Posts by alicephilippa

I'll be in for 8 days for GRS. What bugs me most is going to be the enforced idleness as I won't be able to do much for quite a while afterwards.

I never log housework unless it is a running around all day thing then I'll log it as one of the "implied walking" activities. these come in at around 200cal/hr.

Ok. So I tried some unilateral work. It was significantly harder work than I expected. I suspect because I was having to be far more aware of form and avoiding collapsing my left shoulder and twisting my spine.

The new ones rather than having a moulded plastic case have a machined aluminium one. They are very much more "green" than the old ones and that always adds cost. 

Also it's using DDR3 RAM rather than the more common DDR2, which will also add significantly to the cost.

I'd expect the prices to drop over the next 6 months or so, TBH.

I am very much more right sided. So, it is a good point that this does give me opportunity to try to address that at least in part.

As a long time PC/Windows user, I have no hesitation to recommending getting a macbook. They just *work*.  I know that when I need to replace this laptop that I'll be replacing it with a macbook of sme description.

I'd also suspect that it is water retention. It happens to me occasionally, in exactly those same places. 

I'm on Cipralex (Lexapro IIRC), and have been for 9 months now. I certainly haven't  had any issues with eating or weight whilst on it. I do thnk that I initially lost a bit of an edge, but I certainly feel better off with it than without.

Original Post by melkor:

How young do you think I and Tgpish are anyway :)

 The basics for fat loss is in your diet:

 Diet+exercise=reasonable results

 Exercise without dietary intervention = poor to embarrassing results

Once the dietary intervention is taken care of - and I assume that's why you're here - the anaerobic intensity of your workout and proper strength training counts for more for your daily energy balance - and since your RMR accounts for about 70% of your daily energy expenditure, activities which maintain or increase RMR should be given preference over activities which don't.

 Activities which stimulate EPOC also stimulate a more general increase in RMR - untrained muscle burns about 5.7kcal/day, trained muscle burns about 7.2-7.8kcal/day, and EPOC is a direct increase in fat oxidation, so activities which promote a higher EPOC also promote a higher rate of fat oxidation in general.

 As for the rep ranges - the ACSM have some guidelines.

 And the point of proper, heavy strength training is to preserve muscle mass and resting metabolism during a diet. When you consider that women lose more muscle mass and experience a higher drop in RMR than men do while dieting*, you'll see why I think that strength training is especially crucial for women.

 (* Kramer, Volek et al. Influence of exercise training on physiological and performance changes with weight loss in men. Hunter et.al. : Resistance Training Conserves Fat-free Mass and Resting Energy Expenditure Following Weight Loss.)

If your profile is correct you at least the better part of 12 years younger than I. As for tgpish, that is a red herring - the debate is with you. So, yes I was first in a gym before you were barely out of nappies.

In my case RMR usually accounts for about 55-60% of my daily energy expenditure. That is probably more extreme than most here.

I agree that resistance training is important. I do disagree with your assertion that it has to be heavy. If you have read the article I pointed you at, the level to with EPOC is boosted beyond the exercise period is very hotly disputed in research circles. So, that remains unproven.

Neither do I want to start a fight, but what has worked for me is what has worked, and that is light (a weight I can easily do 12+ reps per set) and multiple sets (at least 4).

I do not feel at all comfortable moving weights around the 8 reps per set level. Indeed that causes (for me) muscle burn, and that way according to a physiology lecturer lies muscle damage.

I had Sausages and Mash.

Tonight I will be having a chicken risotto.

If I've been working out I'll sometimes have pizza.

What's a 1000cal of pizza compared to 1400cals of workout? A 400cal deficit is what. :)

In moderation it's not so bad. Yes pre-built ones can be high in sodium, but then that's true for any convenience food.

I no longer fuss over what I eat, as my BP is ok for a 48yo (120/68), my cholesterol level is normal.

Yes. When I sorted myself out I lost nearly 70lbs without changing anything other than diet. It is only in the last 4 months that I've become far more active as my body image improves.

I'm not going to go into details as to what I did (and why I did it) to sort myself out, but dietarily what changed for me was that I stopped using alcohol as a psychological crutch. Cutting out the booze had a knock on effect in that my appetite reduced as well. A win-win situation.

I'm 6' and started at 266lbs and am now at 182lbs.

No LeadGoldwing. But I do have a Suzuki GSF600N (unfaired Bandit) and a BMW K100RS.

height 6'0 (edit: not 6'8)
age     48
starting weight 266
current weight 175
calories 1500-2200

I try to get to the gym most days, and tend to burn off around 650cals on the CV machines. I also walk wherever it is practical, including when I'm out doing the shopping. I've also started swimming again and generally swim 500m, sometimes more, after a work out in the gym. This soon mounts up in a day, and often exceeds 1200cals expended.

The most important thing though is to be sensible in your goals.