[mr_j]

well I am going to make this thread to tell you all what I personnaly know about losing weight and exercicing, and I hope that other members will share some of their knowledge and findings here

first lets discuss the most important nutrients and sources of energry we have

1) carbohydrates(sugar sugar is mainly used in anaerobic exercices, anaerobic exercice is an exercice that takes little time but high intensity such as lifting weight or sprinting. sugar is also the only nutrient your brain will take.

2)fat: this is the main weight problem, fat stored in fat cells, we want to get rid of this, fat is consumed in aerobic exercices, meaning an exercice that has low intensity and long duration such as speed walking or slow jogging or lifting light weight for a prolonged period of time, lifting heavy weights and running will do little to rid you of fat because your body will use sugar stores for these exercices

3) proteins: proteins make up the contractile elements of your muscles as well as some blood and skin compoents, when your body hungers(in exercices or in starvation) it will degrade proteins and fat, you must be careful during diets not to lose protein weight first because it is unhealthy you will become weaker second because it is useless, proteins are not making you fat, fat cells are

so if you want to go on a diet, aerobic exercice should be your choice, because that will burn fat, avoid sugar and avoid fat food like french fries and such, when you eat sugar, your body will store fat and consume the sugar, this is mainly why sugar makes us overweight(as far as I found out, I need a better reference on this info)

do not skip meals: we've all been there, you want to go on a diet and lose too much weight fast, and you think to yourself "I can skip dinner and go right to bed" or skip breakfast, well this is wrong, when you go for like 12 hours without food, your body will activate "the starvation mode" it will minimize the consumption of energy, you'll feel hungry lazy tired you want to stay in bed and overall not good the calories your body is using per hour will drop, it's not because your body does not hae energy, no you have enough energy to run around england...twice but your body is fooled into thinking the ice age is back and you need to save up to stay days without food. so to avoid this, don't skip meals, eat breakfast lunch and dinner, but eat like a human being overeating is the problem

you need to be patient: in dieting, this is the hardest part, we go on a diet for 2 weeks, we don't feel a real difference and we quit. you need to remember, you did not gain these extra kilos overnight, and you will not lose them overnight. this weight is the sum of all the late snacks you had, all the chocolat bars, pizzas beer etc... all the excess you ever ate is right there. fat cells are like the second most efficient source of energy after nuclear power, a kilo is 7000 calory, that's 32 snicker bars or 40 cans of sugar pepsi, imagine, it's a month of eating sugars for each kilo you want to lose, so you need to be persistent, stick to it for several weeks and month

don't go for overkill: you start a diet all excited, you walk 3 hours the first day, do 50 pushups, you eat very little, you go for diet bread which you hate, you follow these strict diet rules of 50 grams of butter for breakfast w 2 grams of olive w ma ba3ref chou... this is overkill, this excitement won't last, 2 weeks and you'll quit. so don't do that, be reasonnable, just quit french fries, icecream chocolat etc... switch from sugar pepsi to diet(sugar pepsi guys, I know you hate diet and you wonder how people can even drink it, I was there trust me 2 weeks drinking diet pepsi and you'll start loving it)walk 3 to 4 hours a week(a month from doing that your legs will become strong enough to go for 10 hours a week easy, I'm there now but all in time ) and finaly don't eat like a monster, and you don't have to deny yourself normal rations of food or skip any meals.

next post I'll cover some more details... I'm late for class