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- swordedge, on 12/09/2007, -0/+38to simplify, eat right and get off your fat ass and move it some. Now if I could actually DO that.....
- atdigg, on 12/09/2007, -2/+28Diet is for people who want to lose weight fast and then be able to pig out again -- it's never going to work, losing weight is a lifestyle AND lifetime change not a fast and temporary fix. Better think about losing a pound per month for years than 20 pounds in 2 weeks.
- handturkee, on 12/09/2007, -1/+22This is all GREAT advice. My girlfriend is a dietitian and talks about these kind of principals all the time. One additionally interesting thing she taught me, is that if you gain excessive weight at anytime in your life, you change your body's makeup forever. Becoming overweight once makes it harder to keep weight off for the rest of your life.
- hiphoc, on 12/09/2007, -0/+19*****
- inactive, on 12/09/2007, -1/+18I can see the fat nerds' motivational slogans now: "Pwn your life!" "No more FAIL!" "The cake is a lie!"
- woxidu, on 12/09/2007, -0/+16It's that time of year again...
http://google.com/trends?q=weight+loss - omegajtf, on 12/09/2007, -1/+13From the "No ***** sherlock" dept.
- beerandcoffee, on 12/09/2007, -6/+17I'll cut it down to two steps...
1. Less Hamburgers.
2. More Treadmills
Worked for me! - riyehn, on 12/09/2007, -0/+11Wait, science? No thanks, I'd rather believe internet advertising.
- wclifton1, on 12/09/2007, -0/+8quote from official 1959 Dietary Guidelines for Americans:
"Do not get fat. If you are fat, reduce."
that's pretty much all you need to know! - inactive, on 12/09/2007, -0/+71) proper nutrition: meaning getting your daily values and avoiding glucose spikes(sweets, overeating, under-eating, etc...).
2) reduce: healthy calorie deficit is the only way to lose weight without removing fat directly.
3)fitness: optional for weight-loss but necessary for overall health. - Acidrain77, on 12/09/2007, -3/+9"Suppose you are 20 years old. This means that your max heart rate is around 200, so your range for low intensity cardio is from 80 heart beats per second to 120 heart beats per second"
LOL @ 120 Beats per Second!!! That sure would make u skinny in a couple of months, cause u'd be in the ground decomposing. - Autofac, on 12/09/2007, -0/+6"you're gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. Do it. Do it." (Duke, Rocky IV)
All I need for motivation. - smileydude, on 12/09/2007, -1/+6Buy a nutrition book on some library and read it? brilliant.
- Tenlow, on 12/09/2007, -0/+5So far so good, but what is considered low intensity cardio? The easiest way to determine is to find your max heart rate (220 – age = max heart rate) and calculate 40% and 60% of it. That is the range you should aim for when doing low intensity cardio. Suppose you are 20 years old. This means that your max heart rate is around 200, so your range for low intensity cardio is from 80 heart beats per second to 120 heart beats per second.
I think they mean "beats per minute" if I was at 80 beats per second I'd be around 4600 beats per minute over my target heart rate. - grr74, on 12/09/2007, -0/+5Eat properly - move - repeat.
Now why did no one think of that before? - dopplerdog, on 12/09/2007, -0/+4That's because you followed a "diet". You need a lifestyle change, not a diet.
You lost weight on your diet because you ate fewer calories than you needed - which is what you need to do to lose weight. The fact that you ate rice has nothing to do with it. Rice is a simple carb, with high GI, and it gives you an insulin spike. This is bad for your metabolism, and will affect your ability to lose weight later on.
You need a lifestyle change - work exercise into your routine. Forget the diet. Work out the amount of calories you need to eat a day, and eat 500 calories less than that. Focus on 40% complex carbs (whole grains, green vegetables), 30% proteins (tuna, lean meat, chicken), 30% unsaturated fat (almonds, nuts, olive oil). Don't skimp on the fat - if you don't get calories from fat you'll need to get them from carbs - and too many carbs has an impact on insulin, causing insulin resistance, and an future inability to lose fat. Your body prefers to get energy from carbs than fat - eat too many carbs, and your body will never burn the fat you stored. - hexydes, on 12/09/2007, -0/+4And yet, there are millions and millions and millions of obese people in our country (assuming you are American).
- PixelD, on 12/09/2007, -0/+4just a few beats off from your standard meth addict.
- derek20cali, on 12/09/2007, -0/+45. Don't eat chocolate chip cookies with bacon in them.
