How long have you been consistently on your fitness regime?
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Patttience wrote: »Thanks everyone so far. Please answer all the questions if you are going to answer at all because I'm trying to ascertain something which I can't if you leave some out.
So here they are again.
How long have you consistently been exercising? In terms of months or years or even weeks.
What type of activity do you do?
How much time per session do you do?
How much weight did you want to lose when you started exercising?
here's another question: Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health.
What are you trying to ascertain?
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Patttience wrote: »Thanks everyone so far. Please answer all the questions if you are going to answer at all because I'm trying to ascertain something which I can't if you leave some out.
So here they are again.
How long have you consistently been exercising? In terms of months or years or even weeks.
What type of activity do you do?
How much time per session do you do?
How much weight did you want to lose when you started exercising?
here's another question: Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health.
What are you trying to ascertain?
How long have you consistently been exercising? In terms of months or years or even weeks. -- most of my life, but especially the last 25 years.
What type of activity do you do? -- mostly cycling, but also a whole bunch of other things.
How much time per session do you do? -- anywhere from about half an hour a day to 24 hours a day. No, I'm not kidding.
How much weight did you want to lose when you started exercising? -- none
Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health -- I took up cycling because I enjoyed cycling. Not for weight loss. Not for health. Just simply because I enjoy it.
Have you been able to ascertain whatever it is you're trying to ascertain?
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here's another question: Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health.
I took up my primary activity - running - for health and fitness reasons, not to lose weight. The bottom line was I had enough of missing out on activities I used to enjoy, and my kids had grown to be very healthy and athletic and wanted to keep up / share more fun times with them that would simply not be possible unless I started investing in my own fitness again.
Doing that made the first 30+ pounds of weight loss almost effortless. Bonus.0 -
For my adult life (40 years).
Mostly jogging. Also did rowing, martial arts for ten years, taught cardio kickboxing for 5 years, currently jog on a treadmill and doing exercise DVDs. Ran the NYC marathon 24 years ago.
30-60 minutes 4-5 days a week. Less time per day as I get older.
I started exercising because I wanted to get in shape. I keep doing it because it makes me feel good and I enjoy that and being in shape.
I gained some weight in the past decade and am working on losing it.
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How long have you consistently been exercising?
This time, 9 weeks as of Monday.
What type of activity do you do?
Every morning, except Sunday, I do an hour of cardio, normally the stationary bike. Every night, I do 15 minutes of cardio warm up, 30ish minutes of weight training, and 15 minutes of cardio cool down. The weight training alternates between upper and lower body.
How much time per session do you do?
An hour in the morning and about an hour at night.
How much weight did you want to lose when you started exercising?
About 112 lbs.
Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health.
Lose weight.0 -
Dope it up didn't answer the questions. A few of the later posters didn't.
I will answer your questions middlehaitch adn jane in pm.0 -
Lost a bit over 125 lbs
I road bike race or ride fast for about 150-175 miles per week. I do group rides and online challenges like the Under Armor challenge this year.
I lift heavy 2 days a week.
Sleep is just as important as lifting for me!
I'm pretty much where I need to be weight and body fat percentage wise but just tweaking things now. Wanting to e able to see more muscles in my torso or abs.
It is a lifestyle to follow long term.
Diet is the key though, for me. I can't eat wild just because I ride a 50 on Saturday.
There is a critical balance between eating enough protein laden calories when adding muscle, limiting calories when burning fat primarily, or finding the sweet spot when maintaining.
It is pretty easy really. Just do the next right thing for diet and exercise on a daily basis. The magic just happens.
As long as you don't give up on yourself, you will get there.0 -
I am consistent for a while than I take off a month here and there. I always regret taking that month off. Just like starting over each time.
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Patttience wrote: »Dope it up didn't answer the questions. A few of the later posters didn't.
I will answer your questions middlehaitch adn jane in pm.
Why the need for everyone to answer the questions exactly how you have in mind? This is a forum where people participate voluntarily and can provide whatever responses they like.
What exactly are you researching?
