fat pants, a few of us in here are doing New Rules for Lifting-Lift like a man, Look like Goddess. I highly highly recommend it. I'm only a few weeks into it and notice how much stronger I am. You can get it on amazon for like $11. He explains why lifting surpasses cardio for weight loss, and gives a specific program to follow for working out
fat pants, a few of us in here are doing New Rules for Lifting-Lift like a man, Look like Goddess. I highly highly recommend it. I'm only a couple weeks into it and notice how much stronger I am. You can get it on amazon for like $11. He explains why lifting surpasses cardio for weight loss, and gives a specific program to follow for working out
I couldn't disagree more. LOL! I LOVE LOVE LOVE strength training. I've loved it for 20 years. I enjoy cardio as well, but nothing gives me the high of lifting heavy weights. And I TRY to make it hurt. I am elated when I am a little sore the day after working out. After 20 years of lifting, it is hard for me to feel the burn. I really have to push myself to the limit and do all kinds of new and different things to feel it.
In my opinion, nothing transforms your body like weight training. Cardio burns fat and is great for heart health. And it can even build some muscle. But weight training can give you a bottom if you don't have one, an hourglass figure if you are a pear, and a more compact body all around. Weight training can give you what genetics did not.
As for out-exercising a bad diet, forget it. Seriously, no one knows this better than I. You cannot reach your goals by adding to your exercise to compensate for overeating. There was a time I exercised all day sometimes and even into the night. And guess what? I still weighed 129 because I still ate too much. I love exercise, so it sucks that I have had to face this, but it's true: exercise will not make you thin. It can make you healthy. It can make you strong. But it will not make you thin. Thin begins in the kitchen.
(BTW: It is generally held that, after diet, weight training is the most beneficial to weight loss, not cardio.)
Geez, you should write a book. ****, I'm already sold.
fat pants, a few of us in here are doing New Rules for Lifting-Lift like a man, Look like Goddess. I highly highly recommend it. I'm only a few weeks into it and notice how much stronger I am. You can get it on amazon for like $11. He explains why lifting surpasses cardio for weight loss, and gives a specific program to follow for working out
Ha! that was my question... I have this requested from the library, and it just came in today, yay!
I feel like I have a lot of experience using hand weights (from classes), so I am familiar with many of the exercises, but I am kind of lost when trying to devise a routine on my own. I need someone to tell me exactly what to do!
Do you work out at a gym or do you have enough weights at home? And are these mostly barbells or hand weights or both? Guess I'll find out the second answer soon enough when I pick up the book ...
EmmaD, I'm another who's doing NRLW. I like it because he takes a lot of the intimidation factor out of the weight room, and also, because like you, I needed a specific routine. He gives you just that, in stages. I really enjoy it so far and I'm excited to bump up from 2 sets of each exercise to 3 sets tomorrow. I already feel stronger!
Back down to 122.2 today. Yep, 125.8 on Tuesday, 122.2 on Thursday. Boy, do I love sticking to plan.
BTW, someone asked the other day what "NSV" means -- I asked the same thing when I was new here -- it means Non-Scale Victory. I had a little NSV today -- people I'd just met referred to me as "so skinny" (I was saying that I was cold all winter and that was their explanation). It was so strange. I have never been a skinny girl!
EmmaD, I'm another who's doing NRLW. I like it because he takes a lot of the intimidation factor out of the weight room, and also, because like you, I needed a specific routine. He gives you just that, in stages. I really enjoy it so far and I'm excited to bump up from 2 sets of each exercise to 3 sets tomorrow. I already feel stronger!
Back down to 122.2 today. Yep, 125.8 on Tuesday, 122.2 on Thursday. Boy, do I love sticking to plan.
BTW, someone asked the other day what "NSV" means -- I asked the same thing when I was new here -- it means Non-Scale Victory. I had a little NSV today -- people I'd just met referred to me as "so skinny" (I was saying that I was cold all winter and that was their explanation). It was so strange. I have never been a skinny girl!
YAY! I love when people say stuff like that.... it really does feel good. Way to go!
I think I will go ahead and request that book from the library.
P.S.
I love to know that other people also experience 3lb fluctuations between weigh-ins...the human body really is "fluid"! Haha
EmmaD, I'm another who's doing NRLW. I like it because he takes a lot of the intimidation factor out of the weight room, and also, because like you, I needed a specific routine. He gives you just that, in stages. I really enjoy it so far and I'm excited to bump up from 2 sets of each exercise to 3 sets tomorrow. I already feel stronger!
Back down to 122.2 today. Yep, 125.8 on Tuesday, 122.2 on Thursday. Boy, do I love sticking to plan.
BTW, someone asked the other day what "NSV" means -- I asked the same thing when I was new here -- it means Non-Scale Victory. I had a little NSV today -- people I'd just met referred to me as "so skinny" (I was saying that I was cold all winter and that was their explanation). It was so strange. I have never been a skinny girl!
I'm a big proponent of the gym. I worked out at home for years, but the gym just gives you so many more options. I love to constantly change up my routine. And the gym also gives me access to much heavier weights and the squat bar and a variety of barbells. I lift so heavy that I've outgrown the equipment I had at home.
I've never looked at The New Rules. I taught myself to lift when women really didn't do that kind of thing. But, from what I gather, it does sound a solid plan.
As for being cold, wow!!! I thought I was cold at 129, but this winter, at 108, I actually wake up over and over at night because I am positively freezing. I have had to place a heating pad under my feet and lower legs, in addition to adding blankets atop my quilt, in order to sleep through the night. And even then I will wake up as soon as I roll over and one of my legs isn't on the heating pad anymore.
