Hmm.....just a thought : I tend to get blisters using very thin socks for exercising or walking for long periods of time i.e. anything I buy from Soxworld.

I do notice that socks that I buy from a proper sports brand e.g. Nike or Fila, they tend to be more comfortable and absorb sweats better.

Are there sports toe socks?

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Added on June 8, 2009, 1:57 pmActually, for those who do running, do you guys buy socks from sports brand or just any type of sock will do?

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LOL! Nice badutman.

Hmm...where is everyone else? Like everyone hide away already.

badutman : I've heard that some high carbs diet can help if you're into extreme sports. Or some timed diet to get hold of some hormone/enzyme that is a great fat burner. Need to dig around a bit to find the site again as I didn't keep the bookmark.

Oh oh....hmm....something not right in the world? Maybe it may help to get a buddy in RL to workout together with you.

To the others, ooi! Our friend needs some support and motivation lah.

badutman : found the info. The hormone is known as leptin and only discovered in 1994 though. So not much research yet on it.

But some folks are using it as a way to lose weight. I got to hear about it from this site although I didn't pay for the program.

http://www.cheatyourwaythin.com/invite/index.html

Syd G : You know, the sad thing about pizza or any pieces of bread, is that they come with too much calories.

Maybe you just have a body that can take it? From the jogging u do?

I don't know enough about dieting though to say why it happened. Skipping rice does help a lot but to explain why the weightloss happened even after massive cheat meals.

Although, chatting with a friend, we were kinda shock at Michael Phelps high carb diet. 9000 calories per day. Then again, competitive athletes may be taking that much I guess.

Adoi...

Do both lah.

badutman : Good on the exercise but it's usually a bad idea to use food as a reward. It's easy to get into a runaway reaction.

kianweic : I'd say that it depends on the goal and the person. Any form of exercise these days may not be enough. 20-30 years ago, maybe but probably not today.

I got frustrated with a lot of ppl saying that it takes time, perservere on and maybe one day weight loss will happen. Apparently, dieting is not as simple it's depicted to be and neither is all forms of exercise able to give the same result for everyone.

It's a damn pain to study though but if results are what people want to see, big sacrifices required.

Heh! If you only knew how much frustration that built up to my eventual weight loss program for this year. Managed to get the act together and really really see progress for once.

Now, drinking genmai cha and half of a dragonfruit. Very healthy.

Cross trainer today. Hopefully making it to the 50-60 min mark without feeling too flat and tired.

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Added on June 10, 2009, 4:23 pmOopps lol!

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Syd G, you can do it! Doesn't matter whether you are last or not, you are running a marathon. You can do it gal.

Relax lah. Don't feel guilty over cheat meals. You have to work harder to knock it off lah.

redninja : It's a huge discrepancy because of the amount of fat and sugar. There are still some Chinese non-halal stalls around the country that still uses lard (pig fat). Sugar to make it sweet or the hidden sugar in the form of white flour used to make fish balls, fish cakes, meatballs.

The thing with simple carbs is that it's a damn huge calorie bomb especially flour (any type).

My weight yoyos depending on what I'm eating. I had no choice but to really really watch out for the cheat meals. And for me, what works was just basically eating at home. Going out to eat is a bad idea so I usually try not to stay out too long.

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metalfreak : Yeah, I do know my bodytype i.e. Endomorph. So am already practicing it, tbh. I admit that it isn't easy but I am getting better at it.

I'm actually still trying to resolve strength and weight training as a normal person. I'm still very heavy so I check if I can do the burpee probably 1x - 2x a week. 158 cm at 92 kg means heavy duty legs.

Only could do 30 min on crosstrainer yesterday because the temperature was so hot in the house. It's very hot atm. So, today's lunch doesn't have any complex carbs in it compared to yesterday's lunch and breakfast.

Breakfast was leftover stir fry chicken with broccoli and mushroom with some ginger and garlic with about 6 pcs of fresh cherries. Lunch is steam mackerel (I need to change different fish) with garlic, ginger, cucumber and some black pepper and the veggie portion is poached celery, carrot, cucumber with ume plum vinegar (which didn't turn out to be such a nice seasoning in the end).

redninja : It could be a resultant of your childhood swim training.

The "eating+exercise" by body type is a simplified way of eating that helps ppl to get started. For long-term maintenance though, there may be a need to go deeper and understand the way the body processes food.

And I get the same type of reaction as you do. That I do not look that big. But the weighing scale doesn't lie and so, I'm pushing forward.

Hmm...speaking of weight yoyos, I actually keep track of my weight on a daily basis and it's now becoming a chart.

Syd G : Have a good quote for you.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be. - Paul Arden

kenv09 : Heh...this is a Fatso challenge. Do you want to be part of it? Or are you looking for feedback on your diet? If you're looking for feedback, maybe you want to ask at this thread : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1056090

badutman : Actually, that's an ideal situation. The problem is that your total workout number is an estimated number. The amount of calories that you actually burn is not easily quantifiable. Also, your BMR may change throughtout the day. Neither are the calories for food exact.

Energy balances for the human body is not easily measured compared to equipment.

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So trying to look incognito on a public forum isn't easy. Now hopefully no one can guess the picture. LOL!

This is before and after photo of same raincoat with one sweater inside it.

Still have a longggggggggggggggggg way to go.

Thanks for the support guys. There's another 34 kg to go. So if you guys think it's depressing when things don't move, think of me. Hee hee!. I'll put up my weight loss chart and you can see how much the weight yoyo went since Feb.

kianweic : I would suggest a treadmill. I can feel the difference between a crosstrainer and treadmill. 30 min on a crosstrainer couldn't make me keep fit at 30 min on treadmill.

Treadmill will have higher maintenance costs compared to a crosstrainer which would have less mechanical parts, according to the company that I bought mine from.

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Added on June 12, 2009, 11:17 amkurtkob : Thanks for the link! Hopefully my weight loss will be as dramatic.

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redninja : This is my progress chart. I don't update that often but you can see from the weight yo-yos, it does something happen.

Although, it's not a good indication but does show that preparing your own food can have a very very big impact to your diet. The dramatic weightloss after I got back from UK was because I totally stop eating out. There were about 3 dinners since then that I went to but so far, the weight loss is still steady at 1 kg/week. Sometimes 0.5 kg per week if I cheat eat or I didn't do any exercise.