OT - great being a guy - diets

[Cigarskunk]

A buddy's gf wanted to go on a diet and was obsessed with the concept of needing a diet buddy/partner/whatever. Since I'd been talking about losing a few pounds as well, she descided that I'd be a great candidate for this posistion and pestered me until I agreed - welcome to hell girl. :twisted:

She's doing some crazy diet out of one of those women's magazines that's basically just a fancy starvation diet - typical woman's diet plan from what I've seen.

I am on the Adkin's diet (god rest his soul) - a diet that was definately designed for men.

For breakfast - sausage, bacon, 3 egg omlett with a dash of cheese and a glass of milk.

Lunch - 16 ounce steak with shrooms and diet coke.

Dinner - we ate out - I did the buffet and loaded up on grilled chicken, BBQ ham and ribs - diet coke to wash it all down.

Late night snack - salami and hickory farms block cheese.

She's been eating rabbit food for the past week and drinking nothing but water - she's ready to kill me because not only am I not sharing her pain, but I've lost more weight then she has.

I'm so glad to be a guy - we've got soooo many aspects of life so simple.

[Ngreth Thergn]

And men usually loose more weight at the start of a diet than women anyway... not smart for a woman to ask a guy to be their partner

[Grimina]

So true Ngreth, as irritating as it is LOL

I put on about 10lbs I wanted to get rid of. My husband has about 40lbs he finally decided to be rid of (or at least move the extra inches from his gut back up to his chest/shoulders where it USED to be 3 years ago LMAO). So to help him along I bought a home exercise "gym" thingy. It helps me as well, but I already proved I could lose weight without it (lost over 100lbs a year ago without it so I could easily shed this 10) but HE hears "diet" and heads for the icecream *snort* so I thought exercise would be easier for him to do. He's used it...once. Still eats like a horse. And he's lost 5lbs. I exercise daily and have reduced how much I eat and the calorie count. I've lost...0lbs. GAH! It's not FAIR!!!

Oh well, he was too scrawny before (6'3.5 165lbs)...he doesn't really need to lose weight, he just needs to "move" it LOL. I'm gonna stop paying attention to how much he loses...it's just depressing! At least I can say I weigh less than him now and we don't look like the number 10 when we walk side by side anymore *smug grin*

Grimmy

[Delfontes]

You can't have Milk on Atkins.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

Geeze, I feel bad, I'm a Chef, Pastry Chef even, I got my AS in Baking & Pastry Arts, I eat fat, sugar and all that bad stuff all day. I do everything in my power to gain 1 pound and I still am only around 150 Lbs and I'm 6' tall even, so just imagen how I look. What I would do to gain wait.

[Marteeny]

I could never do the adkins diet. Two words:

Potato's & Pasta

I could never live without.

[Farnyr]

This post made me hungry, where are the crackers...

[Balkin]

Heh,

I look at pictures of food and gain 2 pounds.

NOT cool. got a treadmill and a bike to keep my weight managable.

*grumble*

[Tinile]

my treadmill is used to hang clothes on ops:

[Railina]

Treadmills are a horrible way (at least ffor me) to try to run. I feel like i'm not getting anywhere, and since i'm already back where i started, it's easy to give up. Much better to pick a place to run to and get outside. You can't decide to just quit, because you still need to get back home.

Grimmy -- Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you're doing a muscle building woorkout (as opposed to an aerobic, or calorie burning workout, you'll be cutting inches, but the pounds will drop more slowly. . . On the bright side, those pounds of muscle burn calories even when you aren't using them, as long as you work out a little to keep that muscle mass.

[Unidin]

You can't decide to just quit, because you still need to get back home.

Just dont make the same mistake I made, and brought cab money :P

[Grimina]

ROFL Unidin that's exactly what I was thinking when I read that!

Mostly cuz that's what my father used to do quite a few years ago. He would decide to go for a run into town (at the time we lived ~2 miles from town). So he would go...about an hour later EVERY time...we'd get a call from him. He'd stop at the barbecue joint along the highway when he got tired...order some food then call us to come pick him up LMAO.

Railina: If only those muscles would show themselves I could convince other people that's what the problem is LOL. Unfortunately I haven't lost any inches either (course only needing to lose 10lbs it's not like I have "inches" to get rid of *giggle*) so mostly my friends just think I'm fibbing, and sneaking cookies. BUT I like exercising so even if I never lose the weight, I still have something to do to keep my mind off EQ =)

[Cigarskunk]

You can't have Milk on Atkins.

Incorrect - you can't drink MUCH milk on the diet - you need to keep yourself to under 40 carbs a day to keep the body burning calories - one glass of milk isn't enough to violate this - I usually don't clear 30 carbs a day.

10 pounds melted away and feeling full and content.
Buddy's gal has lost around 3 pounds and is going stir crazy.

It's good to be a guy.

[Faymar]

My boyfriend and I both started the atkins diet together, which I supplemented with exercise.

He lost 10 pounds in a shot, my weight didn't move. I could have killed him. After about 6 weeks though, his weight stalled and mine had dropped by a good 7 pounds.

Yeah, we do "low-carb" as opposed to no-carb. Giving up potatos and pasta and beer is hard enough, I'm not giving up everything. *grumble*

Restarting it this month after a couple months off (no weight gain, but obvioiusly no loss either) ... I have a fair amount of meals "designed to keep you from noticing the lack of carbs" if anyone is interested.

[Boleslav]

The Adkins diet is hard for many people to maintain. I remember friends on it who would start to crave Cheerios, or other carb heavy items. I know that I would have difficulty staying on it. I am a carb junky.

I had noticed the pounds slowly gathering as I made my way through my 30's and decided it was time to put a stop to it. I believe that for the vast majority of adults, most diet programs will work if you are honest with yourself and really stick to the plan. So to me, the best plan is one that lends itself the best toward changing your eating habits permanently rather than one that focuses on rushing to get the weight off as fast as possible.

After researching lots of alternatives I settled on Weight Watchers. Their plan centers around three basic tenents. Portion control (limiting calorie and fat intake), Propoer Nutrition (eating a good variety of protein, vegetables, milk, fiber, etc…), and Exercise. They roll those three things into their "Winning Points" program in a way that most folks can understand. The program helped me get a handle on my eating habits. I lost the weight I wanted to lose and have kept it off for a year now.

Playing Everquest more than a little bit can help engender bad eating habits as well. You tend to grab meals while playing sometimes, and many people graze at food while they play. My guess is that the average weight of people who play EQ a lot is probably higher than the average from other people in their age demographics. In that light, a diet conversation may not be as off topic as it might appear to be at first glance.

Boleslav Forgehammer
Paladin of Brell in his 60th Campaign
E'ci – Destiny Awaits
Weight Watchers – Lifetime Member


P.S. Folks in my Weight Watchers group also though that men lost weight faster, but also that they tended to regain it faster once they quit their diets.