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Patttience wrote: »Dope it up didn't answer the questions. A few of the later posters didn't.
I will answer your questions middlehaitch adn jane in pm.
Why the need for everyone to answer the questions exactly how you have in mind? This is a forum where people participate voluntarily and can provide whatever responses they like.
What exactly are you researching?
Yeah, no PM yet. I mostly just wanted to remind the OP to be grateful for people's participation, even though they may not have had a chance to answer the questions exactly how she wanted
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5 months with consistent dedication and major progress. 30 pound gone as of this morning and a great deal more strength and stamina.0
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Amberonamission wrote: »5 months with consistent dedication and major progress. 30 pound gone as of this morning and a great deal more strength and stamina.
No idea how to edit, but I didn't answer all of your questions.
I didn't lose a pound the first 3 months. I put on some much needed muscle a little bit of muscle. Then I got my calories in check. Have lost those 30 in 8 weeks. I am class 2 obese so my main goal is to resolve that. But, I want to play tennis and climb rocks and kayak and paddle board and..... I needed fitness for it.
I am a Planet Fitness lover cue groans. Hope that answers it OK?0 -
Since 19730
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Patttience wrote: »
Why the need for everyone to answer the questions exactly how you have in mind? This is a forum where people participate voluntarily and can provide whatever responses they like.
Think of it like a survey. If you don't answer all the survey questions, chances are the whole survey is pointless. Of course if you want to say whatever you want, for the sake of it, there's no harm done but its not actually helpful to me.
Thanks for sharing.
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Addition to my original post:
* I originally started C25K to speed my weight loss. I had about 20 lbs. to lose at that time, although I was still within the parameters of a normal BMI. I lost the weight in about 5 months and continued working out consistently because I enjoy it.0 -
Patttience wrote: »Patttience wrote: »
Why the need for everyone to answer the questions exactly how you have in mind? This is a forum where people participate voluntarily and can provide whatever responses they like.
Think of it like a survey. If you don't answer all the survey questions, chances are the whole survey is pointless. Of course if you want to say whatever you want, for the sake of it, there's no harm done but its not actually helpful to me.
Thanks for sharing.
If it's that critical, you'd have to put in the work up front to build a survey form with required fields. Otherwise it could still be useful to collect or report that "of the users that answered xyz question, W% responded this way
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Since mid january sometime.
started at 260 and am 188 now. I break my goals down into manageable numbers, so around 25 lbs at a time. My next goal is 150.
I watch my calories (eat anything i want as long as i can make it fit- and I can make almost anything fit if I want it bad enough
) no shakes, pills, none of that crap. just good old fashioned calorie counting and working out 6-7 times a week. I eat back about half my exercise calories but not always. 0 -
Started sports and swimming young and then started weights around 13 when I got heavily into volleyball and conditioning was part of my training. Learned proper form and technique that way and continued that through my life. Now I work out generally 5 days a week but do take breaks when I'm injured or just need to refocus. I do yoga, lift weights and still play volleyball.0
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Patttience wrote: »Thanks everyone so far. Please answer all the questions if you are going to answer at all because I'm trying to ascertain something which I can't if you leave some out.
So here they are again.
How long have you consistently been exercising? In terms of months or years or even weeks.
What type of activity do you do?
How much time per session do you do?
How much weight did you want to lose when you started exercising?
here's another question: Did you take it up mainly to help you lose or manage your weight or did you take it up mainly for general health.
Amount of time? 1-1.5hr for a lifting session (it really depends on how much rest I give between sets and if my wife is lifting with me), 1-2hr for ultimate depending on how long other people stay.
I wanted to lose ~50lb when I started exercising.
Losing weight is general health, so both.0 -
Patttience wrote: »How many weeks, months, or years have you been consistently following a fitness regime?
How much time do you spend on it?
How many days a week?
What type of activity?
Three years consistently...but I've been pretty active most of my life save for a handful of years there that I let myself go when I started sitting behind a desk.
I cycle roughly 80 miles per week...sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less...60 is usually my low end of an off week or something. I will also ramp that up if I'm getting ready for an event and tend to be on the bike less in the winter months. I lift usually 2x per week...3-4x per week in the winter when I spend less time on my bike. Ideally I would swim once per week to cross-train, but sometimes it's hard to get to the pool so I end up going maybe 2x per month...otherwise to cross-train I squeeze in a 5K run here and there. I do yoga or tai chi as well which addresses my mental and spiritual health and well being. I usually take one full rest day and sometimes two depending on how my body is feeling.
I tend to look at fitness for the sake of fitness and as a requirement to the pursuit of overall health and wellness. I never took up fitness for the sake of weight management...it makes weight management easier, but for me, that is not the purpose of regular exercise...regular exercise is simply essential to health and wellness.0 -
A little over 6.5 years. I worked out a lot early in college and in occasional bursts during law school but from 2007 to January 2009 I probably went to the gym maybe 3 times total. I was seriously out of shape and had gained a ton of weight.
I've been working out at least 3-4 times a week pretty much every week since then. It's usually 4-5 times a week now, an hour or so each time, never really more than 5x a week. I run 2-3 days a week (didn't get back into running until about 4 years ago after I had lost about 100 lbs) and do classes the other days.. kickboxing, body sculpt, HIIT, etc.0 -
thirty years or so. I have been consistantly in the gym 4-5 days weekly...there were times in my life that I belonged to three gyms at the same time. cardio and weigt training are staples...the third activity changes right now its yoga
i had no weight to lose. I started working out for my health. i work out a min of 1/2 hour and a max of 1.5 hours. ..I try to get in at least an hour but if I am pressed for time I do at least a 1/2 on the eliptical or treadmill.
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How many weeks, months, or years have you been consistently following a fitness regime?
On and off since I was 17. I'm 44 years old now.
How much time do you spend on it?
Currently, about 75 to 90 minutes per.
How many days a week?
4 or 5 sessions a week.
What type of activity?
Primarily powerlifting with a bodybuilding and cardio/conditioning day thrown in for good measure.0 -
91f44199acf4eaf0c27be87813082425f3d6bc9enordlead2005 wrote: »Patttience wrote: »
Losing weight is general health, so both.
Norlead i've made a distinction between general healthy and losing weight because a great many people start exercise primarily to lose weight. Yes of course they want to improve their health but its weightloss that motivates them, not health.
I mean you don't see too overweight people who take up fitness with the idea that they intend to maintain the weight.
The reason for the distinction is because its my belief that most people who take up fitness with the idea of losing weight, tend not to be able to sustain the activity into the long term. And they end up failing at their weightloss. This is certianly my experience and it took a number of failures to realise that exercise wasn't the key to weightloss in the long term. Oh yes, i could lose weight more easily with weightloss but i couldn't sustain the weightloss and when i stopped iwth the exercise i would regain the weight. I think this the common experience.
The answers in the thread above show that most people who have answered this question did not have a weight issue to deal with. So it is wrong to include people such as these in any stats about how weightloss helps people lose weight.
I now do daily exericse but its moderate and not very intense. I do it for my health and yes it does actually have an impact on my weight. But if i don't exercise, i am able to maintain my weight also becuase i no longer rely on exercise for weight management. I rely on my diet. My exercise is only daily since I've got a dog who needs a decent walk every afternoon. So we go to the beach and i cover about 3km while my dog does about 10km worth of sprinting. Sometimes i do some sprints because I want my cardiac fitness to be better.
I lost all my weight last year with no exercise at all. Now i am currently near goal which is 60kg/132 pounds. If i wanted to be 55 kilograms which is at the bottom of my healhty weight range, I would certainly have to do a lot more exercise because I would want to eat more food. I would probably need to do more than one hour of exercise a day.
I keep suggesting to people who arrive on facebook with a lot of weight to lose that they don't need to exercise to lose weight and they are better off waiting until their weight is down to more healthy level before they start. But they are nearly all convinced that exercises is the most important thing and so they go and try to kill themselves in the gym. And then at some point along the way they start to struggle with going to the gym and pretty soon after that they disappear from the forum. This is common.
