Weight Loss
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Topic: Weight Loss
Posted By: Koolit32
Subject: Weight Loss
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 8:30pm
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Looking to lose weight at the best time of the year. I'm doing some cardio and cutting out the excessive soda/energy drink consumption, as well as the tons of carbs and fast food. Wondering if anyone knows any weight loss supplements or good meal replacement stuff since I have the appetite of a grizzly bear. Also, this could probably be a good thread to make fun of me being fat. I'll allow it. |
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 8:45pm
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Up your fiber intake since it fills you up faster. I recommend brown rice and a ton of mixed vegetables. ------------- 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 8:46pm
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Learn to finish meals a little hungry. I do it when I'm out of season, because I know I'm not burning as many calories. You'll stop feeling hungry after about a week. Doing cardio is a key weight loss tool. Keep at it, and it'll help. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 8:52pm
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I'm kinda on par with you there, Koolit. I've started walking more at night when it is cool, and when I go to school, purposefully parking as far from my class as possible. I cut out soda completely and only have sweet tea every now and again. No more fast food. Tons more veggies. Smoking is limited. I've decided that, especially with food, I don't care if I lose weight, I'm just trying to eat things better for me anyway no matter if I lose weight or not. |
Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 9:36pm
Its not about finishing a little hungry but stopping satisfied, not full. See most people keep eating until they are stuffed instead of waiting the 15min it takes for food to settle and rid you of hunger. And when eating. Make your biggest meals in the beginning of the day and smaller at the end. Its best to have a good (not an insanely big) breakfast and then having 3 smaller meals throughout the day. Stop eating at 8 since what you eat and then sleep on food, it will only add more weight. And don't be put off if you are running and stuff and aren't losing weight. It takes weeks for you body to understand you are trying to lose weight and to get on track. ------------- 
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ParielIsBack wrote:Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 9:41pm
I'm sure to some extent, the way you feel when you're done with a meal changes from person to person. When I have to cut 1000 calories a day out of my diet, I definitely have to keep track of how much food I'm putting on my plate, but I'm sure that's not necessarily the difference most people are looking for. The comment about big and small meals is really good. At bare minimum, two hours between the last thing you eat and when you go to bed. If possible, more is better (although obviously there's the "hungry again" limit). Your body will try to hold onto weight when you start working out, but over time you'll see the difference in calories burned to calorie intake. Oh, and note of Constitution post. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Gator Taco
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:08pm
I lost 70lbs since January. I stopped drinking soda (and eventually cut out beer) and quit eating fast food all the time. Also added quite a bit of cardio exercise and it was easy. Almost all of my meals where tuna and something else. A lot of pasta. No soda/beer/junk food.
Odd... Everytime I'd start smoking I'd lose weight. Edit: I quit smoking back in April. Wasn't going to pay damn near $7 for a pack of Camel Wide filters. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trailgator01 - last.fm |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:33pm
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Smoking is a common weight loss technique for coxswains.
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:51pm
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hahaha, i laugh at you guys. im eating a TON of junk food, and yet, somehow, dropped 10lbs in 2 weeks. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:55pm
You're going to die in 2 years. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:56pm
It was less about weight and more about general health. |
Posted By: Gator Taco
Date Posted: 14 December 2009 at 11:44pm
Ahh. 10-4. I was smoking a pack a day and doing about a can of Grizz a day as well when I quit.. and I quit cold turkey. One of the best decisions I have ever made. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trailgator01 - last.fm |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 12:48am
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How much do you want to lose? Do lots of cardio, interval training is the best but only if you physically can. Run if weather permits. If you are stuck inside, get a gym membership and take up swimming (no treadmills!) Work out at the gym with strength workouts too. Sure cardio burns more calories during the exercise but muscle will increase the amount of calories that you are burning all the time, even when you are not exercising.The best workout for lat loss would combine high intensity cardio with full body strength workouts at the gym. No matter what you do, the thing which accounts for 90% of your ability to lose weight is appetite. Don't eat right, and you won't lose weight. Plain oatmeal contains plenty of fibre which (as previously said) will help you to curb cravings. If your goal is purely fat loss, than the only supplement that I would recommend would be a good quality multivitamin. The main ingredients in most fat loss pills can be found in a cup of green tea. Drinking 3-4 cups per day will increase your metabolism and help you burn fat. That being said, I could recommend a few supplements that though I haven't tried myself, are rated to work pretty good. Eat a bunch of small meals per day rather than a few big ones. I wish i could but the meal plan at school doesn't exactly work like that...Drink tons of water, it will help for sure and make you feel better too. Chances are that you don't drink even close to enough right now. Gator: Though smoking does generally cause weight loss, whale also stated that he was more interested in becoming more healthy in general than just loosing weight. Thus, less smoking. (crap.... he already got to that) ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 1:54am
Why? I'm trying to get in shape and that is what I'm hitting the most. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 2:36am
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Why not actually run outside? It is a much more effective workout. They are a waste of your time, and do not compare to actual free running. Same thing as using the circuit machines at the gym rather than free weights. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 2:55am
| Binge and purge |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:00am
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Stop eating so much. I got mad skinny when I wasted more money on pot than food. I'm back to a healthy weight and nowhere near the fatass I used to be. 215 to 140 back to 170-175, in just over a two year span. The cigarettes didn't help health wise but I've cut back from pack and a half each day to just half a pack. ------------- 
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:01am
 ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:03am
| curse you skinny people and your ability to be able to take your shirt off in a pool. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:07am
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Uh oh, looks like we have another bravecoward on our hands. Maybe if you broke your addiction to bacon you could swim with the rest of us.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:09am
Its more of an addiction to skittles. 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:35am
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7kKnHpgus - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7kKnHpgus |
Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:38am
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Im a chain smoker, and living on my own. I've noticed my belly getting bigger. I'm down with this thread. Gotta cut the burger kind completely out of my diet cause it's just so close to my house now that I live in a city. Time to light another ciggy. I wish I weren't such a haggard mess who is a self-loathing loser. I guess this is what growing up is all about. I hope that one girl who likes me doesn't realize she can do better. Because I know she can, this is 100% serious. No sracasm here. I realixe how sarcastic this might sound, but Im serious. I am not as cut out for this as I used to be.
