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[itaewonguy]

1: GYM-
join a gym, do 40mins - 1hour on the treadmill pace walk at about 7-8 jog in there too if you can, its up to you, but don�t over do it so you hate, it just get your heart going...do this 3 or 4 times a week.. Then do some weights! Not to heavy weight you don�t want to get big.. LIGHT WEIGHTS AND MORE REPS is key here for you... hit the gym 3-5 times week and keep the routine for 3 months! It�s only a season!! Force yourself in there! You will feel so much better when you walk out of there!! Go 3 times a week!!!

2: DIET!
Diet is everything you can lose all the weight without even lifting a finger with a good diet... but hey you are pushing 40 so you might as well be healthy so hitting the gym is a must...it needs to become a life style.
Cut out all sugar or at least 50% to start! Stick with diet coke! Limit candy bars to when you really crave it, don�t punish yourself by forcing yourself to not have what you want. Just be sensible. If you start to force yourself to not have things you crave. You will eventually crack... eat what you want but limit it and know when you have had too much of it, be smart here...nothing wrong with a treat.
I think you know what to eat! You know what is good and what is not...
You could try eating 5 meals a day! It�s tricky but if you can do it for 3 months it will help... but who has time for that I know...
Stick with 3, make them healthy! Carbs 2 hours before you work out! No carbs after you work out... protein after you work out... don�t eat huge meals... fruit for snacks!

No beer, No juices, DRINK GREEN TEA!!! Water or diet coke!

4: my advice is... basically you need willpower, it�s a chore but dude you have to do it... and most importantly you need motivation!!
You need a purpose to hit the gym, you need a purpose to stay on track you need a reason to give a Fukc!!
Once you have that passion, motivation you get into the gym... most people don�t like going to the gym, they just know they should so they begin to enjoy it; some love it, some don�t! It�s all about going!!
Especially if you are married and pushing 40 the motivation to look good for the ladies has kind of gone
Fall into that comfort zone..
Arnie use to say, whenever he worked out he would think of girls finding him sexy!
Find something which works for you...
DONT GIVE UP!! If you find time to go to work! And do podcasts and watch movies etc..
You can find time to hit the gym for an hour..

5: snacks, hunger cravings and low energy...
Ok when you are hungry between classes a candy bar seems great, gives you that spike you need, not good... best to pack small meals (snacks) in your bag so when you feel hungry just have a mouth full of some tuna salad or something find something else to nibble on which is not packed full of sugar or fats.... save chocolates for twice a week or when you are really craving it!, don�t abuse it! Limit it down to certain days!
Don�t eliminate carbs! Because your brain will over power you and you will find yourself munching on two bigmacs by the end of the day, eat enough but just limit it, to clean carbs! Bread is not one of them!
Nothing wrong with fast food in moderation!
Arghhhh RICE!! Well, yes look at Koreans thin as pencils and they eat 2 bowls of rice how do they do it! Well genetics! Your father is a big man! So genetically it�s easy for you to gain weight... so you need to work at it...
If you eat 3 meals you shouldn�t find yourself getting hungry too often...

But when you do, drink some tea! Or have some fruit, that�s right actually buy an apple from a Korean guy down the street and eat it...
Chit buy two!
Discipline! Buy the way-7/11 has nothing worth eating for you now!!

Good luck and don�t give up
The key is sticking with it..
Ig

[aboxofchocolates]

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[aka Dave]

A couple things. I drink a lot of beer. I eat well, usually fairly clean, good fats and proteins.

If you use the "Starting Strength program" and if you squat/deadlift/power clean/ bench/press and use the additional exercises like say dips and chin ups you will have my problem, even if you drink beers on the weekend.
You will have trouble "putting on" weight. Currently I cannot get myself to 65 kilos. I'm lifting more, but not by a lot.

Honestly if you want to lose weight. Squat. Then deadlift. Then press. And substitute the dips for the bench press. You want full body exercises that work your entire system. On the second workout chin-up/pull-up/ power clean (hard to learn but worth it) and then maybe push press and squat again (actually every workout you should be squatting. It's the god lift).

You will get to a point where you can't eat enough.

[bogey666]

[aboxofchocolates]

[rbecky_5574]

stop eating the sugar and stop drinking

that should do it

[Privateer]

Aside from everything else, walking is very good for you. Get at least a 20 minute walk every day.

[bogey666]

[bogey666]

[aka Dave]

[bogey666]

[seoulteacher]

A kinda interesting juxtaposition there: first Livinginkunsan's post, then EzeWong's. Thanks, EzeWong! Good, helpful points.

Livinginkunsan, are you young (as in your 20s)? Still lean and with ribs showing? I well remember when I was like that: those were the days - I was a competitive swimmer and didn't have to worry about putting on a lb; I could eat whatever and whenever and how much I wanted. Developed terrible eating habits (not that they were that out of the norm), and I stopped exercising - and for years nothing too much happened weight wise. (Actually, looking back now, I was gaining weight but, by appearance anyways, it passed for OK).

And I didn't have any understanding of how easy, and I'm thinking of especially as we get older, it can be to become overweight - it seems to often happen without us realizing its happening. And without having faced that personal challenge I may have not have had empathy for the other.

Personally, I think that we - and I'm thinking of North Americans, primarily - have settled in to a whole way of eating that is toxic: its almost as if so much of what passes for a normal diet is very unhealthy. I really think that we need to take a leaf out of that budgeting technique that Jimmy Carter brought to prominence, 'zero-based budgeting': everything, every type of food item that we eat, must be justified, nothing is (automatically) sacred.

Oh, apart from becoming increasingly overweight over the years, I was becoming increasingly lethargic. This is all super critical stuff.

And here's an article that caught my eye yesterday - a lot here that, at first appearance anyways, seems well worth considering:
'Woman goes raw, loses more than half herself (CNN)'
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/26/weightloss.angela.stokes/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

And the video of her telling her story:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2008/09/23/gupta.fn.raw.food.stokes.cnn

[aka Dave]

[bogey666]

god I hate squats (though I acknowledge it's a great exercise)

one thing I hate about squats is my I am super uncomfortable holding the bar with my arms.. so I usually just extend them all the way out, with my palms on top of the weights at the end.. instead of grabbing the bar.. otherwise very uncomfortable.

I've read a fair amount of debate about parallel vs going below parallel.

I've decided since I'm older and had knee surgery on one knee a while back, it's not worth taking any risks to go below parallel for me.

I'd only do it if my glutes were turning to complete jelly because that's what you work the most when you go lower than parallel. Your ass.