Jazzman
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Post by Jazzman on Sept 5, 2011 23:08:02 GMT -5
See I'm taking a physical fitness class on Tuesday nights, based in learning nutritional info and that stuff. The current goal is to lose around 20-30 pounds by the end of the program. Sure I'll still be above 3 bills, but I won't be closer to 4 than 3. We also have a long-term goal set and with these choices and such that I'm making now I hope to continue to lose weight, not plateau and such.
The thing I think I've learned that helped me the most so far is that weight in itself is just a number, a gauge of the choices we make. We need to focus more on the choices and the reasons why we do what we do than on the results and kept prisoner by a number.
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Post by Bone Daddy on Sept 5, 2011 23:30:22 GMT -5
I've been in the gym a lot lately, and my friends dad just asked me if I was juicing.
Best compliment ever!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2011 23:37:42 GMT -5
About a year ago I weighed nearly 300 lbs. Now I weigh about 250 and most is muscle. I've been working out. I'm 6'4 btw just to put that into perspective. pics? ;D Lol, I think you're imagining some John Cena looking dude. I'm just big and solid instead of big and jiggly now. I still pretty much just look like an average dude but slightly taller. But for the record, I never post pics of myself online. You never know who's really looking.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 6, 2011 9:23:31 GMT -5
Quick note: I do understand the feelings of folks here who want to "turn fat into muscle", but beware of that, because you can't do it. You can build muscle, sure, but doing so without a big time shift in diet and a spike in your cardio activity just means you'll build the muscles up under the fat that's already there. Muscle building and fat burning are two separate things, and need to be addressed as such. You can eat a diet that helps build muscle while at the same time promoting fat loss (proteins/complex fats/complex carbs/etc.), but the exercises are quite different. Plus, obviously, muscle weighs more than fat. I'm sure I've burned more than 50 pounds worth of fat since I started losing, but building up muscle has kept me in the 190's, which is obviously fine to me. I've lost like 30lb the past four and a half months keeping a food diary set to a calorie goal derived from my approximate calorie expenditure (BMR + activity based on my sex, weight, height and age) minus 500 calories using livestrong. I'm down to about a BMI of 22, and part of me wants to continue until I get to 18.5. I'm worried that I might be developing an eating disorder but I haven't been able to dissuade myself from this practice. Interesting situation: keeping tabs on what you put into your body is smart, but getting invested too much means (and I know what this feels like) you could easily become a slave to the numbers, and find yourself obsessing over them. Let me first suggest this: ignore BMI. BMI is only really useful when gauging the overall weight of a large population of people. For individuals, it doesn't take into account things like what your natural frame is (i.e. my brother and I are the same height and don't seem that far apart in weight, but due to my larger frame I outweigh him by around 30 pounds), and it also counts muscle and fat exactly the same, which is ridiculous. I forget what it's called, but there's a different BMI metric out there that works better for individuals. Can't remember it for the life of me, though. Also, depending on where you started, 30 pounds in 4 months can be a good or a not-so-good thing. Going by average cases, I'd be careful about losing too much more than that too quickly; continue working out and eating smart, by all means, but don't try to drop too much too soon, your body isn't designed to handle it. Ha, gallbladder or not, do enjoy having that 18-19 year old metabolism while you can. Goes away pretty quickly right around the time the college years end.
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Post by willywonka666 on Sept 6, 2011 9:40:16 GMT -5
I've put on some weight this year and ideally I'd like to lose a total of 30 something pounds. Maybe 40. But I'll worry about it ten at a time so it's not as overwhelming. im not sure what i'll do as it's just not feasible to join a gym right now. i do have an exercise bike though
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 6, 2011 9:46:58 GMT -5
I've put on some weight this year and ideally I'd like to lose a total of 30 something pounds. Maybe 40. But I'll worry about it ten at a time so it's not as overwhelming. im not sure what i'll do as it's just not feasible to join a gym right now. i do have an exercise bike though I'd say take an approach where you first take stock of whatever it is you're doing now: how many calories are you typically eating in a day? Where do a lot of those calories come from? How often do you get a chance to walk to work/the store/around town for errands? All that good stuff. From there, pick one or two things you could alter pretty easily; for example, maybe you could swap out white bread for whole wheat, maybe you could figure out how much dessert you tend to eat and cut back there, or how much soda you might be drinking. Pick one or two of those, improve them, and then add something like 15-20 minutes on that exercise bike a day. Most people who make a few minor changes like that often find that the first 10-20 pounds (depending on your starting size) tend to come off pretty easily. Also, by making slow-but-steady changes, it helps your body to avoid hitting a plateau; you've only changed one or two things and moderately work out, that means over time you have more things you can potentially change, and you leave yourself room to grow in exercising.
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Post by willywonka666 on Sept 6, 2011 12:18:09 GMT -5
I've put on some weight this year and ideally I'd like to lose a total of 30 something pounds. Maybe 40. But I'll worry about it ten at a time so it's not as overwhelming. im not sure what i'll do as it's just not feasible to join a gym right now. i do have an exercise bike though I'd say take an approach where you first take stock of whatever it is you're doing now: how many calories are you typically eating in a day? Where do a lot of those calories come from? How often do you get a chance to walk to work/the store/around town for errands? All that good stuff. From there, pick one or two things you could alter pretty easily; for example, maybe you could swap out white bread for whole wheat, maybe you could figure out how much dessert you tend to eat and cut back there, or how much soda you might be drinking. Pick one or two of those, improve them, and then add something like 15-20 minutes on that exercise bike a day. Most people who make a few minor changes like that often find that the first 10-20 pounds (depending on your starting size) tend to come off pretty easily. Also, by making slow-but-steady changes, it helps your body to avoid hitting a plateau; you've only changed one or two things and moderately work out, that means over time you have more things you can potentially change, and you leave yourself room to grow in exercising. Thanks, I've gotten lazy lately and pretty bad about soft drinks which I used to only drink once or twice a week. I think a lot of it comes down to proportions when I eat. I eat fast and tend to overdo stuff and it's something I do in general as well and I need to keep in check.
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Post by Red Impact on Sept 6, 2011 16:07:40 GMT -5
I don't think plateaus are as big as insurmountable as people think they are (it just means you need to make a minor tweak to the workout, either doing more reps or lifting heavier weights).
However, making minor changes can help out with the hardest part of it, the mental aspect. Making a lot of changes in a short of amount of time is a lot harder than making one change every few weeks and going from there. You have to give your body and mind a chance to get over things like, say, cravings. And if you go from eating at a Chinese buffet every meal to trying to get by on 1200 calories a day, you're just setting yourself up for failure. Incremental changes are a good thing.
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Post by woowoowoox on Sept 6, 2011 17:18:09 GMT -5
My family did the big turnaround. Went from buying all junk food to buying none. So I've only been drinking water and eating healthy foods instead of drinking Pepsi, eating hella large meals, and then snacking all day.
I have cravings for the old food, but it's not as hard as I thought. I'm counting calories on this site called MyFitnessPal.com and I was shocked by the differences. At this time of the day before I started this "diet" I would've ate well over 1,000 calories by now, but today I've only had 400 and something. It's pretty awesome.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 6, 2011 19:05:05 GMT -5
I'm at 245-250 range and have been for the past five years. I'll even get down to 240. The lightest I was in recent memory was 237 but I was sick then so I regained the weight. However, I've maintained my weight for a while, whereas back in 2004-2005, I was at my heaviest, which was 270-275. I gave up snacking for Lent in 2005 and lost about 10-15 pounds. In the fall, I lost another 10 pounds.
All I can say is that if I want to lose more weight, I just need to refrain from certain foods. I exercise a lot, though.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 6, 2011 19:48:15 GMT -5
I don't think plateaus are as big as insurmountable as people think they are (it just means you need to make a minor tweak to the workout, either doing more reps or lifting heavier weights). However, making minor changes can help out with the hardest part of it, the mental aspect. Making a lot of changes in a short of amount of time is a lot harder than making one change every few weeks and going from there. You have to give your body and mind a chance to get over things like, say, cravings. And if you go from eating at a Chinese buffet every meal to trying to get by on 1200 calories a day, you're just setting yourself up for failure. Incremental changes are a good thing. I agree, but I think the "take it slow" method of handling plateaus can be good for somebody who works a lot, doesn't have much free gym time, might be looking to lose weight without a gym, etc. etc. Excellent point about the mental side of it, though, although that can actually be a physical thing, as well. There is such a thing as addiction to certain foods and stuff, some of it mental, some of it physical. It is amazing what changes can really do, though; for example, I still crave unhealthy meals now and again, but by and large I find them a hell of a lot less appetizing than I did even just two years ago.
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Post by Red Impact on Sept 6, 2011 19:55:35 GMT -5
I don't know if its any different for food, but mental cravings for nicotine last a few days to a couple weeks, and the rest is psychological.
But yeah, you can totally rewrite your appetite with enough time. I remember when I first changed my diet and tried to go to a barbecue place, I threw up after the meal because my body wasn't used to so much fat and fried food. And that was just in a span of a few months.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 6, 2011 20:48:19 GMT -5
I don't know if its any different for food, but mental cravings for nicotine last a few days to a couple weeks, and the rest is psychological. But yeah, you can totally rewrite your appetite with enough time. I remember when I first changed my diet and tried to go to a barbecue place, I threw up after the meal because my body wasn't used to so much fat and fried food. And that was just in a span of a few months. I read how that happens to some people. I wonder if there are people out there who may have changed diets and such, and that effect doesn't happen.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 6, 2011 21:09:00 GMT -5
Well, if you commit to some changes over a long enough period of time, you'll certainly have physical changes that you can't just make disappear.
For example, I used to be able to eat as many buffalo wings as I wanted when I went out to an all-you-can-eat night. Part of that was being closer to college age and having a cast-iron stomach, part of that was being used to overeating on bad foods.
Today, I really have to be careful; I've overeaten some days and just been absolutely sick as a dog, or felt like I was going to burst. On those days I did overeat I probably ate LESS than I had at times in the past, but felt ten times worse.
Man, word is spreading around that eliminating all grains from your diet is the way to go...not because all grain is bad, but because of how unhealthy the big agriculture/food company have made it. I don't know if I could handle that: I've certainly cut back somewhat on carbs, but I'm a good Italian boy, I need my bread and pasta.
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