How To Lose All The Weight You Want In 89 Simple Steps
wendybird5
Posts: 577 Member
Found this on Jezebel.com and had to share since it pretty much reflects all the advice you'll see here on the forums.
(See the original post for more links - http://jezebel.com/how-to-lose-all-the-weight-you-want-in-just-89-simple-s-5993183)
1. First of all, don't work out.
2. Or, wait: Exercise. But not too much. If you're doing intense exercise, then it's time to exercise less.
3. But this thing called cardio is good.
4. And you should definitely do Zumba!
5. No, actually, you should do interval training.
6. Really, what you should do is exercise for 250-300 minutes a week. That's four or five hours. And don't you dare reward yourself with a yummy snack afterward.
7. Get inspired by Chris Pratt, who says: "You can do it. You could. You really could. You could do it in six months."
8. Instead of a regular vacation, go to a weight-loss spa. Doesn't sound expensive at all.
9. Oh, hell, go ahead, take a vacation! As long as it's at the $2,995-a-week Biggest Loser resort.
10. It's important to eat your largest meal earlier in the day, say, before 3pm.
11. Actually, no. Eat whenever.
12. But definitely graze — eat little meals all day.
13. NO. WAIT. Only eat two meals a day. Do not graze.
14. Skip breakfast.
15. Nevermind. Don't skip meals.
16. And like, definitely don't skip breakfast.
17. Well, you can skip meals and lose weight if you do a cleanse.
18. But smart people and scientists want you to know that cleanses are garbage.
19. Sleep more, because lack of sleep is turning you into a whale.
20. But! Get up earlier in the day.
21. Have one of your friends or loved ones bribe you.
22. Or try an app that allows users to place bets on how much you will lose.
23. And forget about willpower: It's more important to remove temptation.
24. Don't trust nutrition labels. They lie!
25. Don't go on a diet. Especially not a low-fat diet.
26. For real, the no-diet diet is fab.
27. That said: Change what you're shoving in your mouth. Eat chia seeds.
28. Nibble nuts.
29. Drink coffee.
30. Maybe even try weight-loss coffee! Although it could lead to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
31. Put olive oil on whatever you can.
32. Only eat things that have been blended into smoothie form by a celebrity weight-loss guru.
33. Take green coffee bean extract capsules.
34. Take Garcinia Cambogi, which is not a character in the Godfather but the HOLY GRAIL of weight loss.
35. Pop mangosteen caplets.
36. Although… Plenty of herbal supplements are poison and killing you.
37. So actually, just eat more green foods.
38. Really, though… Eat blue foods.
39. And! Eat red foods.
40. Don't forget yellow foods. Duh.
41. For real. Eat black foods. Word. Superfoods.
42. And sweet potatoes at every meal should help.
43. Okay, just eat eggs, kale, lentils, hot peppers, yogurt and grapefruit.
44. Um, also eat celery, quinoa, avocado, oats and chia seeds.
45. And don't forget seaweed.
46. Probiotics may be good for fat loss, but the strain researched isn't commercially available in the U.S., and "independent research is either inconclusive or contradictory." So, uh, ignore this.
47. WAIT! Eat like a caveman, even though they were not very tall. Or bright. They didn't have yogurt, did they?
48. Never mind. Don't eat — just ingest the slop known as soylent.
49. Or how about this: Eat for five days and fast for two.
50. If you're doing a gluten-free diet to lose weight, well, stop. It's not helping.
51. And definitely eat less.
52. Although snacking is important.
53. B12 shots might help?
54. The alkaline diet — in which you eat according to your pH balance — sounds good, if you are Jennifer Aniston.
55. Remember to savor your food, like you're in beautiful, thin Paris instead of gross, fat America.
56. Or, instead of savoring your food, barely taste it at all! Get a mesh patch stitched to your tongue — makes it hard to eat.
57. Get off Facebook and clean up after your husband.
58. Be a man. Men are better at losing weight than women. So says a dude from Weight Watchers.
59. Implant a mechanical monster-leech into your body that causes you to "discreetly" **** out of your own abdomen 3 times a day.
60. Drink eight glasses of water a day.
61. Stop drinking booze.
62. Go ahead and drink diet soda, though.
63. NO NO NO DO NOT DRINK DIET SODA DON'T DO IT.
64. Quit talking to your fat friends.
65. But tweet all about your weight loss goals!
66. Reminisce about the yummy stuff you used to eat by looking at old pictures. Instagram your way to skinny!
67. Watch an avatar exercise and learn healthy habits in the virtual world. Fun.
68. Seriously, just try to remember what you ate.
69. And for Chrissakes count calories.
70. Take a new drug called Belviq with side effects like dizziness and fatigue.
71. Or maybe beloranib, a new experimental drug with side effects including trouble falling asleep, nausea and vomiting?
72. How about Phentermine, a very effective drug for fast weight loss? Watch out, though: It's only approved for short-term use for a period of 12 weeks or less. If you stop taking the pill, "you will most likely regain the weight you initially lost." Also side effects include abnormally high blood pressure, yikes.
