re: PuttaDaForkDown

congrats ! back in 05 i peaked at 395! at 280 now. i have taken my time and done it right. i hope to see 250 soon thats my goal. helps that i am 6'5

Help! The 3 huge cans of pistachios arrived today from our client! When it was announced, I promptly trotted (like a little pig) to the kitchen to get some & have made 3 trips back this afternoon. I have asked people to say "Fattie fattie, 2 by 4" if they see me there anymore. Any advice? I'm OOC - they are a major temptation.

Good idea about the water - I'll try it. I'm also going to try to treat them like Lay's potato chips - knowing that I can NOT eat just one.

You are doing great. Congratulations!

Have not lost anything for 3 weeks due to traveling and Thanksgiving, today dropped 2, now down 40 since August.

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I had a little trouble gettin past my 215-217 plateau, so I decided to take SW2CLAs advice and switched it up to a low carb. I pushed through and currently 232.4/212.4. I hit the 20 lb mark

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excellent. if you stall out on atkins; try upping your exercise and hitting a protein shake afterward or a big-arse ribeye.

i can't count the number of times i played a little basketball with friends after work..came home and ate a MONSTER 16-20oz ribeye..and then woke up the next morning 1-2 lbs lighter.

gotta love atkins

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What is exactly is the Atkins diet? I've never read up on it and I'm wondering how close my diet is to it. I think it's pretty similiar, but I've never seen a food list or anything

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short story is its pretty simple:

try to keep carbs under 20-30 a day so your body is 'forced' into a ketogenic state (atkins calls it 'ketosis') which turns your metabolism into a fat-burning machine since you're starving it from the simple carbohydrate/sugars that it would normally burn first.

thats about it. the rest of the book is devoted to levelling off your 'low carb' intake as you reach your goal weight and slowly adding more fruits and veggies back in.

eta opponents (notably loud-mouth dean 'asshat' ornish) claim it causes everything from gout to kidney stones and is inherently unhealthy.

my question to dickhead is most people i know that went on this couldn't lose weight any other way...but they lost a TON of weight doing this..and lost it pretty quickly..so whats worse? being extremely obese and doing the 'low fat' thing because you're scared you *MIGHT* get a kidney stone from the high-protein or dropping a shitton of weight quickly before you develop heart disease or diabetes or other obesity-related problems??

i'll take the massive weight loss for $100 alex and then re-regulate my diet/eating once i'm 75 lbs lighter.

again, once you're at your goal weight and things have settled down, you can pretty much eat any way you like..just watch the scales and cut back if you start gaining.

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Atkins works for some people, but I think a broader diet is long term healthier.

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Im sure it is too, I just needed a kick in the pants. Kind of like exercise, change it up a bit when you start to plateau.

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Maybe if I hit a serious plateau later on I'll switch to full-blown Atkins for a while to switch it up, but what I'm doing is working is fine for now.

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honestly..it sounds like you're doing the right thing..eating stuff that you can identify..fresh fruits and veggies..meats..dairy..just avoid the freaking canned veggies and processed food and you'll be ok.

i think processed foods have done more to contribute to obesity in this country than anything else. whatever happened to simple ingredients and knowing everything you were putting in your body?