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/fit/,
I've come to you for advice. I'm moderately overweight. I really want to get down to an average weight or right next to it. I'm not sure what exersise to do or much of that. I've tried running but I can't run for long without getting winded since I was raised around smokers. I try to run atleast 3 times a week for 5-10 minutes. Then I walk for about 20-30 minutes. I do a some sit ups and push ups. How much ever long my schedule allows. I've cut soda out of my diet and try not to snack at all. I usually have just some toast for breakfast. A lil bit of whatever for lunch. Usually a PBJ. Then a homecooked meal for dinner. I drink anywhere from 80fl oz to 140 fl oz of water every day. I don't have any weights or a weight machine. I'm too poor. So, /fit/, what should I do to shed the pounds? Especially those around the love handle areas?
>> Anonymous
If you have problems breathing you could try swimming.
>> Anonymous
Nice stretch marks.

Also looks like you're gonna have loose skin under the belly button since you're forming "ass in the front" around your waist line.
>> Anonymous
>>192135
Yeah, I know. They were were before I lost weight 2 years ago. And I know I'm probably going to have loose skin around there.
>> Anonymous
You gotta run and do lots of situps. Build up endurance if you want it you will do it. They have a lot of good guides on this site http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/index.html
>> Anonymous
>>192150
the more I run do you think the easier my breathing will be? Are there any other things I can do to build up my breathing?
>> Anonymous
Nice hour glass figure.
>> Anonymous
>>192153
(not original replier) Yes, it will.
Try coolrunning from potatota to 5k. Get more info about diet (lean meat, eat 5times a day, etc.).
>> Anonymous
>>192138

You probably won't have loose skin, it's pretty rare unless you were over like 350 pounds for a very extended period of time.

If you do, well, surgery to fix it probably isn't THAT expensive, maybe a few hundred dollars.
>> Anonymous
>>192168
>maybe a few hundred dollars.

lol.

Maybe from Dr. Chavez, the best Veterinarian/Plastic Surgeon in all of Mexico City.
>> Anonymous
>>192177

If chicks are able to get decent boob jobs for about 2k these days, I'd assume a tummy tuck can't be that expensive. All they'd doing is cutting your skin open, taking off a fraction of it, and stitching it back together. It's like a 30 minute surgery.

But, like I said, I really fucking doubt OP will have any sort of loose skin. He's hardly even overweight now, just out of shape. People get loose skin when they stupidly decide they're above the FDA and every professional trainer/nutritionist and think it's fine to lose 30 pounds in a month or some absurd shit like that.

Loose skin is caused by losing a large amount of weight too quickly.
>> Anonymous
>>192217
Does it tighten over time or does it stay loose? - If you lose the weight too quickly.
>> °-° !!yxFrHrMXyX9
Moderately overweight? Sure, maybe in America.
As for your current routine, let me be blunt. GET A JOB, seriously, then you will have money, weights, motivation etc.
Running 5-10 minutes 3 times a week isn't going to do much for you, and walking will do fuck all. You need to lurk some moar around here, research HIIT and so on.

Your diet is okay so far, except for one thing, don't just have a piece of toast for breakfast. Breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day, lunch a moderate sized one and dinner a small one. Some nuts and dried fruit as a snack in between if need be but no more than one cup.
If you are really serious about losing weight, you're going to need a gym membership or some of your own equipment. You'll also need to start counting those calories so you don't over eat and just waste time, fitday.com will he you out there.
Good luck.
>> Anonymous
>>192221

Depends on genetics, nutrition, how long you were overweight, how much weight you were carrying, where the weight was stored, your age, level of physical activity, and overall body composition once you reach a "normal" weight.

Women get pregnant and seem to not have loose skin very often, and that involves gaining and losing a large amount of weight in a very short period of time. Your skin is a very adaptive organ...if it lost elasticity easily, you'd have TONS of loose skin just from losing 10 pounds or so. Generally, the physiology behind "loose skin" is that your fat cells detach themselves from your skin to try to make room for new fat cells if you are severely overweight, and then the skin can become saggy because the fat cells aren't directly attached to it anymore from the inside, so it lacks support. Couple this fact with fast weight loss and you have a recipe for disaster because your skin can not keep up with the volume of shrinking fat cells.

Also, if you DO have loose skin, it will tighten up over time. The thing here is to worry about getting to your normal weight first, because it's hard to predict if you'll have loose skin while you're still actually overweight. If you get to a normal weight and have loose skin, you should wait a year and see how it bounces back...that's actually a bit of a requirement for a tummy tuck surgery because it's often not necessary to go to surgery since it can fix itself in time. Furthermore, what people often perceive to be loose skin is generally just fat that still needs to be burned off. Skin is EXTREMELY thin...all seven layers make up less than 1/16th of an inch, so if you can grab on to a part of flesh and it feels thick inside, it's probably still fat. On top of all of this, don't neglect that you need a proper body composition at your normal weight, you might hit 150 or whatever and still be 25% body fat.
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>>192295

I'd like to illustrate this with a picture and a YouTube link.

