I'm 55.
And I could have been massively obese by now, but it didn't happen - and not because of exercising to fat burn during the last 10 years. Not because of dieting either.
I only recently started up with fixing how I eat.
No, I did it by watching TV, reading the paper, and lolling on the sofa, and eating the exact same amount that would have given me well over 100 pounds of fat over the last 10 years. It was a spectacular plan.
So how exactly did that work?
It's simple.
Muscle burns 4-5 calories per pound more than fat. Here's a simple article on it. Stacking up lean muscle basically did all the work for me.
I started my 40's at 135 pounds weight and depressed. At the time, my wife was going to die, according to the pathologist and the biopsy. (He was wrong about that.)
Five years later, I had finished the first black belt, completed a home gym, and was lifting. I weighed 165 then, and have gradually moved up to 180 by lifting some more.
So- let's say that by age 45, we had stacked in around 20 pounds of muscle. It might be more, but 20 makes the calculation simple.
Per day:
20 pounds X 5 calories = 100 calories burned.
Every 36 days:
3600 calories burned.
That's one pound of fat.
Every year of (about) 360 days:
Ten pounds of fat. Gone.
From age 45 to age 55: 10 years-
One hundred pounds of flubber. Up in smoke.
No diet. No cardio. Just the biochemistry in the muscle grinding away.
I'm probably up to over 35 pounds of muscle gained since starting, so it would average out to a substantially bigger weight that just evaporated into CO[SUB]2[/SUB] . I'd look like Fat Bas--rd from Austin Powers if I hadn't lifted weights. [woah]
Just imagine the amount of shoes you'd go through treadmilling that lot off.
But a ton of people just wind up there, not because they are lazy or greedy, but because they lived *exactly the same* as I did - except for the weight training bit. And that screws up their insulin, and their hearts, and their kidneys, and their eyes, and they spend way more on their health, and wind up fatter, sicker, poorer and unhappier.
Judging people harshly because they have gained weight is stupid. Essentially, I'm exactly the same person with almost exactly the same choices. It's just the one event that didn't happen to them- they never had to seriously consider being the only surviving parent.
It's not genius that helped me out, it's adaptation to a stroke of bad luck.
I guess that makes me Batman. [yesnod] LOL
And I could have been massively obese by now, but it didn't happen - and not because of exercising to fat burn during the last 10 years. Not because of dieting either.
I only recently started up with fixing how I eat.
No, I did it by watching TV, reading the paper, and lolling on the sofa, and eating the exact same amount that would have given me well over 100 pounds of fat over the last 10 years. It was a spectacular plan.
So how exactly did that work?
It's simple.
Muscle burns 4-5 calories per pound more than fat. Here's a simple article on it. Stacking up lean muscle basically did all the work for me.
I started my 40's at 135 pounds weight and depressed. At the time, my wife was going to die, according to the pathologist and the biopsy. (He was wrong about that.)
Five years later, I had finished the first black belt, completed a home gym, and was lifting. I weighed 165 then, and have gradually moved up to 180 by lifting some more.
So- let's say that by age 45, we had stacked in around 20 pounds of muscle. It might be more, but 20 makes the calculation simple.
Per day:
20 pounds X 5 calories = 100 calories burned.
Every 36 days:
3600 calories burned.
That's one pound of fat.
Every year of (about) 360 days:
Ten pounds of fat. Gone.
From age 45 to age 55: 10 years-
One hundred pounds of flubber. Up in smoke.
100 pounds of fat looks like this:
No diet. No cardio. Just the biochemistry in the muscle grinding away.
I'm probably up to over 35 pounds of muscle gained since starting, so it would average out to a substantially bigger weight that just evaporated into CO[SUB]2[/SUB] . I'd look like Fat Bas--rd from Austin Powers if I hadn't lifted weights. [woah]
Just imagine the amount of shoes you'd go through treadmilling that lot off.
But a ton of people just wind up there, not because they are lazy or greedy, but because they lived *exactly the same* as I did - except for the weight training bit. And that screws up their insulin, and their hearts, and their kidneys, and their eyes, and they spend way more on their health, and wind up fatter, sicker, poorer and unhappier.
Judging people harshly because they have gained weight is stupid. Essentially, I'm exactly the same person with almost exactly the same choices. It's just the one event that didn't happen to them- they never had to seriously consider being the only surviving parent.
It's not genius that helped me out, it's adaptation to a stroke of bad luck.
I guess that makes me Batman. [yesnod] LOL
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