jmayo wrote:
Marlonius wrote:
My mantra is that any diet that has a name is a bad diet.
I lost about 50 lb from my heaviest weight with a lifestyle change. If my diet had to have a name it would be the "Stop Eating So Much Food, You Fat Fuck" Diet.
Nobody wants to hear this though - they want some radical quick fix using the "secret doctors don't want you to know".
Classic! I wonder if that book would sell?
I haven't even been able to give it away! To try and drum up interest, I've tried reading excerpts to strangers on public transit, but have mostly been met with confusion and defensiveness.
A more serious answer: I lost weight from 2006 through 2009 (approx 35 lb of that 50) and then got really serious in 2010 and got the last 15 off, leaving me quite lean. This was the hardest part, though maintaining the loss through the habits I learned during the first 35 lb has been pretty easy. People that have known me long term want to know my secret, and people that have only "known me slim" believe that I am one of the gifted few who is naturally lean.
I was always active and got lots of exercise. I didn't get lean until I concentrated on my diet.
Many ask me for advice, none take it. The reality is not exciting or glamourous enough. I used to take people's solicitations of advice seriously and would talk at length about portion control, caloric balance and all the rest, but lately I've felt it's a waste of my time and give them a more abridged version, which happens to be both the name of my diet and its catchphrase.
My wife (also a fit triathlete) has only one success story - a coworker who was inspired by her lifestyle changed his habits and choices and over the course of 2 years has lost close to 100 lb, going from 265 to 175 lb. He is now a big proponet of the Stop Eating So Much Food, You Fat Fuck diet (SESMFYFF, pronounced "Cease-Muff"), and is himself frustrated by the same phenomena - nobody wants to face reality and they think he has some other secret.