What I do know at this point (Thanks to Bloodsage and others) are exercise programs that'd help.

Problem is...I'm not sure of a way to economically eat healthy. Being a college student, I need to save some money while doing this (so I can still afford games ) but still need to do it nonetheless. So, suggestions on a balanced diet that will help me to lose about 2 pounds a week are greatly appreciated. That way, by this time next year, I can be closer to or at my healthy weight.

I know one thing I need to do is completely cut out the soda and heavy sugar juices (6 cans of soda a day isn't good). Just...gah. Completely cutting the caffeine is another thing altogether.

Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 03-12-2005 at 10:34 PM.

At "Hire a Tyrant" results are garunteed!!

The second you finish signing the waiver, I chloroform you. When you wake up, you're in a room with metal walls, no windows and no doors, only a water faucet.

Then nothing happens for a week.

Then, on the seventh day, a good, sustaining meal comes through a slot in the floor.

Then, on the eighth day, the floor drops out and you're chased by dogs led by a man in a black leather zipper suit until you collapse.

If you're still tubby after that, I chloroform you and repeat the process.

Try a varity of Diet sodas. I know alot of them taste like ass, but there are a few that don't. What ones depends on who you ask, so try a bunch till you find a few that you can get used to. Stick with them most of the time. (Personally, I suggest 7*up Plus as an interesting choice.)

Don't go for Diet stuff because it either causes cancer or you will hear about it causing cancer all the time.

And if that doesn't work, you can wire your jaw shut for a week.

Stay away from frozen foods, those are massive massive amounts of calories.

Edit: Also, stop drinking soda. As in, go from 6 cans to 0 cans, permenantly. Instead, make things like crystal light to replace it.

Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 03-12-2005 at 10:57 PM.

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Everyone wondered WTF when Snugglits wrote:
My suggestion is to cut the caffeine out completely and pretend not to notice it isn't there.

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Why cut caffeine if he's trying to lose weight? Cut POP, cut the shitloads of sugar it contains. Caffeine does not cause you to gain weight.

LEARN THE GLORY OF FUCKING COFFEE, PEOPLE!!! IT HAS SOMEWHERE AROUND A BILLION TIMES THE CAFFEINE OF POP BUT NONE OF THE SUGAR!!! (unless you add it)

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How.... Noxhil2.... uughhhhhh:
This may or may not be helpful but... just stop eating. You'll find that you are condititioned to being hungry at certain times of the day, the time when you would normally eat. It will be brutal for a week or so, but then you'll find that you just aren't hungry anymore. As long as you don't proceed to build yourself up to gorging again, you won't get hungry that much either.

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TERRIBLE ADVICE. This is one of the worst things you can do.
Your body's metabolism is one of the most important factors in weight control. If you stop eating regular meals your body will overcompensate for this. Throwing your Metabolism off will cause you to have trouble losing weight. THe best thing you can do is actually to eat more often. Instead of eating 1 or 2 times a day, eat 5 or 6. Make the meals smaller, have a healthy snack in between meals. Fruit, a salad, etc. This will keep your metabolism steady so when you do eat the food will be processed properly.

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Azizza's fortune cookie read:
TERRIBLE ADVICE. This is one of the worst things you can do.
Your body's metabolism is one of the most important factors in weight control. If you stop eating regular meals your body will overcompensate for this. Throwing your Metabolism off will cause you to have trouble losing weight. THe best thing you can do is actually to eat more often. Instead of eating 1 or 2 times a day, eat 5 or 6. Make the meals smaller, have a healthy snack in between meals. Fruit, a salad, etc. This will keep your metabolism steady so when you do eat the food will be processed properly.

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Yeah, if you stop eating your body goes into "Energy Conservation" mode. Your energy levels plummet and you turn grey like you're some kinda vegetarian.

Input Weight is: 315 in U.S. Pounds
Input Height is: 72 in U.S. Inches
Input Age is : 23
Input Gender is: male

The Metabolism Results Are:

2394.0 calories per day is your Basal Caloric Rate. This is:
no more then 79.802 grams of fat (30%) for your Basal Caloric Rate
89.777 grams of protein (15%) for your Basal Caloric Rate
329.18 grams of carbohydrate (55%) for your Basal Caloric Rate

3112.2 calories per day recommended for your Active Caloric Rate. This is:
no more then 103.74 grams of fat (30%) for your Active Caloric Rate
116.71 grams of protein (15%) for your Active Caloric Rate
427.93 grams of carbohydrate (55%) for your Active Caloric Rate

No less then 1894.0 calories per day recommended for safe consistent Weight Loss.
This is: no more then 63.135 grams of fat (30%) for your Weight Loss Caloric Rate
71.027 grams of protein (15%) for your Weight Loss Caloric Rate
260.43 grams of carbohydrate (55%) for your Weight Loss Caloric Rate
At this safe consistent Weight Loss Caloric Rate, you will lose 1 pound every 7 Days

Also it is very crucial for you not to go much below the Weight Loss Caloric Rate, because if you do your body will begin to think you are starving and begin to store the calories that you do consume and you will not lose weight any faster but infact lose weight slower.

Also 3,000 calories = 1 pound, so by excersizing 300-500 calories a day will help you lose an extra pound of weight every 6 to 10 days.

I find that the more water I drink, the more icky bad-for-me-foods taste (especially fast food french fries) and the more I crave good foods.

Also, cut down on red meats from any source to 2-3 servings per week.

When the weight loss plateaus, change something else in your diet.

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Maradon! had this to say about Knight Rider:
Yeah, if you stop eating your body goes into "Energy Conservation" mode. Your energy levels plummet and you turn grey like you're some kinda vegetarian.

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My brother eats meat every day, and is so anemic he can barely stay up for seven hours without taking a nap.

I haven't had meat in over a year, and I'm so full of vitality that I can fell a tree with my cock.

QED

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Vorbis wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I'm so full of vitality that I can fell a tree with my cock.

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Which leads us to the question of why you're slamming your cock into trees.

Vise the Stompy fucked around with this message on 03-13-2005 at 12:35 AM.

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Vorbis stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
My brother eats meat every day, and is so anemic he can barely stay up for seven hours without taking a nap.

I haven't had meat in over a year, and I'm so full of vitality that I can fell a tree with my cock.

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That's kinda sad, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't eat meat alot...but I exercise and try to keep the vitamin and crap out of my system. I keep away from all candies, chips, chocolate, all pop, just about any junk food. With that, I have a great amount of energy.

As long as you have a balanced exercise plan, you can cut the weight down easily. I have faith.

Cut down on anything sugary to drink.. (juice, pop, iced tea) iced tea is a BIG one for me... I want to cut down on that... I'm trying to replace it with crystal light.

I buy those lean cuisine things too.. Theya rn't that bad. I eat a lot of chicken and japanese food. ^.^

I havn't really done much (no money to get a gym membership, and I wouldn't go cause I have no one to go with... ) and it's winter outside, but I've managed to drop about 2 pant sizes since the early fall. 4 pantsizes since last year. (although, it doesn't look like that much... >:/)

If you're in college, use their rec center if it has one.

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The logic train ran off the tracks when Vorbis said:
I haven't had meat in over a year, and I'm so full of vitality that I can fell a tree with my cock.

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Of course if this weren't 100% true, I'm sure you'd readily admit it

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Maradon!'s fortune cookie read:
Why cut caffeine if he's trying to lose weight? Cut POP, cut the shitloads of sugar it contains. Caffeine does not cause you to gain weight.

LEARN THE GLORY OF FUCKING COFFEE, PEOPLE!!! IT HAS SOMEWHERE AROUND A BILLION TIMES THE CAFFEINE OF POP BUT NONE OF THE SUGAR!!! (unless you add it)

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Oh, sure. That's just advice if he does want to cut caffeine.

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Azizza Model 2000 was programmed to say:
TERRIBLE ADVICE. This is one of the worst things you can do.
Your body's metabolism is one of the most important factors in weight control. If you stop eating regular meals your body will overcompensate for this. Throwing your Metabolism off will cause you to have trouble losing weight. THe best thing you can do is actually to eat more often. Instead of eating 1 or 2 times a day, eat 5 or 6. Make the meals smaller, have a healthy snack in between meals. Fruit, a salad, etc. This will keep your metabolism steady so when you do eat the food will be processed properly.

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Well, I lost 15 lbs in a week when I was unable to open my mouth.

Sometimes it kind of sucks because I can't eat the foods I used to enjoy. But after you distance yourself from them, you realize those foods are kind of bad anyway. Pizza, donuts, "Mexican," "Chinese," they all taste good at the time, but I always felt sick after eating them. I always had heartburn, indigestion, constipation...and I was 16. I guess it's sort of double-sided. Overall, I don't miss them very much.

Some general information/tips:
1. Whole wheats and other unprocessed complex carbs (like veggies) are good. They sit in your stomach for a long time and can be pretty good for curbing your appetite. Just remember, though, it's easy to keep eating out of habit, and then your stomach expands and the effect is kind of lost.
2. There are 3,500 calories in a pound, not 3,000. Just a correction.
3. 1,900 calories for "safe weight loss" seems kind of extreme to me. I almost think that the "starvation effect" is kind of blown out of proportion to help Americans feel better about how much they eat. I lost 12+ pounds a month eating 1,200-1,400 calories a day. I definitely didn't hit any kind of wall because of it. Maybe I'm a freak case, though; I'm no expert, it's just my own experience. But honestly, your body needs a certain amount of energy to survive. There's only so much fine-tuning it can do.
4. Give up soda. In fact, give up everything except water. This is pretty huge.

Suddar fucked around with this message on 03-13-2005 at 01:23 AM.

If you set your bar too high, you tend to get discouraged and give up if you can't meet it. Rethink it, fatty.

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Mr. Parcelan impressed everyone with:
I'm not sure if your goal is realistic. From what I can see of you, you look like a big guy, like me.

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Jesus christ Lashanna is a guy!

oh, wait, fuck you parce

And, with control, it's not really that big a goal. The hardest part is the first two weeks. If even that. If you get into the habit of eating the right way, it's really a breeze.

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Mr. Parcelan said:
I'm not sure if your goal is realistic. From what I can see of you, you look like a big guy, like me. Us large fellows will never be small, at all, and we can't be slender, either.

If you set your bar too high, you tend to get discouraged and give up if you can't meet it. Rethink it, fatty.

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oh shit
I was in a wtf moment

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Suddar had this to say about Knight Rider:
I'd just like to say, I used to think of myself the same way Parcelan did. Now I'm lol small. It'd perfectly possible to be slender, even if you were a big guy. I may not look very good, but I didn't like being fat regardless.

And, with control, it's not really that big a goal. The hardest part is the first two weeks. If even that. If you get into the habit of eating the right way, it's really a breeze.

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You weren't big, just fat.

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Mooj had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Which leads us to the question of why you're slamming your cock into trees.

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To fell them, of course.

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There was much rejoicing when Mr. Parcelan said this:
I'm not sure if your goal is realistic. From what I can see of you, you look like a big guy, like me. Us large fellows will never be small, at all, and we can't be slender, either.

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Parce is dead-on here. You aren't gonna be skinny, no matter what you do. Pick up an assload of cardio to lose the assload of fat, then some free weights to add some mass.

And the best non-punishing cardio is swimming. Join a pool/gym with one and swim around half an hour a day until it stops being fun. Then swim for 45 minutes a day.

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Sean had this to say about dark elf butts:
Parce is dead-on here. You aren't gonna be skinny, no matter what you do. Pick up an assload of cardio to lose the assload of fat, then some free weights to add some mass.

And the best non-punishing cardio is swimming. Join a pool/gym with one and swim around half an hour a day until it stops being fun. Then swim for 45 minutes a day.

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Make swimming a hobby. If you want a routine to do daily (or every other day) that will help you lose weight, PM me.

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Mooj had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Which leads us to the question of why you're slamming your cock into trees.

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To prove how macho I am, obv.

because I'm completely 100% serious all the time, and incapable of hyperbole

Drink a lot of water. I drink 6L a day or so (I don't know if that's too much or not, it's just a dumb habit I'm in.)

Realistically, your goal isn't to drop a hundred pounds. It's probably not possible without crippling your body or sawing off legs or something. Just try and get healthier, and get rid of fat while gaining muscle.

:D :D :D

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Mr. Parcelan thought about the meaning of life:
You weren't big, just fat.

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Actually, not really true, but eh.

Still, I would be amazed if you could lose that much weight while in college, but it's possible.

Also know that sometimes when your body seems to say "I'm hungry," it can also mean "I'm thirsty."

Also, it is possible to lose 125 pounds, but it would be very difficult on your budget because it would require you to go down to a nutrition store and get some supplements. (http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/31/) Remember that a weight loss diet is not expendable, but is actually a lifetime commitment. I wouldn't plan on doing anything you don't want to do for the rest of your life.

Make sure it's an actual excersise bike though. I tried using a real one this way, with a GBA instead of the TV. It's a bitch trying to beat Bowser and save the princess when you realize you've made a wrong turn and wound up on the Interstate.