Sometimes you may cheat on your diet or you may be struggling to lose some extra weight, so cardio is a great method to burn off extra calories and burn fat!
A lot of people in the fitness industry have fear mongered and made people fear that they would lose muscle if they did a lot of cardio.
and that just isn’t true! Here is a video by Elliott Hulse explaining why cardio burning muscle is a complete myth!
Intermittent fasting is more of an eating schedule than an actual diet, but numerous people have tried it and managed to lose a lot of weight. I decided to give it a shot and see if it is truly a great way to lose weight or if it is mostly a myth. Here is my first video log update on “intermittent fasting”. I kept it short for you. Also, at the end of this, I posted a picture and if you saw my previous post titled Attempting IF – Intermittent Fasting then you can see that I’m already starting to lose a little bit of weight. Some of that is water weight but I am confident that this is working.
Here is my video. I believe that this is really soon to credit or discredit my results, but here this is to get the ball rolling and I’ll keep you updated weekly.
This is a video I found while browsing youtube earlier and I think that it could be incredibly motivating for you. The moral of the story that this guy is projecting is right in line with what I am trying to convey to you through this blog. I hope it is of some service to you and that you have a great day. Enjoy the video.
I’ve had crohn’s disease since I was 15, and it’s been a journey that I could describe as a roller coaster. I’ve had my ups and downs. For a few months I’d be in remission and then for a month I’d be really sick. Things went this way from the time I was diagnosed shortly after my 16th birthday until I was about 18.
When I turned 18, my doctor decided to try a drug called infliximab, or Remicade, and it seems to be a wonder drug. I’d go in to the outpatient nursing clinic at the hospital and get this drug through an IV ever eight weeks. I still get it every eight weeks.
However, last year I started flaring up a lot even though I was on the Remicade and another drug called Imuran. I finally decided that the cause for my illness was diet and stress, as I had read a lot on the disease and my body would get too sick for the medicine to do any good.
Finally, I began experimenting with diet and exercise. To my surprise, exercise alone seems to be enough to keep me in remission as long as I am getting my Remicade every eight weeks. That’s without even taking the Imuran, so no need to take pills every day. Right now, just having to go to the hospital every eight weeks for a few hours, I’m a lot happier than when I started with my consistent flare-ups. I know from previous experience that if I also focused on my diet I’d personally have no need for the Remicade either, since my case of this disease seems to be so dependent on diet, exercise and stress.
I’m not saying that this will work for anyone with Crohn’s disease, but I am saying that it works for me. I hope that no matter if you are healthy or have a type of illness that you do the research and try to get your body on track through exercise and diet. Try to do this under the guidance of your physician or specialist, and make sure you get to know your body. This has helped for me, and now I am in a much better place as far as my health goes than ever before.
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You should own your lifting, and own up to yourself.
Don’t let lifting make you self conscious, don’t have body dis morphia, and don’t be the a-hole that talks about lifting all the time(I went through this one, personally). If you don’t focus on yourself as the individual and you’re focused on other people and activities, you will lose a part of yourself for a while.
Grasp reality, that you are a cool, strong, independent, happy, AWESOME person and then do what makes you happy.
Remind yourself of why you wanted to lift in the beginning. Thanks for reading.
Let’s say you’ve gotten into working out and one day you’re hanging out with a large group of friends, and a friend or friend of a friend says something about your weird body shape and tries to make fun of you. How do you react?
You may have thought to yourself that this kind of behavior would make you upset or angry. That’s understandable because they are being rude, but look outside the box for a moment. Think to yourself, why would they take the time to single me out and cut me down? Simply, so they can bring themselves up.
These people can only bring themselves up by trying to bring you down, so now that you know you’re dealing with someone who has serious self esteem issues you can laugh at them. They’re so pathetic, it’s funny, and you are better than them.
Keep doing the things you love, lift, and exercise and don’t let the naysayers get you down. Try to keep negative people out of your life but if something happens and you can’t help but be around them, don’t ignore them. Just laugh at them. They’re looking for you to get upset, which is funny, because they are also making it evident that you are better than them.
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