Time to make a change!

First f*ck BMI!
Fat is actually good for you, carbs and sugar not so much.
To share my story, when the ex left me I lived on cheese and Beer dropped to 129lbs.
Normal I was steady 150 and 5 foot seven.
After the head injury I started putting on weight. But I exercised and had muscle mass underneath.
After getting Cancer I went Homer Simpson, the episode where he decides he can eat all he wants and wears a MUmu.
I managed to hit 334.
Still exercising.
I' have been a vegetarian since 15.
Once I went all Soy protein and got Gynomaastia, man boobs.
About a year ago, well I tried losing weight by daily weigh ins and working down half a pound or less a week.
So I changed to bean and fish protein mainly. Cut most of the carbs and sugar.I do need Nutella.
I'm now at about 225.
One of the problems is when you exercise you tend to eat more and gain more weight.
DIET, check one of those calorie counter sites and establish a slow decrease of caloric intake.
Protein and fat and some vegetables.
I gather seed oil like Canola is bad. I use Coconut oil and I hear that REAL cold pressed Olive oil is hard to find.
NEVER exercise at set times. Exercise randomly during the day.
Short bursts of intense, well you know what you can handle, exercise and slowly build stamina.
BUT what happens is when you ,lose weight you have excess skin.
Surgery is requires for that.
Take the time and go to Yoiutube. Joe Rogan had an Interview with Pavel Tatsoulaine.You tube broke it down into sections.

I am not into weights but they do discuss them. I have a couple of dummies I place where I walk past them and regularly practice various strikes and sweeps.
Plus I play chase the dog, he is slow as f*ck though.
High protein, small chunks of exercise daily.
I'm trying for 200lbs.
Any long term disease will burn fat first then muscle. 1% body fat or less and you are dead.
BUT, have a mental picture of how you want to look.
When I lifted I did a LOT of forearm and grip exercises as well as bag work.
All the old guys I knew had big forearms from doing manual labor.
And Triceps.
Those were my mental get bigger images.
Now it is hit harder with what I have.
Avoid BP m,eds as much as possible they have nasty side effects and may cause weight gain.
If you have a low resting heart rate, like 70bpm or less you will not have high blood pressure. But if you go to low 60 and under you risk Bradycardia, passing out due to a low heart rate.
This is an example of dieting.
Professor loses weight on junk food diet

KNOXVILLE (WATE/CNN) – What if you could lose weight while eating tons of Little Debbie snacks, Twinkies, Oreos and sugary cereal? That’s what one man did in order to prove that losing weight is more about the number of calories consumed than the quality of those calories.

For ten weeks, nutrition professor Mark Haub at Kansas State University ate mostly junk food, limiting himself to 1,800 calories per day. The result? He lost 27 pounds. An average male his size usually consumes around 2,600 calories in a day.

At the end of the experiment he had not only shed some pounds, but also lowered hos cholesterol by 20 percent, and reduced triglycerides by 39 percent.

“That’s where the head scratching comes from,” Haub said. “Does that mean I’m healthier? Or does it mean that the way we define healthy from a biology standpoint, that we’re missing something?”

Even though the experiment was a success, Haub says he would not necessarily recommend this as a goof way to lose weight.

“I’m stuck in the middle about it,” he said. “I can’t give a concrete answer, there’s just not enough information to do that.”

During the experiment he also took a multivitamin and and drank protein shakes, but two thirds of his diet was “junk food.”

Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, Dawn Jackson Blatner said she’s not surprised about Haub’s results.

“When you lose weight, regardless of how you’re doing it, even if it’s with packaged foods, generally you will see these marker improve when weight loss has improved.”

However, she still has concerns about the long term effects of eating this way. A lack of fruits and vegetables for extended amounts of time could have unhealthy results like an increased risk for cancer or other diseases, but there is no way to test for those risks.

After adding meat back into his diet at the conclusion of the experiment, Haub’s cholesterol went back up. He plans to add 300 calories back into his diet as well. His final conclusion is that experiments like these cannot determine that one diet or another is healthy or unhealthy in every case, but it depends on a host of factors in each individual case.

Good luick.
Weigh monthly not weekly.
Get back and tell me if the Pavel stuff helped.
I'm off for a can of Salmon.

STRETCH!
Not Yoga but like MA stretches.
You can be Sammo Hung fat and still loose enough to high kick.

Why BMI is inaccurate and misleading


In the Science article – “The Health Risk of Obesity – Better Metrics Imperative”2 – the authors refer to the pros-and-cons of obesity as the “obesity-mortality paradox”. A paradox that generates a great deal of controversy.

