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Watermelon for weight loss ??

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It really filled me up tonight!! Low in calories and full of water to give you that full feeling
  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Originally Posted by discrat View Post

    It really filled me up tonight!! Low in calories and full of water to give you that full feeling
    Yes, 90 percent water. Reduces your cravings between meals and you want smaller portions: From the Web: "It's also a great source of an amino acid called arginine, which has been shown to help burn fat quickly"

    You might feel a bit Meloncholy though. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for subjects....is the low calorie count of watermelon really a surprise?
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for subjects...
      Just like making redundant comments that do not add anything of value to the discussion at
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for subjects....is the low calorie count of watermelon really a surprise?
      I think the idea of eating watermelon to lose weight is flawed.

      For the last month, I've eaten eight to ten watermelons a day, and I haven't lost any weight at all. Some of the seeds took root in my colon though....so there is that.
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        I think the idea of eating watermelon to lose weight is flawed.

        For the last month, I've eaten eight to ten watermelons a day, and I haven't lost any weight at all. Some of the seeds took root in my colon though....so there is that.
        Dan has stopped eating them since they gave him Melongnomea
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        I think the idea of eating watermelon to lose weight is flawed.

        For the last month, I've eaten eight to ten watermelons a day, and I haven't lost any weight at all. Some of the seeds took root in my colon though....so there is that.
        Feeling a bit Meloncholy, (wait for it)?

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        • Profile picture of the author discrat
          Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

          Feeling a bit Meloncholy, (wait for it)?
          Mark has taught you well young grasshopper ( yes, i do realize I said something like this in another post )
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Polaski
    More water, fruits and vegetables that is a proper diet. Also do some workouts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I'll do better....I love watermelon.



    cholesterol free, fat free, sodium free....you could eat an entire large watermelon and not meet your daily calorie requirement.


    Even though a few diet types love to quibble over 'natural sugars' - simple truth is fresh fruits and vegetables are good for dieters and non-dieters alike.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    How many days in a row can a normal person replace a meal with just water Mellon before they get tired of eating watermelon though.

    Natural food no matter how tasty will generally wear on a persons taste buds. Then become bland.

    Watermelon is great to have in the fridge cold when you need a snack. Especially if you are good at buying perfectly ripe Mellons at the store.

    How do you choose your watermelons I hold them next to my ear tap the side and listen for the right sound.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    You kicked up a memory....


    My mother was obsessive/compulsive before it was a 'thing'. We never left the house in the car without her going BACK inside at least 2-3 times to check on one thing or another.


    She had a phobia about watermelon seeds - she thought you should never swallow one of the seeds as it might 'damage' your stomach. My cousins and I used to sit on the porch and have watermelon seed spitting contests. She didn't like that either.
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    • Profile picture of the author RMRC
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      You kicked up a memory....


      My mother was obsessive/compulsive before it was a 'thing'. We never left the house in the car without her going BACK inside at least 2-3 times to check on one thing or another.


      She had a phobia about watermelon seeds - she thought you should never swallow one of the seeds as it might 'damage' your stomach. My cousins and I used to sit on the porch and have watermelon seed spitting contests. She didn't like that either.
      Reminds me of a story when my brother was little my aunt told him not to swallow watermelon seeds or a watermelon would grow in his stomach and he started crying lol pretty traumatizing for a kid.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      You kicked up a memory....


      My mother was obsessive/compulsive before it was a 'thing'. We never left the house in the car without her going BACK inside at least 2-3 times to check on one thing or another.


      She had a phobia about watermelon seeds - she thought you should never swallow one of the seeds as it might 'damage' your stomach. My cousins and I used to sit on the porch and have watermelon seed spitting contests. She didn't like that either.
      When I was a kid, my parents were decent people without much education.

      Science and reason were things my Mom rejected pretty thoroughly.

      So....


      She was convinced that the pulpy stuff under an orange peel was poisonous.

      We rubbed dirt into wounds and scrapes...because you know, dirt is healthy.

      She thought crossing your eyes would get stuck that way.

      And the penultimate thought...Genius is just an inch away from being an idiot.

