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i'm trying to get back into shape and its harder than i imagined. what kind of exercises do u guys recommend? do u think its better to run on the track or treadmill? what kind of exercise equipment should i use? any diet tips? whats better the elliptical machine or the stairmaster? everybody uses the elliptical thing but i feel i get a better workout on the stairmaster. how about the stationary bike?

heres why i need to get into shape- i'm 6 foot One, in high school i weighed 185 pounds and now 5 years after high school, i've ballooned up to 250 pounds
 
What's your current diet like?
 
For the exercise equipment, i'd stick mostly to the treadmill and stationary bike. Sheds weight and are real good cardio exercises too.
 
I think posting in the trainingsection would be a better idea... unfortunately Bahir's on vacation to Thailand, but he'll be back in like 6-7 days to answer your questions.
 
If you just want to whip your body into shape (without real making it "muscular", but rather just toned) then I reccomend running (track or treadmill, I don't know if it differentiates that much, as long as you're running), skipping rope and basically sticking to mostly cardio excersices. You also (if your aim is to lose weight), need to slowly ease on the amount of calories you consume. Try lowering your calories by 500 every day.
 
in response to shape-i'm a vegetarian, addicted to veggie pizza which i used to eat 3 times a week for the last 4 years in uni. i've found a way to drop the habit this week, although i might relapse

fyi- i was reading that a colder climate is more akin to weight loss cause apparently the cold temp. accelerates your metabolism, unfortunately that isn't the case with me.

Thanks for the tips btw, any good supplements that might help me along the way?
 
Do you consume soda and eat a lot of sugar?
 
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Do you consume soda and eat a lot of sugar?</div>

no soda, yes to the sugars
 
<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">no soda, yes to the sugars</div>

I've noticed a lot of vegetarians have a sweet tooth. The sugar helps supress your appetite, but sugar turns into fat if you aren't active.

My first recommendation would be to cut back on the sweets. An effective way to do this is to change your eating pattern. Instead of eating the standard 3 meals a day, go with 5 meals, but smaller portions.

Cut out the snacking and junk food aswell.

Eating 5 meals a day should also speed up your metabolism. Your body will adjust, because it knows food is coming more often. This causes the body to burn more fat instead of storing it.
 
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I've noticed a lot of vegetarians have a sweet tooth. The sugar helps supress your appetite, but sugar turns into fat if you aren't active.

My first recommendation would be to cut back on the sweets. An effective way to do this is to change your eating pattern. Instead of eating the standard 3 meals a day, go with 5 meals, but smaller portions.

Cut out the snacking and junk food aswell.

Eating 5 meals a day should also speed up your metabolism. Your body will adjust, because it knows food is coming more often. This causes the body to burn more fat instead of storing it.</div>

i'm trying all of the above-cutting junk food, smaller portions but i don't have enough confidence in my metabolism to go five meals a day
 
<u>Question:</u> Are french fries considered unhealthy/junk food?
 
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"><u>Question:</u> Are french fries considered unhealthy/junk food?</div>
Yeah, anything fried is horrible for you.
 
99% of the food they sell in my school cafe is unhealthy.
 
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"><u>Question:</u> Are french fries considered unhealthy/junk food?</div>
is that a joke? lmao
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MrJ you make me laugh.
One minute you're leaving long posts of indepth analysis, the next you come out with this?
classic.
 
Imo, that was a good question. I was thinking about it a little. I was like baked potatoe chips are fried and they are healthy, but chips are unhealthy. Potatoes are healthy and fried things aren't healthy. Very confusing, so good question.
 
<div class="quote_poster">Umair15 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Imo, that was a good question. I was thinking about it a little. I was like baked potatoe chips are fried and they are healthy, but chips are unhealthy. Potatoes are healthy and fried things aren't healthy. Very confusing, so good question.</div>

yo let me clue you in:

ANYTHING served at the following places is considered junk food and generally unhealthy:
McDonalds, Burger King, Carls Jr, Jack In The Box, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Arby's, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, ampm. even the salads are pointless. vegetables are supposed to be eaten soon after they have been chopped or most of the nutrients are gone. so those chopped up lettuce salads in a plastic cup that McD's sell that have been sitting in the fridge for 6 days - pointless...

here are some places NOT considered junk food:
your home, your mom's oven, a non-chain restaurant, some chains like Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Outback steakhouse.

