Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us
Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network
Home
Discussion GroupsGeneral TopicsLow CarbWeightWatchers
WeightAdviser.com
Contact UsLink To UsSearch & Site Map

Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / August 2010

Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database.

Are You Caught Up In A Cycle Of Fat Loss & Fitness Confusion?

Thread view: 
Enable EMail Alerts  Start New Thread
Thread rating: 
john - 29 Aug 2010 05:56 GMT
As a member of a popular fitness center for a few years, I noticed
countless others frustrated with their fat burning exercise routines
and eating practices, working so hard and long but with virtually no
improvement to show for it.

Several of my own friends and relatives would mention this new program
or product they had just shelled out cash for that was the answer to
their fat loss or fitness goals. They were so excited about it and
couldn’t wait to get started.

Then, a few weeks later, the same happy-go-lucky people that were once
jumping with joy about their new plan to burn fat and get a new body
became downright discouraged. It was hard to watch.

I’d ask them how their fat burning plan was working and they’d tell me
that it seemed pretty good at first, but they didn’t get the results
they were expecting or they felt were promised. They quickly became
tired of following the daily workouts and found following the strict
eating guidelines almost maddening at times. So they hopped onto the
next plan.

Even worse, they became so frustrated with following these so-called
exercise gurus’ programs, that they fell even deeper into unhealthy
eating habits once they stopped the program. Binging became their only
form of satisfaction. Forget about maximum fat burning, and talk about
moving in the wrong direction.

What’s worse is that all of these people were following the typically
recommended exercise and fad diets that were all the rage. They were
doing what everyone else was doing to burn fat fast.

After speaking with many of these friends and inquiring about their
exercise routines, I noticed one common theme that kept popping up in
our discussions…they were focused on the short term…their approach was
wrong. They weren't thinking of lifelong health and fitness, but
instead they were thinking about burning fat and getting in shape for
“swimsuit season”.

More specifically, they were also performing their exercise in a less
than optimal manner. And then I noticed this with many others at the
fitness center I worked out in. They just seemed to lack the fire or
intensity in their fat burning workouts which I knew could turn their
programs from nothing to something literally overnight.

But you know, you can hardly blame them, and you certainly shouldn’t
blame yourself if you’ve fallen into the cycle of fad exercise and
diet programs. We all want to achieve what we know in our hearts we’re
capable of so badly, and that’s why we’re such easy prey to this “get
fit quick” mentality.

Most people are approaching health and fitness in the exact opposite
way that they should be, and they're not going to burn fat because of
it. If you continually think of using exercise and nutrition as ways
to lose a couple of pounds, or get in shape for summer, you're going
to be disappointed with your results.

If you think of exercise, nutrition, and rest as separate things,
you're going to be disappointed with your fat burning and fitness
results. If you think you need to spend hours a week in the gym or
adhere to some strange unnatural eating strategy, you're going to be
disappointed with your results.

What all of these approaches will do, is put you into the fat burning
and fitness cycle of confusion that so many are stuck in these days.
If instead, you choose to forget what you thought you knew, and start
off with the right approach, the approach that focuses on making
changes in your lifestyle long term, you'll instantly improve your
results by 1000%.

When your approach includes combining proper exercise that takes very
little of your time, nutrition the way nature intended you to eat that
is simple to understand and follow, and the rest and recovery that is
vital to lifelong vitality and energy, you'll experience an awakening
of both body and mind. Plus you'll burn more fat, too.

If you choose the path most often taken by those looking to improve
upon them selves, you'll most likely end up like most of them.
Confused, frustrated, unhappy, burnt out, injured, sick, or worse. Did
I mention very uhappy with their fat burning progress as well?

