Fitness and Weightloss
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@PenguinWrangler said in Fitness and Weightloss:
@JaredBusch I just need to go to my orthopedic doctor. He will want to do surgery though. The first time I went in to him after my last Orthopedic doctor moved to Texas, he looked at my MRIs, X-Rays, and the first words out of his mouth was "Fascinating". That is never a good sign.
Regular walking/jogging/running is bad for the knees and back due to the "norm" of your heal
touchingslamming down first when doing those exercises.One method to resolving the above issue is to slowly evolve into Vibram FiveFingers. If you watch someone running on a treadmill using standard sneakers, you can clearly see the heal-first action, and the hard way it's hitting their knees and back.
When you wear those Vibrams, you're kinda forced to take shorter steps, and do it toe-first instead. Then you'll have a spring in your step instead of a solid slam through your knees.
What you don't want to do, is throw on a pair of Vibrams, then do a 30 minute run the "proper" way. Your calves will be sore as hell, and so will your feet. You need to EASE yourself in, because you've been doing it wrong your whole life, and now suddenly your changing.
Just like how when you work out the first time, or first time in a while, you get sore. This is the same thing. Start out with a 5 minute slow jog... taking tiny steps/strides, landing on the front part of your foot instead.For those who do weight lifting, such as deadlifts and squats... these are amazing. You'll have perfect form and it will actually be easier to do more weight.
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I definitely gained weight this winter and lost muscle mass.
Feels good to be getting outside and more active. My body responds very well to it and I just have to remember the pain is an indicator of progress.
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@MattSpeller said in Fitness and Weightloss:
I definitely gained weight this winter and lost muscle mass.
I just have to remember the pain is an indicator of progress.
Well, that depends on the pain of course... but if you're referring to the DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), then yes, perfectly normal
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@Tim_G said in Fitness and Weightloss:
@MattSpeller said in Fitness and Weightloss:
I definitely gained weight this winter and lost muscle mass.
I just have to remember the pain is an indicator of progress.
Well, that depends on the pain of course... but if you're referring to the DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), then yes, perfectly normal
18kg ruck sack and the forests of British Columbia will indeed generate DOMS, never mind IOMS (instant onset muscle soreness!)
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I'm at 5' 8" and probably over 250 lbs. At the beginning of the year, I was set to drink nothing but water and walk (if not run) the block every other day. My boss wanted to add some office aerobics, but that never kicked off.
Since then, I have totally dropped the water, went back to sodas, and quit the walking too. I've tried talking my boss into a stand-up desk, but he's not buying it either.
Maybe I'll start up again and attempt to lose weight. Getting up is hard as my dad-in-law is still in the house before I normally get up and I'm a little self-conscious about something like that.
Probably need some accountability as well.
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I'm still getting back into the groove of going to the gym early in the morning. Still sore from deadlifting last week.
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I've been walking to the office, which is about 2km, every day for a month. I can feel the improvements. Hopefully I can keep that up. But today is my last day here.
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@coliver said in Fitness and Weightloss:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I lost a few friends that way.
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Not sure if I have posted this before around here, just wanted to put my two cents in. I did a little over a year of fat free vegan, and I lost 80 lbs. but I started having some health issues from not watching my micro nutrients. I quit that diet. I decided after a couple years that I still wasn't where I wanted to be, so I have tried a new diet and my wife and I love it. It is The Wilfe Diet from Able James. I do well with strict rules and structure around weight loss, so it works for me. It is basically paleo with less restrictions, a focus on quality food, and intermittent fasting. I have lost another 20 lbs between this a just watching what I eat then about 6 weeks ago changing over to this diet and loosing another 10-15lbs. My new fitness addition is putting Olympic Gymnastic rings and a ceiling mounted pull up bar in my garage and giving up the gym membership to work out at home. I work out there 3 days a week doing the Reddit Bodyweight Fitness RR, then yoga 2-3 days a week on my off days, and walk 1-2 miles a day on my lunch break playing Pokemon Go! So far so good, and I am by far in the best shape of my life.
Feel free to hit me up if you are interested in trying out any of this stuff, I would love to help someone else get in shape.
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@s.hackleman said in Fitness and Weightloss:
fat free vegan
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0750/4973/files/blog_-_what_my_food_eats.jpg?11943861623982726357
Well done though man, that's hard core!
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Yesterday my landlord was at the building cleaning after a tenant moved out.
She is an old Chinese lady.
