FAO Dukasaur

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I had a cheeseburger like a Mac.

I'll probably bite it thanks to the bun.

[Dukasaur]

Wow.

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I'm impressed!

[KoolBak]

I don't get it....this seems even MORE obscurely random than your normal posts dimebag....

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I started flying a nice little two seater, so I needed an accurate weight to know how much fuel we could take. I stepped on the scale and was even heavier than last year.

I was attempting to avoid the arches 100%, then I was craving a Big Mac for a little over a week. I finally grabbed a cheeseburger made "Like-a-Mac" since I am dreadfully failing to lose weight and wanted to save a few calories and $3.

I was eating celery as a snack. Stopped eating pizza for over a month. Riding a bicycle on a stand, walking with my wife. I lost four pounds water weight the first couple of days then it came right back. I have not checked this week but I expect I still weigh the same.

I'm weak and gave in to some burgers and we got a pizza three times since sometime in Feburary. We might get some more pizza tonight.

Rumour has it bread is making me so massive. Dukasaur hates wheat.

I'm reporting hoping to get strength to keep eating less. It's never been harder. My metabolism sucks. I seriously eat 1/3 less than I would a decade ago and hardly ever have soft drinks.

I'm tempted to start walking everyday and only eat steamed fish and vegetables for a while. Or just eat more pizza and see what happens.

[KoolBak]

Well that blows. I am eating a little less and drinking more water....I lost 25 lbs

[jusplay4fun]

I think the older one gets, the more difficult it become to lose weight and so more effort and mental discipline is needed.

Metabolism, the slowing pace of life, and less energy to exercise all play a role, I think.

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Well that blows. I am eating a little less and drinking more water....I lost 25 lbs

My blood pressure came down slightly, so I guess that’s bonus?

[Dukasaur]

I don't get it....this seems even MORE obscurely random than your normal posts dimebag....

He was making a joke about the fact that I eat low-carb, and am especially a sworn enemy of bread.

I was attempting to avoid the arches 100%, then I was craving a Big Mac for a little over a week. I finally grabbed a cheeseburger made "Like-a-Mac" since I am dreadfully failing to lose weight and wanted to save a few calories and $3.

If I go to McDonald's (not often of course, but sometimes) I get a McDouble (the most cost-effective option) and I throw away the bottom half of the bun. Can't throw away the top half because all the mustard and ketchup is stuck to that one, but you can throw away half. So I have it as an open-faced sandwich and reduce the harm by probably 40%.

I'm weak and gave in to some burgers and we got a pizza three times since sometime in Feburary. We might get some more pizza tonight.

Rumour has it bread is making me so massive. Dukasaur hates wheat.

I'm reporting hoping to get strength to keep eating less. It's never been harder. My metabolism sucks. I seriously eat 1/3 less than I would a decade ago and hardly ever have soft drinks.

I'm tempted to start walking everyday and only eat steamed fish and vegetables for a while. Or just eat more pizza and see what happens.

Pizza is pretty fucking awful, as it's basically soggy bread with a smattering of toppings. What is it you crave in the pizza? If it's the bread part you crave, then all hope is lost, but if it's the toppings you love, then you can put those on something healthier. Buy some swiss chard, roll it out with a rolling pin, cover it with pizza toppings, and it's absolutely delicious. Most of the big chains now have a low-carb option (usually cauliflower-crust pizza) but I love my charred chard!

I think the older one gets, the more difficult it become to lose weight and so more effort and mental discipline is needed.

Metabolism, the slowing pace of life, and less energy to exercise all play a role, I think.

It definitely gets harder with age. But the battle can be won even for us old farts. Two years ago I weighed 277, now I'm bouncing around in the low 230s.

[riskllama]

swiss chard is awesome, prefer it over spinach. usually just steam it & drizzle a little vinegar on it. never thought of repurposing it as pizza crust. then again, i'm not a fat lazy f*ck that has to watch what he eats. yet...

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Ever go to Carl's Jr Duk? It's a bit pricey compared to the arches or BK but that is likely because they use food as ingredients. Also you can get their burgers wraped in lettuce instead of in a bun. Next time I'll try one and see if it makes me switch for a while.

My wife has Irish in her so I might be stuck eating potatoes. I don't mind, maybe I should pull a Penn Gillette.

