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JoyousRen

What if you cycle off of it for say, a week or 2 at a time?

Personally, I would rather give up the benefit than give up coffee.

binary_jester

What if you cycle off of it for say, a week or 2 at a time?

Personally, I would rather give up the benefit than give up coffee.

I take 200mg caffeine capsules. All the caffeine, none of the other stuff.

JoyousRen

What if you cycle off of it for say, a week or 2 at a time?

Personally, I would rather give up the benefit than give up coffee.

I take 200mg caffeine capsules. All the caffeine, none of the other stuff.

But caffiene comes in so many tasty ways.

SHBoss1673

What if you cycle off of it for say, a week or 2 at a time?

not sure what the recovery time for Caffeine is. You'd have to check with an expert on that one. I would imagine a week off of it would be long enough though.

SHBoss1673

doh, double post.

SHBoss1673

That is great news. I lift in the morning so drinking my coffee first is easy but there is no way I can drink it before I run in the evening. Thanks.

oh, I did forget to mention that the effectiveness of caffeine goes way down the more you use it? Your body adapts to caffeine unfortunately.

*pop!* That was the sounds of my bubble bursting.

LOL. I knew that would happen. Sorry lady.

binary_jester

Found this in my FitnessRX magazine:

Don't do exercises that overdevelop the obliques. Unless you are training for power sports, you do not want to overdevelop the oblique muscle, These exercises will broaden your waist and make you look fat in your clothes. Exercises to avoid include oblique crunches on the Cybex back hyperextension machine, oblique crunches on the Cybex crunches machine, and oblique side bends.

SHBoss1673

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diabetes/diabetes-half-us-adults-risk-2020-unitedhealth-group/story?id=12238602

little scary if you ask me.

alantin

Love the thread!

I'm not sure if this came up before but I have been wondering, why people usually lose some water weight when they start losing weight? Does that water come back while you progress or after you go back to maintenance? I'm not really sure how to look for info on this..

binary_jester

SHBoss1673

Love the thread!

I'm not sure if this came up before but I have been wondering, why people usually lose some water weight when they start losing weight? Does that water come back while you progress or after you go back to maintenance? I'm not really sure how to look for info on this..

Oh, I missed this question, but I have an answer for it.

Almost any time there is a large shift in dietary input, there's always a change in mass levels. There's basically 3 reasons for this (and I'll get into the negative vs positive mass changes after). 1stly is to remember that almost all mitochondrial energy transfer (via either direct glucose burning or through the Krebs cycle) result in CO2 and H2O, and in the absence of a reason to eliminate extra H2O, the body will basically let it float around in the Blood and in the cytoplasm of most cells for a while until it's either needed for a transport medium, or needed for something else (like excreting urine or bowels or mucosa cell genesis in the colon and small intestines). Only during anaerobic cellular respiration is water not produced (usually). Therefore when we change our eating habits, we change the reaction amounts in our body, thus changing the amount of water created and held in our body, this is (obviously)partly responsible for weight fluctuation during a dietary change.
2ndly is the obvious change in the way our body burns calories. In a carbohydrate rich environment, the body will store fat not only in the adipose tissue, but also intramuscularly and at the organ sites, usually this is the first fat to burn off, and it happens quickly. combine a lower caloric input, with increased cardiovascular exercise (which can increase growth hormones and thus lipolysis) and you burn much of that muscle site and organ site fat rather quickly. Adipose fat doesn't come off as quickly or as easily as this fat does (mostly because it's closer to the site of the energy needs). This means a few lbs of fat is quickly shed.
Lastly is the most obvious. Sodium triggers water absorption in cells. Generally, when we start eating a new, healthier diet, we usually lower our sodium intake and raise our potassium intake which has the reverse effect as sodium (technically this isn't true as potassium and sodium act in concert with each other in the body, but in effect it's true).

As far as a positive vs negative effect on body weight, generally it depends on what the person's diet was before they began a new program, and how active (in shape) they are when they start. If they are relatively in shape and already eating healthy, then the changes will probably be minimal or might even be an increase in mass, but for most people who are out of shape and eating badly before, the result is immediate loss of 2 to 5% of total mass. and depending on where their fat is located, this can continue for weeks, and maybe even months depending on their body.