Cut out alcohol. Yesterday was day 100 without alcohol, and I'd estimate that I've dropped 5-10 lbs as a result. Combine that with the exercise regime I've been doing and I'm probably in the best shape of my life.
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Counting calories can be a pain in the arse, but this app makes it really easy - it has a massive database of foods and even has a bar code scanner to record the nutritional information of what you're eating. If you don't have much time to exercise, this makes it really easy to know how much you're taking in on any given day.
May not be the solution for everyone but it's worked for me.
The zero carb thing is a bunch of bull####. Your body needs carbs as a energy source, of you don't have any it's going too start eating your muscles for energy and deprive your body of protein. What you need to do is watch your carb intake. Eat them early, because you burn energy during the day and at night you don't use that energy.
Eat oats, sprouted grain bread, brown rice. Try to get most of your carbs from veggies. Best thing too do is pre plan your meals, cook them for the week and put them in containers.
Get yourself s good protein powder, of you get hungry make a shake as a snack, or be creative and make protein brownies.
Actually you can get energy just from high protein with very minimal carb foods - called Ketogenesis. The key is instead of eating carbs you replace with it very high fatty foods such as fish, bacon, cheese, yogurt, daily, coconut oil.. a variety of different kinds of fats. Again, obviously this is a bit extreme, but a lot people I know who are bodybuilders follow this diet when they are in their cutting phase.
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Cut out alcohol. Yesterday was day 100 without alcohol, and I'd estimate that I've dropped 5-10 lbs as a result. Combine that with the exercise regime I've been doing and I'm probably in the best shape of my life.
But at what cost man?!?!
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You have time for exercise. Get a chin up bar that you can put in a door frame. Use that. Do squats, pushups, and chipups. Or go for a short run. Even 20 minutes a day of exercise or running and you'll start to see a noticeable difference in muscle tone. The more muscle you have, the greater your metabolism will be. Boosting your metabolism will make it even easier for you to see a difference from cutting calories.
You'll also be surprised how quickly the difference will occur. Going from a state of doing nothing to making moderate changes in your diet and 20 minutes of exercise a day will make a world of difference.
Actually I've saved quite a bit of money, and it's pretty awesome to go out and party with five girls on Thursday night and not have a hangover the next day.
I officially go on record stating that a virgin mojito is better than a real one.
I made it to my goal of 100, so I'm having a drink this evening, and then going to buy a pack of beer because I do miss beer.
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None of what he said has anything to do with that. If you are massively overweight and unhealthy simple things will result in large weight loss. If you're looking to drop the last 10 lbs you're going to need to make very different choices to do so.
Ok I finally see here what happened. I was responding to his claim that "if really want to get results you need to go gluten free"
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The zero carb thing is a bunch of bull####. Your body needs carbs as a energy source, of you don't have any it's going too start eating your muscles for energy and deprive your body of protein. What you need to do is watch your carb intake. Eat them early, because you burn energy during the day and at night you don't use that energy.
Eat oats, sprouted grain bread, brown rice. Try to get most of your carbs from veggies. Best thing too do is pre plan your meals, cook them for the week and put them in containers.
Get yourself s good protein powder, of you get hungry make a shake as a snack, or be creative and make protein brownies.
This is easy enough to do until you try to be social. That's where most diets fall down. What do you do when your mother in law worked all day for that Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fathers day dinner? What do you do when you go out with work colleagues. Dieting is lame. You need to get a program that is flexible across a lot of situations.
Another thing, age is a huge factor. A lot of the stuff like don't drink beer works until age 30 or so. Then even that is not enough for most.
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This is easy enough to do until you try to be social. That's where most diets fall down. What do you do when your mother in law worked all day for that Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fathers day dinner? What do you do when you go out with work colleagues. Dieting is lame. You need to get a program that is flexible across a lot of situations.
Another thing, age is a huge factor. A lot of the stuff like don't drink beer works until age 30 or so. Then even that is not enough for most.
It's ok to have the occasional meal away from a "diet". Not allowing yourself any freedom is also where "diets" fail.
I'm on Weight Watchers and the principal is simple. You get "x" number of points per day based on your current weight. Each point is give or take 50 calories. Then you get another 49 points (approx 2450 calories) as weekly points that you get to consume during the week. These weekly points are for the exact scenarios you described above.
When people ask me how I lost the weight, I show them this video that I keep on my iPad:
When you say you don't have time for exercise, you must REALLY, REALLY mean it. Because I have had numerous conversations with people who tell me that they don't have the time and then tell me about all the weight loss tips they got off watching "Biggest Loser" and "Dr. Oz". IF YOU HAD TIME TO WATCH TV, THEN YOU HAD TIME TO EXERCISE. It's all a matter of priorities. In the cases of the people I have been talking to, they put watching others lose weight ahead of their own weight loss. But I tell people that you either sacrifice the time now, or you sacrifice the time later.
And I second using Loseit or a similar app to keep track of your foods and exercise. It mentions in the article that I was "writing" down my foods. Actually, I was using Loseit... and I've gotten a fair number of people to start using it. If you don't have an iDevice to use, you can just go to loseit.com and start tracking there.
Lowering calories by crash dieting or skipping meals like breakfast is one of the worst things you can do because your metabolism goes down and your body goes into starvation mode and will basically go into a fat storing mode instead of burning anything off.
Lowering calories by crash dieting or skipping meals like breakfast is one of the worst things you can do because your metabolism goes down and your body goes into starvation mode and will basically go into a fat storing mode instead of burning anything off.
Everything you just wrote down is strong broscience. Read this:
I perused this when you quoted this guy before, and I'm really not seeing how his claims are any more substantiated than a lot of the fad diets out there. He appears to wildly cite studies here and there as some sort of mishmash of science.
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Lowering calories by crash dieting or skipping meals like breakfast is one of the worst things you can do because your metabolism goes down and your body goes into starvation mode and will basically go into a fat storing mode instead of burning anything off.
Hehehe, wow, someone just dusted off their 1970's physiology book.
Long term low caloric intake will indeed slow metabolism. Skipping one or two meals will not. What good would it do any organism to lower it's metabolism right when it needs it in order to find more food?
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