congratulations!

I disagree. While exercise is incredibly important and having a fine-tuned body will help you burn calories even better, the control of intake is much more important than the control of expense.

If you typically eat 3500 calories a day and you knock that down to 2200 calories a day, that is a massive reduction and totally doable. You can do that with virtually no physical assertion, it simply takes willpower and a lot of habit changes. Now if you maintain that 3500 calories a day and try to burn off 1300 calories a day... wow... that's a lot of calories to burn and will take a LOT of effort.

Many many many people are skinny with absolutely no exercise. They control their intake. I get absolutely no exercise at all, and to counter that, I keep my caloric intake decent so that it does not make me pack on the pounds.

In the end, it's all about habits. To control your weight, you need to control your habits. Get good habits. Eat fairly decent, do a little exercise, don't be a lazy bum and you can be just fine.

The math behind weight loss is incredibly simple. And everybody knows this math. Where people have a problem is their habits and their lifestyles. Those absolutely must change in order to keep your weight off.

You are right.

Sugar drinks, fast food, frozen dinners... it's all garbage. It's totally fine once in awhile when you are in a pinch or you just want a little indulgence. But to live on garbage like that is just terrible.

I make my own frozen dinners right now instead of buying them. It actually works great. They are fast, they are very tasty, they are nutritious because they are not loaded with preservatives and other crap that you can't spell... and, it's cheap. Once every two months or so I make a giant pot of pasta, make a huge batch of sauce loaded with my favorite meat and jam packed with vegetables... and then I freeze it. One big batch like that will make around 15 dinners and it costs under $15 and tastes so much better.

I've been packing on the pounds in 2009. at this rate i will be a fatfuck by 2010. it's 100% shitty diet. i live off complete crap...

whoever said the problem is fatty's love for shit foods. that's 100% true. for my soon to be webmasterfat ass...

Can you post a bit more about the recipe/instructions for doing this please? I tend to use very bad language in the frozen foods aisle because I read the ingredients and I like to control what I put in my body. My desired foods do not include modified food starch -- well, I desire those, but I don't like how I feel if I eat them, and it would be awesome to be able to have convenient non-poison in the freezer.

My plan for the bestseller is to put heavily photoshopped "before" and "after" pictures on the cover, divide the common sense info into 10 arbitrary parts, and name it something like "10 simple steps to guaranteed weight loss" :winkwink:

Sure, it really is as simple as it sounds. So far I've done it with spaghetti with meat sauce and also pesto penne with sausage.

All you do is make up a huge pot of whatever you want. I do spaghetti. And then get out a large skillet to make your sauce. I do mine with ground venison, garlic, peppers, onions, mushrooms, assortment of spices, a fairly basic tomato sauce and then sometimes add in an extra can of diced tomatoes.

After it's all done I'll usually stick it in the fridge for a few days and eat it. And then when I'm tired of eating spaghetti for the week I'll load the rest up in sandwich sized freezer bags. Pop em in the freezer, all set. Then whenever you want an easy dinner or you want spaghetti, grab a package out of the freezer, rip it open and throw it on a plate, you may want to add just a touch of water to make it a little more moist and then you throw it in the microwave for a minute or two. Take it out, break it up a little more, throw it back in for another minute or two.

It sure beats the prepackaged ones. And you have total control over what goes into it.

Congratulations! ;)

do worry, I found and have it right here for ya :thumbsup

Honestly nothing new here, it's called common sense and discipline, if you write a book about this it will basically be a copy of 1000 other books.

Congrats on losing the weight, I am down 8 pounds in 2 months, but I need to work on my discpline to stick to just eat right

nice job

That doesn't even sound easy, much less ridiculously easy.
And I don't drink, don't drink coffee or tea, no white bread and I don't eat until I'm completely full. And yet not a single part of what you said sounds "easy".

It was easy because I got used to it quickly, and after that, it just happened naturally.

Congrats man I was at 285 about 45 days ago....Now I'm down quite a bit. I am just walking everyday, a few miles....nothing huge & watching the fastfood & crap food.

I think i will soon start a weight loss contest.....a real one, not like all the other bullshit ones that never amounted to anything in gfy history :)

Nice to hear you are controlling the intake and getting some excercise. I've been putting on quite a bit my self this year :(. Used to do a lot of excercise while eating lot's of junk and drinking every weekend. Now I seem to have kept 2 of those habbits, guess which. :upsidedow:Oh crap

Carry heavier guns to speed up the process! :thumbsup

Congrats, keep it up

Congrats! Keep it up

When you cut out meat in your diet, your metabolism speeds up. Most people do not realize how much work your body has to do just to digest meat. I really don't exercise much, but when I cut out meat I eat more vegetables, and more often. Your food digests so much faster when it is not flesh. I noticed the difference right away, and as soon as I eat meat I immediately notice my metabolism slows down.

congrats. :)

congrats

That is the right way to do it. Congrats.

Congrats

congrats

Thank you so much, Sly! I'm definitely going to try this. Actually kind of excited to try this. I guess I always assumed that the frozen dinners in the store were frozen through some secret magic formula, as opposed to, ya know, tossed in plastic after being cooked and made very cold.

Do you find that the food tastes particularly different when reheated from frozen from how it does when you first cook it or when you are only reheating from refrigerated?

pics or it didn't happen!

No not at all really. You may want to cook your noodles only to al dente so that the reheating doesn't break them down too much, but I haven't noticed it to be much of an issue at all.

If you put your mind to it it is easy. When you start seeing results it becomes ridiculously easy.

Damn congrats!!! 1.5 years ago I was at 207lbs 13% body fat loving life... Then I quit smoking got depressed quit the gym and NOW im at my all time sloppy looking weight! I'M 320 lbs Food was my friend but I start back at the gym Next Monday! But damn after smoking for 20+ years when I got my smell and taste back god damn food was soooo much better lmao

Why don't you share with us your situation and perhaps someone may have an idea where you can improve?

Creating a food log really helps, by the way.

That is awesome.
Congrats!

You don't even have to work out and you could have lost that or more easily

Just create a calorie deficiency and you will lose weight

Cut sat fat, sugar and complex carbs(normally sugar).

It's funny that you mentioned cutting saturated fat because I just finished an article about eating more saturated fat to cut weight.

Yah. I've lost 110lbs doing that (+ increasing a bit of exercise). EASY. Seriously.
You just need to want to do that and not cheat. :)