      Oh, and we couldn't watch Star Trek, because Mr. Spock was that baby doctor, that wrote books.

      And root beer would make you drunk.

      Nonsensical? Yes. But not any more nonsensical than things I read here every day, or hear strangers say...nearly every day.

      We all see the world through a different lens. And we all think our lens, out of billions, is the clear one.
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      • Profile picture of the author Odahh
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        When I was a kid, my parents were decent people without much education.

        Nonsensical? Yes. But not any more nonsensical than things I read here every day, or hear strangers say...nearly every day.

        We all see the world through a different lens. And we all think our lens, out of billions, is the clear one.
        Dogmatic nonsense that large numbers of people just accept as truth. Like everything people seem to believe about inflation. Seems tied to one milton Friedman quote from the 1950s. While leaving out the part about the velocity of money staying constant.

        I actually never or don't remember having seeded watermelon until I went to the last Philippines 9 years ago. A quick search online said they wouldn't sprout in your digestive system but it was great to chew them as you ate them to digest them.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        And we all think our lens, out of billions, is the clear one.
        This isn't true. There are people out there who understand that perception is flawed.

        I was aware very early on (say pre-teen) that I don't know what I don't know. My dad was a master of the Socratic method and would work me through the wringer. This wasn't done sadistically. It was done to show me that there are always avenues of thought to pursue, permutations of possibilities to consider.

        This was a blessing and a curse. While I was trained to thoroughly work through a problem, it had a tendency to leave me paralyzed in thought about what I was missing.

        I find myself doing the same to my son. However, we also talk about determining when enough information is enough and fine-tuning the calculation based on the risk/reward ratio of the problem at hand.

        So, we don't all think our vision is perfect, but that's not necessarily a better way to live. In many aspects, it's possibly worse.
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        • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
          Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

          This isn't true. There are people out there who understand that perception is flawed.

          I was aware very early on (say pre-teen) that I don't know what I don't know. My dad was a master of the Socratic method and would work me through the wringer. This wasn't done sadistically. It was done to show me that there are always avenues of thought to pursue, permutations of possibilities to consider.

          This was a blessing and a curse. While I was trained to thoroughly work through a problem, it had a tendency to leave me paralyzed in thought about what I was missing.

          I find myself doing the same to my son. However, we also talk about determining when enough information is enough and fine-tuning the calculation based on the risk/reward ratio of the problem at hand.

          So, we don't all think our vision is perfect, but that's not necessarily a better way to live. In many aspects, it's possibly worse.
          There are people out there who gloss over demonstratable facts and consensus to fit their narrative. A classic example is Flat Earthers. To just look out and see that everything is flat is only because the Earth is so large and it is a long distance before you see it curve when at ground level. But they are just allegedly saying well we can see we are right because we see flatness everywhere with our own eyes. They only need to watch a ship slowly disappear over the horizon seeing less and less of it until the mast finally disappears from view to disprove that, but choose not to. or come up with absurd idea to explain it and anything else that shoots them down in flames.

          I'm 100 percent that virtually none of the leading lights and most followers do not really believe any of it but want to be different or make money from it by speaking or from advertising.
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          • Profile picture of the author RMRC
            Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

            There are people out there who gloss over demonstratable facts and consensus to fit their narrative. A classic example is Flat Earthers.
            Yep, you can't argue with a fool. Some people, no matter the facts and obvious common sense (look at the other planets) will never be swayed by truth. Simply because they want to believe what they want to believe.
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              Originally Posted by RMRC View Post

              Yep, you can't argue with a fool. Some people, no matter the facts and obvious common sense (look at the other planets) will never be swayed by truth. Simply because they want to believe what they want to believe.
              Some of them have been raised since birth that the world is flat. Being home-schooled and isolated in their communities. They never learn about the science that proves the earth is round. As mentioned above they don't know what they don't know. They're more brainwashed or live in a bubble more then anything else.
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              • Profile picture of the author RMRC
                Originally Posted by DWolfe View Post

                Some of them have been raised since birth that the world is flat. Being home-schooled and isolated in their communities. They never learn about the science that proves the earth is round. As mentioned above they don't know what they don't know. They're more brainwashed or live in a bubble more then anything else.
                I'm sure for a small few this is the case, but in this day and age with more information and documented footage at our fingertips than ever before, its hard to believe they can upload videos going on about all the reasons the earth is not a sphere and yet not know the arguments to what they are supposedly refuting. With most of them it's just willful ignorance at this point.
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        • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
          Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

          This isn't true. There are people out there who understand that perception is flawed.