73. Okay: Try DHEA, aka dehydroepiandrosterone, a natural steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Research shows it has a significant effect on decreasing in abdominal fat. But! Side effects include facial hair growth, oily skin, and acne. Adorable.
74. Take the awesome-sounding drug called Reversatrol... which GlaxoSmithKline plans to discontinue working on. Oops.
75. Busy yourself by filming a reality show in which you feed your daughter Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
76. Have a lot of sex.
77. Actually, have an affair! You eat less when you're happy, and also maybe extramarital sex totally burns a lot of calories because you're worried about getting caught?
78. Buy clothes that will shrink.
79. Deal with your negative emotions, depresso.
80. And stop being so stressed out.
81. But be diligent and record everything you eat in a food journal.
82. If you work at a desk, hide the **** you need from yourself so you have to go looking for it. Instant workout!
83. Realize that there's actually not much you can do, because your idiot parents fed you high-carb baby food and programmed your metabolism ALL WRONG.
84. And don't forget that your genes control everything. You're a bulldog trying to look like a greyhound. A rhino running as fast as he can will never be a unicorn.
85. There's always lap-band surgery.
86. But doctors say that weight-loss surgery is just a tool, and the hard work comes after the surgery.
87. FYI: Keep in mind that your body will fight weight loss and some people are "unusually resistant to weight loss."
88. Plus, remember that science doesn't even understand how obesity works, and, as Judith Shulevitz writes for The New Republic, "It’s hard but not impossible to lose weight. But it’s nearly impossible to keep it off."
89. In all seriousness, read this Aeon article on obesity in which David Berreby writes about how complicated the issue is.
Good luck!
(See the original post for more links - http://jezebel.com/how-to-lose-all-the-weight-you-want-in-just-89-simple-s-5993183)
1. First of all, don't work out.
2. Or, wait: Exercise. But not too much. If you're doing intense exercise, then it's time to exercise less.
3. But this thing called cardio is good.
4. And you should definitely do Zumba!
5. No, actually, you should do interval training.
6. Really, what you should do is exercise for 250-300 minutes a week. That's four or five hours. And don't you dare reward yourself with a yummy snack afterward.
7. Get inspired by Chris Pratt, who says: "You can do it. You could. You really could. You could do it in six months."
8. Instead of a regular vacation, go to a weight-loss spa. Doesn't sound expensive at all.
9. Oh, hell, go ahead, take a vacation! As long as it's at the $2,995-a-week Biggest Loser resort.
10. It's important to eat your largest meal earlier in the day, say, before 3pm.
11. Actually, no. Eat whenever.
12. But definitely graze — eat little meals all day.
13. NO. WAIT. Only eat two meals a day. Do not graze.
14. Skip breakfast.
15. Nevermind. Don't skip meals.
16. And like, definitely don't skip breakfast.
17. Well, you can skip meals and lose weight if you do a cleanse.
18. But smart people and scientists want you to know that cleanses are garbage.
19. Sleep more, because lack of sleep is turning you into a whale.
20. But! Get up earlier in the day.
21. Have one of your friends or loved ones bribe you.
22. Or try an app that allows users to place bets on how much you will lose.
23. And forget about willpower: It's more important to remove temptation.
24. Don't trust nutrition labels. They lie!
25. Don't go on a diet. Especially not a low-fat diet.
26. For real, the no-diet diet is fab.
27. That said: Change what you're shoving in your mouth. Eat chia seeds.
28. Nibble nuts.
29. Drink coffee.
30. Maybe even try weight-loss coffee! Although it could lead to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
31. Put olive oil on whatever you can.
32. Only eat things that have been blended into smoothie form by a celebrity weight-loss guru.
33. Take green coffee bean extract capsules.
34. Take Garcinia Cambogi, which is not a character in the Godfather but the HOLY GRAIL of weight loss.
35. Pop mangosteen caplets.
36. Although… Plenty of herbal supplements are poison and killing you.
37. So actually, just eat more green foods.
38. Really, though… Eat blue foods.
39. And! Eat red foods.
40. Don't forget yellow foods. Duh.
41. For real. Eat black foods. Word. Superfoods.
42. And sweet potatoes at every meal should help.
43. Okay, just eat eggs, kale, lentils, hot peppers, yogurt and grapefruit.
44. Um, also eat celery, quinoa, avocado, oats and chia seeds.
45. And don't forget seaweed.
46. Probiotics may be good for fat loss, but the strain researched isn't commercially available in the U.S., and "independent research is either inconclusive or contradictory." So, uh, ignore this.
47. WAIT! Eat like a caveman, even though they were not very tall. Or bright. They didn't have yogurt, did they?
48. Never mind. Don't eat — just ingest the slop known as soylent.
49. Or how about this: Eat for five days and fast for two.
50. If you're doing a gluten-free diet to lose weight, well, stop. It's not helping.
51. And definitely eat less.
52. Although snacking is important.
53. B12 shots might help?
54. The alkaline diet — in which you eat according to your pH balance — sounds good, if you are Jennifer Aniston.
55. Remember to savor your food, like you're in beautiful, thin Paris instead of gross, fat America.
56. Or, instead of savoring your food, barely taste it at all! Get a mesh patch stitched to your tongue — makes it hard to eat.
57. Get off Facebook and clean up after your husband.
58. Be a man. Men are better at losing weight than women. So says a dude from Weight Watchers.
59. Implant a mechanical monster-leech into your body that causes you to "discreetly" **** out of your own abdomen 3 times a day.
60. Drink eight glasses of water a day.
61. Stop drinking booze.
62. Go ahead and drink diet soda, though.
63. NO NO NO DO NOT DRINK DIET SODA DON'T DO IT.
64. Quit talking to your fat friends.
65. But tweet all about your weight loss goals!
66. Reminisce about the yummy stuff you used to eat by looking at old pictures. Instagram your way to skinny!
67. Watch an avatar exercise and learn healthy habits in the virtual world. Fun.
68. Seriously, just try to remember what you ate.
69. And for Chrissakes count calories.
70. Take a new drug called Belviq with side effects like dizziness and fatigue.
71. Or maybe beloranib, a new experimental drug with side effects including trouble falling asleep, nausea and vomiting?
72. How about Phentermine, a very effective drug for fast weight loss? Watch out, though: It's only approved for short-term use for a period of 12 weeks or less. If you stop taking the pill, "you will most likely regain the weight you initially lost." Also side effects include abnormally high blood pressure, yikes.
73. Okay: Try DHEA, aka dehydroepiandrosterone, a natural steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Research shows it has a significant effect on decreasing in abdominal fat. But! Side effects include facial hair growth, oily skin, and acne. Adorable.
74. Take the awesome-sounding drug called Reversatrol... which GlaxoSmithKline plans to discontinue working on. Oops.
75. Busy yourself by filming a reality show in which you feed your daughter Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
76. Have a lot of sex.
77. Actually, have an affair! You eat less when you're happy, and also maybe extramarital sex totally burns a lot of calories because you're worried about getting caught?
78. Buy clothes that will shrink.
79. Deal with your negative emotions, depresso.
80. And stop being so stressed out.
81. But be diligent and record everything you eat in a food journal.
82. If you work at a desk, hide the **** you need from yourself so you have to go looking for it. Instant workout!
83. Realize that there's actually not much you can do, because your idiot parents fed you high-carb baby food and programmed your metabolism ALL WRONG.
84. And don't forget that your genes control everything. You're a bulldog trying to look like a greyhound. A rhino running as fast as he can will never be a unicorn.
85. There's always lap-band surgery.
86. But doctors say that weight-loss surgery is just a tool, and the hard work comes after the surgery.
87. FYI: Keep in mind that your body will fight weight loss and some people are "unusually resistant to weight loss."
88. Plus, remember that science doesn't even understand how obesity works, and, as Judith Shulevitz writes for The New Republic, "It’s hard but not impossible to lose weight. But it’s nearly impossible to keep it off."
89. In all seriousness, read this Aeon article on obesity in which David Berreby writes about how complicated the issue is.
Good luck!
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that was awesome.0
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That was fricking amazing, lol.0
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... so true....so easy....yet so hard....so fun...yet so...NOT fun....however...it is what we make of it...!0
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90. Just stay fat.0
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Is it possible to pin that article to the forum for all those "I'm so confused; contradictory information on the forums" threads?
I mean, they ought to know that if nobody knows what they're talking about, why would MFP users?0 -
ROFL0
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:drinker: Brilliant!0
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Funny... But so true! Lol0
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Very enlightening! I was sorry the link doesn't work though! :ohwell:0
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LMAO!!! I am cracking up here!! Freaking hysterical....and number 48....the new 'soylent' diet....sorry, but I'm not about to try anything that was name saked after the 1973 movie Soylent Green....thats people dude!!!0
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90. Just stay fat.
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Funny, but also kind of depressing.0
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Brilliant
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That about sums it up! Love it.0
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That was awesome. Thanks for posting!!0
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I haven't counted the steps to my gym, but I'm sure it's more than 89.0
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HA HA HA HA HA - THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME LAUGH AT WORK....
#27 the first time I heard about this i was shocked - I mean do people really eat chia seeds?0 -
:laugh: Omg, so funny, but sadly so true! All the conflicting dieting information had got me going batty. No wonder so many people struggle to lose weight. Honestly, I was cracking up reading this.0
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I must say that I have heard it all here before0
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HAHAHA!!! I've seen all of that before. Thats why I do my own thing. Like it or don't it works for me!!0
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Too funny!0
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saving future read.. thanks0
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I loved that, so many things people believe in and sometimes common sense works. I never read that particular idea of "Common Sense". People who have dieted for years know it, they just don't want to do it, where they might miss something SPECTACULAR, involving weight loss. There is nothing out there like that , which would last.0
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Fantastic! Bwahahahahahahaha0
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Lol. So true.0
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I'm so glad this has finally been cleared up.0
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it! That's so great! HAHA 0 -
Seems legit.0
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Win.0
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love it! so funny!0
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