Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18167312)

is that doable? time for the plastic body suit??/

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18167323)

true, rethinking, having diabetes for 26+ years now, i guess i didn't realize i don't even see those sorts of things on the menu anymore. so it doesn't even register on my radar enough to say "no way". know what i mean? i don't eat candy or even ever get craving for candy. but i find that hfcs sneeks in to things that are surprising to me, so i am always on the lookout for it.

i do enjoy a crazy dessert concoction on occasion. chocolate! :1orglaugh

Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18167322)

Ok, first of all my neighbor, a lil wirey guy of about 140 lbs of solid muscle. The guy is a state championship high school wrestling champ now about 45. He mows with a push mower. Hand shovels the walk and driveway as fast as I can blow it. :)

Ok thing is he is always grilling huge cuts of meat. I think he has also learned that protien is what men really need. (women too for that matter)

He prob learned as wrestlers do that to cut carbs is how he lost weight for matches and his good eating carried over. But I noticed that and I started to realize he eats a lot of meat (and prob not much simple carbs)

But very interesting as something you said clicked as i also feel best when I am eating meat or fish and worse eating carbs. I swear. In fact I almost always feel bad on all but the most complex of carbs like beans.

I gave up whole wheat bread a while back (unless it is seriously very whole wheat) and white bread way back. But we all prob do eat too many carbs. I have a lot of the same symptoms you are saying as well as a lot of antacids being needed for carbs but hardly not needed at all for protiens. And not needed at all for fish or chicken.

Really the vast majority of carbs are man made junk. Refined being the keyword.

I noticed the cheapest food out there (yeah money is always tight :) ) are also the best for you (except protein.. beef and fish which is is high priced but for the carbs only.. all the best carbs are the original carbs.. Beans, potatoes, true whole wheat. As soon as man gets in there and refines it is junk.

Beans are one of the carbs (actually a legume) which are really more along the lines of protien with lots of fiber.

Eating beans dishes is the best for you. 4 cans of beans is 3 bucks and lasts a week. :) Plus a little seasoning. I usually eat it with potatoes or whole grain rice (not the best) or brown (very good but tasteless) or wild (the best) rice. Technically wild is a grain and not a rice.

(beans plus rice = complete protein) but beans baby will take the weight off if you keep the other junk out. Fiber up the wazoo. :)

I have fallen in love with beans. :)

Originally Posted by AVN Theo (Post 18167364)

Your topic did inspire me to start a diet.

Originally Posted by Cory W (Post 18167303)

First time I did it, I went to Whole Foods and bought two enormous NY Steaks. It comforted me. I had nightmares also for about a week.

I learned from one of the forums to always use the word "allergy" around other people at first, just so, and wait for it, they didn't feel like you were commenting on their lives by turning down cake. You see, its easier to tell someone you will die if you eat the cake than it is to tell them that you think its horrible for the body. : ) Because they feel like you are remarking on them. Food is like religion. Its an amazing discovery its all been, that's for sure.

But the fact that you are posting in this thread already puts you ahead of 90 percent of people. In one year you will laugh at how easy it actually is.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18167359)

beans beans the magical fruit! :1orglaugh do you eat lentils? very good for you and cheap too.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18167366)

vjo, you also bring up a good point- protein. i was reading the other day that the human body is comprised of over 100,000 different proteins.

we need our protein. that and fat are the required macronutrients. carbs, no. but i find i do better when i have some carbs throughout the day. usually 50g-100g, depending on my activity level for that day.

Originally Posted by DirtyDanza (Post 18167325)

yeah ..... it's hell on the body though.... last time I did 7.8lbs on day of weigh ins and it was hell .. I was ready to quit at the weighins itself waiting on the doc to check us....

I wanted to keep it smooth this time... so I dieted before the cut... and that sucked bigtime.... this week I went from 7000 calories a day to 1200...... went from 158 to where im at now since monday.....

Originally Posted by ShellyCrash (Post 18167919)

Curious. Do you think the diet is doable if you can't eat raw veggies, high fiber foods and only eat seafood for meat? Would you have to eat seafood every day? Are there any cooked veggies you could do?

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18164156)

Originally Posted by Squirtit (Post 18168028)

OH and I thought you were Asian!

Great work on the weight loss! Congratulations on the reward for your hard work and dedication :thumbsup

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18168033)

asian? never got that one before! :1orglaugh :thumbsup thx eh.

