<p>Is the rule of “you have to burn more calories off than you take in” true to eliminate love handles? Example:</p>
<p>I eat 2 breakfast bars in the mornings (140 calores per bar x 2; = 280)</p>
<p>A 600 calorie lunch is the very next thing after the bars.</p>
<p>The very next thing is a 150 calorie snack bar.</p>
<p>The last thing is a 300 calorie short meal.</p>
<p>280+600+150+300 = 1330 calories</p>
<p>Total calories = 1330 for the entire day. Are you supposed to “run it off” on the treadmill, and burn 200 calories extra, therefore a burning of a total 1530 **for the whole day? **</p>
<p>How does this work, does anybody know, I’m real interested.</p>
<p>You are not taking into account the fact that we need energy to survive. We have a Basal Metabolic Rate that basically describes how many calories we burn a day just sitting down doing nothing – the rate at which your body uses energy by itself. So you would not need to necessarily add 200 to the amount of food you take in and burn all that off. Our BMR slows down as we age and it also slows down if you try to eat less, so don’t try this either.</p>
<p>If you want a rough idea how much you should be getting a day. You can’t spot reduce – if you lose weight, you’re gonna lose it everywhere. So it might take longer than you think to lose the love handles, but by the time you DO lose them, the rest of your body would have adjusted accordingly, which is a good thing. As long as you’re expending more energy than what you’re taking in at the end of the day after all energy transfers have occurred, you’re creating a caloric deficit, and over time these deficits will help you slim down. A better diet and good nutrition will do wonders for your figure alone. </p>
<p>The key is to keep your metabolism up by eating many small meals throughout the day, usually high in protein (having energy shakes between meals is great if you can do it). What I did is basically think, “Whenever I am hungry, eat about 250-350 calories worth of food,” and I’d get hungry about 5-6 times a day. I’ve been using this approach all summer and I’ve lost quite a lot of fat as a result, with some gain in muscle mass from weight training. Caloric loss results from movement of muscle – basically keep yourself moving and you’ll start burning in no time. Don’t starve yourself and eat nothing while overworking – if you’re losing more than, say, ~2 pounds a week you’re most likely losing both fat AND lean mass (keep in mind a pound of fat is around 3500 calories). The slower you lose the weight, the longer you tend to keep it off. This is why you always see people who lose craploads of weight in a short time but soon regain it all back again in a flash.</p>
<p>Anyway this is what’s working for me – let me know what you think.</p>
<p>Just run it off.
Everything comes off if you just run.</p>
<p>I’m sure it differs from body to body but when I go on periods of not-eating (not dieting… more like, no-craving-for-food…-not-eating), my stomach just goes flat and the sides of my stomach stay…normal.</p>
<p>or you could not wear super tight low-rise jeans. Seriously, I just tried on a pair of sevens the other day and magically had love handles that weren’t there in the jeans that I had been wearing. So, besides running them off, if you buy jeans that are just slightly higher on your waist and aren’t quite as tight, it does wonders. :)</p>
<p>How you doin’ avi. <em>coughPMcough</em> ;)</p>
<p>Yea, I have a major love handles problem aswell. The rest of the body I’m skinny and awesome, and then I have a freakin potbelly. I’m going to try Whey Protein; since I’m vegeterian, it might help out.</p>
<p>Hmm. I heard on the Today Show that unless you’re excersizing so that your heart rate is at least 70% what it could be, your physique isn’t going to change.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that if you play a round of golf, that one region of your side, felt sore, which means its working. But that only worked for one side (because of how much you swing in a given round) and I hadn’t played for over a year.</p>
<p>I don’t have significant love handles, they are just little rolls that I do have though, and it’s irritating me, as I want to erase them so my muscular upper body can be free of any fat. I know you can’t spot reduce. But its true that one must burn more calories off than they take in, right? And running off 1000 calories on a treadmill would take about 1 hour at 6.0 speed I believe; that’s not healthy at all. Any other routes to this.</p>
If you think that’s the way, I’m sorry but you’re ****ing wrong.
I’ve known people who’ve SUFFERED and DIED from these two mental disorders (yes, notice they’re mental disorders, not diets, DUH).
You cannot voluntarily “become anorexic/bulimic” just because you start starving yourself and the like. It is the mindset that propels these two lethal disorders; it’s the mindset that causes the actions and hence the consequences. You’re not anorexic if you don’t eat for a few days. That’s called stupid, if you’re doing it to “lose weight”. (most of it is water weight anyway) I hope you will make the right decision and not be another so-called victim of the media and a mockery to those who truly do suffer.</p>
<p>legendofmax is right.
