Here it goes again... I'm going to embark upon the painful journey of weight loss

Losing weight takes the same discipline that it takes a drug addict to quit or cut back. You do it or you dont. Todd is a super smart guy so he knows how to lose weight if he wants to so no diet advice is going to make a difference. This isnt a critique as i got my own problems it just doesnt happen to be with over eating. He knows and we all know that sugar is the number one thing you need to eliminate to lose weight. But that is like telling an alcoholic he cant drink today. it is tough

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Originally Posted by tigerpiper

Todd,

You can do it, and I guess you wouldn't put this out if you didn't want to discuss or get advice so

1) Was your earlier diet actutally a success? You are heavier than ever five years later.
2) If it wasn't, what can you change? I think the soda/juice thing was huge (haha). Keep it up. Smaller dinner portions obviously is great. But the big missing thing is exercise. That's something you can change, and it can last a lifetime. Walk 1 mile a day. If the dog can only go half that, take Benjamin for the whole thing. That's less than half an hour a day, and is something like 100 calories (just for ease of calculation.) A pound is 3500 calories, so you're losing a pound a month basically just doing that. Walking is easy- unless its super hot, you don't even need to shower after or change into shorts or running shoes. Its kind of fun, too, as you can walk around the neighborhood and see what font your neighbors golden pool lettering is in.

Good luck.

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Why bother going outside to walk? He should get a treadmill and challenge himself to get up to walking an hour per day on it. Easy peazy. He just needs to get started on it. And he could have fun making up games to play with Benjamin using it. It’ll be a neverending opportunity to build good memories with the Younger Witteles.

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Originally Posted by MumblesBadly

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Originally Posted by tigerpiper

Todd,

You can do it, and I guess you wouldn't put this out if you didn't want to discuss or get advice so

1) Was your earlier diet actutally a success? You are heavier than ever five years later.
2) If it wasn't, what can you change? I think the soda/juice thing was huge (haha). Keep it up. Smaller dinner portions obviously is great. But the big missing thing is exercise. That's something you can change, and it can last a lifetime. Walk 1 mile a day. If the dog can only go half that, take Benjamin for the whole thing. That's less than half an hour a day, and is something like 100 calories (just for ease of calculation.) A pound is 3500 calories, so you're losing a pound a month basically just doing that. Walking is easy- unless its super hot, you don't even need to shower after or change into shorts or running shoes. Its kind of fun, too, as you can walk around the neighborhood and see what font your neighbors golden pool lettering is in.

Good luck.

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Why bother going outside to walk? He should get a treadmill and challenge himself to get up to walking an hour per day on it. Easy peazy. He just needs to get started on it. And he could have fun making up games to play with Benjamin using it. It’ll be a neverending opportunity to build good memories with the Younger Witteles.

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Exercise, while having a ton of health benefits, will do little to lose weight. 80-90 percent of weight lose for your average person is going be from diet.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

When it comes to weight loss, I find it's best to know yourself, be honest with yourself, and come up with something realistic. Too many people try to interfere with others' weight loss, with statements like, "Try XXXX, that's what worked for me" or "No, you need to do it YYYYYY way".

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Then why make a post about it? If you want to keep it private don’t put it out on the message board or at least put a clear disclaimer that you dont want to hear any personal opinions.

Druff: As I get older and since I quit the gym. I've found I put on about twenty pounds . My trick to weight loss is fairly simple.

No Bread

Exercise

No Sodas

I dont drink alcohol

Replace lunch with a nice salad


Breakfast always oatmeal


That's it not much to it really.

Twenty pounds for a guy in his mid fourties should be easy peazy

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Originally Posted by MumblesBadly

Why bother going outside to walk? He should get a treadmill and challenge himself to get up to walking an hour per day on it. Easy peazy. He just needs to get started on it. And he could have fun making up games to play with Benjamin using it. It’ll be a neverending opportunity to build good memories with the Younger Witteles.

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Exercise, while having a ton of health benefits, will do little to lose weight. 80-90 percent of weight lose for your average person is going be from diet.

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ehh no not 80% maybe 60% ? I don't think anyone knows for sure
Muscle burns fat exercise builds muscle

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Why bother going outside to walk? He should get a treadmill and challenge himself to get up to walking an hour per day on it. Easy peazy. He just needs to get started on it. And he could have fun making up games to play with Benjamin using it. It’ll be a neverending opportunity to build good memories with the Younger Witteles.

