Want to loose weight?

[SkyWriting]

Mix and cook up 3 varieties of Quinoa mixed together.
Also cook a pound or two of ground turkey.
With those two, you can add and mix a lot of dishes
and your weight will fall.

You also have to cut out wheat and Sugar....but its not so bad.
Quinoa is a bit like pasta....but more like bean sprouts without the flavor.

 

[bhsmte]

Mix and cook up 3 varieties of Quinoa mixed together.
Also cook a pound or two of ground turkey.
With those two, you can add and mix a lot of dishes
and your weight will fall.

You also have to cut out wheat and Sugar....but its not so bad.
Quinoa is a bit like pasta....but more like bean sprouts without the flavor.

And this helps you lose weight how exactly?

 

[musicalpilgrim]

You also have to cut out wheat and Sugar....but its not so bad.

I think this has a lot to do with it...
but I will try it...

 

[JCFantasy23]

And this helps you lose weight how exactly?

Quinoa is a healthy, filling grain that helps regulate blood sugar. Adding turkey would be low-fat protein that helps a person fill up longer. He's right this base mixture would be a good weight-loss combination.

I had Quinoa for the first time a few months ago, it wasn't bad. Need to experiment with it more.

 

[grasping the after wind]

No I would prefer to tighten weight instead. a loose weight might come completely untied and cause injury or even death.

 

[PaaKne]

Quinoa is healthy, and so is turkey (feed and handled the proper way!). but none of them give the results "your weight will fall" as an automatic consequence. Losing weight is equal to putting less energy into a body than the body use. That simple - and that difficult for those loving nice food. However, regular use of the body (when health does allow) - walking/biking distances up to 2-3 miles instead of using a car/bus/train, the daily one hour "walk for health" in any kind of weather not making that walk hazardous, use of your body instead of different kind of machines when doing something (move the lawn, cut the hedge, sweep the yard/garage, cut the wood for the stove/fire etc) is a good start.

 

[bhsmte]

Quinoa is a healthy, filling grain that helps regulate blood sugar. Adding turkey would be low-fat protein that helps a person fill up longer. He's right this base mixture would be a good weight-loss combination.

I had Quinoa for the first time a few months ago, it wasn't bad. Need to experiment with it more.

I understand all of that, but there is more to losing weight (hopefully fat), than just eating Quinoa.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Here's the real 'skinny' on Quinoa.

Nutritional Comparison: Wheat flour, whole-grain vs Quinoa, uncooked

 

[Runswithdogs]

And this helps you lose weight how exactly?

Because looking at that makes me loose my appitite...

 

[geiroffenberg]

And this helps you lose weight how exactly?

Cutting out carbs trough cutting out anything sugar and wheat etc makes you lose weight after a cpl days, because of ketosis. But its hard for most without replacing the usual food with something sugarless you also can enjoy. To get into ketosis faster and thereby get another day or two ahead in the proces, you can do some workout and use up all the blood sugar.

 

[DaisyDay]

Losing weight is equal to putting less energy into a body than the body use. That simple - and that difficult for those loving nice food.

It's not that simple for fat people, unfortunately. The more weight a person loses, the more their metabolism tends to slow down - and that doesn't mitigate with time or vigorous exercise, either (Source:NYTimes "The Science of Fat". That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying - just that it isn't that simple.

 

[PaaKne]

It's not that simple for fat people, unfortunately. The more weight a person loses, the more their metabolism tends to slow down - and that doesn't mitigate with time or vigorous exercise, either (Source:NYTimes "The Science of Fat". That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying - just that it isn't that simple.

Partly agree. When a body first has been misused for a long time by been supplied with more energy than it the body need (and thus stored the energy as plain fat "for convert in harder times"), the metabolism turn down to slow motion. Getting that up to normal again needs double action - less fuel AND more work. The reason why some who "eats like a sparrow" (now) still don't lose weight: The body imagine a real crisis and turn the metabolism down to the absolutely minimum possible without collapsing the body. That was also one of my reasons for stating "... and that difficult for those loving nice food (like e.g. me...))

In a kind of way it's just like getting a car or motorcycle engine during a long period used to a carburettor giving the engine way to rich petrol-/airmix accepting again that this rich mix isn't at all needed for timely ignition. That's not done in one day...

 

[DaisyDay]

Partly agree. When a body first has been misused for a long time by been supplied with more energy than it the body need (and thus stored the energy as plain fat "for convert in harder times"), the metabolism turn down to slow motion. Getting that up to normal again needs double action - less fuel AND more work. The reason why some who "eats like a sparrow" (now) still don't lose weight: The body imagine a real crisis and turn the metabolism down to the absolutely minimum possible without collapsing the body. That was also one of my reasons for stating "... and that difficult for those loving nice food (like e.g. me...))

In a kind of way it's just like getting a car or motorcycle engine during a long period used to a carburettor giving the engine way to rich petrol-/airmix accepting again that this rich mix isn't at all needed for timely ignition. That's not done in one day...

You don't seem to have read the article. Even after six years of dieting and vigorous exercise, their metabolism not only did NOT return to normal, it slowed down even further.

It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.

Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended.

