Weight Loss

So, you want to lose weight.

Welcome to C-C, my friends, and let us instill upon you the guaranteed to work C-C Diet. No pills, no fad diets, no bull. Only real hard science.

This post is not meant to be the end-all be-all of how-to guides. There are alot of topics I skip over or touch briefly, that you should feel free to investigate yourself. I just want to equip you with the knowledge you need to make good decisions and lose weight properly.

Table Of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 0: Are you really overweight?

Chapter 1: The Mighty Calorie (Introduction to the Calorie)

Chapter 2: Nutrition In A Nutshell (Introduction to Nutrition)
     Section 2.1: Carbs Are Cool (Carbohydrates)
     Section 2.1.1: Functional Fiber (Dietary Fiber)
     Section 2.2: Powerful Proteins (Protein)
     Section 2.3: Fabulous Fats (Fat)
     Section 2.3.1: Confusing Cholesterol (Cholesterol and it's connections with Fats)
     Section 2.4: Water You Talking About? (Water)
     Section 2.5: So, How Much Should I Be Eating Then? (Percentages of Carbs, Protein and Fats)

Chapter 3: Movin' Right Along - Exercise and Weight Loss (Benefits of Physical Activity)
     Section 3.1: Sweatin' Off The Pounds - Aerobic Exercise
     Section 3.2: Flexibility Training (Flexibility)
     Section 3.3: Govehnoh Ahnold Sent Me... To PUMP YOU UP! (Weight Lifting)

Chapter 4: Putting It All Together - The Road To Fat Loss
     Section 4.1: Deficit Spending (Figuring out your Caloric Deficit)
     Section 4.2: Your Metabolism And You: A Love Story (Metabolism)
     Section 4.3: Apples vs. Pears: I think you're all a little fruity (Body Shapes)
     Section 4.4: Putting It All Together

Chapter 5: Last Pieces of Advice
      Section 5.1: Getting Over Overeating (Emotional Eating)
      Section 5.2: Be Your Own Doctor - Get Some Patience (Patience With Yourself)
      Section 5.3: Going For The Goal (Setting Goals and Rewards)

Chapter 6: Living With Your Lifestyle Change
     Section 6.1: A Man, A Plan, A Recipe Book, and a Pair of New Shoes! (Planning Out Your Lifestyle Change)
     Section 6.2: Eat To Live - How To Begin To Eat Healthy (Putting Nutrition Into Your Daily Routine)
     Section 6.3: I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can (Adding Exercise Into Your Daily Routine)

Chapter 7: HELP ME!!! Common Problems Associated With Dieting
     Section 7.1: Me Vs. The Man In The Mirror (Self-Image)
     Section 7.2: Gimme Gimme Gimme Some Food After Midnight (Binging)
     Section 7.3: Killer Cravings (Cravings)
     Section 7.4: The Perils of Plateaus (Plateaus)
     Section 7.5: Eating Out (Dun Dun Dun) (Eating At Restaurants)
     Section 7.6: Crash And Burn - Why Repetition is NOT always Good (Burning Out)
     Section 7.7: Real Life Strikes Again! (Breaks And Vacations)

Chapter 8: Useful Links

Supplement 1: Stages of Dieting

Introduction: Why the other diets just don't work
So many of us have tried them all: Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, none of them work. Some of them help you learn how to get the weight off, but the moment you stop, BANG!, you're back up again. Well, that sucks, doesn't it?
That's because the diet industry, all of it is, is designed to make sure that you, the average overweight American, don't succeed. After all, if you finally lose the weight and keep it off, than suddenly you don't need to keep buying their stuff. And they're out alot of money.

Here on C-C, though, we can teach you, from experience, how to lose weight, how to keep it off and we don't even charge!

This is written very well and it is the most sensible advice I have ever read.  There really isn't a magic way to loose weight, it takes patience with yourself and perservence.  Thank you.  Susan Denni

Bumping this up, as I'm seeing a lot of folks posting calorie consumptions that are counterproductive for weight loss and health.

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HI!

I am a newbie and have been spending my lunch hours recently perusing the posts here (instead of walking, tsk tsk) and have gleaned much appreciated info.  I have an initial question, tho- I gaind about 7 lbs over Christmas, which I agree is not that much given the holiday, but the fact is that there is no way I consumed an additional 3500 calories  seven times.  I also expended a little more than usual in energy by way of frantically shopping and preparing and packing and running after other peoples children and the like.  Am I in error with this thought; I have a scale that measures the BMI, BF and H20, and all that reads normal-ish.

Also, I quit smoking three years ago (YAY never have cravings) and I have packed on 30 pounds over that time, prior to the recent 7 lb gain.  Will I really be able to get rid of it; I am chained to a desk all day and have an hour commute, too, so I beg off on the exhausted thing almost daily.  I get home and cook the dinner, clear the dishes, put in the laundry, then flop down on couch and fall asleep while I rub hubbies head and neck and back. I usually wake up with very intense cravings for sweets or cheezies or something ice cold like popsicles and so I bought the sugar free juice pop thingies.

NOTHING fits anymore at all, and I am getting anxious and stressed out over that; I spent mucho $ on suits and bags and cases and shoes etc. as I work in a law firm and cannot go out and spend it all again and expect my husband to not shoot me in the foot or worse.  Really, the bags and cases still fit but the shoes and clothes do not.  I did not realize my feet would get fatter, too! I do not think I am at a stage yet where I need counselling; I know the roots of my dilemmas, I just need to know if I have hope for losing all this. I am exercising in the livingroom more and rubbing hubbies head less, for the last 2 days anyway.

Thanks for listening!

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What awesome advice. God Bless You. 

Thanks for all the info. What a blessing to me that you took so much time to enter all the info. I can tell you have your heart in it. Thanks again.

Good info here!

BUMP for everyone to read!

Thank you very much for this post - all the information anyone needs is here!

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Back up to page 1 you go!

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(In honour of the Superbowl...)

((oh god, I am such a geek))

Geeks can be sexy.  :p
I married one Lol.

lol, so did my wife hehe

Hey--super random side note--just read your whole post, and you have some great information listed!  Thanks for putting that together.  So my random note--there are actually 4 types of lipoproteins, the one not mentioned is IDL.  Not that it probably needs to be there for anyone, but just thought you might want to know.  :)

Thank you so much for putting this where I could run into it.  I have tagged it and will reread it often when I need a reminder and a little motivation to keep eating the proper way to lose weight slowly and safely.

Thanks again for putting this together.  I refer back to it from time to time as I continue to move forward in my weight loss journey.  :)

Me too salome.

And actually, I really like getting little sections of it in the email newsletter because, while I might have read it before, it seems to sink in better when I get it in little 'bites' like that.

So thanks erik and igor too!  =)