Something is WRONG!

[DLD]

I have been following my diet and exercising daily but the last time I went to weigh myself I HAD NOT LOST ANY WEIGHT! When I started this diet I lost 19 pounds in the first 2 weeks...but going on 10 additional days with no weight loss is confusing. My blood pressure also dropped into a normal level during the first 3 weeks of my diet but today it was sky high again. What am I doing wrong?

 

[9cyclops9]

You've hit a plateau. Maybe you should move on to phase 6.

No I don't know how to answer you, sorry. I'm sure someone with more knowledge will come along.

 

[DLD]

You've hit a plateau. Maybe you should move on to phase 6.

No I don't know how to answer you, sorry. I'm sure someone with more knowledge will come along.

LMFAO
I needed a good laugh, I was getting really down.

 

[shism2]

You have to change your diet and exercise routine ..... the body is very adaptive to anything...hehe

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

I hear yeah DLD. I'm still 223 after month and been dieting for 6 months. Plateaus are a bitch. But you'll get around them. I was at a plateaus at 252. Couldn't break it. Then started dumping wieght again. Don't forget, with summer comming, your gonna be getting out the house and generally being more active. The higher metabolism from activity will help.
Don't give up.

 

[DLD]

I hear yeah DLD. I'm still 223 after month and been dieting for 6 months. Plateaus are a bitch. But you'll get around them. I was at a plateaus at 252. Couldn't break it. Then started dumping wieght again. Don't forget, with summer comming, your gonna be getting out the house and generally being more active. The higher metabolism from activity will help.
Don't give up.

I really do get discouraged. I have been doing the WALK AWAY THE POUNDS 1 mile video everyday. My X-Wife just gave me the 3 Mile version so hopefully that will help.

 

[pupper]

I have lost 32 pounds in three months and I noticed that I reached a plateau that lasted about three weeks.just keep up the diet DLD it will start coming off again.The second plateau is the real bitch I have gone over a month at the same weight.Keep on plugging it will start coming off again I lost over 60 lbs three years ago and got away from the diet and gained 40 lbs I'm just 8 pounds to get back where I was and this time will continue to watch my calorie(sugar and fat mainly)input.I even walk on my tread mill every day for thirty minutes and it has no effect on my weight loss unless I watch what I eat.

 

[Xulf]

When you hit a plateau in dieting, you need to 'shock' your system, try eating 10% fewer calories, working out 10% longer, or both. That should start knocking some more pounds off

 

[philadelph]

The diet is going to be way more important. Cardio ain't all its cracked up to be.

Here is a little something for you:

Why exercise doesn't burn many calories
Go to the health club and climb on a stair stepper or treadmill. Program the machine by plugging in your weight, select your speed or program and begin your workout. As you plod along on the apparatus you are driven along by the ever-increasing number on the screen that indicates the number of calories that you have burned. Eventually you go long enough to burn 300 calories and you are left with a feeling of accomplishment. Now, as you wipe the sweat from your brow and catch your breath, let me ask you a question. Why did the machine ask you to program in your weight? If you answered to calculate how many calories you burn you are right. What you most likely failed to consider is the main reason it needs your weight is to calculate your basal metabolic rate. The average male will maintain his weight on about 3200 calories a day. That is about 140 calories an hour at rest. So the 300 calories burned are not calories burned above your basal metabolic rate, they are calories burned including your basal metabolic rate. So for your time on the treadmill, you burned about 160 calories above your baseline. If you eat just 3 cookies, you have completely undone about an hour's worth of work. Think about it...if we were so metabolically inefficient as to burn 300 calories at the rate the exercise equipment says you do, would we ever have survived as a species. The calories burned hunting and gathering would have caused us to die of starvation before we could ever have found anything to eat. At that rate of calorie burn, we would barely have enough metabolic economy to survive a trip to the grocery store. Most people have accepted blindly the information displayed on exercise equipment and as such have turned exercise into a form of guilt absolution. Have dessert (600 calories of pie) and feel guilty? Just go to the health club and work on the stepper until 600 calories tick by on the screen. Other than the fact that this simply seems pathetic, it also just doesn't work.


