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endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

i'm getting married in november. our wedding photos will be taken in early october. my fiance has requested that i drop some weight in time for the photos.
i'm not a huge guy. i've got skinny arms, skinny legs, a normal torso, and a big gut. i look like a normal guy who accidentally swallowed a basketball.
anyway, in spite of my embarrassingly unhealthy diet and my sluglike level of daily activity, i've maintained my basketballivorous figure for years, with few ups or downs.
i first acquired my gut from all of the coca-cola i drank in college. nowadays i'm drinking about four 600cc bottles of it a day. that is until yesterday. i've got about a month to drop some weight. i'll never entirely forsake coca-cola, because i love her. i told her yesterday, though, that i think we should start seeing other people... just for a month. so i started drinking water (blech!) and gatorade. also, yesterday and today i've been doing an hour on the treadmill, ten minutes of running and fifty minutes of brisk walking, but a full sixty minutes of hardcore sweating.
according to the treadmill, i'm burning about 360 calories per session. one bottle of coke has 240 calories in it, according to what i could make out from the label. so i should be going through about a coke an a half just from increased exercise alone. if i add that to the amount of coke i'm not drinking in september, i should be dropping five and a half cokes' worth of calories a day. it's been two days now, and i haven't noticed any coke-bottle shaped chunks missing from my belly. i know that's not exactly how it works. but if i keep up like i've been for yesterday and today, staying away from drinking coke for the entire month, and liimiting my beer drinking primarily to the weekends, and hitting the treadmill for an hour every day, am i going to look different to a camera in a month's time?

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

Why not switch to diet coke? Its still cokelicious (in my opinion its FAR nicer than the regular version) and has 0 calories. Of course u have lots of canceriffic aspartamene in it but what DOESNT give u cancer nowadays?

Oh and afaik u can look better in a month, tho it might not be hugely noticeable. I've lost over a stone since I got here, and though it shows in trousers which now constantly fall down I cant see a big difference. Best advice, do ur gymming and then eat healthily

Brekkie (always eat brekkie!): Cereal, fruit
Lunchee Smile

: Probably rice and kimchee in this place
Dinner: Salad, meat, jacket potato (low fat mayo if ur gonna use any)

i'm very partial to chicken ceasar a'la Blund, where u buy indonesian satay spice from carrefour and griddle it on a Samgyupsal pan. But its a bitch to stop eating (I wish i could practice what i preach!)

Oh and stick an incline on your walking. I burn approx 225cals in 30mins and only 10 of that is running, the rest is up a 5% hill.

Hwajangsil Ajumma · Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: On my knees in the stall

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:14 am Post subject:

Drop all the drinks, except for water and tea and other stuff without any sugar in it. I don't know if it's enough to solve your basketball baby dilemma, but it's definitely better for you. Unfortunately, it doesn't taste as good.

If you really want to knock some weight off, check around for dieting. There's a few options out there, but I reckon if you either a) chowed down on lots of meat and hit the weights; or b) cut down on overall food intake and continued the exercise regimen, you'd see something within a month.

The final option is lyposuction. Yeah, baby!

RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

If you really want to get thin fast, don't eat any meat or dairy products until the photos. Guaranteed to melt the weight off.

sheba · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Here there and everywhere!

Stay away from the white stuff, which would be pretty difficult in Korea (but includes flour, pasta, rice, sugar, bread etc). And exercise exercise exercise!

(Pretty rich comimg from me haha!)

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

if anyone remembers KIWIBOY he dropped 14KG in 3 months!
he was hooked on coke and sugar once he dropped that from his diet and started to eat clean. he dropped 14KG!!!
but I guess the japanese food is cleaner than korean too.. anyway he looks great..

DIET COKE buddy!!! its the only way to go!!!
0 calories!!

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

Drink beer instead.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

Smoke alot of Crystal Meth.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Wow...that's a lot of cola and cola has a lot of calories. I think you'll drop a good hit in a month's time.

The evil penguin · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:41 am Post subject:

Good lord man..... forget the weight... that many cokes- how are your TEETH???

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:

livinginkorea · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Location: Korea, South of the border

desultude · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:

Yes, it is the sugar and carbs in the cola (and I suspect an otherwise carb heavy diet) that is probably more than a weight problem for you. With that kind of a hit on your insulin every day, you should also be thinking about the risks of diabetes.

I suggest that you try the first couple of weeks of the South Beach diet, because it does effectively cut your body's cravings for sugar and carbs. Its a hard thing to do, but you will feel sooooo much better afterwards.

I think the diet is too meat heavy for the long run, but the first couple of weeks will help you drop pounds, and also it will drop the weight first from the mid section- your gut.

More importantly, it will help you confront your very bad sugar habit.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.