It may sound strange but i'm trying to put on weight. When I started my job I didn't pay attention to how little I was eating so I lost quite a bit of weight. Now I consume at least 4,000 calories a day and I can't seem to get past 140 pounds.
How do you lose weight?
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I've never deliberately lost weight. I tried to lose weight as a teenager (by reducing the amount I ate and going to the gym) but got nowhere, so I gave up. Then I hit 19 and dropped two dress sizes in 12 months! My mother says exactly the same thing happened to her at the same age, so I suspect it's genetic somehow.
I stay healthy by going to the gym once a week, fencing once a week, taking the stairs up to my office (on the 15th floor), and being sensible about what I eat.
I stay healthy by going to the gym once a week, fencing once a week, taking the stairs up to my office (on the 15th floor), and being sensible about what I eat.
I do sword fighting and competitive cycling.
I live in a city called Auckland that has really intense hills, you'll go uphill both ways on nearly any trip, it's great to keep fit.
I eat HORRIBLY, pizza mcdonalds KFC all sorts of rubbish. Yet I only weigh 69-70 kgs, so yeah it's pretty effective.
Sword fighting is a fun alternative to cardio IMO, but I'm no physician
I live in a city called Auckland that has really intense hills, you'll go uphill both ways on nearly any trip, it's great to keep fit.
I eat HORRIBLY, pizza mcdonalds KFC all sorts of rubbish. Yet I only weigh 69-70 kgs, so yeah it's pretty effective.
Sword fighting is a fun alternative to cardio IMO, but I'm no physician
Counting calories and limiting portion size has worked just fine for me. Also, I don't really weigh myself, but rather measure myself with a tape measure so as to avoid the whole thing becoming a numbers game where I "just have to lose a few more" over and over again until it becomes unhealthy.
Not eat a lot and just simply move around.
Sure, I game a lot, and am rather sloth-like when I'm home alone on nights off, but I still try to walk a couple of miles a day (I LOATHE running and haven't done it since I played sports) and do little things at home (using Nordic Flex, sit-ups, etc).
If you simply run/walk for 30 minutes a day, and eat better (fruit instead of sweets, don't eat within 2 hours of you going to bed), you'll take weight off and are more likely to KEEP it off. You don't have to deny yourself the things you love, just don't eat a HUGE serving of it. And drink plenty of water. Sodas are bad. ;D
Sure, I game a lot, and am rather sloth-like when I'm home alone on nights off, but I still try to walk a couple of miles a day (I LOATHE running and haven't done it since I played sports) and do little things at home (using Nordic Flex, sit-ups, etc).
If you simply run/walk for 30 minutes a day, and eat better (fruit instead of sweets, don't eat within 2 hours of you going to bed), you'll take weight off and are more likely to KEEP it off. You don't have to deny yourself the things you love, just don't eat a HUGE serving of it. And drink plenty of water. Sodas are bad. ;D
I don't need to lose weight because I never gained too much weight in the first place. I just don't have enough of an appetite for that to happen.
Not eat, or get sick. If I don't gorge myself 6 times a day I lose weight. If I get sick, I'm likely to lose 10lbs in a week.
My problem is keeping healthy weight on. Probably a metabolism thing.
My problem is keeping healthy weight on. Probably a metabolism thing.
No more risk of injury than playing a competitive sport. I've never seen anyone get hurt since i've been doing it but I saw all sorts of peopel get hurt any a shorter time span back when I used to wrestle. Not saying there isn't an inherent risk but there are different levels of risk for any activity.Chairman Miaow said:
We have an old family saying I just remebered:
"You go to the gym to get a nice body, not necessarily your own."
"You go to the gym to get a nice body, not necessarily your own."
Right now I'm going back to trying to lose weight- mostly because I caught sight of myself in a mirror one day and thought "double-chin ahoy!"
I tend to eat fairly healthily, and cook a lot of my meals from scratch, but I really can't lie about having the occasional takeaway and the inevitable processed frozen food that comes from living in the UK on a student budget (pizzas, frozen ready meals and reformed bits of chicken are cheaper than veggies over here, how screwed up is that?) and I enjoy alcohol regularly, but not to excess (and I can't stand beer, so I mostly drink spirits, which I'm told are less calorific anyway). It's entirely possible that my weight gain is thanks to a low-budget, convenience food-filled student lifestyle.
