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Weight loss regimen
Topic Started: Jan 28 2016, 07:32 AM (1,310 Views)
dayle1960
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So, its after the first of the year and folks usually have their new years resolutions in hand. I didn't have one, but I wanted to lose some weight. After tipping the scales at 199# and struggling to put on a pair of 36" waist pants, I decided to lose the fat. Only problem was which program to use. While trolling on Godlike Productions, I came across this thread:

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2991169/pg1

It intrigued me so I began to follow along. The Cliffs notes is short and sweet. Fifteen minutes of weight lifting a day and a very high protein and very low carb. diet. Read the thread and the exercises will show up. Three sets of ten reps per exercise with a thirty second rest period in between. Eat all of the protein you want (i.e. eggs, bacon, fish, steak, pork) and don't eat any food which have carbs in it (namely food which is white in color like potatoes, bread, wheat, sugar). Then take the weekend off and eat whatever you want and don't do the exercises.

I've been doing this for a month and a half and have lost twelve pounds. Energy levels don't lag because the sugar levels are kept in check with the lack of the carbs. The best part of the program for me has been the reduction of my gut. Used to look like I was nine months pregnant, now it looks like I'm only five months along. Kinda weird to describe a mans' gut in the terms of a pregnant chick, but you dudes with a beer belly can empathize, right? Remember that it took you years to attain the beer belly and it will takes months to get rid of it.

Not sure if this is for everybody, but it is working for me and I thought I'd pass it along. Maybe somebody else can benefit and get fit.
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Cobrajet25
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My buddy did this exact same regimen probably six or seven years ago, and it worked for him. He mostly at chicken wings, and LOST weight.
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Woodie
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Congratulations, I know it's not easy.

I could begrudgingly do a little exercise, and follow that diet pretty well, but beer is mostly carbohydrate if I remember correctly, that might be a sticking point. The last five days of shoveling snow has been pretty grueling, but I feel like a million bucks.
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ZXTjato
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bass heads

geo metro bicycle club?
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Freeman
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Cardio is pretty good for burning calories. I find that weight lifting is actually more effective. But some people don't enjoy weight lifting or have access to a full gym. For those, bicycling, jogging, or swimming are great alternatives. Cardio is also the best way to build a healthy cardiovascular system (go figure, right?). It should help your resting heart rate and stuff like that.

I've never had to lose weight, per say. When I worked out I was more interested in bulking up. But I did notice less 'flub' in areas and better tone overall. Obviously I felt better and noticed the difference in strength.
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Old Man


How about just starting to do some physical work? I have lost 20 pounds since I started building my new garage/workshop............

Less TV, more physical activity. Good weight loss program!
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dayle1960
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TurboEF, I have to gently disagree with your analysis that biking jogging or walking will help you lose weight. I walk 7 miles a day at a brisk clip and I gained weight. Too many carbs and not enough strenuous exercising to help me loose the weight. BTW, look at professional runners and bicyclist. Them boys have skinny bodies with zero fat. Absolutely no upper body definition but huge thighs. I don't want to look like that. I want tits and a six pack. The way to get those things is a little weight lifting or great genes.
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Freeman
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I don't think a solid cardio regiment would be detrimental. Of course diet is important. You won't get anyway eating friend chicken and ice cream sandwiches.

The few guys I know that have lost weight found the most success with weight lifting. Building muscle is a great way to burn off the bad stuff.
Edited by Freeman, Jan 28 2016, 02:19 PM.
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cwatkin


I am a very active and high energy person and can't stay still too long so luckily I don't have to worry about this yet. Either way, they say that a pot belly is worse than having the fat more evenly distributed so that is a good idea to lose it. I forget the reasons but guess it raises cholesterol, blood sugar, and the like when it is all near the internal organs like that. Anyway, glad this plan is working for you.

I talked to a guy once at the gym that had been like 400-500 lbs or more in the past. He went on a diet and started working out and eventually lost like half or more of his bodyweight. I saw pictures before and you wouldn't have recognized him. He had always been obese since a kid and was around 30 when he started losing all that weight. I didn't realize this but guess being that obese can impact your hormones and all kinds of other things. It was almost like he never hit a proper puberty until that time. He said his voice deepened more, he grew more facial hair, his muscle tone improved, and most importantly actually had a libido. The increased sex drive seemed to be the thing that really surprised him. I assume he became like any other guy but his old "normal" was not like that at all. The extra weight suppressed his hormones. I assume that this isn't the case for being only slightly overweight but once you get up that high, all kinds of bad things happen. It was an interesting conversation.

