Unconventional Ways To Lose Weight

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Dead wrong.
You can also maximize calories burning by exercising... and then there are tons of ooptions, so I guess the thread should remain open?

As to the OP: boxing class... or boxercise if you just want fitness. It's incredibly fun and you don't get punched.
http://www.boxercise.co.uk/

Last edited by mike_br on 25 Jun 2012, 12:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mike BR, from what I heard Boxercize is a great way to lose weight, and it is a bit unconventional too. It's not often I hear about it, but it does work. President of the UFC Dana White did Boxercize to help lose some weight, and get in better shape.

I chose to ignore WhiteWidow's post because I found it to be too focused on only fat loss(This thread isn't just about fat loss. It is about weight loss in general), inaccurate, and a troll post due to the last part.

And if you don't like crowds and have discipline, you can try technology at your home (also, unconventional):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeLjhWQnT7Q

You have to buy the equipment, but hey... no monthly fees

enjoy

I'm a fan of Coffee and I also like to add variety by trying different kinds of Tea.

i imagine myself eating a favourite "bad" food, savouring every mouthful. i spend time thinking about how it feels and tastes in my mouth. somehow it reduces cravings because.... your mind doesn't realise that you didn't really eat the food.

i wrote a blog post about that idea once, and i found out later that a researcher was simultaneously studying the phenomenon.

^ If I allow myself to fantasize about my stuff, the next thing I know I've driven to the store and bought them and scarfing them in my car.

Second the coffee recommendation, with extreme reluctance...

I have a venous disease, so no caffeine for me (it dilates your veins = no good).
It also has been contributing of late to panic attacks and headaches when I've allowed myself some in small amounts.

So I bought a jar of decaf thinking I'd be safe, right? Right?
WRONG.

I used way too much, admittedly, because I wasn't sure how much instant to use (I make drinks by the gallon) and apparently the caffeine-removal process isn't 100%.

Cue about five hours of rocking-back-and-forth, thrashing and trembling, being terrified I was going to die.

I woke up the following morning to find the pants I'd been bulging out of were now loose. I was just grateful to have woken up at all. My heart rate had been sky-high for several hours, and I guess it just sped up my metabolism.

I think you should get a monkey, give him a sock full of pennies, and chain him to your refrigerator. Then train him to whack you in the crotch whenever you approach...

I haven't tried this, but I'm pretty sure it will work.

I am surprised nobody has mentioned laxatives. Consume large amounts after every meal and you are set to go.

Another one is just have having chicken broath and the soup from the cabbage soup diet with nothing else.

A diet consisting purely of tomato soup would also make you lose weight.

A diet of only fat free sugar free yogurt would also do the trick.

Juice fasting has been mentioned but water fasting works a hell of a lot faster.

I went from 215 to 180 in 3-4 months of ice skating everyday as my primary exercise. Some dieting, too.

Vegan.

Eat what you want and don't get fat (seriously)

Stick to your diet shakes ladies I'm sure that will work

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBciqe89tE[/youtube]

I've been vegan six years and battle weight constantly, same as the preceding 18.

Try again.

Unless it involves inherent caloric differences or glucose spikes, I don't see what relation it has to weight.

I thought you said your lighter now?

Yes, because of six months of a prescription weight loss drug,
and a "maintenance" which requires hours of exercise every day,
combined with eating no more than a couple hundred calories daily.
Going vegan doesn't change your overall metabolism, if you're predisposed to be overweight or obese.

When someone finds the diet that does, they should let me know.

Haha, I laughed so hard.

That sounds like a good idea actually. It wouldn't work for me though. I find the more I fantasize about tasty bad food, the more I am likely to go and get me some.

I think it would be better to chain the monkey to your crotch myself. That way you won't even be thinking about eating food, because you will be to busy worrying the monkey might eat your crotch!

Hmm, I don't know about the laxatives. I've read that they may only destroy 10% of calories of a meal, or none at all, and all they really do is end up damaging your body through dehydration, and inflammation of the colon. I guess you could lose weight, but you might die or do permanent damage?

Hmm no. I have known and known of a lot of overweight vegans. Veganism when done right can and often times does help weight loss, but not in the way you are talking about it. Shakes are good too, and good tasting. Not all shakes have dairy either. I'm not sure why you are calling people who drink shakes ladies, that seems a bit uncalled for, and I bet a lot of those "ladies" could beat you up and make you their lady, so...


It might sound odd but I've done this before, when it was too cold or hot outside, and I had no room to use a rope for jumping inside... It actually does work.