Dogmeat's thoughts on weight loss

dogmeat

.. although in all fairness, a pound of muscle is at least twice as dense as a pound of fatt, and therefore half the size, so if I had to choose which one was hanging off my midsection, well, lol..

It's more like 1.18 times as dense, so the difference isn't that much in the end. Still, midsections do tend to look better when they're muscular compared to lard and blubber paddings.

CasperO

"Do not try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig".

This is a hair that gets split again about twice a week on this message board. Just let it go.

cmriverside

Chances are that if you're in Bismarck, ND, and you want to visit your aunt in San Fransisco and your uncle in Philadelphia, an efficient way to do this is to head to California first, then to Pennsylvania, instead of bouncing aimlessly between Montana and Minnesota. In the end, you might even get a hefty inheritance from both relatives, instead of a line in the will that says "for dogmeat, my lazy nephew who never bothered to visit me, I leave the pink plastic flamingo I won on bingo in 1982, worth 20 cents".

Oh, dogmeat, how I love thee.

First - B to the U to the M and the P.

Second, how did no one point this post out to me?:laugh:

Third. The answer to all food questions is............................nuts.

Thanks so much dogmeat. This is going in http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again

right now.

Fit4Vet

iwannano just how I missed this too.

Bump - just for me to read again in a month or 2 - and again later.

KimbersNewLife

Wow thanks you answered a lot of questions for me

cmriverside

:happy:

hollyindallas

Excellent information. Many thanks!

mmtiernan

:happy:

Steph_135

Summary

Focus on eating healthier stuff in moderation. Avoid crap on regular basis, but don't place absolute restrictions on yourself. Excercise. LOG EVERYTHING. Be selfish.

I love it.

jmarie9

bump

LifeAfter50

bumpity bump
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bowbee

tag for later:flowerforyou:

MrsBrosco

Love this!

pfenixa

First off, more applause for a great post.

All this being said, absolutes won't work for most people. If you really, really like something, even if it's unhealthy, don't decide to deprive yourself from it for the rest of your life. You'll likely fail anyway, and enough small failures might lead to giving up altogether. Be it beer, doritos, twinkies, mountain dew, whatever - if you really like them, allow yourself to have them, in moderation, and not too often.

I like Panago's Super Cheezy Pizza, Tim Horton's Boston Cream Doughnuts, Diet Dr. Pepper, A&W Root Beer, for example. I generally squeeze my vices in a regular, within calorie goals day, not to a specific "cheat day", but you might want to do differently.

And on the topic of "cheat days", here's my take on them. I believe having one every 7-10 days or so is beneficial. The most important thing about cheat days is that they're NOT cheat days. You're not "cheating" your diet. You're engaging in a deliberate, controlled plan to both keep your metabolism going and giving you a chance to feel less restricted (if this is an issue for you). MARK everything down. This is very, very important. Skipping food diary days tends to lead to higher chances of giving up counting altogether. You want to know what to expect after your cheat day. I prefer to fill up the extra calories of an over day with nuts, you might want to use it to go for stuff you crave.

On cheat days, or "over days", I hit my maintenance level or go SLIGHTLY above it. "Slightly" doesn't mean over by 5000 Calories. Go above no more than you go under on a regular day. If you go above by 3000kcal (it's not very difficult to do, even by accident) on a cheat day every week, and follow 500kcal deficit the other 6 days, your net outcome is +-0.

I really hope that people take this part to heart. In the past when I've tried to lose weight I was stopped by the fact that I didn't want to radically change my diet. I didn't have time to cook everything, nor the skills for that matter. This time I decided I would just modify my diet. I used to eat Taco Bell like once a week, I've had it once in the last month and then I made sure to pick some healthier menu options and not get 3-5 items. And I didn't cut out soda/caffeine cold turkey: I cut down the portions I would normally have, and after awhile it naturally dropped down to none at all.

Don't completely overhaul your diet to a bunch of foods you hate. It makes it that much harder to stick to it.

DJH510

You CAN gain muscle whilst in calorie deficit if you've never done any resistance training before, provided sufficient protein is present of course. you'll very quickly plateau after this, but you will see a gain at first.

Laika3

Bump :flowerforyou:

Lookgreat

BUMP FOR LATER

MaybeImNot

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californiajuls

You make great points. Thanks!

hkystar

Thus my thinking is, if you're trying to lose fat, the best way to do that is with a moderate, sustained cardio heavy schedule. Maybe 4 to 5 days of cardio with 2 to 3 days of weight training, ALWAYS on different days (because the two types of activity mitigate each other's effectiveness). The weight training will activate muscle growth and recovery and bone calcium and potassium replacement (much more important to muscle health than people give it credit for) and as such is important for fat burning, but the cardio is what will really burn the fat.

I have never heard this before. I have read you can do both on the same day/same workout. I am slightly confused right now about this issue. I have time constraints on my workouts. I have 3 days a week and need to do both. Is it wrong to do one and then the other? I usually do strength then cardio.

ladyhawk00

Pulling this from the depths - how did it not get bumped sooner??? :noway:

PJilly

Definitely bump-worthy. It's as good now as it was the first time I read it!

cmriverside

Yup. I loooooooove this. It makes me <snicker> every time I read it.....

In short; eat more or you won't lose weight. If you face your body in a gloves-off match, you will always lose. It keeps a horseshoe in its glove.

I don't know which tickles me more - an out-of-body Face Off, or trying to duck when the glove with the horseshoe comes flying at my face. :laugh:

TROPIKALPUNCH

Thanks for bumping this from last year. Great read!

DBabbit

BUMP for later! Great post and discussions. :flowerforyou:

kyah1

Awersome thanks for sharing it all makes sense!

ladyhawk00

I still really like this one

TavistockToad

v good! Bump!

cmriverside

I still really like this one

Me too. Haven't seen it for a while. You must have a big ole list of favorites like I do!

JennsLosing

this is an old post, ive never read it before. good read though. thank you!