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:59am
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Scotchy, I lol'd. ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 5:03am
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 5:22am
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I've long since decided that I'll eat whatever the hell I want to eat, and as long as I do that in moderation and don't sit around doing nothing, I'll keep a healthy weight. I haven't cut ANYTHING out of my diet. I'll still go drive-thru for lunch every now and then, I'll pick through a bag of M&Ms occasionally too. That being said, its not all the time, and I'm not being a lazy jerk all the time, and I'm holding at about 170- having dropped almost 10 pounds in the last few months. I don't begrudge anyone their own techniques for weight loss/general health, but I get pretty pissed off when people tell me I should 'stop eating that' or 'give up this.' I'm really getting bored of having someone look down their nose at me when I have a quarter pounder for lunch. "Oh, I don't eat that anymore, it isn't good for you" Cram it, I know. But I'm also not an idiot and know how to deal with a little bit of 'not good for me' in a manner which keeps me perhaps just as healthy as you. ------------- ? |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 5:26am
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I've been looking to put on weight for a while now. Being skinny blows. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 5:37am
Fat people ARE warmer in the winter. Work out. Add muscle mass instead of blubber. ------------- ? |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 6:07am
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^Truth.
I am pretty much constantly cold. However heat in the summer does not bother me in the least so long as its not humid. ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Flurry
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 7:12am
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There is always that fancy jump rope thing on the other post. It says that you don't even need to jump. ------------- It sucks being antisocial alone. |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 7:17am
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 8:53am
I'll try to find the article, but someone did a study and found that anyone fat enough to retain significant amounts of body heat actually won't feel the difference, because their nerves will be significantly further from their core. I'm not entirely sure I agree with their logic, but I did think it was amusing. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 11:36am
Wrong. The reason you probably were told this is because when you are on a treadmill, your running motion isn't forced to push off the ground to move forward. It's only the motion, and not the actual running. But there is an easy solution, when you get on the treadmill, you don't only increase the speed you run at, you add an inclination of 1.5% or so. This forces you to push off the tread mill to stay up on the machine, doing a very good job of replicating a real run on flat ground. As for the heat thing, muscle generates much more heat than fat, because it's constantly burning calories, even when you are inactive. The best "weight loss," and i put that in quotation marks because the term itself is a stupid goal, tool is to put on muscle and then run afterwards. If you're going to run or swim, do some lifting first. It doesn't have to be heavy lifting, just something to work your muscles. This burns off the glycogen stored in your muscles(which burns more effectively from lifting, than cardio), and then your running is much more effective at forcing your body to convert that ugly flab into energy. If anyone needs help with supplements or just general advice you can shoot me a pm or I could write something up, I knokw there's a few of us here that have at one time or another stayed in pretty good shape. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 11:50am
That is a legit way to do it I guess. Most people do not do that though. Why would you want to run on a treadmill? It's boring. I'd rather go somewhere and see things. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 1:40pm
Some people may not feel safe running outdoors. Or may not be confident or aware in/of their ability to keep moving the whole time they're outside, it would suck to get a mile from your house only to realize you're exhausted. Plus, I know I use to have problems horribly with shin-splints from running on asphalt tracks and what-not, treadmills typically give a little and prevent shin-splints. Not trying to argue though, to each his own. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:03pm
Isnt that incentive to run faster? Its healthier that way. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:06pm
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I basically just eat/drink whatever I want, and I stay right in the 170-180 range.
I just try to eat breakfast early and keep eating smaller meals throughout the day as necessary to keep my metabolism going. Also, I don't usually sit around for more than a couple hours a day. ------------- 
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 3:52pm
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excessive amounts of leptin
or amphetamines ------------- 
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 6:47pm
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How come no one made fun of koolit for being a fatty yet? ------------- ///AMG What? |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 9:08pm
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I respect fat people who are trying to do something about it. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 10:00pm
| Because Koolit's a legend, and we're still just so happy to have him back. |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 15 December 2009 at 11:13pm
------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 4:08am
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I hate running on a treadmill, but my new gym does not have an indoor track, so I am forced to suffer through it. As carl said, I always add an incline of a few percent. It makes a dramatic difference. ------------- 
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Posted By: Flurry
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 4:36am
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Because therre are others in the group that are also working on loseing weight. ------------- It sucks being antisocial alone. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 1:32pm
Spinning is a solid workout as much as it sucks to do. Taking classes is the best way, at least for me. Having someone telling you when to speed up/slow down will help you to push yourself and work through the pain. Spinning also has a monopoly over hot women at the gym. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 2:53pm
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Or you could go get a bike. That's pretty win. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 5:00pm
But yeah... we were talking about indoor cardio. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 6:12pm
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...and a trainer? Seems silly, yes. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 11:11pm
What's your T-Cell count? ------------- 
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 11:14pm
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Ever thought of ingesting a tapeworm? -------------
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 16 December 2009 at 11:32pm
LOL'ed hard. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 17 December 2009 at 2:51am
Hilarious and very effective! -------------
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 December 2009 at 3:30am
Trainer? Who said trainer? ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 17 December 2009 at 3:55am
last time i checked, bullets break most ground speed records  |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 17 December 2009 at 9:40am
Nah, I'm saying get a trainer so you can use your bike indoors. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |