middle_age_man       05-05-2005, 10:32 pm

Eat sensibly and walk everywhere, everyday. Do and hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. The weight will come off slowly but it will be easier to keep it off. It worked for me when it was time to take off the post smoking weight. Good luck.

uart       05-05-2005, 10:32 pm

I lost a lot of weight a couple years ago. It was really simple:

1) Eat less snacks (in fact, eat no snacks)
2) Exercise as much as you can -- either running a mile or walking a few feet, its all good. You should also try the standards.. push ups, sit ups, or maybe lifting weights.
3) Drink diet soda -- as shitty as it may be there are no calories. Actually, drink diet caffeine free soda.
4) Reduce caffeine intake -- you should eliminate it, but thats unreasonable to ask, so just cut back.

5) Eat a small breakfast (or sleep till lunch and eliminate it altogether, like I do). For lunch hand dinner, just don't eat a big bowl of bleu cheese dressing or anything ridiculous (yet tasty) like that.

I lost like 30 pounds doing that, you just gotta get into the right groove with the exercise.

fastlane       05-05-2005, 10:45 pm

Crack cocaine!1!

ragoo       05-05-2005, 10:49 pm

Wow, you really did look like this guy on the left:


Losing weight and keeping it off is a bitch, my friend. I've settled in around 250 lbs, and could easily stand to lose a quarter of that. Moderate, regular cardio exercise is key to long-term fitness, but strength training builds muscle which, in turn, burns fat faster. Nothing you probably don't know already. All things in moderation. Good luck 2 U.

Dumbskull       05-05-2005, 11:46 pm

No need to fret LK, you will loose some of this recently gained baby weight through sleep deprivation and the ingestion of large amounts of coffee that will make you shit your brains out. Nevertheless, before you jump head first into any diet and/or exercise regime beat your little flat fat Canuck feet to the DR and get a FULL physical with thyroid, cholesterol and glucose tests also include an EKG for your pumper.

The fad diets are all bull shit. You need three meals a day with protein, carbohydrates and SOME limited fats. Your Dr. will be able to tell you which diet is best for you.

Most people go through their days poking all sorts of delightful yummies in their pie-hole without much of a care. My wake up to reality was seeing pictures of my graduation in 1999… I FILLED OUT THE GODDMAN GRADUATION GOWN! OMFG! WTF? OINK! Of course at my graduation last year I laughed out loud at the oinker sitting in front of me who was …. Stretching out her gown at the seams.

One thing I can tell you is don’t get hung up on weight. I am 5-11 and if I weighed what the charts claim I should at my age… I would make Calista Flockhart look chunky.

madturk       05-06-2005, 12:06 am

I try to manage my weight with regular activity - but it's gotta be something I ENJOY doing. I can't stand jogging, weight rooms, fitness clubs, crunches, and (needless to say) jazzercise. I do like mountain biking and backcountry skiing. Around here (and probably up there in the Great White North) that takes care of most of the year. I was skiing in my backyard on March 28 and then biking dry trails on April 5. Of course I had to build skills, but after a few years you go up a level or two and it becomes real fun, and a way to moderate the intake (which I have to get a handle on like anyone else - that's the hardest part in my opinion). Anyway, do what makes you happiest, as long as you're sweating (this brings to mind one GREAT way to lose weight....constant fuking, day and night. Tones your ass nicely too, right 'Mog?).

All that said, I'd benefit from a few crunches daily. Damn, I hate them.

And don't forget, body type has a part to play too. Endomorphic types like myself tend to still look "chunky" even at optimum weight. So don't feel bad if you're not looking like Arnold - most of us can only dream of being that chiseled, hunky and ..... oh wait, I was thinking of Raquel Welch. Nevermind.

nocal       05-06-2005, 12:16 am

Ok I'm an athlete so I know a little about all this shite, and I say:

-NO SODA WHATSOEVER. Serious. Drink 100% juice, water, even up to 2 beers a day. Soda, and anything that says "high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar" on it is seriously horrible for you. Diet soda is a slightly better, but still shitty, choice. Also I would say no coffee and cigarettes obviously. Just a good amount of water.
-3 meals a day, no snacking (unless you want maybe celery with NATURAL peanut butter or plain popcorn)
-Non-fat salad dressing, no butter on popcorn, or other added shit that royally fucks a perfectly good thing.
-Fresh fruit is good for desert, and adding non-fat yogurt is good too
-Keys for dinner: fish (esp. tuna, raw or canned), chicken (no skin), steak is ok in moderation if it's not fatty, very low-fat hamburger, turkey/turkey burger...for salad, even though it's bitter as fuck and all that I eat spinach leaves. Guaranteed they're a million times better for you than shitty old lettuce leaves. Put non-fat dressing with that, maybe a hard-boiled egg, it's not so bad. Try to stay away from pasta and other carbs before bed, because that gives you stores of energy which will turn to fat if you don't burn it.
-Keys for breakfast: stay away from stuff like pancakes and bacon. Eggs are good, fruit, oatmeal, a bagel with natural peanut butter (no sugar added jelly is surprisingly awesome by the way, try Polaner's).
-With carbs: they, in and of themselves, are not EVILATKINSDEATH. Make sure you go for stuff that isn't refined white flour. Go for wheat if you don't already. Also, like I said earlier, not before bed...carbs are great before exercise, so probably in the morning do that. Go for wheat or spinach pasta, wild (brown) rice, etc.
-If you don't like vegetables that much, I say go with fresh instead of canned or frozen. A million times the improvement. Also, cutting up something like a fresh mango or pineapple is awesome tasting and won't make you feel like a total prisoner with a diet.

That's all I can think of for that diet shits...

EXERCISE

-What you want to start with is certainly walking. That was a great response. You should walk as much as you can.
If you don't walk much during the day, take maybe a short break at work and walk down the block.
SET ASIDE TIME EVERY DAY or you will fall out of the habit and stop. Find nice places like trails and shit, that motivates me to run.
Get good walking shoes, because walking can hurt you in your back, hips, and all the same muscles that running can. Don't get running shoes though, because walking in running shoes actually isn't that great for you. Try some stretching, it helps.
Work up to do more and more; what can help this is having "hard" days and "moderate" days. Like, monday you walk 2 miles, tuesday you walk 1 mile, wednesday you walk 3 miles, thursday you walk 1 again etc. This schedule will help you work up (don't move too quickly) without killing yourself over too much walking.
Weights: you want to lose weight, so less weight with more reps. Join a gym if you can, don't feel bad at all if you don't know how to lift. You can learn from the douchebag musclehounds you're paying by attending their gym.
I would reccommend that lifting-wise, you do: chest, arms, abs, legs, back. This would entail: bench press/push-ups, arm curls/pull-ups, triceps/diamond push-ups, sit-ups/crunches/leg raises, leg curls and leg extensions, and that fucking machine where you bend over and then straighten your back. Sounds like a lot, but I usually do the lifting part in under 45 minutes. Do that every two days or so, then work up to every other day. Start with not much weight if you're rusty at this or don't know what you're doing and don't try to be tough and do more than you can handle. You look stupider struggling to get the bar off your chest than when you're easily lifting a small amount.
If you don't want to lift at all, I strongly suggest swimming. Awesome total body workout, burns fat, no impact. It's very good for you and I wish I was good at it.

And I hope that at least some of this matters

Stump       05-06-2005, 01:21 am

Up your calorie intake to around 9600 a meal. In a few months or so you won't be able to turn over without using a paddle and complicated sets of rope and pullies. Canada = socialized medicine right? Free liposuction and stomach stapling, weight gone. There are two or three other options to end this if that doesn't work for you:

1)Resort to having to use a crane and flatbed to truck your fatass to the hospital, resulting in a media circus and then strike a deal with Richard Simmons to launch Canadian versions of "Sweating to the Oldies".

2)Find the nearest beach (inland lakes better) to lie on until the animal rescue people come to save you and bring you to SeaWorld for rehabilitation.

