What the hell?! Losing weight is dumb..Follow

So, as you all know I'm fat and I'm trying to lose weight, so for the last couple of weeks I have been hitting it hard and gotten no results. This past week has probably been my worst thus far, the only thing I've done healthy is dinner and gym class. So I put on my pants today and they are falling off. I get a little confused and step on the scale. Guess what? Surprise surprise I've suddenly out of the blue dropped 10 lbs. I just want to know how lol. The week I slack off I lose 10 lbs... doesn't make sense to me.

Discuss. (lol)

Unless you are seriously dehydrated, I doubt this happened "suddenly"

Ok, so I hadn't stepped on the scale for a few days but it happened fast and quietly.

Well some people - once they get the metabolism going actually begin to lose weight quicker eating food. Now this doesn't mean go out and eat all you can, you still need to moderate it but basicly once the body starts working it needs energy to break down the glucose and get rid of that fat of yours.

So starving yourself and eating too much are both bad. You have to find a middle ground. Just stop loading your plate up as much but don't worry as much about what your actually eating (assuming your mums making dinner and shes a half decent mother *but then again I know thats asking a lot*). Reasonable portions and stop snacking so fu[b][/b]cking much and you should do fine.

Pandorra, thanks for replying in a manner that I can actually have a convorsation off of.

Hmm, yeah, sounds like i need to go in between then... Thanks

That's usually the way it works. Best thing I've ever found to work. I completely cut our crap like pop and ****. Stuck to water, fruit juice, and fat free milk. Only changes I made and I dropped 30 Lbs without trying. It can be done.

Weightloss (and gain!) is not an instant thing. The body reacts to what you put into it by gradually adjusting to changes in diet. What this means is that your metabolism *today* is more greatly affected by what you were eating and doing last week then it is by what you're doing today.

If you normally eat modest portions of non-fatty foods, your body will metabolize based on that. If you suddenly one week eat nothing but high fat garbage, you likely will not gain much if any weight. But your body will adjust to the fact it's getting more fat and change the rate at which it stores or breaks down fat (it's a lot more complicated that that of course!). If you then resume normal eating patterns, you might gain weight right after doing so while not gaining weight when you were eating more. And that will depend on some specific issues with your own body as well.


That's one of the reasons so many diets fail. The key is to make an overall change to your eating and excersize habits. Going through cycles of diet and backslide over and over is often *worse* for you in the long run then if you'd just maintained a poor diet all the way through. The body tends to react to any change of diet by going into "emergency mode". Which means it starts storing energy in the form of fat. It senses inconsistency in diet and interprets that it might need to store that energy, resulting in weight gain over time.

So. Even though in this case you did backslide and saw results while doing it, that's *not* a good approach to dieting. You'll likely regain that weight in the next couple weeks as a result of the up/down cycle. The key (again) is not to look at short term. Don't think in terms of losing X pounds in Y weeks. Doing that will result in you rushing and pushing beyond what you are comfortable doing to reach that goal, and almost always results in backsliding once it's reached and losing everything you gained. You simply need to make small gradual changes to your diet and excersize. It's not a sprint. It's not even a marathon. It's a continuous process of moving in a direction.

Just eat slightly smaller portions then you normally would. Not so much that it's significant and you even notice. Just a small amount less per meal. If you're noticing, or you're hungry after eating, you're trying to do too much. At the same time, do just a little bit more excersize each day. Again. Nothing major. Walk around the block once per day to start (or whatever is appropriate for you). You don't need to hit an exercize machine for an hour each day to stay healthy. Just walk around a bit more then you'd normally do. And just do a little bit each day.

As you get comfortable with that level of eating and excersize, slowly continue reducing the food and increasing the excersize. At no point do you need to wear yourself out or starve yourself. Just do a tiny bit more excersize and less food until you are comfortable with that level, then do another tiny step. If at any point you're feeling like you're pushing too hard, you *are* pushing too hard. Back it up a tiny bit and get comfortable again.


The key to dieting is not to think of it as a diet. It's a lifestyle. A "diet" implies something you do for a set period of time. You don't change your diet. You change yourself. Just make this how *you* eat and excersize normally and not just something you're doing right now to lose weight. If you make that mental adjustment successfully, then when you get to that point at which you are happy with your weight and health, it wont feel like you've "finished". It'll just feel natural and normal. And that's exactly how you want it to be.

Codyy, I can't get on FFXI. I'm pissed >_<

NO! Its pop! Grrr But its even worse when ppl call it "Sodapop" PICK ONE ITS NOT BOTH!!!!!

SHUT UP! Where the hell do ppl get "bubble" from?! thats the dumbest one. Its a freaking water fountain.

I bet you were just itching for someone to talk about soda so you could make that reference huh?

Klyia, ur avatar person looks like some crazy chick my brother watches on nick jr....

It is Natalie Portman in Closer.