The Guinness Diet
Right now I weigh in at about 298lbs. Now, you’d think that would make me a giant fatty, but I’m 6′3, and I have giant horselike legs made entirely of muscle… it’s freakish. I am out of shape, and I have some man boobs going on as well as some double chinnage and a minor beer gut going…. or soda gut. My goal this year is to lose around 30lbs or more.
#1 I’m involved with http://www.biggestwebcomicloser.com , where a bunch of us web cartoonists are out to lose some weight and help Unicef battle child hunger in third world countries. If you’re a Yirmumah reader who wants to help out, you can pledge an amount per pound that I lose to go to this cause. Check out their site for more information. It might help drive me to lose more and more if I know it can help others too. All of that was inspired by Dave Wright (todd and penguin) who is doing a mini challenge of his own to lose 100lbs this year and his boss will send him to the Bahamas. NICE!!!
Beyond feeding the needy… I’m doing this for myself. I don’t really drink or smoke, so having a good diet and exercise will ensure a long life of cartooning and being able to watch my kids grow old and my wife’s boobs drop to her knees.
Here’s my gameplan.
- I’ve already cut out SODA completely. WOW, Soda , or as we call it in Fayette-Nam “Pop”, can really effect you. I’m totally pop free for over a week now and it feels great. Drinking much more clean water and iced tea helps a lot. And I REALLY don’t want to become one of those webcomic guys that you google and you find a picture of me with a 44oz tub of soda beside me.. YIKES!!! Seriously guys.. SODA = BAD FOR YOU!
- Two, cutting out crappy junk food and eating fried foods. So far, so good on that one.
- Exercise…. this will be the toughest one for me to work in regularly, but I’m working on it. I’m thinking about buying a Eliptical machine, but we have no room for it here in the tiny house. Hmm…. It would really help out though having it staring at me every morning.
And really, that’s about it. Wish me luck!
Oh, and GO STEELERS!
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Recent Topics: Guinness Diet, Weight Loss, Dieting
January 24th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Count the white squares on Drews tshirt in each panel.
Thats right, 13.
January 24th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Yeah, thought I’d throw an easy on in there… hehehhe..
It’s funny that I have at least 10 people hunting for 13s through my comics now. Maybe I’ll hide them in there more often… sometimes I forget– but there are a good many out there….
January 24th, 2006 at 7:30 am
I’m at university for my first year, and simply not having a car (it’s back home, curse it) means I’ve lost about 30 lbs in a semester just from walking to and from class. Figure out some errands and don’t drive there. How close is the supermarket? The post office? The video rental? If you live within a mile or so of any of these it’s not that gruelling to walk there, and it beats exercise where the only goal is exercise in and of itself. I always thought that it’s harder to keep a reasonable weight in a culture where we drive everywhere, and as I have suddenly been deprived of that luxury I’ve found that I was very very right.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Ok I just have to ask this. I see you’re a Steelers fan, congrats btw. And I’ve seen references to PA in the strips. But twice this week you’ve made reference to Fayette-Nam. I only know that name to be used by folks here in North Carolina to refer to Fayetteville, NC, home to the largest US Army base on earth. Is there another Fayette-nam somewhere in Pennsylvania? If so I’m very sorry for you.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Yes. Fayette-Nam, PA is the whole Fayette County area, south of Pittsburgh.
It’s been known as such locally for a LONG long time. It got that name because many crazy vietnam vets live here– one shot some guy in the head in broad daylight after having a Vietnam flashback sort of deal and the name stuck…
January 24th, 2006 at 8:48 am
You should let me hook you up with a good diet formula.
I have lost about 30lbs. since June.
I will lose another 140lbs as soon as the Ex moves out…
BADDABUMUMBUM CHHHH.
… AND fAYETTE nAM IS cALLED fAYETTE nAM ALSO BECAUSE SINCE ALL THE iNDUSTRY MOVED OUT, IT HAS BEEN LIKE THE u.s.a.S OWN THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
fuggin Capslock.
Yes, its very own 3rd world country….
However, we have been haveing more Walmarts moveing in in the past 5 years, so that makes us BIG now.
January 24th, 2006 at 9:24 am
I lost about fifty pounds after college (from around 200 to about 150) just by cutting out Burger King. That fucking Burger King on campus was a disaster. Between junk food and soda, you’re nearly guaranteed to weight.
James has it right, too, do any errands you can on a bike or on foot. Not the easies thing to do in the wintertime, but once you get started, it really becomes second nature.
January 24th, 2006 at 9:28 am
Ah, Guinness. Heaven going in, Drano coming out.
Zero
January 24th, 2006 at 9:31 am
I have also signed up for that weight loss thing, but since im not a web comic artist, I joined up with the projectoneyear group on the livejournal. Unfortunatley, i have a similar problem in trying to find time for exercise in my daily schedule.
Im glad to hear that switching from soda to iced tea and water was a good move, because that was my first step too, but i was a little unsure if the iced tea would help or hurt any progress.
I have also been able to cut out adding sugar to my iced tea, from about 8-10 packets per cup, switched to the raw sugar version for a while, then just quit cold turkey.
Now if i can survive the season of the Cadbury eggs….
god help us all.
January 24th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Good for you, DJ. I’ve gained about 15lbs since I got married 2 years ago (stupid sedentary happiness), and I’ve been trying to lose them, but it is definitley hard to find time to exercise. I sit in front of a computer all day, drive home, sit at my drawing table all night, and sleep. SIGH…
January 24th, 2006 at 10:46 am
You’ll probably get sick of the diet advice, but never the less…
Maybe you should try Weight Watchers FlexPoints program. Unlike some of the other diet plans out there it doesn’t restrict what you eat or the portion. What the plan is basically is keeping track of the caloric, fat and fibre intake of everything you eat and giving it a point value. So say you wanted a cup of coffee? Coffee = 0 points. Then you put sugar in it 1 tbsp. of sugar = 1 point. And then 2 tbsp. cream = 1 point and so on.
At your weight, you would start at 30 points. And believe me, that’s hard to get to. (You also get 35 “bonus points” a week, so you don’t feel as though you’ve failed if you have a little cheat).
My mum started this diet last April and has since lost 55lbs. with the diet alone then another 15lbs. when she added in light exercise.
The reason most diets fail is because you’re forced to cut out those things you like the most so they become the thing you run to for comfort. This diet doesn’t do that. And I’ve seen people who have a really hard time losing weight succeed with this plan.
It’s also a sort of funny that when you cut out a lot of fat from your diet; if you end up eating something fatty it kinda gives you the shits. That’s always a good discouragement of eating something…spending the day in the toilet.
Also, I know you’re going to hate this idea, but switching to decaf in your teas, coffees and sodas can help phenomenally in weight loss.
January 24th, 2006 at 10:48 am
I think i’d get to 30 points by noon with my coffee alone! hahahha–
Hey Paul– you gotta cut that out too! You dont want to end up having a heart attack or stroke one of these days. FUck that noise!
January 24th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Drew,
Just remember, you didn’t gain the weight in one day so it won’t disappear in one day.
Try watching your portion sizes too. 4 ounces of meat is a serving which is the size of a deck of cards. Yikes! I know.
And if you pig-out one day, don’t worry. It’ll happen. Just get back on the wagon.
Good luck.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Last time I was weighed, I came in at 416 lbs.
I had to balance my weight between two scales.
I started walking, and lost 3 inches off my waist in as many months. I still bottom out the scale,
so I’m not sure what that comes to in pounds.
My current goal is to be able to weigh myself on a civilian scale again.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:04 am
So quitcha’ bitchen’ about this “15 pounds” shit.
I’m about 6′ 2, and have a bit of muscle, btw.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:08 am
DJ,
I’m tackling this topic in my humor webcomic, Lab Bratz. Not to pimp it too hard on your site, but the dieting storyline begins here:
http://labbratz.comicgenesis.com/d/20060108.html
I’m also working it into the next 3-4 episodes. Based on real (unfunded) research that I did while working in a cancer lab (NOT a metabolism lab).
Amtekoth (Ed Dunphy)
January 24th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Wow, what a great idea. I could stand to have something like this to get me back on track with the weight loss. I’d lost about 80 pounds over the last year and a half but I’d love to loose a lot more before I get married in July. Interesting…
January 24th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
just remember theres no point living if your dead inside. live it up man, be fat, be merry and live a good life.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Nah.. being fat is just lazyness… and it’ll add up to having a happy short life.
I’d rather have a healthy long life!
Look around, you don’t see that many fat old people.
January 24th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Not really on topic, but:
I HATE all diet drinks. Rather have water. EXCEPT I recently accidentally drank diet Brisk lemon iced tea, and it tastes completely normal. 0 calories. So try that at lunch.
And drink Busch Light before bed. Fewer calories, and you’ll find you start drinking less too!
January 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
One thing I would like to mention is High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), watch out for that crap. Its a corn syrup made from corn starch in an enzymatic process developed in the 1970s.
The problem is, that the human body does not recognize it as a “sugar”…it sees it as a fat and stores it instead of breaking it down for energy. Also, HFCS in beverages seems to have the effect of stimulating the appetite rather than reducing it. This effect coupled with the pure caloric content of beverages with HFCS may be a cause of obesity.
That shit is in EVERYTHING. You check most of your groceries and I will garuentee you that HFCS is in the top five ingredients. To ensure that the weight comes off (and stays off); read the lables and if you find it, look for a alternative.
Oh, and eat whole grains.
January 24th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
By the way, can you buy good ol’ german beer (like Krombacher) in the States to a rather normal price or is it more expensive,than yours (which hasn’t a good reputation here) or isn’t there a chance for you poor souls to get any of it?
January 24th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I have a hell of a time cutting out caffeine in any way shape or form, so cutting out pop is hard, and drink various diets recommended 100oz of water, is hard as hell. Stumbled across an idea though thanks to ThinkGeek.com called Umph tablets. Effervescent tablets that give drinks 100mg caffeine, and 50 panax ginseng per tab. Add this to a liter of Crystal Light, and I have tasty, caffeinated water !
Just making that change has helped me loose wait, just cutting out the regular pop I drank, and using this instead.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Best of luck with the diet and excerise regimen. I was reading in the paper the other day that people can burn calories just tapping their feet. So when you’re sitting down working on the next comic, just tap your feet to keep the weight lose dream alive!
January 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Need to lose weight? You’d be surprised how much a limb weighs.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
O_o, I got distracted and posted before I was done typing. Now it looks like I’m threatening Drew! Sorry. I was going to add:
Who needs a pesky arm, anyways? All you need is one arm to reach for the Guiness, the other just flails around stupidly when you’re drunk.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Meh. Dieting is for wimps. Get out a cleaver and remove that gut the manly way!
January 24th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Mmmm Guinness, too bad you have to chew it first eh?
January 24th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Rite on. I was recently diagnosed diabetic (type2, or adult onset), and hypertensive. over like 5 months I lost around 80 pounds. I got like another 80 to go. Anyway, just walking does wonders. Park in the back of the lost, just go out and stroll around the neighborhood, little things add up! Good luck
January 25th, 2006 at 2:24 am
You’d be surprised at how much you can keep up with your late-night Guinness habit and still lose some weight. I was 325 lbs, unhappy with myself and literally dying from laziness. I love the Guinness so much, I have a pint tattooed on my arm. In the last 2 years, I’ve lost 87 lbs by working out (some cardio and training back, chest, legs, shoulders and arms on weights), and eating better things (lots of almonds, lean meat, no fast food or soda, etc…) You just have to stick with it long enough to make it part of your routine (most people say 5 weeks should do it.) I drink as much as I ever did (hell, I’m tipsy right now on Guinness) and I look and feel much better.
July 28th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title The Guinness Diet. Thanks for informative article
August 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding The Guinness Diet, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong
July 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Хм… Пока это у нас не очень сильно развито, так что придётся подождать.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Читал про это уже на каком то другом сайте, но у вас намного прикольней написано
August 19th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Весьма тонко подмечено. В чем-то себя узнал
November 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
cool, clasno pishesh, prodolzhay v tom zhe duhe
November 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
pishite esche na podpbnue temu
November 25th, 2008 at 11:15 am
November 26th, 2008 at 6:52 am
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
clas, dolgo etot post pisali?