Dr. Ahima said:

“There is an urgent need for accurate, practical and affordable tools to measure fat and skeletal muscle, and biomarkers that can better predict the risks of diseases and mortality. Advances to improve the measurement of obesity and related factors will help determine the optimal weight for an individual, taking into account factors such as age, sex, genetics, fitness, pre-existing diseases, as well novel blood markers and metabolic parameters altered by obesity.”

People with a BMI of 30 or more, i.e. individuals with obesity, have a significantly higher risk of eventually becoming diabetic, developing cancer, cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, and liver and gallbladder diseases.

Having obesity heightens the risk of premature death.

However, a number of studies have demonstrated that some individuals with obesity have lower cardiovascular risk and an improved metabolic profile, while a subset of “normal-BMI” people are metabolically unhealthy and have increased mortality risk.

A team of researchers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, found better post-surgical short-term survival rates among people with obesity than patients of normal weight3. Patients with a BMI of 23.1 or less were more than twice as likely to die within 30 days of surgery than those with a BMI of 35.3 or more.

...BMI exaggerates thinness in short people and fatness in tall people

Nick Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis at Oxford University’s Mathematical Institute, in a letter to The Economist explained that BMI leads to confusion and misinformation.

BMI = weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.

Professor Trefethen believes that the BMI height2/weight term divides the weight by too much in short people and too little in tall individuals. This results in tall people believing they are fatter than they really are4, and short people thinking they are thinner.

BMI was devised in the 1830s by Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874), a Belgian mathematician, sociologist, statistician and astronomer.

Trefethen explained that during Quetelet’s time there were no calculators, computers or electronic devices – which is probably why he opted for a super-simple system. Trefethen wonders why institutions today on both sides of the Atlantic continue using the same flawed-BMI formula.

“Perhaps nobody wants to rock the boat”, Trefethen added.

Trefethen believes a better calculation than the present weight/height2 for BMI would be weight/height2.5. “Certainly if you plot typical weights of people against their heights, the result comes out closer to height2.5 than height2.”
Waist size linked to diabetes risk, regardless of BMI

Researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, UK, reported in PLoS Medicine that waist circumference is strongly and independently associated with type two diabetes risk5, even after accounting for BMI.

Study leader, Dr Claudia Langenberg and team suggested that waist circumference should be measured more widely for estimating type 2 diabetes risk.

They pointed out that a male without obesity who is overweight with a waist circumference of at least 40.2 inches (102cm) has the same or higher risk of type 2 diabetes as a male with obesity. The same applies for females with a waist of 34.6 inches (88cm) or more.

Simple burn more calories than you take in.
You can Google up caloric intake counters that will set the calories for the weight desired.
Most people take too big steps and forget that weight is NOT burned of everything evenly.

Yeah yeah, Med diet.
You forgot when Yogurt was first popularized the pushed out all these old people from some Baltic nation who had a steady Yogurt diet.
f*ck me it is ALL genetics, two body types Endomorphic and Exomorphic.
Pop back up and listen to the Rogan Pavel discussion regarding nutrition and body variations.

Pasta BAD!
Fattening and turns into sugars in the system.

First ten pounds is water weight.
Ever see Boxers hit the sauna or wear those metallic sweat suits to dry out those extra pounds?
But you can actually stop sweating doing that.
Last few pounds are the hard ones and it is virtually impossible to target certain areas for fat removal.

First watch the Rogan Pavel nutrition discussion.
next remember there are 8 billion people each with a distinct Biology.
Burn fat just burn more calories than you take in, pretty simple.
Find one of those weight to calorie measures set your optimal weight,I would go ten pounds at a time, then strictly follow the caloric count.
Drop the carbs ,move to the fats and proteins even avoid diary.
Don't go the protein powder drinks you can have too much protein.
Peas, Black beans, fish, Chicken without the skin and boiled.
Some salt.
Do mild exercise. Really define what you want your body to look like.
I had massive Cancer surgery so my left side is screwed for symmetry, plus it is weaker. Both sides should be able to lift the same amount of weight and I get very frustrated my left can't.
Decide if you want power or stamina.
Two different approaches.
Learn to stretch ma style.
Work all the joints because the Sinovial fluid acts like a grease.
Your body will tell you what you need to eat. If it needs sugar have a piece of cake. Otherwise it just sticks in your head.
Try intermittent fasting. I usually do 16 hours and have hit twenty four only once.
Sixteen is mostly sleep anyway.
Minimal Caffeine.
Eventually you will feel what is right fir you instead of having people advise you on this should be done with this and this.
Our bodies know what we need and when we need it.
You are smart.
Don't rush it.

Drink plenty of water before a meal.
Athletes handle a gallon of water daily. That can be bad.

I am biased I don't eat red meat or pork or chicken.
Go for the steak and bacon if you want.
I am honest and it doesn't help if I accidentally mislead you
due to my own personal limitations.