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Old timers were right. Salads before meals fight the buldge. I've lost 15 pounds in 2 months working a stand up job. It is easier than you think. But it is hard

by ohiovr 4y ago

Old timers were right. Salads before meals fight the buldge. I've lost 15 pounds in 2 months working a stand up job. It is easier than you think. But it is hard as hell to lose weight if you do no physical activity. Mastering my tounge will save my life. Working on a terminal all day does a number on us. Perhaps walking would help computer workers. At food retail I probably walk several miles a day. I've never felt better than I do now at 45.

throwaway22032 4y ago
Ideally you give yourself a higher metabolic rate by e.g. building muscle, incorporating some sort of "required" exercise e.g. cycling to work, N days per week at the gym, whatever. If you don't, then caloric deficit (or even maintenance) is so much harder because you may end up having to eat tiny amounts.
- kar5pt 4y ago
  You're not going to change your metabolism much by building muscle. You really have to eat less or do a significant amount of cardio if you want to lose weight.
  - ohiovr 4y ago
    Metabolism has to increase to incorporate a new source of load in daily life. When I started my job my feet were in constant pain but now I can stand for 7 hours with ease and I can stoop, kneel, lift with relative ease. That is just with 2 months from going from slug to lug. It takes too much discipline to hold an excercise routine for me but this new job is the right amount of activity without too much skelital stress. But if people drink monster drinks and eat candy bars while doing all this, it won't make much difference. I still eat candy. I guess I just don't plan on doing it daily. Pardon the spelling, I'm using a browser without a spell check.
  - throwaway22032 4y ago
    "Much" is kind of meaningless here. If you increase your BMR by 100 calories a day that's huge because losses or gains are made at the margins. My main point is that you need something that's not optional. If you cycle to work once a week that might be a 300 calorie deficit and it's not some sort of task you can "fall behind on", it's an integrated part of your routine now that you'd have to deliberately not do. The specific example doesn't really matter, more just that it's not some fad "I'll make myself suffer at the weekend on the treadmill" or whatever.

by ohiovr 4y ago

throwaway22032 4y ago

Ideally you give yourself a higher metabolic rate by e.g. building muscle, incorporating some sort of "required" exercise e.g. cycling to work, N days per week at the gym, whatever. If you don't, then caloric deficit (or even maintenance) is so much harder because you may end up having to eat tiny amounts.

kar5pt 4y ago
You're not going to change your metabolism much by building muscle. You really have to eat less or do a significant amount of cardio if you want to lose weight.
- ohiovr 4y ago
  Metabolism has to increase to incorporate a new source of load in daily life. When I started my job my feet were in constant pain but now I can stand for 7 hours with ease and I can stoop, kneel, lift with relative ease. That is just with 2 months from going from slug to lug. It takes too much discipline to hold an excercise routine for me but this new job is the right amount of activity without too much skelital stress. But if people drink monster drinks and eat candy bars while doing all this, it won't make much difference. I still eat candy. I guess I just don't plan on doing it daily. Pardon the spelling, I'm using a browser without a spell check.
- throwaway22032 4y ago
  "Much" is kind of meaningless here. If you increase your BMR by 100 calories a day that's huge because losses or gains are made at the margins. My main point is that you need something that's not optional. If you cycle to work once a week that might be a 300 calorie deficit and it's not some sort of task you can "fall behind on", it's an integrated part of your routine now that you'd have to deliberately not do. The specific example doesn't really matter, more just that it's not some fad "I'll make myself suffer at the weekend on the treadmill" or whatever.