My V8 and Mountain Dew diet journey.

[Ranokoa]

About a month and a half or less or so I started my V8 and mountain dew diet. Starting at 270 pounds, I have since lost an average of one pound per day and ten a week. I have so far lost 40 pounds and am at 230 currently. I'm also going to occasionally update my weight loss here. My whole life I've been moderately overweight, but much more so in recent years. I will stop dieting when I am Of average width, and implore all in similar circumstances to not do something as freakin' retarded as maintaining a very prolonged V8 and mountain dew diet like I am. If you do you are seriously risking your health. For me, however, apathy overrides the retardation due to psychological reasons, so don't retardedly follow my retarded diet. One bottle of mountain dew lasts me 2 days or so. V8 can last me from one day to a week depending on my declining health and rapidly declining appetite. Wish my unfattening fat ass luck in my retarded journey!

 

Be well, sleep well, fight well, live long.

~Ranokoa

Edited May 2, 2011 by Ranokoa

[ozziefire]

About a month and a half or less or so I started my V8 and mountain dew diet. Starting at 270 pounds, I have since lost an average of one pound per day and ten a week. I have so far lost 40 pounds and am at 230 currently. I'm also going to occasionally update my weight loss here. My whole life I've been moderately overweight, but much more so in recent years. I will stop dieting when I am Of average width, and implore all in similar circumstances to not do something as freakin' retarded as maintaining a very prolonged V8 and mountain dew diet like I am. If you do you are seriously risking your health. For me, however, apathy overrides the retardation due to psychological reasons, so don't retardedly follow my retarded diet. One bottle of mountain dew lasts me 2 days or so. V8 can last me from one day to a week depending on my declining health and rapidly declining appetite. Wish my unfattening fat ass luck in my retarded journey!

 

Be well, sleep well, fight well, live long.

~Ranokoa

Well if it works go for it I guess, but yeah there's serious health risks from all this liquid sugar, I'm now 43 and I did enough damage to myself in my younger years I think, 2 litres a day of cola too many hours infront of a monitor, , now got high blood pressure & Pigmentary Glaucoma and 80% blind in my left eye and daily drops in my right to try save my vision. Expecting diabetes next and then probably a kidney failure or such. The doc's recons it's moreso bad luck but I can't help suspect my younger lifestyle had some bearing on the outcome. I was going ok till I hit 40 and made a decision to eat better and excercise, I wish I'd made that decision when I was 30. You can't lose weight long term with a diet, you need a lifestyle change I'm quite proud that I've lost only 5kg over 2 years with only minor lifestyle changes, I weigh daily and aim for a lower best score and keep pulling down my maximum weight limit.

 

A cousins sister inlaw collapsed at my cousins wedding, was way into V & Vodka, now diagnosed as an epileptic with minor brain damage at 22.

Maybe replace the Mountain dew with H2O if you can :)

Edited May 2, 2011 by ozziefire

[bben46]

Sounds unhealthy to me. Any form of a binge diet usually results in a temporary weight loss. Not permanent. For a permanent weight loss you need (as Ozzifire said) a lifestyle change. Start with NOT drinking any form of soft drinks neither sugared or diet. Replace them with water. Then cut way down on junk foods such as Doritos (my own favorite that I no longer eat) and fried foods - especially fast foods like french fries and anything from McDonalds or any other fast food place. No doughnuts either. Replace snacks with something like carrot sticks or apple slices. Then get some exercise, the easiest is to walk for a half hour every day. The weight will come off slower, but will be more permanent - unless you fall off the lifestyle.

 

I lost 40 pounds 6 years ago and have not regained it. :biggrin:

 

And of course, an occasional doughnut (very ocasional) or french fry will keep you from feeling you are depriving yourself. I may eat one doughnut (or equivalent) once a week or so. It gets easier to say no to a bag of Doritos after a while.

 

Good luck on your weight loss and I hope whatever you do works for you. :thumbsup:

[Dark0ne]

Have you tried going the other way and just exercising instead of dieting? Exercising is far better for you, you lose weight much quicker and it's a damn good habit to get in to. I've never understood the diet over exercise choice myself.

