Posts by curtinks

Thanksgiving in my family is tremendous.  Glad I don't eat with some of y'all because it sounds like a bad scene.  We made homemade capalletti and porketta, my brown bad turkey, homemade dressing with chorizo and fresh mushrooms, and tons of home made pies and candies.  I spent all day yesterday cooking, and I've been up since 4:30, to hit the gym and then back to the kitchen.  I love Thanksgiving!

Beans.  Lots of variety and super healthy.  I eat them every day anyway.

When I reach my goal, I will start the backpiece I've been drawing for ten years.  And I'll walk with my head a little higher, even if most people don't know why.

BBQ sauce.  On most anything.  Raw veggies, eggs, cooked veggies, pasta, rice, even oatmeal.  It's my condiment for everything. 

HIIT has always given me great results but as stared above, it's about the intensity. If you drag it, during the none full max intensity phase, you aren't helping yourself.  As soon as my weight loss starts to ebb off, I am starting back in, to get things back on track.

I love it.  It's basically short bursts of super intense exercise(sprints), followed by small periods of less intense exercise(jogging).  I've always followed the Muscle Media protocol of 30/30 rotated 8 times for a 4 minute cycle.  You start with one, and you then work up to multiple cycles in the same workout.

Keep in mind, it isn't limited to running.  I've seen people apply it to cycling, the eliptical, even weight training and have seen amazing results.

If you don't mind reading scientific articles, here's a link to the Tabata article.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-rev iew/effects-of-moderate-intensity-endurance-a nd-high-intensity-intermittent-training-on-an aerobic-capacity-and-vo2-max.html

I am going to eat an obnoxious amount of turkey on that day, and let the rest take care of itself.  

There's a Nigerian Proverb I like too.  It goes...

"Not to do is bad.  Not to wish to do, is worse."

Oh and the mighty Yoda says..

"Do or do not. There is no try."

When I was in college, they made all of the football team do hydrostatic bodyfat measurements at the start of Spring, end of Spring, start of Fall, just to see if everyone is sticking to their plans, and hitting their goals and I always found it helpful.  I was a back so I wanted to keep my weight within a tight range of about 8-10 pounds so I played at my fastest and it was much more useful for me than a scale.  You'll be fine, and it'll be great information to have.  Just keep in mind, if you use any other method for bodyfat measurement, it probably won't be a good comparison. 

You are going out to what sounds like a pretty good restaurant(ood menu, and small).  Get what you like, and one night, don't stress the calories.  Account for them during your day, maintaining maybe 100-125 calories every few hours, until about 3 hours before you go out, and then just enjoy yourself.  I'd get the New York Strip, and never look back...

Original Post by aleciarose123:

Does anyone know if its bad for you to work out twice a day. Like once in the morning and once in the evening... I probably wouldnt work out the same mucle groups twice...maybe just lightly a quick touch-up at night?

It depends on what you are doing when, really.  I wouldn't weight train twice a day, no, because recovery is so vital that over the week, you could overtrain, but to do a split day, weights and cardio or interval training, sure that's a very good idea.

Original Post by alanbates:

The heart of the matter of this thread's topic is based around 'luxury' food. Anyone saying "oh sure. eat whatever you want" or "you only live once" is kind of leading the people who actually care about themselves astray.

I have to respectfully disagree.  Being able to allow oneself to enjoy food, that isn't part of their normal healthy diet but part of what they know, is vital to many dieters success, and in will help them maintain the psychological advantage they need to continue.  Being able to put something out there, as a goal, in terms of a meal, or a food, is a great thing for a dieter.  Allowing yourself that "luxury" food as you call it, can be very motivating to keep people moving forward.  At some point I think many people try and overthink diets, and assume the worst of behaviors like the one presented here.  Was a honey bun the healthiest choice?  Of course not, but is it the worst thing that could have happened?  Not even close.  If having something like that, satisfies that urge, and he's back on the horse tomorrow, no harm done. 

And how insulting is it to assume someone who would have that attitude don't care about themselves?  That's asinine.

Keep everything in perspective.  How far over your normal intake did you go?  My suggestion would be to take that overage, and divide it by 2, and trim that from your intake from the next 2 days, and you'll have no ill effects.  Don't let this get you down.

Always been a grazer, and I think it's a great idea.  I actually space mine out, every 2 hours, that I am awake, and base the calories on that, as the day goes one.  I don't plan mine ahead, I just go with the day, and if at the end of the day, I have some extra for the last 2 meals, I eat a little more, if I don't, I eat a little less. 

Original Post by danilk:

Original Post by alanbates:

...I haven't really heard anything consistent on an allowance of saturated fats.

My rule of thumb with sat fat is this:
I have a personal "allowance" of 0 g of saturated fat in a day. However, that doesn't mean that I eat no sat fat. It means that I apply different rules to it. I multiply the count of saturated fat grams by the caloric content of whatever I ate, then divide that in half. I add this many calories on to my cardio workout for the day (or for the next day if I've already done my cardio)

Using your iced honey bun as an example: (using stats from calorie-count.com

430 Kcalories

5 g of saturated fat

(430 x 5) / 2 = 1050 Kcal

 

Becomes a penalty of 1050 Kcal that I have to burn extra(about an hour of moderate-high moderate intensity on an elliptical for me....or about an hour 15 minutes rowing, or about an hour run.

....It might make you want to cut your honey bun in half and save some for tomorrow ;)

 

Edit:  I consider meals with less than a gram of saturated fat to be negligible.  I might add them up at the end of the day if I haven't had any sat fat rich snack, but my regular workout is more than enough to absorb a little.  I make my allowance well below what is "unhealthy"  If you put a luxury tax on your sweets, it keeps them in bounds for your diet, but might make you think twice about the portion that you eat.

 

 

 

 

This coming from a guy who takes pictures of himself in a miror... Come on! Eat whatever the f you like. How did this post about honey buns turn ito a post about you again?

 This post is priceless!