I know I silently called bullshit when I read about it, so I laughed when I saw
the editors of the Kansas City Star openly call bullshit:
We asked weight loss experts, and people who have lost large amounts of weight themselves, whether it’s possible to lose 90 pounds in six months simply by eating better and hitting a humble home gym for half an hour five or six times a week. Their response? Absolutely not, almost certainly not, and hahaha. ...
“He would have to be on a massive starvation diet,” [said Micah LaCerte, a top personal trainer] probably taking in no carbs at all. And even then, “no way with only a half-hour workout. Ninety in six is unbelievable, especially for his age, unless he’s working out for hours every day. The numbers just don’t add up. Dude, just be honest. Mike, come on, man.”...
While it may be theoretically possible, “it’s just not likely” without surgery, drugs or other extreme measures, says Al Rose, a longtime New York bodybuilder, trainer and coach... "His face is sunken and his skin doesn’t look good. He’s gone from one extreme to the other..." Rose said....
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Sounds like surgery, fasting, or illness to me.
That is exactly what I would tell a person to do.
I would want some specifics and I will read some more.
But it is clear I know more about this subject than the people who wrote this article just from that blurb.
55 pounds in just on a year.Yes it can be done.Better metabolism, less sugar,less carbs,more cardio.
Yes, bullshit. You are only suppose to lose 2 lbs a week when dropping weight. To lose 90 lbs that way would take 45 weeks which would be 315 days of consistent effort. He’s done something more drastic.
Do the math - 3-4 pounds per week is about 2000 fewer calories per day. If you are eating 3000-4000 calories per day (which is not hard to do) it is relatively simple to drop down to 1500-2000 per day. And you don't have to be hungry if you choose wisely on what you eat. Add in 300-400 calories burned off exercising, and it's more possible.
it's COMPLETELY POSSIBLE (as long as your healthy foods are Methamphetamine)
I know how you lose that much weight, in fact I've even done it.
I wouldn't recommend the way I did it. A neck cancer will do that, though. Looking at the pictures, I don't think this is the case here. Don't need to list the details why I think so.
Not sure what the story is, but basically you don't eat when you lose that kind of mass that fast. I hope he's healthier than when he started no matter what the reason may be. If the story wasn't out there the way it is, I'd leave it alone but I've got personal history. As to the published story, I'm a skeptic.
You don't tell an overweight person to workout like I do.
You have them make small changes. You do not need to work out that much. 150-180 zone 2 cardio a week is a long walk in the morning for overweight people.
People at a healthy weight can wear a weight vest for their walk and get their heart rate up.
A short period of resistance training every day will build a surprising amount of muscle tissue. If you put in 20% of the effort I put in you will get 80% of the benefits.
If you are overweight I can help you lose weight. It is just as easy and Mike Pompeo claims.
Lyle Smith said...
Yes, bullshit. You are only suppose to lose 2 lbs a week when dropping weight. To lose 90 lbs that way would take 45 weeks which would be 315 days of consistent effort. He’s done something more drastic.
In a healthy person this is true. I am trying to lose 15 pounds and giving myself 7 months to do it.
But if you are >30% body fat you can easily lose weight like this.
When I started Keto 9 months ago I dropped 25 pounds in 40 days and I was not fat when I started.
I've wanted to ask Mike how he did it. He looks great!!
I would recommend to people that they know at least a little about something before calling Bullshit.
Especially if a reporter says it.
Journalists are stupid people in general and know less about almost any subject than the average person.
Okay, this is something I know about. Last March I was admitted to the hospital weighing 450 pounds. I was diagnosed with Lymphodema (look it up). I was fitted with a catheter and administered industrial-strength diuretics intranveniusly. I lost seventy pounds of body fluid in eight days. I lost another seventy pounds in the following month. I am not exaggerating.
Pompeo weighed almost 300 lbs and got down to 210. A man of that size who walks burns up 3200 cal a day, and can lose 2 lbs a week just by cutting down the Calories to 2200.
Size does matter.
26 weeks to lose 90 lbs means a little over 3 lbs a week. Cutting his food intake down to 1500 cals a day would do the trick. Is that "Just eating right?" who knows.
It is possible to put on 15 pounds a month going from a normal healthy diet to a full gourmet diet (even easier if you have a personal kitchen staff). My record is, I think, 10 pounds a month,but I didn't have a personal chef.
Going from a gourmet diet, 3 full meals a day with 2 glasses of wine at dinner, to a normal diet with 1 glass of wine at dinner, could lose you 10 pounds a month (I think I have lost 8 pounds a month by changing diet). And going from 3 glasses of wine a day to 3 glasses of wine a week will save about 1,000 calories a day.
Changing exercise routines has a smaller effect, but it has enough effect to make Pompeo's claim credible.
So here is the source that the Kansas City star used to laugh at Mike Pompeo.
One of the interesting phenomena of the fitness influencing industry is the growth of "Natty or Not" videos.
Micah Lacerte comes is most likely not natural. He looks like your typical instagram "look I am buff just do this to get shredded" people.
He has a few videos on his site. Here is a video where one of his clients lost 125 pounds by making some simple lifestyle changes.
I really don't know what is wrong with people. You want to jump in and laugh at Mike Pompeo but for fucks sake stop being so fucking gullible.
This story is a complete crock of shit from top to bottom.
I had an obese friend who lost 25 lbs in 2 months. He weighed 250 and should have weighed about 190. He did nothing but walk an hour a day and cut the food down to 1200 a day.
Pushing 300 lbs, he would be a candidate for a gastric belt. That would be much more likely to yield a weight loss of 90 lbs in 6 months than even a starvation diet.
The half hour workout is a huge tell. Upping my strenuous 90 minute-2 hour hikes to 6 days a week in summer drops a pound a week before my system adjusts after 6-7 weeks.
I've given you the numbers. You've given me words. I'll take the numbers.
BTW, I lost 30 lbs in 10 weeks in college. But I walked 2 hours a day and ate 1000 cals per day. I started at 195 and got down to 165. Damn, I wish it was that easy now.
Easy. Pompeo did the Fox News diet: comprised exclusively of the pills, supplements and foods advertised on Fox News.
He has what looks to me a tracheostomy scar in his neck.
Who really cares how he lost it? I was thinking a year ago he looked awful and was in no shape to run for anything, let alone make it through another year. He looks much better now so, again, who cares how he lost it? Not everyone is looking to sign on as the face of a new diet plan.
almost 4 pounds a week. Yeah - that's a lot. not completely impossible but that's super hero weight loss. He looks like he lost a lot of weight.
is this a conspiracy? will the media tell us the truth!?
From the photos I have seen there is nothing "humble" about Pompeo's home gym and he doesn't look sick, sallow or starved. His "humble" home gym has racks of fixed-weight dumbbells, pulley machines, etc. Resistance training is the key to losing weight because you build muscle, which is metabolically active. While Pompeo's weight loss is at the outer limit of what is achievable while remaining healthy, it is certainly not impossible. The people shouting bullshit are most likely people who could never manage the discipline of daily resistance workouts along with simultaneous adherence to a strict diet.
Sounds to me that a lot of Pompeo haters are ANGRY that he did it. HOPING it means he's ill.
Ghouls, one and all.
LaCerte said that we’ll know in the next six to 12 months how the former secretary of state lost the weight, because if he did it by an extreme diet that cut all carbs, it won’t be sustainable. “Eventually, you want to eat a piece of bread when you go out to dinner, or have a glass of wine.” Weight lost that way takes lean muscle with it, he said, and then “the minute carbs hit your body again, you blow up” and are worse off than when you started.
About half of this is true, the actual quote from Lacerte, and about half of it is really silly speculation and stupidity supplied by the journalist.
And it looks like Pompeo indeed did it by using an "EXTREME" diet that cut all the carbs.
My professional opinion is Lacerte is someone who tries to get into media local articles any way he can and the journalist is stupid, ignorant, and a liar.
Good marketing on LaCerte's part although I would expect a video about his quotes being used misleadingly if he is smart. He will distance himself from the hilariously stupid take the media is trying to use him to make.
What Popmpeo claims he did and the way he claims he did it lines up with dozens of cases I know about and from personal experience.
Bullshit. I lost 50 pounds off of 275 in a year, just by eating much healthier and walking--walking!--more. A little swimming.
No gym, no jogging, virtually no sweat at all. And I imagine a ring-knocker like Pompeo has the determination to execute a serious plan.
I lost so much that I was asked if I had been sick. Yes, with overeating and being ragged out from work all the time.
Anyone that doubts Pompeo could have done this is full of it. Now I'll go see who said what.
