So, I've been following a pretty strict diet. Cut out all the crap, and utilizing some awesome products to supplement it. I lost 15 pounds in 24 days! I feel great! Had to pat myself on the back. [hihi]
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Now I know who to call when I need my bear dragged out and loaded in the pickup![lol]
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The most important thing about exercise is sticking with it. The best workout in the world is useless if you don’t stick with it. For most people going to the gym is too much of an inconvenience and they eventually stop going. Gyms make most of their money on memberships of people that never actually use the gym.
Find something that you enjoy doing and can make a permanent part of your life. I exercise at home 15-20 minutes each day, take the dog for an hour walk each night with my wife and usually do a long hike on weekends. In addition to that I cut wood 2 or 3 times a week. At 50 I’m the same weight that I was back in college.
Find something that you enjoy doing and can make a permanent part of your life. I exercise at home 15-20 minutes each day, take the dog for an hour walk each night with my wife and usually do a long hike on weekends. In addition to that I cut wood 2 or 3 times a week. At 50 I’m the same weight that I was back in college.
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I've been exercising, but not enough. Hard to do after spending a day doing physical labor. I cut out dairy, processed foods, majority of grains. Vegetables, fruit, lean meat, poultry, seafood and water is what it is.
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Been type2 for 6 years now. There is nothing more exasperating than the constant pressure of having to control diet because of diabetes. Be good 95% of the time, when you slip that 5% of the time, make it earlier in the day so you have time to burn it off. Stay away from white starches or do what I do, have a big bowl of pasta for lunch and work it off the rest of the day. Think of it this way, you have to fill up your gas tank but use all the fuel in it so you can eat the hi sugar/hi carb foods if you are willing to do the work to burn it off. Hunting season makes it easier for me to burn the calories with long hikes deep into the woods. What sucks though is that I've found that I get cold easier. Good luck! Need any advice, don't hesitate to ask me.
Chris90, good work, that's a lot of weight in a short amount of time so let your body get used to it and dont go on a bender, the weight will come back in a day or 2. I lost 17 lbs early in the year, went camping and gained 7 back in a weekend. Have lost 5# since then and maintaining pretty easily. Wasn't overweight, went from 197 to 182 and at 5'10", that's a good weight for me and it was mostly gut... body fat reduces the bodies ability to control blood sugar as a diabetic so it's pretty important to stay lean.
JD nailed it. Small changes add up and diet is 95% of fitness, just look up how far/long you need to walk or run to burn off a bagel. It's much easier just to skip the bagel.
Cardio is a waste of time, seriously, it just makes you want to eat more. Weight train, done right it can raise your heart rate and give you long acting calorie burn, set up a circuit and go through it 3-5 times with little or no rest between sets.
Even body weight workout is better than cardio, push ups, pull ups, chin ups, crunches, lunges, etc.
Cardio is a waste of time, seriously, it just makes you want to eat more. Weight train, done right it can raise your heart rate and give you long acting calorie burn, set up a circuit and go through it 3-5 times with little or no rest between sets.
Even body weight workout is better than cardio, push ups, pull ups, chin ups, crunches, lunges, etc.
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congrats losing weight is never easy I have dropped 110 pounds in a year no carbs no sugar plus working out as much as i can. one again congrats dont go by the scale go buy your clothes and dont weight your self more then once a week cause your weight can be up or down up to 5 pounds a day .
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yep... thats another thing... people think you have to join a gym to work out. You have PLENTY of body weight to throw around and work your muscles as long as you know how. Look at the military. Do you see those guys hitting the gym at 5am for a workout? No, they go out in a field, do push ups, sit ups, pull ups, and mountain climbers until they puke. The world is a gym and you are the weights. Want to get some cardio? Find a nice staircase/bleachers and run up and down that sucker. Dont take the elevator at work. Park in the back of all parking lots and walk in. Carry your groceries on the way back out from a store instead of using a cart. I'm on the baby work out right now... I carry her all over the place. Its def an upper body workout to sling around 20-30 pounds of baby in car seat for extended periods of time. The weight keeps going up too HAHAH. I did the gym thing in college and its boring as hell. Pick metal up and put it down. I'd rather go in my back yard and bust some butt clearing out some logs, rocks, etc etc... get a work out that way. Split and stack wood. Do something useful instead of monotonous work out routines that in the end accomplish nothing but a workout. Btw, dont make sex a "workout" HAHAHAHAH
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id rather drag a deer or a bear out as cardio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u need to tie the front legs to the deer head so as you drag it the head especially a buck will be off the ground making the drag 100 times easier.
