BodyBuilding - Fat loss

BodyBuilding - Fat loss http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/ Wanting to drop some extra bodyfat? Any questions you have post them here en Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:47:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/images/Infusion/misc/rss.jpg BodyBuilding - Fat loss http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/ How can i loss my fat ? http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6683-how-can-i-loss-my-fat.html Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:02:08 GMT Hi, i am suffering from fatness which can be seen on my stomach, i want to reduce that . kindly help me? thanks in advance! Hi,

i am suffering from fatness which can be seen on my stomach,
i want to reduce that .

kindly help me?

thanks in advance! ]]> Fat loss Alanclark http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6683-how-can-i-loss-my-fat.html Has anyone tried Healthe Trim? http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6593-has-anyone-tried-healthe-trim.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:16 GMT I was wondering about a product called Healthe Trim. Has anyone here tried it. What were your results? I was wondering about a product called Healthe Trim. Has anyone here tried it. What were your results? ]]> Fat loss seigersallee http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6593-has-anyone-tried-healthe-trim.html Losing that last few pounds and adding some bulk http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6505-losing-last-few-pounds-adding-some-bulk.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:07:58 GMT Hiya, I am currently having a few problems in the training department which I thought you guys may be able to help with. It seems like once again,... Hiya,

I am currently having a few problems in the training department which I thought you guys may be able to help with. It seems like once again, I have hit a brick wall with my training and thought you lot would be the perfect people to help. Sorry if this has been a repeated topic, but I have been looking on the internet, reading different things and its all starting to turn my head into mush!! :( ...so thought I would sign up on here and get some help from the pros!

The problem is that I have been working out for some time and its got to the point where I cant lose the last bit of stubborn fat to see any type of muscle tone underneath, but I dont want to lose the muscle whilst doing it, if anything, I would like to put a bit on and bulk up at the same time.

At the moment, I am currently doing 5 days at the gym per week which includes:

Monday: 30 to 45 mins cardio with HITT. Biceps, Triceps and Shoulders.
Tuesday: 30 to 45 mins cardio with HITT. Chest and Back
Wednesday: 30 to 45 mins cardio with HITT. Legs
Thursday: 30 to 45 mins cardio with HITT. Biceps, Triceps and Shoulders.
Friday: 30 to 45 mins cardio with HITT. Chest and Back

I usually do 4 weeks of 8 reps, then 4 weeks of 10 reps and cycle this throughout.

On top of this, I play 5-a-side football on Tuesday nights and may have a game of squash on the weekend.

Through the week, I eat 5 meals a day around 400 cal which is always high in protein with good carbs and good fats. A lot of this comes from tuna sandwiches on brown break or eggs ect. I take CLA 3 times a day along with Whey protein after training, middle of day and before bed. I use Saturday to eat whatever I want, as I hear this is good to stop your metabolism slowing down?

It seems I have been following what magazines and forums have been saying, but not seeing any results?!

Could any of you suggest what I may be doing wrong and I may have to bang my head against a brick wall soon!!!

Cheers,

Nick. ]]> Fat loss mojod20 http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6505-losing-last-few-pounds-adding-some-bulk.html What are your biggest roadblocks to having a great body? http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6435-what-your-biggest-roadblocks-having-great-body.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:53:40 GMT I wanted to see what other ppl are struggling with.

I'm trying to get lean and toned like Ryan Reynolds in some of his movies, but I can't seem to lose this stomach fat!

I think my biggest issue is lack of time and sometimes I'm just not motivated to work out hard.

What are some of the things that are holding you back?

What would help you get your dream body? ]]> Fat loss Bradley23 http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6435-what-your-biggest-roadblocks-having-great-body.html Slimming Drug Safety Probe http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6377-slimming-drug-safety-probe.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:52:13 GMT Shit...I've seen this stuff on sale, know people who are trying it... :eek:

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Authorities in the US are investigating concerns that a popular slimming drug widely available in the UK could be linked to liver damage.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that is it reviewing complaints reported by the users of the weight loss medication orlistat, which is sold as the over-the-counter drug Alli.

It follows more than 30 reports it has received of serious liver injury in patients, six of which resulted in organ failure. The FDA stressed that to date a link has not been established. Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline reassured users that there is no evidence of a connection to liver damage.

Alli is currently available to dieters without the need for a prescription from their GP. Since going on sale at UK pharmacies in April, around 200,000 people have purchased the drug,

Tablets are available to adults deemed to be overweight - with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 or over - following a brief consultation with a pharmacist.

The drug works by absorbing around a quarter of the fat from food, preventing it being turned into extra pounds by the body.

It was aimed at helping some of the 24% of UK adults now classified as obese.

But concerns have since been raised over the medication's possible side-effects.

