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I lost 15 kg (33 lb) over a period of 7 months. * Stopped drinking juice, coke etc. completely * Ate sweets strictly only once a week (like one cake every sund
by cel1ne 10y ago
I lost 15 kg (33 lb) over a period of 7 months.
* Stopped drinking juice, coke etc. completely
* Ate sweets strictly only once a week (like one cake every sunday)
* Ate carbs mainly at lunch when doing sport afterwards. In the evening I ate carbs too, but much less.
There's one thing that all these fasting-guides and tips fail to mention:
The fastest way to loose weight is to heighten your resting-energy-consumption, and the fastest way to do this is to gain muscle mass by training.
- ihsw 10y agoIndeed. A muscular person at 185lb will burn more energy sitting still than their more rotund counterparts. Another thing to keep in mind -- muscle weighs more than fat. When participating in a workout regimen, some may be discouraged by their lack of weight loss and mistake it for stalling. This should be overcome. Frankly I think the greatest innovation in this would be a bathroom scale that shows both body-fat percentage and weight.
- dmourati 10y agohttp://www.tanita.com/en/ http://www.tanita.com/en/
- maaaats 10y agoSuch scales exists, but they do it by measuring electric resistance between your feet. So not very accurate. However, if you do it under the same conditions every day (same amount of water in your body etc) you can at least show the trend.
- dantheman 10y agoHere's a good scale that does that: https://www.fitbit.com/aria https://www.fitbit.com/aria
- derefr 10y agoYour Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) apparently determines a lot more of your daily calorie expenditure than your resting-energy consumption does. As in, how much you fidget, pace, shiver, etc. New stupid weight-loss product: antipsychotics, to induce muscle dystonia! (Which, sadly, wouldn't even work; antipsychotics, despite causing massive amounts of NEAT, cause weight gain—by the opposite mechanism by which stimulants make you not hungry, antipsychotics make you very hungry.)
- fpoling 10y agoI read recently that basically we do not know why gaining muscle mass alone leads to weight loss. Energy expenditure theory alone cannot explain it. So latest modern speculation is that muscles affects insulin sensitivity etc. But it could be something else. That does not change the conclusion - gaining muscle is sure thing for weight loss. It is just we do not know why.