Weight Loss
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So, you want to lose weight.
Welcome to C-C, my friends, and let us instill upon you the guaranteed to work C-C Diet. No pills, no fad diets, no bull. Only real hard science.
This post is not meant to be the end-all be-all of how-to guides. There are alot of topics I skip over or touch briefly, that you should feel free to investigate yourself. I just want to equip you with the knowledge you need to make good decisions and lose weight properly.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 0: Are you really overweight?
Chapter 1: The Mighty Calorie (Introduction to the Calorie)
Chapter 2: Nutrition In A Nutshell (Introduction to Nutrition)
Section 2.1: Carbs Are Cool (Carbohydrates)
Section 2.1.1: Functional Fiber (Dietary Fiber)
Section 2.2: Powerful Proteins (Protein)
Section 2.3: Fabulous Fats (Fat)
Section 2.3.1: Confusing Cholesterol (Cholesterol and it's connections with Fats)
Section 2.4: Water You Talking About? (Water)
Section 2.5: So, How Much Should I Be Eating Then? (Percentages of Carbs, Protein and Fats)
Chapter 3: Movin' Right Along - Exercise and Weight Loss (Benefits of Physical Activity)
Section 3.1: Sweatin' Off The Pounds - Aerobic Exercise
Section 3.2: Flexibility Training (Flexibility)
Section 3.3: Govehnoh Ahnold Sent Me... To PUMP YOU UP! (Weight Lifting)
Chapter 4: Putting It All Together - The Road To Fat Loss
Section 4.1: Deficit Spending (Figuring out your Caloric Deficit)
Section 4.2: Your Metabolism And You: A Love Story (Metabolism)
Section 4.3: Apples vs. Pears: I think you're all a little fruity (Body Shapes)
Section 4.4: Putting It All Together
Chapter 5: Last Pieces of Advice
Section 5.1: Getting Over Overeating (Emotional Eating)
Section 5.2: Be Your Own Doctor - Get Some Patience (Patience With Yourself)
Section 5.3: Going For The Goal (Setting Goals and Rewards)
Chapter 6: Living With Your Lifestyle Change
Section 6.1: A Man, A Plan, A Recipe Book, and a Pair of New Shoes! (Planning Out Your Lifestyle Change)
Section 6.2: Eat To Live - How To Begin To Eat Healthy (Putting Nutrition Into Your Daily Routine)
Section 6.3: I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can (Adding Exercise Into Your Daily Routine)
Chapter 7: HELP ME!!! Common Problems Associated With Dieting
Section 7.1: Me Vs. The Man In The Mirror (Self-Image)
Section 7.2: Gimme Gimme Gimme Some Food After Midnight (Binging)
Section 7.3: Killer Cravings (Cravings)
Section 7.4: The Perils of Plateaus (Plateaus)
Section 7.5: Eating Out (Dun Dun Dun) (Eating At Restaurants)
Section 7.6: Crash And Burn - Why Repetition is NOT always Good (Burning Out)
Section 7.7: Real Life Strikes Again! (Breaks And Vacations)
Chapter 8: Useful Links
Supplement 1: Stages of Dieting
Introduction: Why the other diets just don't work
So many of us have tried them all: Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, none of them work. Some of them help you learn how to get the weight off, but the moment you stop, BANG!, you're back up again. Well, that sucks, doesn't it?
That's because the diet industry, all of it is, is designed to make sure that you, the average overweight American, don't succeed. After all, if you finally lose the weight and keep it off, than suddenly you don't need to keep buying their stuff. And they're out alot of money.
Here on C-C, though, we can teach you, from experience, how to lose weight, how to keep it off and we don't even charge!
Welcome to C-C, my friends, and let us instill upon you the guaranteed to work C-C Diet. No pills, no fad diets, no bull. Only real hard science.
This post is not meant to be the end-all be-all of how-to guides. There are alot of topics I skip over or touch briefly, that you should feel free to investigate yourself. I just want to equip you with the knowledge you need to make good decisions and lose weight properly.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 0: Are you really overweight?
