Is it safe to go on a All water vitamin diet?

[FreshPrince]

1centrum and water all day?

theoretically speaking, can one live on this diet?

 

[charloscarlies]

no....you need carbs, protein, and many other things to survive

 

[VaG]

Are you trying to save us all money on food?

 

[Evadman]

I guess not needing food is a hot deal.

 

[StumbleBum1]

Yes you can survive but the question should be how long do you want to keep sucking air on this planet??.. Bottom line is a Centrum a day would not keep a rat alive for too long

 

[FungusFeet]

Originally posted by: StumbleBum1
Yes you can survive but the question should be how long do you want to keep sucking air on this planet??.. Bottom line is a Centrum a day would not keep a rat alive for too long

Wouldn't the rat OD on the Centrum?

 

[VTEC01EX]

Who needs carbs when you've got fatty meat and cheese? <-- negative 10 lbs and counting ;-)

 

[Glenn]

I understand the hot deal! I'm suprized the rest of you haven't!

The Man has spent all his money on hot deals and is trying to stay alive!!

 

[FreshPrince]

lol, I just realized I posted in the wrong forum...sorry

lock plz mods

 

[ranmaniac]

If you're attempting to save money for the Intel Extreme Edition, there must be other ways other than starving to death.

 

[RadioactiveMagpies]

Give it a try for a couple of months and then report back to us, or your next of kin.

 

[xenolith]

Originally posted by: VTEC01EX
Who needs carbs when you've got fatty meat and cheese? <-- negative 10 lbs and counting ;-)

But who needs to be 10 lbs lighter, but then die of cardiovascular disease?

The South Beach Diet is much healthier and just as effective as the Atkins diet.

 

[samsl]

no...you will not live very long on this diet...
your body needs fuel to live...vitamins are spare parts, not fuel...
water provides a transport mechanism for fuel and for spare parts, but is also not itself fuel...

you will survive for a short time while your system metabolizes your body for fuel, ie fat and muscle...
you will def get skinny...and then die...

if you want to lose weight, the two/three-part approach that does work is:
1) exercise - will raise your metabolic rate to burn whatever food you ingest more efficiently.
-a. weight training
--->a lb of muscle burns a more calories than a lb of fat WHILE RESTING.
-b. cardio
--->builds heart health and burns calories so they aren't stored as fat.
2) nutrition
- this is your diet:
--->1. eat healthier and less
--->2. reduce your fat and carb intake
--->3. increase meal frequency offset with decreased meal size
--->4. don't eat after 7 or 8pm bc that puts food in your system when your body is sleeping and at its lowest metabolic rate.
--->5. MODERATION is the key, bc you have to be able to live by this long-term, which is why i never instructed my clients to get on a crash diet (when i was a personal trainer).
- your body adjusts to a completely dietary approach to losing weight by lowering it's metabolic rate over time. this means that you will look just as fat/skinny/normal as you do now in the long run, if you do not directly address your metabolic rate (see exercise).

good luck!

 

[cubeless]

i agree with the 'hot deals' diet: 1) reduce caloric intake by spending all available money on things in the hot deals forum 2) get exercise by running across country to get some of the frys deals that the westcoasters always get and we don't!!! we should do a book... profits to fund the forum servers...

 

[dshodson]

u can live for 7 days so get all the hot deals u can in the next week but make sure the shipping is fast.
after that u will be dead and then the rest of us will continue on getting hot deals without you.
in before the lock

 

[Greg03]

WIth a starvation diet you risk disrupting your electrolyte level and you might find out in a hurry if you are susceptible to epileptic seizures and other fun things.

 

[Greg03]

Note to all Atkins dieters - check out the long term success rates of Atkins weight losers. Note the last word...

 

[Lanyap]

Whatcha gonna poop?

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Greg03
Note to all Atkins dieters - check out the long term success rates of Atkins weight losers. Note the last word...

Link to CNN article on Dr. Robert Atkins death because of obesity.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Greg03
Note to all Atkins dieters - check out the long term success rates of Atkins weight losers. Note the last word...

So are you saying that Atkins dieters have a problem keeping the weight off?

 

[Reikon]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: Greg03
Note to all Atkins dieters - check out the long term success rates of Atkins weight losers. Note the last word...

Link to CNN article on Dr. Robert Atkins death because of obesity.

Um, did you actually read that? It doesn't say that he died due to obesity.

 

[mikeford]

One of my friends was up to about 550 lbs, he is 6'8" so he was huge, but not that radical looking. He had a Foley procedure done rerouting most of his stomach etc. and went on a extreme liquid diet of vitamins (pills and shots) and a daily yogurt and protein powder drink. He lost like 200 lbs in the first 6 months, then leveled off at 10 lbs or so per month down to 240 lbs. Stable weight for him is looking like something between 200 and 220 depending on exercise and the temptation of higher calory items like shakes and alcohol.

Basically he stopped eating all "real" food for about 3 years, and only now is eating meat, ie one taco.

OTOH many people have switched to a all liquid diet and not kept any weight off at all by drinking lots shakes etc.

Message I see is that being fat is mostly a mental choice, with eating less and exercising more the obvious solution, but still impossible to many.

 

[mikeford]

OH, part of the point I wanted to make is that NOTHING material prevented my friend from going on this same diet, with reasonably the same weight loss, without having major surgery. As a factual matter though, the diet without the surgery just doesn't seem to stick. Its like the surgery helps with the mental commitment to change eating habits.

 

[VTEC01EX]

I'm supposed to be on the South Beach diet, it just doesn't work out that way most of the time. My diet is a two week long experiment just to see what would happen. I've seen all this hype (even Quiznos is doing low carb now! WTF!), so I figured I'd give it a shot before I knocked it. Maybe I'm just less susceptible to cravings than most, but I really don't care what I eat so long as it fills me up. If I wanted to turn this into a long-term diet, I doubt I'd have a problem in converting to leaner meats. The only issues I see so far is the mad $$ spent on meat, and the lack of beer, but i'll get over it.

 

[TrentSteel]

A doctor had once told me vitamins (as pills, at least) aren't really absorbed well by the body without solid food. Have you consulted a physician? You'd get better advice from her/him than us.