This Isn't My Body

[Talon87]

DO THIS AGAIN MUYO AND I'M OUT OF HERE

[Lunar Delta]

Two questions: Do you eat only when you are hungry? Do you eat slowly enough to know when you're full?

If the answer is yes and you're still gaining weight I'm wondering if you may have developed some kind of thyroid or other hormonal disorder. Unexplained weight gain isn't a problem to be taken lightly.

[Loki]

How active are you in general?

I know a lot of people say "I gained wait, but I don't do anything differently from back then," they tend to forget that during High School, they had Gym. During College, they ran from class to class. Now you're in graduate/medical school. Most people don't have as many classes as they used to. They don't have gym class anymore. It makes a difference.

I personally keep myself semi-active. I don't drive so whenever I go out, I'm typically walking or taking a bus or subway, so it's not as bad as my friends who drive everywhere. I literally had a friend tell me he had become so accustomed to driving, he drove to 711 instead of driving. The bad part is that 711 is literally 2 blocks from his house. He probably wastes more time starting up the engine, stopping at red lights, and finding a parking spot than he would if he actually walked it. It's really no surprise why he gained weight.

[Talon87]

DO THIS AGAIN MUYO AND I'M OUT OF HERE

[ZoraJolteon]

I saw this thread, and expected it to be about some h-manga where a boy wakes up to discover he's now female, with sexy results. I am most displeased.

[Muyotwo]

Best thing you could do is likely some light exercise (30 minutes a day, three times a week). If you think it could be a metabolism issue (which can occur sometimes in a rapid diet change) try having more meals, but smaller. Five small things is a lot better for you than two decent sized traditional meals.

[Talon87]

DO THIS AGAIN MUYO AND I'M OUT OF HERE

[Muyotwo]

In any case, the five small meals can help speed your metabolism which can aid in you losing weight. A little cardio three times a week is still likely the best thing you can do. And push ups will seriously help the apparent man-boobage. That'll help keep Zora from being pleased at least.

[Doppleganger]

I've gotten fatter too, but the primary reason is eating junk food because normal food is too time-intensive to make an I don't have time. I tried to follow Namek's example of "eat only when you're hungry" but that doesn't work properly since I often have to spend twenty hours without food at any time, and eating a little after that is just painful and one time I fell asleep to try and distract myself from thinking about eating. So it's back to forced breakfast/lunch and dinner.

A year of eating junk despite my formerly robust exercise ritual lead to the weight gain, not to mention I had to cut down exercises because I damaged by shins and wrists.

[Lady Kuno]

Boo at Talon for making me think this was some body swap show I never heard of (as if though such a thing can exist).


Edit: Damn it ZJ already did it. SIMPSONS DID IT SIMPSONS DID IT.

[The Morg]

I think the problem is that you consume food only twice during an entire day, according to what you posted. The reason that's a bad idea is that it induces a natural defense against starvation in which the metabolism slows down to keep from burning more fat than necessary. It also means that any food you do eat will go straight into the fat reserves to keep you alive longer (at the expense of the organs and muscles, of course). The way to prevent this is to take the same food you would eat in a normal day and spread it out into smaller but more frequent meals rather than two big meals each after a long period of starvation.

If anyone gave good advice in this thread, it was probably the Muyo.

[Doppleganger]

Originally Posted by Muyotwo

In any case, the five small meals can help speed your metabolism which can aid in you losing weight. A little cardio three times a week is still likely the best thing you can do. And push ups will seriously help the apparent man-boobage. That'll help keep Zora from being pleased at least.

Any other exercises besides push-ups? Because when I was really physically active I did five hundred of those daily and permanently damaged my wrists; on doctor's orders, I can't do those anymore or I'll intensity the damage.

[Muyotwo]

You did five hundred pushups a day? oO When I was quarterbacking in HS I still never did more than two hundred. With five hundred it's no wonder you messed up your wrists.

There are lots of other decent ways to shape your pectorals and burn manboobage, but do you want basic gym exercises or just stuff you can do at home?

[Doppleganger]

Home stuff. I can do crunches and squats, I need to get back in the habit of those, but as far as pectoral stuff is concerned the closest I could due to a push-up is a closed fist one, and that's hard on my fists even if it's not so much on my wrists.

Gym stuff is hard because outside of running, there's never time for me to go there regularly and even if I do go it's occupied by other folks. I was in martial arts but the martial arts can build endurance and strength, which isn't what I want right now. I want to slim down.

[Muyotwo]

Do you have access to light dumbbells? If you have a pair you can get some decent work done on your pecs with them, if not you can likely pick up a set from a local Wal-Mart or some such for less that $10.

[Doppleganger]

My family owns one pound, one-handed weights for walking. When I was at the gym I used to exercise with forty pound weights, and I've been meaning to buy some but I don't know stores and I don't know how much. I can spend some money if it means living longer but I don't have a place to start yet.

[Muyotwo]

Don't go overboard with the size of the weight. You're much better off with general use 5-10 pounders than with 40 or some such. With light weights it's easier to learn and maintain good form, which will help keep you from hurting yourself. You still get all of the tone due to the increased repetitions you can do. Perhaps three sets of fifty or so presses/flies, three times a week.

[Muyotwo]

No posts from Talon in about two weeks, so I'm curious to know if you actually took any suggestions, or decided to do something else (and if so, with what results).

[Talon87]

DO THIS AGAIN MUYO AND I'M OUT OF HERE

[Muyotwo]

. . . That's... a new theory.

[Talon87]

DO THIS AGAIN MUYO AND I'M OUT OF HERE

[Lady Kuno]

Hearing Talon talk about doing that stuff is the same as hearing your parents have sex. It's creepy and some things are better off not known.

[SulcataIxlude]

Talon this might make you feel better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU

[Kasumi Violet]

Hearing Talon talk about doing that stuff is the same as hearing your parents have sex. It's creepy and some things are better off not known.

That kind of describes a good chunk of super-personal stuff Talon says here.... except he's more of a little brother to me than a parent, so to me, it's like hearing my little brother getting it on....

ick

[Blastoise]

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