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taslima786786
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What excerise would you recommend for weight loss and how many times a week to see the diffrence? What worked best for you?
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calorie deficit for weight loss
exercise for health - pick something you like2 -
I honestly don't exercise I have found for me that just going on a quick walk & trying to make my 10,000 steps a day has really helped me out4
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TavistockToad wrote: »calorie deficit for weight loss
exercise for health - pick something you like
This.1 -
@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it1
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taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
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Thank you @travistocktoad0
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Keep track of what you eat using My fitness pal or some other app. Stay under the amount of calories for your target weight loss rate. That's it.
Exercise is for your health (but it does help burn more calories so double bonus). But you don't need to exercise if you don't want too. Just watch what you eat.0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP!
just give me a bit. 1 -
taslima786786 wrote: »What excerise would you recommend for weight loss and how many times a week to see the diffrence? What worked best for you?
People sometimes give short answers because this site is filled with a lot of more indepth details. But to summarize, figure out your required daily calorie intake using one of several online calculators, and eat 10-20% less than that amount. I use this one personally. http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/
You can download the MFP app and setup your profile there, and select your weight loss goal and it will give you a decently accurate goal number to reach as well. If you're obese, you can do 1.5-2lbs pretty safely, however the closer you get to healthy, the less you can try and lose in a week. If you're only trying to lose 10-20lbs, you're better off doing .5-1.0 lbs because anything more makes it hard to eat enough to feel full.
There's a common quote around here that goes something along the lines of "eat right to lose weight, workout to look good naked" because it takes 10 seconds to eat that 500 calorie piece of cake, but takes an hour of exercise to burn it backoff. So you make smart decisions about eating to lose that weight. The exercise while dieting is more about preventing the muscle loss than it is aiding the fat loss. As you lose weight, inevitably you are going to lose muscle mass as well. So if you add a strength training program into your routine, you help to reduce muscle loss and so as the fat loss goes down, you see a more toned body instead of being skinny fat.1 -
The best exercise is one that you enjoy and will actually do Don't worry about what you think you should do, or things people say about what works and what doesn't...any activity is better than none. And don't be intimidated to try something new! 2
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calories are energy.
Your body is a closed system.
Each and everyday your body is using energy to keep you alive. You are breathing, brain is functioning, your blood is pumping, you are maintaining body temperature, your body is healing itself, digesting food, etc. The amount of energy your body needs to perform this is called your Basal Metabolic Rate.
However, we know, that you are getting up, walking around, moving, brushing your teeth, and all of the other things you do on a daily basis. this requires energy. AND there's any exercise you do. this also requires calories (energy).
The amount of energy needed on a daily basis to sustain your current weight is called your TDEE. This is the calories you are burning by just existing, doing all your day to day stuff, and any exercise you perform. THIS is the number of calories you need to eat less than.
Because your body is a closed system if you eat more calories (energy in) than you are burning with your TDEE (energy out) then your body stores this extra energy in the form of body fat to be used later. if you consume less calories (energy in) than you are burning (energy out) then your body MUST get that energy it's using from somewhere (i.e. body fat and muscle tissue).
Does that make sense? MFP has a built in BMR/TDEE calculator for you.
As far as exercise goes, we know that you have to have a negative energy balance (either from increasing your calories out or lowering your calories in). In my opinion it's better to control the calories in than it is to control the calories out. In general we burn 75-80% of our daily calories in our BMR. This means the exercise we do actually burns very little in the scheme of things, and most people don't workout every single day (meaning your loss wont be consistent).
So find an exercise you enjoy for your cardiorespiratory health, bone density, and body composition. Eat the right amount of calories to lose, maintain, or gain weight.5 -
rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.
certainly that's true. On the other hand, i imagine they wouldn't have posted and asked for help if they had the know-how to even look at the stickies.
I know most of us are familiar with MFP, Forums, or even computers in general... but there are certainly people who have no clue how to help themselves or are total newbies who need atleast a general baseline of knowledge.
Also, I think almost all the threads on MFP would have been eliminated if people just read the stickies.2 -
rainbowbow wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.
certainly that's true. On the other hand, i imagine they wouldn't have posted and asked for help if they had the know-how to even look at the stickies.
I know most of us are familiar with MFP, Forums, or even computers in general... but there are certainly people who have no clue how to help themselves or are total newbies who need atleast a general baseline of knowledge.
Also, I think almost all the threads on MFP would have been eliminated if people just read the stickies.
This is why the world is in such a sad state of affairs. Smh. Everyone needs information spoon fed instead of taking the time and work to do it yourself.2 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.
certainly that's true. On the other hand, i imagine they wouldn't have posted and asked for help if they had the know-how to even look at the stickies.
I know most of us are familiar with MFP, Forums, or even computers in general... but there are certainly people who have no clue how to help themselves or are total newbies who need atleast a general baseline of knowledge.
Also, I think almost all the threads on MFP would have been eliminated if people just read the stickies.
This is why the world is in such a sad state of affairs. Smh. Everyone needs information spoon fed instead of taking the time and work to do it yourself.
Yeah, it's horrible that people ask for help on a public forum designed specifically to ask questions and get answers.
OP, give us some information and we can help even more. What is your starting weight? Height? Age? Gender? What would your ideal goal weight be? What are your current eating habits? Have you done any exercises before that you enjoyed?1 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.
certainly that's true. On the other hand, i imagine they wouldn't have posted and asked for help if they had the know-how to even look at the stickies.
I know most of us are familiar with MFP, Forums, or even computers in general... but there are certainly people who have no clue how to help themselves or are total newbies who need atleast a general baseline of knowledge.
Also, I think almost all the threads on MFP would have been eliminated if people just read the stickies.
This is why the world is in such a sad state of affairs. Smh. Everyone needs information spoon fed instead of taking the time and work to do it yourself.
Yeah, it's horrible that people ask for help on a public forum designed specifically to ask questions and get answers.
OP, give us some information and we can help even more. What is your starting weight? Height? Age? Gender? What would your ideal goal weight be? What are your current eating habits? Have you done any exercises before that you enjoyed?
Yup why work when someone else will do it for you. :laugh:0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »taslima786786 wrote: »@Chef_Barbell @TavistockToad , please can you explain how calorie deficit works as i have just started my weight loss and haven't got quiet the hang of it
eat less than you burn.
come one now... isn't that a little generic?
i'll tell you how it works in detail OP! just give me a bit.
All of that information is already on the website if people looked in the stickies.
OP seemed quite happy with my answer anyway!1
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