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Spring Weight Loss Drive

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Doesn't salsa have a ton of salt already mixed in with the vegetables?
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If it's store bought, yes. If you make it yourself from canned tomatoes, yes. Either way, if it's from something with preservitives added, the sodium will probably be off the charts (1000mg or more), and I think it's fair to say that any football fan worth his salt (no pun intended) eats more than one 'serving' of salsa ... Which is what(?), probably two tablespoons over 14 chips?

If you make it yourself, what are you putting in it? Garlic powder (sodium)? Onion powder (more sodium)? Season salt (obscene amount of sodium)?
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Pussy.
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Homo.
 
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Thump said:
Doesn't salsa have a ton of salt already mixed in with the vegetables?
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I buy mine by the case from a guy who comes to the local farmer's market. I don't think he has much salt in it, and there aren't any preservatives.

edit - I got my last empty jar back before the recyclers came, to check on the ingredients. Tomatoes, onions, peppers (all kinds, including habaneros), water, vinegar, salt, garlic, cumin, molasses, spices, calcium chloride, citric acid. It says 140 mg of salt per serving, so if I down the whole pint I get 90% of the sodium and 90% of the daily vitamin C.
 
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Mrs. AKAK : "I think I lost 7 pounds!"

AKAK: "Look behind you, you'll find it."

Okay that didn't really happen... I'm not dead.


Anyway...

I obviously haven't been around as much of late.... and I just caught up with this thread... I guess I wouldn't have gotten in on this game anyway, but congratulations to everyone who's taking off the weight.

Just from personal experience... I'd like to throw a couple items out there in the event they help anyone.

First thing is that I'm shocked by the wide varieties of bad diets you guys have. :wink2: Mine is terrible... but I haven't been to McDonald's-- with the exception of being on toll road and not having a choice, once-- in probably 6 years... and I don't really drink soda... diet sometimes, but I'm not a big fan of that, unless you count Tonic Water, Club Soda, or Bitter Lemon... which I drink in small quantities... per cocktail. But Alas... I do drink somehting on the order of 4 metric Tons of Beer per week... so... there you go. Anyway, enough on bad eating habits... its been covered here.. and pretty well.

Anyway... I go about 6'1'' and 230 or 235 (I only check once a month or so).... as a reference, I plaed HS soccer at 190ish and graduated at about 200.... at age 27 I topped out at about 260... and tried dieting for a while and that was good to keep 10 or so pounds off... but didn't do much else because I was in such bad shape... Like most of you.. I sit at a desk all day long... and my bad (much worse than now) eating habits from college... (Which were made worse by the fact that I could buy more food)...plus sitting around all day at work (I had worked outside- Golf Course- before that) were on its way to killing me...

Anyhow... I weigh 25 or 30 pounds less (at age 32) and as gbear will tell you, I'm not a picture of athleticism... but I feel good....

Anyway... here's the stuff I focused on (or more importantly didn't)...

1. Don't get caught up in numbers on the scale. I know this is a weight loss drive but the like "nola said... water weight fluctuates a lot, and like Grad said.. there's nothing better than the belt test. (Also... because of the water retention thing... the first 8-12 pounds you lose are almost freebies... it gets a LOT harder after that) Anyway... my point is, if you're improving your fitness level, YOU WILL KNOW... if you are some who NEEDS to have stats... I'd go the extra mile and do one of the body mass tests.

2. You have to excercise. Period. I'm not going to tell you how, or how much... but for me.... 3 times a week was "break even" and the 4th time was the one that staerted to really change y body compostion (weight loss)... now... by 3 times a week... that meant for me... 1 time of heavier weight training and lighter cardio (about 1.5 hrs total) 1 Medium each (1.5 hours total and one all cardio (1 hour)... nothing earth shattering. Obviously you don't have to go to the gym or whatever... just put the time in. Start with wahtever you can, too... But the weight training is essential to build some or tone your muscles to use them as a boost for you metabolism.. I mean, do you want to use cardio and sweat your nuts off for every calorie... Or do you want to burn more in your sleep?

Also... vary your excercise/workouts... I'm lucky enough to belong to a gym with a pool... so I swim once a week... I play soccer on Saturdays (That's a nice '80 minutes of hell' fitness base)... so this time of year, with mowing the lawn, I just have to work in a little bit of weight training and a bit more cardio... but try different stuff...

3. This is going to take the rest of your life. Its bad because you'll always have this hanging over your head... (unless you're a CB6 type... but I'm assuming most people on this thread are here for a reason) but its also good because you have to worry more about being more fit and less about losing 20 pounds in the next month- which will lead to burnout. (I know.. if you are getting married or somehting... its a different story.... and I've been there)


My philosophy now is always, "It might be nice to lose 5 more pounds..." but I don't worry about it that much... I'm just aware that I don't want that 5 to become 10.
 
