Long Term Weight Loss (Biggest Loser Study)

**Hmac** · 05-04-16, 17:16

I was offering the benefit of a doubt.

**6933** · 05-04-16, 19:37

Originally Posted by Hmac

I would call that an unlikely miracle of thermodynamics.

Hilarious! Thank you. Needed a laugh. Been dealing with ins. co and adjusters since Mon. from severe wind storm over wknd.

**WickedWillis** · 05-04-16, 19:53

Originally Posted by Hmac

I was offering the benefit of a doubt.

It's not uncommon for him to eat two double burgers, fries, and a 2-liter of soda. It's been that was since high school. He's just a bottomless pit.

**SkiDevil** · 05-05-16, 10:26

Originally Posted by WillBrink

Maybe a turkey sandwich or two, an apple, diet ice tea, Kind bar, and a salad as examples of choices. What goes in the cooler depends on the nutrition plan you want to follow, length of shift, size of cooler, etc, but that's what my cooler looks like when I know I'll be out for an extended time and don't wanna eat crappy. I spent all day looking at houses today and that's what was in my cooler.

I like some others here work long shifts and spend most of the day inside an SUV, sedan, or truck. Catching lunch or dinner from a diner or fast food restaurant becomes an easy, but unhealthy solution.

Will, if it's not too much trouble could you provide a link for more suggestions to those of us whom are gourmet challenged. Or would starting a new thread be a better idea. Your thoughts and insight are greatly appreciated.

**chuckman** · 05-05-16, 11:12

Originally Posted by SkiDevil

I like some others here work long shifts and spend most of the day inside an SUV, sedan, or truck. Catching lunch or dinner from a diner or fast food restaurant becomes an easy, but unhealthy solution.

Will, if it's not too much trouble could you provide a link for more suggestions to those of us whom are gourmet challenged. Or would starting a new thread be a better idea. Your thoughts and insight are greatly appreciated.

When I was a paramedic I was at my heaviest, 260ish. Mostly because of fast food at work. It got expensive, and clearly it's unhealthy. I started taking my lunch...tuna, high fiber fruits, boiled eggs. Without changing my exercise at the time I dropped 20# fairly quickly. Then, upping exercise, I dropped down to 200.

**chuckman** · 05-05-16, 11:28

With regard to Biggest Loser, as happy as I am to see the success stories, I am never surprised at those who fail to maintain the loss. You are sequestered away in an environment that is 100% focused on losing weight, you have dieticians, nutritionists, a couple trainers, and hours a day in a gym. How can you NOT lose weight?? Then you just...leave. Go home. Back to the place that set you up for failure to begin with. Unless you have the discipline, can alter those around that are enablers, stay focused one choice at a time, your are just going to struggle. Weight, drugs, booze, crime, whatever. It doesn't take a PhD or having watched a butt-load of shows on TLC to know what happens when you enter back into those environments.

As for diet and maintaining it. A couple years ago my wife started a program called "Trim Healthy Mama." Not just for women, it is marketed mainly to women. Since my wife cooks, whatever program she chooses I am the beneficiary of as well. It is essentially a variation of Atkins/Paleo/South beach....low carbs, eliminate sugar as much as possible, up veggies and proteins. using Will's "90%/10%" rule we are never deprived of anything, yet we have maintained a good weight loss. Of course we exercise often, too. It is perfect? Maybe not, but works for us as a lifestyle choice.

**WillBrink** · 05-05-16, 14:06

Originally Posted by chuckman

With regard to Biggest Loser, as happy as I am to see the success stories, I am never surprised at those who fail to maintain the loss. You are sequestered away in an environment that is 100% focused on losing weight, you have dieticians, nutritionists, a couple trainers, and hours a day in a gym. How can you NOT lose weight?? Then you just...leave. Go home. Back to the place that set you up for failure to begin with. Unless you have the discipline, can alter those around that are enablers, stay focused one choice at a time, your are just going to struggle. Weight, drugs, booze, crime, whatever. It doesn't take a PhD or having watched a butt-load of shows on TLC to know what happens when you enter back into those environments.

As for diet and maintaining it. A couple years ago my wife started a program called "Trim Healthy Mama." Not just for women, it is marketed mainly to women. Since my wife cooks, whatever program she chooses I am the beneficiary of as well. It is essentially a variation of Atkins/Paleo/South beach....low carbs, eliminate sugar as much as possible, up veggies and proteins. using Will's "90%/10%" rule we are never deprived of anything, yet we have maintained a good weight loss. Of course we exercise often, too. It is perfect? Maybe not, but works for us as a lifestyle choice.

Bottom line here is - as I say in seminars - if you can't have a beer and a slice of pizza once in a while, then why bother at all if all you do is focus 100% of the time weight loss or "perfect" eating? That gets an LOL from the room but I mean every word of it. Long term, all or nothing approach many will take is doomed to failure.

**nova3930** · 05-05-16, 15:27

Originally Posted by WillBrink

Bottom line here is - as I say in seminars - if you can't have a beer and a slice of pizza once in a while, then why bother at all if all you do is focus 100% of the time weight loss or "perfect" eating? That gets an LOL from the room but I mean every word of it. Long term, all or nothing approach many will take is doomed to failure.

Whats the point of being skinny and living to 100 if you're constantly miserable....