Woah....read this.

smantha32

It's cracked.com.

They're satire.

This.

1960HikerDude

I recently watched the HBO documentary "Weight of the Nation". Among the dozens of people profiled in the series, were two women who maintained a huge weight loss (I believe 100+ Lbs) over many years. Having done the yo-yo thing most of my adult live, I paid close attention to what these women had to say. A couple of things stood out.

1) One woman said, "It's a mind-set". Meaning the vigilance doesn't end when your target weight is reached.

2) Even though they reached their target weights, they remain meticulous about logging calories and exercise. One of the women held up a huge binder with records going back for years. These are precisely the behaviors this site encourages.

So, the big take-away for me is this is going to be a life-long endeavor.

BTW - You can watch the series for free online. Just Google "Weight of the Nation". I found it very informative.

1960HikerDude

I just found this

http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/1/222S.long

I don't have time to read it now. But, I will tonight.

miss_greene

this is just retarded, you cant say that all people that lose weight gain it back 100% (when they say people who keep it off is "zero")

I lost 50 LBS THREE years ago....still skinny

miss_greene

Oh yeah and i LOVE how in the middle of all this story, is ads to lose weight.......

StrawberrySt

Ooooh, my favourite site! I love cracked and treat it as what it is - satire and humour. Sure some things are true and reasonably well researched but it's meant to be found interesting and humorous, not used as weight loss advice.

4myhealth77

I know the person that writes these articles, and he too is "cracked." Dont believe anything on that site.

MooMooooo

I know the person that writes these articles, and he too is "cracked." Dont believe anything on that site.

They have hundreds of contributers - including me.

The editors are very strict about properly sourced articles.

LetsDoThis103

oh, it's cracked.com. Phew.

Lleldiranne

Consider the source: cracked.com

I go there when I want a laugh. Not when I'm looking for definitive fact. There tends to be a modicum of truth, but they also aren't known for being 100% accurate.

basillowe66

I agree with you Lauren, it has to be a lfestyle change. Counting calories everyday and exercising.

Basil

dougt333

I'd say there is some truth to it. However, keep in mind the point of dieting is to be healthy not just skinny. Just improving your heart health is enough to make the excercise and dieting worth it.

CajunNino

It's cracked.com.

They're satire.

This.

Do y'all read the Onion and believe everything it reports?

CoffeeNBooze

well....the author of that article seemed pretty pissed and frustrated, no?

while its' true for many people, its not true for everyone. Weight loss is mostly mental. And by that I don't mean learning nutritional content, how to use it, and exercising. I mean you literally have to reprogram your brain's satiety and hunger signals, learn what foods make you feel best, learning to savor your food, etc. Its' extremely difficult but, with practice and a lot of help, it can be done. You can return to your natural weight and stay there, i firmly believe that....but it requires a lot of mental change.

emnk5308

I call BULL****.

emnk5308

I call BULL****.

:grumble: they covered my curse word!

subcult

Big cracked fan hence my profile pic.

carld256

The Onion is satire, Cracked is not. Cracked actually posts some really informative articles. I wouldn't dismiss something just because it's on the site. They've got some twisted humor, but outright fabrication isn't typical.

For anyone who didn't automatically dismiss the article, the links actually go to reputable sites that back up what they say. However it is sensationalist, even if it's basically true, most people do gain back the weight. I think most of us have personally experienced that phenomenon possibly multiple times. It's not actually impossible to maintain a large weight loss, it is hard though.

If the author had looked at the national weight control registry he would have found more examples of long-term success.

carld256

Oh yeah and i LOVE how in the middle of all this story, is ads to lose weight.......

They used that ad as an example of how messed up the diet industry is. The caption it's actually pretty funny.

"Except the person in this Google banner ad, who lost weight and then became white."

raystark

Umm...this is CRACKED. Spawned by the wanna be Mad Magazine clone mag that came out in the Seventies. If you want serious news you need to go to TheOnion.com "America's Finest News Source."

mollysonnotice

you realize this is Cracked.com right? The satiric online article forum aimed towards college students. It's a joke. They dont post anything serious. I mean, they have debates about superpowers and coffee through videos. Funny article though.

Big_Daddy6

That's got to be complete bs....... When I hit my goal weight there's no effin way I'm gaining it back!!!!!

carld256

Did any of you even click on any of the links to articles at PubMed, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The New York Times, and the US National Library of Medicine?

riccoismydog

K, the point is not whether or not Cracked.com backs up it's facts. They do. It's not whether or not the website sucks, or makes **** jokes, they do both. It's that DIETS....aka subway, diet pills, no carbs, low carbs, extreme restriction, only eating bacon, only eating every three hours for 200 calories, ect ect....do not work. No one has ever kept the weight off. 0 . None nada, nunca no one....

What some people missed because they skimmed it and didn't read it, and didn't like the website is that people who just get healthy, just exercise, eat the amount of food they should, eat healthy .... they stay FIT, and HEALTHY! Which trumps skinny and only eating bacon any freakin day.

d0gma

I loved all the people who got butthurt and probably didn't even read the article (if they had, they might have seen where the writer backed up his facts) and just called it all BS because it's something they didn't want to hear.

laus_8882

Eh, diets don't work, that's what they're trying to say. It's true. I've dieted since I was about 16 and gone on every mad program you can think of but each time, without fail, the weight comes back and brings its extended family and half their social circle. I watched 'Weight of the Nation' and found it absolutely fascinating. What you come away with is 1. Prevent weight gain 2. If children are fat there's a small window in which to bring their eating and exercise habits up to speed 3. Once you're an adult shifting the weight is darn hard and requires a lifelong commitment. From what I've read, to keep off the weight I have to commit to exercising vigorously for at least an hour a day while logging my calories and weighing myself on a regular basis. Fortunately I'm a good height and at one point I really enjoyed lifting weights, so I've a frame that can take more calories, even if my overall bmr is reduced as a result of the weightloss, and I can build muscle mass that will hopefully counteract at least a little of the the bmr reduction.

As a veteran of diets and personal trainers I know that it's only recently (say, last five or six years) that weight training has been accepted as aiding weight loss. Previously my trainers were big on cardio, crunches - always with the bloody crunches - and lifting very light weights as part of cardio. Maybe it was because I was female and their other female clients were against weight training because they didn't want to 'bulk up'. Maybe they were just not up to date with the latest research surrounding weight loss and fitness. Maybe they were idiots. Who knows?

Anyway, when you diet and reach your goal weight you're at a disadvantage to others who are that weight and have never had to diet to get there. I've found that through personal experience. What you do at that point is up to you. You can give up on the diet, indulge, exercise sporadically and not very intelligently and watch the kilograms creep back on until you're the size of a house and contemplating purchasing a muumuu. Or you can get your act together, accept that your position is what it is and continue logging and exercising. I'm not being unkind - I'm the idiot who thought that diets were short term fixes and has yoyoed her way into muumuu territory. I need to take my advice.

Cracked isn't satire. The authors aren't especially brilliant and their fact checking is about 50/50, but that particular article seems accurate, it just comes with a twist of Cracked-style doom and gloom.

miss_greene

Yeah I saw that one with the dude, But there was a real one on the side.

carld256

Ahhh, I use adblock+, I almost never see any ads.