I'm on the subway diet.

So, you're eating less, avoiding condiments, and working out?

You'll be thin as a rail by Sunday. :o

I'm trying to drop about 40 lbs. and I'm always on the road for work so I'm gonna be eating subway every day for a while. I'm also doing cardio and weight training to try and get back into shape. For breakfast I'm having black coffee, followed by a trip to the gym. At lunch it will be a turkey sub, no mayo or cheese with a water. at around 3 or 4 i will have a snack to get me through to dinner. probably a little peanut butter, veggies, or fruit. Then at night, I think I'm gonna start eating a footlong veggie sub. I know this sounds crazy but it really works. I dropped 25 libs doing this about a year ago. If anyone has anymore tips, let me know. Thanx, guys.waltw_84

blog much?

Err..yeah, sorry to say this, but the Subway diet is a scam, just like all diets. If you're just going to eat 2 subs a day, you won't be getting nearly enough calories and your metabolism will slow way down. If you lose any weight it will be mostly muscle and water, not much fat. When you did it last time, are you sure you actually lost much fat? Just because your weight goes down, it doesn't mean you have lost any fat. Let me know if you want some more info.arachosia

Yeah, but I'm still gonna supplement it with stuff like tuna and peanut butter. yeah, i went down a pants size last time. But i was doing a lot of cardio, and yes, my bench press went down.

I went to king's Island...

The $5 Footlong there is $6 6inch....

Rip off

Subay is good though.

I'm on an arbitrary rule diet. I made up arbitrary yet easy to follow rules for my eating habits and lost about 20 pounds. These arbitrary rules include not eating anything you have to touch with your hands and not eating anything during daylight. I've also went ahead and dropped anything I couldn't easily eat with chopsticks.

I find that I have more self-discipline when I follow these arbitrary rules than I do when I meticulously draw a line on some foods. Also my mind doesn't treat it as a diet and rejects it as it usually does but rather treats it as an unusual habit/quirk and nourishes it.

I hate to tell people, but fat is more effectively burnt by weight training for two reasons:

1: an intensive session of weight training (Intensive in this case meaning duration, as opposed to frequency or intensity) will rely predominantly on the Aerobic Glycolisis energy system, which means fat will be burnt as it compensates for the lack of short supply energy systems which deplete after roughly 2-3 minutes.

2: muscle cells require a small degree of fat in order to transfer it into Adenosine Triphosphate, which is the cellular energy source for muscle contractions. Hence, you are burning fat just by HAVING lean muscle mass!

Wow I may actually pass my Sports Science paper...

I hate to tell people, but fat is more effectively burnt by weight training for two reasons:

1: an intensive session of weight training (Intensive in this case meaning duration, as opposed to frequency or intensity) will rely predominantly on the Aerobic Glycolisis energy system, which means fat will be burnt as it compensates for the lack of short supply energy systems which deplete after roughly 2-3 minutes.

2: muscle cells require a small degree of fat in order to transfer it into Adenosine Triphosphate, which is the cellular energy source for muscle contractions. Hence, you are burning fat just by HAVING lean muscle mass!

Wow I may actually pass my Sports Science paper...

D3nnyCrane

But weight training without cutting down on your food intake isn't going to lose you weight either. Both diet and excercise are needed to lose weight efficiently.

[QUOTE="D3nnyCrane"]

I hate to tell people, but fat is more effectively burnt by weight training for two reasons:

1: an intensive session of weight training (Intensive in this case meaning duration, as opposed to frequency or intensity) will rely predominantly on the Aerobic Glycolisis energy system, which means fat will be burnt as it compensates for the lack of short supply energy systems which deplete after roughly 2-3 minutes.

2: muscle cells require a small degree of fat in order to transfer it into Adenosine Triphosphate, which is the cellular energy source for muscle contractions. Hence, you are burning fat just by HAVING lean muscle mass!

Wow I may actually pass my Sports Science paper...

Luncbox1

But weight training without cutting down on your food intake isn't going to lose you weight either. Both diet and excercise are needed to lose weight efficiently.

No I absolutely agree with you. In order for weight loss the calories burnt must exceed the calorific intake. What I meant was that weight training over a period of time can increase fat loss due to its presence requiring fat - if that makes sense...

Apologies for sounding like a know-all - I actually do that to everyone just to make sure I'm ready come exam time!