The other day my BF was complaining that it is no colder in the house than it was last year: why am I having such a hard time he wanted to know. I don't talk about weight loss, but I finally had to admit that I've lost almost 20% of my body weight since last year. That's why I am so much colder.
Last edited by Petite Powerhouse; 11-11-2010 at 03:28 PM.
Petite, if you are sleeping with a heating pad, you might want to check out a heated mattress pad. They are divine! It's basically a heated sheet that goes under your regular sheet (same as what massage therapists use to heat the table). Assuming your bed is bigger, you should be able to get one with seperate controls for you and your BF, so he doesn't even need to keep it on if he doesn't want to.
I see we are about the same height...I like to keep mine with the headside at my feet so more coils are down there to warm them.
Petite, if you are sleeping with a heating pad, you might want to check out a heated mattress pad. They are divine! It's basically a heated sheet that goes under your regular sheet (same as what massage therapists use to heat the table). Assuming your bed is bigger, you should be able to get one with seperate controls for you and your BF, so he doesn't even need to keep it on if he doesn't want to.
I see we are about the same height...I like to keep mine with the headside at my feet so more coils are down there to warm them.
Thanks so much! I will go get one of these tonight.
Being cold all the time is a strange and terrifying new sensation! Where I live, my home and my workplace are not insulated/climate controlled at all in winter and it's always brutal. I imagine I will be profoundly uncomfortable until about April or so on a scale I have not previously known, but shivering burns calories doesn't it?
Today's BIG WIN : I officially weigh less than my mom!!! I weighed in at 57.5 this morning, so 126.7 lbs. Yesterday almost a third of my day's calories were from candy bars though so I'd like to make today better. I'm planning a nice run after work today and doubling up on cardio tomorrow because there's a big party in the evening. I can't wait - I'll be playing violin accompanying a few different guitarists as well as singing.
I'm so inspired reading about everyone's posts and losses...
I guess I'm feeling a bit defeated and weary these days, keep eating right and exercising but not losing a single pound. I miss the days when I weighed 120 pounds and was confident and felt healthy. I keep daydreaming about those days, and also about all the things I want to do "when I lose weight."
Anyway, for 5 days this week I ate under 1600 cals, and worked out (running, weight lifting, or elliptical). Thursday after dinner I ate some junk food, and Friday after dinner I totally binged on junk food. Saturday, worked out with my trainer and ate well, and today I'm trying to get my *** to the gym... just feeling like, "what's the point..." blah blah all that defeatist stuff.
I need to realize that I can get OUT of this vicious cycle and move forward. I've done it before and I can do it again, I just need to be patient...
anybody feel the same? I think I just really need some support right now, feeling so down about it all. And it's taking over the rest of my life... I'm so socially withdrawn these days, just not my usual bright self, and feeling so fat and ugly... sorry guys, a very negative first post from me
I'm so inspired reading about everyone's posts and losses...
I guess I'm feeling a bit defeated and weary these days, keep eating right and exercising but not losing a single pound. I miss the days when I weighed 120 pounds and was confident and felt healthy. I keep daydreaming about those days, and also about all the things I want to do "when I lose weight."
Anyway, for 5 days this week I ate under 1600 cals, and worked out (running, weight lifting, or elliptical). Thursday after dinner I ate some junk food, and Friday after dinner I totally binged on junk food. Saturday, worked out with my trainer and ate well, and today I'm trying to get my *** to the gym... just feeling like, "what's the point..." blah blah all that defeatist stuff.
I need to realize that I can get OUT of this vicious cycle and move forward. I've done it before and I can do it again, I just need to be patient...
anybody feel the same? I think I just really need some support right now, feeling so down about it all. And it's taking over the rest of my life... I'm so socially withdrawn these days, just not my usual bright self, and feeling so fat and ugly... sorry guys, a very negative first post from me
hope everyone is having a better Sunday!!
Awww, I hear ya!
This is a safe place to have negative "verbal diarrhea" and let it all out, so don't apologize.
It's so hard not to fall into the "Well, I already ruined my day, so what's the point" trap.
Each day is a new chance to be kind to your body, try to practice new habits, and to be positive.
However, in between, it's totally ok to let yourself be miserable-- just dedicate yourself to being persistent! Tomorrow, you start fresh. You are WORTH IT!
I was hoping for faster results as well, but patience is the name of the game. We didn't gain our weight in a month, so why would we think it only takes a month to get rid of it!?
I'm struggling too.... but, I just keep telling myself I am worth it, and I will get there... slow & steady :
aw, chickennugget, I hope you feel better soon. This is a tough country to be in when you're trying to feel good about your weight loss efforts, that's for sure. I'm just getting to the point where I can walk into Parco or OPA to browse clothes shops without feeling like an impostor. I still feel like clerks are sizing me up and thinking "you won't fit into anything" when I go to gyaru shops.
What's your "danger zone" junk food of choice? I can't go anywhere near chocolate covered almonds. I know someone (an athletic dude!) who gained like 10 lbs from eating the Lotte almonds several times a week.
I hope you're not putting life off until "after you lose weight." I completely understand that mentality though. I have sort of reduced 2007-2010 and 2000-2003 as "when I was fat" and that's just not fair, because I did a lot in those years that deserves to get recognized. This business sure isn't easy though.
yay!!! So exciting!