 

Just remember, you need to exercise for over 20 minutes. During the first 20 minutes you're just burning off your glucose and blood sugar stores. Anything after that is burning your fat. Start to pay attention a bit more to calories (but don't idolise the as they're only rough figures). 2,000 calories a day, an hour of good exercise a day, and you WILL lose weight very quickly.

 

Edit: Oh yes, and get rid of all your sugary drinks and learn to just drink water. My parents got us all drinking water at the age of 8. I drink about 8 - 10 pints a day and the results are so good.

[Ranokoa]

It feels like almost two weeks since I started getting very ill. Someone had a bug ajd I have barely an immune system. Got to the point I had to go to the doctor a few times. While I was there I killed two birds with one stone and got Lunesta for my insomnia, which makes water taste like a mixture of rust, dried spit and evil pork souls no matter the time of day. The the mountain dew. I already drink lots of water, and all my life I have preferred raw veggies over sweets and meat. Lifestyle changes will be easy to make. Also my stomach has to have shrunk, I used to be able to fit a whole pizza. Now half a can of soup overfills me (sick food) and I simply do not have the cravings I used to. Someone got me some ice cream for my throat well over a week ago. Used to past me a day, now it is not even half empty and I simply don't care to have any. I am not avoiding exercise, just as a very heavy.... Heavy smoker, I have little endurance. So at 200 lbs I have planned to start regular exercise, until then I am slowly cutting back on smoking. Also even before getting sick I no longer feel hunger. Qweezy at times, nausea at others but not hunger. When I get better I will drop the mountain dew, till then it is almost all I can get down muh throat. But ya this is still a retarded diet.

[Ranokoa]

Also - 1.8 lbs today. And my iphone won't let me edit typos often so... Sorry for any hard to understand posts.

[IndorilTheGreat]

Also - 1.8 lbs today. And my iphone won't let me edit typos often so... Sorry for any hard to understand posts.

 

Almost 2 lbs per day? That number seems awfully unhealthy if you ask me...

 

I'm starting to work out as well (now that I have time), and if there is one tip of advice I would give you, it is this: Don't eat too little. After prolonged periods of time, your body will enter what is known as "Starvation Mode," where it starts burning lean tissue and muscle. Why does it burn muscle instead of fat, you ask? Well, it's because muscle has more protein than fat. It is meat, after all.

 

I am sorry to hear that you have low endurance due to smoking. If you do not want to work too hard (which I assume you don't), try doing simple things that burn fat. For instance, try walking more than you usually do in a day. It works wonders over time, and it does not put (that much) more strain on your body.

 

Best of luck to you. :thumbsup:

 

Cheers,

IndorilTheGreat

 

Edit: As for the problem with water tasting funky, try getting some of those "flavor" packets. Rather expensive, I know, but it seems like a good way around the taste issue... :unsure:

Edited May 4, 2011 by IndorilTheGreat

[Ranokoa]

I try to keep it from starve mode, but I have never had a good source of protein. I love veggies too much and dislike meat but at the same time I do not buy the food. I have been used to not eating, ironically, for years. And as unhealthy as this all is, it's healthier than maintaining my previos course of life. The weight does kind of melt at a scary pace for just a diet.... But at 200 my diet will adjust for protein as I go back to a gym. I also can't keep any of my freakin' pants on for more than five bloody steps. The dramatic change is necessary, however. And I must say this is one of the healthiest "retarded" diets there are. Equivellant to fasting with concentrated healthy liquids, just for a retarded amount of time.

[CommanderCrazy]

Want to lose weight? Try a diet of deep fried mars bars!

_{This statement is a joke. Any weight gain as a result of the above 'diet' is purely the other persons fault >.> <.<}

 

In all seriousness, dont use just a diet. They can do worse for you then just exercise. Oh, and I've heard that running doesnt do great for weight loss, so my recommendation is to go cycling or swimming.

Edited May 4, 2011 by CommanderCrazy

[Ranokoa]

- .8 lbs

 

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