Weaver said:
GrinningCat said:
I find it hard to believe that you gained 82 pounds off of pop alone, especially since you're reportedly only drinking one to two cans a day. You've got to have other, just-as-bad habits in there and you've got to be leading a pretty sedentary lifestyle to let it effect you as drastically as 82 pounds in a month. For one thing, if you -did- exercise, that would keep your basal metabolic rate up high enough that one or two cans of pop isn't going to effect you much due to the set point theory.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. It ain't just the pop that's doing it and you're fudging the facts around here somewhere.
I'm calling bullshit.
I agree. even if the coke turned 100% into fat; 30 bottles even of coke does not weigh 37kg.
30 bottles of coke has the energy of just over 1 pound of fat. To gain 82 pounds of fat in one month from coke, you'd have to drink almost 79, 30 racks of coke in that month, above your resting metabolic intake.
Kalezian said:
Silly, I know, but take the callories of a can of soda, take the sodium.
For one can of regular coke, 140 calories, 45 mg sodium, 39g sugars, 39g total carb.
a can of coke has the same amount of sugar as it does carbs, and guess what your body uses for fuel first? Carbs, correct. So if you bring in a steady amount of carbs that your body will use, what happens to the sugar? it gets turned into fat for storage.
wrong. Sugar is a carb, it has the same number of sugars as carbs because the carbs are the sugars, they're the same thing. So your body isn't turning that sugar into fat but burning it as an easy carb. The fat comes from the fact that your body only needs x energy, everything beyond that gets stored, typically as fat, so you're storing 140 calories more of fat each soda(less if you're drinking the soda instead of another drink with calories like milk or juice).
So, and this will really blow your minds here, sugar free sodas will infact cut out the sugar portion of it. Still though, you need to have an exercise regiment that will burn the same or more calories and Carbs as you bring in, else you will get a little pudgy regardless of what you are eating/drinking.
calories includes calories from carbs, you need to burn as many calories each day as you intake. carbs are already included in that so there's no need to count them again.
Also, protien is only useful in muscle building and has no actual bearing on being healthy. so unless you are trying to get noticeable muscles that in all honesty wont make you as strong as someone who just lifts weights and such without protein, you are wasting money on that.
again false. a body uses proteins for a lot more than building muscles. Many hormones are made of proteins, many cell structures are made of proteins, and cells are built every day. There are 8 essential amino acids that you can only get by eating protein. Protein is also broken down as an energy source, at the conversion of 4 calories per gram, the same as carbohydrates. So protein has a huge impact on being healthy, not just on building muscle. Also, anyone who lifts a lot of weights takes protein supplements, it's not about looking big. There's a lot of biology behind it, but the short of it is that you need protein supplements if you're going to build a lot of muscle.
OT: I weighed about 240 before I started getting ready to go to the Army, and by standards I was overweight at 6'4".
So, to lose weight, I ran. I stopped drinking sodas entirely [because caffine in general isn't allowed in Basic, so I needed to get un-addicted to it fast], ate a near bare minimum meal [that means one meal] per day, and I ran.
this is the absolute worst way to lose weight I've ever heard of. You crashed your resting metabolism by eating only once each day and running is a relatively inefficient way to burn calories. Not that it can't work, but there are so many better ways.
How much did I run? With no hyperbole, 15 miles minimum each day, shin splints be damned. If my legs were hurting too much, I would get on a bicycle and do 20 or 25 miles in the gym.
Now, my previous soda addiction wasn't causing me to gain weight, I was 240 nearly through the entirety of highschool and for a couple of years after. But the sugar is what caused my weight to stay at that mark. so once I got rid of the sugar, my end weight was about 204. you will see those commercials that say "I lost five pounds in forty eight months thanks to monkey spunk!", but with just determination I lose thirty six in two months. Near the end of my training, I was losing one to two pounds per day because I had cut out sodas with sugar in them.
Yeah, it's absolutely because you stopped drinking soda, not because you changed your entire lifestyle with the goal of losing weight. It's all about calories in and calories out, that's why you lost weight, not because you cut out sugar. Sugar is just one more source of calories.
even now, I still work out, and though I gained maybe three pounds since leaving Basic, I still drink my fair share of cokes and energy drinks and have yet to jump back up to 240.
so really the only ways Soda is bad for you is if you are lazy and cant even run a mile to save your life, or if you just straight up dont brush your teeth causing you to look like a meth addict in a few months.
Yopaz said:
Welllllllll metabolism is fairly variable. Personally I am quite skinny, I am known to eat a whole lot almost scaring my friends at times and I am often told that they would kill for my metabolism. (Now here's the kicker)
So I ended up testing it. Turns out that my metabolism is different from average, I am actually ever so slightly below the average basal metabolic rate. I just happen to exercise a lot and I don't eat candy or drink soda except for at rare occasions. I even tried to see if I could gain weight by simply adding another meal to each day. I gained 5kg in a few months.
Just because that's the way it was with you, doesn't mean that it's always the case. I have a friend who has gone to a nutritionist to determine his metabolism. Without any significant exercise, he burns 5000 calories a day to maintain weight.
On the other hand, I have a friend who thinks he has a high metabolism because he eats a massive amount with each meal, but I'm pretty sure at least 90% of it is because he only has one meal a day most days, and some days he doesn't eat at all.
It varies from person to person, every person has a different resting metabolism due to many many factors we don't fully understand, but some people do just have really high metabolisms
Yan007 said:
DalekJaas said:
Spot1990 said:
So you gained more weight drinking 2 sodas a day for a month than the Supersize Me guy did eating 3 McDonalds meals a day for a month? Adding 278 calories a day to your diet made you gain an 8 year old in weight?
Obviously I wasn't clear in the post, the 30kgs I've put on is from a year and a half of going to the gym, the post is about some fat I've put on from drinking Soda for a month, no specific weight mentioned.
Bodybuilder here. Reality check.
In the best case scenario, if your diet is the best, your training is top shape and you are experiencing noob gains, you'd gain at the very most 10 pounds of muscle [4.5kg] on your first year. For most people training, an awesome year would give you 5 pounds [2.2kg].
You mean to tell me you gained 30kg in a year and a half and most of it was lean gain then you suddenly got love handles because you upped your calories for a month? I have to call bullshit. The best case scenario for you would have been to gain 6.7kg in that time yet you claim 30kg. Something tells me you are carrying 20something kgs of excess fat and water already.
Edit: Edited for dis-ambiguity.
I'm no expert, but the above is wrong. The yearly limit is closer to 20 pounds, but that's pure muscle mass and what most people call 'muscle' also includes glycogen stores, and the water in the muscles. Counting that, it's not unreasonable to assume that someone could gain 30 pounds of 'muscle' in a year, maybe a little more than that.
Rack said:
There's enough calories there to make you put on one pound. That's bad, a pound a month is a kind of horrifying level of weight gain. But it's nowhere near as bad as alcohol. Something else is up there.
Not that horrifying. 12 pounds a year is less than most college freshmen and even sophomores experience. It's not good, but most people could easily withstand putting on a pound a month for many many months before there was any dramatic need for lifestyle change.
also im drinking milk with milk powder in it for protein.