What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants’ metabolisms did not recover. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight.​

 

[PaaKne]

You don't seem to have read the article. Even after six years of dieting and vigorous exercise, their metabolism not only did NOT return to normal, it slowed down even further.

It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.

Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended.

What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants’ metabolisms did not recover. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight.​

As I mentioned: Not done in one day - for some hardcore cases not in one year eighter. Restoring a metabolism that has collapsed requires hard work, way more than the instruction "eat less/do more - and look for those brilliant results in a couple of weeks" In some hardcore cases it seems like not even possible within years. Thus: "That simple - and that difficult" (when a food lover has loved to much for to long time and collapsed his/her metabolism)

 

[bhsmte]

Cutting out carbs trough cutting out anything sugar and wheat etc makes you lose weight after a cpl days, because of ketosis. But its hard for most without replacing the usual food with something sugarless you also can enjoy. To get into ketosis faster and thereby get another day or two ahead in the proces, you can do some workout and use up all the blood sugar.

Sure, if a person happens to be consuming too much carbohydrates than their body and lifestyle need, then reducing carbs can help you lose weight, as long as you don't replace the reduction in carbs, with consuming too much of other food types to replace them.

Low carb diets are good for people who are not physically active, because the insulin release from the consumption of carbs, promotes fat storage. For people who are more physically active, this is not as much an issue, because the carbs are being burned from the physical activity and or stored as glycogen in muscles and the liver, if someone engages in enough aerobic exercise, at a high enough intensity level.

Here is the bottom line; what you put in your mouth (and how much) are important in weight loss, but it becomes less as crucial, the more physically active one is, and if they have a relatively high level of fitness.

 

[bhsmte]

It's not that simple for fat people, unfortunately. The more weight a person loses, the more their metabolism tends to slow down - and that doesn't mitigate with time or vigorous exercise, either (Source:NYTimes "The Science of Fat". That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying - just that it isn't that simple.

Metabolism tends to crater, when folks drastically reduce their caloric intake, in trying to lose weight. The body could care less you want to lose weight and when calories drop dramatically, survival responses happen, which involves slowing metabolism. Fat is the long term fuel source and insurance policy against being starved, so when you yo yo diet, the body adapts when normal food consumption takes place and adds to the insurance policy - more fat.

In regards to exercise, it without question, raises caloric burn (which is basically level of metabolism) during exercise and for sometime after during recovery. Now, the key here is; the type of exercise one engages in. Going for the 2 mile walk is fine and much better than sitting on the couch, but it is easily tolerated by the body and really does very little to induce much physiological change. Higher intensity exercise, even for 15-20 minutes or interval workouts with bouts of high intensity activity, will induce physiological change to a higher level. Lean tissue (muscle) requires calories to sustain and the more lean and active muscle tissue you have, the more calories you need to maintain it through repair and rebuild, which also increases metabolism, because it requires energy.

Most folks, don't challenge themselves enough from a physical standpoint, to really cause any significant change to how their body metabolizes what you put in it.

 

[DaisyDay]

Most folks, don't challenge themselves enough from a physical standpoint, to really cause any significant change to how their body metabolizes what you put in it.

These particular people - the Biggest Loser contestants and winners - did challenge themselves more than most folk.

From all that I've been reading these last few years, the only thing that really, significantly changes the body's metabolism for the better is bariatric surgery - but they still don't know why that works on changing the endocrine system and metabolism (hint: it's not simply eating less).

 

[bhsmte]

These particular people - the Biggest Loser contestants and winners - did challenge themselves more than most folk.

From all that I've been reading these last few years, the only thing that really, significantly changes the body's metabolism for the better is bariatric surgery - but they still don't know why that works on changing the endocrine system and metabolism (hint: it's not simply eating less).

I went to grad school for physiology and I disagree. All metabolism is, are the sum total of all the chemical reactions that sustain life. Active people require more chemical reactions to produce the energy for activity and to replenish the energy stores to prepare for the next activity. People who eat more require more chemical reactions, to digest the food and to store it as either fat, or as energy stores in the body. Lean muscle tissues require chemical reactions to perform activity and if the activity is intense enough, it requires chemical reactions to rebuild the tissue.

All of the above we have control over by lifestyle. The human body was not meant to be sedentary and when people are, bad things happen over time. Obesity wasn't near the problem it is today several decades ago. So what has been the biggest change in people's lifestyles to cause a dramatic increase in obesity? There are a consumption of more sugar and people being more sedentary, with computers, television and video games having people sitting stationary, for much longer periods than we did in the past.

 

[DaisyDay]

I went to grad school for physiology and I disagree.

Have you kept up with the literature? Some of this seems to be from new studies.

 

[bhsmte]

Have you kept up with the literature? Some of this seems to be from new studies.

I have read some of the latest stuff yes.

Back to my main point though. Metabolism is basically the sum total of the chemical reactions that occur to sustain life. Everyone agrees this the case and it is a fact, certain things cause an increase in chemical reactions and some of these things are within our control, as I already pointed out.

Again, obesity was not near the issue it is today, just a few decades ago. Our bodies have not changed how they function during that extremely short period of time, but our overall lifestyles have, to promote obesity. One of the biggest lifestyle changes has been; people are much less active than they were decades ago.

Rule of thumb that applies to all; the body adapts to the stress you place upon it.