The Health, Wellness, weight loss, and fitness thread

[jfrey]

Shit, man, are you a nutritionist? Awesome advice.

Thank you. I'm a little bit of an information junkie so I study a lot about a lot of things. I've read a ton of books on health and fitness, and taken classes on personal training and nutrition.

[Jwar]

Shit, man, are you a nutritionist? Awesome advice.

Thank you. I'm a little bit of an information junkie so I study a lot about a lot of things. I've read a ton of books on health and fitness, and taken classes on personal training and nutrition.

Awesome! I'm actually in personal training classes myself and have study nutrition as well for a long time. The problem is that there is so much information out there that it's sometimes hard to decide what is the best information.

I've read studies that say it both ways. More protein and other that say less. So weird.

[jfrey]

Shit, man, are you a nutritionist? Awesome advice.

Thank you. I'm a little bit of an information junkie so I study a lot about a lot of things. I've read a ton of books on health and fitness, and taken classes on personal training and nutrition.

Awesome! I'm actually in personal training classes myself and have study nutrition as well for a long time. The problem is that there is so much information out there that it's sometimes hard to decide what is the best information.

I've read studies that say it both ways. More protein and other that say less. So weird.

That's great man. It's an awesome thing to learn about.

It really depends on the person. When you try a lot of different diets and proportions of different food types, while keeping up a very high level of activity you'll get an intuitive grasp of how your body responds to different things. Without knowing you personally, or training with you, I can only approximate. In general though there's really only three things you need to think about and they're each simple and obvious.

The first is to eat better. At every opportunity try to make your diet healthier. You can't ever surpass in performance the limits of your fuel.

The second is to cut calories when you want to cut fat, and add calories when you want to build muscle. This of course is meant to go hand in hand with your training, and the specifics need to be adjusted as your training requires.

The third is to be more active. No matter what you do already, chances are you can do more - or different things. Our bodies are meant to move.

Everything after those three things are just fine tuning and details.

[benjuro]

Yeah kids, EASILY tightened the belt I wore to my wedding a year ago one more notch today.
Not a huge amount of progress for a year, but since I really only started exercising within the last six months, I'm psyched!

[hbombgraphics]

Yeah kids, EASILY tightened the belt I wore to my wedding a year ago one more notch today.
Not a huge amount of progress for a year, but since I really only started exercising within the last six months, I'm psyched!

Dude, good for you, most people I know gain weight the first year they are married, so reversing the trend is pretty big.

[Big Mon]

Kicked weed, started a meditation regimen this morning. And in spite of a prolonged sinus infection, I'm able to breathe a little better. I used a Qigong technique for beginners. Once I'm done with finals/this semester, I'm going to kick the cigs. Ice Bear's World from our friend Blackened_Soul helped me to remain focused during my Mindfulness exercise. And the best part? I felt sort of "high" afterwards. Oxygen-the new weed.

[benjuro]

Kicked weed, started a meditation regimen this morning. And in spite of a prolonged sinus infection, I'm able to breathe a little better. I used a Qigong technique for beginners. Once I'm done with finals/this semester, I'm going to kick the cigs. Ice Bear's World from our friend Blackened_Soul helped me to remain focused during my Mindfulness exercise. And the best part? I felt sort of "high" afterwards. Oxygen-the new weed.

HUGE. Good for you, I'll be super interested to hear how the meditation treats you. There is a temple near me that has a "meditation for newbs" night I've been tempted to go to but it conflicts with jams.
I ditched the herbs for a while, but losing the butts are what'll really help you. It's hard as fuck, best of luck--we'll pull for you
And I've been loving that natural high you get from exercise, it's pretty amazing

[Big Mon]

Kicked weed, started a meditation regimen this morning. And in spite of a prolonged sinus infection, I'm able to breathe a little better. I used a Qigong technique for beginners. Once I'm done with finals/this semester, I'm going to kick the cigs. Ice Bear's World from our friend Blackened_Soul helped me to remain focused during my Mindfulness exercise. And the best part? I felt sort of "high" afterwards. Oxygen-the new weed.

HUGE. Good for you, I'll be super interested to hear how the meditation treats you. There is a temple near me that has a "meditation for newbs" night I've been tempted to go to but it conflicts with jams.
I ditched the herbs for a while, but losing the butts are what'll really help you. It's hard as fuck, best of luck--we'll pull for you
And I've been loving that natural high you get from exercise, it's pretty amazing

Thanks! Liking the support I've seen in this thread. ILF=moar than a forum, truly a community

[Haki]

Finally managed to go at least twice a week for the past three weeks. Hoping to make it a steady three times a week then go from there. Also eating healthier these days. Made a ton of tomato soup to dump in the freezer, having that instead of take out should help as well.

[theactionindex]

Yay healthy freezer soup!
Yay Qigong!
ILF support networks!

Totally unrelated: You've inspired me to want to use that little happy cloud fucker as bullet points in all my powerpoint presentations from now on.

[hbombgraphics]

I thought that was a sheep.....


anyway..... Haki, need that soup recipe yo

[Haki]

anyway..... Haki, need that soup recipe yo

Lazy man's tomato soup using MAGGI products, no idea if the US has it but they should have something similar available.

Starts with 2,5 liters of water, add a beef shank and seasoning (I use Maggi bouillon blocks), low flame and let it simmer for about 2 hours. By then the marrow should be mostly dissolved, so remove the bone and cut up the meat in tiny pieces. I also add ground beef (about half a pound) at this point as well as veggies, carrots, leek, cabbage, onions and cauliflower. Then there's vermicelli (spaghetti can work just as well) and Maggi's Tomato Soup base (essentially just condensed tomatos with some spices added for flavour). Let it simmer for another half hour orso stirring a couple times and you have soup.

[hbombgraphics]

That sounds good, I have to try it, although I don't know that I would consider it tomato soup.

[benjuro]

Haki, nice job on maintaining 3x a week!!
That's the move

[tommasters]

Went to the doctor today cause I felt light headed.
Turns out I have crazy low blood pressure and dangerously low cholesterol. Slightly low iron too.
I weigh 160 pounds and am 6 foot 5.

The doctors prescription. Bacon