Top 5 Ways to Gain Fat!

Wanna tip on easy weight gain.......just grab more french fries & shakes :rolleyes:
 
Does eating multiple meals really "boost" metabolism? I've been getting a lot of conflicting reports on this... there's the calorie counting method which preaches "as long as you consume less calories than u burn, you'll lose fat" but now I'm seeing eating multiple meals actually burns fat better? I've always thought it was simply because it gives you more energy to do things and it makes you feel hungry less often?
 
3) Lift weights and don't be afraid to push yourself beyond what you're used to;
that's how you get your body to change for the better. Every ounce of muscle you
put on will increase your metabolism and keep you in a constant fat burning state!
And remember, weight training doesn't make women big; it makes them firm.[/I]

This one is confusing to me. I would agree, but I think Steve & Leigh, have both said, u rn't gaining muscle but rather losing fat and your muscles are showing through.

So, do u lose fat first and then try to work on increasing muscle. I thought muscle mass was developed by exerting youself w/ wts and the muscles actually get small tears and by healing itself, iit gets stronger and bigger. Okay, little off there I know. But are we saying that if you work out w/ wts and i do mean exert yourself w/ wts., that u rn't going to build any muscle unless you are taking in an excess of calories from protien?
 
almostthere said:
Does eating multiple meals really "boost" metabolism? I've been getting a lot of conflicting reports on this... there's the calorie counting method which preaches "as long as you consume less calories than u burn, you'll lose fat" but now I'm seeing eating multiple meals actually burns fat better? I've always thought it was simply because it gives you more energy to do things and it makes you feel hungry less often?
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My opinion on this is that when you eat every 3 hours instead of just 3 times a day, it is much easier to judge your food intake and stay right on the edge.

I mean, if you eat lunch and that is supposed to last 7 hours, without doing a bunch of calorie counting and experimentation, how are you supposed to know when to stop? How much food do you actually eat if you are eating more than what you immediately need?

On the flip side, if you eat much more often but in smaller portions, this does multiple things. Theoretically it teaches your body to not store fat but I guess that's debatable. The biggest thing I think it does is that it enables you to judge your intake much better. If you eat something then 3 hours later you have no desire to eat at all, well, you ate too much. If you eat in such a manner that 3 hours later you're starting to get hungry again, it's a heck of alot easier. This can usually eliminate calorie counting, as long as you are eating naturally and not a bunch of processed BS. This is the whole idea behind stuff like The Abs Diet.

The other huge thing that it does is burn more calories during digestion. Digesting a meal may take maybe say 10% (guessing) of the total calories that you consumed. However, it's really not that big of a difference between digesting a small meal vs. a larger meal. Once your body starts digesting, it can digest more food much more efficiently. Busting your meals up and eating 6 times a day vs. 3 times a day can burn nearly twice the calories due to digestion, even if the calories consumed by both ways of eating are the same. If you're eating 2,000 calories and it takes 200 due to digestion, just by eating twice as often, you can burn an extra almost 200 calories a day.
 
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Thanks, that link was very informative.

I have a question though : I do about an hour and 15 minutes on the treadmill, but I alternate between 10 minutes of running, about 7 minutes of incline/power walking and about 3 minutes of flat surface walking, then back up to running. i burn about 500 calories this way.

The article says that alternating intensity is a good thing, but it also says long sessions on the mill are not that great.... i have to spend about an hour on the mill / cross trainer to burn off 500 calories...

Any advice?
 
Lose your job, play lots of World of Warcraft, and drink a ton of Mountain Dew.

That right there I gained 45lbs in 5 months.
 
skinni said:
Thanks, that link was very informative.

I have a question though : I do about an hour and 15 minutes on the treadmill, but I alternate between 10 minutes of running, about 7 minutes of incline/power walking and about 3 minutes of flat surface walking, then back up to running. i burn about 500 calories this way.

The article says that alternating intensity is a good thing, but it also says long sessions on the mill are not that great.... i have to spend about an hour on the mill / cross trainer to burn off 500 calories...

Any advice?
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Do you always do an hour and fifteen minutes? That is what the article is talking about. Maybe once in awhile you can up the speed and reduce the time on your session.
 
tonymcclellan, yeah I do an hour and 15 minutes because at my best posible intensity, I need that much time to burn off about 500 cals (no I'm not very athletic :/) But I do alternate high and low intensity sessions. Yeah... I'll mix it up some more, make sure I dont settle into a predictable pattern...
 
well, no... for one thing, i weight train about 3 times a week, and on the treadmill, i also keep track of improvements in my stamina, ability to increase intensity, or to lengthen high intensity sessions.. I mostly get my kicks out of being able to do more with every passing week.. The calories are also counted, because without metrics, nothing seems to work for me.. I got stuck at the same weight for over 6 months, and diet and exercise alterations are only now starting to show through...

The good thing about getting on to this forum was, I realized that I am not doing a very sensible thing by consuming under 1000 calories a day, so i've upped my intake to about 1500 by adding about 40 to 50g of protein...
 
hmmm well this is distressing- i eat like nothing trying to lose weight!!
i get like 800 calories a day and now im not even hungry if i eat nothing all day...
now im afraid to eat anything or else i might blow up!
 
At first I was like :confused: what is this reverse psychology???? Or is this article meant for people who really want to get fat....then I started to wonder who would want to be more fat. So I kept reading and by point number three I was like...YES!! Reverse psychology...but then at the end she messed it up for me by showing that it was reverse psychology:cry:...and I thought I was clever. :hat:

I am new to this forum and a bit happy to be here. I have good guidance on how to eat to increase my metabolism to lose fat (just lost 14lbs), but I have not so good guidance on what exercises to do. I know that I have to work on building lean muscle with some form of resistance training and that I need to do some form of cardio...but really I do not know where to start!! When I was going to the gym I would alternate between the elliptical machine and the treadmill. I am out of shape so 3 minutes on the elliptical and I was like :svengo: Is that a good routine to start with? Would anyone like to give me recommendations on what to do? I'm open for any suggestions. Can anyone recommend any other threads on this forum that specifically deal with this?

I lead a very sedentary lifestyle and am looking for exciting and fun ways to get active. I gained 100 lbs in the last 10 years...80 of that was in the last 5...I'll post more about it on the newcomer section, but I just wanted to give you a little idea of my fitness level. I am happy to hear that variety is good because when I keep doing the same exercises I get so bored.

Happy New Year EVERYBODYYY :party:
 
heyyy thnx! that article just answered ALL my questions on why i haven't been seeing results!.. so eating often is goood, eating good fats is goood

great help!
 
the first one is kinda dumb, if you walk a mile it isn't much different then if you run a mile, some people like myself would rather run but because of an injury can't, im limited to walking for awhile, but after reading that it would make someone think they would be better off just sitting around so there body doen't get use to just storing fat
 
I have an issue with the first one because if it weren't for the walking I do every night, I wouldn't be exercising at all. It's not the same exercise every day, nor is it the same speed, it goes by how I'm feeling. Sometimes I have enough energy that I'm just ready to sprint off, and others I can hardly drag myself out of the house.

But I still can't imagine that doing the same repetitive exercise every day is worse than sitting on my butt infront of my computer screen for that hour and a half.
 
fordraceing_man said:
but after reading that it would make someone think they would be better off just sitting around so there body doen't get use to just storing fat
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I don't see how anyone could get that out of the article. Where does it say sit on your butt? It doesn't. Would you care to explain why you think the article is stupid?
 
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