gawd, that reminds me of people going "You play poker?!? If I give you a thousand dollars can you double it for me?"

*facepalm*

I'm thinkin' I better PM Howard about this contest.

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Avoid - 500$ on 10% [x]
Jesse - 500$ on 10% [x]
9.5fingershuffle - 100$ on 2.24% [ ]

HB is balking so I offered to buy half of his action. Weight loss + only 50% risk + get the babes when the lbs are gone + braggin' rights = HB, don't lemme down pal.

I'm kinda countin' on ya here. Let's show these pups what the AARP-eligible are made of.

I think I might be able to lose a couple of ounces. If I tried really hard. What I'm saying is: Don't bet on me to lose weight.

OTOH, I lost 127 lbs. once. My lawyer said the divorce was worth every cent.

bada-bing!

I weight myself daily and see a 0.5-1.5 pound fluctuation over the week as you said.

I have been following this thread because I am on a diet using Nutrisystems - I am not recommending that approach - I weighed 225 in January and now I weigh 211 this morning as specified after I evacuate urine. BTW you should drink the same amount of water daily since that will affect your weight - 6 glasses each day.

If the goal is to lose 5 pounds you should lose 7-8 because of fluctuations over time.

I need to lose weight for health reasons - my cardiologist told me too in no uncertain terms.

Good luck guys ...

If you drink wine just skip it for 3 weeks and that will take care of a few pounds right there. More so for beer... if you need alcohol try vodka.

I want in on this. Unfortunately, I have been unemployed for 5 months and cannot afford much of a buy-in. Can I buy in for $25 or is that too low?

it's perfectly fine ~ that's why I ended up structuring it this way.

It's just weighted so it's fair for everyone.

To be clear, if this contest were a poker game, avoid would be the host calling everyone on his cell trying to make sure it goes, and I would be the fish he's building it around and using as bait to get other people to drive to the casino. If he says you're in, you're in. But beware that I might make unreasonable demands that we double the stakes or change to badugi later. JK.

Somebody PM me if Jesse switches to Badugi.

I'd join in, but I don't have a scale in order to avoid being results-oriented.

good stuff. I've always wondered which type of drink (spirits, wine, beer) offered the fewest calories per serving. Like is a shot of whiskey less than a bottle of beer? Beer has got to be the most, amirite?

Pretty sure vodka and a zero calorie mixer is your best bet.

http://caloriecount.about.com/calori...-drinks-ic1401

I drink beer like water... It's brutal going without for this

[x] guilty
[x] badugi ftw
[x] wtf is ftw imo

They don't call it a beer belly for nothing.

Vodka has no carbs... I like single malt scotch myself.

Side prop bet prop bet opportunity.

There is 1 Guiness Extra Stout in my fridge. Hoe long will it last?

probably already gone ... question is are you going to buy more?

Vodka and diet coke, but it takes like ass. I dated an anorexic once that drank them.

Also just wanted to tell everyone participating to "run good!"

Diet drinks actually cause you to gain weight, not sure why but I have heard that from many sources - sorry about that -

Vodka martini - shaken not stirred should do the trick.

Good points
-No saturated fat
-No cholesterol
-Very low in sodium
-No sugar
Bad points
-Contains alcohol

You may have a point. She was a calorie counter, so I'm certain that's all she paid attention to. And I only have the one point of reference. I'm pretty thin, as Jesse can attest. So I'll yield to the more experienced fat people ITT.

People who drink diet soda are fat on average but it's not causitive, just coorelated. Just like towns with higher ice cream cone sails have higher drowning rates.

Funny hand Commerce 20

I raise TT a cold call blinds both call. SB thinks I'm a lunatic because I 3 bet the current BB with 77 and procured not one nor two but three streets of value on a 965-2-9 board (he had 76s I rule). El flopo

973dd

SB c/r I 3bet the coldcaller now folds he calls and the turn is pleasant

973-3r

he calls and checks dark. River less good..

973-3-9r

I lol and check he rolls T9.

Well a diet coke is not going to affect an anorexic very much - but people that eat a normal 2,000 kcal per day diet might have an issue - what it is, I think, is that the diet stuff that makes the drink sweet interferes with your body's system - I stopped drinking diet drinks about a year ago.

I believe that the way it interferes with your system has more to do with the long-term health effects like possibility of cancer and such.

Hrm... I just read up on maltodextrin. It seems that it has a larger number of calories than the same amount of sugar? Or is it carbs? Either way, you seem to be right.

Starting Weight: 244.5
Goal Weight loss %: 12%
Buy-in Amount: $25
Start Date: May 24th, 2010
Finish Date: August 21st, 2010
Shipped $25 to BBB on FT.

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