Diet Fitness Questions and Answers
Metabolife?
Has anyone used these pills and were they an effective supplement to promote weight loss along with a proper diet and exercise routine?Answers: Do more exerciseing and less eating, also try breaking a sweat. Good luck (A fiber diet might help)
Can i gain at least 50 pounds by may 08?
im 5'6 145 pounds and i want to get at 200 pounds to go to the extreme,im doing this now because i will be a senior next year and
im transforming my body mostly for my future.
i worked out 2 years ago but then i got lazy
now i want to change up good
if i get a bowflex home gym will i change in time if i stay motivated and healthy?
(oh yeah GNC store is down the street)
Answers: Hi,
Yes you can gain 50 pounds by May 2008. To gain weight pl. change your eating plan. Make sure that you do not suffer from underlying illnesses that cause weight loss or hamper weight gain and that other important factors such as medications, depression, or anxiety are not preventing you from gaining weight.
If you have a clean bill of physical and mental health, the solution to underweight is to ingest more energy on a daily basis than you use up for physiological processes and physical activity.
This means that you must eat more at each meal and have healthy snacks between meals. If necessary, take a meal supplement like Ensure or Fresubin with fibre or one of the Nestle products such as Nutren Fibre between meals every day.
High-energy diet for the underweight
Here is an example of a diet that will provide you with sufficient energy to assist with weight gain:
Foods that should be included every day:
Full-cream milk: 750 - 1000 ml (3 to 4 cups)
Meat, fish, eggs and other protein foods: 3-5 servings (90 to 150 g)
Bread and cereals: 8-12 servings (e.g. up to 6 cups of starch a day)
Fruit and vegetables: 3-5 servings
Fats and oils: 90 g (6 tablespoons)
Healthy desserts: 1-2 servings
Menu
Before breakfast:
1 cup of tea or coffee with full-cream milk, 2 t of sugar and 2 biscuits
Breakfast:
Fruit or fruit juice (1 orange or 1 glass of orange juice)
Cereal with milk and sugar (1/2 cup of breakfast cereal or porridge, with ½ cup of full-cream milk and 2 t of sugar or honey, or 1 tablespoon of raisins)
Boiled egg or bacon or sausage (fry bacon or sausage in non-stick pan)
Wholewheat toast or roll with butter and jam (1-2 slices of toast or rolls with 30g polyunsaturated margarine and 1-2 tablespoons of jam, honey or marmalade)
Beverage (1 cup of coffee or tea with full-cream milk and 2 t of sugar)
Morning tea:
Milky drink (cappuccino made with ½ cup of full-cream milk and 2 t sugar)
or
Smoothy (process full-cream milk with fruit and honey in 1 glass – see recipe tips below)
or
Fruit juice with snack (1 glass of fruit juice with 30 g peanuts or dried fruit or an energy bar)
Lunch:
Soup (1/2 cup)
Meat, fish or poultry (120 g portion)
Potato (1 large potato or sweet potato, or rice or pasta)
Vegetable or salad with dressing (1/2 cup of cooked vegetables or ½ cup of salad with 1 T of salad dressing or mayonnaise)
Pudding (1/2 cup of boiled, sweetened or canned fruit with 1 scoop of ice cream or ½ cup of custard)
Roll with butter and cheese (1 whole-wheat roll or 2-3 whole-wheat biscuits with 2 t polyunsaturated margarine and 30g of cheese)
Beverage (1 cup of coffee or tea with full-cream milk and 2 t of sugar)
Afternoon tea:
Sandwiches with filling (2 slices of whole-wheat bread with 2 t polyunsaturated margarine and 2 T peanut butter or cream cheese with chopped nuts or egg mayonnaise)
or
Cake or biscuits (1 slice of cheese cake or 2-3 chocolate digestive biscuits)
Tea with milk and sugar (1 cup of tea with full-cream milk and 2 t of sugar)
Supper:
Fruit juice (1 glass)
Meat or fish or cheese or eggs (90 g portion or 1-2 eggs)
Vegetable or salad with dressing (1/2 cup of cooked vegetables or ½ cup of salad with 1 T of salad dressing or mayonnaise)
Starch (1/2 cup of cooked rice or pasta or potato)
Pudding (1/2 cup of rice or tapioca pudding or ready-to eat puddings or 2 scoops of ice cream)
Beverage (1 cup of coffee or tea with full-cream milk and 2 t of sugar)
Bedtime:
Milk drink (1 cup of Milo or Ovaltine made with full-cream milk) Biscuits (2-3 biscuits)
Nutrient composition
The diet outlined above should provide 12 600 to 14 700 kJ or 3000 to 3500 cal a day, and 100 to 120 g of protein. All other nutrients are provided.
It is estimated that a person eating this diet would gain 1 to 1,5 kg per week.
Tips for making smoothies
To make delicious smoothies, use the following:
1-2 fruits (peeled apples or mashed bananas, mixed with 1 T of lemon juice to prevent fruit from discolouring, or apricots, mangoes or fresh berries, or any other fruit in season)
1 cup of full-cream milk
2 T whole-milk powder
2 t sugar or honey
Place ingredients in blender. Blend till smooth and serve ice cold.
My favourite smoothy:
1 ripe avocado (peel, remove pip and mash with 1 T lemon juice to prevent discolouration)
1 cup of full-cream milk
2 t honey
Place ingredients in blender. Blend till smooth, chill till ice cold and serve with a pinch of nutmeg on top.
Enjoy Life
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What''s your favorite cardio exercise?
For me it's boxing conditioning and jump rope, how about you?Answers: Spin class. Love it
Tae Bo
Women - would you work really hard to be a size 10?
For the last 10 years I've mostly been a size 10. I've had to work at this - spent a LOT of evenings over the years going to bed with a rumbly tummy!! I remember being obsessed with food and I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was going ot eat.Since I moved in with my partner I've relaxed a bit (like you do) and have been a size 12. I still exercise regularly and eat heathily (have a much more varied diet than when I lived on my own). I think my natural body weight/shape is to be a 12 - I really have to work at being any smaller.
I'm torn between thinking I've let myself go, and then I think there is a LOT more to life to worry about.
Do any of you work really hard to be a size smaller than you naturally would be? Is it worth it?
Answers: There is a big difference between a healthy size 12, and an unhealthy size 12 and from the sounds of it you are a very healthy size 12. You still excercise regularly and eat well, and from the sounds of it you are okay with the size that you are.
If you are happy with your body the way it is, why bust your *** to get one size down?
You haven't by any means "let yourself go". If your body wants to maintain itself at a healthy size 12, let it, and be happy with it.
A few summers ago I really worked my butt off and was down to a size that is probably one smaller than what my "natural" size would be, but it was just too hard to maintain. I am perfectly happy being a size 12 right now.
Im a size 8 to 10 and 5ft 6. I know its right for me. I feel comfortable and i feel good. I earned it because I power walk 7km a day and am generally very active. I don't worry about food all the time. I just eat three healthy meas a day. I don't want to be a dress size smaller than size 8 because otherwise i'd look really skinny.
Yoga??
Does it really work to tone your body like it says?I heard its like cardio and toning at the same time?
Is that true, and if so,, where can I find a good video or book?
Answers: You can look out videos on youtube, I would recommend looking at pilates for your goals, also browse youtube, if you like doing that kind of thing then you can look into getting a dvd.
i did that MTV yoga workout tape during highschool and it help a lot with my lower back pain and with pms!! and it did tone.
Gymnasts...?
I would love to learn how to do a front and back walkover. I can easily do a crab/bridge and i can do handstands. i can do the handstands where u go up and then lower down in a laying position. i can do cartwheels and round-offs. I am not that flexible thouugh i am doing 10 minutes of stretching every morning and night to get myself supple.1) are front walkovers easier than back?
2) Are front splits easier than side?
3) which stretches do i need to focus on to do a successful walkover?
Love Tinks xoxox
Answers: 1. front is easier for beginners as you can get up momentum by running, and the whole thing happens faster and requires less strength and skill
2. front splits are easier for most people
3. you need to do a lot of bridges, working up your flexibility by gradually walking your hands and feet closer together. i.e. start off with your hands and feet at the normal distance apart then trying to get them as close together as possible.
when doing your first few back walkovers, you need a strong person or an adult to support your back, so that you don't collapse and land on your head. as you get stronger you will be able to do this without them
also don't try to do a back walkover all at once. practise the leaning back from standing into a bridge, and the kick over seperately. that way you'll get stronger. when you can do both parts, do it all together
you can practise kicking over by doing a bridge next to a bed or wall and walking your feet up the wall, then kicking off. rather than doing it straight off the floor. it's easier. good luck! xxx
Onions giving me bad belly?
