Dieting Secrets for Fat Loss

jfan175
jfan175 Posts: 812 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
From Lyle McDonald.

Dieting secrets for fat loss:

1. You can’t magically lose weight unless you eat less or burn more calories with activity. Not unless you take drugs and those either make you eat less or burn more anyhow.

2. Don’t ***** about how much you hate dieting or exercise. You can either change your diet and activity patterns, or you can stay fat. Those are your two options.

3. The key to losing weight and keeping it off is the following

a. Change your eating habits: so that you’re eating less

b. Change your activity patterns: so that you’re expending more calories

c. Repeat: Keep doing this over a long period of time.

d. Forever: Newsflash, you don’t EVER get to go back to your old eating habits unless you want to get fat again. To maintain weight loss means maintaining at least part of the changes you made to a and b.

4. All diet books, no matter what line of bull[*#$&*#!] they sell you, are working in terms of a-d. Cutting all of the carbs out of your diet will generally make you eat less, so will cutting out all of the fat, so do diets that change your eating habits in one fashion or another. Some books go the activity route. At the end of the day, even if they tell you that you don’t have to eat less to lose weight, they will trick you into doing it one way or another.

The equation is this:

*kitten* busting work + consistency + time = results.

Burn that into your head and quit looking for quick fixes and secrets.

Because they don’t exist.
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  • ShelfRelianceMom
    ShelfRelianceMom Posts: 83
    Like :)
  • BackTatJIM
    BackTatJIM Posts: 1,140 Member
    great post
  • RuthieCass
    RuthieCass Posts: 247 Member
    bump
  • kak2m4
    kak2m4 Posts: 167 Member
    :drinker:
  • Chagama
    Chagama Posts: 543 Member
    Perfectly said!
  • Tashia_HH
    Tashia_HH Posts: 99 Member
    Awesome!!
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    So, when I clicked on the title I thought this would be another one of thiose collections of half truths and myths like eat 6 times a day or hot liquids melt fat. Then I saw Lyle McDonald's name in the first line. Bravo my friend. Great post! It's simple in concept really. It doesn't take a bajillion little things to get the formula right. Burn more, eat less. Rinse and repeat.
  • reggie2run
    reggie2run Posts: 477 Member
    Amen!!
  • 1960HikerDude
    1960HikerDude Posts: 215 Member
    Amen Brother!
  • wgn4166
    wgn4166 Posts: 771 Member
    Thank you!!:smile:
  • couldbeme
    couldbeme Posts: 55 Member
    this true its not a diet it is life x:bigsmile:
  • lilmisfit
    lilmisfit Posts: 860 Member
    Awesome!!!
  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    It's what everyone with real knowledge about it says, yet people find it so hard to believe.
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    yet people find it so hard to believe.
    Everybody wants to know the big secret. They want you to tell them something quick and magical. You tell them the honest truth (as outlined above) and they just stare at you blankly. I suppose when they want it bad enough they'll put forth the discipline and effort to discover the "secret" on their own.
  • jfan175
    jfan175 Posts: 812 Member
    When people ask "what's your secret" when asking about my weight loss, I tell them "purging and laxatives" (joking, of course). A few have actually asked what brand of laxatives work the best. Unbelievable. Nobody wants to hear "eat right and exercise". They just assume there's some shortcut or magic pill.
  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    awesome
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member

    *kitten* busting work + consistency + time = results.

    Yup.
  • camelgirlmn
    camelgirlmn Posts: 226 Member
    Thanks for sharing!!!
  • bricktowngal
    bricktowngal Posts: 206
    Like it :)
  • JPal5
    JPal5 Posts: 178
    :drinker:
  • bethgames
    bethgames Posts: 534 Member
    Say it isnt so.....!!!!! Meanie...:angry:
  • sthrnchick
    sthrnchick Posts: 771
    LOVE IT!!!!
  • redcat17
    redcat17 Posts: 267 Member
    Awesome! Love Lyle. BTW, it totally works!
  • Donners185
    Donners185 Posts: 329 Member

    *kitten* busting work + consistency + time = results.

    So true!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,993 Member
    TRUTH. It's what some here need to hear.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    When people ask "what's your secret" when asking about my weight loss, I tell them "purging and laxatives" (joking, of course). A few have actually asked what brand of laxatives work the best. Unbelievable. Nobody wants to hear "eat right and exercise". They just assume there's some shortcut or magic pill.

    Totally. Don't you love that look of disappointment that comes over their faces when they ask, "How'd you get into such good shape?" and you say, "By eating less and working hard for a bunch of months." ?? Too funny.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Thank you Captain Obvious!

    Of all the brilliance in this man's mind and this is the best you've gotten out of it. I was looking for real tips and not just the stuff I already know.

    Boo!
  • tryinghard71
    tryinghard71 Posts: 593
    I can't tell you how many times in the past month I have been asked "Are you losing weight?" I say yes. They say (all excited) How are you doing it?" Then I reply. I eat right and work out hard 6 days a week. The looks on their faces every time is classic. Then they just say "oh". People don't want to hear that it is hard work and a total relationship change with food.
  • Shrinking_Moody
    Shrinking_Moody Posts: 270 Member
    Amen. Well said.
  • ErinBeth7
    ErinBeth7 Posts: 1,625 Member
    This is so very true.

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