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How do people on the Biggest Loser workout so long?
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I'm surprised to hear they are still making TBL. I thought the ratings fell off years ago.0
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I think they stopped for a while and restarted.0
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Whatsthemotive wrote: »I don't do the intense exercise that many of you do, but even with my little chair exercises with 5 pound dumbbells, I find that I have LESS hunger/craving than when I don't do the workout. It doesn't make me extra hungry. Maybe that's because a lot of my "hunger" is really boredom or anxiety that the exercise helps me cope with.
Who knows. If I don’t exercise I crash regularly. Cardio improves things, but strength training really helps. If I stop the crashes come back after about 3 weeks. No idea what it is, but it’s brought on by too little carbs.1 -
Whatsthemotive wrote: »I don't do the intense exercise that many of you do, but even with my little chair exercises with 5 pound dumbbells, I find that I have LESS hunger/craving than when I don't do the workout. It doesn't make me extra hungry. Maybe that's because a lot of my "hunger" is really boredom or anxiety that the exercise helps me cope with.
Yes, I find mild-moderate exercise to be a mild appetite suppressant. I used to always get the afternoon munchies at work until I created the habit of getting some form of exercise at lunch.4 -
It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
So you only believe in the Calories In part of Calories In Calories Out?10 -
kshama2001 wrote: »Whatsthemotive wrote: »I don't do the intense exercise that many of you do, but even with my little chair exercises with 5 pound dumbbells, I find that I have LESS hunger/craving than when I don't do the workout. It doesn't make me extra hungry. Maybe that's because a lot of my "hunger" is really boredom or anxiety that the exercise helps me cope with.
Yes, I find mild-moderate exercise to be a mild appetite suppressant. I used to always get the afternoon munchies at work until I created the habit of getting some form of exercise at lunch.
Me too. Always have.2 -
It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
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thisvickyruns wrote: »
They rebranded themselves as a show about wellness, but my understanding is that nothing changed except for some window dressing (I haven't seen the new episodes, basing this on descriptions).2 -
I think hunger/not with exercise kind of depends on consistency and also duration and all sorts of personal things. If I go for a run and my heart rate is up I'm pretty sure most of my blood flow is going to the parts being worked hard, and not my digestion, and endorphins seem to quash my appetite too. Also this only applies to short, faster runs (5K or so).
If I do a slowish 10 mile hike, I'm not going to be hungry immediately after or during but I am going to want to eat roughly half a cow an hour or two later (Or that evening).
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As for the original question, honestly, you put 250K on the line and I will do a lot of dangerous nonsense.10
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The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
I sense a misunderstanding about what insulin does exactly.
Stopping fat from being released from fat cells is NOT the same thing as going into fat storage mode - one is an effect of insulin, one is not.
You still burn fat with insulin - because you likely have some in blood already, plus what you ate recently still being digested and processed.
And nothing is getting stored as fat unless the body doesn't require it elsewhere.
Carbs most likely needed to top off liver and muscle glucose stores - and insulin helps that to happen.
Amino acids shuttled off to where they are needed - and insulin helps that to happen.
Insulin is a storage hormone is about as close as you got to reality there - for all kinds of reactions before fat storage.8 -
It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...8 -
kshama2001 wrote: »It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...
Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.
Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.
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wunderkindking wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...
Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.
Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.
Can you feel your horn growing little unicorn?
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Please don't tell me you believe that the Biggest Loser is a real thing?
Its Jersey Shore for the food obsessed.4 -
Please don't tell me you believe that the Biggest Loser is a real thing?
Its Jersey Shore for the food obsessed.
Even if one believes that reality television is heavily edited and constructed, I don't think there's any evidence that the show doesn't involve actually obese individuals who manage -- through a variety of methods on- and off-camera -- to achieve substantial short-term weight loss.
In that sense, it's "real." It's not a good template for healthy or sustainable weight loss, but that's a whole different thing.9 -
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wunderkindking wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »It's just another ridiculously stupid TV show. I've never seen it.
Exercise has little or nothing to do with losing FAT. That's done by DIET a/o FASTING.
Higher intensity exercise causes stress which releases cortisol and spikes sugar.
The sugar rush will spike your insulin putting your body into fat storage mode. You will be very hungry and overeat carbohydrates.
Hmm, can't imagine how I dropped a size without even trying while in Costa Rica and eating high sugar mangos and other tropical fruit all day long as well as high carb rice & beans twice per day...
Same only not even as healthy as mango. I'm down 45lbs from obese to healthy and my food yesterday included a bag of chips and a candy bar. The candy bar at points has been DAILY.
Weird, weird, weird. Guess we're magic.
Can you feel your horn growing little unicorn?
Yes! I felt it today while doing yoga!
Oh, that was just a barrette
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One thing they didn't stress when they were filming the older BL seasons but turned up fairly often was the fact that several of the contestants ended up injured early in the season by doing too much too soon. They generally ended up going home fairly early in the series because they couldn't lose as much weight when they were doing non-impact exercise as those who were able to work out without injury. Trying to work out for several hours a day when your body isn't used to it is often a recipe for injury, even when you're surrounded by trainers and medical staff. It was one of the things I held against the show, though I watched several seasons.
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