"Matt, youve gained ALOT of weight. You should run around the block a few times"
me: "OK"
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I really don't worry too much because I weigh within 10% of what I weighed in HS. I have been slimmer at times, but those were exceptionally bad times, characterized by the over consumption of stuff that isn't food (drugs are bad, m'kay). I try to walk a lot, take the stairs, stay active, etc, but my weight remains fairly consistent. I could probably drop 10-20lbs, but I do like to enjoy life now in case I die soon. One of my biggest fears is to be on my deathbed and not be able to think of anything but "I should have ________ while I could have". I absolutely refuse to participate in strict dieting, but I know I should try to be even more active than I currently am (more hiking, more sex, more yardwork).
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I try to go for a daily walk.
This is Yesterday, did two laps around the lake.
Today I only did one lap.
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@JaredBusch said in Fitness and Weightloss:
I try to go for a daily walk.
This is Yesterday, did two laps around the lake.
Today I only did one lap.
What app is that?
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My weight steadily went up with each major event in my life. Namely, job change from outdoor/active to indoor/tech, marriage, kid1, kid2.
Currently 5'10" and about 60lb overweight. Now we're preggers again so need to not add any more!
My problem is simply food volume and calories. I feel far too stuffed after far too many meals, but at this weight you really feel the hunger!
Spending hours and hours a week away from family doing jogs and gyms and stuff just doesn't work very well. So diet is key. And not eating too much for a desk job is very important!I've enjoyed the Strava app for tracking walks, hikes, and bike rides.
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@coliver standard Activity app on iOS. connected to my apple watch for most of those details I assume.
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@guyinpv said in Fitness and Weightloss:
My weight steadily went up with each major event in my life. Namely, job change from outdoor/active to indoor/tech, marriage, kid1, kid2.
Currently 5'10" and about 60lb overweight. Now we're preggers again so need to not add any more!
My problem is simply food volume and calories. I feel far too stuffed after far too many meals, but at this weight you really feel the hunger!
Spending hours and hours a week away from family doing jogs and gyms and stuff just doesn't work very well. So diet is key. And not eating too much for a desk job is very important!I've enjoyed the Strava app for tracking walks, hikes, and bike rides.
Diet is key for sure! About 80-90% of weight lost is through diet. Just look at what @JaredBusch just posted, a 40 min outdoor walk burned 300 calories. That is about a bottle of soda. Just having a water for lunch, and sitting in a chair does the exact same amount of good for calories in calories out. That being said, drinking water, and going for the walk is where you get the big losses.
Also, this is why I play Pokemon Go, It gives me the same information give or take as a walking app, but I get to catch things, and it turns the whole process into a game to pass the time.
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@s.hackleman said in Fitness and Weightloss:
Diet is key for sure!
I would amend that to be "Diet Control" not just "Diet." Knowing how much is going in versus how much you are using is the only thing that matters.
Sit in a chair all day, and thus have low caloric use? Fine, just lower intake.
When I went from 350 to 176, I did nothing except pay careful attention to how much I ate and got exercise.
Breakfast was oatmeal with splenda on it. Fixed size. I had a blue cup that I would fill to a line and then add the water.
morning snack was a can of pineapples.
Lunch was instant ramen.
Dinner was mostly home made riceballs or hamburger helper. I would make it one night, divide it up, and eat it for 2 or 3.
I drank nothing but coffee and green tea or black tea.
Saturdays I would go out for Chinese buffet with co-workers (I worked Tue-Sat). I ate more, but never stuffed myself.
The thing that made it all really work was that I had a fixed work schedule that I put my exercise into. This is something that i apparently require.
mandatory 15 minute break morning and afternoon. 1 hour lunch.Morning and afternoon breaks, I would walk up and down the stairs while reading a book (or memorizing japanese hiragana and katakana).
Lunch I would either walk the parkign lot the entire hour or during inclement weather, I drove to a nearby mall and walked around it twice. Again, while reading a book.
I always ate my lunch at my desk while finishing tasks right before my lunch break.
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Since I left that job, I have lost any kind of fixed schedule. This has been great for my personal work/life balance, but it has been hell on my weight because I am not getting any decent exercise for long stretches of time.
I am trying hard to make this work now with the morning walks.
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I like to think of it as changing eating habits rather than diet or diet control. I know it is largely semantics but it helped me.
You can make incremental changes over time that, to me at least, are way easier to keep up with than jumping into a big program all at once.
Enforcing longer meal times which, I mentioned yesterday, was step one. Step two was making sure that all meals included at least one serving of protein and one of veg. The steps in the program came at two week intervals so that there was a bit of time for the first habit to set in before having to work on the next. There were several others to work on as time progressed but the first two steps were probably the most important.
It is also worth noting that if you indulge yourself with a treat here and there it does not mean you have failed and that your effort is wasted. It is not quitting time. There is room for improvement over time. I certainly didn't make every meal last 20 mins. in week one nor did every meal have both protein and veg in week 3 or probably even 4.
It took a bit of time to nail each step down and find strategies that worked for me but as time progressed each habit became easier to keep up with.
