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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 87: Do Weights Help You Lose Weight?
"A recent article in Time magazine actually said that excercise does not help you lose weight and that it is all diet. "
BTW, this article has been debunked 10 ways from Sunday. The author is totally wrong, didn't do any research, and based his conclusions on the fact that he used exercise as an excuse to eat junk afterward because he "craved" it. Exercising is NOT an excuse to go out and eat fries and ice cream and cake. If you are hungrier after lifting weights (and I'm always ravenous) eat HEALTHY foods, and make sure you get a good bit of protein in after your workout - when your muscles are most receptive to metabolizing that protein for strength and muscle growth.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 87: Do Weights Help You Lose Weight?
All over - full body workouts with free weights or body weight. Skip the machines - they isolate muscles, which isn't optimal.
Check out a book called The New Rules of Lifting. I used to and it changed my entire way of thinking about weight lifting and exercise (I'm female, btw).
Squats, lunges, pushups, chinups/pullups, dips, presses ... those are the kinds of things you should be doing.
Make sure you give 48 hours to recover after each workout. You shouldn't be working every single day - you need recovery time.
Frozen Shrimp: To Use or Not to Use?
I don't even understand why this is a question.
Unless you live on the ocean, then any "fresh" shrimp you get at a fish counter is previously frozen.
Absolutely the best shrimp are the freshest shrimp. And when you live inland, then the freshest shrimp are often the ones that are still frozen - instead of hte ones that have been frozen, shipped, thawed, and then sold.
Why is this even in question?
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People get so hung up on one individual food and it just makes me want to roll my eyes.
Are bananas keeping you from losing the last 15 lbs? No. CALORIES are keeping you from losing the last 15 lbs. If you eat more calories than you burn, then you're not going to lose weight.
It's food. Period. If cutting back on bananas is the way you chose to eat fewer calories, then great. If you choose to continue eating bananas and cut back on something else, that's great too.
But don't blame bananas. That's just stupid.