That's pretty funny, a reporter in this day and age deciding to call bullshit on an example where the plain evidence is right in front of his nose. I haven't closely tracked the Pompeo story - was he drawing attention to himself? It seemed to me that it became a story when someone else drew attention to it. Losing this much weight is more than just stopping eating and exercise, you have to change your pantry and fridge - change your mentality by changing your environment. But 15 lb per month isn't impossible. 10 is a pretty standard diet target loss rate.
Tell you what, Tiger - since you like calling BS, why not go work out on the Ray Epps story for a while?
It's very possible at his size.
Very low carb diets get boring, but they work.
Achilles,
I don't think it is impossible for him to lose 90 lbs in 6 months. I just don't see him losing 90 lbs in 6 months only exercising 30 minutes 5 to 6 days a week and consistently eating a very low calorie diet for 6 months. 30 minutes of exercise at 5 to 6 days a week is not enough for a man Pompeo's size even if he were able to pull off consistently eating a low 1000s calories a day diet (the "starvation" diet).
If done within a years time, I would think yeah, that sounds right, but not in 6 months. Maybe he walked a lot more after all the 5 to 6 days of 30 minute gym exercising including a elliptical machine.
Now he's got the harder task of not returning to his habits and putting the weight right back on. I wish him all the best.
You can do it Mike!
Don't Eat That.
I think you would like this video Ann.
Nothing political.
Just some girl with auto immune issues who got off of over a dozen medications in her teens by switching her diet.
It is way more interesting than this stupid article written by a group of dishonest politically motivated assholes.
It’s very doable. Or at least close. Son in law dropped from about a 310 playing weight (offensive guard) at the end of December, his senior year in college, to maybe 240 by graduation, and 220 by the end of the summer, which he now maintains. One of the things that was watched closely, at the campus clinic, was his heart, since it was shrinking, as he lost so much weight.
Much of that weight had been muscle, and that apparently meant eating an immense number of calories a day. Cutting back to a normal diet was a significant factor in his weight loss, as was maintaining a heavy exercise routine. He still lifted weights, but increased his cardio.
I dropped fifty in six months, starting at 240. Ate anything I wanted one meal per day, otherwise had small, measured, healthy snacks. Most of that time work required that I be sedentary. I was early 40s when I dropped it, and 90 pounds is a lot, but with professional help it doesn't seem outlandish.
Having family support helps a ton, or at least 90 lbs, too.
effinayright said...
Sounds to me that a lot of Pompeo haters are ANGRY that he did it. HOPING it means he's ill.
Exactly! Just like they're all praying that Casey DeSantis gets really, really sick, but doesn't die. They want Ron DeSantis distracted from campaigning, but they don't want him getting sympathy as a widower with small children.
I lost 100 lbs from 335 to 235 in a little over 3 months. I ate a strict low carb diet (less than 20 grams non-fiber carbs per day) and exercised one hour per day. The exercise was mostly fast walking on a treadmill at a steep angle. The machine indicated that I burned about 1000 calories per one hour walk. I did not restrict my dietary calories besides the carbs.
It is definitely possible that Mike Pompeo is telling the truth.
Lyle Smith said...
Achilles,
I don't think it is impossible for him to lose 90 lbs in 6 months. I just don't see him losing 90 lbs in 6 months only exercising 30 minutes 5 to 6 days a week and consistently eating a very low calorie diet for 6 months. 30 minutes of exercise at 5 to 6 days a week is not enough for a man Pompeo's size even if he were able to pull off consistently eating a low 1000s calories a day diet (the "starvation" diet).
It is completely understandable why you think that way.
What I am telling you now is we have learned more in the last 5 years about diet and health than we learned in the previous 2000 years.
And we have also learned that a lot of the things we were told are complete garbage.
For a large number of people carbs are poison. Getting off of daily carb intake drastically improves their health in exactly the way Pompeo's did.
I have seen it repeatedly. I can tell you how I did it.
I find this credible. And it's not because I'm a huge political fan of his, though I do think he was an effective Secretary of State.
If you go from rare exercise, and regular cheeseburgers for morale purposes, to regular exercise plus less and healthier food, you can knock off a pound every two days over months. It's about at the limit of what I've seen people do in a healthy and sustained way, and it takes discipline and a lot of determination, which I don't doubt he has.
I also think if you've ever been very fit and you resolve to get it back, it's easier than if you've never had those habits.
