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21 Oct 2013, 2:34 pm

Source Article: Teen who lost 100 pounds: "I did it, and you can too"

Elizabeth Landau, CNN, wrote:
It started when he took an exercise health and wellness class, which taught him about nutrition and exercise. Gamez was accustomed to eating a lot ... eight times a day. His mother would make enchiladas or fried beans; in between meals, Gamez would snack on ice cream or chips. Determined to change, Gamez stopped eating red meat and got his protein instead from chicken and fish. He made sure his caloric intake was between 1,500 and 2,000 calories each day. In about four months... His pants size shrunk from 42 to 36, and then from there to 32.

Wow! This guy is good! I've lost only 30 pounds in the same time-frame.



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21 Oct 2013, 3:07 pm

I did 35 in 4 months. 38 waist to 34 (well some brand 32s...)



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23 Oct 2013, 2:05 pm

Traditional Latinoamerican food is carb rich and very fattening. It's as bad as Deep Southern cooking in the US. And sure enough, the American Deep South and Mexico have some of the "fattest starving" people on earth. Fat starvation is when you eat junk food all the time. Your body is storing the fat, but isn't getting enough real nutrients, so it stores more fat. The more junk food one eats, the worse the problem.



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23 Oct 2013, 2:21 pm

pezar wrote:
Traditional Latinoamerican food is carb rich and very fattening. It's as bad as Deep Southern cooking in the US. And sure enough, the American Deep South and Mexico have some of the "fattest starving" people on earth. Fat starvation is when you eat junk food all the time. Your body is storing the fat, but isn't getting enough real nutrients, so it stores more fat. The more junk food one eats, the worse the problem.


I don't think it's the carbs. People in like Africa, India, China, etc, eat gobs of carbs. It's the fact that traditional Spanish food is really calorie rich because they use so much oil on everything. If you've ever had Puerto Rican rice for example, it's usually more oily than if you get Chinese fried rice. That and stuff like fried plantains, empanadas, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugali
Kenyans eat that like every meal, and it has more carbs than rice because it's more dense, and they're lean. Also Kenyans do have less cars/etc, though, to be fair, so more calories burned than poor Mexicans who happen to own cars.



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25 Oct 2013, 11:22 am

I lost about 30 in three months and what was amazing was that was AFTER I had given up because I was only losing 1 or 2 pounds here and there. I wasn't overweight but morbid obesity runs in the family. The most effective changes were 1)skip breakfast or have a very small breakfast and 2)reduce portion sizes by about 10%. I didn't even do that to lose weight but to save money as I have a huge appetite. My 36s were skin tight but now 34s fit comfortably.