this is a winner for sure. i call it "no white foods" so no sugar, added salt, bread, pasta, rice, milk, cheese (no orange either). i had to follow this to drop the 7 i wanted to and also do this:

*no booze (yes i cheated and always paid for it cuz booze makes me forget not to eat french fries)
*no more than 1300 calories/day (was told no more than 1100 but couldnt do it)
*workout 5 days/week and take long walks/bike rides the days you skip

on lowering the calories to not exceed a certain amount, the only...only...only way it worked for me was very boring but i had to eat the same exact things every day unless i wanted to count them up like a freak. i am not good at keeping track of what i eat or counting them up so i just came up with the foods i could have all day that totalled 1300 calories and ate that every day. small meals/snacks spaced 2-3 hours apart.

included in my tiresome diet were eggs, tuna, apple, salad, 1c raw veggies, fish or chicken

drink nothing but water or green tea....NOTHING ELSE!

also, don't eat past 6pm

good luck girl, you can do it :thumbsup

Butterfingers candy bars 24/7. Trust me on this.

if i were to grub down a candy bar, a butterfingers would make the top 2-3 list.

babe ruth bar is in it to win it for sure though.

top 2

Stick your baby in a pushchair and go for a walk a couple of times a day.

Look at the difference in CurrentlySober's before and after the treadmill pics if you can find them.

Fatty........

The Scarsdale diet :)

HCG is one of the biggest diet scams ever and HCG does absolutely nothing for you when it comes to fat loss. HCG diet is nothing more than a severely restricted ketogenic diet (low carb). The HCG itself does nothing for you other than bump up a guys testosterone a little bit which has indirect and very limited fat burning benefits at those levels.

:2 cents:

Here's a very important dieting tip and the one big problem I have no matter how healthy I'm eating ..... Eating out of boredom. Make sure you don't eat while watching tv, surfing the net, etc.

Don't you just miss Hunter S. Thompson? I'm so pissed that he killed himself, taking the coward's way out. HUNTER!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrr. Love him.

I am currently on a diet to lose 10 pounds. Its really easy, you just have to eat less.. people act like losing weight is sooo difficult when all you have to do is eat like 1000 calories / day instead of 1500 - 2000.

If you think its hard you're just weak. You're telling me its difficult to stop your arm from shoving shit into your mouth for a couple of months? It's not, just don't do it.

Has anybody said it yet? The diet of not eatting like a pig works best. ;)

did lowcarb back then. it was super effective, was only hard to bear for like a week. then carbohydrates felt like ballast, i could avoid them just easily.

eating 6 small meals a day and exercising; rinse and repeat - cheat on the weekend.

I think that is what led to those few extra pounds.
:2 cents:

wahahaha yeah I missed that post but that's exactly what happened. It's all fun and games till one of them little fuckers get through :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

of course on not like that.. But you get the jist of what Im sayin...

Full of do as say not as I do tips from webmasters :)

great shout, but surely "you're the one for me fatty" would be more suitable here:1orglaugh

but shey i've been drinking green tea for the last 6 months or so and have shed about half a stone. gym/football about 3 times a week and pretty much eat what I want for main meals and dont know if its the tea but never fell the need to snack;)

and destroy your liver. I tried that for one day and it was worse than a hangover.

what the fuck were you eating? rancid seal meat?

You were probably going through carb withdrawals.. liver has nothing to do with that, it's the body adjusting to you not having all the sugars in your system.

there is some seriously good advices in this thread, some of it was directed toward you eh.

Damn girl, that is good but you have to have some serious self control. I could do it but I would not be able to follow it too long. How long did you have to be on it before you lost the lbs?

The main problem with me is that I need flavor and diversity so I'm first going to try phase one of South Beach for a couple weeks and see how that treats me but as soon as the weight scale levels and I stop dropping weight I'll have to go more drastic.

That is a great read, gonna be spending some time picking up loads of tips from there. Thanks a lot pare :winkwink:

This may sound counter-intuitive, but make sure you never get a hungry feeling. When you starve yourself, your body goes into starvation mode and its more likely to hang on to those extra pounds. That doesn't mean you need to eat a whole meal. Just snack on good, fat burning foods. Almonds, salmon, sardines -- and make sure you get some olive oil every day. It's good fat that actually helps get rid of bodyfat.

Drink a gallon of water per day.

Work some HIIT cardio into your workouts a few times per week. I've just started doing Tabata Protocol about 3 weeks ago, and those stubborn pounds have been melting away. It's only 4 minutes(or more) but will really tax your body and amp up your metabolism for the rest of the day.

http://www.tabataprotocol.com/ You can use almost any exercise for Tabata intervals, but sprinting works best. It will KILL you.

Get more sleep.

DO NOT STARVE YOURSELF. It's the worst thing you can do, and so counterproductive to losing wieght. Focus more on getting the daily maintenance calories you need(good calories), and burning more during the workouts. You can't avoid exercise if you want to get rid of "that stubborn last 10 pounds".

what did you get out of it/like about it?

It sounds like you want an effortless, tasty way to lose weight. It doesn't work like that. If you're not willing to work and suffer a bit, then you won't get there.

I just got done with HCG gold. from Feb 9 to today i lost 50lbs.

well, she did title the thread "what's the easiest diet....."

:winkwink:

Exercise it only gets worse the older you get.

Do you still drink and party like you are in your 20;s?

haha, I should have never even answered then. I doubt anyone asking that question is going to listen to sound advice that will actually be safe and work.

if you are eating only 1100-1300 calories a day you may as well not workout at all because you wont burn shit from it... as bronco67 said your body shuts down if you starve yourself.. so the only thing that will happen when you work muscles with such a low calorie intake is burn through muscle, which includes your heart...so if your looking to avoid heart failure maybe you should reconsider the calorie intake...

body needs fuel or it will break down like a car...

I'd say if I was looking to shed a ton of weight, then the extreme yet safe diets are the way to go. I only need 10 lbs and I don't need them gone in two weeks. Sure I want to steadily lose weight and I can do it by cutting half of the crap that I am currently eating but I guess I'm just looking for something that I know I can stick to longer term.

The problem with some diets is that they are so restrictive that once you reach your desired weight, you go back to unhealthy habits.

when i did that PSMF 12 day fast i started that thread about a few weeks ago, i learned that one can go 12 days on this sort of ultra-restricted diet before the metabolism goes into serious shutdown, and that's for peeps with very lof bf, can go longer than 12 days (bt not too much longer) with higher bf %s.

I'm checking it out.. and making notes.. Thanks dyna mo..:thumbsup

Again... HCG does NOTHING for weight loss. Period.

You've been scammed.

hey good luck man!


re: the mental v. physical issue you mentioned.

it boils down to making the decision. that's it. tony286's post was dead on- what's more important to you?

tony, how much have you lost now, 200+ pounds? how long have you been with your diet, 2 years-ish?

tony made a decision and that's all there is to that. :)

Consistency not just intensity is the key to everything.

Get a dog and walk him 3 times a day for 20-40 minutes each time. Just try to cheat on this workout and clean up piss and shit all over your house. Dogs = best trainers in the world. Add a push-up, weight, crunch workout for 45 minutes a day alternating muscle groups. Hardcore intervals only work if you are already in shape and/or exercising regularly so that you avoid injury which will HALT all progress.

Diet: If you can't grow it or kill it then don't eat it. The less man touches food the better it is for you. Drink lots of water. Only drink black coffee with honey as an energy booster. Starbucks milkshakes are 600 to 1300 calories EACH!!! In fact, fuck sugar altogether - only eat 1 "treat" once a week after you earned and deserve it. Keep your meals small and more frequent to keep your energy up and your fat storage down.

I lost 70 pounds in the last 5 months doing this. I lost over 105 pounds total in one year experimenting with diferent shit with varying results until I found my magic formula. The bottom line is consistency. Anyone can go all out balls to the wall for a short period, the key is to keep going. That's my :2 cents: Gotta go workout now.

Oh and BTW - nothing worthwhile is easy. Pain is growth. Anyone tells you diferent is selling something.

Tabata Protocol is great and I do it one or twice a week along with weights.

Grab one of these timers to help
http://www.gymboss.com/images/carousel/carousel3.jpg

hey, do y'all think that tabata interval would work running in place? sprint in place 20 seconds, jog in place 20 seconds?