I think you've all been had. :har: Includeing myself. :yep:..:DL

Meh, morning PT sucked, but working my ass off overseas was much tougher. This is me in 95. Best shape i was in my entire life.

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EDIT: I just realized this is the first time i have ever put a photo of myself on the internet. lol

I went on a diet for 14 days and the only thing I lost was two weeks

A no carbs & suger diet works very well if you wanna lose weight fast - (Kind of like the Atkins) You can only eat nuts, veg, meat and dairy (but not milk because lactose is sugar).
Basically it fools your body in to fueling itself with the fat it has in storage - the weight flys off very fast, but its more of a trick than a diet.

BUT! this diet has many downsides.
-Its not a very healthy or natural way to lose weight.
-On the first few days you will feel like crap as your body deals with the sudden changes and is forced to re-tune itself.
-Drink as much water as you can or you WILL get the worst constipation ever!
-The effects only last as long as the diet, as soon as you come off the diet (and even if you continue to eat sensibly) most of the lost weight will start to return.
-You only get one shot!, it is very effective the first time you try it, however if you stop the diet and then try again, it will never work as well the second time around. It seems that our digestive systems can only be fooled once :)

Start with low carb beverages like gin or vodka.

Load up the table with your favorite foods, eat all you want but it's very important to make sure you chew your food 32 times, just don't swallow it.

As a back-up there's the taenia saginata cysticercus tape worm.

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LOL :DL

To avoid the downsides that you dsecribed, compare to whjat I outlined. Its better to look at the difference between low- and high glycemic carbonhydrates, than to avoid carbonhydrates alltogether. Its less extreme, more effective and allows you more flexibility and diversity in what you eat.

I agree with you there the work tempo in Germany was pretty intense and in my job we had to push or pull heavy equipment by hand in order to hook it up to trucks the first week or so doing this alone was pretty rough I'd sit there and think "how the hell do those guys push these damn 5 ton 10 ton 20 ton jacks onto a trailer all by them selves?" brute strength that is how.

I used to train fresh tech airman how to work the flight line if I was training a woman I'd be brutally honest with them and show them how to jockey the jacks onto the trailer then I'd let them do it them selves because no one is going to have the time to come and help you do it later when you are alone.
They all managed it pretty well and there where some men that did it worse than the smallest woman could that taught me a lot about the sexes
and stereo types and alot about what hard work really you either have it in you or you dont.

1) Invent a time machine
2) Go back 3 months
3) Start dieting and exercising without killing yourself in the process.

But seriously:

1) Calculate your basal metabolic rate

2) Buy a calorie counter and a good pedometer

3) Buy an exercise bike

4) Keep your calorie intake 1,000 calories below your BMR. Use the calorie counter to follow your intake, the pedometer to measure how many calories you burn during the day, and the exercise bike to burn more off.

Don't immediately drop to this level, however; take a week or two to gradually get down to it, and then stay there.

I am doing this, and have lost 20 pounds in 2.5 months. I eat anything I want, I just count the calories, and when I go over my intake goal, I burn it off on the bike. I also exercise in the morning, as having a negative caloric balance gives me more options for lunch.

This doesn't take iron will - you won't feel like you're starving or anything. You just have to get through the false starts you will have until you're finally committed to losing the weight.

Weather has been crappy for a few days so I've been confined to 50 sit ups before bed.

However, it used to be 10, break, 10, break, 10, break, 10, break, 10

Now its 25, break, 35, break, 50

I don't sleep much at all - can that have an affect?

I'm going to Oshkosh at the end of July. I should be taking 20-50,000 steps (that is several miles, right?) per day while I'm there. If the hotel I'm staying in has a pool, I'll be hitting that a lot. What swimming strokes burn the most calories? I was thinking 100 laps per night.

Just being in the pool is harder work than you might think. I used to swim every day, but now it's been years since I was in a pool. Then I lived in an apartment complex that had a pool. Five minutes and I thought I was dying. It's amazing how hard it is to do things you used to take for granted. When I was 19 I could swim the length of an olympic pool and back, underwater. I could also, sitting still, hold my breath for four minutes.

Start off easy, paddle around, work your way up until you can swim several laps. The strokes involved won't matter; you'll be working very hard.

@ 100 laps per night they'll find you at, the bottom of the Pool. :haha:

Yeah 100 laps is alot unless you are a regular swimmer unless you are talking a fairly small pool.I would think that either the breast or butterfly stroke would burn the most but just starting off you are not going to do 100
or even 50 laps doing those.Freestyle is the best from a burn some calories but not wear your self out stand point.

I think I could maybe do 100 laps back when I was on the high school swim team all though there where never any events where one person had to swim 100 alone.Also the speed at which you are swimming the laps would have an effect.

Also not sleeping much is not healthy for anyone as a teenager you should be sleeping 8 or 9 hours a night I think I read some place that some teens need more than that a night.
Lack of or too much sleep can also be a sign of depression.Your brain needs good rest period they dont really know fully why the brain needs good rest but it does if you are only sleeping a few hours a night then something is wrong and you need to speak to a doctor or you are simply over working yourself in some way which is not healthy.

They call me a fish for a reason

Trust me, I can do 100 laps in a good sized pool. I can also hold my breath for 4.5 minutes.

My heart is strong as an ox. I just let the fat build up on my gut and thighs...

The whole idea with swimming as part of a fitness program is to mix all the strokes and vary the distances and attempted speeds for each.

Eat beans one night before and they'll call you the torpedo :DL

Me too :03:

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I'm up to 30 situps and squats straight through. Tonight I'm gonna try for 50.

Last night, for the first time in over a decade and a half, I had dinner at a restaurant without drinking soda. I had sparkling water instead. Drank a full liter of it, tho.

I got the pasta with egg noodles, scallops, clams, and muscles, so pretty much all protein and vegetables from the sauce

Well.. the thing is with swimming, you can do 100 laps, but if it takes you 2 hours to do it, then there is a problem.

Start at doing 20-30 minutes of laps. Find how many you can do in that time frame. Do 30 in 30 your first week? Great, try for 40-45 the next week. Gradually increase the speed (and thus amount of laps) in a given time frame and you get high intensity work outs. That is what burns calories. Eventually you will plateau. When that happens, start over, but with a longer time frame. However, do not go to extreme time lengths...

Also, try mixing workouts. At the moment, following knee surgery I can't do cardio as well as I used to (running, biking, stairs, etc) so I do 45 minutes of laps in the pool and then 45 minutes of weights. I lost 5lbs of muscle post op, now I've put on 3 so I'm on my way to being what I was :D.

The point is, try to mix and match as someone stated earlier, and aim for high intensity.

Also, if your looking for a difficult workout that gives good results, look up plometrics (sp?) and their workouts. It's based off of natural movement and producing explosive movements and quick and efficient movements.

Cheers!

Sorry but,... You just ate a plate full of FAT. You need to eat alot more Fiber. :yep: