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Reddit /r/loseit and /r/fitness have excellent FAQs for weight loss and becoming fit and they offer communities if you are looking to learn or for support. http://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/wiki/faq http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/faq
Regardless, loseit is highly recommended.
I began to exercise a lot. A lot to lose that beer belly. Finally it mostly came off. Then I fell for the excuse of "you need to eat more to gain muscle!" and ate the amount of calories some online calculator told me i'd need to maintain a given weight.
I've never had abs, and I didn't get them then. I could out-run, out-squat, out-jump any crossfit contender I met; and I was still kind of flabby. My motivation sank. I moved away and stopped my routine. I went back to drinking and eating a lot, without working out as much. I lost strength. The belly began to return.
Recently I arbitrarily decided to cut out drinking for two months, which helped a lot. Then I decided to cut out wheat. Not gluten, just wheat and products made from it. So far? I'm looking more cut than I ever did, and i'm hardly exercising. Eating smaller portions and less empty calories/alcohol is giving me the body image I always wanted. (It's probably just the lack of calories and not the wheat specifically)
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Salt sensitivity is also far easier to manage, and its impact is limited to putting you over the top when shit hits the fan (eg: high-sodium diet can make or break you when you stray into heart-attack territory).
There was a Finnish study where they had some people try to control salt intake and others just eat as much salt as they want. The "as much salt as they want" group actually had better health outcomes. Their conclusion was that for most people, the body's salt regulation is actually very good.
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Not everyone is salt sensitive. Talk to them about measuring your salt sensitivity (or you can do it at home, but less reliably). If salt is hard and the rest is easy, you may find losing weight and exercise the two you worry about, and ignore salt.
yeah, thats kinda where I am. I don't think I'm salt sensitive, I think I just have bad genes. And the bp meds are managing it rather well. I'm still trying not to go overboard with the salt (I think cutting out fast food was the biggest part of losing weight, beyond the carbs), but I don't worry as much about it. I have also read studies that show too little salt (in the one I read, 8000 / day)
According to Harvard School of Public Health, salt sensitivity is a myth: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-questions/#...
This is great and certainly don't want to discourage anyone. Some people need extreme transformations like this to be successful. Most people, however, don't. You'll have a much higher success rate if you're patient and change just one little thing at a time. Once you're comfortable, you move on to the next. I myself have lost over 30lbs and increased strength tremendously (power clean 250+). I went about it by doing…
That's a crazy heavy power clean weight. What kind of weekly weight increase?
By the time I went back to starting strength I was able to start much higher at about 180 and kept increasing from there out, again 5 to 10 lbs a week. The key I feel was consistency. You hardly notice the weight going up if you're consistent.
I am a huge proponent of strength training for general fitness. Please do reach out if you have any questions!
>> I’ve gone from a 42” waist to a 36”. I’m now buying t-shirts in a medium or maybe a large rather than an XL or XXL. Clothing is not sized that way in the USA. 36" waist fitting into a medium?
Also, one can get 'adjustable waist' pants with elastic slots in them that allow the waist to expand such that someone with a 42 inch waist might fit into a pair of '34 inch' pants comfortably. They don't help the situation any.
Exercise is wonderful, and (particularly strength training) can dramatically change how you look and feel. If you just want to lose weight though, just stop eating carbs. It really is that simple. There are many ways to lose weight, but dropping sugar (in all it's forms) is the most straightforward. It's the closest thing to a 'weight hack' I've ever seen. If you are currently overweight, just cut out carbs completel…
Elimination diets work because people fail to replace the missing calories, not because there's something magical about the thing you choose to eliminate. You can do this with colors of food, textures, anything that eliminates ~30-40% of the available food options.
Exercise is wonderful, and (particularly strength training) can dramatically change how you look and feel. If you just want to lose weight though, just stop eating carbs. It really is that simple. There are many ways to lose weight, but dropping sugar (in all it's forms) is the most straightforward. It's the closest thing to a 'weight hack' I've ever seen. If you are currently overweight, just cut out carbs completel…
Elimination diets work because people fail to replace the missing calories, not because there's something magical about the thing you choose to eliminate. You can do this with colors of food, textures, anything that eliminates ~30-40% of the available food options.
I've lost over 10% body fat cutting the bread and carbs with NO exercise. Get a clue and either 1. try a no wheat / sugar / starch diet for just 2 weeks 2. read up on insulin, its causes and effects.
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Is this true? I used to work out a lot, and was in good shape- muscular and probably 12% body fat. I haven't been working out for about eight months and I've lost probably ten pounds. I don't feel leaner though. I'm pretty sure I'm still at least 12% body fat, and that I've lost a significant amount of muscle. I think I have been significantly losing muscle without losing any significant amount of fat.
If you're at 12% body fat, the ratio will be about 3:1 lean to fat loss[1] unless you're working out very, very hard and eating a ridiculous amount of protein (1+g/kg) You'll need to work out a lot and be very careful with how much of a deficit you're running if you want to isolate fat instead of just reducing total body mass. [1] http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v32/n3/full/0803720a.html