Time for diet and exercise!

[Psykhronic]

Not being on risperidol is my weight control. Awwww yeeeaaah.

[Aractus]

Okay, here's how weight loss works. To loose 1kg of fat per week you need to eliminate about 7700 calories from your diet. Weight training burns about 150 calories, so that's only 1050 calories a week (1/7th of the requirement).

The total calories I'll be consuming daily (on the crash diet) will be about 1200. If we use the standard 2500 calories/wk requirement for men, that's 1300 calories eliminated per day. Per week it's 9100 calories. Add the calories burned during training to that total and we get to 10150 calories eliminated per week. Now a quick calculation would yield that should translate to 1.3kg fat loss per week.

So the mathematics clearly show that my plan should and will work. With more vigorous training I would of course be able to loose in excess of 1.6-2kg/wk.

[wolf39us]

I just ride the hell out of my mountain bike more days than not and eat reasonably. Works well for me.

I have a road bike -- but yes exactly this!

20-40 miles a pop. That'll get you some god damn weight loss! Plus you can eat just about whatever the hell you want... and it's super fun! :-)

[Aractus]

Total calories eaten today: 1451.

[Belac Enrobso]

Damn it's early.

[Mystical]

I know this one exercise video that sits in my cd case.. it's awesome. I'm going to pull it out this year, and keep it out this time I have a wedding this year to get ready for! Anyways, 20min of exercises to that magic video three to five times a week, helped me lose 25 lbs in one month! My heart was happier too, says the doctor. The dvd is Jillian Michaels workout level one and it's mainly just a mix up of all sorts of exercises--jumping jacks, squats, punches, kicks, all alternating 20-40 seconds a piece for twenty minutes, and in essence it confuses your body into thinking it needs to turn on the metabolism. The trick is bouncing around the muscle groups and confusing your body, I guess. Weights and stretches are in there, along with crunches and pushups--it's not pleasant, but it goes by really fast and next thing you know you're feelin great!

Being chronically ill, bad foods affect me more than they do healthy people. So if something's bad, I know about it-- Fast food: is BAD. bad bad bad bad bad! I cut it out years ago, and haven't missed it! The only fast food I eat (98% of the time) is Subway.
Also soda is horrific, even the diet stuff. Diet soda is worse, if it has aspartame in it. Just look up aspartame side effects--they're awful!
My sister is a nurse and told me that when you microwave things it changes the molecular structure of the food and makes more carcinogens. I have yet to confirm this online, but I try not to microwave stuff. Does anyone know if that's true?

[NoraBrimstone]

That DVDs sounds awesome. I might get it myself!

All microwaves do to your food is make the water jiggle about fast enough to heat up real quick. I don't see how that could make food carcinogenic. Your oven on the other hand, can easily do so, all you have to do is overcook something in there to get some lovely black carcinogenic burnt bits.

[paulpablo]

I just eat as much veg as possible and storm the gym like a gladiator going out to war. Plus lifting heavy things in work all day for hours.

All the numbers and calculations in diets bore the fuck out of me and make me want to fall asleep rather than be energetic.

[Mystical]

[ElleBelle]

Good luck to everyone trying to lose!

I recently had a baby so my resolution is to lose the extra pounds. Started today. Long battle ahead.