          I was aware very early on (say pre-teen) that I don't know what I don't know. My dad was a master of the Socratic method and would work me through the wringer. This wasn't done sadistically. It was done to show me that there are always avenues of thought to pursue, permutations of possibilities to consider.

          This was a blessing and a curse. While I was trained to thoroughly work through a problem, it had a tendency to leave me paralyzed in thought about what I was missing.

          I find myself doing the same to my son. However, we also talk about determining when enough information is enough and fine-tuning the calculation based on the risk/reward ratio of the problem at hand.

          So, we don't all think our vision is perfect, but that's not necessarily a better way to live. In many aspects, it's possibly worse.
          It is so troo we don't always (or all) have zacktest, trooest ansa on whatevah.

          Less'n you no goddess, omnipresence is merely a mascara flourish you learned in a magazine.

          Vulnrbyool, partially informed by mortal reality, so stoopid you cain't even cook ... prolly it is clear our expertise is minimally kinda total measured 'gainst like THOR.

          (Or anywan like that. Dunno what pants Väinämöinen wearin', but I trust pan-pantheon glories to delivah. It is my discriminatory talent.)

          Hey, so we gotta watch out for one anothah.

          An' the trouble is them kids ain't gaht no cloo.

          They don't even know DOE-EYED is a metaphor, let alone like no frickin' simile.

          They jus' content to beam out with all-consoomin' naive brilliance, an' you gotta want 'em to want that.

          Been way back prolly since I crawled 'round on all fours without no ideah what I dowin'.

          Less'n las' Toosday when I lost sum toast I cooked up behind the sofa for an hour an' nearly frickin' died.

          The heck I actschwlly dowin' with my life?

          Thing is, all interactionyool smarts between generations of Rifflepopsitude gotta be a plus.

          You cain't please evry promisin' mammal, but you sure can please the pertickuler ones.

          (My view as a Sagittarius btw -- naht nothin' you would want evah to tattoo 'pon yr chest in ordah to impress nowan.)

          Permutations. Possibilities. Considerations.

          Cool trio.

          Evrywan naht floatin' out on no kinda eternal cloud gaht all this conflux gowin' on.

          Gotta love the resonantly juicy, I guess.

          Is fleurception implored?

          Or is perception flawed?

          tbh I ain't gaht no cloo nor'n whethah it ain't.

          Gotta hope this is cool to share bcs I had no success with melons so far, despite my many avenues of enquiry.
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        • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
          Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

          This isn't true. There are people out there who understand that perception is flawed.

          I was aware very early on (say pre-teen) that I don't know what I don't know. My dad was a master of the Socratic method and would work me through the wringer. This wasn't done sadistically. It was done to show me that there are always avenues of thought to pursue, permutations of possibilities to consider.

          This was a blessing and a curse. While I was trained to thoroughly work through a problem, it had a tendency to leave me paralyzed in thought about what I was missing.

          I find myself doing the same to my son. However, we also talk about determining when enough information is enough and fine-tuning the calculation based on the risk/reward ratio of the problem at hand.

          So, we don't all think our vision is perfect, but that's not necessarily a better way to live. In many aspects, it's possibly worse.


          I envy that your Dad asked you to reason so rigorously. I can see the result in many of your posts.
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          • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            I envy that your Dad asked you to reason so rigorously. I can see the result in many of your posts.
            You edited your post before I got a chance to respond. Good. Now I don't have to.
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            • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
              Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

              You edited your post before I got a chance to respond. Good. Now I don't have to.
              I think everyone sees that as a Win-Win.
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          • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            I envy that your Dad asked you to reason so rigorously. I can see the result in many of your posts.
            Is that the one who adopted him or the real one from Dingley Dell Woods?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
    Here's a recipe that's always a hit when I bring it to summer parties:

    Watermelon,
    Feta Cheese,
    Either arugula or fresh mint depending on your preference,
    Olive oil
    Lime juice
    Balsamic glaze

    Mix 1 cubed watermelon with about 2/3 cup Feta and either a 1/4 cup mint or a 5oz package of arugula.

    Mix together 2 tbsp olive oil and 2 tbsp lime juice; Mix mixture in the "salad" above.

    Drizzle with Balsamic glaze.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Originally Posted by discrat View Post

    It really filled me up tonight!! Low in calories and full of water to give you that full feeling

    Try naht slicin' 'em up before you eat 'em.

    Zero calories in that plan, tellya.

    Less'n you this guy ...



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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I saw an article on a 'scientific' site that was about 'how to debate flat earthers'....and I wondered 'why would you want to do that'?


    If they don't believe photos taken from the space station or astronauts or believe the curve they can see on a commercial flight....it's because they don't want to believe the earth is round. Their choice.
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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      I saw an article on a 'scientific' site that was about 'how to debate flat earthers'....and I wondered 'why would you want to do that'?


      If they don't believe photos taken from the space station or astronauts or believe the curve they can see on a commercial flight....it's because they don't want to believe the earth is round. Their choice.
      I don't care much for the flat earthers. It's what I call food religions that pop up out of nowhere. To oppose the more recent food religions. Where much of the argument can be answered with "if you just cook food it solves virtually all the issues "

      In fact with a basic level of cooking skills and a supply of herbs and spices it easy to eat healthy the more food someone prepares at home.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    It's a funny thing about 'cooking' - I can do a lot fancy stuff (my younger son used to say 'she cooks in several languages') but we eat mainly healthy food with a Mediterranean TYPE diet....and I've found the healthier the diet is, the easier it is to cook.
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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      It's a funny thing about 'cooking' - I can do a lot fancy stuff (my younger son used to say 'she cooks in several languages') but we eat mainly healthy food with a Mediterranean TYPE diet....and I've found the healthier the diet is, the easier it is to cook.
      Is part of the the eas of cooking the healthy food. That you tend to use ingredients you can bulk buy and use pretty often. Or if prepping ahead of time you can prepare part of a meal on one day. Then add it into meals during the next 4-5 days.
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    Watermelon for weight loss,...absolutely!

    PS click on the image to play the video.
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    • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
      Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post



      Watermelon for weight loss,...absolutely!
      You sayin' I gaht a brain like a watahmelon?

      Bcs this visyool is kinda ackyrit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    Instead of a meal replacement. Blending watermelon alone or with other fruits is a good replacement for most sugary beverages.

    I was going to you could replace beer by adding the alcohol of your choice. But the photo Shane shared reminded me people can easily go to extremes.

    That watermelon was less like a four loco and more like a " just loco"

    Yes add the alcohol to the blender and not to the water. So much of the alcohol would probably get absorbed into the part you don't eat. And wasted alcohol is a form of abuse
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      Instead of a meal replacement. Blending watermelon alone or with other fruits is a good replacement for most sugary beverages.

      I was going to you could replace beer by adding the alcohol of your choice. But the photo Shane shared reminded me people can easily go to extremes.

      That watermelon was less like a four loco and more like a " just loco"

      Yes add the alcohol to the blender and not to the water. So much of the alcohol would probably get absorbed into the part you don't eat. And wasted alcohol is a form of abuse
      More so if you click on the image he will show you how, (watermelons can absorb a lot of extra liquid).

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  • Profile picture of the author Enjoy Nights
    Thanks for sharing helpful info. watermelon is the best option for weight loss.
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  • Profile picture of the author VS Shankar
    Watermelon can be a beneficial addition to a weight loss diet due to its low calorie and high water content.
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  • Profile picture of the author taylor link
    Watermelon is a low-calorie food that can help you feel full and hydrated. It also contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids that can benefit your health.
    However, watermelon alone is not enough to lose weight. You also need to eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly.
    Watermelon can be a healthy snack or dessert, but it should not replace your meals.
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