Or they come on saying they've lost weight before and they put it all back on again and now they are ready to do all the hard work again. My experience of weight loss was that it didn't take any hard work at all and i found it veyr enjoyable because I was eating great food and enjoyed eating healthy.0 -
What it boils down to is CI<CO.
CICO means that calories in (what we consume) should be less calories out (what we burn). This can be accomplished in a number of ways:
-- A person can reduce the amount they eat, and not do much exercise.
-- A person can eat the same amount as always, and burn it off with exercise.
-- A person can do both ... reduce the amount the eat and increase the exercise.
All three methods work. I've done all three at different times of my life.
For years (mid-1990s to mid-2000s) I was very-very active, and ate a large amount of food, but would lose weight anyway. I actually struggled to keep my weight within a normal range. I kept dropping into the underweight range.
In 2011, heading into winter that year, my activity level dropped, so I just reduced the amount I ate, and I lost weight.
And this time I'm doing both ... reducing the amount I eat and increasing exercise.
But it does require awareness ... awareness of how many calories we are consuming ... awareness of how many calories we are actually burning.0 -
There is almost nothing more inane than CICO. I'm not saying CICO is not a fact but it doesn't address successful long term weightloss. This fact alone is inadequate for people who do not know how to lose weight and keep it off.
You are also proof of what i'm saying. You see your weight is going up and down all the time and you need to keep starting again it seems. My idea is that i would lose the weight and never get overweight again. So far i've been in maintenance 10 months after 10 months of losing. And since then my weight has fluctated but never above my healthy weight range and each time its diet and mood that sends it up and diet and a balanced mood that brings it down again. Exercise is optional.
CICO is but one element of successful weightloss. But most people need more insight into what is involved in successful weightloss than this simple fact. You see there is appetite which is beyond conscious control and there is what runs through someone's mind which impacted by external events but has an effect on appetite. These things are governed by more than just CICO and CICO does not address those factors.
So any book that attempted to argue that weightloss is merely about CICO would not have many successes to show for it.0 -
Patttience wrote: »There is almost nothing more inane than CICO. I'm not saying CICO is not a fact but it doesn't address successful long term weightloss. This fact alone is inadequate for people who do not know how to lose weight and keep it off.
You are also proof of what i'm saying. You see your weight is going up and down all the time and you need to keep starting again it seems. My idea is that i would lose the weight and never get overweight again. So far i've been in maintenance 10 months after 10 months of losing. And since then my weight has fluctated but never above my healthy weight range and each time its diet and mood that sends it up and diet and a balanced mood that brings it down again. Exercise is optional.
CICO is but one element of successful weightloss. But most people need more insight into what is involved in successful weightloss than this simple fact. You see there is appetite which is beyond conscious control and there is what runs through someone's mind which impacted by external events but has an effect on appetite. These things are governed by more than just CICO and CICO does not address those factors.
So any book that attempted to argue that weightloss is merely about CICO would not have many successes to show for it.
I hate to ask a pretty basic question, but you do know what we do on this site, right?
FYI, I'm not sure who you were responding to, but the poster above you stated that they had difficulty maintaining a normal weight and kept becoming underweight. You're not the only one who's maintained your weight loss - you're on a site full of people that have
And you can't know what one person may find easier to do vs another. Some people can't bring themselves to cook a single meal or are just more used to a higher calorie variety. They may be in optimum health and peak potential for fitness, and therefore be able to easily crank out the physical activity needed to create or enhance their deficit that way. I agree that if a person doesn't know that managing calories consumed is the key to weight loss, some education is in order. I just don't understand the aversion towards using exercise to manage one's weight
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You can spend a lot of time chasing your tail here.
It's perfectly possible to lose weight, or gain weight if that is your goal, and get to goal weight and remain there by finding the right calories in / calories out balance. Taking the CICO monitoring approach all on its own can work and certainly does for many.
Whether exercise is part of that equation or not is irrelevant because you can make the equation work in either case.