The FDA said the most commonly reported adverse reactions included the yellowing of skin or whites of the eyes, weakness and stomach pain.

Between 1999 and 2008, the agency received 32 reports of liver damage, thirty of which occurred outside the US. Of these 27 resulted in hospitalisation.

WTF are they playing at??? ]]> Fat loss IceDragon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6377-slimming-drug-safety-probe.html Expanding Waistlines Cause Brain Shrinkage. http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6329-expanding-waistlines-cause-brain-shrinkage.html Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:22:34 GMT ---Quote--- BRAIN regions key to cognition are smaller in older people who are obese compared with their leaner peers, making their brains look up...

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BRAIN regions key to cognition are smaller in older people who are obese compared with their leaner peers, making their brains look up to 16 years older than their true age. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.
The brains of elderly obese people looked 16 years older than the brains of those who were lean

Previous studies suggested that obesity in middle age increases the risk of dementia decades later, which is accompanied by increased brain shrinkage compared with leaner people. Now brain scans of older people have revealed the areas that are hardest hit, as well as the full extent of brain size differences between obese people and those of average weight.

From brain scans initially carried out for a different study, Paul Thompson from the University of California in Los Angeles and colleagues selected 94 from people in their 70s who were still "cognitively normal" five years after the scan. This was to exclude people with disorders that might have confused the results. The researchers then transformed these scans into detailed three-dimensional maps.

People with higher body mass indexes had smaller brains on average, with the frontal and temporal lobes - important for planning and memory, respectively - particularly affected (Human Brain Mapping, DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20870). While no one knows whether these people are more likely to develop dementia, a smaller brain is indicative of destructive processes that can develop into dementia.

The team also found that the brains of the 51 overweight people were 6 per cent smaller than those of their normal-weight counterparts, on average, and those of the 14 obese people were 8 per cent smaller. "The brains of overweight people looked eight years older than the brains of those who were lean, and 16 years older in obese people," says Thompson.

High insulin levels and type 2 diabetes tend to accompany being overweight and are risk factors for brain tissue loss and dementia. However, the relationship between brain size and body mass index still stood when the researchers accounted for these conditions, indicating that body fat levels may be linked directly to brain shrinkage. Thompson suggests that as increased body fat ups the chances of having clogged arteries, which can reduce blood and oxygen flow to brain cells, the resulting reduction in metabolism could cause brain cell death and the shrinking seen.

In an as yet unpublished study, Thompson's team has shown that exercise, which improves cardiovascular health and blood flow, protects the very brain regions that had shrunk in the current study. "The most strenuous kind of exercise can save about the same amount of brain tissue that is lost in the obese," he says. This indicates that it is blood flow that drives brain health, not the other way round. As these areas undergo the most remodelling throughout adult life, they may be more sensitive to any changes in oxygen supply and nutrients, Thompson suggests.

But Deborah Gustafson at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, who previously found that overweight women had less brain tissue than their leaner counterparts, questions whether obesity is driving brain atrophy or vice versa. She points out that brain atrophy in the frontal and temporal lobes, which also control eating behaviour and metabolism, could cause weight gain. "There are not enough longitudinal data available for us to know which is the chicken and which is the egg."

How to avoid dementia and Alzheimers? Don't get fat.
How to avoid cancer and osteoporosis? Don't stay fat.
How to avoid having a reduced quality and longevity of life? Work your arse off.

How many times do they have to prove that obesity is bad for everyone? ]]> Fat loss IceDragon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6329-expanding-waistlines-cause-brain-shrinkage.html how do u drop the excess fat? http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6318-how-do-u-drop-excess-fat.html Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:12:39 GMT deleted thread deleted thread ]]> Fat loss round2lean http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6318-how-do-u-drop-excess-fat.html Fantastic Article - Seven Habits of Highly Blubbered People. http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6303-fantastic-article-seven-habits-highly-blubbered-people.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:12:38 GMT I got this yesterday and thought it was such a great article, I'd post it here. I love the way this guy thinks.

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Note: I sent this email last year and it generated quite a lot of
negative responses. Lots of overly-sensitive people out there who
were offended. Nothing you can do to not offend them, as that's
just the way they're wired. So, here it is again:

The 7 Habits of Highly Blubbered People

Hi Sally,

If you are interested in the best way to get fat, then this is
your lucky day. I'm going to reveal some world class tips, some of which are worth their weight in gold.

These are the 7 Habits of Highly Blubbered People:

1. Avoid exercise at all costs: Make excuses that you are too busy or too tired to work out, but be certain to make time to watch TV. Any excuse is a good excuse.

2. Avoid moving your body at all if possible: Take the elevator;
drive whenever you can even if it's to go across the street; use
the drive-thru when going to Krispy Kreme or Burger King. Heaven
forbid you burn any calories walking from your car to the counter
at KFC. And always, without exception, use the remote when changing the channel on the TV. Don't even think about getting up to change it.

