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Topic: 3-4 months to get in shape. (Read 51329 times)
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Nebu
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The piece of knowledge most people require in order to be successful at weight loss is their base metabolic rate. You can approximate this by height, weight, and age using any of a number of online calculators. For diet alone, a 500 calorie per day reduction will help you permanently lose 1lb per week.
Exercise gives you a double boost. First it burns some of that 500 calories, allowing you to eat a bit more. Second, it will add muscle mass making your daily caloric requirement higher. If I'm working out every day, I can eat 5 small meals and one "normal" healthy dinner and not gain an ounce. At my age, that's a wonderful thing.
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Cyrrex
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The piece of knowledge most people require in order to be successful at weight loss is their base metabolic rate. You can approximate this by height, weight, and age using any of a number of online calculators. For diet alone, a 500 calorie per day reduction will help you permanently lose 1lb per week.
Exercise gives you a double boost. First it burns some of that 500 calories, allowing you to eat a bit more. Second, it will add muscle mass making your daily caloric requirement higher. If I'm working out every day, I can eat 5 small meals and one "normal" healthy dinner and not gain an ounce. At my age, that's a wonderful thing.
Exactly this. Despite any confusing words I may have used, I only meant to say that say that any claims of "it's all about dieting" are misleading at best. And no, it isn't all about caloric intake. It's about whether you are in caloric excess or caloric deficit, and exercise and muscle mass have a HUGE impact on that. And I don't know what the article says exactly, but 10 pounds of muscle mass needs 10 extra calories? I don't buy it. |
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Arnold
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And I don't know what the article says exactly, but 10 pounds of muscle mass needs 10 extra calories? I don't buy it.
I think that figure is for BMR. Organs, especially the brain, account for the majority of BMR. Moving around, those muscles are going to start accounting for more calories consumed. BTW, as of today I'm down 25 pounds in 9 weeks. I put on some muscle too since the scale barely budged for a few weeks, but my clothes were getting more loose during that period. Low carb + Enter The Kettlebell FTW. Nice and easy, no calorie counting or BMR calculation or any of that. |
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Arnold
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Nice and easy, no calorie counting or BMR calculation or any of that.
No program requires calorie counting or BMR. They are just tools available to assist. Most Americans are against eating healthy foods. That's the root of the problem.  That's the most basic advice to give - EAT REAL FOOD! I didn't mention that everything I eat is prepared by me, from scratch - mostly meat, veggies, and eggs. Even the dressing for salads is made from scratch. Well, I do have a cheat on Friday or Saturday night, and that's usually going out for dinner somewhere. |
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