Diet for the Universal Human: eat less, exercise more.

Obesity comes from a lack of exercise and poor diet, like fast food. You can avoid that by eating less and exercise. If you want to be rail thin, make sure you have the right genes.

The alternative is to smoke or take controlled substances, but I don't recommend either.

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Edited by - mariac221 on 8/2/2005 12:52:43 AM

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You can't live off salad for a longer period of time. If you want to loose more than just a pound or two you need to give it time. And your body needs nutrition - just salad doesn't feed your muscles enough energy to burn the stored fat.

Click on this link and read about how much it actuallt takes to burn a pound of stored body fat.

Burn a pound of fat

Edited by - katjakassin on 8/2/2005 12:58:30 AM

Edited by - katjakassin on 8/2/2005 1:00:58 AM

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You want something sweet, eat an apple or orange.
As Katja points out, egg whites are a good source of animal protien with no fat.
In your vegetables, the simple rule is color in your diet. Green leafy vegetable are a good way to start, but different bell peppers are a good way to make sure you get what you need in your diet.
For bread and starches, think whole grains. This means cereals too.

It takes time to see the results of eating and exercising right, but the result looks better.

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You're body is an amazing thing. It adapts. If you just go from eating 2000 calories worth of shitty food to 1000 calories of good food, after about a week or so, your body will get used to it, and then where do you go? Are you really going to drop down to 500 calories a day? Not if your smart. Here's what you do:

Make the transition to good food. Katja and croy gave perfect examples of what to eat and what to avoid. The next step is very simple: GRADUALLY drop your calorie intake each week from WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW. If you're looking to drop 10-or-so pounds, I'd drop 100 calories a week till you hit your goal. So if your eating 2200 right now, drop down to eating 2100 of GOOD FOOD. Avoid too many carbs. If you eat them, eat anything brown - brown rice, brown pasta, etc. Eat tons of fruit. It flushes the system.

Most physicians say the average person on a healthy diet only looses about 1 - 2 pounds a week. Don't expect miracles and don't get impatient. Listen to Katja's advice on working out. Good luck.

I can't believe I typed all of this for what is most likely a fat man stuffing his face with Cheetos while laughing maniacally at all the people here who actually believe that this is a girl who's looking to get into porn.

How was that for a run-on sentence!

UGH! I hate these 'Edited by' things on the bottom of the page!

Edited by - - random - on 8/2/2005 5:19:10 AM

Edited by - - random - on 8/2/2005 5:21:07 AM

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Huh? What? No, I have no idea how I know that little bit of trivia, why do you ask .

RT

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Coffee is one of the lesser worries that you have in your diet.

With all due respect, you have asked the question and received some good answers. (You can print them out.)

You have also been in the chat room asking the same question, and received similar answers. There comes a time to stop talking about it, and do it. You have the information.

I'm shutting this thread down. Feel free to come back and report to us on the success of your weight loss and exercise program.

random

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