Weight Loss
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:rolleyes: Yes, lose more weight. The human body *always* redistributes fat evenly throughout the body whatever amount of excess fat you have. If you want to *see* if you are losing weight then look at your clavicals and shoulder area because the fat is generally thinnest there so you will see changes there first. I thought it was well known general knowledge at this point that the only way to reduce fat from a particular place in the body is to cut it out with a knife or one of those suction machines. Read this for a realistic no bull description of everything weight and calorie related: http://www.hussmanfitness.org/theFridge.html[^] And take advantage of passive weight loss, i.e. the more muscle tissue you have the more calories are being burned just sitting around or sleeping.
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John C wrote:
Yes, lose more weight. The human body *always* redistributes fat evenly throughout the body whatever amount of excess fat you have.
Hi JohnC, I have to say that this statement indicates to me you have a profound lack of knowledge of the human body, what fat is, and how we have evolved to store it in certain locations, and the fact the human female stores fat in a very different pattern. Not only can stress alone cause unusual abdominal fat storage (via raised cortisol level), unusual abdominal fat alone is a marker for greatly increased risk of cardio-vascular incident or failure. Not only do patterns of fat distrubution vary by genetic heritage, and "racial" heritage, clearly lifestyle and adaptation to environment shape it : to wit, Arctic peoples whose diet consists of a very high percentage of animal meat and fats and, in the past, virtually zero vegetable, fruits. The interaction of your basal metabolic rate (which relates to your genetic heritage and "body type") is a complex interplay of mutually modifying dynamic systems. Time for you to do some reading. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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I take it you haven't seen my new sig. Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [24/Jul/2009] 108kg I do need to drink more water but I find it hard to remember I'm doing gym 6 times a week(okay this week 5 as I moved house) at the moment. 3 times a week resistance and 3 times cardio with at least one being HIIT. bmi is obese not sure of it at the moment. No real fluctuations just always been big. Mum was diabetic. No medications. Stress goes up and down but nothing abnormal. Male 32 Help that paints a pic.
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!
Hi HopingToCode, In my opinion you've covered all the bases, already. I respect that the motivation for this truly radical self-modification might be for private reasons, so I won't ask. The only intelligent thing I can say, and I bet you have already done this, is that I do hope you are working with an intelligent physician or qualified weight-loss advisor, that you will, at some point, have a stress-test ECG, that you will rule out the possibility that an unusual retention of fat in the abdomen is not an indirect indicator of some risk to your cardio-vascular system (unusual abdominal fat alone is an indicator to a heart doctor of significantly greater risk of CVA). I personally think a real "psychological crunch" will come for you when you reach your desired plateau of weight, and your body will "want" to return to your old eating habits and perhaps slack off on the frequency of exercise. Very best wishes to you for your health, best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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John C wrote:
Yes, lose more weight. The human body *always* redistributes fat evenly throughout the body whatever amount of excess fat you have.
Hi JohnC, I have to say that this statement indicates to me you have a profound lack of knowledge of the human body, what fat is, and how we have evolved to store it in certain locations, and the fact the human female stores fat in a very different pattern. Not only can stress alone cause unusual abdominal fat storage (via raised cortisol level), unusual abdominal fat alone is a marker for greatly increased risk of cardio-vascular incident or failure. Not only do patterns of fat distrubution vary by genetic heritage, and "racial" heritage, clearly lifestyle and adaptation to environment shape it : to wit, Arctic peoples whose diet consists of a very high percentage of animal meat and fats and, in the past, virtually zero vegetable, fruits. The interaction of your basal metabolic rate (which relates to your genetic heritage and "body type") is a complex interplay of mutually modifying dynamic systems. Time for you to do some reading. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
I'll give you the unusual cortisol issue, but my point is valid: when losing or gaining fat it can't be made to happen in any specific area, the body automatically regulates and distributes fat on it's own. I think you seem to have mistaken my point as being that fat is stored *evenly* throughout the body which of course is ridiculous on the face of it and hardly worth the effort or time of rebutting. :)
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