You may be able to argue or prove through statistics that people with weight to lose do a better or worse job by incorporating exercise into their routine.
Exercise is a big part of my life now (again) because I enjoy it. I'm not running a half marathon distance tomorrow because I feel I must to lose weight; I'm doing it because I enjoy running two loops around the lake.
That said, there is a positive correlation between my now regular activity and my weight loss, just as their was a correlation between my formerly sedentary life and weight gain. While CICO remains at the core of loss or gain or stasis, physiological changes do occur when we become active or when we become chronically sedentary and nothing good comes from remaining sedentary so it's no wonder that the person adopting a new personal health approach will want to incorporate some form of exercise into their lives.
Sure, some may set themselves up to fail in their weight loss program by relying on high levels of exercise or habits they may not be able to sustain over the long run, but if those same people are aware of CICO, they still stand a chance at success and a second chance at finding a form of exercise or activity they can sustain over the long term.
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Patttience wrote: »There is almost nothing more inane than CICO. I'm not saying CICO is not a fact but it doesn't address successful long term weightloss. This fact alone is inadequate for people who do not know how to lose weight and keep it off.
You are also proof of what i'm saying. You see your weight is going up and down all the time and you need to keep starting again it seems. My idea is that i would lose the weight and never get overweight again. So far i've been in maintenance 10 months after 10 months of losing. And since then my weight has fluctated but never above my healthy weight range and each time its diet and mood that sends it up and diet and a balanced mood that brings it down again. Exercise is optional.
CICO is but one element of successful weightloss. But most people need more insight into what is involved in successful weightloss than this simple fact. You see there is appetite which is beyond conscious control and there is what runs through someone's mind which impacted by external events but has an effect on appetite. These things are governed by more than just CICO and CICO does not address those factors.
So any book that attempted to argue that weightloss is merely about CICO would not have many successes to show for it.
I hate to ask a pretty basic question, but you do know what we do on this site, right?
FYI, I'm not sure who you were responding to, but the poster above you stated that they had difficulty maintaining a normal weight and kept becoming underweight. You're not the only one who's maintained your weight loss - you're on a site full of people that have
And you can't know what one person may find easier to do vs another. Some people can't bring themselves to cook a single meal or are just more used to a higher calorie variety. They may be in optimum health and peak potential for fitness, and therefore be able to easily crank out the physical activity needed to create or enhance their deficit that way. I agree that if a person doesn't know that managing calories consumed is the key to weight loss, some education is in order. I just don't understand the aversion towards using exercise to manage one's weight
Oh yes, you are right, i made a wrong assumption that the person was gaining weight. Well regardless that is what most overeaters tend to do but this person is not here for weight loss so he's not the sort of person my views address. My views (which are not merely my own) are concerned with people who use exercise to lose weight. Like i told you in my pm, there are programs on you tube produced by reputable people who report on the topic notably The Men Who Made us Thin and DR Mosley's "Exercise" program. As well as the book I mentioned by Dr George Blair West who spends a good chapter on the top of exericse and how its not the way to lose weight. The doctor was also once the owner of a gym so he writes from that experience as well but in his book he was reporting on many scientific studies into the subject of exercise and weightloss.
I can see where this is leading so after I've repsoned to the poster below, i think i should avoid engaging in any more debate on this thread since its what i started it to do. I didn't start this thread to convince anyone on it of anything. I've only told you what i'm about because you asked.
I posted this thread to gather information for my own purposes that have nothing to do with this site. That said, i am a participant on this site like everyone else - to manage their weight and or fitness.
And for what its worth, i think most people use this site because its good for counting calories. As far as i've been able to ascertain, this is the best site for doing that. If there was a better one, i'd be there.
What this site is not good at is telling people how many calories to consume to lose weight. Hence all the posts about eating 1200 calories …. In general I haven't got an issue with this site. But i do have an issue with people believeing they have to exercise to lose weight becuase its not true even if you can lose weight by doing exercise.
The poster above had difficulty maintain weight when they were exercising a lot.0
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