Weight Loss
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You can't spot reduce. Belly fat is men's energy storage system. You have to lose fat overall and it will come off the gut last.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Thanks for the post it just frustrating
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I know what you're all saying it's just frustrating that the weight is going from everywhere but there!
It's just the way that the body works. Think about it. Once you start needing to convert fat to burn, where is it needed? In the muscles doing the work. Most exercise is bassed around the limbs rather then the abdomin; so thew fat goes from there first. Secondly, if you loose an even layer of fat from ALL of the body, the face will look to have lost the most, then the arms, legs, and finally the torso. Eat less and exercise more, then you will be a pretty boy and the girls will stop taking out restraining orders[1]. [1] No guarantee on the restraining orders.
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Wow! Now I know that I'm an 'energetic' man. :)
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I've lost 19kg already it just not the stomach so am going to try (although no space in bedroom maybe do it in bed) and maybe a plank as well.
Sit-ups can be done in a bed, as long as it's not too soft. The inverted ones for your back more or less must be done on a hard surface. Also note that when you have lost that much weight, it's not just all fat on your belly. There's a lot of skin too, and that will take some time before it "shrink wraps" again, no matter what you do.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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It's just the way that the body works. Think about it. Once you start needing to convert fat to burn, where is it needed? In the muscles doing the work. Most exercise is bassed around the limbs rather then the abdomin; so thew fat goes from there first. Secondly, if you loose an even layer of fat from ALL of the body, the face will look to have lost the most, then the arms, legs, and finally the torso. Eat less and exercise more, then you will be a pretty boy and the girls will stop taking out restraining orders[1]. [1] No guarantee on the restraining orders.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
If the restrain orders don't stop I'm going to sue! and in America too...big bucks! (although for them to stop they have to start first)
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I've lost 19kg already it just not the stomach so am going to try (although no space in bedroom maybe do it in bed) and maybe a plank as well.
By the way: great job!
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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Okay, so far I've managed to loss 19kg (that's just under 3 stone of weight) but almost none of it is coming from my belly at the moment. Any suggestions from anyone out there how to shift the belly fat? Thanks
Just had an idea about a motivational tactic. Something to push you on. Change your sig to read: Weight at start [d/m/y] ----- Weight now [d/m/y] ----- Target weight by [d/m/y] ----- Update it after each weigh in. People will see it and [more importantly] you know that you can't back out just because you feel like it. The less room you have to change the rules, the more likely you are to suck seed.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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How often though? there seems to be people who say everyday and others 2 -3 times a week!
The problem is about balancing effort with recovery. Going from nothing to 3 times a week will make a big difference, and is easy to recover from. Going from 3 times a week to 5 or 7 times a week will provide less difference (like going from 80% to 90%), and will require more care about recovery and avoiding injuries.
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
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Just had an idea about a motivational tactic. Something to push you on. Change your sig to read: Weight at start [d/m/y] ----- Weight now [d/m/y] ----- Target weight by [d/m/y] ----- Update it after each weigh in. People will see it and [more importantly] you know that you can't back out just because you feel like it. The less room you have to change the rules, the more likely you are to suck seed.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Lets try it and see how it goes!
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127 Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108 Target weight : 80 Only 38 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
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Lets try it and see how it goes!
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127 Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108 Target weight : 80 Only 38 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
Is that pounds or kilos?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Making love to a beautiful woman
So, making love to an ugly not so beautiful woman won't do the trick?
Michael Schubert wrote:
So, making love to an ugly not so beautiful woman won't do the trick?
No - like all forms of exercise it's the repetitions that do the work.
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Is that pounds or kilos?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
kilos
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108kg Target weight : 80kg Only 38 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
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Along with the others, sadly your gut is the last place were excess body mass goes from. You will find that you probably have lost some weight from your torso, but not as much proportionaly as the limbs. You need to use endurance exercise to burn the fat, diet will not do enough. If you like to sit down then try an ergo [indoor rowing machine]. Try to do a very low rate, say 10-15 stroke/minute, for as long as you can. This is really quite funny. You start off and think one stroke every 5 seconds is not going to hurt. [1 minute later] I can feel it but it's not hard. [5 min] who *puff* would *puff* have *gasp* thou... MEDIC! MAN DOWN IN THE GYM!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
You need to use endurance exercise to burn the fat, diet will not do enough.
Technically no he doesn't. As long as he eats less calories than he expands in a day, he will lose weight. However, human body can also dissolve muscles for energy, not just fat, so exercising will help maximizing fat loss and minimize muscle loss. To the OP, I wasn't saying you shouldn't exercise, you definitely should if you want better and faster results. Plus being skinny doesn't mean being in great shape. If you haven't been exercising a lot, even if you lose weight and become skinny you still won't be able to run 3 miles, and that actually matters more than getting your body down to single digit body fat percentage.
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Lets try it and see how it goes!
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127 Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108 Target weight : 80 Only 38 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
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What Chris said. Also, if you train your belly muscles, the muscles will tighten up, and make the belly flatter. Sit-ups are good.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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hopingToCode wrote:
Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108 Target weight : 80 Only 38 TO go
Don't you mean 28?
ops corrected now
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108kg Target weight : 80kg Only 28 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
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Okay, so far I've managed to loss 19kg (that's just under 3 stone of weight) but almost none of it is coming from my belly at the moment. Any suggestions from anyone out there how to shift the belly fat? Thanks
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
Also, if you train your belly muscles, the muscles will tighten up, and make the belly flatter.
He won't be seeing those muscles if there is a layer of fat over them.
But when the fat goes
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108kg Target weight : 80kg Only 28 TO go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
You need to use endurance exercise to burn the fat, diet will not do enough.
Technically no he doesn't. As long as he eats less calories than he expands in a day, he will lose weight. However, human body can also dissolve muscles for energy, not just fat, so exercising will help maximizing fat loss and minimize muscle loss. To the OP, I wasn't saying you shouldn't exercise, you definitely should if you want better and faster results. Plus being skinny doesn't mean being in great shape. If you haven't been exercising a lot, even if you lose weight and become skinny you still won't be able to run 3 miles, and that actually matters more than getting your body down to single digit body fat percentage.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
Technically no he doesn't. As long as he eats less calories than he expands in a day, he will lose weight
The human body is an amazing thing. If you reduce your intake then you will initially loose weight, but then the body's metabolism starts to slow. Then you need to eat less [and so on]. Also, the body mass lost at this point will be the /wrong/ fats; I can't remember which way round it is and I can't be bothered to search. If you are overeating, sure reduce your intake. But for a normal diet, control the intake and then bring the exercise level upto and then over the intake. But the exercise does need to be endureance to ensure that all the muscle fat is burned away FIRST and that it turn forces the body fat to be burned. Low diet just uses up fat the other way.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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I don't have a WII my brother does!
hopingToCode wrote:
I don't have a WII my brother does!
Well, configure him as a proxy, to do your running for you.
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