3) Do what NoCal says, its sensible. Remember one thing they taught us in the service, your abs are the only muscles that can be worked everyday. The only caveat I'd make to NoCals post is to try to master your own bodyweight over using the gym: pushups, situps, etc.. If your knee or legs already are hurting because of excess weight avoid running until you've lost some as it will only fuck your knees and leg joints up even worse; try biking or that gay stairclimber/elliptical thing at the gym.

dagwood       05-06-2005, 02:21 am

Man, I won't presume to be the last or best word on this but I'm holding my weight nicely @ 41despite no longer working at the physical shop job I had for 6 months. They can tell you all kindsa techical stuff about calorie, carb and fat intake, metabolism, muscle mass etc., but for me it's how much I eat not so much what. An exception is sausage, that shit will kill you, I love it but I just can't it tells on me too bad. We are a super-sized society, apparently it took its toll and you for one are inclined to do something about it. That's good, your wife and baby will be able to thank you in some years for your continued existence.
All things in moderation seems to be the catchphrase here and certainly is applicable. You don't have to feel so much like you're denying yourself something you crave or deserve or that you just don't wanna live without if you don't over indulge.
Eat light and regular, keep your metabolism and your blood sugar up. Crackers, simple sandwiches, fruit is good, yoghurt too, balance bars or zone bars with a banana make a great breakfast. The water is supposed to be the very best thing, but I drink coffee in a 34oz cup all day , every day, so I don't know 'bout no water.

Eat often and light, you will notice that you don't get that hungry really. If you stop eating before you're full, wait 5 minutes, you will be full. It's the habit patterns that get us I think, fill a plate and grub, if every small thing is a little meal, you never need a big meal. For me chocolate chip mint ice cream is a killer, cc cookies too, so I just don't, can't have 'em around. Once a month, maybe indulge, but get some help with that half-gallon or whatever it is you could eat a whole box of. As far as activity, it is certainly easy to stay glued to the screen, but I force myself to get up and do a little bit in between every session, just 10 minutes of something is better than nothing, yard or housecleaning are always good and necessary. I've rambled enough,just wanted to say I admire your commitment to change. I've at least reinforced what I know I need to do myself, starting with the damn leaves. Good luck with that, hang in there, sounds like you've got plenty of support.

uart       05-06-2005, 05:53 am

Can I change my answer to what nocal said? He had a good response, that was essentially what I was going after, except more laid back and also I didn't want to type a lot.

Anyway, the really important thing to remember is that if you burn more calories than you eat, you're going to lose weight. So once you reach your target weight you can slowly eat a bit more until you're maintaining that weight (but don't stop exercising -- ever, my dad did this and the next thing you know, you're going to be back where you started). Also you don't want to make sure you have a target weight, and make sure its in the "healthy" range, because otherwise, once you get on a roll, you'll just keep losing. I was down to almost 130 before I stepped on a scale, shit my pants (figuratively?), and bought a box of twinkies to rectify the situation.

Someone else suggested seeing a doctor (well a couple people), and thats actually a good idea. If you're about to get into an exercise program of any sort you need to make sure everything is working. You may also want to see a doctor who specializes in weight loss, they know what they're doing, and they'll set a diet specialized for you and hold you hand in all kinds of other ways.

vasudeva       05-06-2005, 07:21 am

Things I've learned:

• If you're fat now, then your muscles are already doing some work every day just carrying you around and holding you up. This means when you start losing weight you're going to find you've got quite a muscle-mass headstart on the skinny kids who never made it to the gym. You might be surprised at the buff (gay disco dancer) lurking inside you.



• Water. Seriously. Especially if you overeat. Drink as much water as you can and you'll be less hungry, much better hydrated, and the frequent trips to the bathroom will be good for you in a lot of ways.



• Don't overeat. It's a fun sort of ascetic trick to train yourself into stopping when you're no longer hungry, as opposed to stopping when you can no longer pack any in. Feed the machine but don't take on ballast.



• Don't eat out. This include take-out and delivery. Commercial "chefs" really do not give a fuk about you and just want the food to taste good enough that you don't complain, so they use lots of butter and mayo and whatever the fuk else makes food taste good. Obviously, you'll still be eating out, so get in the habit of telling the waitress not to use butter or cream cheese or gravy or whatever. This may be tough because Westerners are a fat people and waitresses are accustomed to piling on the delicious fats. I have the hardest time getting a plain bagel from the waitresses at the cafe near my work because they just can't believe anyone would really want a dry bagel. "No dairy" works well and makes them think you're some kind of stupid vegan and they'll be afraid if they screw up you'll throw a neu-hippie hissie-fit in the restaurant. (God help you in the land of poutine and back bacon.)



• Devalue meals. This one is tough, especially with family, because meals tend to be social times, but it's easy to make your evening revolve around dinner, which is probably not a good way to do things if you're trying to get less dinner on your body. Think of it as fuel first and only occasionally the smorgasbord eat-circus we all love so much.