Only problem is, I have a unbelievable amount of books to read each week for my postgrad course at uni, and therefore little time for anything, let alone work-out time. So today I took a book with me to the gym, and stayed on the exercise bike for about 45mins, and did some weight training and crunches for about 15 mins. Hopefully that'll have an impact if I do that enough times a week.
I tend to eat fairly healthily, and cook a lot of my meals from scratch, but I really can't lie about having the occasional takeaway and the inevitable processed frozen food that comes from living in the UK on a student budget (pizzas, frozen ready meals and reformed bits of chicken are cheaper than veggies over here, how screwed up is that?) and I enjoy alcohol regularly, but not to excess (and I can't stand beer, so I mostly drink spirits, which I'm told are less calorific anyway). It's entirely possible that my weight gain is thanks to a low-budget, convenience food-filled student lifestyle.
Only problem is, I have a unbelievable amount of books to read each week for my postgrad course at uni, and therefore little time for anything, let alone work-out time. So today I took a book with me to the gym, and stayed on the exercise bike for about 45mins, and did some weight training and crunches for about 15 mins. Hopefully that'll have an impact if I do that enough times a week.
I manage to burn off my junk food just by walking a couple times a day. Also playing badminton.
After a recent traumatic experience in my personal life i pretty much went from a normal diet to somewhere between 0 and 600 calories a day, Dropped a stone in 2 weeks. It slowed down since then, but I've taken to walking between 4 and 7 miles a day and I'm determined to drop the next 5 stone that needs to go...
Don't ever tell the people on this forum you don't have time to do something. They take it as an invitation to go over your daily routine and tell you exactly when you can fit in a half hour high intensity work out. Then they say you're lazy if you protest.clockworkmonkey said:
I'm a vegan slacker who lives downtown in a city (so I actually walk everywhere).
The unintentional fringe benefits work out well for me.
The unintentional fringe benefits work out well for me.
I started by walking five days a week, for an hour a day, at a 3.5 mile-per-hour pace, and doing light strength training. I also ate more fruits and veggies, more lean protein, and fewer processed carbohydrates. Then I subbed out the walking for circuit-training on exercises that work major muscle groups three or four days a week, for an hour or so a day. I've lost 30 pounds in two and a half months, but I've been hovering in the same general area the last few weeks (probably because of the weight training; I've been getting comments that I'm looking thinner, and I need to punch a new hole in my belt). I've taken the last couple of days off because I've been feeling sick, and I'm thinking of restructuring the program and making another dietary change or two as well when I start again.
You need to monitor how much food you're eating.5ilver said:
You also need some physical activity which you don't hate to do.
Find out what your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is, it's the least amount of food you need to survive. If you eat between 200 and 500 calories less than that you will lose weight.
There's a link for metric and
Re-calculate it every fortnight or every month, because your BMR will go down based on your weight, height (If applicable), and activity load.
If you're training to run a marathon, you need to eat a fuckload more than someone who's just hitting the treadmill for 30 mins 3-4 times a week, who needs to eat more than someone who's sedentary.
The fluctuation for physical activity is quite small though, so don't think "Well I went for a jog today, I'll eat an extra muesli bar." You need to be doing hours of training or really high intensity training to warrant extra food. Like training for a marathon.
I would also recommend going to the gym again, weight training (resistance training of any sort) will fill you out with muscle (which is independent of you losing fat, but the exertion will help you burn huge quantities of calories).
Also, even if you ignore everything I've told you up to this point, you need to continue doing cardio.
Studies have found (and I'm going to go get a source for this one because it's that important)[footnote] Warren, Barry, Hooker, Sui, Church, and Blair (2010) Sedentary Behaviors Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men. Medical Science of Sports and Exercise Physiology. 42(5): 879?885.[/footnote][footnote]Lee, Artero, Sui, and Blair (2010) Mortality trends in the general population: the importance of cardiorespiratory fitness. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 24(4 supplement): 27?35.[/footnote] that people who're:
smokers,
obese,
have a family history of heart disease,
high blood pressure,
and high cholesterol;
but who exercise at a moderate rate (20-40 mins a day depending on intensity)
are less at risk of dying from anything at all than someone who:
doesn't smoke,
is not obese,
Has no family history of heart disease,
healthy blood pressure,
and healthy cholesterol.
The main reason these people have a lower mortality rate, and live longer is because they're reducing the risk of the highest cause of death in most western countries (including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US). Heart Disease.
If anyone has any questions feel free to quote this post or PM me. As you can tell I love this shit; I really, really do.