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One thing to keep in mind is I think it’s pretty conservative to say that over a million Americans have used cardio of one type or another to lose or maintain weight. I could name several people even here at FBGs. No doubt many who try will fail but I think you sometimes come across as too dismissive of cardio.
I was in pretty rough shape ucler wise from 2002 to 2006. Often times eating junk food was the only way to calm things down. I also ran at the time and developed a lot of knee pain and then quit running. Got up to my highest waist band at 38" during that time period and probably never saw north of 190 at any point, but cast a shadow on 190 at 5-10".
I would say, that those that are successful in maintaining weight are primarily successful because they have found a way to moderate the intake. Not due to cardio. Cardio is by far the most used form of exercise. So there will be those that find success with it. It's not to dismiss it, but there are multiple factors in play it's best to turn the biggest knob (intake) and keep the focus on that.
This is kind of what I figured. Your advice makes more sense in the context of your experience, where you already had some exercise background and were replacing runninf with biking and biking with resistance training. You were already planning to exercise, so counting the calories in your diet was just messing with your diet.
That's impressive as hell. Good on you for the sustained success! And I genuinely appreciate your input into the fitness/nutrition threads- even moreso knowing it was all self-taught and hard won. You've given yourself a Master's degree in nutrition and physiology.
My biggest challenge in one word. Alcohol.
People maybe are focusing on words here. It's better approximated by saying
I'm definitely not.
I'm definitely "rewarding" myself. The above describes me BF.....including that I can't just focus on exercise, but rather also need to count calories still. Sometime in the range of August-November 2020, I gained close to 10 pounds. In a 3-month period. While doing a combo of running + walking about 10 miles per day and playing tennis 2-3x per week. Why? Because while I was exercising a lot, that also came with a massive ramp-up in caloric intake, primarily junk food.
It's really helpful to read what both of you are saying back & forth. Different approaches for different goals. As I shift into a different mode soon (gain muscle mass, continue to maintain overall weight, reduce fat) it is a very good reminder that my approach will need to change from what it is today. If I'm honest with myself (which isn't my instinct ever), I still eat too many empty calories. Need more consistent consumption of lean protein, fruits & vegetables, fiber. Working on it and getting better, but still a long way to go.bostonfred said:
In no way do I want my post to come across as negative toward Acer and Corporation but I took their posts to mean they have never drank alcohol. Fantastic for their health and probably difficult due to peer pressure but in the context of not drinking it’s the easiest form of it. Never start. It’s definitely a good life lesson though, especially for our kids - smoking, alcohol, drugs, rooting for UGA - the best way to overcome it is to never start.
I hadn’t read your post when I just posted but that kind of how I think about it - do what you need and motivates you to lose and then adjust for maintenance. I almost never have problems losing but my maintenance mode sucks.
This is pretty much what I could post exactly. I’m at 208 today - down 8 pounds so far. Good luck CDH
HIIT is one of my favorite workouts. There are also tons of free workouts on YouTube.
This is a "Cross that bridge when you get there" situation. There are advanced strategies to work around this, that are outside the scope of the conversation here for the time being. It's mostly proven at this point that you can build muscle and lose fat as a beginner in any sport, this was more controversial perhaps even 5 years ago. Where this gets complex is if you have a fitness background that is 5,10,20 years gone by. It's still manageable in those situations but it can cloudy things up a little bit.
Huh. I took it as “gave up alcohol” and then did the math and then interpreted it as “I’m really old but don’t want to say that out loud.”
You are right for me. I don't judge anyone who drinks, but my family has a long history of issues. After some of the things I saw growing up, I knew I would never let myself go down that path. A lot of that stuff is genetically coded, and I have an addictive personality like many in my family (probably why I can eat so much). I just never wanted to risk trying alcohol because not many in my family proved they could be social drinkers, it was sadly often destructive drinking.
I don't have a mesh implant, but in 2019 I had emergency surgery when my colon ruptured (please stop laughing, it really hurt
) due to a polyp being removed. It took a few months to recover (of course I put on weight during that) but even today, core exercises bother me probably more mentally than physically. My knees are in pretty good shape but I moved to cycling to reduce stress on all my joints, and really enjoy it. About to have an MRI on my shoulder and hoping to avoid surgery, so that again limits a lot of the exercise I can do. The bike is my friend.
Totally get it - I grew up in a very conservative/religious family where drinking was frowned upon but had an alcoholic Grandfather and Uncle. They were basically about the only ones I knew of that really drank. I didn't drink much myself until my 30's. I've wondered numerous times if I had started drinking in my late teens/early 20's if I would have become someone who was borderline alcoholic. I've really ramped up my drinking in my 40s but still don't consider it an issue. I rarely if ever get drunk and never feel like I NEED a drink. I've had 2 drinks since New Year's weekend.
Well that's to mean a fitness guru terminating 15 years ago. Not for prior 15 years. But yeah.Fortunately nobody in this thread appears to be a 15-20 year fitness guru.
Oh I thought they were sober for like the last 10 years, I wasn't counting the days as closely as you, I simply saw a large number and figured they quit along the way.
Tuesday 150 Minutes Tennis,
Get the little bags
Love it. You might already have tried this but you can go to your diary in the app (where you see breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, exercise and the all important complete diary button) and at the very top where it says Calories Remaining, you can tap on that section to see your nutrients tab with protein, fiber, etc. Click on the left tab for Calories, and in the drop down, choose week view instead of day view, and it will show you your average calories for the last 7days, which meals you blew up on, which foods you had the most calories from, and you can switch from total to net calories. (I'm over total, but under net, because I eat back my exercise calories but don't go over).
Thanks - didn’t know about that either. I’m way under on everything (bad stuff and good stuff) but that’s partly due to MFP not recording all the nutrients for everything that I eat.
When you scan foods it usually finds the full nutrient label from the barcode. When you type the name in and pick from the list, sometimes the top one just has calories and not nutrients because it was entered by hand. Look for the ones with a checkmark by the name.
I didn’t even know you could scan
I hand enter everything but we also mainly cook from raw ingredients. I usually type in “homemade” and then whatever the dish is and MFP usually has something. I will start compiling the individual ingredients (at least for dishes that I’m cooking). I’m finding MFP to be a lot of fun. My calorie goal is 1,890 (maintenance of weight) so that’s pretty easy. The sodium goal of 2300 mg is not easy at all. But it’s forcing me to eat a very healthy breakfast, minimal snacks (which I measure out), moderately healthy lunches, and pretty much whatever I want for dinner.
You'll hit your goal weight on a non-fad diet before you leave here.
I promise, it was a reasonable level headed post with no forbidden adult words, and not even remotely incendiary. I think one of the mods is just upset.