• Exercise is key, even if it's just walking around a bit.



• Really. Exercise.



• Remember I love my Kahuna big, so don't get crazy, at least not til I've had time to adjust.

vladtweano       05-06-2005, 07:48 am

and lay off the giant marshmallo peepachus, you fuking gromf

vladtweano       05-06-2005, 07:58 am

mineralGod       05-06-2005, 08:39 am

Definetly drinks lots of water, from what I understand, dehyrdation is often mistaked for hunger, so if you feel some hungry pains, have a glass or three.

Go Vegan! LOL, or just try to cut out cheeses and dairy, and try to eat more complex carbs (pastas..etc).

I've also heard that eating more often in smaller doses helps to keep your metabolism jacked up, thus you process what you eat faster instead of being stored.

Definetely stay away from all diet sodas and anything with Aspartame in it !

uart       05-06-2005, 08:51 am

Some people (like me) just can't stop drinking soda. I'm just so used to it, and I'm addicted to its caffeine, etc.

Diet sodas can actually make you feel hungry when you aren't, which can be dangerous to a diet. However, if you are a soda whore like myself, just drink it and know that you aren't really hungry.

dent       05-06-2005, 09:16 am

Huna, go buy some books or talk to your doctor about visiting with a nutritionist. There are so many ways to lose weight, build muscle. What works for someone else may not work for you, depending on what's beneath your skin.
• Also, don't take advice from an "athlete" who weights 170lbs, take advice from someone who has lost 170lbs or helps people lose weight for a living.

mundhra       05-06-2005, 09:26 am

i had mentioned some stuff, but i will write it down just for you.

-eat breakfast/don't skip meals. i used to skip breakfast because it made me hungrier, but being hungry is a good thing. skipping meals means you will gorge yourself later. eating 5 smaller meals sounds/is good, but it can be kind of hard when you're busy. also, front load your calories; try not to make dinner the biggest meal.

-eat until you're not hungry, not until you're full. eat a small portion and then stop. on weekends i'll get hungry and eat a banana and then find something to do. i find that it does a good job relieving hunger where i normally would've eaten more.

-drink lots of water.

-eat healthier: more vegetables. whole wheat > refined. fish > chicken > beef. i've been eating less meat altogether and it seems to help. don't avoid carbs, but don't overdo them, either.

-less sauce, condiments, soda, etc. empty calories do you no good. also, in response to nocal i know people that gained weight drinking fruit juice. fruit is good; juice - not so much.

-get more fiber.

-less dairy. broccoli has enough calcium to keep you rocking.

-more exercise. start off slow and just walk if you need to.

-don't eat out.

-don't buy junk. do not get ice cream thinking you will eat two small scoops every night. same with cookies.

gothmog       05-06-2005, 10:05 am

LK, I feel for ya. I've been up and down for years, and i've tried pretty much every diet I could find, and for the most part they work great. The key is having the willpower to stick to the rules. My problem is that the shitty ass rules are often not fit for long term american adult human consumption, so you end up falling back into the excess beer/takeout/dining out/watching tv cycle sooner or later. Winter is a bitch as well, as people tend to get more lethargic at that time.

BBP was my last supper, and I'm already back on the diet wagon. I've read others suggestions and know that everyone has their own personal voodoo, so I'll throw in a bit of my own:

- snacks: can be a blessing or a curse. The diets I lost weight the quickest in had regular snacking. Sounds strange, but it keeps your metabolism and energy levels up. Just make sure you're eating something that's low in either fat or carbs, and doesn't have an abundance of calories, and you'll be fine. A handful of peanuts (no salt/dry roasted), a string cheese stick, celery with a little light cream cheese, handful of pretzels, etc. It's once you start back into the vending machine snacks that you start packing the pounds back on.

- no fat/no carbs: If you're looking for the jumpstart weight loss, then you should pick one of the strict no fat/no carbs diets at least for the induction type periods. This will help you get the push to keep going. Nothing is more disappointing than eating 100% healthy and running 20-30 minutes a day to find that you've either gained weight or loss 1-2 lbs. Old routines come back quickly when you don't see results.

