weight watchers!!

From what I can tell, bis432's anti-diet posts come from the fact he's trying to deny he's overweight

From what I can tell, bis432's anti-diet posts come from the fact he's trying to deny he's overweight

yes im overweight . my BMI is like 25.3. but my bodyfat is about 9-10%. i guess you could say im overweight, but not with fat.

So that means what ?? I know about BMI but I'm clueless when it comes to body fat %age.
I guess the important bit is being comfortable with your body, my BMI is over 30 but it's not a problem so

So you normally strut around at less than 8% bodyfat? Dream on fella. I'm not denying you're lean but <8% is the kind of condition bodybuilders get on stage at, and athletes compete at the olympics at, not what some everyday person lives at.

The bodyfat levels reached by bodybuilders is greatly exagerated, if you get to 6-8% as a natural you've done well, assited 4-6% is the norm really, bare in mind that starvation victims generally die when they reach 4% bodyfat..

Simple changes you can make instead of buying a magazine:

Eat wholemeal foods: brown rice, wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta, i think the reasoning behind this is it stops insulin spikes or something which make you hungry or along those lines.

Water: drink 4+ litres of water a day it prevents water retention and other stuff don't wanna go into it in case i'm wrong

Calorie count: As long as you eat under your maintenance amount of calories you will lose fat, this is a fact, couple this with exercise 3 times a week and it should drop off.

Problem with magazines is that they have to keep on producing different articles each month and week and the fact is there are not that many ways of losing the lard so they have to print a lot of rubbish to sell the magazines.

I wasn't saying go really low with the calories but as long as she is below her maintenance she should lose weight, as she said she is 10.5 stone her maintenace should be rougly 1800 or there abouts and as long as she eats under this she will lose weight, i am in no weigh suggesting going below 1000, its just weight loss is merely calories in calories out so she would lose weight eating just below the 1800 figure without doing any exercise.

starvation victims die when they are 4% because they have no resource for energy in their bodies from food, but bodybuilders sure dont starve themselves. as long as they have food constantly coming in its possible but dangerous too. the bodyfat levels are sometimes exaggerated when measured but its also often true. my brother has very low bodyfat around 7 - 8% which has been measured in many different ways and he does all the wrong things, so people with good genes who do try and bring it lower naturally isnt exactly impossible without steriods.

Bruce Lee had just over 1% body fat when he died and this was probably a major reason why.

He died because of the mixture of drugs he took including aspirin, this was because he didn't have enough body fat to absorb them all at once then kaboom dead. He rocks though.

The word "noob" comes to mind