave-yard shift @work, need all the energy I can get).

Drink water with every meal you eat. Period. You can exercise all you want, but if you drink coke, you might as well just stick to not exercising. Eating less than 2000 calories isn't a smart move either.

Also who the fuck actually wants to be fat? D:

[Rabidelly]

If you drink only water and stick to it, you eventually find that you will come to dislike most soda's/overly sweet juices etc. That or just getting diet sodas or cutting out one "bad" habit you have. Some people can only do it a small step at a time, others gotta go big or go home - no pun intended <.> Just the fact that they are choosing to try and lose the weight now is a good thing(using whatever method works). Hopefully they'll be happy enough with the results that they'll make the effort to stay at a healthy weight.

[Moss]

the best way is to just cut off all of the fat with a machete

[Mertron]

the best way is to just cut off all of the fat with a machete

a pound of flesh, no more no less
no skin, no bone, only flesh

[Clerix]

wat


Do you know what the lap band is?

I've not looked it up; but from what I've been told it can be reversed, unlike the roux-en-y gastric bypass.

[Jaybar]

Needs more Al Roker up in here.

[kareface]

No one will debate that eating poorly is likely to add on the weight. All I'm saying is at the end of the day, your genetics are more influential than your diet. I know people that weight twice as much and are quite clearly overweight who exercise more than I do and eat healthier than I ever had. Should I write a book about how to lose weight? "Eat cheesecake and Indian food as much as you can afford and sit in a chair playing video games for 5 years, you'll shed the wright in no time!" The majority of people will weigh more on a unhealthy diet and little exercise, I won't dispute that. I just find it odd that the skinniest people I know are all gluttons and mostly lazy.

Here's how I think of it. Genetics provides a range and 2 people who have the same diet and burn the same calories who have 2 different ranges might end up at 2 completely different weights. Within their range if they both became more or less active they would shift in their range; but for a guy who's genetically predisposed to store the calories if he wants to weight as much as someone like myself he needs to go well above and beyond what I would ever need to do to achieve it. One of my roommates is vegetarian, eats tons of veggies, goes running, works out a the gym, never eats out, eats mostly organic foods and it's even a girl. She's always weighed more than I did, even when I was eating crap for every meal and playing games day in and out. If she didn't do what she did I'm sure she would weigh much more, but that's the hand she was dealt.

We eat many times the calories and burn many times fewer than in our recent history. We are putting on the pounds as a nation, but not anywhere near the rate a purely calorie orientated view would suggest. We should all be 500lb otherwise.

[Airenn]

Seconding the knocking out sodas thing. I drink a ton of fucking soda. Luckily I'm naturally thin (this is gonna change when I hit 30, don't worry I know) but I do know that if I knocked soda out of my diet I'd lose a good chunk of the fat in my ass/thighs.

This is a bad thing now -- but later it will be desired. But yes, knock out sugary drinks/sodas and you will lose some good weight. Even though I'm not fat, I am still trying to cut down (and hopefully stop altogether) just because it's unhealthy to consume that much soda.

[Stoomie]

They leaked that they lost before they resigned from Apathy, so don't get your hopes up.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Ah Jesus Christ... Well, took more time than I was expecting at least.

Hey I wish you the best of luck and it is not as hard as it may seem.

I lost 100 pounds doing low carb low fat high protein diet with vitamin intake to balance. What was hard is it was for surgery and I could not exercise as much because of the injury so diet had to be strong as I could not rely on exercise.

What is cool is that " Safeway Eating Right " and "Smart Ones" were many of my main choices for meals.

Even Mc D's has "Salad Shakers" and you pick the low fat dressing.

Today there are food choices that are right there and easy to get to with the caloric listings on the package. So READ the packaging and learn what to look for and what to avoid.

Never shop while hungry, it is very bad and stores have all kinds of stimuli to get you wanting to eat. Shop full.

Carbs/fat are the most important guides to watch. Avoid soda because sugar is a big obstacle that most people do not readily associate with weight gain and you need to. I would drink carbonated water with lemon when I absolutely had to have a soda because I dislike diet drinks.

Remove all of the bad diet items from the house, make it require an effort to get to them. Take healthy snacks to work and every place you might be tempted because hunger is not a fucking game when you are dieting, it is srs business and effects the mind. Try not to be hungry for too long.

