Posts by terrier08

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Fitness	Time Off From the Gym	Nov 15 2007 15:15 (UTC)	10
Just a quick word of advice though, Apples aren't great post workout. They have high fiber and a lot of fructose. Might want to try finding some bananas or mellons if you want fruit post workout, little more glucose and higher GI then Apples. Also for the deloading week, I usually throw in some bodyweight exercies to get the blood pumping through my muscles but at the same time not doing enough cellular damages to warrant a great deal of recovery. Plus it helps me from feeling lazy.
Weight Loss	Eating after a workout.	May 28 2007 17:16 (UTC)	7
Think you are kind of confused about carbs and calories, carbs are a macro nuitrient and calories are a measure of the stored energy in food. 600 carbs is 600*4(Calories in each gram of carbohydrates) so that is 2400 calories. If you are trying to do a high protein,high fat ketogenic diet with 0 carbs that is one thing but it does not sound like that is your goal. To lose weight its all about the total calories.
Foods	food percentages	May 20 2007 22:34 (UTC)	3
You sure it was not 50g of fat? 50% fat is ALOT of fat if all you ate was gound beef and tuna unless your eating like 700 calories a day. Also think your a little confused about nutrients, the 3 major break downs are fat, carbohyrates, and protein. Whole wheat and veggies are counted in carb section. Mabye the website meant 50% carbs 25% fat and 25% protein? That is not a bad diet at all especially if your trying to lose weight. There is a lot of information out there but the best way to lose weight is to learn about fat, carbs, and protein. Without this crucial piece of knowledge starting a diet is almost like trying to fix your car but not knowing what a engine is.(Please do not take this the wrong way though its just something I think that most people starting a diet refuse to read up on.)
Weight Loss	this is me...what is right and what is wrong?	May 20 2007 21:18 (UTC)	12
Eat more fat, fat got a very bad reputation in the 80s by the media but is vital to a healthy diet. Eating low amounts of fat wrecks havoc on the body's ability to produce hormones and can really damage your body. Thing researchers are figureing out now is that certain carbs promote fat gain(when calorie excess is produced) and that eating low fat diet can actually impair weight loss. Just do not be afraid of eating healthy, real fats like olive oil, peanut butter(natural type) and even some cheese/milk for the calcium it contains. To grow correctly a diet of 25-30% fat is needed. Put it on more way, humans will die without eating fats and protein but can actually lead healthy lives consumeing 0 carbs.(Not the best choice for a diet though)
Weight Loss	Is there a Magical reason?	May 11 2007 23:13 (UTC)	2
This happens to me a lot now also, I think the main reason is that craving extremely sweet foods and especially salty foods is something that is learned and not really natural. Since I started eating healthy I have noticed that I can not stand salty food and I comment that some foods are too salty when in the past I would have actually added table salt to the food. This is even more evident with sweet foods, now when I get a sweet craving it is usually for a apple or pineapple. When I try to eat extremely sweet things like cakes and candy it just tastes horrible. In the end I still crave fatty things like peanut butter and high energy meals like pasta but this I think is just what humans are meant to crave as foods because of the long term energy they provide. Craving things like potato chips and cake is something that we are learned to love from a early age and may not be totally natural.
Weight Loss	slightly overweight but looking good?	May 02 2007 03:17 (UTC)	3
Be very very careful with BMI actually, its a horrible at rateing athletic people especially those with a lot of muscle on them. BMI is good only for sedentary people but everyone seems to use it now becuase its such a easy calculation. Need any proof just look at bodybuilders/pro wrestlers/track sprinters. While these are all extreme examples I would say 95% of them are classified as overweight, and some especially the bodybuilders would be classified as obese with 4% bodyfat. The best way to tell is get your bodyfat tested, if your althletic at all BMI is one of the worst ways to measure general health.
Fitness	jump rope	Apr 24 2007 02:50 (UTC)	8
Well jump roping is actually one of the best fat burning exercises because it works the upper body as well as the lower body. Also as you get better conditioned you can change it up by doing different types of jumps and movements. Also roping is better on the knees then running, in normal jump roping you use your calves as a kind of a shock absorber landing on the balls of your. When running your heals make contact with the ground and puts more pressure on your knees.
