Hi all I am new here. I am wondering what is a good routine to swim and lose weight? I am close to 250lbs right now and don't look good fat LOL. was doing some research and found an article written by USMS' own Bill Volckening (if he posts here, hi Bill!) that talks about how he lost weight by swimming and changing his diet, but he don't talk about the swimming much, just the eating. LOL and i've had enough eating.
His story is very inspriational though and I want tofollow suit! I've started a diet but I need help with swiming! ANy suggestions?? ThxU!
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Centaur, does your boyfriend have a younger brother? Lol.
I think you nailed it, Centaur. I think the whole world would look fabulous if we all weighed in the range of our BMI's. And yes, the BMI's serve a just purpose, but it's impossible for every single person to be like that. However, the whole point of this is that I do believe that people can weigh more than they "should" according to their height and weight charts, and still be wonderfully fit and healthy, for all the reasons everyone on here has added.
For a reverse story, my 22 year old sister is 5'6, and has a larger bone structure than I. She just naturally looks a little bigger, and she weight almost 235 pounds by her senior year of high school. My first year of college, she started following weight watchers, and working out, and lost a ton of weight. She got down to 140 pounds, and she discovered, to maintain that weight for her body size she either had to work out like a maniac (think 4 hours per day, every day), or she would just eat less. At one point, she pretty much started to live on cereal, dry toast, jello, things like that with absolutely no substance, and she looked horrible. Gaunt, almost sickly, because her skin color was pale and even though she was 5'6 and 140 pounds, it looked like someone had overstretched her skin around her body to make it fit. Does that make sense? It wasn't a healthy weight for her, even though how she got there was beyond scary. Her body type just wasn't able to be 140 pounds and healthy. It was too thin for her.
Happy to say now, of course, she's at a more comfortable weight, looks beautiful (if I say so rather jealously), and is engaged to be married (that was just so I can say that I get to be a bridesmaid! Yay!)
Centaur, does your boyfriend have a younger brother? Lol.
I think you nailed it, Centaur. I think the whole world would look fabulous if we all weighed in the range of our BMI's. And yes, the BMI's serve a just purpose, but it's impossible for every single person to be like that. However, the whole point of this is that I do believe that people can weigh more than they "should" according to their height and weight charts, and still be wonderfully fit and healthy, for all the reasons everyone on here has added.
For a reverse story, my 22 year old sister is 5'6, and has a larger bone structure than I. She just naturally looks a little bigger, and she weight almost 235 pounds by her senior year of high school. My first year of college, she started following weight watchers, and working out, and lost a ton of weight. She got down to 140 pounds, and she discovered, to maintain that weight for her body size she either had to work out like a maniac (think 4 hours per day, every day), or she would just eat less. At one point, she pretty much started to live on cereal, dry toast, jello, things like that with absolutely no substance, and she looked horrible. Gaunt, almost sickly, because her skin color was pale and even though she was 5'6 and 140 pounds, it looked like someone had overstretched her skin around her body to make it fit. Does that make sense? It wasn't a healthy weight for her, even though how she got there was beyond scary. Her body type just wasn't able to be 140 pounds and healthy. It was too thin for her.
Happy to say now, of course, she's at a more comfortable weight, looks beautiful (if I say so rather jealously), and is engaged to be married (that was just so I can say that I get to be a bridesmaid! Yay!)
