Back in highschool my metabolism was high, didn't give a fuck what I ate, lifted weights and it sort of just all worked out. After I turned 18 my metabolism dropped, stopped going to the gym, and my eating habits remained. I put on about 40 pounds in the last 10 years, so it's nothing major. It would just be when I needed to buy clothes they always seemed to keep getting bigger.
I went from 180 - 280 over the course of about 6 years. It started when I got my girlfriend (now wife) and the main factor being a job in IT. The first two through three years I gained around 30 - 40 lbs. It was a combination of going through a highly regimented bachelor lifesyle (running 5ks, intervals, etc) to a slower paced go out to dinner for dates etc. I would try and exercise or diet or what have you and it would maintain for a while then I would just stop caring.
I have been reading this site for like two days now, really good stuff. This guy pushes Paleo is a big way which I'm not a fan of, sounds like fad shit to me, but the basic principle of "eat better and stop eating stupid shit like muffins or whatever" holds.
This, deceptively easy with changes in lifestyle etc.
Paleo advice is generally very solid and backed up pretty well by science (that is the result of cutting processed foods and especially sugar, not necessarily the exact reasoning behind it).
While I am not at debate level for Paleo, I can echo what I have experienced over the past month. I will probably do a longer update towards the end of the month of basically 30 days on the Bulletproof Diet (modified Paleo). The jist of it is I haven't felt better in a long time. I am able to sleep through the night (was an issue for me), wake up before my alarm, feel overall more refreshed and not groggy. This was all without exercise as well. I am trying to be semi scientific about this process so I only introduce one change a week. Even though my Yoga DVDs came early, I am going to wait until Sunday to kick it off so I have good data.
Tell her to squat. At least twice a week, her ass will never be plumper. Boobs, well yeah, that's the cost of not having a cow for a gf.Weighed myself yesterday, lost about 10 pounds this month. We've been hitting it pretty hard and I've been counting my calories and being really strict about it - it really works wonders. I've always had a real trouble losing any weight. I'd blame it on medical issues, or some cosmic force, but in the end what it really came down to was I was believing I was eating far less than I actually was. When you pop open the ice cream, measure it out, and see how many calories you were actually taking in before it's quite shocking. I still have ice cream at the end of the night, but I've moved to a light low-sugar variant rather than the regular stuff - and I've started measuring it with a cup. It's such a dramatic change of pace to be on the losing weight side. My fiance has hovered now around 97 pounds. I smacked some sense into her (not literally) and she figured we were all right. We have her on a maintenance plan now so hopefully she'll sit at this weight until the wedding passes. I figure after the wedding we can start to adjust things, but with the dress fitted and everything we really don't want to fluctuate. She does look pretty smoking going from 130->97, she lost a lot of boob fat though.. I liked them larger. And her ass is smaller.. I liked it before.
Anyways, I have type 2 diabetes. Not sure if I've disclosed it here. It came as a family trait as well as my poor dieting. Back in WoW vanilla I hit the raids hard, like 7 days a week for 6 hours a day, I was going for world firsts. I was eating a nice diet of Wendy's every night for a couple of years and it finally caught up to me. Right now I am at a point where my blood sugar is low enough that I don't need medicine for the first time in about 6 years, all because I changed my lifestyle and started to take a hard look at what I was doing. I'm hoping that I can lower my blood sugar enough to the point where it is in a non-diabetic state consistently. Here's to hoping. This month I went from 225->215.
Crossfit/Paleo is simply better than elliptical/eat crap that most people do, assuming you find a good gym. In fact I'd say it's an excellent fitness 101 regimen and then you can figure out for yourself where to go from there.
Girls are sort of indoctrinated with that. Even in an environment where other girls are doing squats with amazing bodies, some of them still fear it. Gonna look bulky! Or they just are afraid to get under challenging weight.
Paleo takes it a step further with the whole war on carbs thing. The overall message of moderation is sound, but taken to the extreme I just don't care for it or think it is necessary.
Yeah I mean let's be honest, first of all I doubt any girl is pushing any Test levels that are going to hit them with massive growth and secondly I doubt any are eating 10K calories a day like Arnold was.
