Comments on: Extreme Weight Loss Methods http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/ Wed, 23 May 2012 23:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: julie http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15433 julie Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:50:28 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15433 I'm with you, not into extremes, content with my turtle progress towards normal weight, which I'm quickly approaching. I have about 2 pounds out of 51 to go, and it's taken me 1.5 years. I've done it the other way, very extreme, as well, and that never stayed. I get very uncomfortable reading blogs of people who will never eat a muffin, slice of pizza, chocolate cake, white sugar, whatever else people find "bad", as well as people who try to eat nothing but salads and non-fat whatever. All kinds of food (and other) evangelism make me uncomfortable (non-fat, no carbs, raw), and I don't have much hope for long-term stability on these diets. I figure there's no point in starting to do something that I can't keep up the rest of my life (since I'll have to, if I want to keep the weight off), so I avoid the extremes. I eat a fairly healthy diet, not going to sweat my indulgences, they don't have a huge impact on weight, but would have an impact on my psychological well being if I tried to deny them. .-= julie´s last blog ..<a href="http://justjuliebean.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/it-aint-been-easy/" rel="nofollow">It ain’t been easy!</a> =-. I’m with you, not into extremes, content with my turtle progress towards normal weight, which I’m quickly approaching. I have about 2 pounds out of 51 to go, and it’s taken me 1.5 years. I’ve done it the other way, very extreme, as well, and that never stayed. I get very uncomfortable reading blogs of people who will never eat a muffin, slice of pizza, chocolate cake, white sugar, whatever else people find “bad”, as well as people who try to eat nothing but salads and non-fat whatever. All kinds of food (and other) evangelism make me uncomfortable (non-fat, no carbs, raw), and I don’t have much hope for long-term stability on these diets. I figure there’s no point in starting to do something that I can’t keep up the rest of my life (since I’ll have to, if I want to keep the weight off), so I avoid the extremes. I eat a fairly healthy diet, not going to sweat my indulgences, they don’t have a huge impact on weight, but would have an impact on my psychological well being if I tried to deny them.
.-= julie´s last blog ..It ain’t been easy! =-.

]]> By: Linda Hibbard http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15337 Linda Hibbard Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:55:18 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15337 Try wearing wearable weights like “Body Togs” anatomically designed weighted sleeves worn on your arms & legs under your clothes. Put them on in the morning and you literally forget you have them on while increasing your calorie burn, muscle tone & bone density! Weighted vests work great too! Try wearing wearable weights like “Body Togs” anatomically designed weighted sleeves worn on your arms & legs under your clothes. Put them on in the morning and you literally forget you have them on while increasing your calorie burn, muscle tone & bone density! Weighted vests work great too!

]]> By: Johnny Fontana http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15325 Johnny Fontana Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:20:08 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15325 It seems like everyone is on the same page about not agreeing with rapid weight loss. The reason we all agree is because we have either had the experience of it or have seen people experience it. It is so hard to lose weight extremely fast and then keep it off. The reason is because you are lowering your basal metabolic rate (BMR) which is essentially how many calories a day you would burn if you laid in bed. When you go on an extreme diet, your BMR lowers because your body doesn't realize you are dieting, it thinks you are actually starving. So when you get off the diet and go back to your normal lifestyle, it takes less calories to gain weigh than it did before. We have to remember that we have our whole lives and although we want to lose the weight today, the most important thing is how we will be a few years from now. It seems like everyone is on the same page about not agreeing with rapid weight loss. The reason we all agree is because we have either had the experience of it or have seen people experience it. It is so hard to lose weight extremely fast and then keep it off. The reason is because you are lowering your basal metabolic rate (BMR) which is essentially how many calories a day you would burn if you laid in bed. When you go on an extreme diet, your BMR lowers because your body doesn’t realize you are dieting, it thinks you are actually starving.

So when you get off the diet and go back to your normal lifestyle, it takes less calories to gain weigh than it did before. We have to remember that we have our whole lives and although we want to lose the weight today, the most important thing is how we will be a few years from now.

