duffypratt

Try this experiment. Get an accurate scale. Weigh yourself. Eat a decent size meal, and drink a quart of water with it. Weigh yourself again. You should gain 2 lbs from the water alone, and then more from whatever else you are eating. Your weight fluctuates according to a number of factors that have little or nothing to do…

LeBron James has a BMI of 27.5 which puts him solidly in the overweight category. Bodybuilders, carrying 3 to 5 per cent body fat will typically measure as obese according to the BMI scale. That said, there may be health issues that relate to carrying excess mass, even if that mass is lean tissue instead of fat. Gravity,…

First you say that your 42 lbs and 8% body fat lost is success. Now you say your success is something else. And that you are not dieting. Fine. You can define success any way you want. But if you are not dieting, then it makes me wonder what you have been successful at? And if you are deliberately eating at a caloric…

"I guess 42lbs and 8% BF loss is not sucess...how much do I have to lose to be considered a success?" First, to be a success, by your own criteria, you would have to meet your goals. From what I remember, you are 8 lbs away from your goal, and thus still short of success, as you yourself define it. Second, and more…

Here's another endorsement for giving up sit-ups and doing other core exercise. Most people are already too tight in the front of their bodies, and could benefit much more by doing back bends and back strengthening exercises. Some exercise routines will stress working on the lats, because they are big, impressive, and…

You need to find a setting where you can get an accurate heart rate reading, and then test both your pulse taking method and your heart rate monitor against the accurate result. You could do this perhaps by borrowing another HRM, or by having a competent third party take your pulse.

This is entirely true. I have lost 15lbs on a single long (85 mile) bicycle ride, and have regularly lost 8-10lbs during a 90 minute yoga class. Needless to say, this loss was almost entirely sweat. One of the benefits of starting a low carb diet, for people with high blood pressure, is that it has an almost immediate…

Heart rate monitors are good if you do any kind of endurance exercise, and you want to make sure that you are staying in the fat burning zone. Also very good for doing things like training your anaerobic threshold. If all you are doing with the monitor is trying to get a more accurate count of the number of calories you…

Do a google search on "body weight exercise" and you will find a host of info about resistance exercises you can do without access to a gym and without weights. Almost any weight lifting exercise can be substituted for with a body weight exercise.

Whether the study is peer reviewed or not, the most any study can show is correlation, and not causation. Read your Hume. While its true that eating too much will lead to weight gain, it's may also be true that using artificial sweeteners leads people to eat too much Would it have to do that? Probably not. But go to your…

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Gee, I thought exercise was about getting more fit and feeling better.

Fish? Lots of fish are really simple to cook either by sauteing or baking. Also, theres not much simpler than steaming a few muscles or clams in white wine with garlic and chopped tomatoes.

If you are trying to gain/tone muscle, you will have to have enough protein to support the muscle gain. That may mean adding some protein, but if you are doing enough exercise, the extra that you eat should simply come from the exercise calories. For the amount of body fat you carry, the source of the calories is almost…

There's a parallel question that doesn't get asked much here: Can you live the rest of your life weighing every single thing that you eat, and fastidiously counting calories taken in and calories expended? For me, the answer to that is no. Low carb eating has had two benefits for me: it cuts out the cravings, and it allows…

Sugars are simple carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates, like you get from grains and most veggies, are not included in the sugar count. Most sugars end with "-ose" in the chemical name. Glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, etc...

Here's the first link I've found that explains bonking (but not necessarily the best explanation): http://tunedintocycling.com/2008/05/10/cycling-nutrition-the-bonk/ Basically, bonking is almost unique to cycling because with almost all other forms of exercise, other types of fatigue will set in before you completely run…

Carbs are not needed for energy, but they are the quickest way to get energy. It's kind of pointless to talk about what's needed and what isn't. You can live without any carbs at all, but it would be tough to pull off in our society, and would not be a lot of fun. There are two main attractions, for me at least, to a low…

There are asana practices which will burn calories, and I think that's what you are asking about. Power yoga, Bikram, and Ashtanga can all be fairly intense. In a broader sense, the practice of mindfulness can be extremely helpful in readjusting your eating habits. Take a look at…

In classical physics, there was a law of the conservation of energy, and a law of the conservation of mass. Special relativity merged these two laws because in atomic reactions matter can turn into energy. Atomic reactions don't occur in the body. In the body, there are physical (mechanical) changes, and there are also…

The "nutshell" confuses the conservation of energy with the conservation of mass. A closed system can lose or gain energy without changing mass. The only way to lose weight through a loss of energy is through an atomic reaction. Those are not happening in your body (unless you are very unlucky). The main way that we lose…