TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2011 - Page 366

On June 16 2011 06:40 Razith wrote:


What digestive issues?

I could easily say white rice causes your blood sugar to spike which increases your risk of diabetes. Anyone without an impaired digestive system won't have issues digesting brown rice.

On June 16 2011 08:59 shinosai wrote:
After doing all the research on TL and reading about nutrition, it's really painful for me when I saw someone post this on facebook:

"Food is not important. How much you eat is important. You can work on food after you lose weight. The body will not differentiate between burning "bad calories" and burning "good calories." A calorie is a calorie. What happens is the body uses different energy pathways, but that is not important for me to explain, and you have enough to digest."

Anyone have a good scientific article I can link before he does too much damage?

On June 16 2011 11:11 ffadicted wrote:
Guys, what exercises would you recommend for getting shoulders a bit broader/bigger.... I feel like this is the part I'm missing the most in the upper body, just big shoulders :\

On June 16 2011 10:42 AoN.DimSum wrote:



oh wow we are about the same size!, im 5'4 at around 145lbs.


btw anyone programmers here? I am starting to learn because I want to develop android apps. i have some questions :D

On June 16 2011 00:42 Razith wrote:


Describe the nausea more, but to me it sounds like you're starving yourself. You're going from a really high calorie intake, with big meals, to a very low calorie intake spread out, so your body thinks its starving. Starving is never good because basically your body is holding out until you resume your previous diet, in which it will then store more fat for the next starvation you put it through.

If you want to lose weight and change what you eat, you have to recognize its a lifestyle change and its a gradual process. You can't wake up one morning and completely change your eating habits, that'll cause you to snap and pig-out on junk food again and it'll be really hard. Instead, gradually change how you eat; start removing things from your list one at a time.

The first thing I would recommend is to cut out soda and drink water only. Drinking excess calories is the easiest way to put on a ton of weight. Don't do anything else until you're comfortable with this. Trust me when I say its hard at first, but after a week your body tends to forget things and you won't get the cravings for them anymore. Plus water quenches thirst insanely well so you won't want soda all the time; just have a big glass of water near you at all times. You'll be suprised one day when you're thirsty and you subconsciously pour yourself a glass of water; feels really good when that happens.

But lets say you drink 2 cans of soda a day. Thats 300 calories of unneeded sugars. Multiply that by 7 days a week and thats 2100 calories. Considering there is 3500 calories in 1lb of fat, that is a shit load of calories already gone simply by drinking only water. Also, when you drink lots of water, it curbs your hunger and you'll really only eat when you are truly hungry.

Once you have soda out of your list and you're drinking lots of water, start cutting out the junk food. Limit yourself to chips or whatever it is you like to once a week; say Saturday.. or hell maybe a Tuesday if thats what you want. Remember its a gradual process, and although you are still eating junk food, you are eating far less junk food relative to what you were doing before. 7 days a week to 1 day a week is HUGE. Start spreading out your main meals too as you'll be far less likely to snack.

Just make small changes like this. You can't just drastically change everything and think you'll stick with it. But if you can start slowly cutting things out of your diet like soda, junk food etc you'll be more likely to succeed.

If you need any help feel free to PM me at any time. I've been down this road before and understand how difficult it can be.

On June 16 2011 14:09 thedeadhaji wrote:
>Dimsum

Visit "the big programming thread" in general

On June 16 2011 15:00 Catch wrote:
@Decaf: I wanted the sound on, so I could hear that beautiful sound as it hit the floor. Nice lift man.

Guys, I don't know what happened to me. I'm so excited to lift I tried going to bed around 8 just so I could sleep the night away and wake up in the morning.

Now it is 2 am, I'm awake as fuck, and I Just want to lift.

On June 16 2011 20:26 sc4k wrote:
So anyway, onto a pressing matter in my mind. I'm hearing lots of things about carbs and paleo and fats and everything. One concept I want to focus on and perhaps do some research about is the idea of paleo. It seems to be very meat-centric. But this seems to clash with the basic facts.
They say paleo makes sense because humans have been around for 2.2 million years and agriculture was only developed very recently, meaning we are actually evolved for a diet consisting of what can be found in nature such as berries, fruits, nuts and animals of all sorts. But when I see guys eating paleo I see a hell of a lot of protein and especially meat such as beef and pork on the menu.

Wiki tells me there is no documented evidence of bows being made before 8000 BC. Traps are believed to have started being used around 30,000 years ago. So for 2.17 million years humans were existing without an effective way of catching big game. I find it extremely difficult to believe that humans would have spent the majority of this time running after wild boar and clubbing it to death. Far more likely is that the majority of humans lived off fruits and, where available, shellfish and other coastal creatures.

I find it extremely difficult to believe the majority of humans would have been spending a large proportion of those 2.2 million years fishing for healthy salmon. And in terms of finding creatures with enough meat to feed a tribe- the hunting process is a long and arduous one, filled with tracking and waiting. It also is fraught with danger and the chance of not getting the prey. It is not particularly efficient and reliable, unlike fruit collection or honey collection etc. Have any of you chaps done any research or looked at any sources on this?

On June 16 2011 14:32 phyre112 wrote:
Ate pizza last night and a subway sub on 9-grain bread today for lunch, then another bit of pizza for dinner; Was feeling nauseous from when I woke up (7 am) until about noon. Subsided into a terrible stomach ache until 3 or 4, then it went away. Currently (2am) unable to sleep; extremely bothered by my allergies, feeling severe heartburn, pains in my knee, and a headache. All things that used to very commonly bother me, but since I'd been avoiding grains hadn't been a problem for a few months. Besides having woken up early this morning, this is the only change in my daily routine.

Going back to paleo kthx.

On June 16 2011 20:26 sc4k wrote:
So anyway, onto a pressing matter in my mind. I'm hearing lots of things about carbs and paleo and fats and everything. One concept I want to focus on and perhaps do some research about is the idea of paleo. It seems to be very meat-centric. But this seems to clash with the basic facts.
They say paleo makes sense because humans have been around for 2.2 million years and agriculture was only developed very recently, meaning we are actually evolved for a diet consisting of what can be found in nature such as berries, fruits, nuts and animals of all sorts. But when I see guys eating paleo I see a hell of a lot of protein and especially meat such as beef and pork on the menu.

Wiki tells me there is no documented evidence of bows being made before 8000 BC. Traps are believed to have started being used around 30,000 years ago. So for 2.17 million years humans were existing without an effective way of catching big game. I find it extremely difficult to believe that humans would have spent the majority of this time running after wild boar and clubbing it to death. Far more likely is that the majority of humans lived off fruits and, where available, shellfish and other coastal creatures.

I find it extremely difficult to believe the majority of humans would have been spending a large proportion of those 2.2 million years fishing for healthy salmon. And in terms of finding creatures with enough meat to feed a tribe- the hunting process is a long and arduous one, filled with tracking and waiting. It also is fraught with danger and the chance of not getting the prey. It is not particularly efficient and reliable, unlike fruit collection or honey collection etc. Have any of you chaps done any research or looked at any sources on this?