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Exercise, while having a ton of health benefits, will do little to lose weight. 80-90 percent of weight lose for your average person is going be from diet.

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Keep same diet. Walk a mile a day. Lost 10 pounds in a year. Easy.

I'm not telling him to go to Jazzercise.

Of course diet is key, but a little exercise would accelerate his losses and give him something to do instead of eating El Pollo Loco.

Exercise is good for you independent of weight loss.

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Originally Posted by MumblesBadly

Why bother going outside to walk? He should get a treadmill and challenge himself to get up to walking an hour per day on it. Easy peazy. He just needs to get started on it. And he could have fun making up games to play with Benjamin using it. It’ll be a neverending opportunity to build good memories with the Younger Witteles.

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Exercise, while having a ton of health benefits, will do little to lose weight. 80-90 percent of weight lose for your average person is going be from diet.

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Actually, unless you are Type I diabetic, moderate daily exercise helps your body regulate your blood sugar, which in turn helps to prevent food craving and excess eating throughout the day. But if you want specifically to lose fat, the best form of exercise is weight training, not cardio.

But I doubt Druff would have even remotely considered that route given that it would be near impossible to interact with a computer or TV screen while doing so. Thst’s why I first suggested a treadmill desk. And I’d be all-in to him spending some time each radio show walking-while-talking as part of his regular exercise routine. In fact, he could even preface that segment of the show with some dedicated intro music, such as this:

https://youtu.be/DP3MFBzMH2o

Who’s with me?!!!

I don't recommend treadmills for children.

Have heard of two family friends being injured on them lately. One some minor road rash but the other had 2nd degree burns.

Treadmill was in a tight corner, and the poor girl fell off got stuck and had a major friction burn.

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I don't recommend treadmills for children.

Have heard of two family friends being injured on them lately. One some minor road rash but the other had 2nd degree burns.

Treadmill was in a tight corner, and the poor girl fell off got stuck and had a major friction burn.

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I’m sure that Druff has enough room at home to not have to squeeze a treadmill into a tight corner.

 

Chez Witteles?

If you are gonna do treadmill make sure you do it on and incline.

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Originally Posted by simpdog

I don't recommend treadmills for children.

Have heard of two family friends being injured on them lately. One some minor road rash but the other had 2nd degree burns.

Treadmill was in a tight corner, and the poor girl fell off got stuck and had a major friction burn.

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I read Iron Mike Tyson's autobiography back in the day, most entertaining book I've ever read fwiw. Anyway, pretty sure Tyson said his son or daughter died at his old house in Arizona from messing around on a treadmill and being hung.

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Originally Posted by simpdog

I don't recommend treadmills for children.

Have heard of two family friends being injured on them lately. One some minor road rash but the other had 2nd degree burns.

Treadmill was in a tight corner, and the poor girl fell off got stuck and had a major friction burn.

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I read Iron Mike Tyson's autobiography back in the day, most entertaining book I've ever read fwiw. Anyway, pretty sure Tyson said his son or daughter died at his old house in Arizona from messing around on a treadmill and being hung.

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Don't recall that but read up on it after seeing your post.

The best part is her name was Exodus. Irony at its' best

do any of you fags train with the heavy bag? Fun + great for overall fitness and hand eye coordination lean you up too

The best thing you can do to lose weight is cut processed foods in general and added sugar especially.

12 hour intermittent fasting plus a prescription of phentermine= massive weight loss...........or just stop eating good food.....

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do any of you fags train with the heavy bag? Fun + great for overall fitness and hand eye coordination lean you up too

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Yes, but going done on her wasn’t as pleasant as I’d hoped it would be. Plus, she turned out to an angry mean person, so she wasn’t a keeper.

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Originally Posted by hongkonger

The best thing you can do to lose weight is cut processed foods in general and added sugar especially.

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The formula to lose weight is simple but the person needs to execute. It is like telling an alcoholic to go from 10 beers a day to 5 day. Sounds simple enough but actually following through long term is difficult.

If one simply cut out sugar and walked for an hour a day they would lose weight. Sugar is packed into everything Americans eat it is ridiculous.

Losing weight is easy.

1. Oatmeal for breakfast or egg white omelette with veg...whatever healthy breakfast you like.
2. Healthy snack at 10...if oatmeal at breakfast have some protein, e.g. Harboiled egg
3. Healthy but hearty lunch...grilled chicken salad, flatbread sandwich
4. Healthy snack at 2/3....apple, banana etc
5. Reasonable dinner...since you snacked you won't need a big ass dinner

No late snacking.