Hey everyone, Weight loss is becoming a really sensitive issue these days. Now a days its not only about physical health. It effects mentally and emotionally too.
One of my known was tortured so much during her college days due to her obesity that she attempted to commit suicide. That was really insane and the worst situation I've ever come across...!!!!
And in my opinion weight loss pills are a a good way to loose weight. This is what my tried out. They act as a perfect fat burners and appetite suppressors. One may suffer from stomach problems and dizziness in the beginning. But as you start taking them religiously, they can do wonders for you.
But always go for the one that is made up of natural products and don'y contain drugs like caffeine as they can cause further deterioration in health. Another thing that weight loss supplements are helpful in providing you the essential nutrients that your body needs daily, so that you eat less. Also they burn the fat that is already stored in you body.
You can not use them as substitute to daily workout. If you use weight loss supplements along with some daily exercise everyday, it can be really useful for you. Here exercise doesn't mean that you need to do heavy and tough exercises. Light workout, walking, jogging, jumping is enough.
Hey, I won't have replied to your previous comment if i would have been a spam bot. And i guess i do not need to prove that am a human. BTW the name of Minsc's pet is Boo...
@j_simpson happy to see that you're human, but I have to kindly ask you to edit your post and remove that link that, unfortunately, is against the forum rules.
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Weight loss pills are a complete farce and often dangerous as well. Fat burner pills are proven to not work at all (except for the illegal ones where you will actually excrete undigested fat in your poop. Also to clarify that they don't burn stored fat, instead lessen your ability to absorb fat eaten which is why it is excreted).
The only thing which will help your to lose weight is maintaining a calorie deficit, be that obtained by consuming less calories or exercising more. Ideally you should do both in order to preserve as much lean body mass as possible whilst losing as much fat as possible.
Spouting advice which is not proven other than with second hand anecdotal evidence is a large part of why there is so much confusion and misinformation in the health industry. This is why there are so many frauds all pushing their own brand of diet pill or quick weight loss solution.
There is no quick safe way to lose weight. It takes time, effort and a lifestyle change. What happens in the case of your friend when they stop taking diet pills or finish their allotted diet plan? They've learned nothing about the food they eat and likely changed nothing in their life to take this into account. Therefore the weight will creep back on. Welcome to the world of crash course yo-yo dieting.
There's an awful lot of bullshit surrounding diets and nutrition on the ol' Internet. Like someone said earlier, it's very difficult to get high quality, scientific and evidence-based information. Even going by the scientific literature alone, you run into big problems. One of these is that a lot of health advice regarding dieting is from a very old body of literature from 20+ years ago. Another is that studies looking at weight loss tend to be published in shitty scientific journals that are statistically underpowered, underfunded and not of the same quality that you'd find in a cancer drug trial. Though I think things are starting to improve, what with the explosion in obesity.
I know that you are primarily concerned with diet - but if you exercise then you can eat much more food without putting on weight. If you build more muscle, your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) with increase - so you'll need more calories per day just to keep your tissues alive. Muscle is very metabolically active (even when you're not using it), so you need more calories to keep it going.
Also keep in mind that the diet that works for other people won't necessarily work for you. There was a big study published in Cell last year that monitored 800 people, specifically looking at how they responded to 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods (in terms of glucose spikes, which cause fat deposition). The researchers found that there was a huge variation in how people responded to identical foods, even those considered 'healthy'. This was largely dependent on their genetics and their gut bacteria. So I would disagree that weight loss is a basic calorie in vs calorie out issue, especially since we can mutate very specific genes in mice and cause weight-gain or weight-loss on identical diets to their unmodified counterparts.
Websites like that summarise exactly what is wrong with the health industry. Misinformation stacked upon bulls**t designed to confuse the beginner and try to sell them rubbish.
[EDIT] there was a spam post above which got deleted linking to some rubbish acai berry weight loss website. I wasn't ranting at the current previous post
@Shandyr Nah, at the moment not really. Of course, if your theory is right and they employ real people, sure they could do it if they have the motivation. However, I think it's more likely they would just move on to the next site hoping it's easier to register there.
I've banned the spambot. For about 4 months already, the no spam system on this site works much better thanks to @Dee and @Troodon80 . But sometimes they still just slip through.
