Weight loss

[Milly]

For those of you who are suffering with midlife spread, which I would not imagine is many of you given how labour intensive arb work is.

My top tip regarding a healthy diet, have a look at the low g.i diet.

In a nut shell its all to do with keeping your sugar level balanced, as sugar lows generally induce cravings.

Our clients have been using the low g.i diet in combination with exercise for the past 3 years with great results.

[easy-lift guy]

Good advise, I have lost 30+ lbs in just over a year by no longer consuming White wheat products, Soda, candy, and White Potato's, Can actually eat all of the fruits/Vegies and Whole Wheat products I can handle, along with any meat or fish choice just so long as any breading is Whole Wheat. Biking 3 times a week 10 to 15 miles per trip and weight work out at the Y twice a week. Water, 100% juices and fat free milk take up the rest and I am not going back to work for the Stay-Puff marsh mellow man again! All the best.

elg

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Metabolic Set-Point. Can be cutting timber all day all year, eat much less and loose nowt! Anaerobic builds muscle; aerobic builds health. The latter will loose the weight - whenever I get around to it. Currently stuck in viscious circle; if I was fitter I'd be less bushed at the end of the day; if I was less bushed I'd be more inclined to go for a walk / run / ride / swim in the evening to fitten up and loose weight and cut more timber in the day!

[Milly]

I thought I would share this with you it was written a couple of months back by my partner for our blog.

Contrary to popular belief and opinion, and irritating as I know it is… you can’t spot-reduce fat.

By this I mean if you, say, have fat on your stomach you want to remove there’s no point in doing sit-ups and crunches thinking that’s going to burn the fat preferentially from that same area.

It won’t. There’s nothing you can do to change what fat your body burns.

Fat metabolism is a very complex subject and it’s only fairly recently that science has really started to begin to understand it.

What we do know is all fat is not equal, and those “stubborn” areas around your bottom and thighs, and to a lesser extent around your middle really are stubborn and there’s not a lot you can do about it – you’re at the mercy of your genetics to a large extent, in particular the genetics that make you a woman or a man.

There are four kinds of fat: brown fat, muscle fat, visceral fat, and subcutaneous fat. When we talk of “losing weight” or “slimming” we’re really talking about the last two.

Visceral fat is actually inside the body cavity with the internal organs and is what gives men (and women with male-pattern fat distribution) that pot-belly. This is the dangerous one and is closely correlated with heart disease and diabetes. The good news is this is the easiest one to get rid of because for all sorts of reasons I won’t go into right now. When you diet, this always goes first.

Subcutaneous fat is under the skin and is what’s covering your muscles. This is what you have to get rid of to see that six-pack!

Unfortunately, not all subcutaneous fat is the same and it doesn’t all come off at the same rate. In general your upper-body drops fat first, then your abdomen (starting at the top working its way downwards – this is why you always see a two-pack and then a four-pack before you see a six-pack).

And finally… you get to strip off the fat around your bottom and thighs.

Now, this is what we call “stubborn fat” and can be very hard to shift. You probably don’t need to worry about that yet because your body won’t even begin to touch this fat until you’re lean everywhere else first (and if you can’t see your six pack, which is most of us, I think), then you’re not lean enough to be worrying about this stubborn fat.

Once you are that lean there are some great things you can do to make sure the stubborn fat does come off, but I’ll leave that for another day.

My point in writing this all this is to ensure you understand so long as you stick to the rules of diet and exercise, the fat will come off. It has to – it’s an inviolable law of thermodynamics.

All you need to do is concentrate on the process and let your body do the rest.

So remember, don’t fall into the trap of doing light arm-exercises thinking you’re going to lean your arms out, because that’s not how it works.

Yes, you might build some arm-muscle (which is a good thing), and that might give the appearance of being leaner because the muscle starts to poke out more, but in reality you’re better off doing big, intense exercises using big muscle groups: squats, running, cycling, Fartlek training and all the rest.

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[easy-lift guy]

Thanks Milly, I est. I am presently 8% Body fat and once I drop another 4% I will be at the same level I was when I was running marathons, no one said it was going to be easy to run a marathon but than again loosing and keeping off the weight will prove to be a challenge but one i am willing to go for.

elg

[White Noise]

4% you crazy man

[skyhuck]

4% you crazy man

 

Indeed!!!

[Rich Rule]

7 % is considered the unhealthy side of low body fat. competing body builders are at a danger to themselves getting down to around 4%.

[western]

Hello all, i have been training for the past 8month's and have managed to lose over 2stone and pack on a fair bit of muscle, just from eating 6small meals aday consisting of quailty protein such as lean steak, chicken, fish, cottage cheese eggs and complex carb's such as brown rice, sweet potatoes whole meal bread etc and as much veg as i like. I also take multi vits, and whey protein for recovery after the training. My training week is very intense: i train 6day's a week starting on sunday with chest and arm's, monday legs, tuesday and wednesday 45min cardio, thursdays shoulders, friday, back and tricep's. All resistent training consists of; starting with 10min cardio warm up/warm down: 5-6different excercises for each muscle group, 5sets of 10-12 reps getting heaver with each set, 30sec's rest between rep's and 2mins rest between excercises. Try this programme if you want to very/very ripped.

[easy-lift guy]

No not at all just at one time very lean and would like to try to be there again.

elg