Subway isn't all that healthy. their food is processed and has preservatives and stuff. their chicken is really suspect, and a whole bunch of refined flour in the bread ain't so good for you either.

there's a reason why America has an obesity problem, and it's the fact that too many people eat this crap.
 
I guess I should eat all that junk food. I am a little skinny and need to pull on some pounds.
 
Subway is nasty. I was talkin to an employee who works there because he comes to my job to get lunch (I work in a Service Deli @ Ralph's Grocery Store, best god damn sandwiches ever, especially if I make it), and he was telling me that the "meat" they serve at subway barely qualifies as meat whenever the health department comes in.
 
<div class="quote_poster">TheBlackMamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Subway is nasty. I was talkin to an employee who works there because he comes to my job to get lunch (I work in a Service Deli @ Ralph's Grocery Store, best god damn sandwiches ever, especially if I make it), and he was telling me that the "meat" they serve at subway barely qualifies as meat whenever the health department comes in.</div>

exactly, but the crazy thing is Subway is marketed to the masses as "the healthy alternative" to McD's and BK what with those ads with that Jaron kid in them and stuff. you have to REALLY read between the lines in this country when it comes to advertising. 90% of it is lies.
 
<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">i'm trying all of the above-cutting junk food, smaller portions but i don't have enough confidence in my metabolism to go five meals a day</div>

Well it's not going be an overnight fix, but it makes a difference once your body adjusts. Incoporate a better diet, better eating habits, along with exercising and you'll notice a difference in a month.

When you first start out you're going to see a noticeable drop in weight, but most of what you're losing is going to be excess water. Eventually, you're going to plateu with losing weight, and that's when you need to be disciplined with you're diet.

When I say 5 meals, I don't mean a full plate of food. Fruit and bread for breakfast, or cereal. Then a small healthy snack before lunch. This way you don't stuff your face for lunch because it's been 4 hours between breakfast and lunch. Then eat another healthy snack a couple of hours before dinner.
 
<div class="quote_poster">TheBlackMamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Subway is nasty. I was talkin to an employee who works there because he comes to my job to get lunch (I work in a Service Deli @ Ralph's Grocery Store, best god damn sandwiches ever, especially if I make it), and he was telling me that the "meat" they serve at subway barely qualifies as meat whenever the health department comes in.</div>

IMO Subway is very good but clearly unhealthy, especially when you're getting the meatball sandwhich or chicken parmesan every time you go there (like me
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). There's alot of foods people think are healthy that are really as bad for you as anything else but the manufacturer assumes that you'll excersize and do all kinds of other things. Jamba Juices for example are only healthy for you when you eat one as your whole meal but when you're eating a Jamba Juice with a hamburger then you just wasted a few extra dollars on a Jamba Juice when you could have gotten a milk shake for less where you got the hamburger. Power bars are also basically modified candy bars, not healthy for you if you're just eating it as a desert after you've downed your 7 tacos from Taco Bell.
 
btw is anybody using CLA? i am and haven't experienced anything to validate its claims
 
<div class="quote_poster">Umair15 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I guess I should eat all that junk food. I am a little skinny and need to pull on some pounds.</div>
Umair, I think you'll realise that its easy to put on pounds, can be relatively effortless. Its not as easy to take them off.
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<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">i'm trying to get back into shape and its harder than i imagined. what kind of exercises do u guys recommend? do u think its better to run on the track or treadmill? what kind of exercise equipment should i use? any diet tips? whats better the elliptical machine or the stairmaster? everybody uses the elliptical thing but i feel i get a better workout on the stairmaster. how about the stationary bike?

heres why i need to get into shape- i'm 6 foot One, in high school i weighed 185 pounds and now 5 years after high school, i've ballooned up to 250 pounds</div>
Deception, I'd recommend if you can walk to work or walk to your local grocery store, or walk to wherever you have to go. Just adding 15-30 minute walk a day it helps. Unless your job is really active then you probably wouldn't want to walk there.

