Great post!

Especially good after years of being told that a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat. *wink*

I hope a few of the "guru's" out there read this!

Alex.

Awsome post!!! :-) Thx for sharing!

Meg, you are truly my inspiration! Ever since I read your story I have been working out harder and more. I am trying to tighten on my own (and having some success) but am resigned to the fact that I will need surgery to remove excess skin. I'm giving myself another year of working out, though... Thanks for teh info, it is sooo welcome :)

I'm new here, and your weight loss success Meg is a HUGE inspiration to me!! I work out three times a week (which is a lot more than I ever have) and sometimes I feel like I should be doing so much more, but I need to realize that it's so much better than nothing at all.

I am new to this forum and curious to know if it is better to eat more unhealthy food AND do exercise, or eat really healthy and not do so much? I know in an ideal world you would eat healthy AND exercise but which is the best as the first step to loosing weight?

Eat healthy.

Ideally both, but eating junk and then exercising is a recipe for disaster. If you exercise and aren't taking in the proper nutrition to support the exercise, then you'll get tired, bloated, and your body will rebel.

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Thanks for the tip - just returned from the shops with a load of fresh fruit and veg - my mission begins! I think ill wait a few weeks before i tackle the jogging!:carrot:

very good infor. Meg

Originally Posted by Meg:
Repost from the Exercise Forum - by request. ;)

Top Ten Exercise Myths

2. Lifting weights will give women big, bulky muscles.
No, most women don’t have the hormones necessary to ‘bulk up’. Weightlifting makes most women smaller and tighter, not bigger and bulkier.

I think I must have a testosterone overload, then. When I started lifting weights two months ago, my biceps put on 2.5 inches and started to look alarmingly ripped, ditto for my back.

Originally Posted by :
The best time to exercise is in the morning.

We usually go to exercise on morning to start up our day with energy. But just what they said, there is no specific time to say to be best time to exercise.

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If you’re not sore after a workout, then you didn't work out hard enough.

For me, when you dont sore out after a workout, it mean you done the workout PROPERLY.

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The more exercise, the better.

Like any other things, anything done excessively is bad.

very informative yet short - easy to remember.

Thanks for all the info guys. Does help a great deal!

#9. i watched a show, it was talking about football coaches would say eat whatever, you'll just burn it in practices but found tht the players who ate unhealthy had heart attacks etc earlier in life.
So nutrition is key no matter how much exercise you do :)

I want to add a few things...Ok...I agree with most..

if you build muscle...muscle needs more energy there will be more mitochondria or powerhouses and they require more atp--or energy which only comes from glucose--broken down food.

about toning...let's say you have flabby dimply arms? When you work out your arms...you are doing two things..increasing your bodies energy burning potential AND you are causing that muscle to first be broken down AND THEN completely renewed. The fibers will be thicker.. you will not get more..but they will thicken..and when they do...your arms will become defined...and the skin won't be all flabby and loose..

therefore if you build muscle you automatically increase your fat burning potential...since muscle is more dense..if you take a 2 ft square of muscle and 2 ft square of fat--muscle will weigh more because it is more densely packed...fat is composed mostly of lightweight spongy material...so if you are looking at the same amt--not the same weight--the muscle material will be heavier...

not only does weight bearing exercise cause your muscles to get thicker it tells your bone to get more dense! Therefore you have increased bone density--they will weigh more..and increased muscle mass.


this being said...if you look at 2 people of roughly the same size...the one with more muscle will most likely weigh more.

That sucks about the one where you cant eat anything as long as you exercise... I love my food and flavors i also love to work out and be active,so Ive always just figured"Id rather work out for 3 hours then not be able to have this pizza:jeno:" I guess I cant have my cake and eat it too,lol.:shrug: