Thin and Fat! Advise please

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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Ok Cheethah. Your advise is also good.

I think i didnt make myself clear with respect to what i meant by 'sprinting'. I should have stated that 'sprinting' in interval training isnt like the '100m dash sprint'. In interval training sprinting is actually meant to be a sudden 'very fast jog' rather than a full out sprint- that of course would burn out you and your energy resources and prevent you from continuing.

Personally about the lactic acid, i have never experienced this problem. This could be due to the fact that i had already been treadmilling and getting my system used to high energy workouts. Also i had already stated in my advise that no-one should implement high intensity interval training straight on but build themselves up towards it for safety reasons.
As a rule of thumb, I would say that whatever the the workout intensity being implemented, when you break sweat that is the sign that you ahve worked hard and made a productive session.
A lot of people just go to the gym, and walk for for 30 or even 40 minutes anddontbreakadropof sweat actually dont knwo that they are not really benfiting from thierworkout.
A good workout is meant to be hard..and immidietly after hard and sweaty workout one feels the related satisfaction.

Cheetah, i have tried high intensity excercises other than interval training, and i know 10 minutes of rope skipping is considerably more difficult than 10 minutes of interva training.
However. for myself i have found out of many excercises that the treadmill and interval training with the tredmill is the of the most convinient and effective way to loose weight. Moreover, i just had a 15 minute training session yesterday and belive me including this and a day after every proper session i notice my trousers and shirts loosing on me a noticeble amount...

Ofcourse there are other high intensity workouts such as the ones youve stated, but i sure you would agree for the novice these would be harder to implement than the treadmil and rather to put them off alltogether.

To O.P; i strongly recommend that you consult a fitness instructor, who would be able to, looking a your particular situation, sort out a tailored plan for meeting your goals.

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Thank u for all ur replies! i really appreciate it =)

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If you are desperately trying to lose excess belly fat and get that sexy body, then stop counting calories. It is time-consuming, completely unnecessary and as you’ll soon find out, very frustrating. But don’t get too excited though. You still have to be mindful of what you eat.

go to this link for counting calories
http://www.flatbellytips.org/reason-…nting-calories

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dont diet, eat a nutrient rich diet. Get your vitamin levels tested, and check your thyroid to just in case, most pakistani women are deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D has a huge impact on your insulin sensitivity, you want your insulin to work properly so that your body is using glucose properly, When its not, it could lead to diabetes, pcos. Be active, dont eat refined oils, dont eat anything with trans fat in it, dont eat bakery good, junk food , if you do, look at the ingredients carefully, Most importantly eat a nutrient filled diet - VEGGIES, FRUITS, WHOLE GRAINS< LEAN PROTEINS, AND HEALTHY FATS REALLY SIMPLE. healthy fats are omega 3s in fish, walnuts, monounsaturates in olive oil , almonds, even saturates are fine in small amounts like real butter and egg yolks, they assist in absorbing fat soluble vitamins. Basically, eat as naturally and desi as possible, stay active, and get your vitamin levels checked, make sure you get in enough calcium and vitamin D...these two are very closely linked to belly fat.

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You all have given good advice on how to reduce fat by eating right kind of food and excersise. we heard one doctor named Joel Fuhrman on Public TV

He said SALAD should be your main Meal…:k:

put that on your refrigerator door!

We eat refined carbs that do not get absorbed and are deposited on the mid section as fat! so we are hungary again!

eating vegies adds micronutrients to our diets that helps process the carbs where they get burned and not deposited around the mid section.

his formula was: G O N M B S

G…Greens
O…Onions
N…Nuts
M…Mushrooms
B…Berries
S…Seeds

Eat more of these and less refined carbs…:k:

actually he did not even mention excercise, but that is implied…:slight_smile:

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I just read the above few comments and I agree.

I actually came here to say that I have put my sister on a ‘diet’ that is low carb.

We will still try and get the doc to do some more tests or refer her to an endo but at the same time, if it is PCOS then the same diet that is often recommended for diabetics should find her an improvement.

I was pushed after reading this article. While I don’t advocate the extreme diet unless one’s Dr. is on side, I found a lot of useful info in the comments of this piece:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-diet-hope-cure-diabetes

So, we are not looking at or counting calories at all. She is just allowed minimal carbs and to be taken at breakfast or lunch. No cakes, biscuits (not even one as a snack), no breakfast cereal, no white bread, no pasta, no potato, no rice… just everything you can think of has been taken out. The reason we decided to be so extreme was because in her normal diet, she doesn’t eat an excessive amount of any of these things. So the only way to test is to eliminate them completely. Not sure if she is doing this but I also told her to have a regular sleeping pattern so she can space out her 3 meals. No more staying up til the middle of the night which means you want to snack around midnight.

She now has to be inventive with fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, beans, lentils, fruit and veg, berries etc etc. It’s up to her. Yesterday she was complaining that she could not find anything for lunch but as I pointed out, we had tuna, we had eggs, we had salad… not hard to put them together for lunch.

For an example, last night (friday is fish and chips day) my mum made her chips with butternut squash as a substitute.

She’s been on it for one week and so far what I can tell is that she has had no new spots, the scars from her older spots have faded more than they usually do in one week, her face is a lot less oily. It also looks like she is retaining less water.

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Lactic acid is not a problem - its a natural byproduct of anaerobic exercise. Sprinting is not easy - it requires more oxygen than what can be inhaled by breathing, which makes sprinting anaerobic (carbohydrate metabolism without oxygen). If both were the same, athletes in marathons would just sprint all the time instead of running. In fact, one of the main purposes of interval training is to increase the lactate threshold. May be you aren't sprinting properly if you do not the feel lactic acid inflammation. These are text book definitions.

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Agreed 200 percent. am not an expert on how to burn fat - so wont comment on that. But you have described difference between aerobic and anaerobic running succinctly.

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Best advice I have seen for nutritious healthy diet. Good luck to OP!!