Ugh..i'm so fat. I have a mild gut and like the ugly man boobs...moobs. :( This makes me feel a little self concious especially since i'm starting Club swwimming for the first time. :( I feel so fat. :(
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Originally posted by Bags
I know this is going to sound flippant, but the only way to reliably lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.
An equally reliable and much faster way to lose weight is to cut off an arm or leg. If this approach doesn't appeal to you, it's probably because what you really want to lose is not weight but fat.
The two are not synonymous! You will lose weight if you lose fat and everything else remains the same. But it is possible (though increasingly difficult as you get older) to put on lean body mass as you lose fat, and as a result to have your total weight remain the same. And it is also possible to lose weight but to have a significant amount of that weight loss be lean body mass rather than fat.
In fact, it has been estimated that if you lose weight through dieting and aren't doing heavy exercise when you do it, only about 75% of the weight you lose will be fat. And, to make matters worse, if you put weight back on and aren't doing heavy exercise, about 90% of the weight you put on will be fat.
Bob
Originally posted by Bags
I know this is going to sound flippant, but the only way to reliably lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.
An equally reliable and much faster way to lose weight is to cut off an arm or leg. If this approach doesn't appeal to you, it's probably because what you really want to lose is not weight but fat.
The two are not synonymous! You will lose weight if you lose fat and everything else remains the same. But it is possible (though increasingly difficult as you get older) to put on lean body mass as you lose fat, and as a result to have your total weight remain the same. And it is also possible to lose weight but to have a significant amount of that weight loss be lean body mass rather than fat.
In fact, it has been estimated that if you lose weight through dieting and aren't doing heavy exercise when you do it, only about 75% of the weight you lose will be fat. And, to make matters worse, if you put weight back on and aren't doing heavy exercise, about 90% of the weight you put on will be fat.
Bob