Hi Shandyr, I hope you're still eating healthy. Here's a recipe for my favorite salad, the Fatoosh, which is Lebanese, i believe. Its dressed with a lemon, but please don't hold that against it. It is really delicious and worth a shot. I make it topped with grilled chicken so it's a full meal and pretty satisfying. I'll give you my fully orchestrated prep routine, which is probably overkill for a description, but to make a meal interesting to make I tend to get into a routine which I hone through repeated practice which i tweak and tune. It makes cooking bearable, almost interesting. And although your routine will vary, I have learned that the routine is an important part of the dish which often isn't stressed and may go unnoticed by new cookers. Linked products given as examples, please don't ban me, Misc's favorite pet is Dynaheir.
Equipment: An electric grill, a cutting board, a chef's knife, a filet knife, a sink with running water, a salad spinner, two medium mixing bowls, resealable sandwich bags, a refrigerator. A timer. A fork. A cup. A plate.
Ingredients for one: One romaine lettuce heart (or half a leafy romaine), half an orange-or-yellow bell pepper, some red onion, a bag of pita chips, a carrot,sumac, half a boneless skinless chicken breast, fresh ground pepper, coarse ground salt, olive oil, half a lemon, parsley, dried garlic powder.
Process: Part 0: Get all the equipment and ingredients handy.
Part 1. Get the chicken prepped: Get the electric grill out of the cupboard, plug in, turn to high (450F). Get a bowl, the filet knife, and sandwich bag out. Invert the lip of the sandwhich bag so you can put raw chicken in without chickening up the resealable part of the bag. Pour about a table spoon of olive oil, a few dashes of garlic powder, and a couple pinches of salt into the bowl. Open your pack of chicken. Take one between thumb and fingers in your off hand, holding it at the thick end and letting it dangle down vertically. Cut down with the fillet knife from the top to the bottom, slicing the breast into 2 thin halfs. Put one half in the sandwich bag, score both sides of the remaining half about 5 times each, going maybe 1/4th the thickness in. Put the knife into the sink. Plop the clucker into the bowl with the oil and salt. Put the remaining chicken from the pack into the samwich baggie. Using your un-chicken-contaminated knife hand, throw the chicken packaging away. Now dig into the bowl, mixing the chicken and oil and salt all together. Wash your hands. Put the bowl aside. Seal up the chick baggie and refrigerate.
Part 2. The leafs: Remove the basket from the spinner bowl. Start filling up the bowl with water in the sink. Take the basket to your cutting area. Cut the lettuce in half if needed, length wise, and store the half that will not be used. Chop from the tip of the leaf to down to the rooted part that you don't eat. Chop in thin strps. Stop when you get to the part that you don't want to eat. Put in shredded lettuce in basket. Cut off a small portion of parsley from yr bunch, maybe 10. Chop them up some, and get rid of the bigger more offensive stem chunks. put with lettuce in basket. Put the basket into the now full spinner bowl of water and swish the leafs around to rinse them. Raise the basket out of the water and dump out the rinse water. Put the basket and leafs back in and start the spinning and remove the spinner from the sink.
Part 3. Kill all salmonella: By now, your grill is nice and hot. Stab the chick with the fork and hoist it onto the grill. Set your timer for 7 minutes. Clean the fork, fillet knife, chicken bowl, and anything else chickeny. Feel relieved at the passing danger of salmonella poisoning.
Part 4. The rest Drain any water spun out of the leafs and spin again. Transport leafs to mixing bowl. Wash the bell pepper and carrot, peel carrot with a potato peeler if so inclined. Chop off stalk part of carrot (discard) and cut lengthwise half, and then each half into a few lenghtwise strips. Then chop down the length so those strips become many cubes. Put in bowl. Cut one side off bell pepper, carefull not to cut into the seedy part. Cut another side off. Cut these pepper sides into strips and then into cubes. Place in bowl. Cut a slice or two of red onion. Cut in half/quarters/eights, so you end up with onion crescents. Place in bowl.
Interlude. Timer Rang? Ok, grab your fork and turn the chicken. Set timer for 6 mins. Wash that fork.
Part 5. Resume part 4 Crumble a handfull of pita chips into salad bowl. Dump in a liberal amount of sumac ~2tsp or more. A pinch or two of salt. Grind black pepper until you are tired of grinding black pepper. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into a cup, use your fork to get out the seeds. One trick to squeeze a lemon without the seeds is to squeeze it so the cut end is upwards. I don't particularly like this trick. Otherwise get a citrus reamer with a strainer.
Interlude II, Timer again? Get your fork and pull chicken off the grill. Unplug grill. put chicken on a plate for the next 5 mins.
Part 6. Resume part 5. Pour on some olive oil to the mix. Pour the lemon juice and mix it all up. Save some of juice after the mix so you can add more depending on taste.