Health & Support	headaches and upset tummy since starting low calorie/fat diet	Apr 22 2007 14:48 (UTC)
Be really careful with your fat intake, 9 and 16 grams is way too low. Unlike all those garbage studies done in the 80s about lowfat diets its now being shown that intake of healthy fats like olive oil and peanut butter help with weight loss and your body simple needs these compounds to create hormones. Low fat diets can actually start changeing your hormones around since the body doesnt have the basic building blocks to make them. Not sure if this is the cause but just something to watch out for, eating less then 20% fat will actually slow down weight loss.
Foods	Bloated... What can i do?	Apr 21 2007 22:33 (UTC)	1
High intake of fiber can actually lead to bloating since fiber slows down the digestive process and also water gets trapped. I get this ALOT also which is a pain since I love fruit and vegetables, but sometimes at the end of the day it looks like a grew a nice little beer belly. Only really happens when I eat around 70g of fiber though so my sugestion is to keep eating fruit and vegetables but mabye focus on less fiberous ones like tomatoes, bananas, mangos, mellons, and carrots are a few examples. To eleviate it I think besides buying medication is just give it a little time and it usually goes away, body just has to catch up with the digestion of the food/fiber. Just a warning, are you drinking more milk then you used to? Being lactose intollerant can lead to a extreme amount of bloating. Also eating more protein then usual can lead to bloating also because of the extra energy needed to digest protein.
Foods	fat free/sugar free/cal free dressing/???	Apr 21 2007 02:31 (UTC)
It would not be bad but your body needs a certain amount of fat each day just to create different hormones. Usually the healthiest way to get this fat is putting some olive oil on a salad or mabye some homemade dressing. Much healthier overall then eating 70% lean beef or butter. With salad dressing you just have to be careful like anything, most add lots of stuff in it that you really do not need like high fructose corn syrup and sodium. My favorite dressing is just a tsp or 2 of good EV Olive Oil, adds a great taste to salad and has tons of healthy unsaturated fats. Just have to be careful as with any fats, be sure to measure or may accidentally add a few tbsps instead and wonder what happened on the scale later.
Weight Loss	Why Is It so \|mportant to Eat Extra after Exercising?	Apr 19 2007 20:59 (UTC)	2
First thing you have to notice is that all exercise is not the same. For anerobic type exercise with a purpose of muscle building tests have shown that their is more muscle growth when consumeing a High GI card/Protein source after working out. This is because when you weight lift you lift in small bursts so your muscle uses its own internal storage of carbs(glycogen) as power and never touches fat reserves. This small meal replenishes those stores and helps the muscle recover from the hard workout. Now the other type of exercise is longer sustained type of exercise where fat stores is the main source of energy. With this type of exercise you really do not want to eat directly after because even after you stop exerciseing your body still continues to burn a little fat untill your body finds a nice equilibrium again. It really comes down to what your trying to accomplish, Loseing fat and Gaining Muscle are 2 entirely different things and 95% of the time can not happen at the same time.
Fitness	When you don't have time to go to the gym, what would you do?	Apr 18 2007 21:42 (UTC)	8
You really do not need to go to the gym to workout though, if your interested in just doing cardio to burn fat and some anerobic type exercises to perserve muscle mass this can easily be done in the home. All you really need is a jump rope(Best cardio equipment out there in my opinion) and a nice flat surface to do different body weight exercises. Truthfully if you can not do 15 one hand push ups and 15 one leg squats different body weight exercises are more then enough to gain muscle. I know I kind of went away from your question but also gaining weight is just a function of calories intake. However to begin to lose muscle mass from being sedentary it takes around 2 weeks. If you do one heavy weight lifting workout a week and eat maintence calories for more people that is enough to keep their current muscle mass.
