Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR

Actually, I drink about 200 ounces a day and I'm piss like any normal person. As long as you spend an average amount of time in the GYM you'll sweat a lot of it out. Drinking massive amounts of water actually makes your metabolism skyrocket. and it makes the "munchies" pretty much stop, because you're always drinking water so your stomach thinks there's food in there, stopping your brain from going into "feed me" mode

Originally Posted by Mr Exotic

I been doing the slimfast thing. I take a shake for breakfast and lunch and eat a decent but not totally pig out dinner. Walk a mile and a half everyday and take some old Metabolift pills (I had them from last time I lost weight, quit smoking and got up to 333 and got back down to 300, these are the ones that have ephedra, not healthy but damn do they pump me up and make me feel good).
I have been very slowly losing weight the last year and half, I started playing in 2 softball leagues last year and this year and quit drinking soda, just doing those 2 things I went from 6' 1 and 315 pounds to 295 pounds. The last 2 weeks I decided to get serious with my weight loss because the softball leagues ended and last year after the leagues ended I gained 10 pounds right off, dont want that to happen again. Believe it or not I have such a large build that when I weigh 250 pounds I am in pretty good shape. Eventually I would like to get down to a little under 220, at 220 I may be a bit too skinny and weak feeling though. I guess I will quit losing weight when my body decides to since I have no problems keeping the slimfast diet the rest of my life, I feel so so so much better just after 2 weeks words cannot describe. Eating about 1/4 of what I used to eat combined with these energy/diet pills and exercise my energy levels are literally 100x of what they used to be.

Originally Posted by latinasojourn

yes, people badmouth slimfast but these kinds of things do work, and can fast start the weight loss which helps keep you motivated because you will see immediate progress---you NEED to see progress to stay on your program.

tip: on a shake type breakfast make it with 1% lowfat milk, add a banana, and about a cup of ice. mix in blender to put lots of air into it, this way it will trick you into thinking it is an ice cream fountain shake, but it will only seem like 1000 calories---drink a full glass of very cold water BEFORE drinking the shake, and a hot coffee (regular, no decaf) after the shake.

change shake flavors daily to add variety.

you will feel full on this for about 5 hours. (350 calories)

now keep it goin'.

Originally Posted by sharky

I've recently changed my diet to something similar. Now I say changed my diet instead of saying I am dieting. I am trying to make a lifestyle change here.

I am 6'1" and as of 2 weeks ago I was 340lbs. I'm a big guy, but not a blustering fat blob like some people my weight. I have a good amount of muscle mass, yet I'm no power lifter.

Today I weighed in at 328lbs. Not bad loss for 2 weeks. My target weight is 215lbs, exactly what I weighed before getting into this industry in 1996!

The posts that WTS-Ben made are great. Damn Ben, what an inspiration!