I need to lose weight (I'm about 320lbs now, his maximum, though I'm 5' 9", and somehow I never, ever hear anyone say anything insulting about my weight), but I'm not sure the personality and attitude problem that appears to go with it is worth it. ;)
How to lose weight. No, really.
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Re: How to lose weight. No, really.
#22The Shangri-La diet is the lifehack of the century (not a diet in the traditional sense): http://www.sethroberts.net/ Seriously. You simply won't want to eat, and if you think you want to eat, you'll be surprised at how untasty that delicious looking candy bar or pasta is once it hits your lips. It's almost as if your body conspires against your best efforts to gain weight, which is a nice reversal for once. In conju…
I'd switch from olive oil to coconut oil if possible -- much healthier. Olive oil still has about 10% pufa in it. Check out http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=27477 for more info.
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#24> Lots of diets tell you to reward yourself with one good meal or a really yummy snack after a week of successful dieting and exercise. Fuck that. You’re fat. Punish yourself until you lose the weight
Awesome. As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world.
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#25His advice is not bad, but it can be simplified: low carb diet. Avoid specially excess fructose, so yes, lose the sodas, and sweets and sugar. And cereals derivatives (like bread). Also starchy vegetables (like potatoes).
Exercise if you want muscle, but it's not necessary or sufficient.
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#26Good advice, though I think he overemphasizes the gym. The point of exercise is to emphasize how much overeating costs you. It's harder to justify that candy bar when it equates to an hour of hard exercise.
An hour of hard cycling burns about 700 kcals, which is a medium-sized meal. A candy bar is on the order of 250 kcals typically.
Very true. I burn 1000 kcals in an hour of running on an easy day, and closer to 1300 during a tempo workout.
Also, the health benefits of cardio are numerous, ranging from stress reduction to neurogenesis to longer telomeres. It's not just about how good looking your body is.
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#27calories burned > calories consumed
This is obviously true, but it's not as simple as it may seem.
The body has a complex energy regulation system and hunger, energy consumption via metabolism and energy storage are interlaced. It's not as simple as "energy in" = independent variable.
It has a preference to store (instead of immediately use) calories from carbohydrates (due to insulin). So a diet low in total calories but still high in carbs is going to be painful, and very frequently fails.
Read Gary Taubes' book, people.
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#28> Lots of diets tell you to reward yourself with one good meal or a really yummy snack after a week of successful dieting and exercise. Fuck that. You’re fat. Punish yourself until you lose the weight Awesome. As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world.
> As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world.
This is very wrong. Obesity is not a shortage of discipline, is a hormonal disruption. We play havoc with insulin eating too much of things we didn't evolved to eat.
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#29> Lots of diets tell you to reward yourself with one good meal or a really yummy snack after a week of successful dieting and exercise. Fuck that. You’re fat. Punish yourself until you lose the weight Awesome. As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world.
> As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world. This is very wrong. Obesity is not a shortage of discipline, is a hormonal disruption. We play havoc with insulin eating too much of things we didn't evolved to eat.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. I'm not obese, most people I know are not obese and they are all exposed to the same modern, engineered food that obese people are. I'm not claiming that hormonal disruption doesn't influences it nor am I saying the modern Western diet is any good for you, but I will claim that the majority of obesity, from my limited life experience, comes from lack of self control.
If one exercised discipline and consumed 1500 kcal of even modern, terrible, HFCS-infused food, they would not get fat. Period. They won't necessarily be healthy, but they will not be overweight.
Anyway, this argument is not novel nor is it in the scope of this thread. Just wanted to say congratulations to the OP.
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#30Building up muscle tissue also helps you burn calories faster when not working out. Cool little details I learned at the gym. This is a very common myth. To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the groups, including the athletes, experienced “afterburn.” They did not use additional body fat on the day when they exercised. In fact, most of the subjects burned slightly less fat over the 24-hour study peri…
Except that adding lean body mass increases your Basal Metabolic Rate, which increases the amount of calories you burn when you are not exercising. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rate
You're absolutely right, the article above is referencing a different phenomenon. My mistake.