Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
How To Lose Weight Fast Without Diet Pills Or Exercise!
I have always been what most would consider a “big girl”. In January 2014, I weighed 180 lbs (around 82 kilograms), which is quite overweight for a woman my height. I wasn’t always this weight though. In my teenage years, I weighed only 140 pounds and I felt much healthier and happier.
I strived desperately over the years to get back to this weight. But with a stressful and busy work life, I struggled to do so. Nothing seemed to work for me. I tried everything from diet pills to exercise machines I saw advertised on TV. I even tried crazy diets like the acai berry diet, and the green tea diet. They didn’t do anything for me. I was still overweight and considered myself ‘fat’.
That all changed in March 2014 though. I lost a staggering 23 pounds in only 21 days using an extreme diet I found online called The 3 Week Diet. I came across this diet after I read a news article about a famous Victoria Secret model who was using this exact same diet to lose loads of fat in preparation for photo shoots. If it worked for her I thought, shouldn’t it work for me?
I immediately started searching on Google and managed to find the official 3 Week Diet website. There, I watched a video by a professional nutritionist who revealed step-by-step what was needed to lose weight quickly. I was shocked, because noone had ever told me this information before! I had visited personal trainers, dieticians, and doctors, and in all these years, noone had ever told me these dieting secrets!
The next day I began the program. At first I thought it would be really difficult and that I would have to starve myself to see any progress. Boy was I wrong! I pretty much ate whatever I was eating before, but I made sure to eat it at the specific times when my metabolism was burning a thousand times faster than usual. I also made sure to include the secret fat burning foods listed in The 3 Week Diet with every meal. These things combined made the fat literally melt right off my body! How did I know what times my metabolism was burning fat and what foods to include in my diet? Well, Brian from The 3 Week Diet had laid it all out for me as soon as I joined the website. It couldn’t have been easier!
On the first day alone, I lost 2 lbs (around 1 kilogram). The next day, I lost a massive 3 lbs! By the end of the first week I had lost around 10 lbs (4.5 kilograms)! That was much more than I had anticipated. I thought I would lose around 5 lbs max! But 10 lbs in only 7 days! That was life changing! I continued to follow the diet for the entire course of 21 days, and by the end of the diet I had lost an earth-shattering 30 lbs of 100% pure body fat!
My dreams had come true! I was now closer to my ideal body weight than ever before! I felt slimmer, sexier, and healthier! My belly fat had shrunk, my butt was firmer, my thighs were tighter, and my cheeks were no longer round and chubby! Some people barely recognized me! I loved my new body and it was all 100% thanks to The 3 Week Diet. It changed my life!
I am continuing to do The 3 Week Diet and the fat is still dropping off! Im aiming to get down to 140 lbs and I am probably going to get there in less than a couple weeks! This diet has been one of the best experiences of my entire life. I didn’t have to starve myself, I didn’t have to take any unhealthy diet pills, I didn’t have to work my butt off at the gym, and I didn’t have to eat bland boring food! The 3 Week Diet is really the only solution out there today if you are looking for a system which shows you how to lose weight fast. It worked for me, and I know it will work for you too.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
How To Lose Weight Quickly Without Diet Pills Or Exercise In 2016!
I have always been what most would consider a “big girl”. In January 2014, I weighed 180 lbs (around 82 kilograms), which is quite overweight for a woman my height. I wasn’t always this weight though. In my teenage years, I weighed only 140 pounds and I felt much healthier and happier.
I strived desperately over the years to get back to this weight. But with a stressful and busy work life, I struggled to do so. Nothing seemed to work for me. I tried everything from diet pills to exercise machines I saw advertised on TV. I even tried crazy diets like the acai berry diet, and the green tea diet. They didn’t do anything for me. I was still overweight and considered myself ‘fat’.
That all changed in March 2014 though. I lost a staggering 23 pounds in only 21 days using an extreme diet I found online called The 3 Week Diet. I came across this diet after I read a news article about a famous Victoria Secret model who was using this exact same diet to lose loads of fat in preparation for photo shoots. If it worked for her I thought, shouldn’t it work for me?
I immediately started searching on Google and managed to find the official 3 Week Diet website. There, I watched a video by a professional nutritionist who revealed step-by-step what was needed to lose weight quickly. I was shocked, because noone had ever told me this information before! I had visited personal trainers, dieticians, and doctors, and in all these years, noone had ever told me these dieting secrets!
The next day I began the program. At first I thought it would be really difficult and that I would have to starve myself to see any progress. Boy was I wrong! I pretty much ate whatever I was eating before, but I made sure to eat it at the specific times when my metabolism was burning a thousand times faster than usual. I also made sure to include the secret fat burning foods listed in The 3 Week Diet with every meal. These things combined made the fat literally melt right off my body! How did I know what times my metabolism was burning fat and what foods to include in my diet? Well, Brian from The 3 Week Diet had laid it all out for me as soon as I joined the website. It couldn’t have been easier!