Conor
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pdqrunner


Old man is right. My Dad always says you have to work up a good sweat three time a week. The best way to do that is physical work. The next most important factor is to walk away from the dinner table wanting more. A piece of chicken a helping of potatoes and some vegetables is plenty.
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Johnny Mullet
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When I started cycling in 2014 I lost 40 lbs my first season of riding. Then winter hit and I gained 10 lbs. When 2015 came around and the weather broke I stepped up my cycling and began bicycle commuting. This time I lost those 10 lbs I put on and then 20 more. Total weight loss was 60 lbs and this was all without changing my diet. I still eat too much but the cycling has kept me under control. During the winter months I do some indoor cycling, but it's not enough and since the holidays I am yet gaining a few more pounds.

This season will be different. Remember, it took many, many years to put the weight on and it will take many more to take it all off.
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dayle1960
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Johnny Mullet
Jan 28 2016, 09:55 PM
When I started cycling in 2014 I lost 40 lbs my first season of riding. Then winter hit and I gained 10 lbs. When 2015 came around and the weather broke I stepped up my cycling and began bicycle commuting. This time I lost those 10 lbs I put on and then 20 more. Total weight loss was 60 lbs and this was all without changing my diet. I still eat too much but the cycling has kept me under control. During the winter months I do some indoor cycling, but it's not enough and since the holidays I am yet gaining a few more pounds.

This season will be different. Remember, it took many, many years to put the weight on and it will take many more to take it all off.
Boss, are you trying to get healthy or just loose weight? Two different things. You can lose weight and still be unhealthy, like eating junk food and drinking cokes. If you want the poundage to drop off, the best way to do it is by adjusting your diet.

I am constantly thinking about all the paintings I see of everyday scenes in the 1700-1800's. There are very very few fat folks and I can only think that back in the day the amount of junk food available was minimal. That being said, I am sure there were folks who had the "fat" gene and could not loose the weight. But also in the old days it was a day-by-day existence where each day you had to go out and kill a chicken, pluck its feathers, and then cook the darn thing all day long. That endeavor alone would work a lot of excess weight off your backside. It was more of a work all day long existence where if you didn't work, you didn't eat. Lots of skinny folks.

Today our media has flooded our mindsets with commercials that every food which comes out of the end of a machine is a great food to eat. BS, it is junk designed to keep us unhealthy. If folks were to go back to an agrarian food lifestyle (go out and kill or harvest you own food) then folks would be naturally healthier. Processed food has a bunch of chemicals added to it which our bodies do not like. Eat a bucket of ice cream and see what comes out of your colon. Pretty squishy.

All I have to add is stop eating processed food, eat healthier, do some sort of weight lifting to get your heart rate up and a good sweat goin', and the weight will come off. Keep eating man made food, do some sort of exercise and you will still feel bad. Bad things in, not so good results. Good things in, good results. :thumb

Not trying to bust anybody's chops, just trying to explain how I come about my ideas of a healthy lifestyle. If I stepped on anybody's toes, that is not my goal with this thread. Just trying to be helpful.

Terry
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Woodie
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pdqrunner
Jan 28 2016, 08:14 PM
A piece of chicken a helping of potatoes and some vegetables is plenty.
A piece of chicken? I think I already do that. I eat the right piece one day and the left piece the next day. There, one chicken done. B-)
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cwatkin


Yeah, another issue is all the soda people drink. People who drop that habit lose weight based on that alone! Also, they now say the diet varieties are no better or even worse. All the chemicals confuse the body in terms of blood sugar and the like and it is no better. Anyway, I try to avoid that stuff myself. To me it is very expensive for being a bunch of flavored sugar water.

Conor
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Bad Bent
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The basic rules have always been "Eat less and exercise." "The weight comes on slowly, it goes off slowly." (takes time). Low reps, high weight increase size and high reps, low weight do not. And if you can't eat less then do more exercise. :-/

BTW, bicycling does not build large legs. It certainly does not build upper body size since there is very little upper body exercise. For upper body size you can do dips/push-ups between chairs and get a weight set or a gym membership.
Two basic riding styles. #1 Push big gears, the hard gears, and you will gain some size in your legs. This will be some blood stored in the legs because there is less muscle relaxation and contraction in the legs to help the blood flow. #2 is to spin in lower gears and increase your cadence from the 50-70 rpm range to 80-100 rpm. This is cadence, the natural pedaling rhythm without much effort. Higher cadence (high reps, less weight) does not build large leg muscle or large muscle anywhere.
I started riding and rode in the big gear (52 teeth) a lot and had 24" circumference thighs. To race as a junior I had to reduce the gear to about 45 teeth and increase my cadence to 100 and my thighs went down to 18".

One thing about bicycling is that it is constant exercise. Sure you can stop and take breaks but to be moving you have to keep pedaling or you fall down. :lol Well, unless you get a tricycle. :shake

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