Diet Fitness Questions and Answers

Flabby emergency?

I need to fit into a tux in 4 months. Im medium built and i would have no problems, except my but is huge (coming from a guy). I might get more help from the ladies, but does anyone have any excercises that consentrate especially on the glutes? Thanks!

Answers: Jogging is great for your glutes. Don't do it for more than 60min a day though or your hips might get big. Do it for 6 days a week.

Squats are great, too. Stand with your feet together, now, with either foot, take a big step to the side. Point your toes out. Hold your arms out. Now bend your knees. Keep your body waist-up firm and straight. You should not be leaning forward or backward. Do fifty of these a day.

Also, you'll have to eat a healthy and lower-calorie diet. Stay at 1800-2000, since you'll be exercising.

Good luck and I hope you get into that tux!

Can someone plz list me some fruits high in vitamins/antioxidants?

Going shopping 2 morrow=)

Answers: blueberries
strawberries
pomegranate
banannas
oranges
spinich
peppers

go for dark green veggies, esp leafy ones

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Is this to much to eat?

Today i have eaten about 14 reduced fat chips wtih 1/4 cup cheese, apple, 1 cup rice, and 4 potstickers. I ate all this at around 9 pm tonight because i haven't eated all day. I am going to gain weight
?

Answers: Hey, that is definitly not too much food ae. Try eating more in the morning and then gradually eating less towards the evening. You won't gain weight eating what you said you ate - but you may feel a bit bloated. An bud, don't worry about gaining weight because it is a waste of time! Enjoy food and life in general, because you never know when you're life will end. I've had experience in the whole dieting-gone-too-far area and you'd be a very wise person to take my advice to heart. DIETING IS A WASTE OF TIME!!

A healthy eating plan will get you to your natural body weight - that is where your body will be most healthy and happy =)

Nope
eated isnt a word

No, you won't gain weight. However, your diet is very unbalanced. Eat more vegetables and fruit and forget about cheese, potstickers and chips. Those are mostly empty calories.

thats not healthy.

you need to stabalize your matabloism to loose weight. if you just starve yourself and then eat it all in a chunk you body clings to the energy it has left and wont want to loose it.

try smaller meals more frequently during the day. and drink water.

its bad to eat everything at once, especially late at night...try to distribute it out and balance it out

Healthy breakfast recipe that actually tastes good but is low in fat?

something that I can eat at home or take on the go =P but is good for me and is low fat and isn't gross

=]

Answers: Since yogurt grosses you out, I suggest the same recipe as below, but instead of yogurt, use 1 cup of skim milk, and a couple ice cubes.

1 cup fat-free plain yogurt, blended with 1 small banana (or 1/2 of a large one) and 1/3 to 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries or strawberries. About 200 calories, decent protein, antioxidants, portable, and tastes great.

oatmeal + cinnamon + brown sugar = good.
fruit

I like egg whites, peppers and turkey cold cuts in a wrap...it tastes great and you get protein without too much fat

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Does that weight-loss tea really work??

its that special tea that can only be bought online ... how many times a day must u drink it for it to rly work??

Answers: it works in the sense that it starves you. you'll put back on the weight as soon as you get off the diet.
ask your doctor.

Average height?

in your opinion. what's the average height for a guy? :)

Answers: 5'8"

Proven in a statistically driven experiment the avg. ht. for a male is 5'10"
Travis

5'9

average height = (mom's hight + dad's height)/2

don't worry about other people's height.

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5ft8-5ft10 for males.
5ft4-5ft6 for females.

Only for the TASTE matter, which one do you like better??

Lean Cousine or Healthy Choice?

only for the TASTE matter

Answers: Lean Cuisine is better. Has more flavor and spices. Healthy Choice is ok but has no flavor.

Lean Cuisine

but I also like Smart Ones

lean cuisine

Why after I eat, I get....?

Hey Guys,

This has occurred for many years...

If I eat a high fat, high sugar and even protein diet (Burgers, Chinese, Chips, Chicken, Cakes, Shakes, nearly all take away foods) I feel wonderful and happy. I would even go as far to say… I eat to feel good rather then to eat for hunger purposes. My stomach feels a little under strain from the constant intake of food 3000 to 4000 cal.

If I choose to eat a healthy diet, of nuts, fruits, vegetables, eggs, and organic meats and water (2000 to 2500 cal)…I will have headaches and feel in pain for most of the day which goes into weeks… (Irritability, mild anxiety and even thoughts current with depression). I feel so unhappy without particular foods..