I *love* to eat onions but i'm finding my gut is feeling strange when i eat them, like acidy or something. Makes me feel like i need to use the toilet too. Any idea why this is happening?Answers: Onions create a lot of gas in your tummy.
A metabolic question?
What slow down your metabolic rateWhat speed up your metabolic rate
Answers: Hi Moodyjamz,
The most significant contributor to your metabolic rate is muscle mass. More specifically, when we add muscle fiber, or their constituent parts, muscle filaments.
Filaments are tiny strands, just like the filament in your average light bulb. In order to increase your metabolic rate, I'm talking about maximizing the number of muscle fiber filaments.
Here’s why.
These tiny strands of muscle each carry a powerful calorie-burning furnace within them. Your body manufactures thousands of these filaments after each productive workout. Now imagine how fast fat would melt off your body if you were adding thousands of these fat burning furnaces each day?
Another great booster of the metabolic rate is an intense workout. Not because of the calories burned during the workout, but because of the "afterburn".
Afterburn is essentially the several hours after the workout that metabolic rate is raised, due to the body's natural processes of protein synthesis and repair.
As far as slowing down your metabolic rate- the worst offender would be simply not eating. After about 4-5 hours of low blood glucose from not having a steady supply of nutrients, the body enters starvation mode.
I'll spare you the scientific explanations and simply say, the body, in it's wisdom, slows metabolic rate for survival.
Another offender that slows down metabolic rate is long distance cardio type activity. Marathons, etc..
The reason is it simply saps muscle fiber. Muscle fiber is consumed as fuel for the body, and the less muscle you have, the lower your metabolic rate.
If you're interested in more, I wrote a full explanation in my article "How to turn your body into a fat burning furnace". I'll leave a link to it below.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me at that site, as it's my home page.
Mike Collins
Diet pills?
i was just wondering if any one knew good diet pills that work but are also safe ive gained arounf 3o pounds and i gotta lose it quick help lolAnswers: For me acomplia has been the best. phentermine also showed good results, but i started to get addicted and it had way too nasty side effects.
happy not to have any sides with acomplia so far.
I am losing a pound or few every week.
It is very popular in UK, Germany and many other countries worldwide. Not so much in the US yet.
This is good site for Acomplia info if anyone's interested
http://www.acomplia-rimonabant-online.ne...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsPCTGyuf...
Hoodia is good if you get the genuine article. Here's a good review site:
http://www.weight-chart.org/hoodia-revie...
This Hoodia company currently offers free samples:
http://www.weight-chart.org/hoodiaxppc.h...
Hi. I've used phentramine and lost 25 pounds in 5 weeks. But I also worked hard in gym.
I really need some help?
I need to know if its ok to take whey protein and hydroxycut at the same time..i work out 5 days a week, and have been taking hydroxycut, but i just added whey to my supplements...need to know if they'll affect each others purpose?Answers: Nope, whey will not interfere with you fat burner. Whey just provides nutrition to the muscle. The fat burner just mobilizes the fat so you can burn it better during exercise.
Whats a good weight for me?
i weigh 119 and im 17 and im 5'3. how much weight should i lose? i was thinking 10 pounds, does this sound good? i don't want to look anorexic though. thanksAnswers: I dont suggest losing wieght at how slim you already are. if you really want to you can, but i think 109 lbs for a 17 yr old is extremely light! I suggest building some muscle, so you dont have to lose fat to get six pack abs, you just have to work at it. just try to build muscles.
I have the same type of problem as you.
I weigh 109 pounds and I'm 5"3 too.
My stats are 32c-24-30, so I don't really look anorexic, like you said haha :)
Hope I helped :)
What's ya bad habbit THAT YOU REALLY want quit,, but then you can't? [[-_-]]?
Answers: eating alot and sleeping after work
SMOKING .... part of me wants to quit but not the biggest part ... if i could get a shot to make me stop i would in a heartbeat