Let us assume that you have the determination and time to do such a workout 7 days a week. If we take the 300 calories burned and subtract out your basal metabolic rate of 140 calories, we are left with 160 calories burned. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. If your appetite is not spurned by the exercise (as it commonly is) and you keep a stable calorie intake, it would take you 21.875 days to burn off a pound of fat with the extra activity. This is assuming that no other variables are present. Unfortunately there is a big variable that almost no-one accounts for...muscle loss. In order to exercise long enough to reach the 300 calorie mark on the stepper or treadmill, you have to perform low intensity steady state activity. Steady state activity does not place much demand on the muscles, that is why it can be carried out for so long. Rather than demanding use of a large percentage of your muscle fibers, you are actually using a small percentage of your weakest, slow-twitch fibers over and over. When you perform this type of exercise your body can adapt by actually losing muscle. Since you use such a small percentage of your muscle mass to do the work, additional muscle is perceived as dead weight, useless and burdensome. If a person persisted in 7 day a week steady state training they could easily lose about 5 pounds of muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is the most metabolically expensive tissue we have; it takes between 50 and 100 calories a day just to keep a pound of muscle alive.

 

[bigbutnottoo]

You body has a natural weight set point. When it gets there it tries to store calories rather than burning. Need to change it. Maybe even eat MORE for a day or 2 and then cut back down.

 

[bodybuilder]

Are you eating six small meals a day. Or three big meals or three small meals?
If you are doing the latter two then it may not help with your fat loss. I would recommend small six meals with 20 grams protein and 40 grams carbs. The protein preferably being fish mackeral/salmon.
I would also start doing weights as a whole body workout 3 days a week and cardio on other days. Ditch the weighing machine and I would start looking at fat measurements not weight measurements. Try measuring your waste and generally how you look in the mirror.
Chromium and lecethin are also good supplements

 

[MCTFB]

Bodybuilder is right. The easiest way to lose weight is to go to the store and buy a ton of vegetables. Lots of broccoli and celery and any other high fiber goodie you get your hands on. Just eat those vegetables all day long as if you were Bugs Bunny nibbling on a carrot nonstop.

Buy some bananas and other fruits to eat as snacks for energy, but just keep stuffing yourself with low-calorie veggies, high fiber veggies (i.e. avoid snacking on corn, beans, and other high calories starchie veggies).

Like go to the store and buy like 50 stalks of celery (no joke) and just eat that as the calorie expenditure to digest the celery is greater than the calories ingested. Of course, you can only eat so much celery before you go insane but this will help keep your metabolism going all day long, while minimizing the amount of calories going into your body.

Also, excercise will burn some fat but the most important thing about excercise is it improves circulation which helps with lipogenesis (i.e. using fat for energy). But in terms of diet, just chow down on craploads of veggies. You will take a dump about 5 times a day, but that will be the price you pay for a slimmer waist.

 

[DLD]

What about meats?

 

[tru4u27]

I say if your tryin to lose weight dont eat to much meat especially steaks and all--my favorite----Buit for me who is tryin to add on some pounds i eat STEAKS STEAKS STEAKS ,beef all kinds of meat---But i woulndt suggest it if you were trying to lose some pounds-----Maybe consider going vegetarian---Sounds scary for a man--I wouldn't do it myself--But im sure that would shed a lot!!!

 

[Girthius]

cider vinegar(organic) will increase your metabolism, and oxidate your blood, and it has allot of potassium. Do a search on this, you will be surprised!

Also if you like hot spicy foods, your body will hold back a certain amount of fat, so as to deal with the natural compounds that are within the chillies! The fat cells absorb whats in the chillies so as to not allow them to cause harm to the organs. By taking a alka seltzer after eating a spicy meal, this absorbs the acids, from the hot/spicy meals, and frees up the fat cells that have been held back to absorb the harmful compounds found in chillies/spicy foods.

 

[philadelph]

DLD : Some of this advice will kill your metabolism.

You need meats and proteins to keep the muscle you do have. If you just start eating veggies you will waste away and your metabolism will go to shit.

Eat protein and low gi carbs. How much do you weigh? You need to drop calories slowly so you don't shock your body. If you cut calories too fast your body goes into starvation mode. You don't want this.

The suggestion about 6 smaller meals a day is a great one. If you really want to do this right, you are going to have to count calories.

 

[DLD]

DLD : Some of this advice will kill your metabolism.

You need meats and proteins to keep the muscle you do have. If you just start eating veggies you will waste away and your metabolism will go to shit.

Eat protein and low gi carbs. How much do you weigh? You need to drop calories slowly so you don't shock your body. If you cut calories too fast your body goes into starvation mode. You don't want this.

The suggestion about 6 smaller meals a day is a great one. If you really want to do this right, you are going to have to count calories.

I don't think there will ever be a time that I don't eat meat, DIET or no DIET! I love meat like pussy. I do want to tell everyone that this is my second day on the 3 miles aerobic tape. It is so much more intense so I am hoping it kick starts some more weight loss.

