Haha, talking bout pants. I have a pair of pants from years back that I use to gauge myself rather than the weight scale. When I struggle to fit, it's time to drop a few pounds. Pants and mirror, that's my weapon of choice.

One chocolate cake doesn't make you fat. Your lifestyle makes you fat.

Do what you want but unless you change your lifestyle, don't expect much.

Since we're on numbers, taking in consideration on the information so far, I'll put my money on 5kg.

I'll race you for extra motivation if you want, started this week. But my program is centered around weight loss/strength gain for better pull up performance.

1 week in. Lost half a kilo.
The weight scale ain't cooperating.

I find real coffee an acquired taste, took a while for me to get used to it.
Most people prefer coffee flavoured sugar water.

The feeling of soreness should be normal. If you feel sharp pain, then get it checked.

Tightening when you straighten your arm, sounds like your biceps. Yup, it's soreness. No worries there.

Syd's right.

A lot of Asian countries are carb heavy because of economic reasons. During my grandparents time, meat was something special which they ate during celebrations as it was expensive. Meat. Fish. Rice and potatoes were the staple diet.

During days when they had to put in harder work, they added sugar to the potatoes. No wonder my grandparents got diabetes.

Malaysia generally has gotten more affluent conpared to the old days. We can afford to integrate protein sources into our diet now, but it's still pricey. Next time you're at the mamak or economy rice stall, grab a piece of fish instead of veggies and see how much more the price jumps.

Congratulations! It's good to hear you're seeing the results of your hard work.
That's new motivation in itself, isn't it?

Off for a bit, came back and.....what's going on here

Your friend sees the obvious, but doesn't know beyond that. Allow me to assist you.

Weight lifting is an Olympic sport. I doubt most of us do weight lifting at all, but most o us do weight training. Which I believe is that you're trying to get across. Weight training helps build muscle, correct.

Now, everyone talks about fat burning. What burns fat? Running I hear you say? Running is the activity, what I want is the component. Does your stomach burn fat? How about your lungs? Muscle. Muscles burns off energy coming from either the carbs you consume or your fat reserve, so muscle burns fat. Muscle are like the ovens. The more ovens you got, the faster you burn. That is why big muscle bound guys gas out faster, because they are burning energy at a faster rate than regular guys.

Eat. The worse thing you can do when you're starving after a workout is not eat. Just know what and how much you're eating.

Vinesh,
I thought ovens would be closer to home as everyone dreams of raiding the kitchen during a strict diet.

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Added on November 30, 2010, 1:45 pm100 situps a day won't give you washboard abs or flatten your tummy.
100 situps a day will give you sore abs.

This post has been edited by statikinetic: Nov 30 2010, 01:45 PM

If you start believing what characters on TV shows say, I would say stop watching TV. They're TV shows for a reason, and it's entertainment.

You get hungry during workouts, I do too sometimes. What do you want to do about it? At least wait until your workout is over I would think. What and how much you eat after a workout is also important. I mean, it's okay to grab a meal post workout and that's one thing. But if you start scruffing double cheese burgers and big macs after workouts and not expect to get fat then it's over-stepping it a little. Eat, but pick your food and watch your quantity.

Oh, the retarded things the uninformed do.

Zuzana is always a motivation.

Add on : It's been a year since I went to her site and her physique now is ridiculously awesome. A year is a long time huh? What exactly have I been doing in 2010!

This post has been edited by statikinetic: Dec 9 2010, 06:54 PM

Wait, I've seen this on TV somewhere...

In view of the 'no time' excuses, I went seaching for Syd G's 'less internet time, less game time, less doing nothing time = more time' post to add to yours Vinesh but I couldn't find it.

I hate it when this happens.

Let me summarize for you.

Eat, know what you're putting in your body.
Workout, get this is one way or another.

It's this simple.

I would suggest picking up on basic nutrition. Vetting foods on a forum is no way to live.

When you have lost weight and put on some athletic muscles on that frame, you will soon realize the weight scale means nothing. It's not how much you weight that matters anymore, it's how much you look you weigh in the mirror.