- viserov, on 12/09/2007, -0/+4Also important to note is that skipping meals is definitely not the way to lose weight. By doing this all you are doing is training your body's metabolism to slow down, hence storing more fat the next time you eat. Eat regularly, but keep portions in check. Not to mention physical exercise.
- hexydes, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3I'll add to this, it is actually better to eat MORE than regularly. Instead of eating 3 times a day, eat 5-6 times a day. Eat a larger (but caloric-sensitive) meal for breakfast, have a small snack for brunch (100 calories or less), a decent sized lunch, another snack between lunch and dinner ( under 100 calories), and then a sensible dinner. You can even have a small snack a few hours before bed (again, under 100 calories, try not to have it right before though because it burns less of it off (though the verdict is still out on that one)).
Do that, and some moderate exercise, and you will steadily lose weight (around .5 to 1.0 pounds per week). - joot2112, on 12/09/2007, -1/+4Why waste money on your waist?
- kmusser, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3While many of us may think these are all obvious, its good to see this up especially the part about diet. Terrible word to use, lifestyle changes are far more important than quick fixes.
- nazadus, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3Think about it.. 120 beats per *second*. Now think about it in terms of per *minute* and see which one makes more sense.
I'm drunk and I apoligize if I sound rude.. I just realized I may sounds like that. - inactive, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3Arg, but I still need to lose that last few hard 3kg. :(
- dopplerdog, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3Slow cardio is crap. It's what trainers recommended 30 years ago, but it's no good if you want to keep your metabolism up, retain muscle AND lose fat. Plus it makes people hungry, meaning that if you don't have enough will-power it's self-defeating. Slow cardio will make you skinny-fat, i.e. a low-weight person with flab. What you want is to be lean and put on muscle mass, and throw the old-school scales-based weight loss approach out the window. Ignore the scales - focus on body-fat percentages.
Latest research shows high-intensity training raises metabolism, burns calories, and retains muscle. This requires high-intensity-interval-training (HIIT) and resistance training (weights, or body-weight resistance training). It's the best way to retain muscle and lose fat at the same time. It's what most trainers in the know will recommend.
Diet is also very important - ditch the old-school low-fat diets, and start cutting back on simple carbs. Replace the sugars and the white bread with protein, complex carbs, and unsaturated fats (e.g. almonds). Keep the calorie count low - but don't eat less than 500 calories under you daily requirements otherwise your metabolism will shutdown and make it difficult to lose fat later on. - keruha, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2Discipline and perseverance is quite an overlooked key to success, for obvious reasons. Because it is hard to stick to something where your gratification is not instant, but long term. But if you stick with it, that long term benefit will dwarf any instant pleasure you would get otherwise. It is quite funny and sad to see all the new people crowd the gym December-January, only to never show up there again after a few weeks. Come on, stick with it people. It is only your life that's on the line.
- GawtMilk, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2The lower your lean body weight, the lower your metabolism. You've got it backwards. It's not if you gain excessive weight, as you have a limited number of fat cells your entire life [they just shrink and expand to make you look fat], it's that if you try to lose weight by eating 600 calories a day, your lean body weight drops and then your metabolism drops, meaning you'll eventually be eating 600 calories a day and not losing anything.
I am on a 3,000 calorie a day diet, I'm 6'3" and I weight 171. I'm skinny. The reason I can eat so much and not balloon up is that my lean body weight is high, so my metabolism is high. If I want to gain a lot of weight, I'd eat less for about a month to drop my metabolism, then start eating my "regular" amount again.
That being said I get between an hour and two hours of exercise a day. The best way to exercise is to make it competitive...bet your friend you can exercise more than him and you'll have a big reason to do it. Make a thirty minute playlist of your favorite songs and then run to that. I like to run before school in the morning, go home, shower, then walk to school. - Farnn, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2False exercise? You're still getting exercise, you just aren't outside. And while running outside is nice, pavement is terrible for your knees, the weather isn't always conducive, and some people don't live in areas with a good area outside for running.
- jefree, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2What I don't really understand is that if I work out at a high heart rate for cadio and burn 600 calories in 40 minutes, why is that worse than going half that pace over 40 minutes for 300 calories? If I do that all the time shouldn't I lose weight faster?
- raptor000000, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Citation needed.
- PixelD, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2*****! I'm screwed, I just can't stay away from them.
