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Many years ago I lost 103 pounds in 1 day...got divorced. Man did I feel good! 
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Just like shedding a lamprey or remora? 
EDIT: 103 pounds might be a keeper, though!
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I hear that Mike's ex is having evil lessons with Satan ... though I don't know how much she is charging him.
Can you confirm, @Mike-Hankey
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Satan decided he won't take her...hell would freeze over then what would he have to torment everyone.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Reminds me of an episode of “Creepshow” I watched. A company had found a weight loss method that involved using some kind of leech that would suck out the fat instead of blood. It seemed to work great until there was an eclipse. Not going to say what ultimately happened but you can probably guess. By the way, “Creepshow” is a horror anthology series on Shudder based on the movies of the same name which are an homage to the old EC horror comics.
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I just watched that the other day. I was just thinking, "Wouldn't it be good if that was real?" ...and then the twist arrived! Argh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mike Hankey wrote: one of those "eat right and exercize" scams.
I need to put you in touch with one of my fitness freak colleague. 
"I am not asking you to avoid eating anything. Eat everything, in limited quantity and make sure you burn more calories than you take."
Neh! not me.
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I do what feels right for me. I take a 40 minute walk almost every day, part of the walk is up a big hill, and in the 6 months I've been doing that (since lockdown) I can now walk up the hill at a decent pace and not even get winded.
I watched my weight, it dropped initially then went back up as I gained muscle, but the real telling factor was that I needed to put a couple extra notches in my belt because my waist was slimming down so much.
I recently took up an interesting practice - eat out of a bowl, not a plate. A bowl limits the amount that gets otherwise piled on to a plate, and I feel quite full after just a bowl of food. And this isn't some gigantic mixing bowl! It's about the size of my hand.
I also changed how I store things in the fridge. This may seem to have little to do with eating healthy, but I arranged my fridge so that the foods that spoil quickly (fruits, veggies, greens mainly) are on the top shelf - the "must eat very soon" shelf.
The two other shelves are arranged "with should eat within a week or so" and "the stuff that lasts".
So, simply by changing how things are arranged in my fridge, I discovered I'm eating more non-meat things, which has the side-effect of reducing calorie intake and quite frankly improving nutritional value.
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Actually I'm 6'3" and weigh 185. We don't buy sweets or junk food, rarely eat out.
We walk a mile every night, except when lightening, which it was last night until late.
We used to do a log of camping, hiking, and traveling until this virus slowed us down.
I have gained a few pounds since we became semi-sedentary but am working on it. But at 71 the pounds don't come off as easy as they used to. Oh well still looking at the green side so can't complain!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Oh well still looking at the green side so can't complain!
Can you still see if your sockets are from the same pair without a mirror?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Actually I'm 6'3" and weigh 185. We don't buy sweets or junk food, rarely eat out.
I was wondering if you were being sarcastic, serious, or a little of both. Hah, I'm 6'3" and around 210, I went down to just under 200 when I started doing the daily walks and then went back up to 210, but the waste keeps slimming and legs keep bulking up!
Yeah, I'm 57, will be 58, oh my, next Wed, so yeah, I get it's harder for the pounds to come off as one gets older.
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And this damn lockdown don't help either.
We're usually real active but for the last several months all I do is read and program.
Probably read 30 books in the last few months.
But we just bought a nice house in a small town, population 775 about 60 miles west of here that needs a lot of work. We close Tuesday and the work begins!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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No carbs after 6:00 PM (because of slowing metabolism). Grazing is better than "3 squares a day".
If you can average 100 calories (eating) per hour, you're set.
Survival mode, no movement, requires 800 calories per day. Anything above and you gain weight unless you move around.
You need to burn 3000 calories to loose one pound. That's about 10 - 20 hours of exercise / walking, depending on intensity. Distance vs speed; and reps vs weight. Aerobics for heart health.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I pump aluminum every night. Doesn't remove any weight, but it helps me not to care.
Works for me.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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More reps.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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eat less (and optionally exercise)
I'd rather be phishing!
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She used to let me, but not so much anymore. Oh, I thought you said "Les". 
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If you want to lose weight, just jump off a diving board. If you want to lose mass, OTOH... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Now THIS is a response I expect from this site.
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Or in a StackOverflow comment 30 or 40 seconds before the question's closed.
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New lounge messages (only the first in a new thread) come in through my RSS reader. Unlike a browser however, it doesn't show the line separating your message and your sig, so in this case...
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Talk to your doctor about this. They can give you direction to where to get started. The bottom line is in order to lose weight you need to consume fewer calories than you expend, which basically means eating right and very possibly less and exercising more.
A lot of health care plans actually cover weight loss for the purposes of getting a "healthy" weight.
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"The best way to lose weight is not to have gained it in the first place." -- Joshua
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Too late!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Getting COVID is very effective for weight loss.
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