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Post by Jake Smith on Aug 15, 2007 22:13:11 GMT -5
Just curious on some of the ways you guys and gals cut weight? It seems everybody has there own ways.
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Post by Anthony Snook on Aug 15, 2007 22:29:19 GMT -5
My only way is to not eat anything that weighs too much or will sit in me too long. I've tried cutting calories but it doesn't seem to work with me. Last resort is not drinking any water. It seems I may have to start resorting to the latter, now that I'm slightly over 176 most of the time.
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Post by kyledarby on Aug 16, 2007 0:39:38 GMT -5
Garbage bags taped around you and sleep in em. But thats only for the hardcore people.
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Post by Curtis(Smash)Klashinsky on Aug 16, 2007 0:45:31 GMT -5
Cardio 5-6 days a week for 1 hour sessions. Stay on a steady diet of Salmon and rice. And Tuna and Cottage cheese with 1 cheat day a week where I can have a nice snack or go out for supper.
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Post by Bill Collins on Aug 16, 2007 9:46:21 GMT -5
Hey Ripper!
By all means, I'm no nutritionist, but most armwrestler lost weight the wrong way they don’t eat or dehydrated the body fluids. OH and I been there before several times, your brain functions from fluids, deplete your fluid and your reactions and everything works a bit slower.
After chatting with a nutritionist and having long chats with armwrestlers like Michael Todd & Allen Fisher changing your eating habits will do amazing things for your body.
This is not a diet, it’s eating right and ramping your metabolism. You’ll lose 1 1/2-2 pounds of “fat” not water weight per week and can accelerate the weight lose with exercise. Try to intake at least 1-1 ½ grams of protein a day per pound or you lose muscle mass, when losing weight.
You have to jump start your metabolism in the morning and keep it ramped through out the day. Go to Wal-Mart and get some colon cleansing tablets this will clean your colon as it carries about 10 pound of waste and slows down your metabolism, (sound s nasty but it's true).
Keep your eyes on your bad carb intake, when exercising the cards get burned first before you start burning fat so the less bad cards in your body the faster you burn fat. This works great for anyone. Morning: 3-5 egg whites scramble 1 w/yoke add veggies if you like them or white meat or bowl of oat meal or high fiber cereal
10:00am (snack) Meal replacer (slim fast low carb) or Small Chicken breast (no skin) or Deli-Turkey breast, cheese & crackers (6-8 pieces) or Protein drink or veggies
Lunch: Deli sandwich lean turkey or chicken on fiber low carb wheat bread or Tuna or chicken sandwich, or tuna and crackers (low fat mayo 1 tea sthingy) or Green salad (easy on the dressing) or chicken salad
2:00pm Same as 10:00am
6:00pm Chicken breast (no skin), lean pork, fish, Turkey, (white meat) easy on red meat Veggies/greens/salads Sweat potatoes
Pick a free day to eat your normal food just don’t gorge yourself. Your gain all your weight back on your free day, on day four it will come back off.
Stay away from sugars, starches, lot’s of carbs, soda, chip, junk food.
It will take about two week before you get used to eating like this.
After about 5-6 week you’ll see your body composition change. Change your menu to fit your needs keep in mine anything that’s processed is not these best for your body, eat fresh
Here’s the theory, You need to ramp your metabolism and keep it ramped all day long. Your metabolism stay ramped for about two hours after you eat, your metabolism is running inside your body like your running laps on a field. After about two hours your metabolism is coming off it peak, than your eat again to spike it again, so all day long your metabolism is ramped and never reaches the bottom of the roller coaster.
Eating large or once or twice a day (metabolism) is like a roller coaster, up than down, up than down, so stay ramped (metabolism) from when you wake up until to wind down at night and eating small meal is much easer on your digestive system.
If your weight is going up and down like most diets you’re only losing water weight, not fat weight, fat weight will stay off your body.
It will take a few weeks to discipline your self to eat like this, but after 5-6 week you’ll be amazed.
Again this is not a diet, it’s changing the way we eat and eating healthy takes away risk factors. Allen Fisher is a freak if you want to learn healthy way of life.....
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Post by Eric Williamson on Aug 16, 2007 11:31:10 GMT -5
Nice post. That's basically what I'm doing. I'm eating healthy, 6 meals each day, etc. I lift 5 days a week and do light cardio basically every day (walk my dog, kill 2 birds with 1 stone).
I weigh about 228 right now, , and my goal is to make 198 by around december and then I hope to go down to 185 and possibly 176. It takes longer when you do it right like this, but it minimizes muscle loss.
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Post by Rob Baker on Aug 16, 2007 13:07:58 GMT -5
I started cutting weight for the beach in june and I was at 207 and now i am at 189 I was afraid of losing strenth but i accually got stonger because i lost the weight by running and not some extreme diet I only cut out things like fries and over eating so from my experince being at a lighter armwrestling weight is not going to effect my strenth.
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Post by Bob Brown on Aug 16, 2007 13:37:46 GMT -5
I totally agree will Bill's post. Its all about the food you eat. BUT when you have done all of that and excersize AND there is still some weight left to lose for the weight class you want to enter. Its all about water weight.
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Post by Erick "Zap" Szczap on Aug 16, 2007 13:50:34 GMT -5
How much water weight do you think a 175- to 185-pound guy can lose?
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Post by Arturo Garcia on Aug 16, 2007 13:58:52 GMT -5
I try to eat healthy just like Bill Collins said... However, I have a problem, and it's that I'm hungry all the time. I usually just take breakfast at around 7am, lunch at maybe 1-1:30pm, and dinner at maybe 7-8pm ... and no inbetween foods. Even if I eat a lot at lunch, for example, I'm gonna be hungry at, say, 4pm, no matter what. And it sucks to be hungry and not eat. But hey, I still have some fat around me that I wanna get rid of.... it's so hard when you're not one of those lucky "hardgainers", and have a tendency to store fat, argh!^%
I had heard of that idea of eating in less amounts but more times a day. I'm very interested now, sounds logical, I never read an actual explination for why it works (keeping the metabolism "ramped up" like Bill says), so now it makes more sense. I think I might give this idea a go. I do agree that "dieting" is useless as you can't diet forever. One has to learn how to eat, and eat properly for life..... with some cheat days of course, but not too often, and not too exaggerated either.
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Post by Arturo Garcia on Aug 16, 2007 14:02:30 GMT -5
By the way, I gotta change that avatar pic I took at the Hoover Dam, not only I look horrible in it, but I was 250lbs at that time, pure fat... I'm not 185-ish although I got to 173 in December, but was getting hard to gain strength if I kept restricting my foods and doing so much cardio, so lately I've been doing less cardio and "trying" to eat right, it's just so hard.
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Post by Kevin Harris on Aug 16, 2007 14:04:22 GMT -5
ok Jake we need to ger real here , a guy that is showing off his 6 pack is asking us old fat guys about weight loss hhmm something is wrong with this picture
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Post by Johnny Edwards on Aug 16, 2007 14:22:49 GMT -5
I agree with Kevin.
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Post by Brandon Dye on Aug 16, 2007 14:50:02 GMT -5
i have the secret to cutting weight, YOU CAN LOOSE 20 POUNDS EASY, EAT WHAT YOU WANT, HOW MUCH YOU WANT, HERES THE ANSWER .....are you ready.... COME SPEND 6 MONTHS IN IRAQ
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Post by Bob Brown on Aug 16, 2007 15:02:47 GMT -5
Does this mean you are about 110 right now
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