- joot2112, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2ha! I didn't notice that. But I did notice that when I was 20 years old, my RESTING heart rate was in that range (80-120 beats per MINUTE). It seems kind of low...
- zaren, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2#4 is where my problems come in.
I ran across the Rice Diet a few months back, and it sounded doable. Focused on rice, fruit, and beans, in amounts and combinations I could tolerate. The trick, of course, was the portion control more than the specific food types. I managed to drop 10 pounds the first two weeks doing nothing more than following the diet.
Of course, this included ditching the Dew and chocolate, which is likely where the major losses came from. Then I fell off the diet after a rough week at work, and quickly gained the 10 pounds back. I've been sick in one form or another since then (or enjoying a holiday), and haven't been able to get back on board. We'll see how it looks after Christmas :p - dopplerdog, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2Heh. You're 100% right and you get dugg down. Figures. Recent studies show that high-intensity training is best to lose fat and not lose any muscle (which you need to keep in order to keep burning fat).
"Slow cardio" is oldthink - it's a sure way to become "skinny fat" at best, i.e. a skinny person with flab, or anorexic-looking at worst. You will not get ripped by doing slow cardio. Compare the body of a marathon runner vs. the body of a sprinter. Which would you rather have? - giveer, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2That flew right over your head, didn't it?
- hexydes, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2This is why "diets" (I hate that term, misapplied) just don't work. It is near impossible to stick to them. Diet should mean altering your diet to simply eating sensible.
I wanted to lose weight. I started simply watching my caloric intake (10 x my weight minus 100 = calories for the day), and then jogging three times a week for 20 minutes and lifting weights twice a week. Over the last six months, I've lost about 25 pounds, or around a pound per week (minus a week here or there where I just didn't have the time, no excuses though).
For the first few weeks it was easy because it was new. For the next few weeks it was hard because I was sick of it. After that, I actually started to feel bad if I cheated and ate something crappy, or didn't work out that tiny amount, because I'd worked so hard and come so far, that was motivation enough to continue on.
It really isn't that tough to do. Think about how much crap you eat in a day. Just eliminate some of it, eat something better. If you're hungry, eat, just eat something sensible (peanuts, rice cakes, cottage cheese, yogurt, even a small bag of light chips is fine). How much time do you waste sitting around watching Simpsons reruns? I put a TV in front of my treadmill in my basement, and instead of sitting and watching them, I jogged and watched them.
It's not hard. It's just hard to start. After a while, it just becomes part of what you do. And that is the only diet that really works. - colto, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1LMAO it's a giant vibrator that helps you lose weight.
- ogletree, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1The most important thing you can do is to stop eating for pleasure. Don't use as a reward. Don't use as an anti-depressant. This is what I did and in 2 months I went down 4 inches on my waste. You have to make a life style change. If you really want to taste something just take a small bite. Stay away from sodas and fried food. Cut out butter. Get lots of fiber. Don't eat out.
I don't like to eat out any more because it is so hard to find food that is not drowning in butter. Not to mention I don't like being handed food that has been handled by so many people. Not to mention the type of people that work in kitchens. - pracharak, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1It is also very important to keep a track of your weight. We must write down the weights every one week or so. It automatically puts us into gear. It ensures that we do not gain if we are not loosing. An online weight chart and table can be used - for example www.myweightonline.com
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http://www.mustweightloss.com/tag/fat-loss/ - aduzik, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1That's the first time I've ever thought "the cake is a lie" is funny.
- manov2k, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Stupid, it was wrong advice...there is no way one can lose weight without diet....do you think I can lose weight just by exercising & eating all the garbage stuffs I want....
Calorie shifting is the key for successful weightloss...read more here http://fatlose4idiot.com - wclifton1, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1umm, please re-read what i wrote. you're talking about fixed time, i'm talking about fixed distance. you're right, you burn twice the calories in the same amount of time if you run, but walking takes at least twice as long... so if you go the same distance, you're using the same amount of calories. its not just logic, its also science.
- encognito, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1Oh boy here we go again with this old saw. Man, I hate this time of year.
- 4newbies, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1those are some interesting things you guys are saying, but some of you are so off its not even funny.
- rugby4ward, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1this could have been said in 4 bullet points and not wasted everyone's time.
- wclifton1, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1fact: 20% of your calorie intake comes from liquids (a.k.a. coke or "purple drank")
easy diet: switch to diet soda, that's all most people need to do. - mal1964, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1For some .
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