I don't feel so good.

[Matthew]

Is it bad to eat a whole box of chocolates in place of your dinner?

[code6enterprises]

No.

{Grins Devilishly}

[Razorback]

It is good... eat more. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

RB

[Jack_Sparrow]

Only if you hunted the cocoa plant and made it yourself?

hahahaha

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">Poor poor Matthew...Here is some pepto.

I am feeling a little ill as well. I just drank 4 whole 20 oz. bottles of h20 as a bet for one of the workers here in my office..No one is here and we are bored. And now my tummy hurts. /forums/images/icons/frown.gif </font color>

[Zens_7s]

You can die from drinking too much water. Never take work bets involving house plants, scamming around with your boss, or excess amounts of water. Trust me, it all turns out bad.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">Oh, that's right. At least I won 20 bucks for myself, and I wont be drinking anymore water for the rest of the day.

I always forget information like that when bets are involved. </font color>

[Dr3vil]

Only when they're a box of chocolate laxatives.

[Matthew]

Man, this is not good.

I just went over to my Steinway, and forgot to wash my hands, and got chocolate all over it /forums/images/icons/frown.gif THEN I went to the bathroom, and my stomach hurt so bad!

Then I sat in my chair, and I can't hardly move.

THIS SUCKS

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">Well, you're the one who ate all the chocolate. </font color>

[code6enterprises]

If you can't move, then how can you type?

[Matt1]

I can relate. I've just ate like a whole bag of spicy cheetos and two Dr. Peppers. I'm gonna die.

[Matthew]

okay, I can move 1 hand to type with.

[JIM]

DAMN!
What type of chocolates were these?
Usually I'd say: "HEY, Chocolate for dinner, YAY!"
I love going to godiva the day after a holiday and getting chocolate for fifty percent off! /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[Matthew]

Godiva,

BUT they have been sitting in my cupboard for a few months, I didn't think chocolate ever went bad.

[FanGirl]

I'm on Atkins. So can have my share of the chocolates. The cravings aren't as bad as I thought they would be. I was a chocoholic too.

Lost 15 pounds in 5 weeks. Didn't know the Kevin was on Atkins as well until the Mallrats screening. He's lost 45. I aspire to that plus a few more. Of course, hearing that Ethan Surplee lost 230 pounds was just shocking. I looked it up and he was 448 before he lost the weight. Can't wait to see what he looks like now and curious as to which method helped him lose.

[Matthew]

One thing to keep in mind though FG, is that the Atkins diet weight loss is almost all water weight. There have been cases where Kidneys shut down and everything!

After those incidents they revised the diet to more carbs, so I hope it is better.

The only PROVEN way to lose weight is eat less and excercise more. The atkins can be a "quick" fix, but keeping it off and staying healthy is another thing.


My mom lost 60 pounds on Herbalife, and has kept it off for 7 years!

I am so proud of her!

[FanGirl]

Thanks for the concern! Very sweet. If I didn't have full doctor's support I wouldn't be doing it.

Every diet has it's skeptics about how it works. I've tried them all and listened to why they were developed and this is the only one that works for me. It makes the most sense as well. The body burns carbs for fuel first and then fat. When you cut down on the carbs, it goes to the fat for fuel. It's not just water weight. Atkins introduced carbs back in each week. It's not like it's no carbs ever.

I started a workout routine as well. Jogging and swimming. Once I get medical insurance, I'm going to go back to playing roller hockey and maybe take come ice hockey classes.

[Matthew]

Very kewl, if you don't mind my asking, ( no need to reply if you are uncomfortable) are you severly overweight where you can't do those things now?

I am proud of you for taking the right steps to a better life!

Maybe someday you and I can do some roller hockey, and take on the world!

So what if we lose, at least we will give it our all!

[FanGirl]

I can do those things now. I just don't have medical insurance. I'm waiting to go permanent at my job first. I am a klutz and I won't play that until I have medical insurance.

I play broomball once a month. I'm getting better. Scored my first goal last month. I've been playing for a couple of years, but usually defense. Just recently swtiched to offense.

One sport you need to be in shape for and when I am, I am so going back to it, is fencing. It's very difficult unless you are in awesome shape.

[Matthew]

KEWL

I fence /forums/images/icons/smile.gif Have done it for about 4 years. A lot of people say things like "What a pussy thing" but then I show them a few things, and they are like "OMG".

KEWL /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

[FanGirl]

Do you do foil, sabre, or epee? What rank?

I do foil. Merely a beginner. Took a few classes. The place where I take lessons has an aerboics class just for fencers. It's pretty cool.

[code6enterprises]

My mom was extremely overweight at about 450. She then had that surgery. Umm. I forget what it's called. It's where they staple her stomach smaller. Oh, I can't think of what it's called. But, she has lost over 150 pounds since the surgery.

[Matthew]

I am currently a Provost, but am going for Captain next month.

Epee, saber , and foil. In my league, you can't make it past Free-Scholar unless you can do all 3.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

<font color="purple">That's awesome code! I know a lady who did that and she is so proud of her weight loss. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif</font color>

[DangerSeeker]

I've gotten down to 180 recently, and been holding steady (slowed down on the excercise, sadly). Still can't lose the dang gut, though. It's far less pronounced than it was and shouldn't have been, but I want rock hard abs, dammit!

[Matthew]

do you drink beer?

[DangerSeeker]

less lately, but ooooh yah

[Razorback]

</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
One thing to keep in mind though FG, is that the Atkins diet weight loss is almost all water weight. There have been cases where Kidneys shut down and everything!

[/ QUOTE ]

Maybe if a dimwhit was on it who had not made an effort to understand the diet before starting. You are supposed to drink a lot of water and take supplements, otherwise you are really defeating the structure of the Atkins diet. If you want more carbs or want to be able to have some bread while cutting down on what you eat then a modified Weight Watchers diet (where you choose low carb food) works just as well (and is a lot easier).

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After those incidents they revised the diet to more carbs, so I hope it is better.

[/ QUOTE ]

The Atkins diet has not had much of an increase in carbs, because that would keep the body out of Ketosis. For those who want a low carb diet but also want more carbs in their diet than Atkins allows, there is the diabetics diet.

</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
The only PROVEN way to lose weight is eat less and excercise more.

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually, another PROVEN way to lose weight is to continue normal eating habbits and just exercise more. Oh, or eating tons of protein and exercising more. Also, eating nothing is a proven way of losing weight. Drinking water and eating one apple a day is another proven method. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
The atkins can be a "quick" fix, but keeping it off and staying healthy is another thing.

[/ QUOTE ]

You are not speaking from authority. The Atkins diet is a LIFE diet and not a quick fix.

RB

[Efexeye]

I can't eat fennel seed- one time on Thanksgiving I made a mistake and ate some homemade sausage that had fennel seed in it, and I spent the first three quarters of the game in "Dumb-and Dumber" style rectal convulsions at the Pontiac Silverdome. If you've ever been to the 'Dome, you know that the toilet facilities there are not exactly plush, so I was pretty desperate.......fennel seed and preservatives do it to me every time.

Hey, what's up with all the scatalogical topics around here lately, anyway? :-)

[Omaru]

chocolate does go bacd, kinda with bits start to appear on it as if its been spinkled in icing sugar or donut powder, but even then it still tastes okay and shouldn't make you suck. At best it might have given you the runs, I think ur just sick cause the sheer volume you ate in one sitting.

[karmattack]

Fear not about the tum-tum, Danger. I just went from 205 lbs to 175 lbs and seemed to be retaining a bit of the pouch. It just took a little while for it to widdle itself down. I think it was like a font-side camel's hump or something. My weight seemed to plateau, but I think my body was just working on that. Now, I'm all flattened out and losing more.
Stick with it you guys! My best advice is to to treat your diets as a life change and not a quick fix. Pick a combination of foods and excersize that is going to make you happy for the duration of "the ride" and it will be SO worth it. Personally, I didn't realize how sad my poor body shape made me until I started losing weight so I could improve my rock climbing. Now I feel sexy when I take off my shirt and it's retardedly cool.
/forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[FanGirl]

Which diet are you doing Karm?

[Dr3vil]

I don't know what karma's on, but I've lost 42 lbs. on Atkins so far. It did suck when I realized underneath all that fat, despite a barbarian bone structure, I was scrawny as crack addict, but ah well, back to the gym.

[DangerSeeker]

Well, as I mentioned, I'm frustrated, but luckily I haven't become obsessed. I'm not starving myself, radically altering my lifestyle, or in any way doing something "quick fix." I just let it inspire me to drop another bad habit or pick up another good one. Now when I'm just thirsty, I get some water instead of something more caloric. I still have beverage with meals, but simple quench thirst with basic thirst quench solution. I walk to places I can walk. If I'm only going out for a beer or two, I know it won't get me drunk, so I opt for diet soda. I don't super-size, just because I get all that extra grease for only 40 cents more. I admit when I'm full earlier, thinking "This will heat up nicely for lunch tomorrow." Little stuff. It all helps. It's the "I'm not the stereotype of the American Male" diet.

Also, I jog 50 miles a day uphill to the gym. Every little bit, ya know?

[Zens_7s]

In high school and college I was a Cross-Country runner, and averaged 6 miles a day of hard running. Obviously I could eat just about anything and it fell right off. Once I got injured I leared pretty quickly about my REAL metabolism (not good) and how hard running really is on a person's body.

Now I jog 3-4 times a week (and I do mean jog, not run) and do yoga 5 days a week. I mix in Pilates, Qui Gong, strength training, cycling, and plain ol' walking depending on mood.

