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offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 19:26 [#00834313]
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thinking of starting this diet, any inforamtion that could
help me would be appreciated,


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-08-23 19:29 [#00834314]
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a quick google produced this.

watch yourself, mate.


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-23 19:42 [#00834321]
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my parents did it and lost tons of weight, however it
revolves around MEAT MEATY MEAT MEAT which will both a)
eventually cause us to have to resort to eating each other
and b) long before that, cause your lil heart to explode
after your arteries, muscular and respiratory system are
totally thinned away into devastation.

go veggie, go vegan, go to weight watchers every thursday,
whatever, be healthy, don't do atkins.

AND I am down off the soapbox, it's up for grabs now.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 20:06 [#00834339]
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yeah, know people who have tried it, the results seem to
decrease your weight, but you don't seem to be healthier
overall.

beats me, I'm not scientist, but what is wrong with eating
moderate amounts of healthy stuff and working out?


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 20:09 [#00834341]
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I *usually* don't have the time for either


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 20:09 [#00834342]
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oh yeah, you were working 20 hour days or something

what do you do again?


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 20:11 [#00834343]
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fit really fucking big doors (the ones that divide
classrooms and offices)

I broke my leg a few months back, and sitting around on my
arse made me gain some weight, I can't do most aerobic
exercises because it puts too much strain on my legs, so
what I'm looking for is a "quick fix" to get me back on
track


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-23 20:12 [#00834344]
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oh
in that case
go for it, friend


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 20:18 [#00834347]
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yeah, I'd have to agree, your case is something that it
might get you going again.

how do you get a job installing doors though? Is that job
shit, or does it pay well?


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 20:19 [#00834350]
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you know, sometimes I type like English isn't my first
language.... or second........
:(


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 20:56 [#00834359]
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the job is very demanding, there are 2 companies in my state
that do these types of thing, and the other has a bad
reputation so we get ALL of the work, I got the job becuase
my fathger works there, although, I'm lucky to see him more
than twice a week, we're always out doing our own thing, I
get paid VERY well, and I like the work involved, although
the hours are sometimes a bitch


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 20:59 [#00834361]
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fuck atkins... what does he know?
I say go vegan!
what are youe reasons for starting with this diet?


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:02 [#00834363]
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oh yeaH... key is drunk at the moment =|


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 21:06 [#00834367]
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that's why we love you key ^^


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-23 21:09 [#00834369]
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yeah. do it until you're back on track and then, do penance
for the rest of your life in a gregorian chapel in the
alps.
or go vegan. whichever's clever


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:10 [#00834370]
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that's why =///

I thought it was something else.
anyway. what are your reasons for starting with this diet?
I know this diet has got bouth good and bad media-attention
but I don't believe in meat....
If you want to do something great, and your body a favour,
start out on a rawfood diet! :)
(I'm a rawfoodist, so I know what I'm talking about)


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 21:14 [#00834381]
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ahem

I broke my leg a few months back, and sitting around on
my
arse made me gain some weight, I can't do most aerobic
exercises because it puts too much strain on my legs, so
what I'm looking for is a "quick fix" to get me back on
track



 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:17 [#00834386]
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well... my advice is to start out on a rawfood (vegan) diet.
It will kick your ass...
but you'll fell better than you'll never ever felt before
(once you're done detoxing)... and you will loose weight,
naturally...

rawfood is the KEY! :)))


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 21:19 [#00834393]
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what sort of things are "rawfood"

waht would I be eating?


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-23 21:23 [#00834395]
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raw food, love! anything you don't gotta cook. it is true it
will kick your ass, but you'll have so much energy. my
friend dustin did it, he only required four hours of sleep a
night to feel totally fantastic. he said it was the best
thing he ever did.
like celery, seeds, fruit, whatever. essentially you eat
like a kangaroo rat.