I can’t stand this way of feeling so I give in…. and choose to eat anther diet to support my mental happiness (High Fat and High Sugar).

I really like to eat a healthy diet because I feel light, healthier in my digestive areas and feel good for a short period of the day. By the afternoon, I loose it and need to eat large amounts of sugar and fats. Following this event I crash and become tired after a short lived buzz...I don’t feel stressed or irritable… I feel sedated and calm.

My headache goes away when I return to High fat and High sugar diet.

Please help me, this cycle is killing me!

Thanks.

Answers: Well, I can't give you a definite answer, because I suppose it could be a lot of things.

First, I am guessing you have developed a physical dependence on sugar. If you haven't tried to go at least three days without the high sugar diet, and you have this problem, it will seem like it is giving you a headache. When your body is accustomed to high levels of certain foods it will have ill effects on your body. You are DRASTICALLY lowering your blood sugar levels, from going to a really high point to a normal point, and that will absolutely cause headaches.

Truthfully, to feel really good, you need to slowly change your diet, and stick to it. Your body is accustomed to the way you eat, when you throw that out of whack suddenly, it will have these affects.

Plus, some of this stuff might be mental, you think you need these specific foods, they are known as "comfort foods". That will produce the irritability for certain.

As far as the giving up in the afternoon and eating foods... of course that will happen to your body! You eat lots of sugar which will give you a short term energy boost, but its not real energy so after it wears off, you crash. On top of that, high fat foods weigh you day, so you feel calm (as you describe it). After you change your diet, you will realize the best word for that is lethargic.

Your problem is sugar. You are also most likely eating the wrong kinds of fats and possibly the wrong proteins.

When you are magnesium deficient, you will crave sugars and chocolates, etc. You can become magnesium, calcium, zinc, and other mineral deficient by drinking sodas. The sodas contain phosphoric acid that binds to the minerals and depletes your body of them. The correct ratio of foods to eat is: 40% protein, 30% carbs, and 30% fats. The low fat, high carb diets are terrible for your body.

You need to make sure you are not eating ANY SOY products, unless they are fermented like soy sauce or miso. Soy is the absolute wrong protein to eat. It slows your thyroid down, decreases your testosterone levels because of the high phytoestrogen levels in soy, pollutes your body with the heavy metal Aluminum because soy has a special affinity toward absorbing Aluminum, as well as many other problems. Avoid ALL vegetable oils, except Olive Oil, Flax seed, and Walnut oil. Soybean and Canola oils are very toxic to the body and are genetically engineered.

You are not digesting your food properly or you would not be feeling the way you do after eating quality foods. Your pancreas is most likely exhausted from all the junk food and cooked foods, so you are not producing the pancreatic enzymes you need to digest your food. Your stomach acid is probably not being produced at a level that is allowing you to digest properly either, causing the proteins to putrefy, keeping your stomach from releasing the food into your intestines causing toxins to build up in your body giving you headaches, etc.

Without knowing your age or weight and looking at your specific diet, it is difficult to make great suggestions, but there are a couple assumptions I will make and then give you a few suggestions to try.

Assume you are about 180 pounds, over 25 years old to 40, in that range and are over weight, with a spare tire that is not getting smaller.

You need to proportion your diet to this ratio: 40% protein (from quality eggs, whey protein, grass fed beef, wild salmon, etc.), 30% carbs (organic vegetables & fruits), 30% fats (good quality saturated fats from Butter made from raw cream, coconut oil, and range free, grass fed cows, and fermented dairy products as well as, aged (over 90 days) cheeses.

Go to the following web site and order:

www.healthline.cc (not .com) : Super Food Trio (in capsule form, not powder) and take lots of this every day. I would also order some Magnesium Glyconate and take about 4 of these capsules per day. I would also order Betaine HCL and take 2 to 3 of these after each meal, and Activator and take 1 to 2 of these after each meal, and then Quantum Digest and take 2 of these after each meal.

Eliminate all Sodas, All refined sugar, All white flour products, All Hydrogenated Oils, All Vegetable Oils, especially Soybean oil and Canola.

If you do all the above, I believe you will stop the cycle, feel so much better, and actually digest your food you are eating. You will see over a few months the "spare tire" going away. It does work.

good luck to you

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Do you think vegetable salad adds weight /fat to one's body?

I refer to the mixture of lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, onion, cucumber, some eggs, put together with mayonnais and milk.
Is that fatty?

Answers: Lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, onions, cucumbers, eggs, mayo and milk all have one thing in common... They all have calories and depending on how many your body needs determines whether you lose or gain weight. If your body needs 1500 calories to maintain and you eat 1550 calories, I don't care where the 50 calories came from, they will get stored as fat. The common misconception is fat will make you fat. Not true, because EXTRA calories are the culprit. I've attached two awesome links for you to look at. I used to work for Apex Fitness and they're an awesome company. I've helped many people understand caloric intake and I owe a lot of it to Apex.

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The effects of not eating?

I'm not planning on being anorexic, but I've heard that when you stop eating you actually GAIN weight. If this is not a continual process, how long does it take to shift from gaining weight by not eating to losing weight by not eating? Does it depend on your BMI or amount of body fat at all?

Actually, if you know of a website with this information, I would be glad to see the link. I'm very curious.

Answers: No, you wouldn't gain weight initially if you STOPPED eating.

If you SLOW DOWN your eating habits, then your metabolism slows down. So every time you eat, your body would store more energy as opposed to releasing it or using it for energy because your body isn't sure when it will be fed again. But this is from RESTRICTING your diet, not STOPPING eating altogether.

Of course, as a result of your body storing the calories instead of expending them, you will become more fatigued and have less bodily processes going on. So it's not good for you.

If you don't eat at ALL, then your body begins losing weight immediately. Since it has no food source of energy, it will begin to break down your body's fat and then muscle into energy in order to survive.

Of course the heart is a muscle too, so you risk dying as a result of starvation.

Either way, both restricting your food intake severely and stopping it altogether are very bad for your health. Far better to lose weight in a sensible, long-term approach.

The Starvation Response

You can survive for months without food. You’ve probably heard stories about
people getting lost in the mountains or wilderness for months with no food at all (only
water), or being confined in a prisoner of war camp for years with only tiny amounts of
food. What makes surviving under these conditions possible is your body’s remarkable
ability to slow down its rate of calorie burning.

When your body senses calorie deprivation it says to itself, “It looks like this is all
the food we’re going to be getting for a while, so we’d better stop burning so many
calories and start saving our energy. This way we’ll be able to survive longer on the little
amount of food we have.”

The starvation response developed largely from exposure to adverse
environmental conditions like droughts, natural disasters and food shortages.
Furthermore, there were no supermarkets ten thousand years ago - if people wanted to eat,
they had to either grow their food or kill it. It’s likely that at times, ancient man didn’t
know when the next meal was coming and may have only eaten once or twice a week.
The starvation response evolved in humans to ensure the survival of the species.

Your body can’t tell the difference between dieting and starvation

This wonderful feature of human evolution is a blessing if you’re stranded out in
the wilderness with no food. During periods of starvation, the body slowly begins to feed
off itself, burning fat stores, muscle and even internal organs for energy. If you continued
to burn calories at your normal rate, your limited reserves of stored energy would be
exhausted quickly and you would die very soon after you food supply was cut off. The
starvation response keeps you alive longer.
Unfortunately, this same life-preserving mechanism can work against you when
you’re trying to lose weight because your body can’t tell the difference between dieting
and starvation!

Severe calorie cutting always sends your body into “starvation mode.” There’s
nothing you can do to stop this from happening other than to avoid severe calorie
shortages!

7 Reasons why you should stay away from very low calorie diets.

The consequences of low calorie dieting are automatic and unavoidable. The
responses are metabolic, hormonal, and psychological in nature, and include: Decreased
metabolism, loss of muscle, increased activity of fat-storing enzymes and hormones,
decreased activity of fat-burning enzymes and hormones, decreased thyroid output,
increased appetite, increased chance of regaining weight, and decreased energy and work
capacity. Let’s take a quick look at each.

1. Very low calorie diets slow down your metabolic rate

The first thing that occurs during a severe calorie shortage is a decrease in your
metabolic rate. The lower your calories, the slower your metabolism becomes. Simply
put; when you eat less, your body burns less. When you eat more, your body burns more.