On the first day alone, I lost 2 lbs (around 1 kilogram). The next day, I lost a massive 3 lbs! By the end of the first week I had lost around 10 lbs (4.5 kilograms)! That was much more than I had anticipated. I thought I would lose around 5 lbs max! But 10 lbs in only 7 days! That was life changing! I continued to follow the diet for the entire course of 21 days, and by the end of the diet I had lost an earth-shattering 30 lbs of 100% pure body fat!
My dreams had come true! I was now closer to my ideal body weight than ever before! I felt slimmer, sexier, and healthier! My belly fat had shrunk, my butt was firmer, my thighs were tighter, and my cheeks were no longer round and chubby! Some people barely recognized me! I loved my new body and it was all 100% thanks to The 3 Week Diet. It changed my life!
I am continuing to do The 3 Week Diet and the fat is still dropping off! Im aiming to get down to 140 lbs and I am probably going to get there in less than a couple weeks! This diet has been one of the best experiences of my entire life. I didn’t have to starve myself, I didn’t have to take any unhealthy diet pills, I didn’t have to work my butt off at the gym, and I didn’t have to eat bland boring food! The 3 Week Diet is really the only solution out there today if you are looking for a system which shows you how to lose weight fast. It worked for me, and I know it will work for you too.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Born to Run
Have you read this book: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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I love that book. McDougall manages to populate the narrative with a whole cast of wacky, real-life ultrarunning characters. While doing so, he traces the roots of the human race as persistence hunters. Before we invented guns and spear-throwers and whatnot, we ran our prey down. We have the ability to keep up with and surpass (to the point of exhaustion) a horse, an antelope, any herd animal, over the long haul. The way we look, how we eat, how we breathe, why we think ahead, how we might have begun the rather uniquely human process of mentalism (being able to understand from someone else's point of view) - McDougall uses the paradigm of persistence hunting to tell us who we are.
(Here's a link to a youtube video of a persistence hunt by the Kudu, narrated by Attenborough himself - well worth a look!)
After reading Born to Run, I bought myself some VibramFiveFingers and started running again. I'm not the best runner, but I've noticed since stopping wheat and milk (except butter), I never get stitches in my side anymore. I used to get them with nearly every run, no matter how hard or long I trained. They tended to go away after about 30 minutes, so as long as I could "power through" the pain at the beginning, I could get in a nice long run. One doesn't get through medical school and residency without a bit of tolerance for unpleasantness and pain. It doesn't necessarily make you wise, but it may make you tough. The other day my husband made pizza, and (moderation being my motto - I have wheat maybe twice a month), I had a few slices. The next morning, I couldn't do my usual sprints - stitches in my side! Remarkable, that. Don't know if it is the wheat or the cheese. Butter seems to not have the same effect. But I've digressed.
I don't do too many long runs anymore. I try to work out most days a week, but it is mostly weights, sprints, long walks or hikes, and the occasional 5K in the neighborhood. Turns out that long, hard runs (or any long, hard cardio workout, such as a hard-going 115 minute spin class) may be bad for you.
I know. It is hard to fathom. I even looked at the studies a few times before I believed them. Here's one of them. Here's an article about another. Turns out, a lot of marathon runners have crappy, plaque-filled coronary arteries. I'm no radiologist. But Kurt Harris is, and his blog post (and the follow up is here) explains the studies better than I ever could.
My mother had a copy of Aerobics for Women
by Kenneth Cooper. Mrs. Cooper writes a lot of the book (I suppose to make it more accessible to women), and she describes how, in the 60s, no one exercised, and her husband Dr. Cooper was the neighborhood freak who loved to jog. The conventional wisdom at the time was that exercise was probably bad for you. (The book also had an exercise program for the "young, dating girl" that counted Friday night's dancing date as part of your points for the week. I should watch more Mad Men).
So is exercise bad for you? Aren't we born to run?
No, and yes, but not born to run long distances very fast. Mark Sisson explains all of this very well in his terrific book, The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
Chris McDougall in Born to Run reports on a persistence hunt where the runners went 10 minute miles. 10 minute miles aren't too fast for hearty, healthy people who run their whole life long. Mark Sisson breaks it down so that for any "chronic cardio" the best thing is to keep your heart rate below 75% maximum (in general, 220 minus your age X 0.75). For most of us, that means a leisurely bike ride, a brisk walk, or a light jog. Chronic hard cardio raises cortisol, stress, and inflammation. Evolutionary Psychiatry is all about anti-inflammation.
