Project X - Lose Weight!

[Metallover]

I weighted 140. I ate an 11oz (or 14oz) steak tonight. The biggest "outback special". holy crap I ate a lot and I'm full. I had 3 steaks this weekend!!

In other news, I might get the topper taken off the truck! I drive it but its technically my dads... I've wanted to take it off ever since I started driving it. I can't wait...

[YogyBrushless]

Week 10:
Last weighing 222 was 226.5
thats 4.5 lb off!!
untill next time

[sjcrss]

I lost 5 lbs between last tuesday & this tuesday, went from 215 to 210...... i have another 10, maybe 15 more to go, I would like to be 195-200... at the least....

[Metallover]

Keep up the work guys! Keep on doing what you're doing until you can do it longer and faster! Just don't slack off!

I weighed 136 this morning. I think it may be due to a little less hydration due to a baseball game last night where I didn't drink much water and not eating anything yet this morning. Hopefully I'll make it back up to 140 soon....

[YogyBrushless]

Week 11

same weight :)

[YogyBrushless]

Week 13 (i think)
lost some weight i was 222 now i`m 219.5
its better than nothing
until next time

[Metallover]

Yeah!

I weighed 140 this morning, and I'll get some more weight eating and drinking!!

[YogyBrushless]

Week ??

last weighing 219.5LB
New Weight 216LB

still going down, keep doing what ur doing guys.

until next time :)

[Metallover]

Keep it up! I found 1 pound a week is a great amount to lose. I also learned that eating small meals throughout the week is best for loosing weight. It boosts your metablolism.

Check out this guy's youtube channel. He has tons of videos about gaining muscle, losing weight, and generally being healthy.

http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961?blend=1&ob=4

And here's a video about the metabolism thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ2au...e=channel_page

[YogyBrushless]

thanks man !!

[jacobsjo87]

Hello everyone,
I know this thread has been going for quite some time but this is the first time I have read it. I am currently finishing my junior year in college. My Major is Exercise and Sports Science, my goal is to attend graduate school and get my Phd in chiropratic. Anayway, I have lots of knowledge and expirence to share when it comes to exercise, nutrition and related fields, so I thought I would offer up my services to you all. If anyone has any questions about nutrition, exercise, or anything related please feel free to ask me I would be more than happy to see what I can do to help you.

[Metallover]

Originally Posted by jacobsjo87

Hello everyone,
I know this thread has been going for quite some time but this is the first time I have read it. I am currently finishing my junior year in college. My Major is Exercise and Sports Science, my goal is to attend graduate school and get my Phd in chiropratic. Anayway, I have lots of knowledge and expirence to share when it comes to exercise, nutrition and related fields, so I thought I would offer up my services to you all. If anyone has any questions about nutrition, exercise, or anything related please feel free to ask me I would be more than happy to see what I can do to help you.

Awesome! Since you are highly trained in giving this type of advice, and we here at rc-m are great in encouragement, if you want/need to join the thread go ahead!

While you're here I'd personally like to discuss metabolism and eating small meals throughout the day, and it's effect on weight loss. Can I hear your stand on this? I saw somewhere that sumo wrestlers gain weight by eating 2 meals a day (much like lots of americans...)

[jacobsjo87]

Originally Posted by Metallover

Awesome! Since you are highly trained in giving this type of advice, and we here at rc-m are great in encouragement, if you want/need to join the thread go ahead!

While you're here I'd personally like to discuss metabolism and eating small meals throughout the day, and it's effect on weight loss. Can I hear your stand on this? I saw somewhere that sumo wrestlers gain weight by eating 2 meals a day (much like lots of americans...)

Ok, no problem. Yes it is true and proven that consuming more smaller meals throughout the day increases you bodies metabolic rate. Which essentially means that you body is going to burn calories at a higher rate. Your metabolic rate is dependent upon many factors such as sex, age, the amount of muscle tissue on your body, weight, activity level, ect... Basically the human body was designed with survival in mind. So back in human history when we din't know when we would get our next meal so the bodies job was to store energy (aka fat). Whenever you eat a big meal, skip a meal, or wait longer than 3 hours before eating a meal your body's metabolism slows down and doesn’t burn as many calories because essentally it is going into survival mode. Eating more meals throught the day is a common practice among elite level athletes such as bodybuilders, swimmers (michael Phelps), NFL, you name it. Although an athlete has a higher calorie demand and eats a lrge amount of calories. I think a good analogy is pedaling a bike. To keep your bike going you pedal with low force continually (eating many small meals), not a couple really hard fast pedals to keep it going (eating few large meals).

It is then important to consider the size of the meals. Since you are eating more meals the size must be adjusted to keep calories constant. Some interesting facts for you are that one pound of fat is equal to 3500 claories. That means that to lose one pound of body fat an individual must create a calorie deficit of 3500 calories to lose one pound of fat. Also to gain one pound of lean body mass (muscle) requires you to eat an additional 500 calories above you BMR (Roughly calculate yours here http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/) To create muscle you must obviously weight train in addition to eating the extra calories.

Increasing mucle mass is also a great way to increase your metabolism, and everyone male, female, old, young can see benifits from incresing muscle mass.

I hope that helped sorry I got a little off topic. Bottom line, Metabolism is a very complex process that is affected by basically everything you do.

If you would like to give me your stats and the goals that you would like to achive, along with a basic daily diet log and activity log I would be glad to help you tailor a program to help you meet your goals.

Edit* As far as the sumo wrestlers go I would assume that they to are eating many meals throught the day, but they eat large amounts of food at each meal. I don't know anything about the sumo training schedule but I assume that since they are 300+ pounds they are eating some seriously high numbers of calories that would be nearly impossiblle to get in just to meals. But yes, eating just two meals a day will reduce your metabolism.

[Metallover]

Interesting... Since there are soo many factors that affect your metabolism, are there any "best" ways to boost your metabolism? Should you even be concerned about your metabolism when trying to lose weight, or just focus more on cardio and eating less?

[jacobsjo87]

I think metabolism is definetly an important factor in weight loss, but not the most important. I think your best bet in increasing metabolism is exercising and eating consistently healty balanced meals.

Cardio is important to burn calories and lose weight, but aslo because poor diet and lack of exercise is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Cardiovascular fitness has so many health benefits its not even funny. Exercise lowers your risk for every kind of disease and death.

Diet is an extreamly important factor in weight loss. You dont actually have to eat less to lose weight you just need to change what you eat and how often. For example I would bet that I eat way more food that a 300lb person. This is because I eat healthy food and I exercise. Healthy food has less calories than junk food. A bananna is larger than the average candy bar yet the candy bar has 3 times the calories. So by eating healthy you can eat a larger volume of food and feel full but be consuming less calories. Exercise and increases in muscle from exercising are going to increase your calorie demads creating the deficit in calories resulting in weight loss.

You don't want to try to lose weight by just altering your diet alone, and you don't want to just try to do it by exercising. Changes in diet and exercise independently will result in weight loss, but together they are much more effective and have a greater cumulative affect.

Which brings me to my next point, dont take diet pills