Foods	What foods would help me GAIN weight?	Apr 17 2007 20:55 (UTC)	11
Hmm most of these replies are actually wrong, first of all switching from white bread to whole wheat bread is a really bad idea. Whole wheat bread is the same as white bread in terms of calories but whole wheat bread has many more nuitrents in it opposed to white bread. Also eating lots of white bread promotes fat gain because of the extremely high GI of it, and you want lean muscle mass for football not fat. Eating lots of nuts and peanut butter however is a good idea. They are high in calories and contain lots of different healthy fats. Low GI carbs are great also, oatmeal, potatos, brown rice, and fruit are just some examples. Also not sure what you mean by workout twice a day, if its with weights your doing your body more harm then good. At least you should rest 2 days between working out a specific body part with weights to achieve maximum growth. If its not weights for the first few months cut down cardio somewhat to make the weight gain easier and as the football season starts to approach slowly add cardio back into your workout schedule. Just have to try to eat 5-6 smaller meals each day with some protein, low GI carb, and a healthy fat. For your weight starting somewhere around 2600 calories makes sense and see how much the scale moves and adjust accordingly.
Weight Loss	Nothing availabe, how to lose weight?	Apr 16 2007 19:28 (UTC)	2
Well first of all no matter where you live healthy food is available, frozen vegetables, chicken, tuna, brown rice, skim milk, and oatmeal is available at even most convience stores now and every super market. Besides that to get into shape you really do not need a gym, doing something simple like learning to jump rope and doing different types of body weight exercises can lead to good cardio conditioning and even muscle gain. Best chance is to look up body weight exercises online and even doing something like 3 sets of 10 burpees each day can get someone into shape fast. Also doing something like push-ups, body weight squats, and leg lifts a few nights a week is a quick way to get into shape.
Fitness	How do I avoid building muscle?	Apr 08 2007 17:59 (UTC)	3
It basically goes like this, the amount you eat changes the numbers on the scale. That is all there really is too it, if you eat more then maintenence the number on the scale will go up and the number will go down if you eat less. However WHAT your eat and what type of exercising you do make changes what portion of that numbers comes from fat and what portion comes from muscle. If you do not lift weights at all and just run you will probably lose something like 30% muscle to 70% fat. Lifting Weights you can limit that to like 10% muscle to 90% fat. These numbers of crude but just trying to show you no matter what if you are eating less calories then your body requires each day it can not spare the excess to build muscle. A really bad diet without exercise can even lead to much more muscle loss then fat thus getting people stuck in that yo-yo phase of dieting.
Foods	Do you gain fat from fruit	Apr 07 2007 13:51 (UTC)	2
Well 2 things, orange juice and oranges are not the same thing. Lots of orange juice is loaded with artificial sugar which is not good for you which is why eating real fruit vs juices is always a much healthier choice. Besides that eating too much of anything will be stored as fat, its just simply how the body works, if you consume more calories then your body needs to function it will store it as energy for later use. Finally what I think he was trying to say was the sugar from whole fruits will not spike insulen and thus not promote extra fat gain like eating proccessed sugars will(Fruit juices however do tend to spike blood insulen levels).
Weight Loss	Can you be fully hydrated and still retain water?	Apr 01 2007 02:48 (UTC)	3
Also how are you drinking your water? Some people to get enough water tend to down a full bottle in a few gulps which leads to swallowing a lot of air along with the water. A few hours later all this extra air in the digestive system leads to bloating. Same thing happens when chewing too much gum as some people have a tendacy to swallow air when chewing gum. Finally as said before eating too much fiber or more protein can lead to bloating as both require more digestive work then the "pre-digested" meals most food companies like to sell.
Foods	does tea = water?	Jan 03 2007 23:04 (UTC)	9
I read a study not too long ago that it really depends on how often you drink coffee/tea. If your body is adjusted to the caffeine intake then drinking coffee/tea provides the same fluids as drinking water plus there are a great number of anti-oxidents in both drinks, coffee being Americans number once source of anti-oxidents today. Really though I would still drink water but just do not think that you need to be sipping a glass of water with each glass of coffee to maintain health.
