Um, dude, some of that was your metabolism's increase from the previous weeks activities as well. Don't go thinking you're done yet. Slowing down to moderate activity levels won't show much positive loss if you slack off in week 2. That's the problem with exercise and diet. People expect results on the scale day 2. "I exercised 400 KCals yesterday, so I do that 6 times and that's nearly a pound..." Yeah, but you also increased your metabolic rate, and started burning more calories. IF you aren't eating right or aren't exercising right BOTH, muscles get eaten instead of fat, or your muscles starve and your metabolism levels off.Dieting is probably one of the hardest things to do well, because it is a lifestyle, one that most people who work and have jobs cannot completely embrace. No pizzas, no cheeseburgers, no cheating. Every beer you drink compounds itself by not only being 90 calories (lite beer), but your body also metastisizes the alcohol into sugar in your body, and that sugar goes straight to fat. Drinking one light beer is like having two to your body.
The simple key is to exercise and eat better, portions and some times treat yourself. Most important is to stay consecutive, don't go on and off it only delays the inevitable.
In theory losing weight is easy. Spend more energy than you eat. Well, real life isn't that easy. With sugar everywhere you're in a sugar high really all the time and feeling hungry the instant your blood sugar levels drop back to normal and it's just so easy to take a quick sugary snack to feel better. Or really just eat anything (and easily a lot of it) to get rid of hunger when you aren't really even hungry, just having post sugar high munchies. Well, that's at least what I've done in the past.. I'm not saying this works for everyone, because everyone has a slightly different metabolism. Still, maybe this will help some of you.In February 2006 I was weighting 240lbs (109kg) and quickly gaining more. I'm about 6" long (182cm), my build is pretty thick and I had some muscles too, but it was mainly fat. One day I had enough and decided to do something about it. I went on a calorie-counting spree and it actually worked for a while. I ate the same stuff I ate before, but just less. The problem was that I was feeling hungry all the time and really had to fight not to eat more, 24/7. But, as I said, it worked for a while. In a few months I got to 220lbs (100kg), but then the hunger finally took over. I ate more, but not too much. Just enough more that my weight started climbing up again and every time I reached 230lbs (105kg) I did another sprint to push my weight back to 220. The problem was that I couldn't go past that. It was just mentally too tough. And like someone said, losing weight is mostly about how much you eat. If I exercised more I ate more. Now, fastforward to December - I was determined to do another of these sprints. It actually worked very well, I started from 227lbs (103kg) and went to 216lbs (98kg) in a month. After Christmas however I was back going up ever so slowly. In the beginning of march I was back to 220 and still gaining. This is when I decided I really had to do something. I was successful in the previous year, going from 240 to 220 but as I said, it was really, really tough. I kept reverting back to my old habits and eating when I wasn't really hungry, just craving for sugar. So, in effort to do something about it I checked out different diets and tried to figure out what's about them that work. Well, I had previously pinpointed my problem, sugar. And Atkins diet was all about limiting the amount of carbohydrates you take in daily. I read about it and decided to try the induction phase of it, which is really about just not taking in any sugar for two weeks. The benefits are twofold -- you have time to get rid of your sugar addiction and get the excess carbohydrates out of your body which also drops your weight as ch's have a lot of liquids tied up to your body. For me it was about the first effect. I felt plain awful for about four days with headaches etc. But after that I felt better than for a long time. And the second effect was a morale booster as well, I lost around 7 pounds in two weeks.Now, after the first two weeks you have to start taking some carbs in to you diet, because your body (and brains) need it. But the point is to restrict the amount. With low carb intake