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Anonymous wrote:The problem with rapid weight loss for a person who is not obese (the folks on BL are obese) is that they came with such a drastic cutback in food intake or an uptick in exercise and neither are sustainable. That's the beauty of a program like WW. I've lost 25 pounds in five months on WW and I'm not exercising that much (that's next) and I'm not depriving myself of my favorite foods. Reports about BL give me pause, too. The dehydration before weigh-in's, etc. Anyway all this sniping is silly. The key is to find what works for you and work it!

Wrong again. Once you go into maintenance mode, you can eat more and exercise less.

And I couldn't care less if you ladies choose to eschew Cindy Whitmarsh and FucoThin. What I do care about is that some of you seem to think that exercise and a balanced diet will rev up your metabolism. That has been proven false. Read the NYT. Exercise is simply not a particularly powerful tool for weight loss. Don't get me wrong -- I'll take a 300 calorie burn workout and be happy. But that's all it is: 300 calories that I can subtract from my total. No after-burn; no revved up metabolism.

It's all wishful thinking. They used to say that for every pound of muscle you gain, you will burn an extra 30-50 calories an hour. Until they studied it. For every extra pound of muscle you put on, you will burn an extra 6 calories an hour. That's a piece of gum. Don't stop lifting weights -- once you strip the fat off they look great. And there are other benefits to weight training. But it won't revv up your metabolism.

As we get older, our metabolisms start to fall. Educating myself about how to bump it up does not make me a fanatic. It makes me well-informed. If someone knew a lot about the stock market, would you call her a "fanatic" and try to raise doubts about her fitness as a mother? I doubt it.

So don't get all pissy because I happen to know a lot more about this particular subject than you do.

Anonymous wrote:Garden of Life, the company that makes Fucothin, has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. Enough said.

Anonymous wrote:Two clinical trials found that FucoThin increased metabolism by almost 20%, targets belly fat, and results in greater weight loss in a shorter period of time.

http://fucothinreview.com/fucothin-success-human-clinical-trials-results/

Talk about the BBB all you like. Talk about how this company has been found by the FTC to have made unsubstantiated claims about products other than this one -- which is probably why the BBB gave the company an F.

The poster who provided the scant information about the BBB snipped, "Enough said". I don't think it says nearly enough. In fact, I don't think it says anything relevant about FucoThin at all.

Ever heard the expression about not throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Well, some posters would like you to throw out the baby, because they are dogmatic and think that all diet supplements are bad. Again, the Apothecary near NIH is a pretty reputable place. A pharmacist there couldn't say enough good things about it. Is he a hawker, too? Or would you like to make the case that what is known to be an elite group of pharmacists are actually horribly informed?

Anonymous wrote:I find the Denise Austin DVD's to be a very good workout. They are not expensive and there are enough out there to do different workouts every day of the week.