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Originally Posted by ChessieMom
NO NO NO. A thousand times no. 
Crunches and situps are fine for buliding your abdominal muscles. (Planks are great too by the way...everyone should do these every day - excellent core strengthener.) But they won't burn a whole lot of calories unless you spend several hours a day at them - and I doubt you have the time to do that.
If you are trying to lose FAT, the most effective use of your time is to do high intensity cardio, as that will burn the most calories, and THAT is how you lost fat - expend more calories than you consume. |
I am assuming since cardio means heart, high intensity must mean putting all your heart into losing or maintaining weight. (I'm kidding) Some of the methods people I have known (including myself) employed are-
- finding what their ideal weight is and never allowing single calorie more than that to pass their lips. Remember every calorie you eat more than you need goes to waist or somewhere else where you don't want it. If you weigh 400 pounds and you need 2000 calories a day, just eat 2000 calories a day and see how long you stay at 400 pounds.
-Count your calories for a week of what you eat now to see how many calories you eat now. No cheating now. Eat and drink exactly what you eat and drink now.
-Don't forget to count the calories from alcohol, soft drinks, flavored water and sports drinks.
-Count your calories for a week after going to the number you need to eat it's amazing how little a person HAS to eat you'll be almost sure you are going to starve to death but it won't happen.
-Very few will do these two things because they simply don't want to know or don't have the patience to do it or in other words lack the intestinal fortitude.
-if they want to commit slow suicide (like obese people are doing anyway) all these calories you need will be in the form of products containing lots of fat, carbs, and salt (pizza, fast food such as Mcdonalds and a dozen others) bologna, hot dogs, TV dinners and a host of other prepared foods that have lots of SALT and/or fat in them.
-if they want to live a long time they will be in the form of fruits, veggies and meat.
-They can get rid of all the fad diets , expensive exercise equipment, trainers etc. God gave them everything they need live a healthy life style including a brain to figure out exercises they can do without a single piece of exercise equipment and what food to stay away from and the money to buy a book on the subject if they can afford any of the above.
-Drink lots of water and forget about the goofy idea that you get enough water from the food you eat.
-I had what they called a juicerator at one time. I was unbelievable how much stuff you had to buy to make glass of juice from most everything except maybe watermelon.
-By the way alcohol consumption does not promote weigh loss but just the opposite.
-As far as the terrible burning fear of doing sit ups and leg lifts because they don't take the weight off all over. Forget it. The body draws fat from anywhere it needs to to supply fuel for the muscles you are excercising. If there isn't an ounce of fat left on your waist it'll come from somewhere else. Believe it or not muscles need calories in order to work and exist.
-Even sitting in front of the TV snapping the fingers of both hands will cause to lose weight for two reasons 1)You can't eat while you are snapping your fingers and 2) look at what the muscles and tendons in your arms are doing while you are snapping your fingers.
Having said this I realize I have made a lot of people mad who have been programmed to believe certain things and there is no changing their minds, however, maybe one person will believe some of it. I never figured out any of it by myself. Most all of came out of some sort of health book or class I have attended on weight loss.
I am a diabetic. If everyone had to live the way a diabetic has live if he is going to stay healthy, other than having diabetes, the world would have no obese people.
The best book I have found on calories and the content of food is:
Nutrition Almanac by Nutrition Search, Inc. ISBN 0-7-034905-3 pbk
McGraw-Hill published it. 1884 second edition
Mine is very old but I think I have seen a newer version on Amazon.
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