 

[philadelph]

I don't think there will ever be a time that I don't eat meat, DIET or no DIET! I love meat like pussy. I do want to tell everyone that this is my second day on the 3 miles aerobic tape. It is so much more intense so I am hoping it kick starts some more weight loss.

Good to hear man. I eat steak every night no joke. It's the best.

 

[richdad007]

The problem is that the MEAT in your pants is growing as fast as you are loosing weight. Weight your dick and you will see that the 19 pounds that you lost in the begining are all in the snake!!!!!!!

 

[DLD]

The problem is that the MEAT in your pants is growing as fast as you are loosing weight. Weight your dick and you will see that the 19 pounds that you lost in the begining are all in the snake!!!!!!!

That would be cool...A 19lb Cock...That would be MASSIVE

 

[ctmwm]

DLD,the weight loss plateaus dont last 1/3 as long as Penis Enlargement plateaus, Dont get discouraged. You will break through you gotta believe it and it WILL HAPPenis EnlargementN! Heck look at the plateaus you went through with Penis Enlargement. Shit this will be easy for you after that! rofl

 

[Mercury]

I don't think there will ever be a time that I don't eat meat, DIET or no DIET! I love meat like pussy. I do want to tell everyone that this is my second day on the 3 miles aerobic tape. It is so much more intense so I am hoping it kick starts some more weight loss.

I agree with what bodybuilder said. Don't be obsessed with weight loss,...think more about FAT loss.
The scales don't tell you everything.

Although you may not have shifted much weight acording to the scales, have you considered that you may actually have replaced some fat with lean muscle mass?
Muscle weighs more than fat, so that's what may have happened.
Some people on atkins or keto diets report this happening, so maybe you're getting worked up over nothing.

About the meat. Have you considered eating more chicken than red meat? Chicken has hardly any fat.
What diet are you on?
If you're on a keto style diet you can have as much meat as you want.

It's right what Philadelph said too,.....if you drop too many calories your body will go into starvation mode, and you don't want that to happen. If it does your body will hold on to fat at any cost and you will lose muscle mass.
I would aim to just try and get rid of a couple of pounds a week,..any more than this and you'll probably end up losing muscle as opposed to fat.

 

[loco]

man I need to get back into weight loss again. since getting married I put on a few...ok about 40 to maybe 50 extra. heck when I was in jr. high I weighed over 200 and did a killer exercise workout and dropped to 167 in 3 weeks. then after I tossed that on the shelf my fresHydromaxan yr. I worked out and went up to 186-189 and stayed there till I got married. but back then ate and did anything I wanted, and no worried. I guess that's what happens when you get old...lol.

 

[DLD]

OK this is what my diet looks like:

No simple sugars
Lots of Water (at least a gallon a day)
Limited amounts of Cheese (nite time snack with prezels or grain crackers)
Limited amounts of Complex Carbs (once per week I have pasta)
Red Meat Once a week (lean)
Chicken and Fish most nights for dinner
Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables
Limited amount of whole milk (I refuse to drink low fat)
Bran cereal snack once daily
Low carb whole grain breads and wraps for luch sandwiches (turkey or ham)
occasional sugar free chocolate
prezels
sunflower seeds and other nuts in very limited quantities

 

[bodybuilder]

That's a pretty good diet plan. I would not worry about the good fats like sunflower seeds. Good fats can help against losing fat. With the milk though I would try to switch to semi-skimmed once a week. Then use it twice a week after two weeks and so on. Soon whole milk will taste like a mouthful of butter. Then so will semi-skimmed if you switch to skimmed.

 

[DLD]

That's a pretty good diet plan. I would not worry about the good fats like sunflower seeds. Good fats can help against losing fat. With the milk though I would try to switch to semi-skimmed once a week. Then use it twice a week after two weeks and so on. Soon whole milk will taste like a mouthful of butter. Then so will semi-skimmed if you switch to skimmed.

No Way José I love my whole milk...I only have maybe 1/2 cup daily.

 

[ctmwm]

No Way José I love my whole milk...I only have maybe 1/2 cup daily.

Hey DLD I know you love milk so I have a reccomendation for you. Try"simply smart" by Hood it comes in a 1/2 gallon its has no fat and dont be decieved that it looks thin but it tastes GREAT!!!

http://www.hphood.com/images/productShots/ph_MkSsNoFtHG_lg.jpg

Sorry I cant get the jpg to show


Here is the stats on it
http://www.hphood.com/products/products.detail.asp?id=357

 

[philadelph]

I second that. The low carb milk products are good. But if you are only drinking a half cup of real milk then it isn't going to hurt you. They do have whole low carb milk, with the full fat content. It is good.

