Mor-Ron here was getting quite a pooch so I went on the Atkins low / no carb diet. I went from 187.5 to 175.5 in a month eating bacon and extra sharp cheddar cheese for breakfast with impunity. My Labrador thinks I'm even cooler than before partaking along with me with no-look bits of it coming her way from time to time. I don't get fruit bread and starchy vegetables but I don't much care. And it's comin off! I'm about half way there. The dog is trimming down also now that we're off the Doritos and Ruffles.

errr... watch yer arteries bro.
 
That's the downside of such diets. Works better with (skinless) chicken and other less fatty meats... or even better, fish (but not too much because, yanno, mercury). Lots of good (and preferably raw) veggies and water + (medically supervised) exercise along with those lean meats... bingo and/or bango... now ya got a recipe for healthy weight loss.
 
That said... I would LOVE to be 175lbs or more.
 
Then again, I'm 6'4" and have been dangerously underweight since I was a kid.
 
I tried being a vegetarian once and nearly croaked... so I just try not to overcram myself with previously autonomous creatures (that aren't naturally attached to the ground or something else that is attached to the ground) and balance it with about a 1:3 (or is that 3:1... oh math... you torment me so) ratio with veggies/carbs (like noodles/rice/taters/etc).
 
If I were to get too chubby in the wrong spots (which surprisingly is actually starting to happen) I guess I'd lower the carb intake and try to focus my exercises to deal with the problem areas.
 
Being a gimpola though there's only so much I can do before injuring myself with exercise.
 
I really need to figure out a way to swim regularly... but that is fraught with so much unknown scariness at this point I'mma just gonna keep doin' what I do.
 
It should also be noted that the human male will naturally gain weight/fat/muscle around the midriff area (a gut). It's supposedly an evolutionary/biological process intended to protect the internal organs (below the ribcage which of course already acts as armor).
 
So, lads... don't be too ashamed of a bit of a gut. Your ancestors likely survived because of it and passed it down to you.
 
Letting that gut get out of hand?
 
Well that's no good.

Not a believer in diets personally, I find I lose weight but gain it back within a few months of stopping the diet. The only way for me is plenty of exercise (not a problem with my work), and keeping the booze intake down, because beer and wine just makes me crave salty snacks.

Congrats bitman on the weight loss!! Eating Becan and loosing weight...everyman's weight loss dream. Just be careful you don't deprive yourself of other necessary nutrition.

When I get rid of this thing that goes before me I'll go more sensible. Famous star / cheese, onion rings and a chocolate shake
 
I think that's gonna be around 160-ish though.

Congrats bit.  A few years ago I lost 30# when SWMBO started us on the Suzanne Somers plan.  It's like Atkins, but doesn't totally cut carbs ... it's more about ow different stuff gets combined in meals.
 
My biggest problem is bread.  I LOVE bread.  Always whole grain, but that doesn't seem to matter.
 
There's a lot of new info out there on how gubment/lobbyists made us what we are today.  Through it all, I don't blame my eating utensils for where I am.

jamesg1213
Not a believer in diets personally, I find I lose weight but gain it back within a few months of stopping the diet. The only way for me is plenty of exercise (not a problem with my work), and keeping the booze intake down, because beer and wine just makes me crave salty snacks.

Why not give up booze altogether.  Then when the doc says say aahh, your blood pressure wont jump.

Beepster
errr... watch yer arteries bro.

 
NOPE - this is wrong. I went keto under the watch of a doctor - taking blood before starting and two months after. My total cholesterol went up 10 points, but that was only going 150 to 160. After 15 years of trying to drop triglycerides, they went from 212 to 155! My good cholesterol went up and the bad went down. The results were stunning!
 
I'm keto now (<50 grams of carbs but massive fat) and feeling AWESOME!
 
The old science we've all been taught is dead wrong, and the food pyramid started the obesity epidemic. Read Keto Clarity for a starter...
 
high fat and low carb is the way humans evolved to eat, and it is HEALTHY.
 

I asked my doctor about that too as I have high cholesterol and he was suggesting I eat LOTS of eggs as part of a Atkins type diet. He may have been just blowing smoke but he said the fats with the spike in blood sugar from carbs was what caused the cholesterol to go up.
 
FWIW, as part of some diabetic 2 issues, I dropped 40 pounds. Kind of a incidental atkins/keto thing. It was probably not healthy but I'm still here.

I hate eggs of all kinds and ways of making. Always have.
So I'm at a great culinary disadvantage.