Thanks Sean. I really appreciate your thoughts on strength exercises and i am adding them in from this week on alternative days.Good stuff and Happy Easter to you too in Canberra
Hope you are over that cold.Morning all, Sunday is my weigh in day. I had a horrible cold last week and consequently had no appetite so I've lost 3 lbs! Total weight loss 8 lbs since Christmas. My weight at the moment is 11 st 10 and my target is 11 stone although I would be happy with 11 st 7
Thanks, it's getting betterHope you are over that cold.
I hear what you are saying but Ive done it all before. Ive been training in the gym for an hour a day, I know I get bored and stop. I prefer riding my bike outside but the winter is not the best time for me to do this. I used to go swimming but then they closed the pool down. I do not find exercise to be pleasurable and therefore choose not to do it. Some people like the buzz it gives them. I just do not see the point of wasting time when I know its something I will never like and will stop doing.Hi Kyi - I hear you, honestly, I do. You have the same concerns as everybody else, but here are a few observations:
1 Muscle can not physically turn to fat. Muscle is Nitrogen based. It's made from protein which is made from amio acids - Nitrogen based organic chemicals. Fat is carbon based. If you were to turn Nitrogen into Carbon you would have succeeded where alchemists have failed for hundreds of years (turning one element into another - specifically lead into gold. It just can't happen.
2 Imagine you are a car. Your muscles are the engine. These are the things that help you move and whilst you move they help everything else to function a bit better..The fat is spare luggage - most of which you don't need. It is just stuff you have accumulated and serves no purpose. Once upon a time, it might have been stuff that gave you comfort but it has little use and value now. In fact the only things it does are these:
The engine has to work harder to get from A to B and is therefore less efficient
The spare luggage (excess weight) is just carried around with you.
3 If you exercise, it's a bit like improving the efficiency of the engine. It works better. You could get a bigger engine to cart all that spare luggage around but that would simply use more fuel and that's a waste.
Getting rid of some of the luggage will help make the engine work better - that is what you are doing, but imagine, going a bit faster with the windows open and that spare luggage sitting in the back seat and occasionally an old piece of clothing gets caught by the wind and flutters out of the window just because you are exercising and moving a bit faster.
People think going to the gym will make them grow muscles. In my hay day, I trained til I puked, 4-6 times a week and I dount I added more than 6-10 pounds in any one year.
Nobody is saying you should train until you puke. You are extremely unlikely to build noticeable muscle mass by doing a little light exercise like walking or cycling 5 or so days a week. You might tone up a bit but that's because engines don't wobble about as much as loose luggage.( Nearly 40 years experience in weight lifting, body building and strength training plus a degree in human biology. As for how I ended up here - I'm surprised there are not more ex strength athletes who are diabetic.
Oh No!. I totally get the not wanting to ride a bike in the winter - it's horrible and swimming pools are shutting down all the time. Gym work can be boring - I usually have to have a break every 4-6 weeks to keep from getting burned out. It happens to me sometimes. You just get to the gym, get started and then something comes into your head and you say 'what am I doing here' and I have to leave. I get around this with my treadmill at home and a selection of DVDs which oddly enough all have walking or journeys as their theme - Spartacus, Gladiator, Game of Thrones, Centurion, anything with vikings. Very odd. I started watching comedies, but nothing beats a good old sword and sandals film with lots of walking for company. (My longest walk to date 7hrs 24 mins!!)I hear what you are saying but Ive done it all before. Ive been training in the gym for an hour a day, I know I get bored and stop. I prefer riding my bike outside but the winter is not the best time for me to do this. I used to go swimming but then they closed the pool down. I do not find exercise to be pleasurable and therefore choose not to do it. Some people like the buzz it gives them. I just do not see the point of wasting time when I know its something I will never like and will stop doing.
700 calories per day for 6 months is not an awful lot. The 800 calories per day diet is for only 8 weeks and then you have to increase the calories. Are you sure you are eating enough foods?
Great BMI and take the .5lb it is a lossNot great today, only lost 0.5 lbs since last week, so basically no loss. However, i did go to the practice nurse this week for an HBA1C (results next Tueday) and she weighed me, I've lost 1 stone and 4 lbs since she last weighed me (I'd already lost a few lbs before she first weighed me) so she wss pleased with me. My BMI is now 25.9 so nearly "healthy"and my blood pressure has improved.
Hopefully I'll lose some more in the next week.
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