How I lost 30 pounds. The pickle diet
10-24-05, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Totoro
Lot's of people here seem to want to lose weight. Well, I've been there and done that. About five years ago, I lost 30 pounds and never put it back on. Exercise was part of it, but the secret was mainly diet. A very simple diet.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
10-25-05, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by FXjohn
It's my experience that you have to go a little hungry sometimes if you are trying to lose weight.
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Just to be an annoying dork:
Negative reinforcement and punishment are not the same thing. Negative reinforcement is when you stop a negative condition as the result of some behavior. Punishment is when you apply a negative condition as the result of the behavior.
For example, my car has an annoying sound that goes off when my seatbelt isn't fastened. If I fasten the seatbelt the annoying sound goes away. That's negative reinfocement. If the car shocked me every time I didn't fasten my seatbelt, that would be punishment.
Negative reinforcement and punishment are not the same thing. Negative reinforcement is when you stop a negative condition as the result of some behavior. Punishment is when you apply a negative condition as the result of the behavior.
For example, my car has an annoying sound that goes off when my seatbelt isn't fastened. If I fasten the seatbelt the annoying sound goes away. That's negative reinfocement. If the car shocked me every time I didn't fasten my seatbelt, that would be punishment.
A punishment is something that decreases a behavior. Positive punishment is when something is added to decrease a behavior. Negative punishment is when something is taken away to decrease a behavior. A reinforcement is something that increases a behavior. A positive reinforcement is when something is added to increase a behavior. A negative reinforcement is when something is taken away to increase a behavior. These are methods of operant conditioning. So the shocking if you didn't put on your seatbelt would be positive reinforcement. There is an added stimulus, the shock, to increase the behavior of putting on a seatbelt. Basic general psychology. Look it up if you don't believe me.
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Just to annoy the annoying dork,
A punishment is something that decreases a behavior. Positive punishment is when something is added to decrease a behavior. Negative punishment is when something is taken away to decrease a behavior. A reinforcement is something that increases a behavior. A positive reinforcement is when something is added to increase a behavior. A negative reinforcement is when something is taken away to increase a behavior. These are methods of operant conditioning. So the shocking if you didn't put on your seatbelt would be positive reinforcement. There is an added stimulus, the shock, to increase the behavior of putting on a seatbelt. Basic general psychology. Look it up if you don't believe me.
A punishment is something that decreases a behavior. Positive punishment is when something is added to decrease a behavior. Negative punishment is when something is taken away to decrease a behavior. A reinforcement is something that increases a behavior. A positive reinforcement is when something is added to increase a behavior. A negative reinforcement is when something is taken away to increase a behavior. These are methods of operant conditioning. So the shocking if you didn't put on your seatbelt would be positive reinforcement. There is an added stimulus, the shock, to increase the behavior of putting on a seatbelt. Basic general psychology. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Wow.. first post and you come on pretty strong. LOL
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Lot's of people here seem to want to lose weight. Well, I've been there and done that. About five years ago, I lost 30 pounds and never put it back on. Exercise was part of it, but the secret was mainly diet. A very simple diet.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
08-12-15, 10:16 AM
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You realize the previous post was 10-25-05, 05:09 AM ?
If you had just waited another two and a half months to post this, you could have revived a 10 year old thread!
Well, a 9+ year old zombie thread is not so bad.
Pass the pickles.
If you had just waited another two and a half months to post this, you could have revived a 10 year old thread!
Well, a 9+ year old zombie thread is not so bad.
Pass the pickles.
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Lot's of people here seem to want to lose weight. Well, I've been there and done that. About five years ago, I lost 30 pounds and never put it back on. Exercise was part of it, but the secret was mainly diet. A very simple diet.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
I would eat my regular meals. A good breakfast (very important), lunch (my main meal of the day), and a small dinner (sandwich, bowl of soup, etc). No change in diet there. The only thing I did was eliminate snacks altogether. Whenever I felt like I had to eat a snack (I used to eat lots of donuts, chocolate, and other sweets) I would eat a dill pickle. After a while I hated pickles. I think it was "negative reinforcement" which is a fancy term for punishment. BTW: Pickes have almost no calories. Once I had lost my weight, I never went back to snacking the way I did before.
That's it. That simple. No fancy systems, no costly guides.
08-26-15, 03:18 PM
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You are replying to a ten-year-old post made by a poster who has been absent from these forums for the past six years. Don't hold your breath while awaiting a reply...
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