[KoolBak]

That's great Dukko....I've been at 200 for 20 years ..bounced up to 220...pissed me off. Under 200 now...like to be at 190...

By your pic, you are simply a much bigger dude than I... Lol. Assume 230 is a fine weight for you.. .

[Dukasaur]

That's great Dukko....I've been at 200 for 20 years ..bounced up to 220...pissed me off. Under 200 now...like to be at 190...

By your pic, you are simply a much bigger dude than I... Lol. Assume 230 is a fine weight for you.. .

No, I'm still substantially overweight. 190 would be good for me, actually.

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I hopped on the scale. Looks like I'm down ten pounds we will have to see if it's back in a couple of days or what.

I'd like to be around 200 pounds again.

[DoomYoshi]

I don't mind, maybe I should pull a Penn Gillette.

Do you mean Penn Gillette the hypocrite?

I'm tempted to start walking everyday and only eat steamed fish and vegetables for a while. Or just eat more pizza and see what happens.

Walking every day should help. An unenjoyable/unsustainable diet will not help long term.

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Maybe.

I might be over slimplifying things and lying to myself or just wrong but, the theory is, I can usually maintain a weight pretty good. If I could get under weight briefly I figure I should be able to stay less overweight than I am now. Then again I got here a few times so it could be false hope.

How many Penn Gillettes are there?

[DoomYoshi]

Well, there's the Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame, who had a show called Bullshit! Season 2's opening episode (on PETA) had several attacks against skinny vegetarians as looking unhealthy.

Then there's the Penn Jillette who followed his doctor's orders and switched to 100% vegan diet in order to lose 100+ lbs.

[mookiemcgee]

Well, there's the Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame, who had a show called Bullshit! Season 2's opening episode (on PETA) had several attacks against skinny vegetarians as looking unhealthy.

Then there's the Penn Jillette who followed his doctor's orders and switched to 100% vegan diet in order to lose 100+ lbs.

Did the diet work out for him? I like being fat

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I mean the Penn that I think eats meat again, though much less, unless you are breaking a story for me. He has spoken several times to say the potato only diet was a temporary and bad idea that I believe caused him to lose closer to 200 pounds.

Is he still eating vegan? I thought he was eating Vegan when away from home because like modern bread there are too many shenanigans with processed meat.

More importantly I just had a lettuce wrapped Western Bacon from Carl's Jr. It seemed unnatural against my lips and tongue to bite into it. It felt like I was eating plastic or the treated paper wrapper. I had to keep looking to make share I was not biting the paper. I suppose that is an easy thing to solve, if you are somewhere you can wash your hands then take it out of the paper wrapper.

Hypocritical of me because I have enjoyed eating lettuce wraps at Vietnamese restaurants very much. So obviously I could get used to lettuce wraped burgers being normal food.

I must confess again, I love sandwiches, and ate plenty of them every time I was in good physical condition. I avoided the arches but ate a lot of flame broiled Whoppers. Then again that was in the nineties and the meat was noticeably better quality at BK then.

If I can continue to lose some weight by making some better choices, eating only when I'm hungry, and being a bit more active.

There's no need take drastic actions like eating a single item diet for a while, to help me cut back on portions and calories. Maybe it would be impossible, since I couldn't even quit a few items, never mind "everything but Bok Choy."

[DoomYoshi]

I mean the Penn that I think eats meat again, though much less, unless you are breaking a story for me. He has spoken several times to say the potato only diet was a temporary and bad idea that I believe caused him to lose closer to 200 pounds.

Is he still eating vegan? I thought he was eating Vegan when away from home because like modern bread there are too many shenanigans with processed meat.

I dunno. I haven't been to Vegas to see him and axe him.
I was just going based on second-hand reports:
https://www.livekindly.co/penn-jillette ... cal-vegan/

Apparently he also uses intermittent fasting:
https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-pe ... story.html

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I’m wondering if I just ignored it. I feel like I watched him on Joe Rogan.

Maybe “the critters in my guts” are tricking me.

The Joe gets schooled video didn’t help. I did not get past the lady taking.

EDIT :

This is really strange. I managed to power through that video to the clip with Penn, talking to Joe Rogan. I’m pretty sure I watched that and forgot it.

