Anyone using their e-reader for WEIGHT LOSS?

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate

If you're serious about losing weight and keeping it off for the rest of your life you need to permanently change the way you eat.

I recommend Reinhard Engles' "The No S Diet". It sounds gimmicky, but the entire "diet" is printed on the front cover and even Engles admits you don't need to buy the book.

If you want more details just visit the website: http://www.nosdiet.com/

Actually, that doesn't really sound gimmicky to me. No snacks, no sweets, no seconds makes fairly good sense. Though I think that one might want to define just what constitutes a "sweet", having just had a bit of watermelon with my lunch. And the cherry tomatoes I grow, those are practically a sweet! (Edit: Whoops, just saw that fruit is OK... should've read further down.)

I've changed my diet quite a bit during the last four years actually, I eat a lot of whole food, which I prepare myself. Cooking burns calories! I love veggies, so those are no problem. I actually don't snack for the most part, and when I serve something like chili or soup or stew or casserole, it's one serving for both me and hubby and the rest is portioned for further meals during the week.

So I would say I am mostly on board with this sort of plan already.

[ManosHandsOfFate]

Originally Posted by graycyn

Actually, that doesn't really sound gimmicky to me.

I think the diet itself is the furthest thing from gimmicky. But it comes off as a bit gimmicky that the entire diet is on the cover of the book and is only 14 words long.

[Billjr13]

I use my Sony while I ride my exercise bike... I ride for a minimum of 30 minutes and if I am in the middle of a chapter when I hit my 30 I ride until I get to the end of a chapter. I have lost over a hundred pounds in the last year and a half and have at least 70 to go. That is the target set by my doctor, but I would like to loose another 100.
It is time I would probably use reading anyways and this way I am doing something to help myself physically too.

[Billjr13]

Oh and I have a high protien drink in the morning and a low fat low carb lunch with a normal meal at night. Cut the snacking and Chips are evil! They are my bane.. well chips and chocolate.

[bill_mchale]

Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate

Only if you wuss out and binge.

I guarantee that if you eat one 700-900 calorie meal a day and don't snack you will lose weight.

1. Starvation diets actually might slow down your weight loss. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that skipping meals will put your body in a famine mode that reduces your metabolism and therefore the rate you are burning calories during the whole day (not just during exercise).

2. This sort of diet is the classic basis for yo-yo dieting since you can't possibly stick to it long term. Sure you might lose the weight you want, but then you end up returning to how you ate before you went on the diet and end up weighing the same ore more.

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Bill

[ManosHandsOfFate]

Originally Posted by bill_mchale

1. Starvation diets actually might slow down your weight loss. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that skipping meals will put your body in a famine mode that reduces your metabolism and therefore the rate you are burning calories during the whole day (not just during exercise).

2. This sort of diet is the classic basis for yo-yo dieting since you can't possibly stick to it long term. Sure you might lose the weight you want, but then you end up returning to how you ate before you went on the diet and end up weighing the same ore more.

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Bill

I think a 900 kcal a day diet is terrible but I think that if you were able to stick to it, you'd definitely lose weight. Ever seen those VLCD people that think they're going to live super long because of how few kcals they consume? They're all twigs.

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Billjr13

I use my Sony while I ride my exercise bike... I ride for a minimum of 30 minutes and if I am in the middle of a chapter when I hit my 30 I ride until I get to the end of a chapter. I have lost over a hundred pounds in the last year and a half and have at least 70 to go. That is the target set by my doctor, but I would like to loose another 100.
It is time I would probably use reading anyways and this way I am doing something to help myself physically too.

Wow, that is great! I hope I can do as well!

So far the ebook thing is motivating me. I even have taken a whole series by an author off my shelves and will be selling or giving them away shortly. More incentive to earn my ebooks so I can have them back in digital form.

This week I lost a surprising 1.6 pounds! I also competed in my first race, a one mile walk. I was dead last, but hey, it was fun and I got my exercise in for the day.

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate

I think a 900 kcal a day diet is terrible but I think that if you were able to stick to it, you'd definitely lose weight. Ever seen those VLCD people that think they're going to live super long because of how few kcals they consume? They're all twigs.

I think on the Biggest Loser show they limit the women to 1200 and the men to 1800 kcal/day. But I think that is too extreme.

I'm losing just fine at around 1650-1750 a day. With fairly moderate exercise.

[foreverjuly]

I use my kindle for exercise all the time, but no matter how many curls I do my biceps still aren't bulging. What am I doing wrong?

[pendragginp]

Load your kindle up with lit-ra-chure, doncha know. =}

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Mayhap if I did more heavy reading?

[jeffcobb]

I used my ebook reader to help me lose weight and it worked perfectly. You see I used it to read up on the ins and outs of a gastric bypass and once the medical research was done, I had the procedure. Took 4 months to lose nearly 150lbs. Does this count?

[lene1949]

If I could read while exercising, I would... but I like to read lying down...

[SolRaven]

I've been using reading a great book as motivation for years. When I'm really into a book, after I wake up, I can't wait to start reading it and want to read it all day long. I simply tell myself that I can't start reading the book until I get on the StairMaster. Once I'm on, I can read all day if I want, but not before. My Sony 600 is my StairMaster dedicated reader. I keep it on the reading rack and a Mighty Bright Flex2 clipped on as well.

It's great motivation. It's when I just start a new book and not yet engrossed in it that it's less affective. If it's a series, like Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, that usually helps me warmed up a little faster.

[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by graycyn

I like that people are able to walk and read on treadmills and bike and read on stationary bikes, but that's never been comfortable for me. I like to have music when I am exercising. It just seems to hard for me to exercise AND concentrate on my reading at the same time.

If you get a chance, check out Spark by John J. Ratey. If BN has samples, the beginning is enough to "spark" your interest and gives you a sample of how phys ed before a child's hardest class has changed how kids learn in Naperville, IL. With that in mind, I have found that I comprehend better and more thoroughly if I read during or after I've gotten my body moving. When I read on the StairMaster, I don't go at high pace, slower, steadier and longer.

Plus I do some pool exercising and while I know there are waterproof cases for Nook, I'm not feeling like I want to go there yet.

I don't know about that, but I've used my vacuum sealer for my readers and taken them into the tub with me. It blows away taking in a real book and trying to turn the pages with wet hands, plus the chance that I can drop a real book into the tub and completely ruin it.

So far holding on. It's hard not eating when hungry, but having something to focus on earning like ebooks helps. I slipped a little on Monday and ate at about maintenance calories, but as long as I'm not overeating, I'm ahead of the game.

Gracyn, I'm sure you already know this but being hungry can work against weight loss. I did the Atkins' diet years ago, and it completely changed my life. The first thing I noticed is that I was never hungry and had to cut back on coffee because I had so much energy that I no longer needed the coffee and it just made me jittery. Of course, I love the taste of it, so I eased it back into my diet. I was against low carb/high protein & fat for so long, but after hour long sessions on the StairMonster and still feeling like if I miss a single workout, I'll gain 10 lbs., I finally got desperate and looked into. It was one of the absolute best gifts I've ever given myself. Plus, now when I eat a 20 oz rib eye with cheese and butter, I no longer feel guilty. I realised that I actually feel really good and never sluggish after a high protein and fat meal.