Recommend me a diet

[¡Punk!]

Take ecstasy every day about midday and five o'clock. One pill should do you. You don't want a buzz. You just wanna supress your appetite. If you take too many in one day for a while you end doing really stupid things

[Girshkin]

hmm, legal diets would work better for me - particularly as I have a wee one to look after!

Weight Watchers has been recommended so gonna give that a swatch.

Lot of good advice so far though, ta!

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Stop eating without thinking about it. Always make sure you can enjoy what you eat - dont watch tv etc.

Brush your teeth after meals.

DONT ban yourself from foods, just eat much less of them. Have a mini cremem egg a day - it wont kill you.

I don't understand these, how is not watching the TV and brushing your teeth after meals going to help you lose weight? Also, 'stop eating without thinking about it' - is that even humanly possible?!

[Devastator]

I'm really bad for just sitting watching tv and eating whatever I can get my hands on. If you have to go and sit at the table to eat you won't bother a lot of the time. Brushing your teeth after you've eaten means you're less likely to go back and eat more.

[Zippy]

Ahh, they're not really a diet though eh? More healthy living tips.

[Devastator]

Well aye.

[GreatKingRat]

Originally Posted by Zippy

Ahh, they're not really a diet though eh? More healthy living tips.

That's the direction the thread has taken though.

"Diets are just a fad! Do this instead..."

[Bunnylingus]

Originally Posted by Zippy

Ahh, they're not really a diet though eh? More healthy living tips.

Originally Posted by Zippy

I don't understand these, how is not watching the TV and brushing your teeth after meals going to help you lose weight? Also, 'stop eating without thinking about it' - is that even humanly possible?!

WHATEVER diet you're on, you shouldnt eat without taking your time over it - if you let yourself get distracted when you're eating, you wont realise that you've eaten as much as you have.

Brushing your teeth after meals means you'll stick to the 'wait half an hour after eating' thing.

If you look at the end of my post, I did recommend the GI diet.

[Purplerose]

I use an online diet website, Nutracheck, basically it's calorie counting, eating healthy + exercise and I could do it without the website but I find the website helps me keep track of things better. It recommends the amount of calories you should be eating and how much exercise you have to do to in a day. It has a daily food and exercise diary and also a good forum where most of the members can chat so it's good for support, the forum also features advice from a nutritionist and a fitness instructor which is useful too. Probably similar to what Pantgirl suggested but based in the UK.

[the mullet kid]

Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Aye - Im sure that jaundiced, punched look is in anyway

that was my look last summer after i lost 2 1/2 stone on what i call the Drinkfast diet. single malt, green and cheese-n-toast by the bucketloads. my liver is actually still sore a year later and my pee still smells like marshmallow though. just like the atkins diet, it's got it's drawbacks

[Pier Angeli]

Originally Posted by Eve Bulloch

Speed.

Only if you're really serious though.

Seconded.
Cheaper than coke and more far more effective than diet pills. You might spend a bit on fag papers but hey, gotta speculate to accumulate.

I have a stone to lose, wonder which method I'll be using...

[Tommy]

The eat less shite diet, it's guaranteed to work.

[softparody]

Originally Posted by Girshkin

it's the mid-week stuffing my face while watching telly that's the problem!

Why not set aside 2 or 3 evenings a week where you and your wee boy take a half hour walk. Gets him some fresh air [easier to get to bed] and gives you some extra exercise while stopping you from munching.
When I was at college I sat on a bus 2 hours there and back every day, but the walk between the bus stops totalled about 30 minutes a day and it made such a different, slimmest I've ever been.

Sarah xx

[Girshkin]

The annoying thing is, I actually do a fair amount of walking already (30 mins most days). Admittedly it isn't as much as I probably should, but better than a lot of folk I know. Gonna join Weight Watchers I think - the public humiliation of being weighed and having to pay a couple of quid a week for the privilige is bound to motivate me.

[AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS]

I don't even know why I'm attempting to help you retards who are suggesting drugs as a good or safe way to lose weight, or the people who are seriously saying brush your teeth/don't watch tv helps - talk about clutching at straws.

This is from another forum I frequent, and coincidently, from a diet professional and pro-mma fighter:

1. Drink plenty of water. At least a gallon of water should be consumed every day. Water will not only keep your body hydrated, but it will help carry waste out of your body. Avoid "designer" water and carbonated "water". These products, while still better than most beverages, are not water and do not carry the same benefits. "But I don't like water" you say. Learn to love it. It loves you.

