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SlaveBlutarsky -> RE: Are BDSMers better at size acceptance? (5/21/2009 12:54:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: eyesopened
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
I hope to god you are joking because you are a beautiful woman. Anyone that thinks a size 11 is obese (unless you are 3 feet tall) needs to adjust their size-o-metre.
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ORIGINAL: sirsholly
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7 years ago I could eat a normal diet and a moderate amount of exercise and wore a size 2. Now my jeans are size 11 and I want to crawl into a hole and bury myself. I have learned from the looks I get on the street that I am hideous, awful and a waste of oxygen. I know how it feels to be hated for something I do not know how to fix. you have got to be kidding...
Oh gawd why would I bare myself and be kidding? I am 5' almost 2" with a very small frame. The only halfway bright spot is that the fat is pretty evenly distributed so I can hide somewhat but I cannot wear a bathing suit or be seen in shorts or even short-sleeved shirts. The thing is that I do what I'm supposed to about what and how much I eat and I hit the treadmill nearly every day at least a mile sometimes more and nothing happens. I can't afford to see a doctor and yes, my weight to height ratio says I am obese. I have not updated my weight on my profile because I don't want all the "why don't you just kill yourself fatty!" emails I'd get.
One of the biggest misnomers when it comes to weight loss and obesity is the 'i eat right and exercise' line.
Most people who think they eat right and exercise do both wrong. Also, six weeks is nothing when it comes to losing weight from women. Unfortunately most women have the pattern fo losing little at first and then after a certain time losing a lot, as opposed to most men who can drop 20 pounds in three weeks but then their weight loss steadies out.
If you, or anyone, on this thread really wants to lose weight, give the following four months and I guarantee you'll see results (no I'm not selling infomercials).
- Drink more water than your avg blue whale. I think they say 8 16 oz glasses a day is 'normal,' aim for more than that. Water is the most important part of your body, it's what clenses the system of toxins (kind of), it fills you up so you're not as hungry etc. etc. etc.
- Eat clean. Don't eat anything processed or that's in a can or cardboard. Anything that's processed is an empty calorie. White bread, most pasta, white rice etc are all as bad as junk food. Try to always shop on the outside of the grocery store (where all the fresh vegetables, meat, dairy etc is) and rarely venture into the middle where all the frozen/boxed/canned stuff is. A few exceptions would be stuff like whole grain pasta (barilla plus is possibly the perfect food) or canned tuna in water. if it's got basically more than five ingredients and anything you can't pronounce, don't touch it. Diet is the key to weight loss and 90% of the people who say they eat right do the exact opposite. Smart Ones or LeanCuisine or any of that other prepackaged stuff is a joke for losing. It may be okay for maintaining, but not for losing.
- Don't count calories. Counting calories is a waste of time. Read labels, but only for things like ingredients and vitamin/macronutrient content.
- Eat more protein, it fills you up and keeps/builds lean muscle.
- Eat more often. Don't eat any less than five meals a day. Even if you kept your diet you have now and instead of eating 3 meals a day, you cut each of those in to half and ate the same calories spread over 6 meals, you'd lose weight and have a higher metabolism.
- Lift weights. Even if your goal is to lose weight, building muscle is an integral part. You don't have to become arnold schwarteneggar, just put on some lean muscle mass. It helps defend your body, increases immune function, fights things like bone density loss, joint issues and actually helps you lose weight. A pound of muscle burns 50 calories more a day at rest than a pound of fat. Add ten pounds of muscle, you're automatically burning an extra five hundred calories a day at rest. When I used to play compeitive sports, I'd lose my winter weight (20-30 lbs) in 8-10 weeks without touching a single cardio machine, just lifting at a high intensity and dieting.
- If you're doing cardio, do it right. Your optimal fat burning zone is 70 percent of your target heart rate, most people think they need to be lance armstrong or jesse owens in cardio when that is the exact wrong thing to do. If you do cardio at 80% of your target heart rate or above, you will burn muscle instead of fat, which means you won't only not lose fat, you'll lose muscle, which as pointed out earlier, burns more calories at rest than fat.
Also, since most people overdo cardio, doing it right will actually allow them to do it more often with lower instances fo overtraining and injury. - Mix up your routine and diet. Your body adjusts, so you've got to keep it guessing. Throw in a day where you eat like crap every couple of weeks, change your workout routine, do different lifts/types of cardio, change the intensity etc, just to keep it interesting for you, but also keep your body guessing.
- Stretch. You'd be amazed at how much more your body can accomplish with soem additional flexibility.
- Sleep.
Like I said, anyone who does this for four months will see results, but it's hard and not as fun as the magic pill 99% of the people are looking for. Obviously I'm not a doctor, so any advice given isn't medically tested, but I've been fortunate enough to know a bunch of physical trainers and conditioning coaches along the way. Make sure that you're healthy enough to exercise and all that other disclaimer shit.
If anyone has any specific questions, please feel free to shoot me a pm.
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