Instead, you can choose to embrace a lifestyle that includes brief,
progressive, and intense resistance training, eating a diet full of
nutrient rich foods, drinking tons of water, and getting plenty of
quality sleep and rest. But know that when you do so, you'll be
joining the select few who understand that one of the true secrets to
life long fat burning and fitness is not found on a fad diet or in a
bottle on the shelf of your local health store.
Fat Burning Exercises For Women
http://www.fatburningexercisesforwomen.blogspot.com
Billy - 29 Aug 2010 07:10 GMT
In article
<4de6e8e1-d5cc-4c96-9bca-cf1178bdab96@g17g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Wonderful news ladies. Another guy to tell you how to get it right.
Woo-hoo!

For women, there is no relationship between cholesterol levels and
cardiovascular disease, so we are talkin' vanity, and nothin' else.
If you want to knock yourself out for vanity (to be the way the media
says you should be), go for it. Kick back, or be proactive, it's your
life, do what you need to do. My sweety was thin (20), now she's not
(60), but she's still my sweety :O) Just try not to take it too
seriously.

Cardiovascular disease is usually characterized by low HDL,and high
triglycerides. This is caused by carbohydrates. High HDL and low
triglycerides are characterized by low carbs, and a high fat diet.

<http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033
462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271102831&sr=1-1>

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science
of Diet and Health (Vintage) (Paperback)
~ Gary Taubes

Available at better libraries near you.

> As a member of a popular fitness center for a few years, I noticed
> countless others frustrated with their fat burning exercise routines
[quoted text clipped - 85 lines]
> Fat Burning Exercises For Women
> http://www.fatburningexercisesforwomen.blogspot.com
Signature

- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

Walter Bushell - 29 Aug 2010 22:43 GMT
In article
<wildbilly-F944FC.23101028082010@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au>,

> For women, there is no relationship between cholesterol levels and
> cardiovascular disease, so we are talkin' vanity, and nothin' else.

Ability to move and keep up with other people is another reason,
carrying around a big load of fat drains energy.

Signature

All BP's money, and all the President's men,
Cannot put the Gulf of Mexico together again.

Billy - 30 Aug 2010 00:50 GMT
> In article
> <wildbilly-F944FC.23101028082010@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au>,
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Ability to move and keep up with other people is another reason,
> carrying around a big load of fat drains energy.

"Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)" by Marya Hornbacher
<http://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Memoir-Anorexia-Bulimia-P-S/dp/0060858796/r
ef=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283125220&sr=1-1>

According to Ms. Hornbacher, it takes the average woman about 20 seconds
of looking at a fashion magazine to feel shame, guilt, and self loathing.
We can't have the media showing us reality, without it shaping reality.
Men can have the baldest head, and the biggest gut, and get on
television, and nobody thinks about it. But if a woman doesn't look like
a fashion mannequin, she will have troubles with ratings.

Face it. We have a double standard in this country about appearance.
Signature

- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

Billy - 30 Aug 2010 01:07 GMT
> In article
> <wildbilly-F944FC.23101028082010@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au>,
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Ability to move and keep up with other people is another reason,
> carrying around a big load of fat drains energy.
You must be responding to me and not the diet ad.
Read the copy again. It wasn't targeting obesity.
The ad was targeting healthy women who have been told that they must be
thinner. The whole scam is sick.
Signature

- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html

Doug Freyburger - 30 Aug 2010 16:19 GMT
> After speaking with many of these friends and inquiring about their
> exercise routines, I noticed one common theme that kept popping up in
> our discussions…they were focused on the short term…their approach was
> wrong. They weren't thinking of lifelong health and fitness, but
> instead they were thinking about burning fat and getting in shape for
> “swimsuit season”.

Then they switched to low carbing, started posting here, and ended up
still regualrs ten years later.  Because, as you would have known had
you not been a spammer, low carbing is long term.
 
Sign In
Join
My Latest Posts
My Monitored Threads
My Blog
My Photo Gallery
My Profile
My Homepage

Start New Thread
Enable EMail Alerts
Rate this Thread



©2012 Advenet LLC   Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.