Weight Loss	what if you are not hungry?	Jan 02 2007 14:49 (UTC)	1
Truthfully I would eat at the calories you allotted for each day. One thing I have noticed from loseing weight then trying to maintain it is hunger is a horrible indicator of meeting required calories and nuitrition for the day. Take a extreme example, for about 2100 calories you can eat 240 sticks of celery or drink 8 oz of salad dressing. Now no one would think they will be full after the salad dressing but you consumed enough calories for the day with just a cup of dressing. With the celery you could be full the entire day and not reach 1000 calories. For weight loss less is not always better. Body needs certain vitamins and minerals from food and not eating enough will hurt the body mabye months or years down the line. Also the body will only catabolize a certain amount of body fat before it also starts to break down protein from muscles for a fuel source.
Fitness	Top 10 Reasons Heavy Weights Don?t Bulk Up the Female Athlete	Dec 30 2006 15:54 (UTC)	7
Nice link, number 8 is the big one that no one seems to believe. Your body simply does not add muscle if it is in a catabolic state. True you might gain some muscle at first if you never touched weights in your life but after a few months those gains will stop. If you want simple proof of this go to youtube and type in olympic weight lifting women. Some of those women are around 130 lbs but are lifting 3x their bodyweight over their heads. There are SOOOO many benefits of lifting weights for women. Lifting weights is actually more important for women because its the single best way to increase bone density. Levels of osteoperosis in this country would shrink dramatically if more women decided to do a benchpress or a squat once in awhile besides spending 3 hours doing crunches and running on a treadmill.
Weight Loss	how do I lose belly fat?	Dec 29 2006 00:39 (UTC)	5
The only real way to be able to see your abs again is to reduce your body fat percentage for your ENTIRE body instead of focusing on one spot. Seems so many people fall into the myth that doing more crunches will actually allow you to see your abs. Sad fact is that abs do not build up that much and even a small amount of fat will cover them up. For women I think you need 18 or 16% body fat to see your abs clearly, for a guy its around 9-10% body fat. Also just a warning not to go all out and work your abs and obliques to exhaustion everyday. Working out abs and onliques too much will actually make your waist appear larger even when your body fat is really low. Just have to limit yourself to working abs like every muscle 3 times a week and remember abs is about 95% diet and 5% exercise.
Fitness	Workout routine for a beginner?	Dec 21 2006 13:27 (UTC)	11
By far the best way to maintain/gian muscle when trying to lose weight is to stick with the big lifts and remember do NOT lose more then 2 lbs a week or your going to lose a lot of muscle mass. Just be careful of falling into the trap of doing these over complicated workouts that are everywhere on the internet when your just getting back into weight lifting and instead stick with a easy one that has proven to work. My favorite one is called Starting Strength that is very easy to follow especially if you have access to gym. Basically only has 6 exercises, squat,deadlift,powerclean,military press,bench press. Those will work the entire body and not have you wasteing time trying to do negatives skull presses or some other weired combos. Basic program is something like Day A-Squat 3x5(3 is set and 5 is rep) Deadlift 1x5 Benchpress 3x5 Day B-Powerclean 3x5 Military Press 3x5 Squat 3x5 Some people add dips and chin ups also for triceps and biceps So Week 1 would be A on Monday, B on Wednesday, A on Friday and Week 2 will be B on Monday, A on Wednesday, B on Friday and so on. Just have to keep remember to add weights every few workouts and that is the basic program. Works great and really focuses you in the gym.
Weight Loss	with water/without water?	Dec 18 2006 02:12 (UTC)	3
From what I have heard from different sources is that your should limit your water intake during a meal. While I am not sure if there is any truth to these arguements, I just try to limit myself to a 16oz glass of water when eating. I know some people drink up to 64oz of water with every meal to make them feel full and from that drastic intake I can see it effecting the digestion of a meal. Guess what to take from all of these, like everything else keep the consumption in moderation and dont go over board with drinking water with every meal.
