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I just remembered this anecdote from years ago....enjoy!:The Mensa DietFinding himself hot and overweight at an Air Force base during World War II, Jerry Salny decided he could shed pounds by drinking scotch and soda. Here’s his reasoning:It takes 1 calorie of heat to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1° Celsius.A glass holds about 200 cc of scotch, soda, and ice. Its temperature is 0° Celsius.As he drinks the scotch and soda, his body must supply enough heat to raise 200 grams to body temperature, or 37°C.That’s 200 grams × 37°C, or 7,400 calories.“Since all the calorie books show scotch as having 100 calories per ounce, and none at all for the soda, we should be able to drink scotch and soda all day and lose weight like mad.”“This has been tried,” Salny reported, “and although the experimenter hasn’t lost any weight in the process, he doesn’t worry about it much anymore.”Why doesn’t it work?
Watch "Sugar the Bitter Truth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5X0i92OZQScotch is nothing but sugar (+ethanol) = fat. The body metabolizes sugar as fat and stores it as fat. Game over.
I'll chime in because I have helped many people lose weight, including myself when I was weighing at 230 and needed to get to 185. I did it in 4 months. I have such a simple plan, but it does require counting calories and lots of discipline. But in the grand scheme of it, it is very easy to do.Men, find your ideal weight and multiply by 15. That's how many calories you should take in to maintain that weight. For me, 185# =2770 calories per day to maintain. If you limit that to 2,000 you'd lose a pound a week without even having to exercise. 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories. If you exercise moderately for 30 minutes per day keeping your heart rate between 50 and 70%, you'd burn an additional 300 calories per day which would equal roughly 2 pounds per week total. NO CHEAT DAYS.Women, multiply by 10. Same scenario above.I helped my cousin lose 100# in 6 months and has kept it off. She's now off all her meds.
steel cut oats for breakfast
Retraining you brain is the main thing. Smaller portions and weighing yourself. Good luck!
Thanks for all the good information. I’m really hitting portion size and pushing myself to get 8000-10000 steps a day. (Starting out at 5000). I weigh myself each morning and will also weigh myself in evening for two times a day. I am trying to average 1 pound weight loss per week which will mean about 35 weeks for my goal. Thanks to you all for your ideas.
Don't weigh yourself more than once per week or you will get discouraged. I suggest We'd or Friday mornings.-AJ
Uh oh..
Unfortunately, I have all the self control of a rat terrier.I named one in particular "swamp things dick". I went back to the gym (Planet Fatness)
A line has been crossed, this could become an oil thread at any moment......
Oil? Did someone say oil? Motul baby!!!!
As a replacement for vegetable oil?That's got to be a highly guarded weight loss secret!Probably cures constipation also....