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:25 [#00834396]
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rawfood = not cooked food.
as you might understand it's the most natural diet (no
animals eat cooked food, right) and this is the diet we were
'created for'...
ah... it's a total eyeopener. =)
start now and you don't have to start in 10 years or
whenever the society has 'caught up' (I'm never going
back)...

it rules.

oh... me being drunk again....
btw a rawfood diet = a diet which consists of atleast 75%
raw food... my diet is around 90%+

but it's nice anyway. also if you *only* wanna loose weight
- try fasting! it works very fine + it's natural if you it
in a "natural way"...


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:26 [#00834398]
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raw food = love yes.....
it rules.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-08-23 21:35 [#00834405]
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whats the mineral and vitamin intake on an atkins diet?
guess you can always have supplements, but i'd say with a
leg bone that's healing, them sort of things prolly more in
demand than usual?


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 21:40 [#00834410]
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all of this has inspired me to start a rawfood diet, thanks
key bad nannou


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 21:41 [#00834411]
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good point


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-23 21:43 [#00834412]
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gooooo team! a convert!
good luck. tough stuff. wait'll you see how much MONEY you
save though!


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-08-23 21:49 [#00834416]
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Yeah detoxing is definetly the best way, also makes you a
lot healthier long-term...
The toxins released into your blood stream after a couple of
days on vegan food, + no dairy, no wheat, no yeast, no
alcohol, etc... lower your bloody sugar quite a bit, so you
feel a bit weak and crappy, but you're buring more fat, all
the time, same way diet pills work, but much safer cos you
can just eat some fruit if you get too low...


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 21:54 [#00834421]
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I like your posts, J, are you vegan?


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 21:58 [#00834424]
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course, in the midst of detoxing your body, you'll just fill
it with alcohol, so the results must be mixed.......

anyway, fasting is a poor way to loose weight. Your body
interpertes you not eating as a lack of food in the
environment, and it stores fat that might be needed should
you really not be able to get food.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-23 22:07 [#00834428]
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what foods should I go out and buy?

what sort of "rawfood" keep well, (just so I don't have to
fo out and buy fresh food everyday


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 22:14 [#00834433]
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well... adopting to raw food for just a moment? then I'd
advice you to do a short fast instead (if you only wanna
loose weight) but if you're in for it for real, this is the
basics:
you need food from all four groups:
sweet fruits, fat fruits, non-sweet fruits and green
leafy-vegetables...
there are different ways to balance it, and you'll have to
find what fits your body!
I eat from each food group every day (unless I'm fasting)
and I've been a rawfoodist for a year (soon)...
How serious are you on adopting to rawfoods? it will change
your life (a positive thing) and you will get a totally
different perspective on the world...
but trust me it's all worth it (detoxing can be REAL hard,
depending on what you're body got left to detox)...
how serious are you on this?


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-23 22:16 [#00834435]
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most rawfoods "keep well"...
Avacados (and bananas I guess) are the fastest to go
unwell...
ah you will learn so much while you're on this (if you
decide to go with it)


 

offline manifestevil from Australia on 2003-08-23 22:56 [#00834447]
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smoke crack and shoot up, you'll lose heaps of weight.
never had to worry about diets myself so i couldn't tell ya,
if anything i think i could put on some weight.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2003-08-23 23:01 [#00834448]
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lol, same here.

gained 6 lbs this summer, want to pack on another 5 or so
int the next month. Lots of protein and decent amount of
working out seems to do the trick.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-24 01:53 [#00834500]
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the decision was made on a whim, but often these sort of
decisions end up permanant (just like, one day I decided to
stop watching television, and I haven't since, and I'm all
the better for it)


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-08-24 01:57 [#00834501]
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aside from our anime, right?

*nudge nudge*


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-08-24 02:00 [#00834503]
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I watch them on my computer though ;)


 

offline manifestevil from Australia on 2003-08-24 02:03 [#00834504]
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working out seems like to much hard work.
go sumo style i reckon, eat heaps of food then go to sleep.
if i keep that up maybe i'll fit into them sumo g stringz


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-08-24 02:03 [#00834505]
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fair enough.

i don't watch television either, so i'd hate to have this
count against that. heh.