Foods	Olive oil, Veggy oil, Canola oil... What does what?	Dec 15 2006 20:27 (UTC)	7
Olive oil is probably the best tasteing oil in my opinion but one thing you have to know about it is never, EVER, fry with olive oil. Besides the fact that its a lot more expensive the fact that for it to get up to the point where food can be fried its way over olive oils natural smokeing point which makes the fat rancid which wrecks havoc on the body. If you want to fry the best bet is peanut oil, might be a little tough to find but has a great flavor, loaded with monosaturated fats, and has a much higher smokeing point then olive oil and most other oils for that matter. However if you just need a oil for salad dressing or pasta olive oil or extra virigin olive oil is almost always the best bet. (Although peanut dressing is amazing).
Foods	Help! I'm always hungry! Need suggestions.	Dec 14 2006 23:29 (UTC)	4
Eating healthy fats right? When we eat fats like olive oil or peanut butter with a meal it slows down the digestion of meal and also gives us a more satisified feeling for longer. If your eating protein with no fat content like egg whites or tuna you might want to add some olive oil to the meals.
Weight Loss	The truth about calories in coffee	Dec 14 2006 22:11 (UTC)	1
That coffee(filter) item is wrong I have discovered. I used to input it into my food log all the time but it ended up showing that I ate much more fat in a day then I actually have. It lists 8 oz of coffee as haveing .3 protein and 1.8g of fat but a gram of fat is 9 calories and a gram of protein is 4 calories so that would actually make a cup of coffee around 18 calories with those macro breakdowns. Coffee- Black seems much more reasonable. A mug of coffee for about 5 calories with negligible amounts of macros seems about right and also the reason you see mostly coffee is listed as haveing 0 calories is a cup( 8 oz ) of coffee has less then <5 calories and according to FDA labeling standards they can round that down to 0.
Motivation	I want to do this...I cant do this!!	Dec 12 2006 03:41 (UTC)
You might want to try splitting it up, example would be adding a few more exercises to the lunge/leg lift/crunch part and turn it into a fast 10min circuit training workout. Then at night when you have more time you can include the running and yoga which will take up much more time. What I like to do for my circuit training is hindu push-ups to hindu squats to cross crunches and a few other variations of body weight exercises. Lots of good information out there for quick circuit training example that burn tons of calories in a little amount of time. Just have to be careful of not over doing them somtimes.
The Lounge	irritated (with those who weigh "117 lbs" and want to lose five more)	Dec 10 2006 23:21 (UTC)	45
I am actually using this site to gain weight, does that mean I am not worthy of coming here? The site has very valuable information and helps me keep track of diet without putting on too much fat. While it would be easier to throw in the towel and eat fast food everyday to gain weight I just simply do not want to do that to my body and rather make sure I am getting the macro nuitrients I need. Also not to take away from other people who are trying to lose a lot of weight, but when you get near your goal or starting to maintain is when you really need a website like this. There is less margin for error when trying to maintain because a few calories either way will lead you to gaining or loseing weight. There are many reasons why someone would want to watch his or her diet, loseing weight is just one reason.
Weight Loss	i dont wanna gain weight, i wanna lose it! Your thoughts plz	Dec 09 2006 23:48 (UTC)	1
Generally you will not gain muscle from aerobic type exercises, they do not produce enough strain on the muscles to tear the fibers thus the body will have no need to adapt with muscle growth. The only case where some muscle growth will occur if you are coming off a period of inactivity and then even some aerobic exercises will cause enough stress to build muscle. Muscle is HARD to build, our body simply does not want to do it and it really takes hard work to see any real muscle gain. You need excess calories and some type of anerobic exercise. If your in a calorie defecit you will not gain muscle but actaully lose some. The amount lost when loseing weight is what exercise controls. Again the only difference is when first starting to exercise, then you can gain muscle and lose fat but this nice period usually ends within 4-5 months of exercise.
Fitness	Endurance Training?	Dec 06 2006 21:50 (UTC)	6
Well if you love sprinting focus on anerobic endurance instead of aerobic endurance. So instead of making your goal a faster mile make it a faster 40 yard dash. There are many different ways to do cardio and different cardio trains total different respirations systems in the body. Nice thing about anerobic conditioning also is that a good cardio session should only last about 15-20min also and will burn the same amount of calories as about a 40min aerobic cardio sessions. Lots of fun and different things you can do just do a search on google for HIIT(High Intensity Interval Training).

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