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Author: glunky...266.249.165
Date: 04-11-03 13:08
A number of posts on this site lately have been somewhat contradictory about losing weight and exercising. To help clear this up for me, I have a couple questions I'm curious about:
1. If you are consuming at least 500 cals less than what your body needs to maintain a normal lifestyle and you are not exercising a lot (say 3 times/week if lucky for 20-45 min), will you still lose weight? And if not, why??
2. It has been mentioend over and over that you must eat something after working out, particularly after lifing weights. Why? What would happen if you didn't eat anything?
Thanks all,
Niki
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Author: BFL Michelle
Date: 04-11-03 13:20
The way I understand it, even if you were not excersicing at all and consuming 500 less calories than your maintenance level, you will still lose 1 pound per week.
On #2, that is a GymMachine question.
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Author: Stephy
Date: 04-11-03 13:22
im on the lesser cals a day and not as much exercise and im losing pretty well, 2 lbs down from monday when im nakedBFL Michelle wrote:
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Author: melve 172/151/130
Date: 04-11-03 13:37
On the first part of your question, you will lose. I consume 1200 calorie during the week and most weeks I only exercise 3-4 times. My workouts tend to last 30-45 minutes unless I'm on the elliptical where it only last for 20 minutes. This week, I have only managed to exercise yesterday and I have still gone down in weight. So yes it is very possibly to lose weight while only exercising 3 times a week for 20 min. When exercising for only 20 minutes, people tend to do interval training which burns sometimes just as much as a steady pace routine of 30-45 minutes.
To answer your second question, you need to eat something after a weight training session to replace lost glycogen.
melve
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Author: miranda 230/151/140
Date: 04-11-03 14:15
I lost most of my weight with virtually no exercise. As long as you achieve a calorie deficit, it doesn't matter whether it comes from diet, exercise, or a combination of both. It's just healther to exercise (I'm trying to reform).
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Author: GymMachine
Date: 04-11-03 19:09
yeah everyones right, if you eat less you will still lose weight...and as miranda said its to replace lost glycogen...the biggest mistake here is that people drink a shake in milk...milk takes a very long time for the stomach to digest and you wont replace your glyocgen in a hurry...better off with water with the shake...add a carb source, (even if its a few teaspoons of sugar!) too...doesnt have to be a whole darn meal or anything but something sugary basically (but no fruit- again most of that is low glycemic....)
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Author: Shari 250/174/125
Date: 04-12-03 05:00
It all boils down to what works for you. We share here not what are absolute do's or don'ts of dieting, but rather suggestions...and what has worked with us.
For example, I eat late at night, some on this site would say that's a HUGE no-no, but, I've lost 76 pounds doing it - it works for me.
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Author: mary
Date: 04-12-03 07:44
Me too! I don't eat any starchy carbs during the day, so that I can eat them at night. I always try to choose something healthy though; like Bubberlicious Light popcorn or Whole Grain cereals and toast. Works for me, too!
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