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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims. Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading? I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while. | ||
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crayhasissues
United States682 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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crayhasissues
United States682 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20063 Posts
On May 14 2014 16:00 Cambium wrote: Uric acid came back a little high from my annual health exam at 7.8 mg/dl. In terms of diet, I do eat a lot of red meat, not so much protein powder lately. I eat pretty much entirely "real food" at home, for lunches, it's the typical Japanese restaurant food, and I focus mostly on rice rather than processed wheat. I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims. Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading? I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while. BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On May 14 2014 23:47 decafchicken wrote: BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid. I'm pretty sure she was forced to say that by some Japanese doctor law, or she's just operating on really outdated information, like most people/things are here in Japan. I'm still curious about the uric acid reading. | ||
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Sneakyz
Sweden2361 Posts
On May 14 2014 23:47 decafchicken wrote: BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589794/Female-bodybuilder-told-diet-exercise-branded-obese-NHS-nurse.html BMI!!!!11111 :D | ||
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decafchicken
United States20063 Posts
But yeah I picked my doctor cause she has an interest in sports and told me at my phsyical "Your BMI says you're obese but i think 99% of people would be lucky to be as 'obese' as you, eat whatever you want" | ||
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justiceknight
Singapore5741 Posts
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
On May 18 2014 20:55 justiceknight wrote: i am a skinny person and my stomach is like getting bigger fatter, how do i get rid of it? I rarely exercise... Sooo....? | ||
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justiceknight
Singapore5741 Posts
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NeedsmoreCELLTECH
Netherlands1242 Posts
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
On May 18 2014 22:24 justiceknight wrote: i mean what type of exercise could get rid of those fats lol Generic question gets generic answer. Eat less move more. Longer answer is that where your body stores fat is genetically determined. There are no exercises you can do to lose fat from your stomach, you can only lose fat, period. It will come off from all over (some of it fat you didn't realize you had) including your stomach. As far as ways to lose fat in general, there are two. Eat less, or move more (but doing both to a lesser extent is probably easiest). Count your calories. There's a thousand and one smartphone apps out there to do it with. Eat less than you're currently eating, and you'll stop putting on weight. Eat less than that, and you'll start dropping fat. Lift weights to help with body composition (how much of your body weight is muscle and how much is fat) and do cardio both because there are a bunch of health benefits, and to raise the number of calories your body is burning per day. That's the overview. If you have a more specific question, we can do specific answers. | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
Do NOT start with sports if you don't have your diet under control! Otherwise you will start compensating for the lost calories with the wrong kinds of food. A good diet means a LOT of vegetables, some fruit, nuts, seeds, eggs and lean meat/fish every other day. Avoid any kind of processed food, or in other words: Avoid 80% of the supermarket! | ||
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
How do I get started on working towards that goal? I haven't moved pretty much at all and I've gained a fair bit of weight since my active period 2 years ago (so I'm now 100kg at 1.93m / 220 lbs at 6 ft 4). I mention this not because I want advice on how to lose weight, because that should happen automatically once I start getting active again and shore up my diet a bit. I mention it because it might impact the amount of running I could do without risking injury in my knees, hips, ankles. I pretty much exercised for the first team in ages today, did a 35km bike ride and considering how easy that went I think I should have my biking back to close to where it was 2 years ago in no time. There's a lot of practice schedules online, and I found a book online on how to get started training for a triathlon, complete with general tips and practice schedules. Should I just order that and get started on a beginner's schedule, while finding somebody to teach me a decent front crawl? Anything you guys think I should or shouldn't do? edit: put it here because I didn't think this warranted it's own thread. edit2: I just wanted to mention that the Iron Man would be a multi year, long term goal. I'm still thinking about a challenging but attainable short term goal. There's a 1/4 triathlon in september around where I live, but I have no idea how realistic of a goal that would be. For now I just want to start training. | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
Do you know the qualification process for the iron man? I was interested in it once but can't remember if you have to qualify through open half iron mans or if you have to qualify for those as well. | ||
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
I have no idea how and if you have to qualify. Most of the (non iron man) triathlons in the Netherlands are rather casual, so you can just signup to whatever. By the time I get good enough to even think about doing an actual Iron Man I'll look into potential qualification routes. | ||
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Topin
Peru10086 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20063 Posts
The omega-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are orthomolecular, conditionally essential nutrients that enhance quality of life and lower the risk of premature death. I'd say fish oil is pretty neat. | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9376 Posts
fuk yeh | ||
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