]]> By: Mary http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15305 Mary Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:12:22 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15305 @Ally I don’t mind disagreement, you just seem to be disagreeing over soemethibg I wasn’t saying. Maybe the way you read it you jumped to the wrong conclusion and I’m sorry. I still stand by using the example of someone who doesn’t eat veggies and wants to eat more jumping to being a vegetarian or vegan the next day. That is an example of extreme change, which is what that paragraph was talking about. Once again, sorry if you don’t like my choice of examples. <b>@Marshmallow</b> Thanks for trying to clarify for me. I guess I wasn't doing a good job? To me it makes sense, but then again, that is the reason writers have editors... for cases where the point isn't always as clear as they think. I'm glad at least someone understood that bit. Thanks. @Ally

I don’t mind disagreement, you just seem to be disagreeing over soemethibg I wasn’t saying. Maybe the way you read it you jumped to the wrong conclusion and I’m sorry. I still stand by using the example of someone who doesn’t eat veggies and wants to eat more jumping to being a vegetarian or vegan the next day. That is an example of extreme change, which is what that paragraph was talking about. Once again, sorry if you don’t like my choice of examples.

@Marshmallow
Thanks for trying to clarify for me. I guess I wasn’t doing a good job? To me it makes sense, but then again, that is the reason writers have editors… for cases where the point isn’t always as clear as they think. I’m glad at least someone understood that bit. Thanks.

]]> By: Marshmallow http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15304 Marshmallow Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:07:20 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15304 Hi Ally - I don't think Mary at all was saying that vegetarianism in itself was extreme. I think her point was that a change in a person who eats zero vegetables to eating nothing but vegetables is an extreme change for the sole reason of weight loss. I know several vegetarians, some healthy, some unhealthy, and I don't consider any of them to be 'extreme'; and from what I know about Mary, I don't think she considers them to be extreme either. It's more the level of change a person goes through, and she was using someone who goes from eating no vegetables to eating only vegetables as an example. The same could be said for someone who drinks no water changing to drinking 10 litres of water a day; or someone who eats no fruit to eating 20 peaches a day. Does this clarify things? .-= Marshmallow´s last blog ..<a href="http://large.mmmarshmallow.com/2009/11/because-i-feel-guilty-about-lack-of.html" rel="nofollow">Because I feel guilty about the lack of blog action...</a> =-. Hi Ally – I don’t think Mary at all was saying that vegetarianism in itself was extreme. I think her point was that a change in a person who eats zero vegetables to eating nothing but vegetables is an extreme change for the sole reason of weight loss.

I know several vegetarians, some healthy, some unhealthy, and I don’t consider any of them to be ‘extreme’; and from what I know about Mary, I don’t think she considers them to be extreme either.

It’s more the level of change a person goes through, and she was using someone who goes from eating no vegetables to eating only vegetables as an example. The same could be said for someone who drinks no water changing to drinking 10 litres of water a day; or someone who eats no fruit to eating 20 peaches a day.

Does this clarify things?
.-= Marshmallow´s last blog ..Because I feel guilty about the lack of blog action… =-.

]]> By: Randi http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15303 Randi Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:50:19 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15303 I am a slow and steady person. I do understand the people who go to extremes though, to me it's all about impatience and punishment. They want results now now now, they wanna see them and if they don't see them they must not be doing something right and need to punish themselves for not getting the results. It's a rough cycle but it seems to me the people who do that are almost always going to rebound back to how they were before. It's kind of impossible to keep up that type of extremism for years. .-= Randi´s last blog ..<a href="http://randilizm.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/the-best-way-out-is-always-through/" rel="nofollow">The best way out is always through.</a> =-. I am a slow and steady person.

I do understand the people who go to extremes though, to me it’s all about impatience and punishment. They want results now now now, they wanna see them and if they don’t see them they must not be doing something right and need to punish themselves for not getting the results.

It’s a rough cycle but it seems to me the people who do that are almost always going to rebound back to how they were before. It’s kind of impossible to keep up that type of extremism for years.
.-= Randi´s last blog ..The best way out is always through. =-.

]]> By: jenn @ thin by 30 http://amerrylife.com/2009/12/07/extreme-weight-loss-methods/#comment-15300 jenn @ thin by 30 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:10:50 +0000 http://amerrylife.com/?p=2821#comment-15300 A couple years ago I went on a low-carb diet. I dropped weight really quickly and I was happy with the way I looked. But I couldn't stay on that diet forever and as soon as I started eating carbs, the weight came back just as quickly. This time I'm doing it the healthy way. It's not as fast, but the results are better long term. .-= jenn @ thin by 30´s last blog ..<a href="http://findingjenn.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/21/" rel="nofollow">Weekly Weigh-In</a> =-. A couple years ago I went on a low-carb diet. I dropped weight really quickly and I was happy with the way I looked. But I couldn’t stay on that diet forever and as soon as I started eating carbs, the weight came back just as quickly.

This time I’m doing it the healthy way. It’s not as fast, but the results are better long term.
.-= jenn @ thin by 30´s last blog ..Weekly Weigh-In =-.

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