Posts by keynan

I usually end up giving sucky advice even though I don't try too, so this is probably going to be sucky advice... But what I do when i get hungry is chug a giant bottle/cup of water :-D  By the time I am done putting the water down to my belly, I am so full of water I don't want any food :-P  The side effect to this is 15 min later I have to pee SOOO bad and am hungry again haha.  Also the eat whole and healthy and filling foods is good too.  And deffinatly increase your cal. per day, that is way to low.  If food is readily avalible for ya... You have to get into a routine of your lifestyle change, diet pills scream "Hey this is me, on a diet..."

Man, I do suck at giving advice :-O

Thanks for the advice techraven, but I was refering to my Army Physical Fitness Test haha (I only have 2 min to do the most I can, if I did 1 ever 5-10 seconds I would fail horribly, 63 was bad enough 76 points out of 100!)  When I am training for situps i actually dont do too manysitups, I do leg lifts, crunches 10up10downs, flutter kicks and bridge builders.  Sometimes I do diferent things, but thats for the advice anyway! :-D

Don't measure your success on weight, that is a horrible ide for someone who excersizes regurlary!  Your body is just evening out!  Your doing quite well it sounds, since muscle weighs more then fat, your building some healthy muscle on ya.  The more muscle the more cal you burn, right now your body is loosing fat but gaining muscle, once your body slows down on the muscle gaining (gets adapted to the level of excersize your doing( the muscle you have built will destroy any fat you have remaining.  Go based off of measuerments.  Measure your hips, waist, neck, arms, calfs and thies.  Add up the total of all the measurements, then in a week, measure them all again, the difference is what you should be going off of :-D  I hope this helps.  One of my buddies is going threw the same thing, but he has lost like 8 inches total. Keep up the good work!

I don't know if this question was geared towards a male answering but I am going to do it anyway!  I have a whole 1 style to choose from (go army) but I actually got issed a pair of pants that was the wrong size, and its a medium, and it fits perfectly! :-D

Yeah, the overhydration thing.  That is deff. true that they drank way to much water to fast.  But that is due to the over exerction of extreme physical activities, and the rapid depletion of electrolytes is due (partially) to the lack of sodium intake in the body.  I don't mean to question you, I just don't trust a heart specialist who probably never pushed his body so hard that he depleeted his electrolytes.  Nothing like being so thirsty from exaustion that no matter how much water you drink, it only hurts you because your body is unable to process it properly.  I just don't want to see people got threw that feeling.  But other then the people that push them selves super hard and sweat ALOT, the average person has nothing to fear.  We are both right :-D

Thank you all for your help.  (I am army :P)  I am just doing what I love, no different then you all doing what you love.  I took that body fat test thing iknowmychicken put a link up for and it was more helpfull on my self esteem then the other thing, it said..

"You have 2.5% body fat.

You have 5.3 Pounds of fat and 204.7 Pounds of lean (muscle, bone, body water)."

haha, I don't think that thing is very accurate either, I am going to have to wait till I get home and get the other tests.  I was hoping to see what I was now, but I will just go with 20%

1. Calorie Count Name (user id): keynansantos
2. Name you prefer to be called in discussions: Bob, or Keynan
3. Age & Sex: 25 Male
4. General Location: Iraq
5. Married? Single? Single
6. Kids? Furbabies? No kids and a fishbaby (Batman)
7. Favorite color? Pink
8. Favorite movie? Buba Hoe Tep
9. Hobbies? None right now, normally quite the outdoorsman
10. Favorite Snack? Apple (used to be sunflower seeds)
11. Favorite Beverage? Water
12. Biggest Obstacle to Getting Healthy? I love icecream sammiches
13. Weight/Fitness Goal? I want to get to 165ish befor I leave Iraq (8 months)
14. Least Favorite Household Chore? Dishes!
15. How did you find Calorie Count? Searching the web for a calorie counter
16. Anything Else You'd Like To Share? I was a infantryman for 6 years, got injured, and now i am stuck behind a computer desk!  I was packin on the pounds but I cought myself and am lookin to get it all back off.

Oh okay, thanks :-D  How would I go about doing that though?

I was personally addicted to salty foods, I had very high blood presure (im alot better now).  This post is helpfull to me, now i know what else to cut out!  I still do eat salt in some foods though, as gi-jane posted that we dont need salts I very much disagree to that statement (No offence gi-jane)  I was in an infantry unit for 6 years and have seen several of my friends overhydrate due to cutting out almost all of the salty foods out of their diets.  Which is more dangerous then dehydration.