If Pompeo gained the weight from stress eating (i.e., mostly carbs) it is certainly possible to lose that much quickly by going into ketoacidosis. However, a lot of that weight loss is water. He can get half that weight back on quickly if he isn't careful.
When I became a business consultant, I got up to 240 by stress eating and lack of exercise due to travel. I did the Atkins diet and lost 60 pounds in a few months. When I went off the diet, I quickly gained back 20, but I have stayed under 200 since then. I exercise 5 days a week and eat healthy.
My normal adult weight (in my 30's) was 180 when I first gained the weight. It came on quickly and got off quickly. If I had been obese for a longer period of time, I suspect that the weight loss would have been a lot more difficult.
The numbers just don’t add up.
Not so fast, skeptics. There may be more to the story.
According to my sources, what Pompeo couldn't tell us, because it's classified, is that his extraordinary weight loss included a tear-off-the-band-aid style removal with ass tongs of a 27 kilogram Chinese listening device that "looked like a glass pack muffler" from his large intestine after it was discovered by physicians during a routine colonoscopy.
Going from almost 300 down to 210 would be 30% weight loss in 6 months. I lost about 20% in 6 months about 15 years ago on Weight Watchers, but at a much, much lower starting weight. That involved not only diet change but also exercise, including weight lifting, jogging, and biking. I gained some of that back during the past 2 years of the pandemic due to just plain idleness and cooking and eating too much. Now putting in 40 min of exercise a day and eating a much healthier diet, tracking it all with an app on my phone. I am down almost 14 pounds in 8 weeks. Could he do 30% in 6 months? Maybe.
I took off 75 pounds in a year using a commercial weight loss program. It was very unpleasant, but it’s possible. There was no need for surgery certainly. There was no exercise involved. If Pompeo did something similar, and he was disciplined about it he could takeoff 90 pounds. He was very heavy. I hope he stays healthy and keeps it off.
Interesting how low carb is accepted as fact now. Atkins was called a quack back in the day.
I was athletic and physically very active growing up, but in my last 3 years of college and my first year of graduate school, I went from 185 pounds of ripped muscle to 275 pounds of fat. It happened because I stopped almost all my athletic activities- school work and actual work just took the place of the time I used to exercise- it happened slowly- I just put on 20-25 pounds/year at a steady rate. Roughly midway through my graduate school years, I decided to change my diet significantly to far more protein and far less carbohydrates. I also slowly got myself back into the sorts of activities I used to do growing up- playing basketball and baseball/softball, and I started walking everywhere. I dropped all the gained weight in less than a year, plus another 10 pounds to boot. At that point, I kept the diet, but started weight training again, at first modestly, then with more intensity, and my weight stabilized back at the same 185 and muscular I had in high school. Then in my late 20s, I took up serious running which dropped my weight back into the 170s. I gave up the running a few years back, but have maintained a lot of vigorous cardio ever since, just stuff that is easier on my joints. My weight stays between 185 and 190 without me doing anything different day to day.
Can you lose 90 pounds in 6 months- yes- diet changes alone can do it, though I question how healthy such a diet might be. Pompeo may well just have a very high metabolism rate that makes losing weight easier for him than it is for most people. I looked at the before and after photos- he looks much healthier in the after photos- I don't see that hollow faced looked described in the excerpt. I definitely see some envy from the writers, though.
I've taken off over 60 lbs. without any drastic measures. I'm still losing. The people who ask me if I'm sick are overweight and jealous.
??? Outside of Pompeo being one of those deplorable Republicans, why do you (or anyone else) even care what goes on with him? Is he dying from cancer and not want people to know? Is that what you’re hoping for? Did he lose weight the way he indicated but you so thoroughly detest people who worked for Trump that you’re willing to risk humiliation when it turns out that you are, once again, wrong?
I did 50 in less than 4 months.
I walked 5-10 miles a day and ate zero 'bad' food.
I was 50 at the time...went from 210 to 160 on the nose.
So Mike's kicked off his 2024 presidential run?
Good luck!
I like his politics, from the little I know.
People on the reality show'My 600 Lb. Life' commonly are required to lost 30-40 lbs. a month before bariatric surgery. A lot of them don't succeed, because they don't/don't want to follow the diet plan they're given.
I think it's entirely possible Mike lost the weight the old fashioned way he describes, and I think he looks really good. I actually find him handsome, which I never did before.
Pompeo spoke of bad habits he made excuses for ... eating tons of junk food while at his computer and staying up at all hours eating at the computer. And stress.