- exercise: Don't think that you need to hit the gym 5 nights a week or pound the treadmill for an hour a day. Those things will definitely help get the weight off faster, but if you can put in at least 20 minutes a day just walking around your neighborhood, you'll do what you need to keep your metabolism up. Start simple, and ramp up as your body and schedule seem fit.

- willpower and focus: Don't try to juggle too much at once. I'm sure it would be nice to cut down on the drinking, smoking, and/or cocksucking, but for now you're focusing on dieting, so focus on that.

Good luck, dude. If you're willing to do some kind of weighoff or group tracking let me know, I'd like to join.

hobo       05-06-2005, 11:27 am

EAT A CARROT YA FAT FUK

lilbabypissmouth       05-06-2005, 07:46 pm

Kahuna, when i was in college, instead of the freshman-15, I gained the freshman-45...oh yes...I was a big CNY fatty at 5'2" 175 pounds. I scared small children. (The only upside was that I had massive tits; unfortunately, they fluctuate with my size *carp sad*)
Anyways, lots of good advice given already...here are my tricks to feel good, strong, and somewhat healthy (I'm gonna start working on the drinking/smoking now-especially after this BBP-I AM FEELIN MY AGE, yo!)

**DS nailed it - Get throughly checked out soon.

**SUBSTITUTE ALL LIQUIDS WITH WATER - I'm serious (even beer for maybe a month or so). I was close to a 12 pack of coke a day and lost 10 pounds the first week - granted I was miserable, felt like shit, and hated everyone, BUT I LOST TENS POUNDS- glee!! And I did get over it. Now, all I really drink is alcohol and water!! I am one hydrated bitch.

**UP YOUR INTAKE OF WATER. Carry a 16 oz water bottle around with you everywhere, all day long. Take sips every few mins and when you feel hungry--chug it and wait ten mins - COUNT THOSE OUNCES. Make yourself drink atleast 4 refills a day (even if you dont want to). Still hungry after all that water? Eat some veggies.

**Eat in moderation, and I know this sounds wasteful, but push your plate away when you have a fist sized amount left on your plate; until you get used to eating less, hence serving yourself less. You have to train your stomach, shrink it down.

**HANG A PICTURE OF A SLIMMER YOU next to whatever you snack on the most...I know this sounds gay BUT THIS IS WAR AND ITS YOU vs YOU; a mental mind fucking, yes...

The hardest part is changing your habits and not feeling like you're actually on a diet. When you overindulge one day, then be especially vigilant the next.

oh yeah and exercise, I never did to initially lose, but I currently play softball twice a week so I guess that's somethin. TAKE THE NEW SPROG FOR A WALK...mmmm, yes.

GOOD LUCK, LK - still the coolest elvis evar!

LBP

middle_age_man       05-06-2005, 08:44 pm

I'd like to add that my wife did Weight Watchers online. She followed the points system and had great success. The points thing really put portion control into perspective for me.

shitbox       05-07-2005, 02:03 am

LK!

Another Last resort is METH!
Im not sure what part of the country you live in but where im form, the dope is outta control. When i quit the "shit" as THEY call it, i gained 35 pounds in less than a month. So think of the possibilites. There are lots of fad diets out there but none work. The ONLY thing that does work is changin your eating habits and excersise. THATS IT. Drinking lots of water also helps. Staying away from coffee and sodas is good too. Drink ROCKSTARs like they are goin outta style!

NOTE: This advice comes courtesy of a 6"2 170lb twig.
Good Luck my nigga.
(stop wearing flowered mumus)

ghostrider       05-07-2005, 07:43 am

Richard Simmons can help you !

LuckyLuciano       05-07-2005, 11:00 am

fat elvis>skinny elvis

hobo       05-07-2005, 04:13 pm

First, you have to want to lose the weight.

Having said that I also must remind you that at your current weight, serious adverse health effects can and will occur.

So for your family and for yourself it would behoove you to shed your winter coat and skinny down a little. You don't have to go by those ridiculous government weight charts. Just get to a weight you feel comfortable at.

Mofo       05-07-2005, 07:00 pm

Eat your biggest meal at lunch, not dinner. America has it backwards, everyone else has it correct.

Most juice contains just as much suger/high fructose corn syrup as soda, if not more.

