Wage War on Inactivity

donmcde · 2019-02-18T20:05:34+00:00

Your diet matters way more than anything else you're doing when it comes to weight loss. Increasing your physical activity is good, but you'll get further fixing your diet as well. People really overestimate how many calories they burn when working out. If you're gaining weight, you're overeating. Period.

Go to YouTube and search for Secret Eaters. It's a show in England about people that swear they're sticking to their diet but somehow they're still gaining weight. They put cameras in their house, workplace, car and follow them around and order what the same food they get for analysis. Surprising absolutely no one the fat fucks underestimate the fuck out of what they eat at restaurants. "I only have a baked potato for lunch." "Yeah, that's only 350 calories, but after you account for the coleslaw, cheese, beans and gravy you're eating over 900 calories." I suggest you give it a watch. It'll open your eyes and solve the mystery of your weight gain.

adeptintact · 2019-02-18T20:04:01+00:00

Don't eat as much and you will lose weight fast. I calorie count and try to eat a max of 2,000 calories a day. Works well for me. Burn more calories than you eat.

If you run for 10 minutes you burn 100 calories. If you drink a can of coke it's 150 calories. That +50 calories goes to your stomach. Faster way to lose weight is to fast rather than work out. Ideally, doing both works best.

fuckmrp · 2019-02-19T00:43:50+00:00

Bro what the fuck are you doing at the gym that you need to do the office lady workout routine?

Want to be lean, eat less. Want to eat like a horse, work like a mule.

30 minutes can be all you need. How long would it take you to do 200 burpes?

To me this shit reads like “how to supplement your fuckarounditis at the gym”.

battmaker · 2019-02-18T20:26:19+00:00

As it sounds like you haven't focused on this already:

Eating less calories is going to be a lot easier than burning more calories.

If you have focused on consuming less calories, it doesn't show in your post. You mention the quality of lunches you take in, but nothing about quantity, calories, or other meals.

Cheers,

Rhynolicious · 2019-02-18T21:11:44+00:00

CICO is king! I've lost 110 lbs while adding muscle and getting stronger.
LOSING FAT/ADDING MUSCLE are 100% attributed to Calories in/Calories out.
INTENSITY IS KEY! It doesn't matter how many sets/reps you do if you finished them easily. You should struggle halfway through and fight for the last few reps.
You cannot convert fat to muscle, but you can use your body fat to fuel you during a caloric deficit.
To build muscle during a deficit you must consume a high level of protein and workout with INTENSITY.
You are 100% responsible for your body fat percentage.
Apple Watch has been a game changer. I've been using the Fitbod App and Stronglifts 5x5 app. It will manage your rest periods for you with or without the watch, but the watch gives a great deal of data.

Aechzen · 2019-02-19T02:51:00+00:00

I took what started as a few days off from tracking my food intake. Well, it has become a few months off of tracking my food intake, and it also coincided with me gaining about five pounds. My lifts haven't really gone up, so it's mostly fat. My scale also has a crappy body fat percent estimater, and it's also convinced I've put on fat.

The most reliable thing to lose weight is to match your activity to your calorie intake. It takes a LOT of activity to catch up to a bad diet. I'm literally a marathoner with a standing desk at the office and I'm still putting on weight. I simply need to go back to meticulously tracking everything I eat, and then get the sweets out of my line of sight.

BobbyPeru · 2019-02-19T04:01:48+00:00

I don't push myself on supersets and I've hamstered to myself that I don't need any cardio to lower by body fat %

Like others have pointed out, diet is the most important. But, I’ll add that adding a couple sets of light sets on each body part after you’ve exhausted the heavy sets can do wonders for your cardio, and it gives you a good pump and maybe even a little more muscle . I also move between body parts without a break- it keeps the sweat going and further elevates heart rate.

Plus, legs - most guys don’t do as much as they should on legs and squats. Adding a bunch of leg muscle can dramatically speed up your metabolism and boost testosterone.

misternation · 2019-02-19T11:28:51+00:00

OP 100% honest the god - did you go for a run in your Vans, or did you rationalize and chose to wait for your running shoes like most others would? ;)

jcrpta · 2019-02-18T21:28:26+00:00

Assuming "few months" is 3-4 months, you've eaten on average about 6-700 calories more than you're using. Every day.

You're going to have to do a lot of cardio to work that sort of excess off.

SirAttackHelicopter · 2019-02-19T17:33:28+00:00

This is a BIG misconception to weight loss. Don't go on fad diets. Don't stress over needing to lift. Both of these take effort that most don't care for.

Just count calories. Want to eat a sugary snack that gives you 450 calories? Great, just add that to your 1500 total for the day, and don't make that a habit. Do a cheat day once a week, and stick to a more balanced daily regiment. Drink plenty of water. Notice a 450 calorie candy bar is literally a meal. So it better be worth it since you are literally skipping out on a meal.

Remember that once you get your body into shape, you CAN afford to go to macdonalds, and it won't set you back the same way as an obese person. Why? Because a healthy body knows how to self regulate.

Peterd90 · 2019-02-24T14:40:22+00:00

Great post. I did not get not get fat from just lifting weights but rather paino wire tight in the hips and back. My shitty diet, 28 years of 10 hour at the desk days plus a 2 hour commuts and no warm up heavy squats caused osteoarthritis. Thankfully hip replacements have evolved and I now eat right and do cardio along with weights.

SiegreicherMarsch · 2019-02-18T20:20:31+00:00

All good things, but you sound like the women at work who are constantly coming up with "tricks" to lose weight like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, standing up more, doing arm circles, doing 100 squats a day. They never lose weight because they never track their caloric intake to eat at a consistent deficit. It's not hard to figure out: calculate your TDEE, shave off 500 or so calories and weigh yourself frequently. Adjust calories up or down to achieve rate of weight loss desired. It's important, so exert as much control over it as you can.

Edit: If hand-washing the dishes is a cornerstone of your fitness plan, you need to go back to the drawing board.

Edit2: By the way, what is a "cheat meal" if you aren't tracking how much you eat? Is it one that makes you "feel bad"? You really do sound like the women I work with.

rAFCdadHUSBAND · 2019-02-19T06:29:55+00:00

Sorry to see you getting such a roasting in the comments, 'wage war on inactivity' is a worthwhile thought. And there's time for corrections and improvements as you proceed.

Your imperfect plan is still going to be a vast improvement on the life you described.

If you are committed to this strategy the naysayers can't stop you.

SBIII · 2019-02-19T15:32:39+00:00

We have an expression here that goes, "it wasn't the wind that made you fat"

ChesterMN1 · 2019-02-19T19:00:09+00:00

If you want to lose weight, the bad weight, fast. Fix your diet, cut out sugar except for fruit, lots of protein and natural fats and get on a rowing machine for 30 min everyday that you can.

It’s not all about calories, but the type of calories you are eating as well.

Source: I’ve done this. Lost 15 pounds of fat in about 6 weeks. Discipline.

snakeob · 2019-02-22T16:42:37+00:00

Cut your portions and run more.

Title	Wage War on Inactivity
Author	Don_Draper27
Upvotes	38
Comments	57
Date	February 18, 2019 7:50 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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