No matter how you slice it – the one thing that all diets have that work – everything from Atkins to South Beach — is calorie reduction. All these “diets” are just tricks to get you to eat less. Sure, the Atkins has a metabolic effect by lowering carb intake, but everyone I know who has tried Atkins has ALSO reduced their calories (even if they didn’t do it consciously). They find themselves ordering the steak dinner at a restaurant and discarding the baked potato. Well, that jumbo backed potato has several hundred calories. If you eat your steak, green vegetable, and a soup, but skipped the potato – what have you done? Reduced calories!
With all these juice diets and soup diets — weight watchers — and all the rest — add them up! People doing these things are eating less!
People! Eat less and eat right! That’s the way to do it. Don’t do Atkins or juice diets. Don’t starve yourself. Take in 500 calories a day less than you burn, and you WILL lose weight.

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   to put it more exactly, less calories go in than go out. You could eat 3000 calories a day, as long as you were burning 3500 calories and you’d lose weight.
   If you are a completely inactive slug, you may need to consider eating next to nothing. On the other hand, if you engage in vigorous aerobic exercise every day, you can continue to eat what you used to eat in your former lazy slug life and you will probably lose plenty of weight.
   To put it another way: “get off your @ss and deal with it!”

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   Can I add that drinking lots of water will really help

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   I’m guessing you don’t really want answers??? That was more of a speech than a question.

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   Thanks
   I guess lol

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   whats the question?

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   I have to agree with you 100%.
   I have been watching what I’m eating as far as calories, trans fat and saturated fats.. and I’ve lost 6 lbs in a little over a month.

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   nasty food

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   Or you could eat whatever the hell you want and exercise. Not a gym either…more like a walk and some cardio.
   Yeah thats the one true things that works.

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   right on