dieting

not an insane amount.

but atleast an hour everday

Originally posted by Gold Digger
, I lost 40 pounds on a low carb diet I made up on my own (kind of a mixture of the Atkins and the South Beach Diet) and now i can eat whatever I want.

Originally posted by soleran30
Well as far as the carbs go you will lose alot of weight quickly when you stop eating complex carbs simply due to a loss of glycogen
Best advice eat in moderation and EXERCISE. The key to sustained

Wrong....Your body and especially your brain needs a special sugar glucose from complex carbs....It's the processed carbs you need to avoid....and yes excises will do wonders..

What is a complex carbohydrate?
Carbohydrates are considered to be complex carbohydrates or simple carbohydrates based on their chemical structure. But, both have four calories per gram and and both are digested into glucose (a blood sugar). Glucose is used to fuel our bodies during work and exercise. Now days complex carbohydrates are considered to be "good" carbs, while simple are considered "bad. The reason for this is mainly based upon the time it takes for either to be digested by the body.

Simple Carbohydrates are digested very quickly and many simple carbs contain refined sugars and not a lot of essential vitamins and minerals. Simple carbs can be found in fruit and fruit juices, milk, yogurt, honey, and sugar.

Complex carbohydrates digest more slowly which is why they will leave you feeling full longer. They are generally full of fiber and vitamins and minerals. Complex carbs can be found in legumes, breads, pasta, vegetables, and cereals.

Experts recommend that we take in 50-60% of our calories from carbohydrates and most of them should be complex. Keep the simple carbs to a minimum and when you do consume them try to get them from yogurt and fruits because these things also contain vitamins and minerals.

You want to increase you metabolism....

Low-carb diets are terrible for your body. Diet soda is also very bad for you.

Just a note: low-fat and no-fat things aren't good for you when you're dieting, as your body needs fats. People tend to not lose weight - or gain more - if they eat a lot of no-fat stuff.

The best way to diet and lose weight is to do everything in moderation and eat healthily. Keep in mind though, that on average you should be losing no more than about 2 pounds a week, anymore than that isn't good for your body.

(I've got two doctors for aunts, so that's how I know this stuff)

You've all been brainwashed by Washington! All carbohydrates are is "mscileniouss macro-nutrients" a carbohydrate is anything that isn't a protien, a fat, ash, or water. That's it! It could be anything!

There's no possible way you could need that much of just "miscleniouss" besides, take a look at our anscestors. How much carbs could they've ate? Before realzing corn abd beans could be boiled and edible, they had to rely on what nature provided.

Fruits.
Nuts.
Eggs.
Milk.
Vegetables.
And meat.

Which are all okay in low-carb regims. (Some moreso then others..) but noticed none of those above have a whole lot of carbohydrates, and if they do, they're in the form of lactose or fructose, which doesn't have nearly as significant of an impact on the glocuse levels of your blood as sucrose or glucose..

They've been telling you carbs are the ticket, yet we have more diabetics in this country now then ever. You can blame it on processed foods, you can blame it on white bread, but when you get right down to it, all the process food, all the white bread, is still just that, bread. There's no justification for it other then "it taste good". As an avid fan of freedom of choice, I say go for it. If you like it, do it. But to me, carbs are like smoking or alchahol. Perhaps not quite on the same level..

But if you notice, alchahol turns to sugar in the body.
And so do carbohydrates.

Quincidence? Or massive conspiracy to detereminte our health so we have to work our asses off to buy medicines and feed the capitalist beast? Just say no to the global market..

But if you notice, alchahol turns to sugar in the body.
And so do carbohydrates.

Yeah, because alcohol is made of carbs. Carbs are sugars. Do you know anything of biology?

Your body has a way to convert just about anything you eat into glucose. Thats because even though your eating complex carbohydrates your body breaks it down into a simple sugar. So that was a very good break down of carbohydrates but like I said at the end of the day to lose alot of weight quickly cut the carbs and increase activity.

Not the best thing to do however it does work and works quickly. Also keep fats in your diet just be conscious of the types you consume. Monosaturated is best then poly then saturated and trans fats is like a saturated fat as far as your body is concerned for processing. So get crazy and have fun dieting 😮

Originally posted by Lana
Low-carb diets are terrible for your body. Diet soda is also very bad for you.

Just a note: low-fat and no-fat things aren't good for you when you're dieting, as your body needs fats. People tend to not lose weight - or gain more - if they eat a lot of no-fat stuff.

The best way to diet and lose weight is to do everything in moderation and eat healthily. Keep in mind though, that on average you should be losing no more than about 2 pounds a week, anymore than that isn't good for your body.

(I've got two doctors for aunts, so that's how I know this stuff)

well duh! Ofcourse that's the way it's SUPPOSE to be done. But nobody wants to do it that way because it take too long.

You are very correct but people want it done fast

Originally posted by Lana
Yeah, because alcohol is made of carbs. Carbs are sugars. Do you know anything of biology?

And because I major in biology I know your body doesn't NEED sugars, that's a LIE. If that were the case, the pncrease wouldn't breakdown and people wouldn't get diabetease in the first place! 😠

And it's not just cause "they didn't care of themselves" because how do children get it then? Badluck? What? Is it God's fault?

SpellJammer isn't falling for one of the many securalist lies force fed to him! My mother is dieing because of these lies, and she's the only person he trusts!

And that's why SpellJammer masters in biology and alcheimy.

I'm going to make sure no-one gets diabetease again. And destroy everything our evil goverment has created so they could have immortal seats of power. God help me, I'm going to need it..

Maybe you could spell it right then 😛

Kids get diabetes because their pancreas is unable to produce the insulin to break down the sugars; it can be brought on by an unhealthy diet but oftentimes it isn't. It can also be genetic. My brother's diabetic and it's not because of eating unhealthily, it's because it's something that runs in our family.

It's just like how some people can't tolerate lactose, except lactose-intolerance isn't deadly; if it were I'd be dead by now 😖

But the fact remains that the body burns carbs as its main source of energy. Yes, complex carbs are healthier for you than simple sugars. Personally I eat very little in the way of simple sugars, but I eat a lot of complex carbs (pasta mostly).

Originally posted by allofyousuckkk
ok i want to lose like 25 pounds in the next month and a half and for the last week ive ben living off portions of special k, small cans of chicken noodle soup and and 1 egg wih one slice of cheese...its going good but i cant get over the fact of drinking only water and like skim milk and i can't stop my self from drinking a TON of arizona iced tea...hmmm...any suggestions...also any suggestions on diets that work better?

Um...what you're doing sounds very unhealthy. Don't be a retard. You can eat whatever you want in moderation. Let me repeat: You can eat whatever you want in moderation. That includes cake, cookies, brownies, candy, and spoonfuls of sugar.

If you're going to starve yourself or some other stupid crap in hopes of attaining a body that is only feasible via platic surgery, then I'm going to start making fun of you.

Eat less, move around a bit more.

Simple.

Originally posted by botankus
In order to make sure your diet is 100% healthy, all that alcohol should be regurgitated.

On top of running around a bit more and eating less:

Don't give up the crack.

That's a neat little tidbit that everyone can find fun, young and old.

Originally posted by Red Superfly
On top of running around a bit more and eating less:

Don't give up the crack.

That's a neat little tidbit that everyone can find fun, young and old.

Originally posted by FeceMan
Coke addicts are teh uber thin.

There's a moral in there, kids.

Why do you think Diabetes is on the rise?...especially in children? Hmmmmmm?...What are those kids eating that they didn't eat 50 year or even 20 years ago....It's the carbs....Not the complex carbs....It causes the pancreas to over work....produce much too much insulin for compensation for it.....and why are there more heart probs. in the US?...High protein diets...ie meat, big portions at every meal..(mega meal)...ever watch the movie {Super Size Me?)...and all the fat.....Look at what was the average diet years ago...more simple, not that many heath probs.....It used to be that only older people were getting these health probs...but now it's the little kids....who ever heard of kids with diabetes before 20 years ago?.....Study...nutrition and biology....Its been said that the more man tampers with food the more unhealthy it is for you.....

Even besides that ...it's all the additives ...just not natural....What is it?....Do you Know.?....Why is it that the US soldiers in the Vietnam war weren't decomposing...as fast as the Vietnamese were?....preservatives....and what's that doing to you now?????MSG...Nutrasweet.......But that's another story......

I believe diabetes is on the rise due to a lack of consumption of processed carbohydrates and craptastic methods of exercise! 😮‍💨

Um, diabetes in children still existed 20 years ago; as I said, it's not always caused by diet, a lot of the times it's genetic.

Okay, that much I will give you. Cause I follow pretty strictly "if it aint natural, it aint in me" and workout around an hour or atleast twenty minutes a day of cardio then push weights while watching adult swim and my pancrease STILL only works sub-par. I'll probably have to take pills in about ten years..

But I've always enocuraged people to cut the carbs and they feel great. They have more energy, their moods have improved, it raises the amount of testerone in the body do to higher protien levels thus encouraging more muscle mass and a healthier physique. The only bad thing about low-carb is if you fake it and just consume sugar free cookies and ice-cream which defeats the whole purpose. Infact in alot of ways low-carbing is like vegetarinsm. Sure they obviously have very differant politics when regarding the animal, but I've noticed both are alot happier. And besides the occassional starch lover, most vegetarians don't even like pasta and rice..

Heck, even the Chinease who are KNOWN for rice don't really eat that much of it. They just eat small bowls mostly poured with a ton of steamed vegetables or they have steamed vegetables with rice sprinkled on it. South Beach my ass, Mo' like South Korea! 😛

My philosophy is to accept the weight and learn to love it droolio

I'm obese really 😍