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Aqua Buddha

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  1. Good for you for avoiding the problem in the first place. We got fat, had the self awareness to know we were fat, and then got un fat. We still look at the fat pictures sometimes as motivation. After we lost a good chunk of weight, people would always ask how we did it. They were wanting us to have a magic diet. We’d just say exercise and a cleaned up diet. They’d always be absolutely crestfallen.
  2. I read the links Sawbonz posted about the different wiring of the gut and brain. My theory was that decades of shit diet re wires people’s bodies. Fat people generally have fat kids so a 40 year old could easily have 4 decades of shit food so their body truly thinks it needs 3X the normal calories. It explains the increase over time and the regionality. SEC, it just weighs…..more It’a still the diet over time, though. This didn’t happen in a vacuum.
  3. This is what I’m talking about. Some of us are trying to offer solutions and tips and then we’re ridiculed. If you want to honestly talk about weight management, great. If not, why are you posting?
  4. Let me guess. You’re fat?
  5. If you want to read about food, weight, and performance, read about Allie Kiefer. Pro marathoner, lives in Austin (I think), and always had trouble breaking through. She was rail thin like they all are but then she put on 15 lbs, which those types NEVER Do. She ended up being like 125 or something, which made her look like a defensive end. She ended up with more endurance, fewer injuries, and better sustained speed. A lot of elite runners (pro and amateur) have very dysfunctional relationships with food. Ryan Hall quit running and just ate like a normal person while keeping his regimen and did this:
  6. The measurements are fluid. Or they're piss.
  7. Good story. It's why a lot of people gain weight doing half marathon training. There are other reasons as well but you have to eat the right foods and adjust the amount.
  8. Ozympic has a $100M/yr ad budget. It's like an Ozympic salesman telling you to use Ozympic.
  9. He's also said that exercise and diet work if you stick with it so let's not gloss over that.
  10. Yes, for those that stayed in, 100% of them lost weight. Recruits can straight up quit boot camp. At least they could back then. This is an extreme example, though. It's impossible to cheat. All they do is sleep in the barracks, eat a very strict diet, and PT during the day.
  11. When I lost my weight, I was fucking hungry I'll tell you that. Worst part was late afternoon. Then, I discovered something. Exercise worked as a temporary appetite suppressant. I would get off work, go run 2-3 miles on the treadmill and I was back to normal. Then I'd have a salad or something for dinner.
  12. I'm curious on that 0% or 5% figure, too. My guess is that it covers all the people who started and gave up.
  13. Ya'll think this is harsh. When my wife got out of grad school, her dad had a "fat intervention" on her. This was long before we met but she was prolly pushing 2 bills from what I would guess. (5'6"). Might have been more. Dad told her she was fat, getting fatter, and that's the reason she wasn't dating. (He's a harsh but good man.) Offered to pay for gym memberships, trainers, etc. He figured she wasn't making much money on that point so he'd help her out. She would eventually lose around 30-40 lbs and then we would later get married. We then each gained 40 lbs again. She would later run the Marine Corps marathon in 3:45. Her dad was right.
  14. Uh, oh. Now you've done it.
  15. If someone were starting out on a weight loss/fitness journey and they were overweight, I would suggest they keep a food log for two weeks and track everything and be honest. That's something I didn't do but wish I had. Most of us (me included now) would be surprised what we eat. I'm sure there are 2% outliers but the human body simply can't maintain +300 lbs on a normal diet.
  16. The geographic bubbles fascinate me. People just 50 miles or so eat completely different from each other. (HEB has this down to a science.) The eye opener for me was when he lived in San Antonio 10 years ago. We lived in Alamo Heights, which is a bubble in a myriad of ways, but I never realized how fat SA was. AH was it's own "thin bubble" and then we went to a George Strait concert at the Alamodome. Good hell.....
  17. Posted my response before I saw yours but correct, it works unless they wash out. Even with injuries, there are platoons they put them in until they heal. They also have "physical conditioning platoons" for those recruits who can't do the minimums of running, push ups, or whatever. Same applies. When they hit the minimums, they get assigned to a training platoon. But people don't stay in the fat platoons indefinitely. They lose the weight and move on into training unless they get hurt and wash out. Also, at least back in the day, once they're in training, they're on a restricted diet. (This also applies to recruits who are slightly overweight but not "fat.") They would have a red mark or something on their ID and at chow they'd only be able to eat things like lean chicken with no skin, veggies, no milk but juices. Shit like that. I understand that boot camp is an extreme example but there were recruits whose parents didn't recognize them after graduation.
  18. Correct. If they quit the diet and excerice, they don't lose the weight. Makes it like any other diet and fitness plan.
  19. All the service branches have fat platoons (at least they used to) where if someone is too fat based on regulations, they're in a training platoon until they make weight and then they start training. (It's what you think it is.) It works 100% unless the recruits simply wash out.
  20. I'm the one who posted most of that info outside of Sawbonz's links. I know more about Big Food than probably anyone on here unless there's an actual dietician and there may be. That's me trying to "empower" people into understanding the root cause is really diet. You can dive into the science about what drives diet and cravings but at the end of the day, it's about diet. Also, I'm continually suggested all types. That's me "empowering" people to try to get moving. I'd then hear the reason why people can't do specific exercises despite that I never said that. If you have various ailments, work with a personal trainer and they'll put together a plan. I'm actually a big fan of walking. By that I mean somewhat fast, power walking. Step it out. Much easier on the knees if that's a problem. Easy to walk for 30-60 minutes and listen to a podcast. Treadmills, too. But overeating has an emotional component to it. It should be classified an eating disorder like anorexia and bulimia. We just have to acknowledge it like anything else. One of the frequent excuses is that eating is different than booze because it's needed to live. Yes, eating is but overeating isn't. (No one binge eats fruits and vegetables.) I've also never suggested some quack diet like Tom Brady or Gwyneth Paltrow are on. Sam with fitness programs. Only a very small number of people can work out obsessively. Just not sure why saying diet and exercise and anything is possible is so controversial.
  21. This is from @pearlandhorn: Props, bro. It can be done and I respect the grind: went from 316 to 185 and it was tough (6'2"). Best thing about it is being able to go into any store and buy clothes off the rack. Diet/exercise even though most people I encounter ask if I had the surgery. I decided it was time to make a change on my 30th birthday (I turn 35 next month). Complete diet 180, stopped eating out, stopped drinking calories, did low carb for the first 2 years. Lost about 90 pounds within the first 4 months or so. Then hit the exercise routine for about a year, then COVID hit and I started running for exercise. I was probably 195 when COVID hit and kept running all the way down to 180. Switched up my diet to be high carb, high protein, medium fat and when the gyms opened again, did a hybrid routine of gym/running. To answer your question, I was down to 185 in about 3 years.
  22. OK, I'll be an asshole now. Below is what Wulaw was eating before his surgery. Someone tell me that he was trying. This is a direct cut and paste. I mean, what the fuck? If an alcoholic went on a 3 day bender before checking into rebab, you would think differently. It wouldn't be a laughing matter. Doctors suggested he diet. He didn't care. I would never eat like this once but he did the tour: I weighted 322 pounds at that time. I decided to do a last meal tour of all the places I love to eat and eat what I wanted at all those places. You are supposed to diet, but that was suggested not madatory. I chose not to. So- Fajitas at Papasitos, Chinese Buffet, a lot of Chuys and Gringos, Prime rib and cheese fries at Outback- shit like that. The 3 things I wish I'd have done on that tour b/c I can never do again- All you can eat meat at Fogo, Try to beat the 72 OZ steak up in Abilene, eat a triple meat triple cheese whataburger 1 last time (My wife was so horrified when she saw this the first time we started dating she made me swear I would never do it again- a promise I have kept. So- I did all my fat person things that's I'd never be able to do with 80% of a stomach again. But I'm mean because I tell Wulaw he eats badly. I hope it works for him, I really do. But he needs to deal with his relationship with food and if he doesn't this saga will end badly.
  23. Yes, I am an asshole. I’ve said that numerous times. I’m not wrong, though.
  24. Let me leave this here. It's not your imagination. Portion sizes are much bigger than they were years ago. "Diet" doesn't just mean what you eat. It's how much you eat. (Supplee had a great revelation about that in his story.) If you travel internationally at all, you would know that Americans eat shit food and they eat a lot of it. What I find interesting about Sawbonz's data is the question of whether years and years of shit diet have rewired people's bodies. (I don't know.) I do think he is underrating diet and your ability to change it.
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