Lose Weight/Excercise

[trywait]

I've resumed exercising regularly again. tired of making excuses not to. and so far, I'm doing my best to work out at least 4x a week. so far, made it to week 2, day 3. gotta make it to week 3, day 1 to become habitual.

[InbetweenDreams]

[MENTION=14517]trywait[/MENTION] If you can find a reliable workout partner, that will seal the deal... But glad to hear you're working out Definitely a good habit to have.

[hank]

I'd advise against fasting. Skipping meals slows metabolism to a crawl, which sends your body into a condition where you absorb every calorie you consume and store it as fat. Also causing your blood sugar to spike and crash which is a very common contributor to diabetes.

I wouldn't fast more than about a day if you are doing a "detox" there are other ways to accomplish the same thing without the shock to your metabolism. If you're interested I'll send you some links.

[Insertnamehere]

Yup, people who think starving themselves does any good, do not understand the slightest bit of metabolism.

Sure, in the long run, lets say a month, you'll totally be malnourished..but hey...skinny right?

[InbetweenDreams]

I'd advise against fasting. Skipping meals slows metabolism to a crawl, which sends your body into a condition where you absorb every calorie you consume and store it as fat. Also causing your blood sugar to spike and crash which is a very common contributor to diabetes.

I wouldn't fast more than about a day if you are doing a "detox" there are other ways to accomplish the same thing without the shock to your metabolism. If you're interested I'll send you some links.

Interesting, some of the stuff I came across suggested that fasting helps with insulin sensitivity.... I know it is a topic for debate, seems to be good and bad things concerning fasting. Logically speaking it would make sense for our bodies to be more efficient at absorbing nutrients when after fasting... I need to sit down and do some reading on it.

For now, I am just drinking more water and eating when I'm hungry and if I'm not I skip...I figure my body is pretty good at telling me what it wants...of course that's assuming I'm not guzzling down sugar and crap... Honestly, my apitiete isn't what it was a few months ago and I'm much much more active, and looks like I will be more active now yet... Did 42 laps at the pool and half hour of jogging....and tomorrow, Monday, I will be there again from 5:20 till they close at 8, doing everything from weight training, cycling and back in the pool...doing that twice a week plus some running... actually here's a breakdown (have all this on my white board lol)

Monday - Swim/Weights/Cycling
Tuesday - Recovery
Wednesday - Run
Thursday - Swim/Weights/Cycling
Friday - Recovery
Saturday - Run/Swim
Sunday - Run

[ceez]

I finally exercised yaaay well, I took a two day break inbetween, but better than nothing right weight training wednesday and cardio saturday hopefully I won't get lazy and continue with weight training monday, I have that day off so no excuses.

[InbetweenDreams]

I finally exercised yaaay well, I took a two day break inbetween, but better than nothing right weight training wednesday and cardio saturday hopefully I won't get lazy and continue with weight training monday, I have that day off so no excuses.

Yep got to give yourself breaks in between. I'm debating whether I should still run today or just be lazy... One thing I have noticed from experience is if you doing too much you just won't perform, I noticed that after waiting a couple days I always make gains in pace with my running.

[AlohaShannon]

I've been really enjoying a workout routine that I've established. It's not rigid and very open to flexibility.

Per week:
- One 90 minute session of hot yoga.
- Two 45 minute sessions of Yin yoga (deeper stretches held for 3-5 minutes focusing on stressing the ligaments and joints rather than the muscles).
- Two days doing cardio (for me it's running two and a half miles each day)
- Two 45 minute sessions of body toning with light weights or a yoga sculpt class

It may seem like a lot, but the body toning/sculpt classes have the Yin class immediately preceding or following. The maximum number of days I exercise in a week is 5 and given the variety of things I do I find that no particular area of my body is over-worked.

I do at times miss a cardio day or the hot yoga session but I've truly been enjoying this schedule.

[Insertnamehere]

Interesting, some of the stuff I came across suggested that fasting helps with insulin sensitivity.... I know it is a topic for debate, seems to be good and bad things concerning fasting. Logically speaking it would make sense for our bodies to be more efficient at absorbing nutrients when after fasting... I need to sit down and do some reading on it.

I'm not sure about post-fasting absorption efficiency, so I won't discuss that. Although, one could weight the food intake and the poop output for a week and make a comparison of fasting vs non fasting, right?

The thing with fasting is that you are not keeping constant blood glucose levels which is essential if you hope to manage your weight, hunger, food habits, etc.

Much like you need to take in a pill every certain amount of hours for the plasma concentration of the drug to reach a steady state and be able to perform its action, you need to keep your plasma glucose levels as constant as possible to avoid starving state in which fat storage is actually promoted and also to avoid level spikes which mean overproduction of insulin, which, you guessed it, mobilize excess glucose to be turned into fat.

I suppose fasting would work if kept indefinitely, you would sure as hell get skinny then!

The key is what is being used as "fuel" when you lack food intake. Blood glucose comes first, muscle and liver glycogen come next and both fat and muscle tissue as last resources.

Therein lies the problem. If you keep a regular exercise schedule you are constantly depleting your glycogen reserves and what you don't want to happen is add fasting to the mix and have your muscle tissue disappear.

This why I for one, deem more logical the bit about increasing the amount of times you eat per day but lesser portions each time, minding above all things a proper protein intake. This way, glucose levels reach a "steady state" of sorts and no insulin "spikes" occur.

Then exercise should add the important tasks of: 1) keeping the needed amount of calories out (cardio) 2)building muscle tissue (bodyweight, strenght training)

Both of those things should then increase your basal metabolic rate and keep you at a nice healthy weight and general homeostasis.


You said it yourself, quite a controversial topic. Most definitely because we are all phenotypically very different. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people that actually benefit from fasting, but it would be a more of a case by case thing.

[InbetweenDreams]

Well never fasted...I hate feeling hungry lol

The only thing I can vouch for is cutting the sugar way down and simply eat less and what you do eat needs to be good stuff...protein, fiber, vitamins, and complex carbs.... I mean if the carbs break down to glucose/fructose by sneezing it is a bad carb imo...I know there's way more to it than that, but I figure if it takes longer to breakdown and the release of glucose is slower then probably ok to eat, as you mention about the spiking of glucose levels...