Originally Posted by Fucksakes (Post 18168062)

your def Canadian eh

can I contact you via icq?

Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 18164065)

I don't want to be less hungry, then I wouldn't be eating as much, meaning I would be dropping weight. I don't want to lose weight, I want to put on about 30-50 lbs, which isn't going to happen, ever.

Originally Posted by Internet User (Post 18168102)

Man, you don't look good.

You skin looks old and unhealthy. You also look malnourished.

Eat some meat.

Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18167382)

Great idea. There is nothing better than a good cut of beef.

Hmm yeah I am sort of socially retarded hehe so I am sure I make all the guffaws. :)

It is all about habits and making new better ones. I am on my way. :) As you get a lil older around the big 5-0 you realize it is stupid to be carrying around excess weight. But for many of us, we can excel in various areas of life (or not) but learning how to correctly eat evades us.

It is really prob just as easy as if you eat sugar or corn syrup or highly processed yucky carbs (which is what they are) that you get fat. Simple human biology. But noone really says, YES that is what it is. So we go along thinking we are different or maybe just in the fog and we nibble on a little junk each day.

Maybe just a chocolate bar, two corn syrup filled "fruit slices" :), a small bowl of pasta, a white flour tortilla at work and maybe we splerge from time to time and have a bad night and eat 3 bars and 6 "slices". This is enough to sabatage our loss.

It is going cold turkey that is hardest to do but maybe is the only real way. In fact it is the only way.

Did Arnold or Franco Columbu sneak a hershey bar when they were training for Mr Olympia? NO! :)

Maybe the real thing is you (I :) not you guys you're all in shape :)) have to get SERIOUS and not do it half way.

It is all about getting serious and committing.

Originally Posted by tony286 (Post 18168197)

Actually in Arnolds book, he spoke about how franco never had to diet for a contest. How he would laugh at arnold dieting while he ate bowls of pasta.Also their metabolism was on fire, they worked out twice a day 6 days a week.Most of them back then did very little cardio.

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18168128)

lolz, i'll be 47 years old in 2 months, and have had insulin-dependent diabetes for over 1/2 my life yet i am in top health, according to my endo.


get back to me when you're 47, managed a disease that kills and debilitates for 2+ decades and we'll compare how you look to how i look.

Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy (Post 18168560)

There some serious last man talk on this thread ...

Originally Posted by Icy (Post 18168723)

Great thread, motivating for sure and could help me to reach my final goal.

I'm 35 years old, and while i have always loved sports, and was once a gym rat, for the past 5 years i have dedicated most of the time to work, sitting in front of a PC for hours and gaining weight (fat) while losing my once nice muscles.

It changed 6 months ago, i joined a soccer team in an amateur league, I noticed how slow i was and how sore after the preseason games, so i started to run also, then the gymhaand then to take care of my diet etc. Once you start to feel better, things become easier.

In the past 6 months i have lost 20lbs with moderate diet (basically mediterranean diet but trying to cut carbs a bit), eating vegetables, salads and grilled non fat meat and fish and mainly due to increasing my exercise levels a lot as i said.

Currently I go to the gym 3 days per week, run 40 minutes 2 days per week and play a competitive soccer game once per week.

Now i'm stuck at my weight for like 2 months, i'm happy as the loss is very noticeable, i have also gained a lot of muscle and i get praised by people around me all the time for the change but i want to lose a bit more of fat so the new grown muscles won't be hidden behind the fat.

I'm tempted to try your diet in a month or so, to give the final push and to break this wall, to lose the final 8 pounds i want to lose to reach my weight in my early twenties but without losing a lot of the muscle i have gained in the past 6 months (plus i still need to play 5 more games to end the soccer season so i need some energy in the tank).

The ketogenic diets have always been my fav ones, some people feel like shit when cutting carbs, but for me is the opposite, the more "carbs hungry" i feel, the more motivated i get to keep trying. It's like when you feel slightly sore after a good training session (once you are trained enough, first days sore after years of not doing anything is so painful), it feels great, like that you have done your homework.

Originally Posted by atom (Post 18171065)

Looking good Dyna! I'm another person you have inspired to take charge of their health/diet.

Love these posts, I always learn something new!

Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 18171122)

ola amigo, good to hear! how goes it these days? :thumbsup