Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Even though I always find these articles interesting, this is old news. I knew people who would do the "soup" diet when I was in. You were only able to eat this certain type of soup and you had to make it yourself. It was designed for people to rapidly lose weight for surgery but people used it to shed several pounds before the PFT.
Well, the article didn't mention soup "Soldiers are dangerously starving themselves, gobbling diet pills and laxatives — even resorting to costly liposuction surgery — all to meet the Army's weight standards and avoid losing their careers, according to military personnel who spoke to Army Times."
But I wonder if it was exaggerated? It seems interviews were done by e-mail...
Anybody remember the strict liquid protein diets of the 70's which were said to have caused some deaths? They worked...
You think starving themselves and taking pills and getting lipo are the worse of it?? Dig deeper and you'd be shocked what you find. That my friend is nothing. Lipo is a much safer way then taking matters into their own hands. (I'm not saying I'm for lipo btw).
There's a radical new diet out there that 95%+ of those doing dangerous methods could successfully follow:
Eat less, and/or exercise more
Seriously. I was taped *every single time* in service-just a muscular build. At one point I calculated I'd have to make about 5% body fat to even make Army standards. The taping never stopped or slowed me down as either an enlisted soldier or officer.
Leave it to the new bread of Soldier......................
Hummmm I can do it this way...or I can do it this way and maybe get away with it....
The hard right way or the easy (maybe) go around.
Get off your butts and do some excerise....you know, when you playing that damn game all night and eating ho-ho's and twinkies and washing it down with beer, that might involve weight gain........
Anyone that does anything thing medical to loose weight (bearing they don't actually have a medical probelm, like a throyid probelm) is just plain lazy.....
I all ways had to be taped....everytime....but I always passed at around 15% body fat...
i am a bit dubious of the numbers presented in the article, but have certainly heard of these problems. reminds me of the wrestlers i knew in high school, always trying to cut another few pounds.
one of the issues that i see with this is the use of the antiquated height-to-weight system that is clearly ineffective. there were many marines that i knew that could do 20+ pullups without a problem and were PT animals, but would still get taped because they were bigger than some arbitrary (or off the mark often enough that it might as well be arbitrary) standard said they should be.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
