Does anyone have any experience with the Paleo diet?

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Ok, seriously... i think i've hit a wall with the weight i'm going to lose just by switching to diet drinks. Lost ~25lbs with no other changes in 2011.

Switch from diet to water, I'll bet you still have some to lose.

mtn wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Ok, seriously... i think i've hit a wall with the weight i'm going to lose just by switching to diet drinks. Lost ~25lbs with no other changes in 2011.

Switch from diet to water, I'll bet you still have some to lose.

Do they make caffeinated water?

Ok but yeah... you're probably right.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

mtn wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Ok, seriously... i think i've hit a wall with the weight i'm going to lose just by switching to diet drinks. Lost ~25lbs with no other changes in 2011.

Switch from diet to water, I'll bet you still have some to lose.

Do they make caffeinated water? Ok but yeah... you're probably right.

Yeah, they do make caffeinated water. Never tried it though. Also, tea is pretty damn close to that and actually pretty good for you.

mtn wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

mtn wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Ok, seriously... i think i've hit a wall with the weight i'm going to lose just by switching to diet drinks. Lost ~25lbs with no other changes in 2011.

Switch from diet to water, I'll bet you still have some to lose.

Do they make caffeinated water? Ok but yeah... you're probably right.

Yeah, they do make caffeinated water. Never tried it though. Also, tea is pretty damn close to that and actually pretty good for you.

Good point... i just need to suck it up and deal with the convenience factor.

SkinnyG wrote: SkinnyG's diet plan: Eat sensibly, and get your ass off the couch.

This is the diet I do, more or less. My plan is: Drink only a couple cans of Mt. Dew daily (instead of 2 liters) and exercise. Using this plan I lost 20 lbs in the few months leading up to my wedding! and kept it off! kinda- it doesn't work if you go back to drinking as much mt. dew as you can find and stop exercizing.

The only paleo diet i'm interested in is if the hunting laws allowed me to go into the woods with my atlatl and hunt my own food. Of course, if I had to hunt all my own food I'd lose TONS of weight and die of starvation soon after... but thats probobly not the paleo diet you guys are talking about...

Not if you hunt with a truck. Deer don't outrun pickups that well, and if you turn on your headlights and drive normally through a field they'll come out and hit you.

Also, If you're complaining about being 155 pounds Celica, quit. You have to come join those of us over 200 before you're allowed to bitch about being tubby.

In reply to Grizz:

Maybe he is thin boned and 5' 2".

Nope, 5'9 was what he said. I'm all of three inches taller and I've got 76 more pounds on me.

For shame Celica, for shame.

He probably doesn't have much in the way of muscle.

rotard wrote: He probably doesn't have much in the way of muscle.

I'm not huge by any means... 15" bicep = twiggy status.

I'm not complaining about the weight, though... just that i have a good 10lbs of fat that need to come off, or be converted to muscle. Like i said, the goal is 170lbs, and once i get over this stupid sickness i have right now, time to start working out for the first time in over 5 years.

Bah, 10 pounds of fat isn't gonna kill you if you work at adding 20 pounds of muscle.

Grizz wrote: Bah, 10 pounds of fat isn't gonna kill you if you work at adding 20 pounds of muscle.

Race season starts in 3 months. Lighter driver = lighter car.

I wanna be shredded. Like dis.

Adults measure their biceps?

Otto Maddox wrote: Adults measure their biceps?

I'm just a kid at heart.

Just demonstrating i have no muscle.

Is this the part where people start saying "Well, I am 6' and 250 lbs with 3-4% body fat. I don't exercise much because I am having the workout room in my yacht refinished with whale dick skin walls."?

Otto Maddox wrote: Is this the part where people start saying "Well, I am 6' and 250 lbs with 3-4% body fat. I don't exercise much because I am having the workout room in my yacht refinished with whale dick skin walls."?

HAHAH!!!!

If nothing else, i set the bar low, didn't i?

