# SDMB Weight Loss Club, November **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699 "2007-10-31T12:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/121 "2007-11-14T04:35:39Z")
Yay, **Tikki**!! ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/122 "2007-11-14T04:39:00Z")
Thanks! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/123 "2007-11-14T12:56:19Z")
Ironically, but inevitably, the Google ads are all about magic pills. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/124 "2007-11-14T14:10:13Z")
Belated but heartfelt message to **norinew** ā€“ Happy birthday, happy anniversary, and happy successful surgery! Thatā€™s a triple play, there. šŸ™‚ [QUOTE=Tikki] Wow, tdn! That you did a great job with that! So insightful! [/QUOTE] Thanks! šŸ˜ƒ I am, after all, an expert on this subject. No, really! My name is going to go on an abstract for the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. I filled out the forms just minutes ago. My contribution was the collection of data, the conclusion of which is that there is no statistically significant difference between a lap band and a lap roux en Y, over a period of three years. This is based on case studies of about 1400 patients. I feel soā€¦ medical. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/125 "2007-11-14T18:52:26Z")
Congrats **Tikki** on your astounding and inspiring weight loss. I know you worked for it. Good for you. And congrats **tdn** on getting your name on the paper. Interesting work. Yesterday at the company Thanksgiving luncheon (yes I know itā€™s a week before Thanksgiving but this is the date that suited everyone) a couple of people mentioned that I looked thinner. When asked what Iā€™d been doing I gave them my standard ā€œexercising more and eating lessā€ answer. One guy said ā€œthatā€™s always the best wayā€. I realized last night that my husband is a feeder. He likes to share food with me. When weā€™re sitting on the couch at night and he gets hungry and gets something he always offers to get me something. Even when I decline his offer when he comes back from the kitchen with his snack he always offers again, sometimes literally feeding meā€¦a spoon full of icecream or a bit of cookie. Itā€™s sweet (no pun intended) and romantic but not doing me a damn bit of good. Weā€™re going to have to have a talk about that. Of course I always accept his offer. If I decline to be fed he doesnā€™t pester me. Itā€™s not like heā€™s holding me down and forcing me to eat. But still, temptation is difficult enough without the guy I love offering to feed me. Gonna have to work on that. I feel like I do well throughout the day and then fall into non-stop grazing once I get home. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/126 "2007-11-14T19:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=velvetjones] When asked what Iā€™d been doing I gave them my standard ā€œexercising more and eating lessā€ answer. One guy said ā€œthatā€™s always the best wayā€. [/QUOTE] Heh. The best of one. A few days ago a friend told me about a diet with a name I canā€™t remember (Itā€™s named after a place in Asia). Essentially, you eat (drink?) a tablespoon of vegetable oil an hour before and an hour after each meal. Otherwise you pig out as usual. The results are putatively amazing, with a boast of something like 4 pounds per week. I remain extremely skeptical, especially since the friend that told me about it is fairly large herself. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/127 "2007-11-14T19:17:57Z")
Well, if your alimentary canal is permanently lubed-upā€¦ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/128 "2007-11-14T19:20:59Z")
I am in between belt loops and it is making me nuts. It is close enough that one is comfortable in the morning and then I need to switch as the day wears onā€¦ On the health front, I \*think \*I am getting a little better each week. These things are hard to measure, but I think this is so. I no longer have \*any \*pins and needles in my hands and arms. My trembling in the hands is much much reduced. My jerking limbs seems to happen only occasionally I am still light sensitive some of the time The ringing in my left ear is gone, the ringing in the right seems diminished. I would swear that the vertigo happens considerably less. Again, these things are hard to measure. Funny story. I was telling an old friend about something that had happened at work. He interrupted me and said: Khadaji, you already told me this story. I started to panic a little. It had just happened that day and I couldnā€™t have told him before unless I told him during this conversation. I didnā€™t remember telling him during this conversation. Were things getting \*this \*bad? My eyes had just started to tear up a little as I realized that there was something \*truly \*wrong in my brain when he said: Naw, just fucking with you. Bastard. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/129 "2007-11-15T02:50:38Z")
Oh, that was evil of him. Bad, bad friend for scaring **Khadaji** like that! I need a shame-on-you finger-waggling smilie right now. :mad: Iā€™m glad your symptoms appear to be getting better though. Wish theyā€™d hurry up and find out whatā€™s wrong with you. Hugs to you! ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/130 "2007-11-15T12:19:40Z")
