Purdey comes to the confessional.... (Read 825 times)

Come hang with us here......groups/jiggly_joggers Weigh-in is Monday AM.

I have lost a total of 264-149 = 115 lbs. However... I was 264 and went down to 180 = 84 lbs... then I went back up to 202 and then down to where I am now... 202-149 = 53... 84 + 53 = 137 lbs total... Ok so I have an idea of how to loose weight... I will say this... in my experience loosing weight fast is a bad idea. Fast weight loss is temporary. I could tell you how to drop 6-8 lbs in the first week but most of that would be poop and water... lol... To do it right so it is sustainable ... meaning able to keep it off and to continue to loose waiste (weight) you have to do it at a measured pace. 1/2 to 1.5 lbs a week. Do some simple math. They say a lbs of fat is roughly 3500 calories... divided by 7 days tha tis 500 calories a day. I hate being hungry. when I cross over a daily deficit of more the 500 calories in a day I get hungry. If you loose weight too quickly the wieght may be just water... in which case when you resume normal eating the water will come back... also you will loose some weight if you reduce the amount of food you eat just because you will be carrying less poop. If you don't eat enough your body will enter starvation mode and then you will not loose weight and you will have weight loss platues... If you have a platue try eating more. and if you are running that much... eating controlled at the number of calories you need to maintain weight (without running)... and just letting the running burn the extra calories should pull the weight off... (edit: of course on days you run longer you will have to eat more... ) Short answer Don't try to loose it fast. my one tip... plan your breakfast and lunch the day before... don't eat out. Log your food intake for at least 3 consecutive weeks a a site like fitday.com ... record your morning weight everyday (don't focus on the day to day but look for a trend)... AND THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP Don't give up. If you keep trying you will get there eventually.

Put on some muscle mass. Lift weights in addition to running. Building muscle mass raises your basal metabolic rate (BMR), which means even when you are watching TV and sleeping you will be burning more calories. That adds up when you think most people average maybe 1 hour of exercise a day vs. 23 hours of other activity. Start with low weight and gradually increase. You won't get bulky unless you try to get bulky and want that. Plus it should help you maintain running form when tired.

as a note... some stuff I saw says a pound of muscle burns approximately 35-50 calories a day. Generally it looks like about .5 lbs a muscle a week with intense weight training is about the maximum you can gain. But also it is generally stated that to gain 10 pounds of muscle you will put on 4-10 lbs of fat as well. this article was pretty good... http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/fail.htm but lets look at that... so you would have to work your tail off for 10 weeks to gain 5 lbs of muscle... but then have added say 2 extra lbs of fat... and well... now you can burn a whoping 175 calories a day more... which is just over 1/2 a snickers bar? I still say fork put downs are the best excercise for weight loss... ;-)

My best advice is to log in what you eat. It will make you think about it before you put it in your mouth. and oh yea, run alot.

I had to log what I ate for quite awhile when I was losing weight (I lost 55 lbs last year). I am now trying to learn to do without logging, but I am going to be flat out honest and say I could not have gotten where I am without logging. I was able to try different things within a calorie range to discover what was workable for me in terms of long term sustainability, which means NOT HUNGRY. How to fit in the stuff I really like and where. NOW I have that knowledge and am working on making it automatic. I know it will always be a struggle. Diet is #1 thing that has to change Exercise is #2. I so wanted it to be the other way around because I can DO exercise.