your body your health

[SHYE_POSER]

[QUOTE=cjbreed;243206]give it time my friend. give it time. i too was like u once.

Im still relatively young (slowly approaching 30),but i think its in my genes. My father was and still is rather slender even at the age of 57.

Although i'm awaiting the day that i get out of bed,look in the mirror and realise that i have turned into Tony Soprano over night!

[kunk75]

my before is gary coleman and my after is jessica rabbit. pictures to come soon.

[kunk75]

more of a dabney coleman.

i am 6'2 and when i started psoting here i was 255, 36+ waist. now, i am 215 with a 33 waist and 47.5 chest, which makes buying suits a bitch.

[SHYE_POSER]

ETERNAL Why this obsession with veins?

[stereophobic]

cutting carbs out of one's diet is a really bad idea, you're just going to feel hungry easily. type of carbs & portion size matter the most imho.

agree with kunk that timing doesn't matter so much as what you eat. a beef & vege stew with beans for example, you'd only have to eat but a handful for dinner and you'd feel satistfied. compare that to possibly an equivalent serve of meat, veges paired with jasmine rice.

[jcotteri]

nobody said to do that j. that would be insane for any health conscious person to consider.

I was trying to stem a debate but it seemed I failed.

Instead of counting calories (post fad) or carb intake (current fad) people should be concentrating on following basic rules. Eat less processed, high sugar, "snack" etc etc. and regularly exercise. This is all you need to do to not be a fatass.

Anyone wants to argue, go and run 40km every week and see what happens.

edit: This is a sweeping statement not aimed at anyone here in particular.

[laughed]

i've done pretty much every diet you can imagine (not fat though) and tried many different ways of eating. From my personal experience I find that eating healthy carbs is the best. Cereals and Breads aren't really healthy. Try greens and whatnot. It also depends on how much you workout as well. I was working out 5 days a week or so - hard, and i HAD to eat TONS of food. No matter what diet i was on, I needed junk food, I need large pizzas with extra cheese, burgers, etc. I began getting into the ultramarathon runners and their diets and i have to say - to me - those guys are awesome. Check out Dean Karnazes obviously (who is on a "neanderthal" diet) but also David Goggins. - this guy makes lance armstrong look like, well, not an athlete.

[Acid, Bitter and Sad]

I was trying to stem a debate but it seemed I failed.

Instead of counting calories (post fad) or carb intake (current fad) people should be concentrating on following basic rules. Eat less processed, high sugar, "snack" etc etc. and regularly exercise. This is all you need to do to not be a fatass.

Anyone wants to argue, go and run 40km every week and see what happens.

edit: This is a sweeping statement not aimed at anyone here in particular.

It's really just as simple as this!

[galia]

ETERNAL Why this obsession with veins?

seriously, it's weird. I've only seen former junkies be this concerned with them. care to ellaborate?

[stereophobic]

seriously, it's weird. I've only seen former junkies be this concerned with them. care to ellaborate?

I too am interested in hearing more about this.

while I was undergoing a CT scan I've had the nurse compliment me on my "beautiful veins" when she was pumping the contrast in.

my reaction was "lol, what?"

[Raw]

Eternal, start taking Nitrix and you will get more visible blood veins

[munch]

I kinda eat like a whole family and not really healthy food, I have a tendency to make unhealthy snacks too. not processed stuff though I guess...
take 1 hour walks mostly every day
do push-ups/sit-ups at least 3 times a week
don't smoke. do drink coffee and occasional alcohol quite rarely, like a glass of wine for dinner or a few beers for bbq. hope the frenchies are right with that '1 glass of wine a day = healthy' thing

need to start eating healthier and probably less too. my stomach is getting upset quite easily...

I used to be almost anorectic back in prim ed. but when I started eating for reelz I kinda ate everything I could see.

I'm around 1m 78cm and 65kg's atm so yeah.. hmm.
used to play basketball, football, track&field, was a big fan of BMX'ing/dirtjumping with bicycles etc etc etc.

I've mostly gone unhealthy during highschool years, bleh. I know it's like "just do it!" to start doing healthy things and eating healthy but it's just so boring and my life is boring enough as it is since I graduated high school. I need to get a life

[MoFiya]

Acid, Bitter and Sad, would you care to elaborate a bit on your diet? You said minimal carbo and not much meat at all.
I eat meat / fish around twice a week, so not much either.
What do you eat after one of your extense runs if you're running low on carbs? I mean ... I am hungry after such a run ...

Also, what are "complex carbohydrates" If not potatoes, rice and pasta? Do you eat whole-wheat stuff the whole day - even rice? (not directed to you A,B&S for you dont eat much carbs anyway...) What are good filling side-dishes for a guy who doesn't eat much meat at all?

[AKA*NYC]

complex carbohydrates (or the primary sources of complex carbs) are typically whole grains: short grain brown rice, rolled oats, millet, quinoa, etc. where regular carbs give you an initial burst of energy with a quick crash complex carbs give you energy in slower steadier increments (think time release) and have less of a comedown at the end. short grain brown rice does wonders for energy, etc., but takes time to prepare properly in a pressure cooker.

[Acid, Bitter and Sad]

MoFiya - I eat lots of vegetables, but I also take meats, it's just that in comparison I take more vegetables. I eat quite abit of fish too (cooked and raw). Minimal carbs to me simply means that I don't take much rice or noodles. It's not mainly for losing weight because as it is I'm already doing alot of cardio work with my runs...it's just that rice/noodles gets me full easily and quick, and I'd rather allocate more of my appetite eating delicious vege/meat dishes.
I'm totally not into calculating my calorie intake, I wouldn't know how or where to begin honestly.
I simply LOVE running, and am hooked to the detoxifying experience during and after each hot yoga practice.
I'm usually starving after my runs, but I don't make it a point to eat anything particular mostly...i just eat what I have a craving for at that point in time.
There's really no structure nor any particular discipline to my eating and exercising habits.