The more excess weight a person has - he was almost 300 lbs - the more dramatic the weight lost.
Less stress, cut carbs/sugar, eat well and at normal times, regular exercise, good sleeping habits and yeah that weight is going to come off, especially for men.
But a lot of people see weight loss in others as threatening. Is that why is motivating the people who are here expressing anger at him? That "HOW DARE HE lose that much weight so fast when I can't!!"
Sheesh, people.
Penn Gillette lost 100-pounds in 4-months eating nothing but potatoes
Everybody in Kansas City is a fatso so they know, know, that you cannot lose weight like this. And eat bbq.
That weight loss is about 1/2 lbs per day
And depending on the change in caloric intake that seems doable. Why would he make it up?
I went from 245 to 215 in a little over two months. 11/20 - 1/21. Keto diet, and ten miles on the bike every other day. Wasn't really that hard. Of course, it's all come back now.
Achilles,
I agree with you, but I don't believe Pompeo is telling reporters everything he did to lose 90 lbs in 6 months. He worked harder at it than he is telling folks. Hopefully he will keep at it. Godspeed to him.
I believe it's possible just by calorie restriction. The guy had to be eating a lot every day just to maintain the weight, let alone to keep adding to it.
Men can stop drinking soda and immediately lose 15 lbs, why can't Pompeo lose 90 just by stopping all the extra food?
Only a Democrat can legitimately lose that kind of weight in that length of time. Everybody knows that!
I trust the commenters who say "it can be done" more than the ones who say it can't, simply because they seem to be speaking from actual experience. If you've done it, good for you.
could be just hating on NYPost for ackshuallu was talking to him
I lost 60 lbs. in three months by eating 1200 calories and running 4 miles daily. Gained it all back tho.
We need to know his starting and ending weights. 310 to 220 would be a lot easier than 270 to 180.
Funny stuff, Bob Boyd @11:57am!
Good for Pompeo… he’s doing the right thing, the smart thing.
Left Bank, 1:16:
"We need to know his starting and ending weights."
Salena Zito wrote, "Pompeo stepped on the scale and saw he was just pounds away from 300 for the first time in his life." So, 290ish, and 290ish minus 90.
I will file this away with the "Does Ronald Reagan Dye His Hair" controversy.
I did find Reagan's barber much more convincing than some roided up "weightloss expert." Did you follow that link?
15 pounds per month completely feasible on diet alone. Doesn't require exercise. Animal protein (limited), some animal fat and no starchy veggies, no carbs, max 2 meals per day, and you're there
Some people have weird metabolism. For me, if I get regular exercise I will lose weight until I get to a certain point and then stay there no matter what I eat. During the COVID lockdowns, I was able to get more consistent exercise and I am probably one of the few people who lost weight during the ordeal.
I could not imagine losing 90 pounds in 6 months though.
That said, I do tire being told what is and is not possible by "experts," especially experts specifically filtered by journalists. That is what sets off my bull**** detectors. Experts have not been having a good couple of decades, and the general qualifications of a journalist these days is profound ignorance combined with partisan arrogance. Whatever. If you want me to believe he is lying, find the guy who sucked the fat out of him. Otherwise, I am not listening.
I don't think the "experts" are willing to acknowledge the difference between "impossible" vs "few would succeed".
Lots of things factor into how much weight you are likely to lose/capable of losing in a given period of time, but one of the more significant factors, alas for females, is sex. I find it plausible that Pompeo could do what he claimed simply because males lose weight faster than females. Looking at the comments, most of those discussing their own losses compared to Pompeo's and deeming it doable, are men; Eleanor is one of the few females who managed a significant loss in that time frame (Congratulations, btw); men just have that advantage. Not to denigrate Pompeo's effort, which was clearly significant, but there isn't anything outrageous or physiologically impossible about his claimed loss.
I'm working through some blood glucose issues right now (pre-diabetic and all that). Rigorously charting everything I eat and drastically cutting carbs. Is doing wonders for my blood glucose, but has the undesirable side effect of losing weight. Problem is I am already skinny; I can't afford to lose weight, but I'm having a hard time getting enough calories to avoid it. Find myself adding carbs back in to address this. But going no-carbs is certainly doable (I haven't even found it hard) and the weight falls off when you do that. At least, it does for me.