 

[DLD]

I get really weird about dairy products. I am not sure what it is but low fat, lactaid, skim, reduced fat, low carb, etc, products have always turned my stomach. I am completely lactose intolerant but when I have dairy, which is maybe twice daily in the forum of a cup of milk and possibly 2 oz. of cheese, it has to be real.

 

[quijjiboo]

Don't rely on a scale alone!!

Your goal is fat loss (I assume) not weight loss. Weight change is mainly due to fat, muscle or water. 19 pounds in 2 weeks is amazing, but it could not be all fat loss. While people with high bf% have been proven to lose fat faster than people with a lower bf%, 19 pounds is too much. Im guessing you've cut alot of junk out of your diet (and salt along with it), and have lost quite a bit of retained water. It's also possible you could be slightly dehydrated, having just started working out and dieting and not knowing your water requirements. Exercise dehyrates ALOT, more than most people account for. Other than that Im stumped.

Don't expect the weight to drop in 1 pound increments each week, it don't work like that. BW fluctuates alot, you might still be losing fat but gaining muscle and storing more glycogen (since you just started working out, and muscle glycogen means more water in the muscle), so your weight is still balanced.

Measure your progress using a scale, tape measure, mirror, and bodyfat calipers if you're really serious. good luck dude

 

[Chris23]

DLD,You should try the warrior diet.I have read alot about it and people on foruns say it really works very good.You dont eat nothing all day but like some fruit when u get hungry and then in the night u can pig out.It tricks your metabolism and u burn fat around the clock.You should try it out just for 2 to 3 weeks and see what happens.
http://www.ivillage.com/diet/featur...brandRef=0&arrival_freqCap=1&pba=adid=7692690

 

[DLD]

DLD,You should try the warrior diet.I have read alot about it and people on foruns say it really works very good.You dont eat nothing all day but like some fruit when u get hungry and then in the night u can pig out.It tricks your metabolism and u burn fat around the clock.You should try it out just for 2 to 3 weeks and see what happens.
http://www.ivillage.com/diet/featur...brandRef=0&arrival_freqCap=1&pba=adid=7692690

Strange you posted this because I fucked up last night and ate bad I had a box of mini-egg roles so I feel guilty. I guess this happens sometimes so I am not going to beat myself up. I just needed something salty and fatty almost like a reward. Well back to the grind today.

 

[Chris23]

Hehe sorry,Its a good diet tho because u can eat what u want at your last meal.

 

[Bigd5903]

It doesnt sound like a healthy diet at all. Eat a little bit of fruit during the day then eat whatever u want at night? If that's what it is then I don't approve at all.

 

[DLD]

It doesnt sound like a healthy diet at all. Eat a little bit of fruit during the day then eat whatever u want at night? If that's what it is then I don't approve at all.

But they say you can eat all the Prime Rib you want

* In a Homer voice: mmmmmmmm prime rib

 

[Bigd5903]

But they say you can eat all the Prime Rib you want

* In a Homer voice: mmmmmmmm prime rib

hahaha

 

[bigbutnottoo]

It sounds like the "Potbelly" diet to me. The reason I say that is the guys are know who eat like that have big guts. They work all day and dont eat, then have a big dinner.

Not eating all day can also make you lightheaded, dizzy, faint,etc.

I think its better to eat 5-6 small meals spread out. Or 3 medium size meals with 2 snacks and small dessert after dinner.

 

[fire_mound]

alright dld here is whats up... I have been studying health and nutrition since i was 13! I have been there and done that with nutrition and excercise....
What is happening i would presume is regardless of what ever diet you are taking, right now you are malnourished. When the body is malnourished, it goes into a more primitive self preserving state. Because your body is not getting the nourisHydromaxent it needs, your body thinks you are basicly hunting for food so to speak. What it starts to do is retain water and sodium in a kind of survival mode. This is why for instance perticularly women go crazy when it comes to diet. They say counting calories... WRONG... She says i want to lose 10 pounds and so they say "ok right now you are eating 1600 calories a day. Taper off to 1200 calories a day." Then how ever long later she is looking at the scale pulling her hair out because she GAINED WEIGHT! She is thinking "this guy doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. And so she gos back and the doctor says "you gained weight! You havn't been following the diet."
and now this woman is outraged... "Are you calling me a liar?"
"you are not a doctor, you don't know what u are talking about"
and so they try the next diet without success. One thing to observe is that a lot of people on the "Atkins diet" that "lose weight" tend to have saggy or wrinkly skin when they lose weight on this diet. The reason is because the skin is not "elastic" like most people have come to believe. The brain regulates the epadurmis. If the body is getting the nutrition it needs you will not have saggy skin, an aged look, stretch marks etc. This is also attributable to free radicals. Age is basicly the eventual signs of decomposition. Free radicals cause decomposition. So without going into much much more elaboration because there is a lot to be said on this subject... What is so so so important is supplementation. Do not torture yourself with "diets" and "programs". The only thing that is valuable from those experiences are discipline. What you need to do from the bottom to the top is: You need water. Good water. There is a supplement you can buy to add to any liquid called hydra cel that breaks the surface tension of water liquid it is put into. What people do not know is that our body actually has to break down the water we generally drink even if it is purified. This is because most water has a surface tension of 75 dynes and the water content of the body is measured at 45 dynes. That means the body has to break down the surface tension of what water it can before it is pissed out. The hydration of the body (also as a foot note) directly effects the bodies ability to go into an anabolic state. You can drink water all day and still feel thirsty. That is the common experience. This is why u need hydra cel.
ok. next is what is called the Master Amino acid Pattern. This is a special ratio of amino acids discovered by a man named Dr.Luca-Moretti (a little Italian dude). For more info check out http://protivity.sun-cell.com/map.html.
ok so basicly this is a break through in the field of nutrition. This guy engineered an amino acid chain that has 99% apsorption by the body! Not only that, but because it is in amino acid form, it gos straight into the blood stream. Which means that this stuff is digested within 20 minutes! To give you an idea of what this means: any kind of whey protein is only 16% digestable! 84% gos to caloric value and toxifies the body! This means that it entirely upsets the Ph balance of the body. it makes the body very acidic. Another example: The most digestable form of protein from an animal byproduct is a whole raw egg. Yet still only 46% of the protein is digestable! Over 50% of the protein gets shitted out! Ok so on the other hand you have the master amino acid pattern at 99%. People are now seeing results that have never been seen before. Athletes are performing like they have never before. I forget the womans name, but she is an Olympic athlete that used MAAP and she won the silver medal for the 100 yard dash at the age of 39! That is unheard of.
There was a 540 lbd. man that went down to something like 213lbs. in 9 months using MAAP.
OK next is XanGo. This has what are called xanthones. xanthones are the strongest classification of antioxidant. There are many different kinds of xanthones that do different things and the fruit that XanGo is made from has about 43 different kinds of xanthones. This fruit is called the Mangosteen or garcinia mangostana and it is grown in equatorial regions such as thailand. If you would like to learn more about XanGo and the Mangosteen fruit you can go to http://boyd.natureswellnesssecret.com/ and fill out the form and they will give u a wealth of free info or go to www.puBathmateed.com and type in the search words "mangosteen" and "xanthones"
Then to kick it all in the ass u want spirulina. This is a "super food" with the most complete vitamin supplemental nutrition u can find in any natural source and it also has a lot of chlorophyl and it is basicly something else that is very important.
One thing i can honestly assert is, since taking XanGo and MAAP (aka Protivity), I have been noticing my bodies ability to make gains has increased dramaticly and i have put on several pounds of muscle (which is fucking amazing because i am a raw vegan!). Using these products I am much more confident when doing Penis Enlargement that i will not injure myself and i can also work out in the gym longer and harder than i ever could even while i was eating meat! OK! So check some of that info out! And if you would like to know how and where to get some of this stuff from please give-me-a-call. I would love to talk to you guys! All you guys in the Penis Enlargement community. If you have any questions about nutrition, working out, etc. Give-me-a-call. I am a personal trainer, nutritionist, modivational speaker, and future Penis Enlargement guru ; )
I am on pacific time here though cause i live in LA so please be aware of that if you call: 310-993-2269
again i would love to here from u guys and answer what ever questions u may have.

 

[fire_mound]

And that offer for a consultation is free of charge
i would really like to talk to whom ever because i have some knowledge i would like to share with everyone here. It is sooo valuable and important to know this stuff
not enough people do!

 

[fire_mound]

DLD,You should try the warrior diet.I have read alot about it and people on foruns say it really works very good.You dont eat nothing all day but like some fruit when u get hungry and then in the night u can pig out.It tricks your metabolism and u burn fat around the clock.You should try it out just for 2 to 3 weeks and see what happens.
http://www.ivillage.com/diet/featur...ba=adid=7692690

This is actually not very intelligent... I do not know what testimonials people are giving but this is the kind of diet that a lot sumo actually use, because by not eating during the day, u actually trick your bodies metabolism into slowing down.
Ang when you eat a lot in the evening after that you are going to be digesting while you are sleeping, which creates unbalanced digestive AND sleeping patterns!