Turn the heat on in the summer and sweat that shit out.

ghostrider       05-07-2005, 10:49 pm

this is the ghayest journal title evar

tantrum       05-07-2005, 11:03 pm

yes. pud pound?

bigandy       05-09-2005, 04:16 pm

LK, I'm a big bastard too, but as of late I've been losing weight by eating better and eating less. I completely quit drinking soda, even diet. I tried jogging and walking alot but it was killing my joints, so I decided to ride a stationary bike, for 30 minutes non-stop at a good pace, every night. I also started lifting weights every other night after biking. I've only been doing it for a couple of weeks man, but I've already started seeing results, and I feel a lot fucking better about myself.

lever       05-09-2005, 11:19 pm

This wil be getting to sound a bit redundant, but what the hey. I lost a large amount of weight and there is nothing magical about doing it. It requires you to change habits and remain disciplened.

I did a fair amount of research into the way your body physiologically processes food and how it burns energy as well.

First, make sure you don't have a medical condition that affects how you process food. If you don't, then the concept for success is really pretty simple - expend more calories than you consume. The trick is actually doing this and keeping doing it every week.

How to do this. Reduce your caloric intake. There are easy ways to figure out how many calories you need to consume in order to maintain basic body functions (I can dig some stuff up if you like). You want to be eating slightly less than you require. If you have a fair amount of extra weight, this might be easier than it sounds. The more flesh you have, the more requirements you have to keep it fed. So, you can still be eating a fair amount and losing weight. Starting with a food journal for a week is a good way to see how much you are actually eathing now.

A key thing to NOT to do though is to consume far too few calories. If you way under consume your body will go into starvation mode and will start hoarding your body fat (the most valuable and final resource consumed in starvation mode - you will lose lean mass (muscle) first). Also, you will feel hungry all the time and that won't last - it is a huge demotivator and will lead you back to eating too much.

Eat good food, the less commerical processing the better. The fewer the ingredients on the package, the better. The more whole foods you eat the better. Eat lots of raw fruits and veggies. They are loaded with great vitamins and they are also very filling, and, mostly, very low in calories. Fruits are higher, but compared to a big mac (guessing here - 800 calories and 25 fat grams, 0 fiber), two apples is a lot better (memory guessing a bit again - 250 calories - 0 fat grams, 6 grams fiber). Both would probably make you feel equally full, but you can see which is the healthier and more calorie effiecient choice. Make sure you get adequete protein from whatever source - just make it lean. Reduce your fat content to about 15-20% of the calories you need each day. Avoid the saturated fats (health again). Reduce your intake of refined sugars - soda, etc. They spike your insulin levels and are a dense source of calories - and, they don't make you feel very full. Drink water instead.

Also, as long as you are making progress - allow yourself to cheat on at least one or two meals a week - but don't go overboard. You need rewards to keep motiviated. Bad foods aren't a sin, but you need to show yourself you can control consumption of them.

Exercise on a daily basis as much as possible. This increases your calorie deficit and makes your body a better fat burner. Once you do it long enough, you will crave it. Minimum is 5 times a week. Try to work up to a minimum of 30-60 minutes of aerobics a day. Add weight training after a couple months to help increase tone and maintain lean muscle mass (you will inevitabley lose SOME muscle due to the way your body phsiologically burns calories and stored fat).

Maybe this is obvious, but aerobics is simply getting your pulse into the "training" zone (again, easily calculable, I can pull out the charts if you want) and maintaining that for the duration of the activity. In fact, you want to keep to the lower range of the training zone, as your body burns more fat stores at that level rather than reaching for more pure stored glucose as happens with higher aerobic levels and strength training. Vigorous walking is a simple and pretty impact free way of starting. Exercise also primes your metabolic pump. The more you do, the better your body gets at accessing your fat stores.

Weigh yourself once a week - the same day each week, and around the same time if you can (reduces variables - your weight can change by five pounds or more depending on if you've just eaten, drunken a gallon of water, taken a dump, etc. ). Weighing yourself is a way to keep motivated. It allows you to see your success and maintain motivation. Other things do that too, but this, along with stuff like shrinking clothes sizes, give you tangible numbers to show your progress.

A safe amount of weight to be losing using these methods is about 2 pounds a week. Go above that and you are losing a bit more lean mass than you'd like and though you are likely losing more fat, it can be hard on your gallbladder (gallstones can develop - did for me) and, less so, on your liver.

