Help me lose weight

[kenobi65]

Going on a diet is fine, watch your caloric intake and exercise. Those are the two cardinal rules to losing weight. Don't give yourself such a strict dieting regimen. If you want pizza, only have a slice or two. Don't forbid yourself any foods. That is the first step to not losing weight. If you have a craving for something, don't completely give in, but have just a little bit.

That's how I lost about 25 pounds, over the course of 2 years. I didn't change *what* I ate, so much as *how much* I ate. I call it the Einstein Diet (as in, "Geez, Einstein, if you didn't eat so damned much, you might lose some weight!")

Drinking water helps, too. And, it's got to be water, not soda, not beer...

 

[Pbartender]

Fine, Torm. Just for you.

For the past nine days, I've been doing what's called "Master Cleanser". In effect, it is an ultra-low calorie diet. It consists of drinking lemonade -- of a very particular sort.

The lemonade is made of: fresh lemon juice (obviously), Grade B Maple Syrup, cayenne pepper, and water. I use warm water, but its not necessary.

Main Entry: snake oil
Function: noun
1 : any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties
2 : POPPYCOCK, BUNKUM

Look, if you want a really good read, find a copy of Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, by Dr. Dean Edell, at your local library. It's all about losing weight, keeping it off, while staying healthy and happy at the same time.

As others have said, the book all boils down to... Eat less, exercise more, and make sure you are getting all of your vitamins and minerals. Nothing fancy. That's it. It works.

 

[Desdichado]

Bah! I'm not impressed with your witch-doctory unless you've got zombies out working in your tobacco field.

 

[Eolin]

The Grade B Maple Syrup (as opposed to Grade A, or the sugar-based maple-flavored syrups) provides a bunch of nutrients. And its the primary source of calories. It is effectively boiled tree sap, with very little in the way of processing. Instead of surviving on animal meat and blood, now I'm thriving on tree blood. Or something. I like to phrase it that way anyway.

the Cayenne also cuts mucus. Lets you get rid of the excess.

Here's a link: http://www.bc1.com/~vitagem/Master_Cleanser.htm

 

[Desdichado]

As other have said, the book all boils down to... Eat less, exercise more, and make sure you are getting all of your vitamins and minerals. Nothing fancy. That's it. It works.

As a friend of mine who's used it quite successfully calls it; the First Law of Thermodynamics diet (he would; he's a mechanical engineer.) Energy stored = Energy consumed - Energy spent, basically. If you want to lose weight, eat less calories and burn more calories.

 

[Eolin]

Main Entry: snake oil
Function: noun
1 : any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties
2 : POPPYCOCK, BUNKUM

Look, if you want a really good read, find a copy of Eat, Drink, & Be Merry, by Dr. Dean Edell, at your local library. It's all about losing weight, keeping it off, while staying healthy and happy at the same time.

As others have said, the book all boils down to... Eat less, exercise more, and make sure you are getting all of your vitamins and minerals. Nothing fancy. That's it. It works.

Again with the arrogance. There's been a lot of that in this thread. I really dislike the assumption that I havn't looked into things, that I've done this without research, and that I'm dumb.

The arrogance is probably my fault -- I think Torm and I both have been telling people more than they are ready to understand.

 

[Desdichado]

Actually, leeches have seen use again, recently, by honest-to-goodness certified and competent medical professionals. Although not for what they were originally. The new use has to do with the natural anticoagulant leeches produce to keep the wounds they make bleeding - in surgery, they can be used to prevent clotting. See this. Interesting if somewhat disturbing stuff.

That's a far cry from bloodletting, though...

Also, there has been scientifically researched evidence lately that the idea that a dilution that is so diluted that it has essentially none of the original material in it can have the same effect as that material on the body is true - and researchers are trying to figure out WHY, cause it defies certain aspects of what we thought we knew. See #4, here.

That doesn't change my point. There is no medicinal value to colloidal silver whether it's extremely diluted to the point of hardly containing any silver or not. Mostly it just causes argyria and you turn into a bluish-gray zombie-looking creature. http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html

And essential oils aren't useless - I don't know what remedies they are supposed to make, but I do know that Teatree Oil makes a fair bug repellant.

Many of them repel more than bugs...

I've had folks try and tell me that they'll cure everything from a sore back to Ebola. As near as I can tell, all they do is smell funny and make you oily if you put them on.

 

[Desdichado]

Again with the arrogance. ... I think Torm and I both have been telling people more than they are ready to understand.

You do note the irony in your post, I hope?

 

[Pbartender]

Here's a link: http://www.bc1.com/~vitagem/Master_Cleanser.htm

"The glands and organs of our eliminative systems can easily become overwhelmed by wastes from poor diet, lack of exercise, tension, air and water pollution etc."

Okay. So, the obvious question here now becomes...

Instead of being a lazy, over-anxious slug who smokes, drinks and eats garbage*, and only occasionally "cleansing the body of this accumulated waste" by injesting nothing but a lemonade-potion for a week and a half, why not just relax, eat better, eat less, exercise more and not accumulate the "toxins" in the first place?

*Note, I'm exagerrating for effect, here... I don't necessarily mean that you are. It is a serious question.

 

[Torm]

The arrogance is probably my fault -- I think Torm and I both have been telling people more than they are ready to understand.

They're ready to understand - they're just waiting for us to provide evidence beyond the individual-sense-proof (is there a better word for this, please?) that I was talking about yesterday. And I don't blame them. Science is SCIENCE, not anecdotes, like Shemeska said. But, I do invite them to try some Pipe Cleaner (as I call my little recipe above) next time they feel oogy.