2. Eat 5-8 meals per day, every 2-3 hours. This should be nothing new to anyone. Just in case, the primary reason for increasing the frequency of food consumption is to increase your metabolic rate. If your body is in a constant state of using up the calories you consume, there won't be much room for those nasty fat cells to start filling up. If possible, you should try to count your calorie consumption. 10xyour body weight= calories per day. So if I want to lose weight and I weigh 205lbs then I should shoot for 2050 calories per day. Eat more, not less.

3. If it breathes, eat it. Your diet should consist of an abundance of fish, poultry, lean cuts of beef, vegetables, fruit, and nuts. Natural food is much friendlier to your digestive system and your body will thank you for it. Try to eat a vegetable with every meal. Even if you don't want to count calories, these meals will provide a rich balance of nutrients and promote fat loss. If you're a vegetarian, please go and try to feed some hummus to a lion. Let me know if he likes it.

4. Breakfast is really the most important meal of the day. Most people don't eat a good breakfast, if they eat anything at all. This meal is crucial. Remember how your body works better when in a constant metabolic state? Well, you just slept for 8 hours, and you weren't eating anything. Your body is starving and if you don't eat something soon, your metabolism will slow down and begin to store that fat you've worked so hard to get rid of. The best things to eat in the morning when focusing on fat loss are nuts and meat. Try to avoid sugars this early, as your body is highly insulin sensitive after a fast and you don't want to feed the beast when it's most hungry.

5. Eat something before bed.

A popular myth in the diet world is that any meal consumed before bed will turn into fat overnight. This couldn't be further from the truth. You must eat before you sleep in order to keep your metabolism working while you're enduring an extended fast. The best foods to eat are slow-digesting proteins such as yogurt or cottage cheese.

6. High Fructose Corn Syrup is the devil. This widely popular sweetener is probably the single worst "food" you can subject your body to. It holds no nutritional value and will serve only to spike your insulin levels and help you pack on fat. HFCS is found in most processed foods and should be avoided at all costs.

7. Forget about "carbs"

The recent trend of demonizing carbohydrates has got to stop. They're not as bad as people think. Focus on whole grains and vegetables and fruits. These are all carbohydrate-rich foods, and all very helpful in promoting fat loss. Things to avoid are refined carbs. Basically, anything that's fake: white bread and bagels, refined sugar, most breakfast cereal and almost anything in the "snack" aisle. Also, be careful of packaged, dried fruit. Most of it has added HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP which instantly destroys any nutritional value the fruit may have provided.

8. Fish oil is your friend.

This is a tough one. This one is even tough for me. Fish oil comes in capsules now, so you don't have to taste it going down, but you will taste it throughout the day, and that's not fun. However, with that said, fish oil is a huge help in reducing body fat. And it's relatively inexpensive. Again, this will be a tough one to swallow (pun intended), but if you really want to get that six-pack, it will sure help.

*If you really are turned off by the idea of consuming Fish Oil then Flax Seed Oil is a good 2nd choice*

9. Train your body with weights.

This should be obvious, but for some reason, it's overlooked. The average person feels that cardio alone will help promote fat loss. In fact, steady state cardiovascular work will put your body in a catabolic state, burn muscle as well as fat, and will increase your performance at running on a treadmill, or using a recumbent bike or elliptical machine, depending on what you're doing. By training your body with weights, you will increase your muscle density. Muscle tissue will burn calories at a rate that is roughly 70 times that of fat. Basically, the more muscle you have, the easier it will be to lose fat. Now, especially for the women, increasing muscle density is not the same as increasing muscle size. You will not look like "those women" on ESPN with all the rippling muscles. These women work very hard to look like that, and you will never look like them unless you absolutely want to, and train to that end. Bottom line, weight training is key to fat loss.

10. Don't follow the rules 100% of the time.

How will you ever make progress if you're miserable with your diet? If you love to drink blue slurpees and eat snickers bars, then don't eliminate them completely from your diet. Taking a break from time to time is actually a good thing. This doesn't give you license to start eating everything in sight or to order the 5-5-5 from Dominoes for yourself, but one day per week you can go a little nuts, just keep it under control. This serves two purposes. One, the diet will be easier to stick to when you can keep eating the foods you really enjoy from time to time. Two, your metabolism will get a nice kick-start and begin working overtime to move all those sugars and calories around that it isn't used to.