In the book, “Everything you need to know about fat loss,” Bodybuilding
nutritionist Chris Aceto uses a great analogy to describe the way this mechanism works:
He wrote, “If you’re earning $4000 a month, but your boss suddenly cuts your pay to
$2500 a month, you will try to live the same lifestyle on $2500 a month as you did on
$4000 a month. After a while, you have to adjust and save money, and change your
lifestyle. The same is true with a calorie intake that is simply too low. When calories are
cut below basal metabolic needs, the body will accommodate and slow its metabolism, so
it becomes difficult to lose fat even on low calories.”

This metabolic slowdown is well documented. When calories are restricted, your
metabolism decreases by at least 20-30%. With severe calorie restriction, some studies
have shown that resting metabolism can become depressed by as much as 45%! That’s
the equivalent of having your daily energy expenditure drop from 3000 calories per day to
only 1650 calories per day! This is why, after prolonged low calorie dieting, you can eat
very little food and still not lose weight. This also explains why it is so difficult to lose
those last 10 or 20 pounds.
2. Very low calorie diets make you lose muscle

The most devastating effect of the low calorie diet is the loss of muscle tissue.
Once the starvation alarm is triggered, your body begins looking for ways to conserve
energy. Muscle is metabolically active tissue. Getting rid of it is the body’s way of
decreasing energy expenditure. It’s easy for your body to use muscle for energy. This
process is known Gluconeogenesis – converting muscle into glucose. This includes
skeletal muscles, and internal organs, even your heart muscle!

Study after study has shown that very low calorie diets without exercise will
always cause 40 - 50% of the weight loss to come from lean tissue. Many diets, especially
those that are low in carbohydrates, cause large losses in water weight. Between the loss
of water, glycogen and muscle, fully 75% of the weight you lose on such plans is not fat!
The initial weight loss on most diets is very deceiving, giving you only the illusion of
success. Even with exercise, if a diet is too restrictive, much of the weight loss will still
be lean tissue.

3. Very low calorie diets increase activity of fat-storing enzymes and decrease the
activity of fat burning enzymes

The chief fat storing enzyme is called Lipoprotein Lipase (LPL). When you drop
your calories too low, your body will produce more LPL and less fat burning enzymes. In
other words, when you don’t eat enough, your body changes its chemistry to make it
easier to store fat in the future.

4. Very low calorie diets decrease output of thyroid hormone.

The Thyroid gland is largely responsible for the regulation of your basal metabolic
rate (the rate at which you burn calories at rest). When your body senses a severe
reduction in calories, there is a corresponding reduction in the output of active thyroid
hormone (T3). The result is a decrease in your metabolic rate and fewer calories burned.

5. Very Low calorie dieting increases the chance of rebound weight gain

Almost everyone loses weight initially on a very low calorie diet, but it never
takes long before the body catches on and starts conserving energy. That’s when you hit a
plateau. Once you hit the plateau, it becomes much harder to keep losing weight even if
your calories are extremely low.
This lack of continued results, combined with gnawing hunger pangs and
insatiable craving, usually causes people to give up out of sheer frustration. They go off
their diet, the weight creeps back on and their body fat ends up back where they started -
only now they have less muscle and a slower metabolism.

With a slower metabolism, what used to be a maintenance level now becomes a
surplus, and the weight comes right back on. Most people gain back all the weight they
lost– and some gain back even more, leaving them fatter than when they started. This up
and down pattern of weight loss and weight re-gain is commonly known as the “yo-yo
cycle”, and it often continues for years or even for an entire lifetime.

With each repeated bout of dieting, your metabolism becomes less and less
efficient and you can actually become progressively fatter while eating less food.

6. Very low calorie diets increase appetite and cravings.

When your body goes into starvation mode, this triggers increased appetite and
cravings in an attempt to get you to eat more food. The hunger and cravings can be so
strong that you become ravenous. It’s virtually impossible stay on a diet when you are
voraciously hungry and all you can think about is food. Few people have that much
willpower.

7. Very low calorie diets decrease your energy and work capacity

Low calorie diets leave you tired, lethargic and unable to sustain high levels of
activity or intense workouts. Dr. Lawrence Lamb, author of “The Weighting Game: The
truth about weight control” points out that “The first sign of under nutrition is the loss of
energy and the inability to sustain prolonged physical work. There is a direct relationship
between calories consumed and the physical work a person can do.”

If you have no energy to work out, you’re going to feel lousy and seriously
compromise your results. The ability to train hard aerobically and with weights is critical
for your long-term success at fat loss.

Why dieting can actually make you fatter.

