Big & Beautiful Thread of Sizeisms

[Idget Child]

i agree please leave the potato's out of this !

[takeasneededforpain]

fucking starch. you two missed where i said "ketogenic" diet. no/lowlow carbs.

My personal experience with VLC/ketogenic dieting.

August 2008 (roughly)

316 lbs. @ 6 feet tall



May 30, 2013

212 lbs. @ 6 feet tall



I dropped from 316 to 232 with nothing but dietary change to VLC/VHF (very low carb/very high fat). The remainder I have taken off with exercise.

The only thing I found difficult about doing this is the first 3 weeks and the carb flu.
Once that passed, this required ZERO effort.

[spacehamster]

u lukt os muhc more helathy in teh furst pic man

[Zap Rowsdower]

Why would you get rid of your CURVES? That's where your body stores your extra health!

[takeasneededforpain]

It's not even really a question of calories, as much as what those calories are composed of, and their endocrine impact.

If you look at the sheer number of calories these eat-beasts shove through their cakeholes every day, though, I really think the (slightly) finer points of healthy nutrition are a secondary problem. Cutting back to, I dunno, 2000 calories' worth of Cheetos, chocolate cake and beer is still better than 6000 of essentially the same plus a fruit and a yogurt thrown in. Get the insane caloric intake to "human amounts", then start working on not eating like a fucking child raiding the pantry when mom's not home.

Well, this is also partially true... BUT, if you eat more calories than your body needs while minimizing insulin's impact (i.e., ketogenic dieting) you can still avoid putting weight on.

A point of reference is this clinical study from 1930: http://www.jbc.org/content/87/3/651.full.pdf+html

One of the participants in the study was consuming his baseline intake + 500 calories per day with no change in weight or body composition.

If you've ever eaten a very high fat ketogenic diet (making sure it's from clean sources, i.e., red meat) you know it's almost impossible to over-eat. You can't SHOVE enough down your gob to get to 4/5/6K calories. Your brain will tell you to stop... and you will.

[Ray]

fucking starch. you two missed where i said "ketogenic" diet. no/lowlow carbs.

I did miss that... but while my diet was still plenty starchy, I dropped 10 pounds in a month or so keeping the same exercise routine while cutting out a shitload of bread. If I'm not mistaken, a lot of that stuff has a good amount of sugar too.

I also noticed this:

If you've ever eaten a very high fat ketogenic diet (making sure it's from clean sources, i.e., red meat) you know it's almost impossible to over-eat. You can't SHOVE enough down your gob to get to 4/5/6K calories. Your brain will tell you to stop... and you will.

[Raw Ting]

I've eaten a cyclic keto diet for a couple months, and it is effective, but for someone who lifts heavy weights 3-5 days a week, I needed more carbs to not feel like dogshit, so I went off it.

i can't be bothered to cite anything right now but there have been some people who think keto diets are only effective because by completely dropping a whole macro nutrient, you'll be eating at a deficit. But it doesn't really matter, i suppose, if it works it works...

[takeasneededforpain]

I've eaten a cyclic keto diet for a couple months, and it is effective, but for someone who lifts heavy weights 3-5 days a week, I needed more carbs to not feel like dogshit, so I went off it.

i can't be bothered to cite anything right now but there have been some people who think keto diets are only effective because by completely dropping a whole macro nutrient, you'll be eating at a deficit. But it doesn't really matter, i suppose, if it works it works...

You are correct about lifting... type-II muscle fibers require glycogen to function correctly.
Any conversion of protein to glycogen by gluconeogenesis is FIRST going to fulfill the brain's needs for glucose, and THEN filter down to the skeletal muscles. If you're lifting heavy and frequently, you are going to need extra carbs.

The key for me is that I personally choose the least-bad carbs FOR ME (YMMV) and that means things like carrots and sweet potatoes.

Grains are completely off-limits... they really (badly) mess with my body.

[takeasneededforpain]

I hate some of these things, but this one is pretty instructional.

[FVBTVS]

sugar is basically poison

[Zap Rowsdower]

[james]

In what manner has the american board of jpgs linked refined sugar with violent behavior?

[FVBTVS]

probably wouldnt be too hard to make me violent if i had all those other things on the list too..

boom science

[Raw Ting]

Inmates eat à lot of sugar. They are violent as hell. Any questions?

[Raw Ting]

Studies show that during the nationwide jail little debbie drought of 1993 the Brotherhoods attacks were down by 67%

[Comrade Slinky]

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_emba ... ent_viral/

[Gunther]

There I was in full glory — a picture of me dressed as my hero Lara Croft: Tomb Raider for Halloween — but written over the image were the words “Fridge Raider.”

[Zap Rowsdower]

I felt bad for her until almost immediately after the headline she assured everyone that her being a fat was caused by many things, none of which is her.

[ThePhillyExperiment]

Tombstone Pizza Raider

[ThePhillyExperiment]

I felt bad for her until almost immediately after the headline she assured everyone that her being a fat was caused by many things, none of which is her.

I'll be willing to throw this ancient tyrannosaurus a benefit of the doubt. I've known some people that had thyroid issues and they got super huge.

[Zap Rowsdower]

Thyroid issues on their own will never result in a weight fluctuation of more than a few pounds. A gland doesn't defy basic thermodynamics. It's simply impossible to be the sole cause for excess weight gain.

[a world of no]

It fucks your metabolism to shit though. If she' really "sick" with thyroid problems then she should be taking hormone treatments, which would fix that.

[THE KILL]

My wife has a fucked thyroid gland and she's absolutely obsessed with food, but at 1,80m she weighs 75kg. She does sport almost every day and doesn't eat everything she wants to eat. It's not impossible... I'm not even sure she takes medicine right now, but even at times when I know she didn't really put on weight.

[huh.]

Thyroid medication probably won't help much if she's got polycystic ovarian syndrome, like she states.

http://www.womenshealth.gov/publication ... drome.html

[Necrometer]

Thyroid medication probably won't help much if she's got polycystic ovarian syndrome, like she states.

http://www.womenshealth.gov/publication ... drome.html

shit, I had assumed PCOS was caused by obesity, not the other way around