OnlyChris said:
To anyone SERIOUSLY wanting to lose weight, the key is to eat and train to a standard that is sustainable. For instance, you aint gonna eat salad and drink those ****** up veggie shakes for the rest of your life, you're gonna cave in.
Your are actually correct. After many many many diets I have come to this conclusion. I just had my metabolism measured professionally (breathing into the tubes). My RMR is 1200. My BMR is 1500 and, if I do exercise per day I probably can get it up to about 1700.
This is actually sort of horrible because I weight a lot. However, the diet plan I am doing (medically supervised) will retest in a few months to see if the above was wrong or, if it does go down due to dieting. They have already suggested two things to get my metabolism up... weight lifting and water consumption. I suspect that cardio could do that too via O2. Someone once suggested to me that water works because you are actually ingesting Oxygen which increases your metabolism.
For health I want everyone to right now to do three things.
Make sure you have enough Vitamin D, Magnesium, and K2.
(1) Vitamin D has been proven to help many cancers -- many of the negative studies are flawed.
(2) I once heard a theory about Magnesium. The ONLY thing in you that is both a muscle and an organ is your heart. When you have a heart attack the first thing any hospital does is give you Magnesium. The theory of heart disease goes like this... your heart is a muscle, if it doesn't get magnesium, it starts dying (or struggling), and gets hard. Cells die at increased rates and slough off into the arteries near the heart. This clogs them and also, sends sloughing cells into area's in the body they aren't supposed to be (such as the brain) -- but did you ever notice that you don't get clogged arteries in your legs? You don't get them in your arms? BECAUSE... the thing that is clogging them is your heart. To me this makes so much sense! It was proposed by a Brazilian doctor so of course, ignored.
(3) K2 keeps calcium from getting into your cholesterol and hardening it with inflammation. What food has a ton of K2? Butter. Of course. But I take in drops. There are many studies that show that increased calcium consumption puts you at risk of heart attack. Cause the calcium isn't getting into your bones. It is getting into your arteries / cholesterol.