I called bullshit a little in my head when I read Zito's article, but not that he lost so much so fast, which I am willing to believe, but the story about how he got to be almost 300 pounds. I don't think you get to 300 pounds by regularly having a room service cheeseburger for dinner and working while everyone else is going out to a restaurant. You get to 300 lbs by having 2 or 3 room service cheeseburgers for dinner (or some equivalent quantity) while working and everyone else is out to dinner. More simply, just maintaining 300 lbs requires a lot of food, not just eating the wrong kind of food.
It ought to be simple enough to check, yes? Look at him now vs. then. Does he look as though he's lost 90 pounds? If so, believe that he has lost them. If he "cheated" via bariatric surgery or some such, there must be physicians or staff that could confirm that. It would be unethical to reveal that information, of course, but I understand that the rules are mysteriously relaxed for prominent Republicans.
It's completely possible. You just limit yourself to 10-15 grams of carbs per day - every day.
I've lost (in the past) 50 pounds in 75 days. No exercise increase - just adherence to Atkins.
But carbs taste so good, and they look even better when you cannot touch them. Hardest part after such a weight loss is not going crazy on chocolate at the end.
Sharp-less-a-ton
That said, I do tire being told what is and is not possible by "experts," especially experts specifically filtered by journalists.
@Static Ping, +1
Yes, a 300 pound man can lose 90 pounds in six months the way Pompeo described.
And it's annoying that people are so partisan and tribal they can't just accept that.
Anyone who has been obese knows how this works. The fatter you when you start, the faster and easier the initial weight comes off. That's just how it is.
But leave it to eXpErTs to claim it can only be done with surgery. What effing clowns.
Also, you don't even have to do any unusual nutritional manipulation to accomplish this. He could have eaten 1500-2000 calories of Hershey bars and still gotten the sheer benefit of calorie reduction.
Be wary of anyone who claims you have to do X or Y in order to lose weight. There are many ways to lose weight. They all work, at least initially. Nobody has a monopoly on THE answer, especially not the "eXpErTs."
By doing this, he's engaging in FAT SHAMING!
I've kept my holiday weight gain to about ten lbs, and when the goodies run out in a few weeks and I get back to healthier fare it shouldn't be very hard to lose them and some more in a few weeks more. I'm 6'1" standing straight and I think Pompeo is taller, so again, I don't see the skepticism as warranted.
The opinions and prejudices of those who are not large men are irrelevant.
It seems improbable, but everyone's physiology is different. Personally, I have trouble gaining weight. When I retired, I decided to make it a goal since I had the flexibility to eat what and when I wanted. Started at 185 lbs. a year ago and I'm now at 210. I consume about 3,700 calories a day, but I exercise a lot: kettlebell workouts, 2hr/day, 5 days a week, walking 2 mi. per day and a core workout (50 minutes) 3 days a week.
bobby said...
But carbs taste so good, and they look even better when you cannot touch them. Hardest part after such a weight loss is not going crazy on chocolate at the end.
I am posting a recipe for 0 carb chocolate soon.
I use it as the crust for my 0 carb cheesecake.
If you want to make chocolate melt equal parts cocoa butter and Bakers chocolate over low heat.
A bakers chocolate bar usually weighs ~115 grams
Then add a pinch of salt and tbls vanilla extract.
Add about 70 grams of erythritol and 45 grams of erythritol+monkfruit 2:1 confectionery sweetener.
After it is fully melted and mixed put into whatever shape you want it molded to. Cook it at 300 degrees for 5 minutes then move immediately to the freezer to temper it.
I also use chocolate chips for a lot of stuff. Doing some test runs on wrapping a peanut butter filling with chocolate now.
We asked weight loss experts
As others have mentioned, I am suspicious when a journalist invokes the word "experts". Who defines that, and how where they found?
How is Pompeo's weight really anyone's business?
If you are overweight, watch My 600 pound life or 1,000 pound sisters on television.
If you have a cluttered home or garage, watch Hoarders.
You will feel much better.
May have cut out famous, but fattening, pecan pie after the election.
"Do you believe Mike Pompeo lost 90 pounds in 6 months by working out in his home gym for half an hour a day and eating healthy foods?"
I don't know if he did that. But, depending on you definition of "healthy foods", I do believe that 15 pounds / month is possible, esp if he was eating a lot of crap, before.
His actual workout routine also matters. But the "burst workouts" don't take more than 1/2 hour a day, and are supposed to be just as good as much longer ones
0 carb cheesecake?
Achilles said...Add about 70 grams of erythritol ...
