best books about nutrition and weight loss/fitness?
billigrrl
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I'm a big nerd and like to learn about my interests and activities. Can you recommend any great books on women's fitness/weight loss/nutrition? I don't want fad diet type books like Atkins and such though. Someone recommended thebook strong curves so I'm going to get that. I'm interested in exploring iifym too if anyone can recommend good books on that. Thanks!
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I was just coming in here to recommend Strong Curves from seeing the thread title. You might want to get Starting Strength, even though it's not particularly geared towards women.
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If you're not into calorie counting, then "Lean Habits for Lifelong Weight Loss" is great. If you're into calorie counting, it's still a good book as far as nutrition goes.0
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bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
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I liked The Diet Fix by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
And parts of Lose it Right by James Fell were interesting as well.0 -
I know you asked for books but I wanted to leave this link here. Has a list of what were previously stickied threads and they have a ton of great info without the fads.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177910/most-helpful-posts-general-diet-and-weight-loss-help-must-reads#latest0 -
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CICO. Fitness - just find something you like to do and you will stick to it.
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There's plenty of middle ground there. Let's just not hop off topic. OP wanted reading material.
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BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
This is the best advice I have read today, thank you. It is good to see someone who is more interested in health than numbers on a scale. Even if you are under your calorie allowance, the body will store the food as fat if it is food it cannot use. The trick is to make sure everything you eat is something useful to your body, not YUMMY GARBAGE.bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
If you are under your calorie allowance, what is left to store as fat?
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123user456 wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
This is the best advice I have read today, thank you. It is good to see someone who is more interested in health than numbers on a scale. Even if you are under your calorie allowance, the body will store the food as fat if it is food it cannot use. The trick is to make sure everything you eat is something useful to your body, not YUMMY GARBAGE.bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
If you are under your calorie allowance, what is left to store as fat?
Shhhhh.... You can't use logic on these forums.0 -
Intuitive Eating. You can learn more about it at https://www.intuitiveeating.com0
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Glinda1971 wrote: »I liked The Diet Fix by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
I second that recommendation. The "10-day Reset" is a bit gimmicky, but the principles behind it are sane, unlike most books on weight loss. Freedhoff's basic point is that you are not going to stick with any weight loss plan or dietary change that makes you miserable, so you need to make changes that are sustainable and allow for comfort and joy.
As far as nutrition, I am fond of Michael Pollan's advice in his In Defense of Food: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." By "food" he means something that someone in your grandparents' or great-grandparents' lifetimes would have recognized as food—or, to put it another way, foodstuffs that haven't been processed in ways that require them to be enriched with the vitamins and minerals that were processed out of them.
As long as you ignore his rants against cardio exercise, Mark Lauren's books on bodyweight strength training are useful. You Are Your Own Gym is gender-neutral (and has both male and female models in the exercise photos); Body By You is aimed at women.
The best introductions to what we currently know about fitness and its impact on health, based on research, are Gretchen Reynolds, The First 20 Minutes, and Alex Hutchinson, Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? Hutchinson provides references to the scientific literature; Reynolds doesn't, but you can usually track it down based on the info she provides in the text. Reynolds is a reporter for the New York Times (much of her book started in her Times column); Hutchinson got a Ph.D. in physics but is now an exercise journalist; his "Sweat Science" blog is now on the Runner's World website and he also writes for other venues.0 -
bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
It's not that simple. Raised insulin is an appropriate physiological response to glucose metabolism and serves to keep blood sugar at the appropriate levels. It is only problematic when the cells' insulin receptors are resistant to the hormone, leading the body to produce more insulin, leading to raised blood sugar and decreased ability to burn stored fat.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »Actually, the information you get by using and reading MFP is probably superior to any book you can buy.
This. Just read the threads. There are lot of really intelligent people on MFP. Watch out for the ones that have no idea what they are talking about. You will find out who they are quickly. CICO. Fitness - just find something you like to do and you will stick to it.
