The Skinny Kid

Eggs Enhance Dieters’ Weight Loss - Associated Content

Overweight women lost more weight during the course of their diets eating eggs for breakfast than they did eating bagels, according to the report, released at the annual meeting of Experimental Biology and funded by the Egg Nutrition Center and the American Egg Board.Nikhil Dhurandhar, lead researcher for the study, said the eggs cause people to feel fuller longer, thus reducing the temptation to continue eating.

Study participants were put on a diet that reduced their recommended calories consumption by 1,000 calories a day. One group was given two eggs for breakfast, and another was given bagels with the same amount of calories.

After 8 weeks of this routine, Dhurandhar said the results were more than what he expected. Women on the egg diet lost 65 percent more weight and reported feeling more energetic than the women who ate bagels.

I certainly feel more satisfied if I get some protein at breakfast.

Half Ton Man Continues Weight Loss - washingtonpost.com

A man who once weighed well over a half ton left his house for the first time in five years Wednesday _ wheeled outside on his bed to greet neighbors and see a mariachi band. “The sky is beautiful and blue and what I want is to enjoy the sun,” said Manuel Uribe, who had once been certified by doctors as weighing 1,235 pounds. Though still unable to leave his bed, Uribe has lost 395 pounds since he began a high-protein diet a year ago. He now weights about 840 pounds.

He passed on gastric bypass surgery, choosing the help of nutritionists and the Zone diet instead. His long-term goal is to reach a still-hefty 265 pounds, which he expects will take several years.