Set a daily carb/calorie limit and stick to it.

Use an alarm clock during gaming and set it. When it goes off, get up and exercise for a specific time before going back to the game.

If you cheat, do not get yourself down or ruin/binge the rest of the day, start right back up again and reward yourself for restarting, enjoy the fattening food while you cheat and don't be negative about it. I had to consistently allow myself some small indulgences [not binge] to stay positive and not feel restricted.

Weirdest part of weight loss is realizing none of your clothes are small enough for you and having to adjust your mind for smaller clothes when shopping.

You guys look adorable together, especially that mischievous giggle that she has because it is cute as hell. It was immediately noticeable that you both have good attitudes. It is so much easier when you do it as a team.

Best of luck! I never heard of this show/challenge but I will watch now!

Need any support feel free to msg me.

[Airenn]

Did they at least lose any weight? Updated pics? What's the battle plan? now? Going back to 8 hours a day?

[Narse]

we know better than to say anything. we never confirmed or denied winning or losing. the only thing we have said is that we are still in the process of losing weight and all couples will return for a final weigh in soon.

-taylor

[Airenn]

osnaps

[ChooChooTrain]

HOPE YOU ARENT AS FAT AS BEFORE BRO.

seriously, I miss the drama from remora.
afk, stealing someone's genbu

[shaddix]

What the fuck. Eating less is absolutely the best way to lose weight. Exercise does jack-shit compared to eating less. A 250 pound sedentary person consuming 3000cal/day is gonna go jump on a treadmill for an hour and run? Haha no fucking way buddy, maybe they can WALK for 30 minutes, but there's no way they are going to get any significant amount of calories burned via exercise.

They are already burning 3000/day just sitting on their ass if they aren't gaining more weight. Adding 30 minutes of walking(probably all they are capable of doing, remember they are a 250lb fatass) is going to bring them up to 3300 burned per day. Do you know how many calories someone like that actually needs? Probably ~1500cal(this is a crash diet number, but it is doable). And it won't even be that hard(read: no hunger) for them to eat that little if they do it right and consume 99% protein.

So by simply eating less they will be at a 1500cal deficit(while exercise alone will give them ~300 deficit). With 3500cal in a pound they will be losing 3 pounds a week, doing zero exercise. This will taper off as their hormones get all fucked up after the first two weeks and their weight goes down. But you can reset it simply by eating a bunch of carbs for a few days and jump right back on the weight loss train.


Also, there are skinny people that can eat high amounts of calories and not add fat, but they are very rare. Most skinny people that say they can eat whatever, aren't eating as much as they think they are.

If you are obese, the gym is not necessary if you are simply trying to lose weight. If you have lost a lot of weight and are getting close to 10%bf for men or 18% for women you will need to go to the gym. But not to burn calories! The point of gyming for weight loss is that LSD cardio mobilizes stubborn fat on abdomen(m)/thighs(w) after you have already burned off the excess. Of course if you are just trying to be healthier overall, then go ahead and hit the gym, but it is going to do barely anything for your fat loss efforts relative to a proper diet until you are already looking pretty slim. The main benefit here is cardio-pulmonary health and lipid profiles, which of course extremely critical if you are a lardass.

[drwaffles]

I never understood why such complex debates go on about weight loss. It's a very straightforward calculation - if you use up more calories than you take in, you'll lose weight. There's no great secret. The discrepancy between different people is mainly down to metabolism and day-to-day activity. If you have a high metabolism or a lifestyle where you're constantly on the move, you can afford to eat more and exercise less than if you have a low metabolism. It sucks for people with much lower metabolisms, sure, but there's no completely safe or healthy magic fix.

My dad is a doctor and it frustrates the hell out of him that he has to explain this concept over and over again to so many of his overweight, middle-aged, middle-class patients (which comprise a considerable chunk of his practice's demographic).

[BadKarma]

Ohh now I understand the turkey-giggle noises.

Look at the way her chin fat giggles and tell me you dont want thanksgiving dinner.

[Ratatapa]

it's just a plan to recruit their ls

[AidenCarby]

Good luck on shedding the weight