quickest healthiest way to lose weight?

cut your food portions in half.

start walking.

The Cambria Diet.

interesting i just realized i like walking outside or on the treadmill as much as i liked biking or using the elyptical machine. i dont feel worn out at the end but i end up just as sweaty from walking and buring about 500 cal in an hour as opposed to riding an exercise bike and burning about 850cal.

that makes sense.

i also lost a LOT of weight as a teenager with chromium piccolinate, but i dont seem to see it marketed as weight loss so much anymore? seems like i also saw it available in much higher doses around the mid 90s.

i added chlorella and it makes you feel incredible! apparently it aids weight loss as well.

i had an old fav dinner of mine tonite, i went to a local vietnamese restaurant and ordered a vegetarian meal...curried wheat gluten w grilled onions and cucumber. yes it has white rice, but wheat gluten is a delicious extremely high protein low fat low carb source of protein. if you arent allergic to gluten, i suggest trying it...across the street there is a vietnamese market that sells cans of it for like 1.50. 1 can has about 45g of protein and about 10g fat, only like 1g saturated, and low carb. it is also referred to as "seitan" i have made it before, pretty easy to make, wheat gluten powder, water, tamari, then boil it. just like tofu it takes the flavor of whatever you cook it in, only it has more of a beefy flavor/texture.

thanx for all the suggestions everyone!

Also get your thyroid working...Iodine & Selenium!

Have you ever seen a FAT ethiopian?!!....NOPE!!!...NO THYROID EXCUSES IN ETHIOPIA!!! Its called ; keep that hole under your nose shut! Period...calories in- calories out. If you sit on your butt and shovel crap into your face you KNOW you have no business eating ...and then you DONT excercise....and by excercise I DO MEAN TO THE POINT OF POURING SWEAT FOR 25-45 MIN EVERY DAY!!!!! Then you will stay where you are. STAGE1-2 MORBIDLY OBESE. PERIOD.
YOU MUST EXCERCISE! U MUST STAY AWAY FROM THE CRAP FOODS! and you knowwwwww thiiiiiiis......MAN!

Just a cautionary note--fast is not great if you lose any muscle mass. I've done the "Fast" many times and lost quickly, but gained it back and more once the diet stopped and I had lost precious muscle mass with the weight loss.

I would suggest not watching the scales, but how your clothes fit--it is nothing to be happy about to lose 10 pounds if it is mostly water weight and muscle mass.

All you want to lose is fat, and to do that you have to be in "fat" burning mode and carbs prevent that.

We all make many choices every about how much we eat, drink, and sleep and exercise. Small better choices add up over time and form new good habits that become easy to follow.

Yes... the perfect solution. Push aways. Push yourself away from the table.

6 Tom Cruises for you!

Eat 1/2 of what you currently eat.

Exercise 2X as much as you currently do with weights.

Drink 4X as much water.

drink halff your by weight in ounces of water each day.

It's easy. Calories in Vs. Calories out. Eat smart raw food, small proportions mostly veggies. Run, run, and run some more.

warm up hot water into a tea cup and add honey and then cinnamon and mix it all together. Drink it in the morning everyday on an empty stomach and during the night before going to bed.

Colon cleanser... really!

Some pretty good advice in this thread, better then I expect from GLP...

The easiest way is to cut down on your portions and exercise. It's boring sounding I know, not like changing all your diet to smoothies and doing crossfit, but it works. The more exercise the better, since that will REALLY make you healthy, but just cutting down on food works to burn fat fine.

Your growth hormone and testosterone levels have dropped considerably. I'd recommend that you try the caveman diet in earnest using whatever organic food you can verify. Exercise mostly weight bearing, and instead of doing cardio exercise on a treadmill or elyptical, switch to hard physical exertion by rock climbing, hiking, white water rafting, running on hills.

I see you hurt yourself. That can really limit cardio. Still the best way is to strength the damaged material within reason. Use leg supports if possible in the problem areas.

Your metabolism naturally drops as you age. The largest drop is occuring NOW. That slowing of metabolic rate can be increase by renewed efforts. You might also try taking a supplement of hot pepper in your diet. That tends to increase metabolism. It's why you sweat more when you eat them.

The natural response from dieting is a survival mechanism. The body attempts to use glycogen first. That's why it's stored in muscles for quick energy and in the liver since the liver is a filter for the blood. Fat comes off slow, but it was also slow to accumulate. If you eat complex carbs all the time, then the body sees a surplus supply of calories. When the body sees too much protein, it excretes it the urine.

People eat much larger portions than they used to. Do this. Pour a bowl of cereal and then actually measure how much cereal and milk you use versus what is the amount on the box. Surprising no? You probably do that all day long.

If you think about people you admire that are guys, they probably look wolfishly thin, hungry, and fierce. It's because they never eat enough to satisy them. That leads to a very cut-up lean look of someone who is trying to prepare for a boxing match.

Be like them.

Obesity is not a disease. It is a symptom. You (I and millions of folks too) have a spiritual disease. The disease is simply we do not control our flesh which wants to eat and eat.

The only "permanent" cure for this disease is to take a blood oath and swear that as long as you are breathing you will step on that damn scale once a day until you die. There is no other cure PERIOD

If you take the oath, then you are holding your flesh accountable and you will loose weight no matter which diet you use, because if the diet stops working you will change it.

PS: I prefer a low carb, low calorie diet simply because I am not hungry when I cut out the sugars and starches. I does not matter what you use as long as you resolve to NEVER stop weighing yourself.