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 20:29 [#01138122]
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Any low-calorie diet will work. It doesn't matter what the
fuck you eat - be it vegitarian or carnivorarian. I lost 65
pounds in four months on Atkins Induction plus exercise. Eat
sensibly and lift weights and do cardio. I recommend running
for 30 minutes four times a week in conjunction with a low
calorie diet.


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-04-10 20:32 [#01138123]
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I tried it and I just felt sick after a week

All that fat and meat and crap really makes you feel shitty
=o(

I'm a total carnivore and never thought I'd get sick of
eating meat but I couldent face any more =o(

I find it easier just to watch your calorie intake


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-04-10 20:41 [#01138128]
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just FYI, going vegie/vegan doesn't neccessarily mean
you lose weight. i became a vegetarian, for personal,
although not cosmetic, reasons -- before i learned to eat
right, i just made up based on pasta and cheese, and gained
quite a bit of weight initially. takes some discipline to
pull it off right, you know.


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 20:45 [#01138130]
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Why become a vegitarian? Is plant life any less sacred than
animal life? If so, why?


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-04-10 20:54 [#01138136]
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i grappled with this question, and other ethical questions,
for a very long time. eventually, i came to understand that
it is impossible to derive a system of values from empirical
data -- and that any a priori reasoning ultimate fails too
-- in other words, that it is quite simply impossible to
form a system of ethics on reason alone (though i much
admire kant's effort). so, my defense for this particular
dogma is the selfsame excuse i give for all my moral
imperatives: because i feel like it. i think it's the only
genuine excuse for any moral action.

the other bit, which plays a bit, but nonetheless important
part in my decision, is the aesthetic: i find
slaughterhouses absolutely revolting, and that my food
should come from a place like that absolutely nauseates me.
i repressed it quite successfully for a while (hamburgers
grow on trees!), but just couldn't anymore at one point. so
i stopped.


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-04-10 20:55 [#01138137]
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is that schopenhauer in your avatar, by the way?


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 21:02 [#01138140]
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It's Beethoven. I am an undergrad in philosophy though. I'm
now in the process of writing my Senior Seminar paper on
rationality and morality with an emphasis on Stirnarian
Egoism. I can appretiate your concerns regarding the
consumption of animal corpses, although I can not say i
share them. Being an epistemological
"skeptic"/"post-modernist" I have a very difficult time
arriving at any moral/ethical principles with certitude.


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 21:03 [#01138142]
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Existence is strange - as children we remember this.


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 21:06 [#01138144]
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Oh, you replyed to a Modest Mouse post. Cool.


 

offline Empiricus from South Carolina (United States) on 2004-04-10 21:10 [#01138146]
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"Bacon Tastes Good" - Pulp Fiction


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-04-10 21:15 [#01138147]
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certitude i don't have -- but then, certitude is by nature
flimsy. that any value whatsoever is dubious and suspect i
can entirely sympathize with. still, i'm not very interested
in certainty -- that quest is tinged by the rationalist hunt
for the formula that will decrypt existence -- and i'm
rather skeptical that one exists.

what i am looking for, however, is internal accord,
and a certain aesthethic harmony of thoughts and actions.

i don't think ethical values are any different than
aesthetic values -- at first glance, it seems as though it
would be easy to draft universal rules for beautiful/ugly or
good/bad -- but the more you investigate, the highly
subjective and arbitrary nature of these things becomes
apparent. so you're left with a subjective, arbitrary
inclination to behave a certain way -- so what? works for
me.

i'm a bit puzzled by what you mean when you dub yourself a
"postmodernist", ethically. i think that's a very, very
broad playing field, with its share of staunch moralists
(rorty, for example)

i like that existence quote; who is that? sounds like
schopenhauer or nietzsche.


 


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