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Elise4270
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I'm going to give it a shot at low carb again. I use it 20 years ago to lose baby weight.
So now I'm going to try to lose the last 10 pounds by tightening up the unnecessary carbs. I had been running until 4.5 months ago when I had surgery, I'm still recovering.
Anyone run? Or any other regular cardio?
I'm guessing I'll shoot for eating carbs around exercise and choose carbs that are fruit and veggies. Maybe try some loose calculation like 1 hour walking burns about 200 calories. 200 calories is 50g of carbs. Figure this may keep me low enough to burn some fat. I need to build some muscle from being sedentary post surgery.
Sorry to hear in the into that this group had to go private due to harassment.
I'd welcome any advice, insight, experience. Building muscle? Navigating eating out? Ect.
So now I'm going to try to lose the last 10 pounds by tightening up the unnecessary carbs. I had been running until 4.5 months ago when I had surgery, I'm still recovering.
Anyone run? Or any other regular cardio?
I'm guessing I'll shoot for eating carbs around exercise and choose carbs that are fruit and veggies. Maybe try some loose calculation like 1 hour walking burns about 200 calories. 200 calories is 50g of carbs. Figure this may keep me low enough to burn some fat. I need to build some muscle from being sedentary post surgery.
Sorry to hear in the into that this group had to go private due to harassment.
I'd welcome any advice, insight, experience. Building muscle? Navigating eating out? Ect.
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Welcome aboard @Elise4270!! There's lots of info on the Launch Pad..check it out!
The threads here are also very helpful and I would recommend going back several pages just to peruse some topics that may be of interest to you. The best advice I have is to ask questions within this forum and gather from the answers what makes sense to you and for you. We all do it our own ways here and we all support each other so you'll find tons of help among the group! There are certain people who are known for their experience in certain areas and the first that comes to mind is @Gallowmere1984 for muscle building.
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Welcome aboard, and thanks for the mention RowdysLady.
The most important parts for building muscle are progressive overload (making the muscle work harder and harder over time), and a caloric surplus. How you accomplish the first is irrelevant, though some routes are more efficient than others. The second gets a lot more detailed, but not at first.
Full-body weight lifting programs like Starting Strength have become the standard suggestion for nee trainees, but that obviously assumes that you are willig and able to do barbell work. If not, there are definitely other options.
As for the surplus: as a new trainee, this would be slightly less important, assuming that you have adequate bodyfat stores. You're going to see early growth no matter what, so long as you aren't eating at a ridiculous (like 30+%) deficit, and even then you might, if obese (you didn't specify). Again, almost any nutritional advice would have to be tailored around where you are starting from, and what your "pain tolerance" is, when it comes to food.1 -
Thanks everyone! I'll check out the launch pad thread.
@Gallowmere1984 I'm 124lbs, 5'5", 46 yo female. Recovering from surgery, er weakness and not cleared to do heavy weights just yet.. I definitely don't want to lose any more muscle. I'm not sure when I can go all in on the weights..0 -
Thanks everyone! I'll check out the launch pad thread.
@Gallowmere1984 I'm 124lbs, 5'5", 46 yo female. Recovering from surgery, er weakness and not cleared to do heavy weights just yet.. I definitely don't want to lose any more muscle. I'm not sure when I can go all in on the weights..
If it were me, I'd start in very light, and progress as my body supports. Keep in mind though, I am also the person who heard my ex-wife's doctor advice to "never lift anything that heavy again" after she suffered a back injury at work, said *kitten* that noise, and got her on a deadlift regimen through the method I described above. Not only did all of her chronic back pain go away, but she won a powerlifting meet within a year.
I *kitten* hate doctors when it comes to strength training advice.1 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Thanks everyone! I'll check out the launch pad thread.
@Gallowmere1984 I'm 124lbs, 5'5", 46 yo female. Recovering from surgery, er weakness and not cleared to do heavy weights just yet.. I definitely don't want to lose any more muscle. I'm not sure when I can go all in on the weights..
If it were me, I'd start in very light, and progress as my body supports. Keep in mind though, I am also the person who heard my ex-wife's doctor advice to "never lift anything that heavy again" after she suffered a back injury at work, said *kitten* that noise, and got her on a deadlift regimen through the method I described above. Not only did all of her chronic back pain go away, but she won a powerlifting meet within a year.
I *kitten* hate doctors when it comes to strength training advice.
I have nerve damage (left posterior sciatic) so right now the priority is to let that nerve heal. But I'm totally with you. Docs don't know do do.
I was told to stop running and bike. So I biked for 3 seasons. That probably caused 80% of the nerve damage, if not all of it. Went back to running and never listened to another doc, well except this hip surgeon I'm working with, he seems to be smarter that the average bear.0 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Thanks everyone! I'll check out the launch pad thread.
@Gallowmere1984 I'm 124lbs, 5'5", 46 yo female. Recovering from surgery, er weakness and not cleared to do heavy weights just yet.. I definitely don't want to lose any more muscle. I'm not sure when I can go all in on the weights..
If it were me, I'd start in very light, and progress as my body supports. Keep in mind though, I am also the person who heard my ex-wife's doctor advice to "never lift anything that heavy again" after she suffered a back injury at work, said *kitten* that noise, and got her on a deadlift regimen through the method I described above. Not only did all of her chronic back pain go away, but she won a powerlifting meet within a year.
I *kitten* hate doctors when it comes to strength training advice.
I have nerve damage (left posterior sciatic) so right now the priority is to let that nerve heal. But I'm totally with you. Docs don't know do do.
I was told to stop running and bike. So I biked for 3 seasons. That probably caused 80% of the nerve damage, if not all of it. Went back to running and never listened to another doc, well except this hip surgeon I'm working with, he seems to be smarter that the average bear.
Every now and then you'll find a good one who wasn't gassed out of his mind on mushrooms during the biomechanics part of his education. When you find one, keep 'em around.
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