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Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - Speedy - 12-30-2008
Stomach staples.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - Lee3 - 12-30-2008
Now you got me watching all the Richard Jeni youtube clips
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - Black Landlord - 12-30-2008
Speedy wrote:
Stomach staples.
Forgot that one!
Friend called and said he's hoping a few more votes come in for the lunchtime salad, 'cuz the 7 PM thing is hopeless.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - davester - 12-30-2008
The people here who have the simple formulas are correct. Don't buy into that BS that people have different metabolisms. It is just not true unless you consider how much fat or muscle they carry. To keep tissue alive, it takes the exact same amount of energy (=calories) per kilogram for everyone. It takes very few calories to keep fatty tissue alive. It takes a lot of calories to keep muscle tissue alive. If you do strenuous workouts, enough to create a higher proportion of muscle tissue, then it will be easier to reduce weight by reducing your calorie intake. This is because the resting metabolism for that muscle tissue demands a lot of calories, even if you're not doing anything. If you have a lot of fatty tissue, then reducing your calorie intake will be less effective. So, the key is...1) vigorous muscle building exercise; 2) reduce calorie intake (it helps to get on a plan like weightwatchers for peer support on this). Any other system won't work. It's a simple little equation. The reason that nobody gets it is that most people don't want to face the fact that they have to do strenuous exercise to get in shape.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - kj - 12-30-2008
volcs0 wrote:
calories out > calories in = weight loss
can't get much simpler than that.
That's like giving me the physics of how Labron James dunks. It doesn't get me any closer to dunking. I think the question has more to do with how to find the motivation to stick to a diet and exercise regime. It's pretty much impossible. Almost everyone gains their weight back eventually. Move to India? kj.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - mattkime - 12-30-2008
what people are saying here - BUT - make it enjoyable!
i'm quite fortunate that biking to work is enough to do it for me. then again, thats 1.5 hrs x 3-4 days a week so its a lot of exercise.
just solved some digestive issues i was having (thanks, pseudoephedrine!) but in the near future i'd like to take baby steps toward having a healthier diet.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - Black Landlord - 12-30-2008
mattkime wrote:
what people are saying here - BUT - make it enjoyable!
i'm quite fortunate that biking to work is enough to do it for me. then again, thats 1.5 hrs x 3-4 days a week so its a lot of exercise.
just solved some digestive issues i was having (thanks, pseudoephedrine!) but in the near future i'd like to take baby steps toward having a healthier diet.
My friend claims to have ridden his bicycle to work every day for the past 3 months. The entire 2-mile round trip . . .
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - mattkime - 12-30-2008
>>My friend claims to have ridden his bicycle to work every day for the past 3 months. The entire 2-mile round trip . . .
45 minutes each way?
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - davester - 12-30-2008
kj wrote: It's pretty much impossible. Almost everyone gains their weight back eventually. Move to India? kj.
That's not true at all. There are large sectors of the population that live healthily and stay trim. The solution is to identify an exercise activity that is enjoyable. However, it does seem that there are some parts of the country where the whole culture seems to have decided within the last decade or so that physical activity is a burden. I certainly don't understand why this is. If you start with the attitude that exercise is punishment then you are lost before you begin.
Re: Simplest approach to weight loss? - kj - 12-30-2008
>>There are large sectors of the population that live healthily and stay trim.
Not the people who've had a weight problem.
This is part of an abstract that is meant to support your claim:
There is a general perception that almost no one succeeds in long-term maintenance of weight loss. However, research has shown that {approx}20% of overweight individuals are successful at long-term weight loss when defined as losing at least 10% of initial body weight and maintaining the loss for at least 1 y.
It doesn't. kj.