Dun get the tuna with mayonaisse la. buy the one which is canned in water.

I was also told that tuna has high mercury content. so its not to be consumed everyday. perhaps 1-2 times/week?

I have a friend that fries his tuna with egg on a non stick pan with no oil. tastes not bad actually (he gave me some to eat ). beats putting in mayonaise.

Mayonaise = White devil!

carb is short for carbohydrate. Yer science teacher shd have taught yo bout carbohydrates in std 3. its stuff like flour, rice and noodles.

do cardio is short for doing cardiovascular activities. such as jogging, running, cycling, swimming, etc.

Look around the pinned threads at the thop of the h&f section. lots of advice there.. no point typing it all out again. and btw, its not wise to lose too much fat too fast. a safe rate for you would be 1-2kgs/week. (i'm just guessing, i'm not a doctor.) the journey to a healthier&fitter lifestyle is meant to last a lifetime not to be done in just 2 months. there's no magic pills. so keep up the good work and read up more.

Dumbbells ARE freeweights
you can benchpress dumbells, deadlift dumbells, and even shoulder press dumbells.
squatting might be off tho.

For me its 600+ calories. It depends on yer fitness level, age, weight, metabolism and exercise intensity. You'll need to find out how much you burn yerself le...
Its normally much less than you think it is.

by the grow, you mean grow muscles or grow fatter?
if you mean didn't grow fatter and didn't put on weight, means you're eating at maintenance calories. you need to cut down a lil more, or say... 500-1000 calories more to lose weight.
less carb high protein food are meats. eat skinned chicken (don't go for fried stuff), fish, beef and especially eggs.

Cos sex IS related to health and fitness.

Butter and jam is not eactly the best thing to eat when trying to lose weight as well.
Reason being that butter is fats, and jam has sugar.

btw, you mentioned, breakfast and lunch. dun eat dinner? or forgotten to mention?

Congrats on the weight loss so far tho. keep it up!
if you could start working with free weights as well instead of just situps and pushups...

Exercise is one aspect to losing weight, but more importantly also is the diet. you really need to control what you eat. all the exercise in the world won't do much if your diet is not in control. And by diet, i don't mean starving yourself or only eating grass.
What i mean is, throw away the junk food! don't even buy it in the first place...
if you're not the one buying it, tell whoever it is to stop buying it. why spend money on something that makes you fat?
spend it on something that makes you healthier instead.

Btw, i know fried rice is tasty... its also my favourite... but then i think of it as fried carbohydrates... you can make do with out it.
Try reading up on some of the pinned thread on dieting.. will give you more info on whats good.

Keep up the exercises too. just cos i said diet is more important, doesn't mean you don't exercise. Good luck, all the best!

This post has been edited by Neek: Jun 5 2007, 05:52 PM

I know it has been mentioned a million times. its just that new people keep on coming in, and they dun really research about it... so have to mention over and over and over and over... you get the point...

I do agree with mm, most of the stuff i know is read from articles and books and what not. Its not difficult for ANYONE to do that. Newbies can just get info from the net easily.
However, i still do try to help the newbies a lil bit. If i flood them with info they'd just give up on reading it anyway or get confused.
So i usually just give some simple tips/concept.

I hope they're not too complex for newbies. however, shouldn't be too big of a problem if they're using light weights.

I read an article which said swimming doesn't burn as much calories compared to jogging cos your weight is being supported by the water. UNLESS you swim butterfly style.

If you're looking at swimming as a form of cardio, then combining is definitely better.
but if you're doing swimming to build muscles, uhhh... no comment.

To answer this, you'll first need to understand why you wanna take whey protein in the first place.
Whey protein supplement is just to increase your daily protein intake. so lets say for example, you're supposed to get 150g of protein a day, and you've gotten protein from eating your normal dietary food (chicken, fish, beef, milk, whatever) up to 100g, then you might wanna take a protein shake to increase your total protein intake for that day.
but if you've ate lots of meat and drank lotsa milk already, and have met your daily required protein intake, then you don't need to drink your protein shake anymore. can save you a few bucks

The reason we take whey protein post workout is cos its fast absorbing compared to other sources. as muscle break-down occured during resistance training, we wanna supplement the body with quick absorbing protein to provide the body with the materials to repair the muscles ASAP.

Edit: Oh, i forgot to answer the prebed time part... some ppl take before sleeping cos the body does most of its recovery work while we're sleeping. so its only common sense to give the body the required materials to repair itself while you sleep. so lets drink away my friend! protein shake ftw!!

This post has been edited by Neek: Aug 23 2007, 12:55 PM

I dunno about you... but i like the ON protein shakes too...
i had some nasty ones b4.. so drinking ONs whey is actually much nicer compared to those sucky one...
some ppl said cookies and cream sucked... but i actually liked it

You should try Syntha-6 with milk! superb! really like drinking chocolate milk shake...

Cottage cheese is a form of casein protein.
its a slow digesting protein. to get more detailed info.. you can google it.. or wiki it.
IMO, casein protein b4 bsleep is better than whey b4 sleep.

cotatge cheese cost a bomb for RM9 for only 2 servings...
so i hardly take them. i'm taking syntha 6 now... another casein protein.
i think its about rm4 per one scoop serving... can't remember.. few cents cheaper, more protein and less fats than cottage cheese.

Anyway, even without casein protein, you can still get the results you want.. IMHO, casein just gonna help a lil bit.

I posted the link b4.. you can actually check it out at KFC .com.my
they got one page with nutritional values showing the average protein fat and carb contents of the respective chicken part. ie wing, drunstick, breast, thigh, keel..

In case you dunno what that means... its:



sauce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipomoronification

so, to answer danilo5753, if you stop exercising, but then you continue to eat correctly, (enough protein to maintain muscles size and your total calories intake meets maintenance levels) your muscles should not shrink in size, and you would not put on weight/fats.

This post has been edited by Neek: Aug 24 2007, 08:31 PM