*cough* bobby19666
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bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
Are you copy and paste this in every thread?
There is no good or bad foods as long as you have no medical issues
There is only TOO MUCH food what makes you gain weight or not lose weight.
Very simple, no magic...so to burst the bubble
Eat less than you burn ( deficit) and you lose weight.
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[Yes, CICO will certainly do the job if you are just interested in numbers on a scale, but eating to be healthy is a little more involved.
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Yes I know that.0 -
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BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
Yes, CICO will certainly do the job if you are just interested in numbers on a scale, but eating to be healthy is a little more involved.BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
. CICO. Fitness - just find something you like to do and you will stick to it.
Eating healthy doesn't mean remove sugar from your diet. That's absurd.0 -
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BILLBRYTAN wrote: »The OP deserves to know what is healthy, not just how to reduce numbers.
And what your suggesting as healthy has no scientific basis, just garbage thrown around by the fad diet community.
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Not too long ago I listened to the book Mindless Eating. I thought it was really interesting. They do all of these experiments on people to see when/why/how people overeat. There are some helpful strategies in there too about reducing your calories by just a little a day.
I haven't read this one, but it's on my list...The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet. I'm not really looking for a diet book either, but I've heard this one has some good info.
Lots of threads here at MFP too. You could read for a lifetime!0 -
BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
Try: wellnessresources.com This is an excerpt: Toxins Pose a Major Challenge to Weight LossUltimateRBF wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
Some misconceptions die hard. For 75 years we were told to avoid saturated fats which now are widely known to be healthy. Unsaturated fats, particularly solvent refined oils, have been linked to all the diseases which formerly were blamed on saturated fats and cholesterol. Your body cannot eliminate many of these toxic substances so it encases them in fat and stores them in order to protect you. All this still happens whether or not you are in a caloric deficit.123user456 wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
This is the best advice I have read today, thank you. It is good to see someone who is more interested in health than numbers on a scale. Even if you are under your calorie allowance, the body will store the food as fat if it is food it cannot use. The trick is to make sure everything you eat is something useful to your body, not YUMMY GARBAGE.bobby19666 wrote: »All you need to do is cut out sugar and simple carbs. That way your insulin drops and your body burns fat. You can even eat fat butter meat. Just cut processed foods
If you are under your calorie allowance, what is left to store as fat?
Do you have any sources for these claims you like to make? Where do you get this information from? And don't tell me to google it.
A variety of reasons toxins pose a major challenge to weight loss. A person who has too many toxins to process will make new fat cells and store those toxins along with fat in them. This is first a form of self-defense against being poisoned, and second, a strategy to get toxins out of the circulation and away from major organs. This means that some people will not be able to lose any weight at all, regardless of how little they eat, until the acute nature of their plumbing problems are addressed.
ahhhh very reliable a selling site...buy our stuff
throws directly her education over board and goes for it....
kidding of course
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You get fat because of excess calories! You make new fat cells ( the simple and short explanation here) when you eat to much calories and your body want to store those
simple!
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BILLBRYTAN wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
And what your suggesting as healthy has no scientific basis, just garbage thrown around by the fad diet community.galgenstrick wrote: »
The OP deserves to know what is healthy, not just how to reduce numbers.BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
And what your suggesting as healthy has no scientific basis, just garbage thrown around by the fad diet community.
Yes, the fad diet I proclaim is to cut out processed, refined and denatured chemicals which are laughingly called food because they are yummy.
so sugar is a processed, refined and denatured chemical now?0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
And what your suggesting as healthy has no scientific basis, just garbage thrown around by the fad diet community.galgenstrick wrote: »
The OP deserves to know what is healthy, not just how to reduce numbers.BILLBRYTAN wrote: »
And what your suggesting as healthy has no scientific basis, just garbage thrown around by the fad diet community.
Yes, the fad diet I proclaim is to cut out processed, refined and denatured chemicals which are laughingly called food because they are yummy.
so sugar is a processed, refined and denatured chemical now?
it upgraded i see.
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