Finally, cliche time - if you fall off the horse, get right back on. Perseverence is key.
So, motivation helps. Like I said, numbers to monitor help. Also, the support of friends/familiy helps. Try to get a few weeks under your belt (so to speak) and then you can begin to share the successes with them. They'll praise you, you feel good, etc. Also, having a workout pal helps with motivation too, if you can manage it. It also keeps you accountable to someone else.

Try it, see how you do. If you don't have the disciplene to lose weight this way, there is always gastric bypass as a last resort. But, that's major surgery and still not 100% successful (though it does wonders for some).

Hope I haven't said too much.

autoshoes       06-27-2005, 01:04 pm

freakmachine       06-27-2005, 01:17 pm

I am a thin little bitch with a naturally high metabolism. Listen to nothing I have to say in this matter because I don't know what the fuck I am talking about.

On that note, I think all the bases are covered here.

Clavis_Apocalypticae       06-27-2005, 01:17 pm

Nice nonimage, clownshoes.

How goes the withering, LK? We demand updates!!!

mundhra       06-27-2005, 01:33 pm

autoshoes meant to say:

demagogue       06-27-2005, 01:54 pm

You can't help yourself. It's been scientifically proven. Find the nearest Fast food cook and discuss your diet options with him. He works with food, so he should be able to help you.

LORDKAHUNA       06-27-2005, 02:28 pm

Well Clavis I've lost about 15 lbs, but I probably gained it all back with all the fuking beer/eats I've consumed this past weekend (Mrs. Kahuna's berfday).

Clavis_Apocalypticae       06-27-2005, 03:55 pm

I knew vas & lbp would be a harmful influence on you...

vasudeva       06-27-2005, 08:08 pm

:>

Acidburn       06-27-2005, 11:06 pm

government_death_robot       06-28-2005, 12:48 am

You can do it.
I BELIEVE IN YOU.

LOLEMOBOLDING.

shitbox       06-28-2005, 02:27 am

middle_age_man       06-12-2006, 10:16 pm

It’s a year later. How goes the battle?

LORDKAHUNA       06-13-2006, 06:16 am

Haha, I'm still fat, although probably in slightly better shape.

THANKS FOR THE TRIP DOWN AMNESIA LANE.

sunny77       06-13-2006, 07:21 am

well, i'm a little person (again) and after i got outta rehab i weighed a disgusting 149 pounds. now im back down to 114 and loving it. what i did: didn't eat just to be eating, just ate when i was hungry and didn't gorge myself. cigarettes worked well as an appetite suppressent nonetheless, and the pounds melted off. i didn't care what i ate, i just pretty much ate when i was hungry. try this, it could help.

autoshoes       06-13-2006, 08:30 am

I had been concurrently trying to lose weight starting around the same time kahuna posted this. I think i've lost about 15-20lbs, which has actually made a big difference. I still gorge on chips or whatnot when i have the urge, but i've been doing a good job by just not buying the unhealtist of stuff in the first place.
and i try to work out, but it's difficult to stay motivated/make the time to do so. but some working out once a week is still better than none.

i went to the store yesterday and bought almost nothing but salad stuff and beer. you can't give up the beer...
oh, and you get drunk easier without all the bodymass. whoohoo!

good luck big K. don't give up.

mofo       06-13-2006, 11:33 am

cigarettes worked well as an appetite suppressent nonetheless, and the pounds melted off.
those were your lungs.

mofo       06-13-2006, 11:34 am

Well fuck me silly.

goddam /

vasudeva       06-13-2006, 04:50 pm

Don't beat yourself up, mofo. It is still beautiful.

shitbox       06-15-2006, 03:26 am

You don't have one of these in ya do you?

daisyraven       06-15-2006, 06:03 am

There is only one way to lose weight: Consume fewer calories than you burn.

MOMAD       06-15-2006, 11:35 am

Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice really aren't bad at all. It's just that the portions are smaller than what you're probably used to. Lean Cuisine even makes panini sandwiches. You can eat weight watchers stuff too, which is just as good, without going to all those stupid meetings and "weighing in" in front of everybody. You don't really have to eat less either, just eat better. And yeah, exercise is essential, even if it's just a little extra walking at first. Good luck, man! I'll miss the extra kahuna, but a kahuna with less to love is better than a kahuna that's ded from heart attack!

wolfer       06-16-2006, 03:07 am

Someone once told me this (no lie). I have never tried it cause I was high when he told me and I thought the dude was a fuckin weirdo. Maybe you can try it.