If you eat less, you slow down your metabolism and hence you will inevitably gain weight upon eating normal again. Thus, I believe the best way to lose weight is to do it healthily and adopt those methods as your lifestyle. Eat healthy. Exercise. Stay healthy.
Furthermore, if you undereat for awhile you will become malnourished–your hair will fall out, your skin will become dry and cracked, your nails become brittle, your organs start failing, your skin looks pasty, etc. Kidney failure and heart failure are common organ failures among those with bulimia and anorexia.
Your muscles start to waste away (muscular dystrophia) and that includes heart muscles. You begin to lose the ability to concentrate well and hence will suffer in academics. You start becoming cold, and may develop early osteoporosis (I know someone who’s only 17 and has osteoporosis… that’s something for old people, which is truly sad). If you’re bulimic, your teeth become rotten from the acid and the enamel wears off.
You smell like vomit.
You suffer from bradycardia and electrolyte imbalances (can be lethal). You suffer from inevitable depression (malnutrition has been proven to lead to this; chemical imbalance in the brain).
And you may be forced into inpatient treatment, where they FORCE FEED you if you refuse to eat, where they WATCH you every minute of the day, where you continue to SUFFER on your way to recovery (some don’t fully recover), and where they STICK FEEDING TUBES in you if you are defiant. They also weigh you frequently to make sure you’re gaining. Imagine the horror of this. If you try to fool the scale, they put you in paper underwear and weigh you backwards.
There is nothing glorious about an eating disorder, and contrary to what the stupid media may portray, there’s nothing great about it at all. There’s only death and suffering.</p>
<p>So please, I beg you to make the right choice. Anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders, not diets, and you can die from it. If you don’t die you suffer like hell. How would you like it if your heart stopped one night and mother found you dead in your bed one morning?
Think about the consequences. An eating disorder is not really a choice but in the beginning it often starts off with a misled diet. Eventually it evolves into a lethal disorder–a fatal obsession.</p>
<p>“I don’t have significant love handles, they are just little rolls that I do have though, and it’s irritating me, as I want to erase them so my muscular upper body can be free of any fat. I know you can’t spot reduce. But its true that one must burn more calories off than they take in, right? And running off 1000 calories on a treadmill would take about 1 hour at 6.0 speed I believe; that’s not healthy at all. Any other routes to this.”</p>
<p>Here’s the thing. The best exercise for losing weight is not the kind where you’re out of breath. Aerobic exercises are the best – you should be able to maintain a conversation while you do them. Then you will burn fat instead of sugar. This is why a lot of people tend to advocate doing such exercises after weight training, because by the time you’re done moving those muscles, you’ve used up a bunch of glycogen stores (sugar) and so by the time you start running/etc, you’ll cut to the fat more quickly as there is less sugar to draw from. As a result you’ll lose fat and gain muscle mass.</p>
<p>I think it’s 15 * your lean body weight to get a rough idea of how many calories you need to maintain your weight. After all transfer calculations are done, 500 calories less per day will result in a pound of weight loss a week.</p>
<p>This page shows some examples to help show how it all works. If your weight has been around the same for a while, it means you’re maintaining it. Just create a deficit by exercising more and eating ~2000 calories a day in multiple meals to keep your metabolism up. Eating less does create a deficit but as we all know it doesn’t equate to a healthy result. A general rule of thumb, in my opinion, is that when you exercise, you should be sweating after a while, but still able to talk. </p>
<p>There’s no set guideline for telling you how much you should be exercising/how many calories you should be taking off each day because everyone’s body is different. This is why you see so many people keep food journals – it gives them a good idea what’s going in and what’s being worked off so they can adjust accordingly with respect to the results. It’s a very dynamic process. I take note of my BMR as well as how much food I’m taking in and how much I’m working off in an exercise session – and as long as I come out with at least -500 at the end of the day, I’m good to go. As long as you’re eating, keeping your metabolism up, and doing some aerobic exercises (I personally do about an hour of it a day, and I’m down 8% body fat from where I was at the start of the summer), you’ll be in good shape.</p>
<p>1.) It’s not so much about calories, but what kind of foods are you eating and how much of them? If you need to lose weight, keep to fruits, vegetables, and dairy. </p>
<p>2.) Exercise</p>
<p>For love handles do lots of sit-ups, planks, and push ups.</p>
<p>Cardiovascular exercise. This can be low-impact (aerobics, etc.) OR high-impact (for example, running at a rate that doesn’t allow you to talk at the same time). People claim that low-impact exercise burns more calories from fat than high-impact exercise does–this is true. But high-impact exercise burns calories at a faster rate, so even though it burns a lower percentage of fat calories, you still end up burning the same amount of fat calories because high-impact burns more calories total.</p>