I got a membership at a gym, but I really wasn't motivated to go there. I felt it was too far away and with little purpose. There are lots of people that do go to gyms, I just don't have the motivation to.
<div class="quote_poster">Umair15 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I guess I should eat all that junk food. I am a little skinny and need to pull on some pounds.</div>

<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">i'm trying all of the above-cutting junk food, smaller portions but i don't have enough confidence in my metabolism to go five meals a day</div>
Yea cutting junk food out definitely will help and if you replace chips and chocolate bars with vegetables, there is not only a huge difference in calories, but also in nutrients and take a while to digest.
 
<div class="quote_poster">SkiptoMyLue11 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">

Deception, I'd recommend if you can walk to work or walk to your local grocery store, or walk to wherever you have to go. Just adding 15-30 minute walk a day it helps. Unless your job is really active then you probably wouldn't want to walk there.

I got a membership at a gym, but I really wasn't motivated to go there. I felt it was too far away and with little purpose. There are lots of people that do go to gyms, I just don't have the motivation to.



Yea cutting junk food out definitely will help and if you replace chips and chocolate bars with vegetables, there is not only a huge difference in calories, but also in nutrients and take a while to digest.</div>

somebody gave me similar advice but it really isn't feasible considering i live north of the city and everything i need is in the city which forces me to drive. although, what i'm doing is parking further away from where ever i need to be and walking rest of the way just for the exercise. although skip, i think i'm fairly atheltic guy for a dude my size, yesterday i ran 4 miles on the track in a little over 30 minutes.
 
I sure hope this gym has weights. If it does pumping the iron would be great for you to get back in shape. Squats, bench presses, deadlifts, there are many exercises to do. Google some exercises and hit the iron if you can.

For losing weight you should definatly do some cardio like the treadmill.
 
On Subway: I have worked there and the ingredients aren't really bad at all. The bread can be suspect because it comes prerolled but the meats and stuff are all pretty decent quality, vaccuumed packed. Just as much credibility in those meats as your typical store bought lunch meat. Our vegetables were delivered by a local produce company so those were fresh as well.

You can have a very healthy meal at Subway if you make the right decision, of course if you get the Chicken Bacon Ranch with extra ranch and chipotle sauce you're not eating healthy. But if you go in and order a Veggie Delite or a Turkey or Chicken Fajita, etc. And you get some 0 fat condiments like mustard, vinegar, honey mustard, and plenty of veggies then it's a good healthy meal. Although I will say that the refined carbs in the bread makes it pointless to get wheat if you're thinking that will help because the white is probably the same carb-wise.
 
<div class="quote_poster">AA13 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I sure hope this gym has weights. If it does pumping the iron would be great for you to get back in shape. Squats, bench presses, deadlifts, there are many exercises to do. Google some exercises and hit the iron if you can.

For losing weight you should definatly do some cardio like the treadmill.</div>

i got weights at home as well but i can't do it for a while cause i hurt my left arm a few weeks back trying to play basketball, key word "trying"
 
Speaking of weights, I think I have a problem with my knees or something, they seem to always feel 'strained' and kind of uncomfortable anytime I'm doing any kind of leg excersices. Ditto for my upper leg parts connecting to my hips (hip flexors?) when I'm doing squats. The knee problem is persistent regardless of if I'm doing it proer or not but I think the hip flexor thing is probably cause I don't stretch sometimes.
 
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">is that a joke? lmao
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MrJ you make me laugh.
One minute you're leaving long posts of indepth analysis, the next you come out with this?
classic.</div>
My bad, I was just eating fries yesterday at the time.
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Heh, I just went to a Pizza Hut buffet. I eat McDonalds/BK/Subway/Any other junk food like once every 10 days. I don't put on weight though because I'm fairly active. Damn, all this talk of fries makes me want to go get some McD's.

Deception, I suggest you go for a 30min jog in the mornings and start eating proper meals instead of snacking and so forth. Swimming is also a good exercise. Most the people I know who go on diets or whatever go swimming twice a week.
 
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