Stevia for the win over GI distress from E...and Maltitol, which is worse than E.
I was very greatful when Zevia got rid of the E in their soda.
Whatever Mike Pompeo did to lose weight, he should share his secret with Hillary. I saw a photo of her last summer wearing a muumuu and walking on the beach in the Hamptons with Bill. He looked like he needed to gain 25 lbs. and she looked like the great white whale of East Hampton. I guess she’s doing a lot of stress eating and wine drinking. And Bill is doing a lot of long distance running (away from her).
Fuck that industrial chemistry, Achilles. Cacao nibs are great straight out the bag with nutz and dates for hiking gorp. Grind them up for smoothies. Only use dried fruit like dates as a sugar substitute. Hole foods.
'Whatever Mike Pompeo did to lose weight, he should share his secret with Hillary.'
And Whoopi. She is enormous. I was shocked when I saw a recent photo...
“ And Whoopi.”
Worse tie for that - side she apparently ow has COVID-19.
Original Mike said...
0 carb cheesecake?
Replace the sugar with erythritol granulated or the confectionery version.
That is literally the only change you need to make.
Philadelphia cream cheese, butter, eggs, sour cream are all clean.
An Egg has about 1 carb depending on the documentation you use.
Journalists have put more effort into covering this very important world changing scandal then:
1. Hunter Biden’s laptop.
2. Ashley Biden’s diary
3. Hunter Biden’s employment history and how it coincides with his vary important US official father’s overseas trips
4. Origins of the Russian collusion hoax.
You got the idea. There’s a lot more journalists focus their blind eye on.
Howard said...
Fuck that industrial chemistry, Achilles. Cacao nibs are great straight out the bag with nutz and dates for hiking gorp. Grind them up for smoothies. Only use dried fruit like dates as a sugar substitute. Hole foods.
Kids like chocolate.
Most nuts are sources of excessive Omega 6.
Dates are sugar bombs. Might as well eat a candy bar.
Thanks, Achilles. I don't know erythritol but I'm going to find out.
Cheesecake, ummmmm…
What's the erythritol to sugar replacement ratio?
Historians know that too much documentation can make it dry.
Too bad about dates, which I consume regularly. And my wife uses part Stevia (I think) in her fudge and some other sugary things.
"He looked like he needed to gain 25 lbs. and she looked like the great white whale of East Hampton. I guess she’s doing a lot of stress eating and wine drinking."
Or she really is Shelob.
45 grams of carbs a day took off 4 lbs a week for me.
The photo isn't flattering. If you lose that much you need to invest in an entirely new wardrobe. The suit doesn't fit him.
By the way, if the woman is his daughter then congrats, she's lovely. If she's his girlfriend, congrats, she's lovely. Haha.
There's such a thing as fatty liver. It's a condition associated with excessive alcohol consumption but it can also be associated with too much weight loss too fast.
That's only 15 pounds a month. Doable, I'd say. Having watched shows like Biggest Loser, men lose MUCH more quickly. In addition, you don't know what he had been eating; maybe this was a huge calorie reduction. Lastly, why would he lie?
The photo isn't flattering. If you lose that much you need to invest in an entirely new wardrobe. The suit doesn't fit him.
By the way, if the woman is his daughter then congrats, she's lovely. If she's his girlfriend, congrats, she's lovely. Haha.
There's such a thing as fatty liver. It's a condition associated with excessive alcohol consumption but it can also be associated with too much weight loss too fast.
I went on the MediFast program in 2016 and lost 30 lb. in 5 months. Losing three times that much? No. Not possible without total starvaton. I was on a 1200 calorie low fat high protein diet. I worked out some, doing yoga 2-3 days a week and playing golf maybe twice a week - using the cart not walking. BUt even with the cart you end up walking about 3 miles per round.
I lost from 283 down to 189 in about 9 months. I took Xenical prescription fat blocker, ate about 1500 calories, limited carbs, ate the exact same thing everyday, and walked at least 20 minutes everyday. I kept most of it off until arthritis made it painful to walk that much anymore.
He could do it. Any large and obese man can. Case closed.
I remember seeing a suddenly skinny John McCain with a face like raw meat on CSPAN about '98 and realized he was running for Prez. I suspect the facial peel led to his melanoma in 2000.
Original Mike said...
What's the erythritol to sugar replacement ratio?
.7 erythritol to 1 Sugar
I don't know how to link from Ann's portal. But this is what I get for granulated
This is a 2:1 substitute that I also use in that recipe.