3. Have a bad attitude about yourself and life in general.
Fatalistic feelings of doom and gloom are great for stress, and
stress is a wonderful way to get fat. If you feel down about
yourself, don't think about the Truth that you're worthy; instead
deny anything good about yourself and invent bad things.

4. Eat all the wrong foods. And eat lots of them. Stuff your self
so you feel sick to your stomach. Compulsive eating should be
mastered if you are at all serious. Moderation is no way to gain
blubbage. You gotta commit to pounding the crap, not dabbling in
it. That's for amateurs.

5. Spend your leisure time in front of the idiot box. Passively
sitting on your rear watching TV is a wonderful way to turn into a big blob of blubber. It's also a fantastic way to avoid life and your thoughts.

6. Don't breathe too deeply because you might activate some
muscles, or relax and get oxygen into your system. This is a big
no-no. Only shallow wheezing is allowed.

7. Persistence and practice are key. Just like getting a fit body
requires some action, so does getting gargantuan. It's not about
letting yourself go but rather making the effort to do the things
that hefty people do. This takes time and work to get massive but
you can do it.

If you're intrested in packing on the blubber, follow these 7
Habits to a T and you'll have no problem reaching your goal.
Believe you me, it actually takes more work to get blubbery than fit.

Do what's easier and better.

Wishing you the best,

Eddie Baran

I wonder how many people this reminds you of? :laughing: ]]> Fat loss IceDragon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6303-fantastic-article-seven-habits-highly-blubbered-people.html Three Steps to Restart Fat Loss. http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6203-three-steps-restart-fat-loss.html Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:23:51 GMT

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Fat loss is usually very easy to get started.
In fact, if you have excess fat you want to get rid of but you're having a difficult time getting started, or if you get stuck early on, you can almost always bet
that you have a problem with motivation, adherence, consistency, or under reporting food intake.

It's in the later stages of a diet that fat loss plateaus
and slow-downs are much more common. In this case, the reasons are often biological not just behavioral.

Once you start to get very lean or after you've been
on a calorie restricted diet for a long time, your body
sounds the starvation alarm.

If you think about it from an evolutionary (survival
of the species) point of view, it's not beneficial
to have very low body fat.
I was telling a competitive bodybuilder friend of mine the other day, after he was disappointed with gaining
back a bit of fat after a contest, "Don't worry - you're
still super lean and you look great, but it's just NOT
normal to walk around 'contest shredded' all year round."
When you start to get really lean or you diet for too long,
your body starts to fight back to conserve whatever
fat is still left.

Your metabolism decreases as you lose weight, and with
severe and prolonged dieting, your metabolic rate declines
more than can be accounted for by the loss of body mass.

Hormones responsible for keeping up metabolism become
suppressed, while hormones that increase appetite are
stimulated.

The result: fat loss plateau.

Many people enjoy a lot of success, dropping as much as
60 or 70 pounds without all that much difficulty, then WHAM! They hit a brick wall and the last 10, 20 or 30 lbs defiantly clings to their belly (men) or hips, butt and
thighs (women)

As a fat loss coach, probably my most important job is
not prescribing the initial fat loss program, but helping people tweak their programs along the way to avoid or break plateaus.

I've created plateau breaking checklists that are as long as 25 point-by-point items, covering all areas
of food, training, lifestyle and even mindset.

However, sometimes I feel that the subject of plateau
breaking has been overcomplicated with all kinds of
discussions of hormonal manipulations, macronutrient
ratio shifts, glycemic indexes, changes in exercise intensity, supplements and so on.

It dawned on me that the most obvious and simplest plateau breaking solution is almost always the correct one. That maxim may sound familiar to some people as OCCAM'S RAZOR.

At the simplest level, if you were losing fat, but then
you stopped losing fat (you hit a plateau), there is one reason, and one reason only:

You were in a calorie deficit, but you are no longer in a calorie deficit.
Am I OVER-simplfying? Well, you could say so, because
the reasons WHY you have lost your calorie deficit can
be numerous and extremely complex. Explaining all of them
could fill a shelf full of nutritional biochemistry, exercise physiology and behavioral psychology textbooks.

Nevertheless, the core issue remains: a plateau means you
are no longer burning more calories than you are eating.

When you understand and accept this, then you can see
how easy the fix is. There are just 3 simple steps to re-starting stalled fat loss and breaking a plateau:

1. Check your compliance and raise your accountability.

The FIRST thing you always do after a stalled week of fat loss is re-check your compliance. Look back at the
last week and ask yourself if you really followed your
original plan.

