Fatness drive 2013 - update

[Mich the Tester]

How's your drinking? Tested your liver function yet?
Did mine at the start of the year and was surprised to find it was spot on, given the fun I had in my youth.
But the doc told me that increasingly he saw middle class people who were on half a bottle of wine a day who had incipient liver problems. Given that I used to do that, I resolved to not spoil a good thing and lay off the booze.

I typically drink one to two glasses of wine with an evening meal, and although I used to have occasional drinking sessions with the rugby club I never enjoyed excessive drinking and these days hardly ever; last weekend's wedding was an exception, when I discovered I can't actually drink a whole bottle of wine in one go anymore. Now I socialise with the bike racers at weekends and they don't drink much; one or two after a race or a training session and that's about it.

[Support Monkey]

Of course you can't "sweat off" weight.
I just mean cardio-vascular stuff that makes you sweat, getting your heart pumping, burning calories, intense exercise that should be slightly out of your comfort zone.
At the gym I see some fat people who need to lose weight doing a gentle canter on the treadmill thinking that's helping.
I recall reading that the intensity matters more than the duration (phnah phnah), but can't remember why.

To lose fat you do not need to be doing excessive cardio vascular exercise, if you look at most exercise bikes or running machines they actually have a weight loss program that is less intensive, consisting of intervals to raise and lower your heart rate, when your in the fat burning zone you should still be able to speak as opposed to being completely out of breath.

also as someone else said "muscle turns to fat" this is not the case, muscle is tissue, if you don't exercise then they become smaller or fat can accumulate around it making you appear fat

[Mich the Tester]

To lose fat you do not need to be doing excessive cardio vascular exercise, if you look at most exercise bikes or running machines they actually have a weight loss program that is less intensive, consisting of intervals to raise and lower your heart rate, when your in the fat burning zone you should still be able to speak as opposed to being completely out of breath.

Yep, but then you need to do A LOT of that sort of low intensity training and most people just don't have enough time to do that. That's why a combination of low intensity and higher intensity work is probably best for them.

And; the fitter you get, the quicker you can burn calories. A fatty with no training might burn 500 calories in an hour of cycling and be so knackered at the end of it he needs a few days rest. A well trained person might burn 1200 calories in the same time and be able to do it all over again the next day.

[Old Hack]

My lungs have always been of a good capacity, although after a brutal ride across Dartmoor I was heaving for a while.

My biggest was 17 stone, working away in the 90's in Germany as it happens. Just ate, drank, worked for 9 months. decided then and there it couldn't continue. I tend not to take a hotel with brekkie anymore, and make my own around 9.30 - 10 and use the hotel facilities in the evening. But I still love sport, especially cycling and canoeing (thinking about Dev-West canoe next year), which means my mass is more, and looks bad on BMI.

Mental really.

[mudskipper]

I've got nice thighs though. Hi ladies.

There were some very nice lycra clad thighs on the train last weekend. The rest of the body wasn't bad either. And he had a very nice bike

[northernladuk]

There were some very nice lycra clad thighs on the train last weekend. The rest of the body wasn't bad either. And he had a very nice bike

I hope you didn't say that to her!!!!

[SueEllen]

There were some very nice lycra clad thighs on the train last weekend. The rest of the body wasn't bad either. And he had a very nice bike

You bothered to look at the bike?