Exercise is good for the psyche! No question (1). Regular, 5 times a week moderate exercise caused the remission of mild or moderate depressive symptoms in 42% of those who did it for 12 weeks. Here's another well-known study from 2000. From an evolutionary medicine perspective, we are meant to move.
Does exercise help you lose weight? Well, "chronic cardio" probably doesn't (also, it's not good for you). We tend to eat more to offset the exercise that we do. High intensity interval training (HIIT) definitely does help fat loss (2), and weight training increases muscle mass (thus increases the metabolism and aids in fat loss). Hikes and walks are excellent for the soul, and the more "basic" fitness (the more time you spend walking and hiking, etc.), the more you can push very hard on those once or twice a week sprints to maximize the fat loss. Just steer clear of the chronic, hard-going cardio. Or keep it to a few times a month. Suffering may be good in moderation.
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?I love that book. McDougall manages to populate the narrative with a whole cast of wacky, real-life ultrarunning characters. While doing so, he traces the roots of the human race as persistence hunters. Before we invented guns and spear-throwers and whatnot, we ran our prey down. We have the ability to keep up with and surpass (to the point of exhaustion) a horse, an antelope, any herd animal, over the long haul. The way we look, how we eat, how we breathe, why we think ahead, how we might have begun the rather uniquely human process of mentalism (being able to understand from someone else's point of view) - McDougall uses the paradigm of persistence hunting to tell us who we are.
(Here's a link to a youtube video of a persistence hunt by the Kudu, narrated by Attenborough himself - well worth a look!)
After reading Born to Run, I bought myself some VibramFiveFingers and started running again. I'm not the best runner, but I've noticed since stopping wheat and milk (except butter), I never get stitches in my side anymore. I used to get them with nearly every run, no matter how hard or long I trained. They tended to go away after about 30 minutes, so as long as I could "power through" the pain at the beginning, I could get in a nice long run. One doesn't get through medical school and residency without a bit of tolerance for unpleasantness and pain. It doesn't necessarily make you wise, but it may make you tough. The other day my husband made pizza, and (moderation being my motto - I have wheat maybe twice a month), I had a few slices. The next morning, I couldn't do my usual sprints - stitches in my side! Remarkable, that. Don't know if it is the wheat or the cheese. Butter seems to not have the same effect. But I've digressed.
I don't do too many long runs anymore. I try to work out most days a week, but it is mostly weights, sprints, long walks or hikes, and the occasional 5K in the neighborhood. Turns out that long, hard runs (or any long, hard cardio workout, such as a hard-going 115 minute spin class) may be bad for you.
I know. It is hard to fathom. I even looked at the studies a few times before I believed them. Here's one of them. Here's an article about another. Turns out, a lot of marathon runners have crappy, plaque-filled coronary arteries. I'm no radiologist. But Kurt Harris is, and his blog post (and the follow up is here) explains the studies better than I ever could.
My mother had a copy of Aerobics for Women
by Kenneth Cooper. Mrs. Cooper writes a lot of the book (I suppose to make it more accessible to women), and she describes how, in the 60s, no one exercised, and her husband Dr. Cooper was the neighborhood freak who loved to jog. The conventional wisdom at the time was that exercise was probably bad for you. (The book also had an exercise program for the "young, dating girl" that counted Friday night's dancing date as part of your points for the week. I should watch more Mad Men). So is exercise bad for you? Aren't we born to run?
No, and yes, but not born to run long distances very fast. Mark Sisson explains all of this very well in his terrific book, The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
Chris McDougall in Born to Run reports on a persistence hunt where the runners went 10 minute miles. 10 minute miles aren't too fast for hearty, healthy people who run their whole life long. Mark Sisson breaks it down so that for any "chronic cardio" the best thing is to keep your heart rate below 75% maximum (in general, 220 minus your age X 0.75). For most of us, that means a leisurely bike ride, a brisk walk, or a light jog. Chronic hard cardio raises cortisol, stress, and inflammation. Evolutionary Psychiatry is all about anti-inflammation. Exercise is good for the psyche! No question (1). Regular, 5 times a week moderate exercise caused the remission of mild or moderate depressive symptoms in 42% of those who did it for 12 weeks. Here's another well-known study from 2000. From an evolutionary medicine perspective, we are meant to move.
Does exercise help you lose weight? Well, "chronic cardio" probably doesn't (also, it's not good for you). We tend to eat more to offset the exercise that we do. High intensity interval training (HIIT) definitely does help fat loss (2), and weight training increases muscle mass (thus increases the metabolism and aids in fat loss). Hikes and walks are excellent for the soul, and the more "basic" fitness (the more time you spend walking and hiking, etc.), the more you can push very hard on those once or twice a week sprints to maximize the fat loss. Just steer clear of the chronic, hard-going cardio. Or keep it to a few times a month. Suffering may be good in moderation.