He told me that if you eat, eat sitting down, when your done wait 15 minutes to get up. When you get up, get up quickly and your body will want to take a shit. So...let me know if it works. I still wont try it though.

qwerty       06-16-2006, 03:44 am

Acheron       06-17-2006, 01:25 am

Around december of last year I weighed almost 225. Since that time I lost a girlfriend, a shitty job and 40 pounds. Drink lots of water, buy no snack food (I understand this is difficult when living with family, etc.) work a lot and never eat except for major meals. I don't give myself time to dick around and gain weight and now I'm at about 185 and still losing weight. Also lost a bit of muscle mass, but oh well.

azron123       06-21-2006, 10:40 am

Cheer Up LK. You turned puking into an art form. No anorexic twatwaffle could ever do that.

LOki       06-21-2006, 03:47 pm

SMOEK YERSLEF THIN!!!!!!!!

dinozoa       06-21-2006, 03:55 pm

This may sound completely unacceptable, but you might try being vegetarian/vegan to lose weight. I recommend vegan if you really want to lose weight, because you can't really eat anything, whereas with vegetarian you can still eat donuts and pizza.

ghostrider       06-21-2006, 06:57 pm

I still think the journal title makes it sound like some kinda masturbation marathon. I'd be so down with that.

LOki       06-21-2006, 08:19 pm

SNORT METH!!!! RIDE THE SNAKE!!!!!

Acidburn       06-21-2006, 08:41 pm

So to date how are you doing?

Lumpy_McKwiz       02-20-2007, 01:15 am

Heya LK, just seeing how the de-behemothing is going? I was thinking I was 350'ish just before Christmas '06, hit a scale and low and behold, that bitch said I was 383! Almost 400 pounds, fucking ludicrous. As of Jan 1st 2007, I did the eat healthy-no garbage junk food-water only crash diet action. Well 50 days in I am down 33 pounds and and hit my 1st goal of 350 (That was my weight when I was playing football @ 21) and just started Brazillian Jui Jitsu. Should be an interesting year...

breezysummerday       02-20-2007, 04:04 am

..put that fu*kin cigarette out daddy

LORDKAHUNA       02-20-2007, 06:43 am

Brazillian Jui Jitsu

Dude, I should learn some sort of martial art and we could be HUSKY CRIME FIGHTERS :).

:UPDATE:!!!!!!!






Still fat.

hobo       02-20-2007, 10:18 am

nah my canadien brutha: YOU BE PHAT!

steel       02-20-2007, 10:43 am

I just pharted.

Dumbskull       02-20-2007, 01:10 pm

Embrace your fat self... be happy with who are. I pissed off a band a gypies travelling through Maine last summer and now can't stop loosing weight.

casmhar       02-20-2007, 05:58 pm

Good luck dude. I lost 60 pounds getting divorced, hope that helps

casmhar       02-20-2007, 06:02 pm

Plus an additional 135 whiny ass pounds too and a miserable in law at 280 pounds.

Thats an additional 415 pounds!

Lumpy_McKwiz       02-21-2007, 12:35 am

Hmmmmm.... Thinking what may work for your body type and lifestyle choices. See Below.

If we fail as the dynamic grappling duo, we could always DP Dumbskull, take pics, and retire the LemonParty pic? Re: Update - Still Chub Rockin' Are you going to try getting healthy anytime soon?

djjaxon       03-03-2007, 01:12 am

10,000 steps a day - about three miles
Park as far away from work, stores etc. as you can. Park at one end of the mall and shop by walking to the other end. Go down every isle at the grocery store. (don't buy anything except on the outer walls)
Break a sweat 3 times a week, learn to love water, eat only food your grandfather could eat, don't eat it if it is in a bag or box.
Don't drink diet anything (it's a trick-that shit does not work) and it's unknow chemicals.

Hear's a weird one...only eat one meal a day, but eat all you want...late afternoon. A friend did this and wow he lost the weight.

I lost 40pounds eating what I wanted every other day, but then the next day I ate only 1,000 to 2,000 calories. You are starving the body but it does not know it so it doesn't kick into the must save fat we are starving mode.

hobo       03-03-2007, 10:04 am

a great way to lose weight is to vomit all over your floor. Around 9:30pm would be preferable.