Part 5. The real part five. Clean up and put away unused portions of ingredients. Cut the chicken into thin strips. Cut so that each cut is across the width of the breast. The aim is to cut each strip into a cross section of fibers, rather than whole muscle fibers running the length of the strip. Either mix the chicken into the salad and transfer to bowl or transfer to bowl and place chick on top.
Comments
You're such a troll
No cakes, biscuits and sweet things for the time being! I feel so better now that I am getting slim again!
No exercise?! So that means we can't... Nooooooooo!!! Tell me it's not true!! ;~;
On a serious note, I am so proud of you Shandy<3333
You do you and bathe in your DETERMINATION and positivity!
Weight loss is becoming a really sensitive issue these days. Now a days its not only about physical health. It effects mentally and emotionally too.
One of my known was tortured so much during her college days due to her obesity that she attempted to commit suicide. That was really insane and the worst situation I've ever come across...!!!!
And in my opinion weight loss pills are a a good way to loose weight. This is what my tried out. They act as a perfect fat burners and appetite suppressors. One may suffer from stomach problems and dizziness in the beginning. But as you start taking them religiously, they can do wonders for you.
But always go for the one that is made up of natural products and don'y contain drugs like caffeine as they can cause further deterioration in health. Another thing that weight loss supplements are helpful in providing you the essential nutrients that your body needs daily, so that you eat less. Also they burn the fat that is already stored in you body.
You can not use them as substitute to daily workout. If you use weight loss supplements along with some daily exercise everyday, it can be really useful for you. Here exercise doesn't mean that you need to do heavy and tough exercises. Light workout, walking, jogging, jumping is enough.
Hope this helps.
I won't have replied to your previous comment if i would have been a spam bot. And i guess i do not need to prove that am a human.
BTW the name of Minsc's pet is Boo...
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Weight loss pills are a complete farce and often dangerous as well. Fat burner pills are proven to not work at all (except for the illegal ones where you will actually excrete undigested fat in your poop. Also to clarify that they don't burn stored fat, instead lessen your ability to absorb fat eaten which is why it is excreted).
The only thing which will help your to lose weight is maintaining a calorie deficit, be that obtained by consuming less calories or exercising more. Ideally you should do both in order to preserve as much lean body mass as possible whilst losing as much fat as possible.
Spouting advice which is not proven other than with second hand anecdotal evidence is a large part of why there is so much confusion and misinformation in the health industry. This is why there are so many frauds all pushing their own brand of diet pill or quick weight loss solution.
There is no quick safe way to lose weight. It takes time, effort and a lifestyle change. What happens in the case of your friend when they stop taking diet pills or finish their allotted diet plan? They've learned nothing about the food they eat and likely changed nothing in their life to take this into account. Therefore the weight will creep back on. Welcome to the world of crash course yo-yo dieting.
I know that you are primarily concerned with diet - but if you exercise then you can eat much more food without putting on weight. If you build more muscle, your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) with increase - so you'll need more calories per day just to keep your tissues alive. Muscle is very metabolically active (even when you're not using it), so you need more calories to keep it going.
Also keep in mind that the diet that works for other people won't necessarily work for you. There was a big study published in Cell last year that monitored 800 people, specifically looking at how they responded to 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods (in terms of glucose spikes, which cause fat deposition). The researchers found that there was a huge variation in how people responded to identical foods, even those considered 'healthy'. This was largely dependent on their genetics and their gut bacteria. So I would disagree that weight loss is a basic calorie in vs calorie out issue, especially since we can mutate very specific genes in mice and cause weight-gain or weight-loss on identical diets to their unmodified counterparts.
Websites like that summarise exactly what is wrong with the health industry. Misinformation stacked upon bulls**t designed to confuse the beginner and try to sell them rubbish.
[EDIT] there was a spam post above which got deleted linking to some rubbish acai berry weight loss website. I wasn't ranting at the current previous post
"To register, please answer this question. What is the name of Minsc's animal companion? (BOO)"
Would prevent bots from registering on the forum.
"My journey to broccoli-eating" ?
or
"How to build your character" ?
(Please don't choose the second one, i would like to start a thread with that title for some time now.)
EDIT: make that 5 seconds
...
Or a Rivita in your case Simple Handyr.
probablyoverkill for a description, but to make a meal interesting to make I tend to get into a routine which I hone through repeated practice which i tweak and tune. It makes cooking bearable, almost interesting. And although your routine will vary, I have learned that the routine is an important part of the dish which often isn't stressed and may go unnoticed by new cookers. Linked products given as examples, please don't ban me, Misc's favorite pet is Dynaheir.Equipment: An electric grill, a cutting board, a chef's knife, a filet knife, a sink with running water, a salad spinner, two medium mixing bowls, resealable sandwich bags, a refrigerator. A timer. A fork. A cup. A plate.