Chapter 1: The Mighty Calorie (Introduction to the Calorie)
Chapter 2: Nutrition In A Nutshell (Introduction to Nutrition)
Section 2.1: Carbs Are Cool (Carbohydrates)
Section 2.1.1: Functional Fiber (Dietary Fiber)
Section 2.2: Powerful Proteins (Protein)
Section 2.3: Fabulous Fats (Fat)
Section 2.3.1: Confusing Cholesterol (Cholesterol and it's connections with Fats)
Section 2.4: Water You Talking About? (Water)
Section 2.5: So, How Much Should I Be Eating Then? (Percentages of Carbs, Protein and Fats)
Chapter 3: Movin' Right Along - Exercise and Weight Loss (Benefits of Physical Activity)
Section 3.1: Sweatin' Off The Pounds - Aerobic Exercise
Section 3.2: Flexibility Training (Flexibility)
Section 3.3: Govehnoh Ahnold Sent Me... To PUMP YOU UP! (Weight Lifting)
Chapter 4: Putting It All Together - The Road To Fat Loss
Section 4.1: Deficit Spending (Figuring out your Caloric Deficit)
Section 4.2: Your Metabolism And You: A Love Story (Metabolism)
Section 4.3: Apples vs. Pears: I think you're all a little fruity (Body Shapes)
Section 4.4: Putting It All Together
Chapter 5: Last Pieces of Advice
Section 5.1: Getting Over Overeating (Emotional Eating)
Section 5.2: Be Your Own Doctor - Get Some Patience (Patience With Yourself)
Section 5.3: Going For The Goal (Setting Goals and Rewards)
Chapter 6: Living With Your Lifestyle Change
Section 6.1: A Man, A Plan, A Recipe Book, and a Pair of New Shoes! (Planning Out Your Lifestyle Change)
Section 6.2: Eat To Live - How To Begin To Eat Healthy (Putting Nutrition Into Your Daily Routine)
Section 6.3: I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can (Adding Exercise Into Your Daily Routine)
Chapter 7: HELP ME!!! Common Problems Associated With Dieting
Section 7.1: Me Vs. The Man In The Mirror (Self-Image)
Section 7.2: Gimme Gimme Gimme Some Food After Midnight (Binging)
Section 7.3: Killer Cravings (Cravings)
Section 7.4: The Perils of Plateaus (Plateaus)
Section 7.5: Eating Out (Dun Dun Dun) (Eating At Restaurants)
Section 7.6: Crash And Burn - Why Repetition is NOT always Good (Burning Out)
Section 7.7: Real Life Strikes Again! (Breaks And Vacations)
Chapter 8: Useful Links
Supplement 1: Stages of Dieting
Introduction: Why the other diets just don't work
So many of us have tried them all: Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, none of them work. Some of them help you learn how to get the weight off, but the moment you stop, BANG!, you're back up again. Well, that sucks, doesn't it?
That's because the diet industry, all of it is, is designed to make sure that you, the average overweight American, don't succeed. After all, if you finally lose the weight and keep it off, than suddenly you don't need to keep buying their stuff. And they're out alot of money.
Here on C-C, though, we can teach you, from experience, how to lose weight, how to keep it off and we don't even charge!
Edited Oct 22 2007 02:47 by united2gether
Hello! omg! I missed you!
*hugs post*
*hugs post*
Read me, Seymore!!!
I still haven't read and obsorbed all the cool information. :)
bumping for the newbies!
Newbie Here.....Thanks for putting all that info together! I found it extremely helpful. I'll be referring back to it before I ask one of those newbie questions that get's your eyes to rolling cuz you've been asked it a gazillion times already! LOL ;-)
Great! :D
*bump*
HK I missed this...and it is fricken awesome.
Thanks a lot! You've been busy. Good stuff for my library:D
bump!
And after you read this post, you are well qualified to stop by the lounge and sign up for the C-C Survivor Challenge
We're going to have a blast! It starts Sept. 1st!
We're going to have a blast! It starts Sept. 1st!
We quickly got team a and team b. Team c is filling up right now. And there could be a team d or e before it's all said and done.
And the start date will either be Sept. 3 or Sept. 14, depending on the kind souls who will be setting up the challenges and judging everything.
And by the way, if you don't feel like competing, united2together could use some help getting all the details of the challenges worked out... Everything is in the motivation forum.
Join us!
And the start date will either be Sept. 3 or Sept. 14, depending on the kind souls who will be setting up the challenges and judging everything.
And by the way, if you don't feel like competing, united2together could use some help getting all the details of the challenges worked out... Everything is in the motivation forum.
Join us!
HK - Thanks for doing this. It is totally awesome!!
bumping it for west coast people who will be logged in soon....
BUMP again.
Thank you so much HK! I love this! I learned so much - even though I've been on CC for several months so far. I'm totally sending this link to all kinds of people in my life who need this info!
Thank you so much HK! I love this! I learned so much - even though I've been on CC for several months so far. I'm totally sending this link to all kinds of people in my life who need this info!
*apologizes to post for letting it get down to page 3*
How do I love to drop poundage, let me read the ways....
How do I love to drop poundage, let me read the ways....
It's been too long no one bumped this one up!
Some people need to read it
Some people need to read it
one more time!
Ups a daisy!! ;)
Amazing post. Thank you so much for this info. You are awesome! :)
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