Any good ways to lose weight?

That website you posted said "a regular routine of cardiovascular exercise can increase your BMR, improving your health and fitness when your body's ability to burn energy gradually slows down." It doesn't say the benefits are for a short period of time.

 

i think what Sishir Chang meant was that your body needs more calories in the morning than before you go to bed, which i think is sound advice. total daily caloric intake is important, but its also important when this intake is, hence the benefit of 6 meals a day compared to 3 bigger ones. if for example, you're fasting, your body goes into a fat storing mode and when you break that fast later in the day by eating your daily calorie intake, or even less than that, you might lose weight but you'd be storing fat. the weight youre losing being muscles.
i think no carbs late in the evening has some truth to it, since carbs are basically for energy. if you dont use up that energy, ie go to sleep, that energy turns to fat.

 

Instead of drinking beer & eating wings after work, mix in a salad and go to the gym.

 

Thanks. Actually, the Protein Power is the one I'm on. I just said Atkins because they're almost the same thing.

I've gone from 250 to 215. I'd like to get close to 200, then I'll get back to a more well rounded healthy diet. I'll also start lifting weights again. I stopped when I started this diet because you can't really build muscle without carbs, so I'd just be wasting my time.

I'm trying to get rid of the fat, then replace it with muscle.

 

Absolutely. Timing is important in terms of keeping your body in an anabolic state, rather than a catabolic state. Thus the spreading out of meals. However reversing the size of those meals is pointless. However, eating carbs late at night, if you are at a total daily caloric deficit, will still fall in line with a weightloss program.

 

Yes, a regular routine of cardio can increase your BMR.

Each individual session only increases the BMR for a short period of time, whereas weightlifting keeps the BMR elevated for sustained periods of time.

Also, the greater percentage of lean body mass (muscle), the higher your BMR will be.

Weightlifting should be a key compenent of any fat loss program.

 

Impossible for 99.9% of the population?

Eat before work, bring two meals with you to work, eat when you come home from work, eat a late night snack, and eat right before bed.

How is that impossible?

Absolutely agree with you on that it's not necessary to just be healthy. However, for the original poster, I think it would help his body composition goals.

My mistake on Sishir, I misread his post.

Absolutely. Cardiovascular fitness is extremely important for health. I wasn't trying to knock it, I'm a big fan.

 

To follow up on my previous post here's a link to an article in the NYTimes about the studies author Dr. Franz Halberg

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...2575BC0A967948260&sec=health&pagewanted=print

 

Ah I see. Good to see regular running has extended effects.

 

At that size, you're in danger of being the only pimp who gets slapped around by his ho's.

 

lol, i outweigh him by 65 lbs but it's good b/c i can just post him up all day long.

 

Tivo some of those documentaries about 700+ pound people off TLC and Discovery Health and watch them each time you catch yourself about to make questionable eating choices.

 

I went from 250 to 180 eating low carb, running 30 minutes a day and doing a 14 minute abs workout (i put the first session from abs of steel on cd and ran it on my walkman) five days a week. I don't think you have to lift to lose weight. I ate far more vegetables, fiber (like nuts), fish, and fruit(especially berries) eating low carb than at any other point in my life. The best part was being full when I ate (prociutto and goat cheese - that ain't really suffering), which was so unlike 'eating a salad.'