The guy in the picture is still fat, you can CLEARLY see this. Cases of real loose skin look nothing like this. The picture is of a guy who was almost 500 pounds and lost about 250, so he's still around 250 and clearly has a bad ratio of fat to muscle, so he's still just plain fat...all he did was shrink his fatness down. His skin DOES look a little...wrinkly, but I think he's also close to 50 years old from what his blog said (he was apparently bitching about loose skin and wanted donations for surgery on his blog). The real answer to this problem is to fucking do more cardio and eat properly, since he's still fucking overweight at 250, despite a dramatic weight loss achievement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDGHuuEn_FI

Now, the above YouTube video is a case of severely fucked up skin from doing EVERYTHING incorrectly. The guy did NO exercise and basically starved himself to go from 400+ pounds to 160 or something. You'll rage when his personal trainer openly admits that he kept him out of the gym and made him lose the weight through diet alone in order to "prove to people that you can lose weight by other methods than working out". Both the trainer and the sack of skin are fucking jokes who did everything improperly and the guy is paying for it now because his skin is fucking ruined.
>> Anonymous
Dude, quit the 'I was raised around smokers' excuse. I think I can compare...I actually smoke, and have just started running each day. In two weeks of TRYING I've gone from three minutes to twenty (and at a good pace too)
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>>192295
>>192301
>> Anonymous
>>192320
How many times do you run per week?
>> Anonymous
OP - HERE IS SOMEONE WITH EXP please dont listen to these retards... first off eat healthy stuff aka non processed food and exercise with weights dont do just cardio. these people who say something about loose skin are fucking stupid coz in order to have ANY loose skin you need to be completly out of any proper muscle mass and atleast 300 pounds overweight while losing it really fast - like 100 pounds in 8 months.

please dont scare him with false bullshit...
>> Anonymous
>>192350

i would like to know this as well
>> Anonymous
>>192366

Pushups, crunches (horizontal, then vertical plus bicycle kicks), long cardio (tempo runs) and hard cardio (HIIT). give it a couple of months, and you'll be a-okay. Also: bigger breakfast, toast is not gonna cut it.
>> Anonymous
how did u get fat in the first place
>> Anonymous
Dude eat vegetables and fruits and whole wheat. Avoid dinner. Do some work outside. Run about 50 minutes every other day and do push ups and sit ups (intense) the other days. See some real changes in a month. Dont expect to lose 20 pounds in an hour.
>> Anonymous
Soreness is not completely clear to sports medicine.
It can be from lactat acid in your muscle that builds up from repair or the modern opinion says it is pain from micro-tears in muscle-fiber.
Whatever the cause, you body tells you to rest for repair.
It does not make much difference if you rest 1 or 2 days.
Soreness will go away anyway once your body gets used to the exercises.
>> Anonymous
What helps to greatly prevent soreness is proper warming up and cooling down after lifting.
15 minutes on the stationary or treadmill and you'll recover faster.
>> Anonymous
soreness is good.
>> Anonymous
running for 5-10 minutes and walking for 20-30 (and i can guess you're actually doing the low end of these figures) will do fuck all you fucking fat ass. RUN/JOG for 30 minutes straight or do some HIIT or don't even waste your time fatty
>> Anonymous
>>192456
Ive wondered , so is whole wheat better than whole grain ?
>> Anonymous
YOU DON'T GET WINDED BECAUSE YOU WERE RAISED AROUND SMOKERS YOU GET WINDED BECAUSE YOU'RE OVERWEIGHT AND OUT OF SHAPE
>> Anonymous
>>192615

It's the same thing.

>>192581

Walking for an hour at three miles per hour burns between 300 and 400 calories. It's been studied often and it shows walking may actually be more beneficial to fat loss than running since you never push yourself into an efficiency mode (this is basically the same reasoning behind HIIT, you never get yourself to the point where the body becomes complacent due to the start and stop method. Likewise, with walking, you never push yourself to an intensity that tells your body it needs to be holding on to calories for energy, so it's more willing to use them up).

If you don't understand that moving your body burns calories and thus causes weight loss...I really don't know what to tell you aside from you're an ignorant fuck. If walking didn't work, then my wife must have just had some kind of magic spell cast on her after pregnancy to make her lose 60 pounds and end up with no loose skin or stretch marks and the fact that she walked five miles a day and ate healthy was just a coincidence.