Weight Loss Plan: Smoking 2 Packs/Day for Results

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The discussion revolves around the controversial idea of using smoking as a weight loss strategy, with participants exploring its potential effects on weight, health implications, and comparisons to other diets, particularly low-carb diets like Atkins. The conversation includes personal anecdotes, critiques of smoking, and alternative weight loss methods.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose that smoking can lead to weight loss, citing appetite suppression as a potential mechanism.
  • Others argue that smoking does not inherently cause weight loss and may lead to weight gain after quitting.
  • A participant shares personal experience of gaining weight while smoking and suggests that exercise is a more effective weight loss method.
  • Concerns are raised about the health risks associated with smoking, including decreased lung capacity and its impact on exercise levels.
  • Some participants challenge the notion that low-carb diets are universally effective or healthy, discussing their potential negative effects on cholesterol and overall health.
  • There is mention of alternative weight loss methods, including healthy eating and exercise, as preferable to smoking.
  • Several participants express skepticism about the claims that smoking leads to weight loss, noting a lack of evidence and personal observations of overweight smokers.
  • One participant humorously suggests that smoking could lead to weight loss by losing a lung with each pack smoked.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally disagree on the effectiveness of smoking as a weight loss method, with multiple competing views on its health implications and actual impact on weight. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the validity of smoking as a weight loss strategy.

Contextual Notes

Participants express varying degrees of uncertainty regarding the effects of smoking on weight, with some relying on personal anecdotes and others questioning the validity of common claims. The discussion also touches on the complexities of diet and weight management, particularly in relation to low-carb diets.

  • #61
Here's a simple fitness plan:

30-45 minutes moderate pace on a treadmill, bike or stairclimber
3-4 times a week
Cut down on carbs late at night. Don't eat 2 hours before you sleep
 
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  • #62
The_Professional said:
Here's a simple fitness plan:

30-45 minutes moderate pace on a treadmill, bike or stairclimber
3-4 times a week
Cut down on carbs late at night. Don't eat 2 hours before you sleep
Hummm yeah try SIX hours before bed as, once asleep, your digestive systems slows to such a crawl rate that, effectively, the food has more of a chance of rotting in you then being absorbed as digestant, fruits especially as they are/tend to be acidic, and break down (or rot...yes, inside of you, they can) quickly...

Brekie like a King, lunch like a Prince, dinner like a pauper...
Brekie like a Queen, lunch lke a Princess, dinner like a Pauper...
Exercise??...YUP! only way...:cool:
 
  • #63
Mr. Robin Parsons said:
Hummm yeah try SIX hours before bed as, once asleep, your digestive systems slows to such a crawl rate that, effectively, the food has more of a chance of rotting in you then being absorbed as digestant, fruits especially as they are/tend to be acidic, and break down (or rot...yes, inside of you, they can) quickly...

Not eating 2 hours before is hard enough for most people. 6 hours is fasting LOL
 
  • #64
For myself that had been (/is, as best as I can control things) the way I liked it, then again, if your a little bit hungry 4 hrs prior, just eat a piece of cake, a big one, it's sugar, so you'll probably use most it up before bed... (but NOT fruit{y} cake!)

...Lets Them Eat cake! WooooHooo!
 
  • #65
Cake would be incredibly difficult to burn 2 hours prior, Yikes. It would certainly kill the definition of the abs and raise glycemic index.

I find that doing some workout before sleeping helps.
 
  • #66
Sugar goes through fairly quickly, and dependent upon type, and quantity, can be a deficeit food on the energy graph, half an hour (+) of boost, followed by a lowering of energy level, due to metabolic requirements, that can exceed the energy gain from the food itself...plus I had said four hours, and working out that close to bedtime, well, I sleep better if I "rest" (rather then 'pump' {IRON!}) a little, prior to bedtime...
 
  • #67
why not just crawl into a whisky bottle and live there for a while? Would make you lose weight.
 
  • #68
Actually, i did find that drinking a a cup of young virgin's blood is good for weight loss. Keeps me looking 19 and everyone knows they have good metabolism, so it's a win-win situation... apart from for the young virgin.
 
  • #69
Living in a whiskey bottle isn't living, it's slow, laborious, death by cumulative damages...better just to eat healthy, and marry well (personality wise)
 

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