Good luck with that! lol
Posted on 08/12/2008 9:56:35 PM PDT by Bear_Slayer
I'm not Michael Phelps and I don't eat his diet, but I do work out hard every day and start to feel run down unless I eat carbs. I can feel myself spiral downwards, until I stop the workouts or eat more carbs . . . and then I feel like I've blown the whole program.
Agave juice! I just found out about it and tried it in my coffee two days ago! It’s a fantastic sweetener and it doesn’t spike your blood sugar!
By what method, increase resistance, increase the incline, or sprint continuously?
Does your machine have the cross-training program?
I am only 8 or 900 lbs overweight...I hope to drop them in the next few months
Yes, but Im not aware of what that is or does?
Good luck with that! lol
btt
How much do you exercise per day (or week)? 3 / Week.
What type of diet (eating style, foods, calorie intake) do you eat? Carb limitation.
Are you over-weight? No.
Were you once over-weight and how much weight did you lose? N/A.
In what time frame did it take you? N/A
What do you do for self-discipline (motivation)? Fear of death & dismemberment.
I say this assuming you have no life-threatening conditions and your doctor has cleared you to work out.
I would never compare pop to methadone. I’m no nutritionist, but I highly doubt diet drinks can do much harm. Carbonation is fun!
No disclaimer is necessary.
I will increase a bit and go from there.
I’m glad you posted this. I’ve been totally disciplined with calories for a month now, eliptical 50 mins a day, and I haven’t lost A pound!
What the heck?
I lost 75 pounds in 10 months, and my wife lost 100 pounds in one year on the Michael Thurman “Body Makeover Diet” - Google for web site...it is the one used on Extreme Makeover. (body edition, not the house)
I'll catch up with further responses in the morning.
> That is some advice I can use. However, I just read that studies show, that those who monitor their weight tend to lose it faster and keep it off.
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> Is there a healthy balance between monitoring and not obsessing?
Yes. It is healthy to be curious whether you are, in fact, losing weight. It isn’t healthy to obsess, as you know.
How to find the balance? Try this:
Give away your bathroom scales to the Salvation Army. They are inaccurate and no help to you anyway. You don’t need ‘em and they clutter up your bathroom. Get rid of ‘em.
Make a recurring doctor’s appointment once per fortnight (every two weeks, in other words). Have her weigh you at these sessions, and take your bloods and your blood pressure. Always phone for results of the bloods a few days later, because most doctors don’t bother to follow up if the bloods are normal.
Make sure you tell your doctor what you are doing, so that she can also monitor your progress. Write down the numbers she gives you, and ask her to explain them.
Now, once per fortnight is plenty for you to monitor yourself. It is long enough away that you should see big improvements each time (thus motivating you), and it is near enough so that you are not kept in suspense.
And you now have the only expert — your doctor — involved that you will ever need.
Your first blood tests will probably suck — mine did. Poor liver function, hi cholesterol, renal functions were ok. Blood pressure was hi.
It’s OK for the first test to suck: that is because your diet sucks, and your body isn’t helping you because you aren’t helping it.
Immediately cut booze out of your diet completely, and if you smoke immediately stop. Don’t stress about it: what you are doing is getting your liver to start working like it should, and your lungs to also begin oxygenating your blood properly.
Visualize this:
Every clean breath you take is oxygen that is making your blood richer and healthier. And every time you drink something other than booze is another chance for your liver to regenerate its cells (it is the only internal organ that can rebuild itself) and start burning off fat. And whatever you drink that isn’t booze washes thru your kidneys, keeping them healthy, too.
Next, stop buying prepared foods if you can. Go for the cheaper, better-for-you foods that you must prepare yourself. Or at very most, take out of a tin.
You want to put top-quality fuel into your body: not junk that your liver is going to struggle to get rid of.
Again, ask your doctor if she has any dietary advice. She will probably have some advice for diabetics: this is good sensible stuff that we should all be doing anyway.
You don’t need a severe diet: just eat good food.
Then do moderate exercise. Don’t kill yourself doing it, just a little bit — enough to make your body burn off the food you put in.
Use the blood tests coupled with your weight loss as an indicator of your progress. In many ways, the blood tests are more interesting.
Now, can you cheat? Good question: once you start seeing progress you probably won’t want to, or at least not very often. Every time you do, you stop your progress and your liver and kidneys need to make up lost ground.
So if you do cheat, wait until your liver has had a chance to start working properly for a while and rebuild the damage that’s been done (for it will be damaged), and wait until your kidneys have flushed out for a while.
Then cheat, in the full knowledge of what you are doing, and knowing that your results will take a hit.
Good luck. Hope you find some answers and encouragement.
Just work out using the x-training program, follow the prompts and see how you like it. Increase resistance over a reasonable time period for you. (For example, I stayed at Level 13 for a month.)
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