This has been an interesting thread. I too have been wanting to lose some weight. I have been trying for a while without any real success. I have tried increasing my protien and lowering the bad carbs from my diet. I usually have some pretty severe stomach pains/cramps about 3-4 days into it. Not really sure why. It does not have anything to do with...umh... bathroom issues if you know what I mean. The pain/discomfort is more in the upper abdomen/lower chest cavity area. I have no idea what that is about.

About 6 years ago I was able to drop weight easily by decreasing the amount of sugar in my diet. However, I was also very acitive then as I was doing a lot of alpine/rock climbing which invovled long days of continous movement for 10 plus hours both days on the weekends. I do hope I can find something that will work because it will make mountain biking up the hills easier and I would feel better about myself.