dogwood is offline dogwood Post #11  May 20,2010, 6:04pm
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i use a lot of eggs. 3 boiled eggs every morning and a three pump drink of raw egg whites and a little juice at bedtime. your body rebuilds muscle during the night as you sleep so the egg whites are used for that. it also can help you sleep better and i have been having better dreams.

no heavy carbs after lunch......meaning bread, potatoes, pasta, sweets. i get a good portion at breakfast and lunch. one cup of whole grain hot cereal and some pasta or two pieces of bread or even french fries once in a while for lunch.

i do a two hour bike ride regularly. i also do 30 minutes on my eliptical trainer while punching out with light hand weights. pilates yoga ties it all together with a firm, flat stomach.

i have recently found that using a wok and doing simple stir fry's regularly....like 5 nights a week is a good tool. just meat and veggies.
 
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AndieIsMe wrote :
I had a personal trainer (he holds a degree in Kinesiology) a few years ago and he always encouraged me to do my muscle training after I did some cardio. Basically, he wanted me to keep my heart rate up as much as possible while doing anything with weights. He set up a work out where I would start with some cardio, move to something with weights then back to cardio and keep going back and forth. I did lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time (35+ pounds in about 8-10 weeks). It was also easier to keep it off, even after I quit the gym.

I think the newsletter article works on the reverse of this, which may work as well, not sure, never really tried it. But, I guess the way I was working out before kinda did the same thing.
Yeah, it works either way. They key points are (a) having a decent strength program and (b) keeping your heart rate up to burn a lot of calories. By incorporating the weights, you prevent your body from canibalizing muscle tissue (which it prefers to do since muscle burns more calories/hour than fat does) and make it take energy from fat stores instead. That circumvents the usual problem dieters have which is that a substantial amount of muscle gets lost along with the fat so the metabolism slows slightly and it becomes easier to regain the weight. And then the yo-yoing kicks in with the body getting fattier and less healthy with every "yo" up and the metabolism getting slower with every "yo" down.
 
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