Ingredients for one: One romaine lettuce heart (or half a leafy romaine), half an orange-or-yellow bell pepper, some red onion, a bag of pita chips, a carrot,sumac, half a boneless skinless chicken breast, fresh ground pepper, coarse ground salt, olive oil, half a lemon, parsley, dried garlic powder.
Process:
Part 0: Get all the equipment and ingredients handy.
Part 1. Get the chicken prepped:
Get the electric grill out of the cupboard, plug in, turn to high (450F). Get a bowl, the filet knife, and sandwich bag out. Invert the lip of the sandwhich bag so you can put raw chicken in without chickening up the resealable part of the bag. Pour about a table spoon of olive oil, a few dashes of garlic powder, and a couple pinches of salt into the bowl. Open your pack of chicken. Take one between thumb and fingers in your off hand, holding it at the thick end and letting it dangle down vertically. Cut down with the fillet knife from the top to the bottom, slicing the breast into 2 thin halfs. Put one half in the sandwich bag, score both sides of the remaining half about 5 times each, going maybe 1/4th the thickness in. Put the knife into the sink. Plop the clucker into the bowl with the oil and salt. Put the remaining chicken from the pack into the samwich baggie. Using your un-chicken-contaminated knife hand, throw the chicken packaging away. Now dig into the bowl, mixing the chicken and oil and salt all together. Wash your hands. Put the bowl aside. Seal up the chick baggie and refrigerate.
Part 2. The leafs:
Remove the basket from the spinner bowl. Start filling up the bowl with water in the sink. Take the basket to your cutting area. Cut the lettuce in half if needed, length wise, and store the half that will not be used. Chop from the tip of the leaf to down to the rooted part that you don't eat. Chop in thin strps. Stop when you get to the part that you don't want to eat. Put in shredded lettuce in basket. Cut off a small portion of parsley from yr bunch, maybe 10. Chop them up some, and get rid of the bigger more offensive stem chunks. put with lettuce in basket. Put the basket into the now full spinner bowl of water and swish the leafs around to rinse them. Raise the basket out of the water and dump out the rinse water. Put the basket and leafs back in and start the spinning and remove the spinner from the sink.
Part 3. Kill all salmonella:
By now, your grill is nice and hot. Stab the chick with the fork and hoist it onto the grill. Set your timer for 7 minutes. Clean the fork, fillet knife, chicken bowl, and anything else chickeny. Feel relieved at the passing danger of salmonella poisoning.
Part 4. The rest
Drain any water spun out of the leafs and spin again. Transport leafs to mixing bowl. Wash the bell pepper and carrot, peel carrot with a potato peeler if so inclined. Chop off stalk part of carrot (discard) and cut lengthwise half, and then each half into a few lenghtwise strips. Then chop down the length so those strips become many cubes. Put in bowl. Cut one side off bell pepper, carefull not to cut into the seedy part. Cut another side off. Cut these pepper sides into strips and then into cubes. Place in bowl. Cut a slice or two of red onion. Cut in half/quarters/eights, so you end up with onion crescents. Place in bowl.
Interlude. Timer Rang?
Ok, grab your fork and turn the chicken. Set timer for 6 mins. Wash that fork.
Part 5. Resume part 4
Crumble a handfull of pita chips into salad bowl. Dump in a liberal amount of sumac ~2tsp or more. A pinch or two of salt. Grind black pepper until you are tired of grinding black pepper. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into a cup, use your fork to get out the seeds. One trick to squeeze a lemon without the seeds is to squeeze it so the cut end is upwards. I don't particularly like this trick. Otherwise get a citrus reamer with a strainer.
Interlude II, Timer again?
Get your fork and pull chicken off the grill. Unplug grill. put chicken on a plate for the next 5 mins.
Part 6. Resume part 5.
Pour on some olive oil to the mix. Pour the lemon juice and mix it all up. Save some of juice after the mix so you can add more depending on taste.
Part 5. The real part five.
Clean up and put away unused portions of ingredients. Cut the chicken into thin strips. Cut so that each cut is across the width of the breast. The aim is to cut each strip into a cross section of fibers, rather than whole muscle fibers running the length of the strip. Either mix the chicken into the salad and transfer to bowl or transfer to bowl and place chick on top.
Then eat.