Trying to Look Good

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Do any of y'all have any ideas on how to lose weight?

Strict portion control works for me. I'll buy stuff and divide it up into individual portions. Then I'll cook one meal at a time. I have a sweet tooth, so I'll measure out a small amount of candy into a bowl and eat it while I'm cooking a meal.

I have a balance beam scale that I use every day.

In terms of exercise, cardio is very effective.

Excellent article here:

https://visualimpactfitness.com/steady- ... -training/

It depends what you mean by look good.

For clothing, I typically look at catalogs and try to find normal things that people wear, otherwise I will accused of looking like a wrinkly, bright-colored, dirtbag from hell. I probably still will, but at least I will be a wrinkly, bright-colored, dirtbag from hell who is fashion forward and has rude coworkers.

For fitness, I have been doing intermittent fasting diet with an uptick focus on circuit training and cardio.

In my humble opinion without having any background info...this would apply to most humans.


1. Exercise (cardio) in morning before eating breakfast. The hours of sleep coupled with exercise will force your body to burn fat reserves since your fasting.

SUGARS

Lose as much ‘added sugar’ as possible. There is no nutrition or value to the body in sugar other than quick energy (calories).

Cane sugar
When your body digests cane sugar, it is first, digested into glucose(blood sugar). Since your body only needs a finite amount of glucose at any given moment. Whatever is not used, is then picked up and converted into FAT.

Cane sugar=not bad in small amounts and less bad with active lifestyles vs sedentary.

(High fructose corn syrup)
Basically is a molecularly tampered form of the naturally occurring plant sugars in sweet corn which results in more fructose. (another type of sugar typically found in fruits) This yields HFCS which is cheaper than cane sugar and in most soft drinks and other processed foods.
These synthetic molecules are not readily digested by the body into instant use forms...(we have no metabolic process to digest it)
The body can only digest HFCS down straight into many triglycerides (FAT).
Triglycerides also float around the blood contributing to high cholesterol. Theyre sticky...and form clots and can clog arteries.

High fructose corn syrup is BAD for your waistline, your heart, your arteries, cholesterol levels. Just try to go without this whenever possible.

(There is more im just getting tired)

More main points to make...

Fats are chemically essential to the makeup of each and every cell in the body. Opt for unsaturated fats and as little saturated as possible. No trans fat, theyre just worse than everything else.
This also means no hydrogenated oils (margarine: a chemically altered version of plant fats)

NO SNACKS MADE OF ENTIRELY SUGAR AND FAT. This just a double whammy for weight gain/empty calories.

EAT oatmeal. Oatmeal slows down rate of carbohydrate(sugars) digestion. Reducing effects of glycemic load (lower sugar spikes=less body fat made)
Its good for ur intestines and Promotes satiety.

And my favorite....
Protein!
The body has no way of storing energy from protein or creating fat.
It can either use it for cell repair/growth, or convert to glucose. (Gluconeogenesis)
Excess protein is dismantled and thrown out in urine.

I hope this helps somebody.
Most of this information is available in any nutrition / diet therapy books.

I have more info if desired. Good luck.