By: Eric B

Eric B — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:41:45 +0000

Listen, its made out to be so difficult it can’t be done without this product or that product or each of the new products or books or diets coming out on the market. All there is to losing weight is a balancing act.
Think of a teeter totter on one side is the amount of calories you eat or consume the other is the amount you burn. If you eat more calories then what is burned in a day you will gain weight over time. However if you consume less then what you burn you will lose weight over time.
Now here is where it might get confusing. Your body naturally burns calories to sustain itself. Some people burn more at rest then others this is the RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate). It is dependent on a person’s mass and the amount of muscle their body has or lacks. Think of Muscles like a factory it takes energy to keep a factory going. The more factories the more burning of calories to sustain them. Now think of fat like a warehouse it just is a storage and takes very little energy to keep it stored. So, the more you exercise AND weight train the more you burn to supply energy to your body and muscles.
Exercise and Weight training are great, but it is much easier to cut out food then workout. For example: If you eat a Snickers bar it will take roughly 30+ minutes to burn off the calories (and we aren’t talking the King Size), but if you simply don’t eat it and still workout well you just teetered the totter in your favor.
This can be taken too far. Your body needs food and nourishment. If it doesn’t get it, then it can go into starvation mode and not burn much at all. This is why people suggest small meals many times a day to keep that RMR up.
Hope it helps,
Good Luck
Eric B.
BSAS Exercise Science

By: A1

A1 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:46:41 +0000

Hi,
I thought I would give you some pointers I have learned the hard way from my own bad ‘uninformed’ choices.
What I have learned to do is the Adkins type of high protein diet without the fats, simply because of my gallbladder – biliary – pruritus – hives diseases that break out whenever I eat nuts or olive oil or dressings or other fats.
What I finally learned to do is what is taught in most high school nutrition classes where they teach students to add up all the RDA’s [Recommended Dietary Allowances] or DV’s [Daily Reference Values] for each day of vitamins and minerals from digestible ‘food;’ i.e. bran is not included in this analysis since it is not digestible for humans and is like a horse eating straw instead of digestible grass or alfalfa. I also know that synthetic vitamin supplements are more toxic in the long term than beneficial to any animal, and mineral supplements are super toxic since they are ‘metallic’ minerals and oftentimes raw fertilizers that have not yet been converted via photosynthesis into a plant.
What I ‘now’ eat is a-lot of 12 hour crock potted beef heart and round steak, then mixed with tomato sauce and boiled celery to make a quick microwave super high protein chili. I crock pot since my digestive system is in such poor shape and I need as many nutrients as I can get out of the semi-expensive foods I buy. I have also learned to always eat enough vegetables to be a minimum of 2 x the weight of the meat that I eat – in order to not have any constipation or worse. I used to have reddish stools since I was likely on my way to getting colon cancer from eating much more meat protein than I could ever digest properly in my stomach and colon.
I also eat a-lot of boiled frozen broccoli and boiled organic or re-washed and re-boiled canned spinach with a vinaigrette of honey OR sugar with glass_bottled_cider_vinegar. The glassware is because of some friends that got lupus from eating too much plastic stuff, or inhaling it since they were house painters who used vinyl paints.
The nutritional DV numbers that I now eat are three times what most others in my family are eating every day. I keep at about 100% and they are about 25 to 33%, but they are all morbidly obese diabetics. After I had my own heart attack and pruritus hives from gallbladder and my liver-biliary failures, I am now more fit in comparison to most others. People can lose weight with stimulate drugs like nicotine or caffeine or most other alkaloids, and can even lose weight on alcohol or beer if you burn more calories than you take in, but while being thin the result is inevitably various diseases since our bodies are not made to be forced to run on its adrenaline all the time when it is trying to burn off excess carbs or to ’sweat-out’ or ‘eliminate’ toxic stimulate drugs all the time.
The main nutritional numbers and eliminating toxins are the story to good health.
Good health to you. [(-:]
I currently feel this is a website for the best nutritionist in the nation:http://www.drfuhrman.com/ask/default.asp…http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cat…
PS Boiling spinach can reduce the pesticides from 80 to 85%+ as per canning studies done in the 70’s, by boiling pesticides off with the steam after a few minutes boiling to pull it out of the plant. Boiling also reduces the hundreds of percents of acid carbs like folic acid that makes raw spinach not digest as well, and also breaks it down a further step so it is then easier to digest in the stomach. It also kills any bacteria or e-coli problems that may have somehow been introduced into the raw or commercially canned produce.http://www.ewg.org/
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