you have normal blood sugar levels with no highs and lows and have no intense cravings that are hard to overcome. I'm not feeling hungry all the time even when I'm taking in a lot less calories than my body needs to keep status quo. This has worked very well for me. In two months I've gone from 220 to 200. It might seem to be too fast, but you have to remember that I lost a lot of liquids at first. I exercise a bit more than before, but I eat the same amount as I did with less training without the hunger. So, no more candy, chocolate, rice, pasta or potatoes for me. Big deal. I have exchanged the stuff full of carbs with green salads and other vegetables. I'm not the average idiot Atkins buff who rants about how you can eat all the grease and meat you want all the time and still lose weight. Don't do that. Eat as much (well, a sane amount anyway) meat and fish as you did before and exchange all that candy and other sugar / carb filled stuff with vegetables if you try this. Otherwise you'll end up with a bad heart before you turn 40. Now after two months I'm 200lbs (91kg) and still going down. It isn't a silver bullet thingie I'm doing. It's hard work but it's something that works for me. No more intense hunger all the time. For me it's easy to keep doing this. I don't want candy, chocolate, chips or other crap anymore. Heck, my house is full of them all the time but still I don't touch them. I'm feeling better and better all the time and while I'm not looking anything like an athlete I'm getting there. This is something that I think is a typical nerd way of doing things. Analyze your situation, find out what's your biggest problem and what causes it. Then do the necessary changes. You'll have to do some sacrifices, but I'm telling you, it's definetly worth it :-)(Sorry this was so goddamn long)
I joined a gym after coworking invited me to check it out last year. I signed up the following week on June 3, 2006. We go five days a week, everyday after work. I also have college classes 4 days a week, so I go to class, then work, then the gym. So it's been pretty tough, but they payoff has been worth it. I was 417lbs when I started the gym. No one would have guess I weighed that much though because I'm 6'6" and I hold it well I guess. However, the last I checked (about 6 weeks ago) I was down to 340lbs. In 10 months I lost 77lbs. Since I'm so busy, some nights I can't stay as long as I need for a lot of cardio, but I start out running a mile everynight. When I started the gym, I couldn't run .25 miles without having to slow down to catch my breath.. Now I can run 2 miles straight in about 24 minutes... pretty good for a big guy. I train on weights a lot and its pretty crazy seeing the improvement come month after month.The article is right though. I knew the main thing I needed to do was have a lifestyle change with eating habits. I cook my own dinners for work or if I don't have time, I eat light TV dinners. I still eat out a lot on weekends (I drink, and at the bar there's food.. lol) ... I would probably be 20lbs lighter if I didn't eat fatty stuff on Saturday and Sunday, but no matter what, I usually make it to the gym 5 times a week. One thing I did even before I started the gym, I made a concious choice on day to just start drinking diet sodas. I've heard they aren't much better than regular soda, but I'm sure the lack of all that high-fructose corn syrup helps... So I purley drink diet soda.. And as far as food goes, I try to avoid just a few things that are full of fat.. Cheese, fried foods, and other dairy products like butter and ice cream... Other than that, the snacks foods I eat are typically stuff that's better for you like wheat thins, granola bars, and fruit.To be honest, I don't even consider myself being on a diet, because I think of it as a lifestyle... Some people just can't eat all that high fat stuff and stay skinny... I happen to have a friend that eats anything... and I mean ANYTHING.. and can't put on a pound... dude's like 140lbs... but it's just not like that for everyone.. For anyone trying to lose weight, I'd suggest to get your ass moving around.. get some exercise.. and hold off on the cheese on that sandwich... and realize that those Ben and Jerry Ice Cream's at the store equate to 4 servings... If you have the will and the perserverance to do it for 3 or 4 months... it's pretty easy after that...
I can testify this worked for me, with emphasis on non-starchy vegetables (green beans, broccoli, ...), and it's my normal eating plan with occassional "bad" foods. I'm sure other variations can work.Oh, and as to what obesity does not exist in nature. The fat, slow, and injured become the prey ;-)
dvddesignApr 28, 2007
Um, dude, some of that was your metabolism's increase from the previous weeks activities as well. Don't go thinking you're done yet. Slowing down to moderate activity levels won't show much positive loss if you slack off in week 2. That's the problem with exercise and diet. People expect results on the scale day 2. "I exercised 400 KCals yesterday, so I do that 6 times and that's nearly a pound..." Yeah, but you also increased your metabolic rate, and started burning more calories. IF you aren't eating right or aren't exercising right BOTH, muscles get eaten instead of fat, or your muscles starve and your metabolism levels off.Dieting is probably one of the hardest things to do well, because it is a lifestyle, one that most people who work and have jobs cannot completely embrace. No pizzas, no cheeseburgers, no cheating. Every beer you drink compounds itself by not only being 90 calories (lite beer), but your body also metastisizes the alcohol into sugar in your body, and that sugar goes straight to fat. Drinking one light beer is like having two to your body.
noctemsaiyakuApr 28, 2007
The simple key is to exercise and eat better, portions and some times treat yourself. Most important is to stay consecutive, don't go on and off it only delays the inevitable.
chulkApr 28, 2007
no its the fat f@#k's fault for going to McDonalds
sasperApr 28, 2007
Agreed. The Hacker's Diet is great for us geeky-types.
hoopeeApr 28, 2007
In theory losing weight is easy. Spend more energy than you eat. Well, real life isn't that easy. With sugar everywhere you're in a sugar high really all the time and feeling hungry the instant your blood sugar levels drop back to normal and it's just so easy to take a quick sugary snack to feel better. Or really just eat anything (and easily a lot of it) to get rid of hunger when you aren't really even hungry, just having post sugar high munchies. Well, that's at least what I've done in the past.. I'm not saying this works for everyone, because everyone has a slightly different metabolism. Still, maybe this will help some of you.In February 2006 I was weighting 240lbs (109kg) and quickly gaining more. I'm about 6" long (182cm), my build is pretty thick and I had some muscles too, but it was mainly fat. One day I had enough and decided to do something about it. I went on a calorie-counting spree and it actually worked for a while. I ate the same stuff I ate before, but just less. The problem was that I was feeling hungry all the time and really had to fight not to eat more, 24/7. But, as I said, it worked for a while. In a few months I got to 220lbs (100kg), but then the hunger finally took over. I ate more, but not too much. Just enough more that my weight started climbing up again and every time I reached 230lbs (105kg) I did another sprint to push my weight back to 220. The problem was that I couldn't go past that. It was just mentally too tough. And like someone said, losing weight is mostly about how much you eat. If I exercised more I ate more. Now, fastforward to December - I was determined to do another of these sprints. It actually worked very well, I started from 227lbs (103kg) and went to 216lbs (98kg) in a month. After Christmas however I was back going up ever so slowly. In the beginning of march I was back to 220 and still gaining. This is when I decided I really had to do something. I was successful in the previous year, going from 240 to 220 but as I said, it was really, really tough. I kept reverting back to my old habits and eating when I wasn't really hungry, just craving for sugar. So, in effort to do something about it I checked out different diets and tried to figure out what's about them that work. Well, I had previously pinpointed my problem, sugar. And Atkins diet was all about limiting the amount of carbohydrates you take in daily. I read about it and decided to try the induction phase of it, which is really about just not taking in any sugar for two weeks. The benefits are twofold -- you have time to get rid of your sugar addiction and get the excess carbohydrates out of your body which also drops your weight as ch's have a lot of liquids tied up to your body. For me it was about the first effect. I felt plain awful for about four days with headaches etc. But after that I felt better than for a long time. And the second effect was a morale booster as well, I lost around 7 pounds in two weeks.Now, after the first two weeks you have to start taking some carbs in to you diet, because your body (and brains) need it. But the point is to restrict the amount. With low carb intake you have normal blood sugar levels with no highs and lows and have no intense cravings that are hard to overcome. I'm not feeling hungry all the time even when I'm taking in a lot less calories than my body needs to keep status quo. This has worked very well for me. In two months I've gone from 220 to 200. It might seem to be too fast, but you have to remember that I lost a lot of liquids at first. I exercise a bit more than before, but I eat the same amount as I did with less training without the hunger. So, no more candy, chocolate, rice, pasta or potatoes for me. Big deal. I have exchanged the stuff full of carbs with green salads and other vegetables. I'm not the average idiot Atkins buff who rants about how you can eat all the grease and meat you want all the time and still lose weight. Don't do that. Eat as much (well, a sane amount anyway) meat and fish as you did before and exchange all that candy and other sugar / carb filled stuff with vegetables if you try this. Otherwise you'll end up with a bad heart before you turn 40. Now after two months I'm 200lbs (91kg) and still going down. It isn't a silver bullet thingie I'm doing. It's hard work but it's something that works for me. No more intense hunger all the time. For me it's easy to keep doing this. I don't want candy, chocolate, chips or other crap anymore. Heck, my house is full of them all the time but still I don't touch them. I'm feeling better and better all the time and while I'm not looking anything like an athlete I'm getting there. This is something that I think is a typical nerd way of doing things. Analyze your situation, find out what's your biggest problem and what causes it. Then do the necessary changes. You'll have to do some sacrifices, but I'm telling you, it's definetly worth it :-)(Sorry this was so goddamn long)
eclosisApr 28, 2007
I joined a gym after coworking invited me to check it out last year. I signed up the following week on June 3, 2006. We go five days a week, everyday after work. I also have college classes 4 days a week, so I go to class, then work, then the gym. So it's been pretty tough, but they payoff has been worth it. I was 417lbs when I started the gym. No one would have guess I weighed that much though because I'm 6'6" and I hold it well I guess. However, the last I checked (about 6 weeks ago) I was down to 340lbs. In 10 months I lost 77lbs. Since I'm so busy, some nights I can't stay as long as I need for a lot of cardio, but I start out running a mile everynight. When I started the gym, I couldn't run .25 miles without having to slow down to catch my breath.. Now I can run 2 miles straight in about 24 minutes... pretty good for a big guy. I train on weights a lot and its pretty crazy seeing the improvement come month after month.The article is right though. I knew the main thing I needed to do was have a lifestyle change with eating habits. I cook my own dinners for work or if I don't have time, I eat light TV dinners. I still eat out a lot on weekends (I drink, and at the bar there's food.. lol) ... I would probably be 20lbs lighter if I didn't eat fatty stuff on Saturday and Sunday, but no matter what, I usually make it to the gym 5 times a week. One thing I did even before I started the gym, I made a concious choice on day to just start drinking diet sodas. I've heard they aren't much better than regular soda, but I'm sure the lack of all that high-fructose corn syrup helps... So I purley drink diet soda.. And as far as food goes, I try to avoid just a few things that are full of fat.. Cheese, fried foods, and other dairy products like butter and ice cream... Other than that, the snacks foods I eat are typically stuff that's better for you like wheat thins, granola bars, and fruit.To be honest, I don't even consider myself being on a diet, because I think of it as a lifestyle... Some people just can't eat all that high fat stuff and stay skinny... I happen to have a friend that eats anything... and I mean ANYTHING.. and can't put on a pound... dude's like 140lbs... but it's just not like that for everyone.. For anyone trying to lose weight, I'd suggest to get your ass moving around.. get some exercise.. and hold off on the cheese on that sandwich... and realize that those Ben and Jerry Ice Cream's at the store equate to 4 servings... If you have the will and the perserverance to do it for 3 or 4 months... it's pretty easy after that...
davefApr 28, 2007
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whovianApr 29, 2007
I can testify this worked for me, with emphasis on non-starchy vegetables (green beans, broccoli, ...), and it's my normal eating plan with occassional "bad" foods. I'm sure other variations can work.Oh, and as to what obesity does not exist in nature. The fat, slow, and injured become the prey ;-)
maskidatMay 28, 2007
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