Burger Challenge/ Getting fat

[BrilloPad]

You're probably the one person here who can go on a burger challenge and not gain any weight...

I wish that were true. I remember asking a friend who runs marathons about extra food intake. He laughed. Your body gets more efficient. According to my electronic scales I only need 1800 calories a day to survive normal life.

[bobspud]

I wish that were true. I remember asking a friend who runs marathons about extra food intake. He laughed. Your body gets more efficient. According to my electronic scales I only need 1800 calories a day to survive normal life.

They sound clever how are they measuring that?

[Mich the Tester]

I wish that were true. I remember asking a friend who runs marathons about extra food intake. He laughed. Your body gets more efficient. According to my electronic scales I only need 1800 calories a day to survive normal life.

Hmmm, sounds like bulltulip to me.

[MarillionFan]

Hmmm, sounds like bulltulip to me.

Well effectively you only need around 1500.
Brillo probably has one of those scales that can do a calc based on height, weight and age an has ignored his level of exercise. At the 95lbs Brillo weighs I would say that probably a bit high.

[d000hg]

Indeed. You may well get more efficient but if you're doing hours of training a day you are still burning extra.

[bobspud]

Indeed. You may well get more efficient but if you're doing hours of training a day you are still burning extra.

Not true otherwise the scrawny little africans that run marathons could not hold enough energy to finish the race. Running is a real pain in the arse if you want to lose weight because it will streamline your metabolism making it much harder to burn the fat. I can testify to this as the last time I bothered to exercise properly I got to a point where I could run 9k every morning and still had my wieght stuck rigidly at 15 stone. All it meant was that when I had to give up the exercise for a new job I piled on 3 stone in a few months...

[d000hg]

Not true otherwise the scrawny little africans that run marathons could not hold enough energy to finish the race.

That doesn't make any sense at all. They are "scrawny" because marathon running doesn't require muscle bulk, so not carrying around flab or extraneous muscle is far more efficient.

They aren't scrawny because they live in a country with no food, but because they are incredible athletes perfectly tuned to their sport.

the last time I bothered to exercise properly I got to a point where I could run 9k every morning and still had my wieght stuck rigidly at 15 stone.

Exercising makes you hungrier...

[Mich the Tester]

That doesn't make any sense at all. They are "scrawny" because marathon running doesn't require muscle bulk, so not carrying around flab or extraneous muscle is far more efficient.

They aren't scrawny because they live in a country with no food, but because they are incredible athletes perfectly tuned to their sport.Exercising makes you hungrier...

Indeed; there's plenty to eat in Kenya and Ethiopia (except when a dictator decided to starve the population), where most of the runners come from, but it's generally low in fat and high in carbohydrates and proteins; those runners eat a lot of grain and sometimes chicken. They also don't eat much sugar or drink much alcohol, which makes a big difference.

Unfortunately though obesity is now growing in many African cities as couples work two jobs to finance the household and send the kids to school, and fall into the trap of buying fast food on the way home to eat in the limited time they have in the evenings.

[bobspud]

That doesn't make any sense at all. They are "scrawny" because marathon running doesn't require muscle bulk, so not carrying around flab or extraneous muscle is far more efficient.

They aren't scrawny because they live in a country with no food, but because they are incredible athletes perfectly tuned to their sport.Exercising makes you hungrier...

I obviously didn't make the point, lets try again.

Running a marathon takes a hell of a lot of energy but that needs to be stored somewhere and that is normally taken from food then burns fat, finally using muscle tissue.

But process also tunes your body metabolism to use LESS energy to do the same work. Thus when I started exercising I was about 17 stone but would drop 2lbs of weight on a training day with only a 1 or 2 km run and weight training I was on a controlled diet as well as a training regime so I knew what was going in my body. By the end of 3 months I was just under 15 stone, running 9k on the same diet and NOT losing the weight. So my body had figured out that it could run 9k spend an hour weight training then do its normal day of work and lose less than a few lbs a week. Meanwhile a guy that had just started to train with me was 13 stone losing several lbs a week...

So running is no use for weight loss. Which was my original point.

[BrilloPad]

Well effectively you only need around 1500.
Brillo probably has one of those scales that can do a calc based on height, weight and age an has ignored his level of exercise. At the 95lbs Brillo weighs I would say that probably a bit high.

The scales I have contain a setting for doing extra exercise. BUt it only applys aged 18-49. So I only have 32 days left of using that setting. Also I am now 84kgs - but was 95kgs 3 months ago.