The granulated sugar variant does not break down when cooked. The confectioners sugar actually leavens. I found that if I went straight granulated it formed sweet pockets.
I use both to sweeten.
After a heart attack, I lost almost 40 pounds in two months simply by changing my diet and avoiding Sodas and fast food. it's completely possible.
"We asked weight loss experts, and people who have lost large amounts of weight themselves, whether it’s possible to lose 90 pounds in six months simply by eating better and hitting a humble home gym for half an hour five or six times a week. Their response? Absolutely not, almost certainly not, and hahaha. ... "
Okay, I'll call bullshit.
I lost 100 pounds in 5 months by cutting out all carbs and eating a Carnivore Diet. I didn't do any exercise at all. I ended up losing 150 pounds by the end of that year - down under 200 for the first time in 30 years.
Thank you very much, Achilles. Will try it out in a batch of cookies as soon as Amazon can deliver.
It looks like the overwhelming majority here--including those who have dealt with weight problems--realize that Pompeo could have easily shed the 90.
Fini.
I'm related to someone who lost 90 pounds in five months that way, so I know it is possible.
Six months is about 180 days. That means that he had to lose about 1/2 pound a day. There are about 3500 calories in a pound of body fat. That means that he would have to have a calorie deficit of 1750 calories a day. Since the average person burns about 1800 calories a day doing nothing, that's totally doable with diet and exercise offsetting each other.
Granted, it's big commitment; but it is possible. No sugars, no carbs, no alcohol....yeah, a big commitment.
OF COURSE it is possible. What so many people MISS is that exceptional people do exceptional things that “normal” people can’t achieve. In fact, the doubters might not even be able to IMAGINE it being done. If I were ordered to, or even just woke up and decided to lose weight at this rate, I would not bet on myself. Maybe under a demonstrable threat of being moved into solitary confinement with a family of pythons, yeah, then maybe.
I would say MP is exceptional and thus more than able to do what he sets out tp do. Graduated #1 in his West Point class. Headed the CIA and then the State Dept. Was a company president, founder. I surmise that he knows how to get things done more effectively than 99.9% of people walking around in the world. Losing weight, too.
I'm calling bullshit on the bullshit. He could do it by simply cutting sugar down to 25 grams a day, cutting bread out and eating a large lunch and smaller dinner. So, yes, it's absolutely possible with the excercise added in
Interested Bystander said...
I went on the MediFast program in 2016 and lost 30 lb. in 5 months. Losing three times that much? No. Not possible without total starvaton. I was on a 1200 calorie low fat high protein diet. I worked out some, doing yoga 2-3 days a week and playing golf maybe twice a week - using the cart not walking. BUt even with the cart you end up walking about 3 miles per round.
Your problem was doing low fat rather than low carb
You would have lost more with low carb
"Your problem was doing low fat rather than low carb
You would have lost more with low carb"
LOTS of evidence that low-fat diets don't work. Low-carb diets do work.
This is so much bullshit on the part of Pompeo's detractors. It is definitely possible to lose 15 pounds a month if you exercise for 1/2 hour daily and get off carbs. I have lost that much or more on a monthly basis by doing less than that (getting off carbs, eating 1100 to 1300 calories of fats and proteins a day and being satiated, doing a minimal weight workout and walking for 30 minutes 3X a week). So, the people who say it can't be done are full of crap.
90 lbs of fat x 3500 Calories per pound of fat / 180 days = 1,750 Calories per day.
If he weighed 300 lbs and was sedentary his caloric intake would have been roughly 3000 Calories per day to maintain that weight. So to lose 90 pounds in 6 months he'd have to be eating 1250 Calories per day plus whatever he's exercising away.
Exercise does not burn that many calories unless you are running marathons frequently. But 500 Calories can be walked off in 1 - 2 hours.
He could be be eating about 1800 Calories and walking 3 miles a day to get these kinds of results. Hard but doable and not "starvation".
My husband lost 75 pounds in seven months on a low-carb diet without exercise. He got down to his high school weight and went from XL to slim-fit medium. It's been seven or eight years now and he's regained only about five pounds. He still uses My Fitness Pal to track carbs, protein and calories. When he meets an old, pre-diet friend, he has to say, "Don't worry, I'm not sick."
His doctor said losing that much weight that quickly is unusual. Keeping it off for years is very, very, very unusual.
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