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Yup; and while diet AND exercise is the best choice, if you absolutely could only pick one, diet is a far better choice. Approximately 70% of your weight loss will come from properly monitoring calories, whereas about 30% (still a significant portion) of your weight loss would come from exercise.
One thing I believe, however, is that "diets" are generally a waste of time, money, and potentially a demotivator. Eat whatever the hell you want (within obvious reason) and just count every calorie consumed, and my belief is the average person would see better results.
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I agree with you JD and disagree with you. You can use just about anything for a workout. If you are not into the whole gym scene then yeah def, bleachers, logs, etc etc will work for you. The army do have gyms on bases and whatnot and they do spend a good amount of time in them. I have a few friends in the army now and my friend has been out of the 82nd airborne for a few years and he came back about 40lbs heavier as in jacked up. At boot camp as well from what my friends tell me.
Intermittent fasting works for me. 2 days a week I go from dinner to dinner with zero food. It's not that hard to skip breakfast and lunch 2 times a week. The other 5 days I eat essentially what I want within reason. Google IF or intermittent fasting. It's easier than counting caloriesb IMO
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Going on a diet could increase the risk of creating possibly dangerous circumstances such as cardiovascular disease, diabetic issues and cancer, a study has found. According to recent research, water and green tea are the best way to lose your weight. I took 8 to 12 glasses of water gradually and 2 to 3times cup of tea in a day. And now I feel much difference in my weight.
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Any type of excercise and healthier food choices is a plus. I lost 50 lbs as of today since March. As far as diet and excercise. I would have to say diet played the bigger role in the loss. Sodium was a concern for me since I have to follow low sodium diet now.
I beat the fat by taking Food Lovers Fat Loss System philosophy, married it with the South Beach Diet philosophy while watching sodium.
I still have carbs, just not the processed crap and not all day long. Breads I basically eliminated, pasta only occasional. Soda gone...and LOW SODIUM/NO SALT. You would be surprised how much sodium is in foods. Its ridiculous and unnecessary. Best part is I eat more now than I ever have! Its a win win
Join My FitnessPal. Its free and will give you a general base line for calories in/out and how many carbs/protein/sugar/sodium etc. you are really eating
I beat the fat by taking Food Lovers Fat Loss System philosophy, married it with the South Beach Diet philosophy while watching sodium.
I still have carbs, just not the processed crap and not all day long. Breads I basically eliminated, pasta only occasional. Soda gone...and LOW SODIUM/NO SALT. You would be surprised how much sodium is in foods. Its ridiculous and unnecessary. Best part is I eat more now than I ever have! Its a win win
Join My FitnessPal. Its free and will give you a general base line for calories in/out and how many carbs/protein/sugar/sodium etc. you are really eating
Congrats on the Weight loss chris90.
I've changed my diet and joined a gym for the first time in my life 2 years ago when turned 50. I dropped 30 lbs in the first 6 months and have since put 10 back on ( by choice , I was to skinny). Working out and eating properly have become a way of life now. I've been the same weight for almost 18 months now. I alternate between lifting weights and and doing cardio. I personally love doing cardio. cant sweat enough as far as i concerned. For me that works best. Everyday I leave my house to go to work I take my gym bag with me. After work Whether I feel like working out or not I still go to the gym. Some days I'm there for only a few minutes and decide I'm just to tired. Other days I feel like I could stay for hours. It has to become part of your daily routine . Gonna try crossfit starting in November.
I've changed my diet and joined a gym for the first time in my life 2 years ago when turned 50. I dropped 30 lbs in the first 6 months and have since put 10 back on ( by choice , I was to skinny). Working out and eating properly have become a way of life now. I've been the same weight for almost 18 months now. I alternate between lifting weights and and doing cardio. I personally love doing cardio. cant sweat enough as far as i concerned. For me that works best. Everyday I leave my house to go to work I take my gym bag with me. After work Whether I feel like working out or not I still go to the gym. Some days I'm there for only a few minutes and decide I'm just to tired. Other days I feel like I could stay for hours. It has to become part of your daily routine . Gonna try crossfit starting in November.
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