**tdn** My mom turned me on to a similar diet. The idea was that if you ate (drank?) flavorless oil there was something that happened to your brainā€™s appetite sensor. It was supposed to make you less hungry. Something about consuming calories with no taste? I found itā€¦[The Shangri-La Diet.](http://www.sethroberts.net/) I think I tried it for a couple of days. I have a hard and fast rule that I will not buy anymore diet books. I figure at the age I am having been dieting since I was 12 years old or so I know how to lose weight better than anyone. Glad your symptoms are getting better **Khadaji** they sound just awful. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/131 "2007-11-15T14:01:02Z")
[QUOTE=velvetjones] I found itā€¦[The Shangri-La Diet.](http://www.sethroberts.net/) [/QUOTE] Thatā€™s it! How veryā€¦ Magic Pill. šŸ˜‰ Last night I ran into a coworker who is also the wife of one of my favorite hotel owners. She told me that I look great, yada yada yada, How Did You Do It? I told her about Magic Pill. She got a big kick out of it. She knows what to do. She knows about Magic Pill. And at 30 pounds lighter, she looks fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/132 "2007-11-15T18:28:55Z")
Well, I made it back to the gym Tuesdayā€¦Spent 45 minutes on upper body machines and then went back to the elliptical and did a paltry 600 calories in 38 minutes for 15.8 cal/min. My knee did ok, but manā€¦I lost all that progress since not working out after Oct. 1st. Hopefully, I will get most of it back by the end of the month, but Thanksgiving week is gonna get in the way, since we are traveling to NOCAL this Tuesdayā€¦tough time to get back in the saddle. 310/241/210 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/133 "2007-11-15T18:53:04Z")
\*\* How to lose your job just before the Holidays (kinda long) Yay! She Went to Jail! \*\* Not long at all. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/134 "2007-11-15T19:06:28Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] \*\* How to lose your job just before the Holidays (kinda long) Yay! She Went to Jail! \*\* Not long at all. [/QUOTE] Iā€™m guessing this was for the sequential threads thread? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/135 "2007-11-16T02:28:19Z")
Oh, wow, you are _not_ gonna believe this. I made up for my gain last week and then some. Todayā€™s Official Weigh-in Result was _203.4 pounds_! Thatā€™s right, I lost 4.4 pounds. In one week. Yeah, I was shocked, too. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/136 "2007-11-16T12:14:00Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Oh, wow, you are _not_ gonna believe this. I made up for my gain last week and then some. Todayā€™s Official Weigh-in Result was _203.4 pounds_! Thatā€™s right, I lost 4.4 pounds. In one week. Yeah, I was shocked, too. [/QUOTE] Wow! Quite a few people seem to develop rhythms of weight loss. When I was doing WW, mine coincided with my monthly cycle. Week one: small loss or no loss; week two: small loss or no loss; week three: gain; week four: huge loss. And thatā€™s how it went. After about six months, averaged out, Iā€™d lost just about a pound a week. All Iā€™m trying to say is, donā€™t let your body make you crazy! (I know, I know, easier said than done!) But congrats on the big loss! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/137 "2007-11-16T13:30:15Z")
Iā€™m holding steady at 168, up from my lowest-evah 167.5. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/138 "2007-11-17T12:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=velvetjones] I realized last night that my husband is a feeder. He likes to share food with me. [/QUOTE] Likeā€¦ cake? Have an amazing day today. I donā€™t say it often enough, but youā€™re pretty awesome. Celebrate that today. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/139 "2007-11-17T17:08:53Z")
Hi. Iā€™m back. Iā€™ve been vacillating for MONTHS now. Up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up, down. I think I need to start paying attention to the weight loss thread again. Anyway, I lost 7.5 pounds this week. Mostly because I didnā€™t have any cash to spare to buy crap to eat at workā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699/140 "2007-11-18T04:36:13Z")
Iā€™ve been meaning to post this to the Dope and I figure this is as good a thread as any. How do the contestants on reality shows like The Biggest Loser and Celebrity Fit Club lose so much weight? Many times youā€™ll see them dropping 5, 10, or even more pounds each week pretty consistently throughout their time on the show. Several Biggest Loser contestants have even lost 100 lbs or more. This seems impossible to me knowing the basic physics of weight loss. I work my butt off and only seem able to lose a pound or two each week. Also, once all that weight is lost, how reasonable would it be to expect to be able to keep the weight off? Such a dramatic change would be very hard on a personā€™s body, especially if they were overweight for a long time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-weight-loss-club-november/424699.md?page=8)