Let’s take a look at how these physiological and psychological responses to low
calories affect the real world results of a typical dieter.
Suppose our “typical” dieter is a male who weights 200 pounds and has 18%
body fat. His goal is to lose 20-25 lbs.

Before the diet
18% body fat
36 lbs. fat
164 lbs. lean body mass

Like most people, our hapless dieter assumes that the best way to lose the body fat
is to starve, so he goes on a 1500 calorie per day diet. In the 1st week he loses 5 lbs. and is
very happy with himself. The second week he loses 4 lbs. Weeks three through six he
loses three pounds per week for a grand total of twenty-one pounds lost.

Our dieter now weighs 179 lbs. and he continued to lose weight steadily without
hitting a plateau (although the weight loss did slow down). Judging by the scale alone, he
has succeeded in his goal. On closer examination, however, we find that he has not been
so successful after all.

After the diet
179 lbs.
14.8% body fat
26.5 lbs. fat
Lean body mass 152.5 lbs.
Weight loss: 21 lbs.
Fat lost 9.5 lbs.
Lean body mass lost: 11.5

By judging his success in terms of body composition instead of scale weight, it
becomes clear that he has failed. Fifty five percent of his weight loss came from lean
body mass. The drop in lean body mass has decreased his basal metabolic rate so he is
now burning fewer calories each day than when he started. This has set him up for a
relapse.

Now that the (temporary) diet is “over, “ he goes off his diet. Few people have the
desire or willpower to stay on low calories for long. On a strict calorie and or food-
restricted diet, almost everyone “falls of the wagon” sooner or later. After a long period
of low calories, his body “tricks him” into binge eating by triggering severe cravings and
hunger.
Even if he doesn’t binge and he simply goes back to “normal” eating again, his
body isn’t burning calories as efficiently as before. Therefore, the number of calories that
used to maintain his weight now causes him to gain weight. As the weeks pass, the
weight gradually creeps back on until he finally gains back all the fat he lost (plus a little
extra for interest)

6 weeks after the diet ends:
200 lbs.
20.5% body fat
41.1 lbs. fat
Lean body mass 158.9 lbs.

Now he is right back at 200 pounds where he started, with only one difference: He
has less muscle, more fat, and a slower metabolism than when he began. He has damaged
his metabolism and it will now be harder than ever to lose weight.

I study Biochemistry at an Australian University. I am not means an expert, but I can recall some information as to what I was taught.

If you stop eating, there is virtually no energy being put into the system (human). Depending the individual, many factors dictate the metabolic cycle. If you dont eat, you will most very likely not gain weight (First Law of Thermochemistry - Energy can not be created or destroyed). If you believe this, you will most likely believe excess fat can not be stored as there is no intake of calories.

In response to a lack of energy, the organism metabolizes the stored energy differently to allow the individual to live longer. When the individual continues eating per normal, it is thought the newly established metabolic variations will not change for some time, and fat will be stored more easily on the individual. This can be seen as a measure by the organism to be more successful in its environment when food is in low amounts.

BMI is a standard used in the medical industry; if you involve yourself with this measurement you will see its inaccuracies.

If you stop eating, you theoretically start loosing weight the moment you stop eating. Food mainly made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen will be synthesized into, many molecules including simple H2O and CO2 to complex proteins and enzymes. Some are excreted (Poo and wee) from the body and others remain for a period of time.

If you choose not to eat for several weeks, and then eat again, it could take many months to return to a normal pattern of metabolic activities. Genes seem to play a large role in this metabolic pathway, though I dare say mental and thought patterns play a large role on the physiology of human metabolic pathways.

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I know which healthy foods to eat but ...?

What is the proper daily serving size of vegetables, etc. for an adult female, 24 years old, 116 ibs, 5'6"?

Answers: You should be getting about 25 grams of fiber from veggies...that is why serving sizes are emphasized. Aim for 20-25 grams a day.

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Man Chest Exercise... how do I Make my chest higher?

Im 18. I been Dieting 4 the longest time... I just cant get rid of my chest... I exercise a lot... I do Push Ups, bench.. n lots of other exercises.. But It just becomes harder.. and I cant seem to make it look normal haha
maybe IM not doin the right exercises?. I want to make it go a higher n maybe make it loose a lil fat cuz It looks weird compared to the rest of my body
heres a pik

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5215/...

Answers: It does not look weird, any way if you want to loose the fat you are going to have to include some cardio in your exercise plan. As for the exercises try an incline bench press.

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