| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 7:45:06 AM |
and lose some weight,
Ummmm.... I think that's what many of us are trying to do? Some of us are even trying to use this forum as a means of learning information that may HELP us to LOSE that weight.
.... What information do YOU have to add to help?
and lose some weight,
OMG... WHY DIDN'T *I* THINK OF THAT!! | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 8:33:51 AM | I think most overweight people know how to lose weight.. In an age where all the information you need is at your fingertips if you're willing to look for it.
Whether they have the willpower and the will to do so on the other hand.... | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 9:37:27 AM |
Whether they have the willpower and the will to do so on the other hand....
I really wish people would start understanding that there is sometimes SO MUCH more than will power and "just losing weight" in the works here. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:45:17 PM |
.... What information do YOU have to add to help?
I have some information but I warn you it isnt simple. It goes like this:
Burn more calories than you consume = weightloss
Consume more calories than you burn = weight gain
Tricky isnt it | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:55:59 PM |
Burn more calories than you consume = weightloss
Consume more calories than you burn = weight gain
You are a fountain of information there!!
Without you... I don't think I would have ever realized those things. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 1:43:05 PM |
I think most overweight people know how to lose weight.. In an age where all the information you need is at your fingertips if you're willing to look for it.
Whether they have the willpower and the will to do so on the other hand....
with you on that.... I was that BBW before the information was at your fingertips and know how hard it is to lose weight.... but at the end of the day the key is to eat healthy smaller portions and exercise.... find what motivates you best... for me it was seeing the effects weight training can have and it still spurs me on to maintain a youthful body. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 2:11:36 PM |
I really wish people would start understanding that there is sometimes SO MUCH more than will power and "just losing weight" in the works here.
I've been fat so I know what it's like. I lost the weight when I stopped making excuses for myself. Look... If you put as much effort into losing weight as you do into defending being overweight you wouldnt be in this position.
Stop being defensive, start being proactive. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 3:26:38 PM | I wish people would also understand that what works for one person doesn't always work for another, it takes time to lose weight, and that guys lose weight easier than women do.... as we've all seen in that very funny Slim Quick commercial.
I said before that I didn't understand why the weight wasn't coming off faster when I'm as physically active as I am... you can hunt down the other post... and when I hold my calories down to 1500-1800 a day. Seriously, I've given up refined sugar and red meat. Someone weighed in and told me I'm not taking enough calories in and it's slowing down my metabolism. WTF? Sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 4:37:02 PM | ...I said before that I didn't understand why the weight wasn't coming off faster when I'm as physically active as I am... you can hunt down the other post... and when I hold my calories down to 1500-1800 a day. Seriously...
Bump those calories up to ~2000.
If you are physically active you need more fuel that 1500-1800cals.
Also remember if you are eating right and exercising that is all that matters.
Some people are just going to carry more weight on them.
It is what it is, and do not stress it.
That is why having a weight number as a goal or a body image is a dangerous thing, as you are potentiality setting yourself up for failure.
The only goal you need, is to each day do everything you can do to eat and live healthy. If you fail to meet that goal today, then you move on to the next day and start again.
Take the results of your efforts as only a bonus and not reward, because there will be times that you have done all the work needed and still will not get results, and you should not be disappointed in that. As long as you ave been doing everything you need to do then feel good and celebrate that and be happy. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 4:39:56 PM | See? But all the rest of these fools are saying, "eat less! eat less!" but eating less seems to have slowed my progress.
Physically active - I normally run/walk 4-6 miles every other day, with the elyptical on the off days. I do spinning class, and as I said in another thread - I'm learning to ride a real bicycle. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 4:55:02 PM | you/we have to remember this is pof where it is especially the norm for people to take one look at your picture and assume you are laying in the bed all day every day, never exercising, and stuffing your face, and that if you just go to the gym then every fat deposit will magically be gone, and that you can tell your body which parts to store fat and which parts to burn fat and how much and when.
well, i've found alot of those calorie calculators that tell me i should eat more for my activity level are way too high. so i'm scared to increase my calories on purpose. i only saw a change in fat reduction after i cut the calories some. i could build muscle but not lose anything. but i know that my body has to be really jolted to lose anyway. so i really should keep my calories down to the "sedentary" option and i'm totally not sedentary. not even today.:laugh so i know that both my body and the calculators are kind of messed up. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 6:16:14 PM |
Look... If you put as much effort into losing weight as you do into defending being overweight you wouldnt be in this position.
Stop being defensive, start being proactive.
Take a moment to read my profile, read some of the post I have made in this forum, and look at the pictures (the change since October is very noticeable) before assuming I haven't been proactive. I have lost 40 pounds, 6 pant sizes, bench press 150 (I know it's not a big number... sorry) and squat 400.
I am not defending being over weight... I AM saying that losing it is so much MORE than JUST "eat less exercise more". | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 6:27:07 PM |
..I said before that I didn't understand why the weight wasn't coming off faster when I'm as physically active as I am... you can hunt down the other post... and when I hold my calories down to 1500-1800 a day. Seriously... Bump those calories up to ~2000. If you are physically active you need more fuel that 1500-1800cals.
Actually, until you posted that thread... I was only doing 1500 to 1800 calories myself. I was losing, but ever so slowly. Now I allow for up to 2200 depending on my activity level that day. Especially leg day!! Until you posted that and got the answers you did... *I* thought I was only "moderately active". I had made mention to someone about the walk I take from work to the bus and, knowing the area, said "I would pass out walking across the parking lot". It hit me that I am quite a bit more active than even I realized!
So.. your thread helped me realize something I was doing wrong too. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 6:42:15 PM |
Take a moment to read my profile, read some of the post I have made in this forum, and look at the pictures (the change since October is very noticeable) before assuming I haven't been proactive. I have lost 40 pounds, 6 pant sizes, bench press 150 (I know it's not a big number... sorry) and squat 400.
I am not defending being over weight... I AM saying that losing it is so much MORE than JUST "eat less exercise more"
Why are you getting hung up on benching and squating big if you're trying to lose weight?
Thing is though, in a nutshell, that is what losing weight is about. Everything else, bar medical conditions, is tertiary. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 6:59:18 PM |
Why are you getting hung up on benching and squating big if you're trying to lose weight?
Because I am good at it and enjoy that aspect of the gym. Why would I not be into something I've discovered a passion for and that I am good at. I REALLY LIKE the muscle tone coming in as the fat is losing. I want to lose the fat... build the muscle. THAT is part of my personal goal. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 8:49:25 PM | | Working at strength training makes perfect sense....Even the best weight loss is going to include some muscle loss that is going to have to be replaced unless you want to slow your metabolism to nothing...I suspect that is the usual reason that you hear people complain about it becoming more an more difficult losing weight after years of yo-yo dieting... | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 8:51:42 PM | Ive seen your photos and I'm struggling to see any muscle-tone whatsoever.
However, back on topic... No I don't find big women beautiful. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 9:00:49 PM | | ^^^^^Well it's a good thing you're living in London. Where the women are all skinny. And how do they get that way? They smoke it off. Just as bad, don't you think? | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/25/2009 11:22:17 PM | I think it just means a girl with meat, and is not just skin and bones.
Skinny girls I think, is a thing of the past. Thick is the way to go! Well at least for me haah... | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 4:01:05 AM |
^^^^^Well it's a good thing you're living in London. Where the women are all skinny. And how do they get that way? They smoke it off. Just as bad, don't you think?
No, not really. They just watch what they eat and go to these things called "gyms". | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 4:56:37 AM | | if you'll read what's on the screen, you'll see that we over here do that also. at least that's what shows on myyyy screen. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 5:51:46 AM | I was having a convo with a friend the other day, he told me he liked curvey girls and not skinny girls, I told him I like skinny.
Last night we were out and 2 girls were chatting to us, couldnt have been more than a uk 6 and he was telling me how hot they were. To me they were skinny, I dunno maybe to him they wernt, I guess it's all subjective.
However I doubt he'd find a girl who is 20lbs overweight attractive | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 6:31:46 AM |
They just watch what they eat and go to these things called "gyms".
What's that place full of the weight machines and treadmills called? You know... the one I visit about four times a week?
As for the watching what we eat... the proof is plastered all over the forums as to what those of us working on our weight DO eat. Do some research. If you are so concerned about our eating habits... look up what we have already been talking about.
Ive seen your photos and I'm struggling to see any muscle-tone whatsoever.
No... you haven't. Had you actually seen them... you would have never had to even assume that I don't go to a gym... and you would have never needed to say I am not trying to improve myself. Why? Because one of the pictures is IN THE GYM. Another is at the Arnold Fitness Expo.
Also... I never said the muscle tone was all that visible in my pics. I mean, it IS... to those who know what to be looking for. What I said was:
Take a moment to read my profile, read some of the post I have made in this forum, and look at the pictures (the change since October is very noticeable) before assuming I haven't been proactive. I have lost 40 pounds, 6 pant sizes,
.... the weight loss IS noticeable. I can see a rather remarkable difference in my face from October to now.
However, back on topic... No I don't find big women beautiful.
That wasn't the topic.... you just took whatever chance you could get to throw it out there.
Congratulations... you have a preference. There is no need to be a jacka$$ to anyone you don't find beautiful. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 6:55:40 AM |
What's that place full of the weight machines and treadmills called? You know... the one I visit about four times a week?
I wasn't talking to you. Don't take everything I saw as an insult to you. | |
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| Big and Beautiful
Posted: 7/26/2009 7:08:07 AM | Missa,
James is right about the caloric intake being to low, there are estimators online that will give you an idea of what your intake should be given your level of activity. The higher the activity level, the more calories you need to maintain the output of energy. Also, if I remember correctly from a previous post, your lifting too, which means your building more lean muscle mass, it's heavier than fat. If this is the case, toss the scale and use a caliper or tape measure to track your progress. | |
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