I notice the article mentioned Kevin Smith. I just watched the Last Blockbuster and he looked like a very thin guy dressed up as Kevin Smith. I was trying to figure out what was going on at first.
(That looked kind of like Silent Bob, was that him or someone else?)
I believe he is healthier but it doesn’t look like it. He looks like he is ill and lost too much weight.

Reminds me of an article that explained the Campbell’s soup kids from the 1950s were overweight because at the time that looked healthy.

That Livekindly has another video about Joe Rogan being obsessed with vegans. It was much easier to watch for me.

EDIT 2:
I just read the LA times article. I liked it better.

I remember seeing him say the quote, “If you take health advice from a LasVegas magician, you’re an idiot.” Somewhere possibly more than once.

I feel like fasting 23 hours a day is a bit much but I guess if that’s what he feels he needs to do.

I’m stuck thinking about him only eating potatoes for a few months to lose that weight. Now I’m wondering if I am remembering that wrong.

[Dukasaur]

I’m stuck thinking about him only eating potatoes for a few months to lose that weight. Now I’m wondering if I am remembering that wrong.

Yes. It wasn't for a few months.

What he did was called the monotony diet. You choose one food at a time, and for a week or more you can only eat that one food. You can eat as much of it as you want, but you can NOT dress it up with anything, just eat it the way it is. There are no restrictions on how much you're allowed to eat, but monotony tends to eliminate eating for pleasure, so that you end up eating less.

I believe in the interview I remember, he said he did potatoes first, and he did them for three weeks, before switching to other foods. In the monotony diet, you can only eat the one food for a week, but it doesn't have to be the same food every week. In fact, you rotate through different food groups so that over time you cover all the bases and get every type of food group. It's not a diet I'm an expert in, but he did lose 100 lbs so there's at least one success story there.

I also remember him going vegan, but I don't think he went strictly vegan. It's been years since I heard anything more about it, but last time I heard him talk he said he was mostly plant-based but not opposed to having the occasional piece of meat.

I feel like fasting 23 hours a day is a bit much but I guess if that’s what he feels he needs to do.

23 hours is not a big deal. I've done a 10-day fast, two 5-day fasts, and about a dozen 3-day fasts.

That being said, 23:1 (or One Meal A Day) is not actually a very good system. You can't take in enough food in 1 hour to keep up your metabolic speed, so OMAD has the same problem as calorie-restriction diets: your metabolism slows down over time and the weight comes back.

There are a ton of different systems of IF. They have different strengths and weaknesses. But most people who do IF mix it up and run many different patterns.

[ConfederateSS]

-----------You can walk and ride a bike every where...I stay around 185 and eat what ever I want... ...Kool won't see this....As I tried playing Artic... Consider The favor returned... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... ....As for those who follow ,what science/doctors say on what you can eat...Put your trust in GOD ....They would have them measure the distance between the Stars...And forget HIM, who holds the STARS in HIS HANDS... ... .... Although I still like Kooly's Battleship Missouri story...

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This thread (and my weight) is Huge.

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I also remember him going vegan, but I don't think he went strictly vegan. It's been years since I heard anything more about it, but last time I heard him talk he said he was mostly plant-based but not opposed to having the occasional piece of meat.

That’s a relief. I was stating to think it was just me remembering that, or maybe even making it up.

I feel like fasting 23 hours a day is a bit much but I guess if that’s what he feels he needs to do.

23 hours is not a big deal. I've done a 10-day fast, two 5-day fasts, and about a dozen 3-day fasts.

That being said, 23:1 (or One Meal A Day) is not actually a very good system. You can't take in enough food in 1 hour to keep up your metabolic speed, so OMAD has the same problem as calorie-restriction diets: your metabolism slows down over time and the weight comes back.

There are a ton of different systems of IF. They have different strengths and weaknesses. But most people who do IF mix it up and run many different patterns.

I have done a multiple day fast a few times also. I think restricting yourself from eating to only one hour a day might have less benefits than negative effects.

I agree that metabolism can do weird things.

I thought I would try that intermittent fasting idea. It seemed to be fairly easy. It has been well over a year, possibly over two years now.

I very rarely have food or drinks other than water between 19:00 and 10:00.

Initially I did not lose any weight but I did seem to change some fat or redistributed it. Many people asked if I lost weight. The other two noticeable benefits have been.
- I can sometimes stop a craving with a glass of water.
- I was having acid reflux quite often, now it is rare.