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Weight Loss Working Great

i have been dieting since feb 18 and i started out at 200lbs and as of today june 7 i am at 162lbs. i have done it just watching my calories and fat grams. it was hard for the first week and a half, but after that its pretty easy. i still eat double fish sandwiches and fries from mcdonalds and hamburgers and stuff, but i also eat alot of salads and i found oscar meyer had great lunch meats with only 1 gram of fat for 5 slices. that is a lot of meat for a good sandwich. i also cut out reg pop for diet pop and a lot of water. results keep getting better
 
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Very similar to my story... I'm 5'10" and when my body fat was the lowest I was around 170 during soccer season (I was in very good shape, and a humorous sidenote was that I utilized that to practice holding my breath when spanish class got extra boring... made it to 2.5 min a few times)

Tennis allowed me to soften up some, and then playing tennis at college added a little extra weight and muscle... It's a sport where you have to be in shape, but you can get by with a lot looser definition of that word than sports like soccer or basketball...

Now after two years of not playing tennis, I'm flirting with 200.

Got that done to 195ish, but it most likely is a lot of water loss too. Hoping to get down to around 180-185 as a good lounging weight.
 
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I'm down about 8 pounds now, I've done it by eating less and continuing to exercise. For years I've been drinking water instead of pop.
 
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As a trainer, I always buy the "in" videos to see if they are decent as well as to steal material from, well I bought the new Billy Blank's Boot Camp and my abs hurt like HELL after doing the abs one. Might have had something to do with the class I had just taught but might have been the exercises I have never done too. The tape is a bit cheesy, to say the least, but it was a good workout. If you want to know the exercises let me know. Now that it is getting hotter, everyone needs to drink MORE water. So if you were drinking half your body weight in ounces (YOU SHOULD BE), now you need to drink half of the half on top. (i.e. 200lbs person, normally drink 100 oz now drink 150 oz.) If you work outside drink your weight in ounces a day. If you think you are thirsty, you are already headed to dehydration. It can lead to tiredness, dizziness, nausea, constipation...just to name a few side effects.
 
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Here's my update...

I was smaller than I thought when I got my gym membership. I measured in at 6-1, 165 lbs and 10% body fat on April 6th.

I just got my latest progress report and I am 6-1, 184 and I managed to drop to 9% body fat. All my friends can tell that I've gotten considerably bigger. All my lifting stats have skyrocketed as well.

I've managed to pull it off on 3-4 large meals a day, supplements and a protein/glutamine/creatine shake after workouts. For breakfast I eat eggs, oatmeal and apple juice. For lunch I have whatever is at the cafeteria (usually meat, pasta, veggie, soft pretzel and drink). For supper I will sometimes go out to eat and get a couple chicken burgers or I will cook a couple of steaks myself. I've been addiced to eating Slim Jims as a snack, I've gone through countless barrels of those things...haha.

Anyway, now I am trying to get rid of what excess fat I have on my midsection. In high-school, I didn't have fat anywhere on me...but my eight-pack has dissapeared because of my inactivity and my hate for ab-exercises. I think I'm going to stop gaining for a little while and just maintain my weight under 190 and try to get my body fat down to about 5-6%.

Anyway...My goal was to put on 15-25 pounds, and I'm there!
 
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If you want to minimize the midsection but don't want to do crunches. Start taking kickboxing, and I don't mean a class of kickboxing at a fitness center. Find a school in the area, and take classes. My other half started in April and loves it. It has shrunk his midsection quite a lot.

Or you could have sex 3 times a week, female on top. Instead of laying back and doing nothing but fantasizing about Carmen Electra, lift your head and shoulders up toward her. I am sure you can find something near your face to draw your attention away from the agony in your abdominal region.:wink2:
 
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brutusbabe said:
If you want to minimize the midsection but don't want to do crunches. Start taking kickboxing, and I don't mean a class of kickboxing at a fitness center. Find a school in the area, and take classes. My other half started in April and loves it. It has shrunk his midsection quite a lot.

Or you could have sex 3 times a week, female on top. Instead of laying back and doing nothing but fantasizing about Carmen Electra, lift your head and shoulders up toward her. I am sure you can find something near your face to draw your attention away from the agony in your abdominal region.:wink2:
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Brutusbabe, just how 'personal' of a trainer are you willing to be? :biggrin:
 
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I don't mean to be an ass, but hasn't it been proven that
a) you can't spot reduce, situps are pointless if you have fat on top, abs are made in the kitchen?

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b) 5-6% is dangerously low for a body fat percentage?

Oh, my experience with weight loss? Find other things to spend your money on. Adriatico's will find my business with some freshman. I'm down to 140, 11% fat from 230, 26% fat in September. After the 4th, I start lifting.
 
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You are correct, you can not spot reduce but by increasing your cardio endurance as well as strengthening the muscle underneath you appear smaller in specific areas. Kickboxing isn't just about the moves it is about having the endurance to hang in the ring while someone slams you in the obliques with a knee.It will also help other areas too, AND who is really gonna complain about that?
 
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