Then, immediately implement accountability strategies
to ensure compliance for the following week:
* Keep a nutrition and training journal (written or electronic)
* Weigh and measure your food. * Chart your progress on paper. * Weigh yourself and test your body composition.
* Take photograhps of yourself

Stop guessing and start measuring everything that you want to improve.
If you don't measure it, you can't manage it; if you don't manage it, you can't improve it.
Then, get an accountability partner or group to hold you to your commitments and turn in your results to them each week.

2. Re-establish your calorie deficit.

After your compliance check, if you feel that you did follow
your original plan faithfully, then you must assume that what used to be a deficit for you is no longer a deficit.
Rememeber those calorie formulas you used at the start of your program to see how much you should be eating? Well,
by no means do they indicate the calorie level you should follow forever. Your calorie needs can change and metabolism
decreases with weight loss.

Here's where the good old "eat less or exercise more"
advice comes into play.
The trick to avoid plateaus is to adjust your food intake
(calories in) and your exercise/activity (calories out)
in real-time each week to reconcile the difference between hypothetical (on paper) calorie needs and
actual (real world) calorie needs.

3. Get back to work with your adjusted strategy.

After you've chosen your strategy of choice to re-establish your calorie deficit, go back to work
for another week, with your new accountability
measures in place.

Then, measure your results again the following week. If your tweaks worked, keep it up! If not, repeat the process again.

Is that it? Could the solution possibly be that simple? Isn't
there more?

Well sure there's more.

In fact, if you want a real curve ball, there are even some
situations where the correct plateau breaking strategy
is to eat more, not less!
If you wanted to understand the hormonal physiology behind fat loss plateaus, appetite and your body's weight-regulating mechanisms, you could be studying this subject for a long time. It's been a lifelong pursuit of knowledge for me.
Just remember, you don't need to understand how electricity
works to light up your living room. You just need to know
how to flip the switch.
The next time your progress stalls, now you know where
to find the "FAT LOSS ON" switch.
Train hard and expect success,

Tom Venuto author of
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle
Fat Loss - Burn The Fat Feed the Muscle

My plateau lasted eighteen months. If I'd have known how easy this was I'd have broken it months ago. :yes: ]]> Fat loss IceDragon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6203-three-steps-restart-fat-loss.html yooo http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6182-yooo.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:46:45 GMT hey whats up guysss. so heres the storyy. earlier this year at around april? i got in a skateboard accident that totally blew out my knee. after... hey whats up guysss.
so heres the storyy.
earlier this year at around april?
i got in a skateboard accident that totally blew out my knee.
after three surgeries and 2 months of rehab and such.. i ended up gaining alot of weight..
i was at around 175 at 6'0 and somewhat fit but not too much..
after i was able to start bearing weight on my leg, i started to lift weights again because that was probably the only exercise i can do.
i was just benching light weight, bicep curls, deltoid workouts tricep workouts... mostly just upper body stuff with my mini home gym i got with two dumbell bars, a curl bar and about 60 lbs of plates.
i'm still doing this and its been about 4-5 weeks now?
i was taking the myoplex protein after workouts just to recover for the next day.
yesterday i checked my weight.. i was at 195 lbs..
i was super shocked... i feel the same as before the accident and can still fit in medium t-shirts and size 32 pants..
dunno if its muscle mass that i gained, but i think alot of it is fat that i gained from inactivity before..
i would do cardio like before, because last year i used to be at around 230-240 lbs and dropped to 180, but thats not the case now.
i was wondering... if there are any weight loss supplements that can help me burn more fat while im working out and now lightly moderate swimming..
i've heard that the acai fire and acai burn extreme works out fine?
and also heard that the lipo6x stuff works as well..
can i get any input or help? thanks!!!!:) ]]> Fat loss spyo http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6182-yooo.html treadmill vs. elliptical http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6167-treadmill-vs-elliptical.html Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:32:56 GMT are elliptical or tread mills better to run on. and how long should I run a day to cut down my bmi are elliptical or tread mills better to run on. and how long should I run a day to cut down my bmi ]]> Fat loss Brandon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6167-treadmill-vs-elliptical.html I am...astounded. http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6117-i-am-astounded.html Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:35:06 GMT I really started working my arse off at the beginning of this month, doing two to three hard workouts a day. My diet I've been paying attention to - plenty of lean poultry and meat, fish, fruit and veg, nuts, oats and dairy plus my portions have been reduced down.

I'm just...gobsmacked right now. Out of morbid curiosity I went and jumped on the scales instead of waiting till the end of the month.

I'm down nine pounds...in nineteen days... :eek:

I've NEVER dropped that much!!! EVER!!! ]]> Fat loss IceDragon http://bodybuilding.fitness.com/fat-loss/6117-i-am-astounded.html