I jsut think this one deserves its own thread. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NGKLpYtZ19Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I think it's a good video in that it's not selling you anything and it explains how people lose weight. You don't gotta do any extreme workout routine or follow a certain diet. Eat less than you normally do and move more. That's it.
That wasn't the focus of the 21 minute video though. What you said was about 10 seconds of the video. The rest is oversimplified, worthless drivel.
What if certain foods make you feel hungrier and you eat more? What I'd certain foods give you an energy boost and you exercise more? In the end it is math, sort of, but it's complicated.
There's a lot of people out there that think if you take green tea extract for a week that it'll magically cleanse your body and all of a sudden weight will drop off like magic. There are people that order Hydroxicut or Animal Staks and don't change their habits at all. They feel their heart rate accelerating and muscles twitch and think they're losing weight when they don't have to go to such extremes. There are people that spend a lot of money on protein powder and pre and post work out supplements that again don't need to. The bodybuilding and just in general the health/fitness industry tries to complicate weight loss by saying, "Get this!" or "Do that!" I mean look at a Men's Fitness magazine that says "This workout routine by X hollywood hunk did this diet and workout routine. Read more to find out how to do it yourself." Meanwhile this guy just says the basics. Eat less. Move more. No bull**** selling which is all much of the fitness industry is. Yes he oversimplified things. He also didn't over complicate weight loss either. A person's health is dependent on his or herself. We make our body. That means we make ourselves fat and out of shape. But we can also make ourselves able to run a marathon or break a personal record on reps or weight with specific exercise. I find his oversimplification a lot more honest than 99% of the fitness industry out there.
I'm not so sure about this, but I do acknowledge that obesity is a serious issue in America today. In Sunday school, we were taught to not feel so bad about our deficits in mathematics since math hasn't really been proven.
Do you really need a magazine to tell you what food makes you hungry still after you eat it and which ones will make you fuller longer? You've eaten food all your life. If you still feel hungry after eating the same food, then guess what, stop eating that food or cut back on it and experiment with a food that'll leave you feeling fuller. Know what's a great workout supplement that'll give you energy? Plain old black coffee. Supplements are just that. They're there to supplement an already existing successful weight loss or fitness plan. But again most fatties think supplements make the work that goes into weight loss easier and therefore they won't have to work as hard. You get what you put in.
I had a friend that went to the doctor for high blood pressure and some other stuff. The doctor tells him he needs to lose weight. My friend says he's tried and goes on about how hard it is and the doctor looks at him and tells him point blank, stop eating. Lol
^^ triple post? haha I want to leave legitimate feedback but it's too late in the day. maybe tomorrow Ciao chaps!
And yet there are still healthy people out there. You don't even have to eat healthy to lose weight. Again, eat less. Move more. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/ That man lost 27 lbs. in 10 weeks eating only twinkies. Now are twinkies a good source of vitamins? Will twinkies make you feel as full as eating something rich in fiber? No. But as long as you don't go over your caloric limit everyday, you can eat nothing but twinkies and still lose weight. You can go get a bag of sugar and if you meticulously count out the serving sizes where it doesn't go over your caloric limit you'll still lose weight. As for what's healthy, we know what's healthy. Mix in fruits and vegetables. Get a good balance of protein in there. Mix some fat in your diet. Balance. Drink plenty of water daily. But again if you consume 4,000 calories of "healthy" food everyday, and your body is only able to metabolize 2,000 calories of food a day, you're going to get fat eating "healthy" food. You can still eat the same food you ate that made you fat. Just eat less of it than you normally do and you'll lose weight. Or move more. Or do both to receive the benefits of weight loss from both activities. You know what you put into your body that made you fat. You know living a sedentary lifestyle while eating more than you should will make you fat. You know how you got to the point of being fat. It's not like its some mystery where you were at a healthy weight one day and the next day you woke up with all this weight on your body. You put yourself in the position you're in. You're the only one that can get yourself out of it. And it is going to take work, self restraint and saying no to opportunities to eat and drink when you know you're already over your caloric limit for the day. But you can do this just like everyone else that's overweight can do this. It's not rocket science. Eat less. Move more.
Drastic case. I'd bet this guy lost a fair amount of fat-free mass in his weight loss. But ultimately, losing weight does come down to cals in < cals expended.
Not really. Conservation of mass if you eat less and exercise more you will lose weight. Our bodies can't breath in oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen and make sugar.