Finally at some point I retrained my head to stop thinking "diet" and start thinking "healthy". I suppose having all of my family (including my mother and father) have cancer really shook me into thinking about the consequences of diet. Oddly enough I do not come from a over-weight family, so being thin and athletic was not enough to help them.

I hear so much about the different diets; Atkins, SouthBeach, SugarBusters, Dr. Phil... In my mind, every body is different. My body type responds well to a certain type of fuel, and someone else may respond well to another. It does make me giggle when a person rips on something like the Atkins diet for being bad and then orders greasy fries right after.

[karmattack]

The "diet" I'm on is what Zens said -- just decided to be healthy. I've been a vegetarian on and off for about 3 years. I've gone full veggy now (with the occasional acception), I practice yoga and I rock climb at least once a week. I've cut my meal portions in half and I try to only eat two large meals per day, snacking in between only when my stomach starts to digest itself. My thoughts about eating now are "How little can I eat to be satisfied and carried over until ____?" Instead of eating until I waddle. Also, I don't eat after 8 PM.
I feel better in every way now that I'm healthier.

[FanGirl]

That's great! I'm always inspired to hear how others lost weight. I need to still call it a diet for a bit longer, but then I can switch it to being healthier. I did the diet for a month and now I'm adding in the exercise part. I just have such a hard time going to a gym. Psychological trip up. So instead I go to a high school track to jog and run up and down the bleacher steps. Then I go to the park district and do laps. Figured I'd do that until I can get my weight down and then do more muscle building and such.

[Zens_7s]

The gym used to unnerve me because I always felt intimidated by not knowing how to properly use the machines and not feeling comfortable in the sea of muscles and beauty. I did minimal strength training during the running years. The best thing I did was join an all woman's gym for a year. I felt much more comfortable out of the meat markets that our gyms often are, (and I am sure it is FARRRR worse in L.A.) and the staff was more focused on helping me learn proper technique.

Now I belong to a mixed gym where they have more diverse offerings (and those really great elipital cardio machines), but I have more confidence because I know my plan of attack going in. It was a year well spent.

I am so proud of you girl! It is never easy and it sounds like you have a great strategy planned!

[Matt1]

I went into a gym the other day, and I thought to myself, "Man. Do people have to work at a smaller gym before they are allowed entry here?" Seriously, shouldn't it only be pathetic people working out, not greek-gods? I mean they're already in shape. They're too in shape! I likened it to a Shaolin Kung-Fu master's taking children karate lessons down at the Y.

[Zens_7s]

Funny, I have thought the exact same thing myself. Isn't there like special gyms for them? You know, like degrees of the belt system.

If your neck is over 24 in. around you can attend "Uber-big gym gym: it ain't for the Yoga Pussies"

[FanGirl]

Zens, have you heard of Curves? I know there are a few of them in Chicago.

They are women only and instead of a normal gym it's set up with several different machines. You do 2 mins on each machine and then you move to the next one. It's all based on resistance instead of weights. It takes a half an hour and your done. No locker rooms or showers. There all located in mini malls and such.

They just broke the world's record for most weight lost in a month of all their clients. They're popping up all over the place.

I looked into it, but I like working out at an ungodly hour of 6am and most don't open until 7a.

[FanGirl]

In respect to LA gyms, there is one that lifts above all others. Crunch. It's where you go to be seen at a gym. Tons of celebrities and what not. But the most horrficly sickening thing they have there is the shadow shower. One can choose to take a shower where your shadow can be seen by the entire gym. Talk about exhibitionism. I can't image.

And the latest trend out here and this is a real class is "Pole Dancing for Exercise." I kid you not. I just wonder how many guys go to that class to meet women.

[Zens_7s]

Yeah, there are a TON of Curves around here. In fact, my mom lives in a town of only 2,000 people in Northwest Illinois and they even have one. It seems like a good idea, especially if you can do cardio outside. Let me know if you try it...

I belonged to a nationwide chain called Lady Wellness. They opened at 5:30 am. It was also a spa, but I never used that part. They had tons of great classes so I got to try everything and decide what I liked. I HATE aerobics but I love spinning, Qui Gong, and some others. I paid $40 a month, which I thought was pretty good. I wonder if they have one of those out by you?

[Zens_7s]

We have a Crunch in the city also, but I am not sure where it is. Believe me, I will NEVER find out.

In fact, last I knew a girl I went to high school with was a personal trainer at your Crunch out there. She SO fits that type of lifestyle. I can't imagine taking a shower where people could see me making wierd contortions. That is just funny.

I would have to try to make objects...Look! A teradactyl! A camel! A bird! Dick Clark!

[FanGirl]

LOL. Dick Clark...hahahahaa

We don't have a Lady Wellness, but I remember my mom belonging to Women's Work Out World when I was little.

Everything out here is so expensive. The place I want to go swimming (one of the only year round pools in driving distance) is $50 a month to swim which is the cheapest. Most places want $75 or more and they are even open that early. I'm debating whether to jsut suck it up and pay it or stick to the track.