Fat Enders

[MN Dave]

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Diet-Weight-Change-Nonpareil/dp/1567920845/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264860650&sr=8-1

[MN Dave]

254 at the moment.

253 this morning.

[Elgarian]

253 this morning.

Pounds weight, or philosophers consumed?

[MN Dave]

Angels dancing on my head.

[secondwind]

Angels dancing on my head.

Excuse me, are you in fact a Pinhead?  Any relation to Zippy the?

[MN Dave]

Only if that's a compliment.

[Keemun]

Weekly weigh-in this morning, results as follows:

1/24:  211
1/31:  208 

I usually lose more than that the first week of a new diet, but I wasn't particularly faithful to my plan, so 3 pounds is still good.  I doubt that I can strictly follow a particular diet program.  They all seem to have their pros and cons and I tend to focus on the cons.  So this leaves me with loosely following a diet and generally trying to make good food choices.  But my experience with this is that it gives me a lot of room to justify poor food choices.  So I'll have to see how Week 2 goes and adjust accordingly (and hopefully not quit altogether). 

Is anyone here following a particular diet program?  If so, which one?  If not, what is your basis for deciding what and how much to eat?  I've done Weight Watchers (online), South Beach Diet and The Abs Diet, with varying degrees of success.

As for exercise, I'm not ready to get started with that yet.  Too much change too fast is a recipe for disaster! 

[DavidW]

If not, what is your basis for deciding what and how much to eat? 

After using the eat this, not that books for awhile, I'm developing a good intuition for good vs. bad in terms of

good:
protein
fiber
veggies
short ingredient list

bad:
fats, especially transfats
sugars
sodium
high calorie density (as in per gram)

That sounds obvious, but the key part is knowing by g and calories whether it's good, okay or bad, which is not obvious because it's based on comparison and the actual amount that you'll eat (the per serving can be made to be a convenient trick!).  And of course avoiding false/misleading advertising such as "lite" and "multi grain" for example.  Anyway no special diet just making substitutions.  I am losing weight, and I'm eating as much as I did before.  And I don't get as hungry as I used to get, which is cool.

[greg]

I think that's the bare minimum advisable, although I once read this "philosopher's diet" book that wanted you to eat 900! 

Wow.

This is how I imagine the Q & A section at the back of the book to be:

Q: What's for breakfast?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: What's for lunch?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: What's for dinner?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: Can i have dessert?
A: No.

Q: Can i have a snack?
A: No.

Q: Will I die soon?
A: Yeah.

[Elgarian]

This is how I imagine the Q & A section at the back of the book to be:

Q: What's for breakfast?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: What's for lunch?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: What's for dinner?
A: Peanut butter and jelly and water.

Q: Can i have dessert?
A: No.

Q: Can i have a snack?
A: No.

Q: Will I die soon?
A: Yeah.

That's probably a fine summary, except for the bits about peanut butter and jelly.

[MN Dave]

No. I said "bran muffins".

[MN Dave]

253 this morning.

250.5   

[karlhenning]

wooot!

[Père Malfait]

Down another 4.0 lbs this week, for a total loss of 35.4. Only 64.6 more to go!

[secondwind]

That's great!

[greg]

That's probably a fine summary, except for the bits about peanut butter and jelly.

Oh, of course... what was I thinking? Probably just replace the 300 calories each meal to 300 calories of broccoli or carrots...

250.5   

And in 4 or 5 days... nice!

[Mozart]

Nice to see everyone's progress after months

Just a question, when you get to your desired weight will you revert back to a normal diet? A diet has to be permanent for you to keep the weight off, so I hope besides the weight loss, you also enjoy the foods you are typically eating.

[DavidW]

I weighed myself today and came in 10 lbs lighter from a couple of weeks back!

[MN Dave]

Nice to see everyone's progress after months

Just a question, when you get to your desired weight will you revert back to a normal diet? A diet has to be permanent for you to keep the weight off, so I hope besides the weight loss, you also enjoy the foods you are typically eating.

Lowering your calories to lose weight, you find out how much you really need to eat: A lot less than before. I don't see an major adjustments that will need to be made as long as I watch my calories carefully as I do now.

I used to time my workouts but currently use calories burned to determine when I'm finished. 400 each workout (five days a week).

[Bogey]

1/1/10: 225.5
1/8/10: 222
1/15/10: 218
1/22/10: 216.5
1/29/10 217

Wow.  Great week for you folks.  I stuck with my routine and did not panic after last week.  It seems to have paid off.

2/5/10 214.5