What is the best way to lose weight?

[northernladuk]

Dysentery.

Much the same effect but you get to enjoy the results, assuming it doesn't kill you.

I prefer amputation. Much quicker results.

[VectraMan]

Partial bowel obstruction worked pretty well for me. I recommend that.

[northernladuk]

Partial bowel obstruction worked pretty well for me. I recommend that.

That's not like sticking foreign objects up your bum is it? I thought your doctor had told you to pack that in.

[WTFH]

That's not like sticking foreign objects up your bum is it? I thought your doctor had told you to pack that in.

Packing it in was how it got stuck up there.

[VectraMan]

That's not like sticking foreign objects up your bum is it?

Ewww, no. I only use British objects.

[vetran]

Partial bowel obstruction worked pretty well for me. I recommend that.

so it is true you were full of Tulip?

ouch.

[FatLazyContractor]

I have big man b00bs

FTFY

[NigelJK]

It's not ****ing rocket science people: calories in - calories out = weight gain/loss. Burn more than you eat and you'll lose weight. Eat more than you burn and you put it on. Eat enough and you'll get fat.

This is the twaddle that got the US (and now us) into so much trouble.

Your body does not 'burn' anything. Just because if you set fire to fat and it produces x amount energy (Kilocalories) does not mean that that is what your body does with it. My 'O' level biology course had a nutrition module. The 'formula for life' (the organic chemistry equation) is what actually happens and is based on breaking down carbohydrates.

Unfortunately Agriculture+the food industry want to fill your shopping basket with cheap refined carbohydrates, which are NOT found in abundance in nature.

If your diet contains a large amount of carbs your body will metabolise them first (with alcohol next), and will store away any that it can't use as fat. If the carbs stop it takes the fat and breaks them down to carbs + fatty acids.

If your diet contains little or no carbs it breaks down the fat first into carbs+fatty acids, which takes longer and requires more of the body's resources to complete and you consequently feel fuller longer, and do not get 'hunger pangs' (your body's way of telling you that you are addicted to Carbs). It is what your body is made to do.

I can recommend Dr Atkins Diet (the book) as it shows how powerful the food lobby is in the States, and how powerful carbohydrate addiction is (tho' he would never put it that way).

As for the OP - remove carbs from your diet for 5 days. Then only eat in very small quantities (25g/day)

[teapot418]

I'm short and stout.

If I were taller and thinner, I'd be a coffee pot, and that would be no good at all.

Be happy with the shape you are.

[SueEllen]

I'm short and stout.

If I were taller and thinner, I'd be a coffee pot, and that would be no good at all.

Be happy with the shape you are.

Coffee mmmm.....