In reply to Otto Maddox:

The whale dick needs to be there, and you know it. It's just not the same without it.

I used to be 250 pounds and lifted pretty heavily, but then I screwed up my knee at a jobsite 6 years back and have just recently gotten things sorted out. I've never been close to 3-4%, more like in between 15-20%, which isn't as bad as people think it is. http://www.dakotabody.com/images/body-fat-men.gif Most people don't seem to understand what bf% looks like, and definitely don't understand that single digit bf numbers are both nigh impossible without constant work and rather pointless for anything but a vanity or competition standpoint because most of the time you lose muscle mass in additon to fat when you cut that much. It's part of the reason most weight restricted athletes go back to higher numbers when they arent competing.

Again Celica, that extra 10 wont be noticeable if you start adding muscle and adding muscle is a good bit easier and healthier than cutting most of your fat.

I have pictures that better illustrate bf percentages than those dwarfs in that crap ass chart, but I'm on my ps3 right now, which sucks at internetting. Only reason I'm double posting is because I ran out of space with my last post.

E: Found em.

http://www.leighpeele.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/4-percent-body-fat-male.jpg http://www.leighpeele.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/male-body-fat-percentages-pictures.jpg http://www.leighpeele.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pictures-of-body-fat-percentages.jpg

Most people are completely off on what they think the numbers look like.

This discussion reminds me of The Flintstones movie. Particularly the part where Fred and Barney are eating lunch and Fred pulls out a huge piece of meat on a bone and Barney blabbers something about being healthy and Fred replies with "My old man ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the ripe old age of 38!"

Grizz wrote: In reply to Otto Maddox: The whale dick needs to be there, and you know it. It's just not the same without it. I used to be 250 pounds and lifted pretty heavily, but then I screwed up my knee at a jobsite 6 years back and have just recently gotten things sorted out. I've never been close to 3-4%, more like in between 15-20%, which isn't as bad as people think it is. http://www.dakotabody.com/images/body-fat-men.gif Most people don't seem to understand what bf% looks like, and definitely don't understand that single digit bf numbers are both nigh impossible without constant work and rather pointless for anything but a vanity or competition standpoint because most of the time you lose muscle mass in additon to fat when you cut that much. It's part of the reason most weight restricted athletes go back to higher numbers when they arent competing. Again Celica, that extra 10 wont be noticeable if you start adding muscle and adding muscle is a good bit easier and healthier than cutting most of your fat.

What is really funny is that a lot of people that are at 15-20% bf are probably around 5'9 and 150lbs, lol.

Those pictures give a great idea of body fat, but beware. They can also be somewhat misleading. The lower % pictures here are of professional bodybuilders. Besides the ultra low body fat, they have a ton of muscle. It's very possible to have a low body fat % and not look quite like that. As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm 5'9" and 170lbs. I just did a Bod Pod testing of my body fat a few weeks ago and came in at 5.3%. I don't think the Bod Pod is perfectly accurate down to the last tenth of a percent, but it's pretty close. It's used by sports rehab and training facilities (where I had my test done). So I could be 6 or maybe 7%, but I'm in that low ballpark. I think I look pretty good, but not like the guys in those pictures. I don't have as much muscle mass. Grizz is right that being 15% body fat for a male isn't "bad", it's about average, maybe even slightly below. Females are higher.

Celica, if you haven't worked out in a while, start easy. Like I said before, you don't need anything fancy. A good workout split, good nutrition (eat a little more than you burn) and you'll do great.

Good grief, based on those pictures I am probably about 15%. And I am in better shape than about 95% of the men at work, in my neighborhood, at church, etc. Of course, most of these guys are 30s and older.

With the 60% of America at least overweight, 15% is WELL below average.

Women like muscles. True story. Not super ripped, but having nice traps, arms, and chest will go far with the opposite sex.

In reply to rotard:

If you have a nice six pack and a good butt, chicks won't even notice if you have arms.