Are you self-conscious about your weight?

Noboru said:

Loosing fat percentage and gaining muscles rather lead to an increase of weight.
Just do some training for the abs and you'll be fine.

Working_Designs said:


Yeah, but there's still too much fat on my stomach, and no matter how much training for my abs I do, I can't see my abs because they're still hidden by the stomach fat.

Amarae said:
My body fat % is less than 2.

Amarae said:
I am pretty self conscious about my weight, but in the anorexic sense. I'm like 5'8" and >110lbs(50kg) which is not healthy at all. My body fat % is less than 2. Which is basically starving.

I'm trying to get over it...

Gitanos said:

No fucking way in hell. You'd be six feet under.

Gitanos said:

No fucking way in hell. You'd be six feet under.

Amarae said:

Well that was what read the last time I was checked. Of course what they use at the gym is probably far less accurate than something you'd find in a medical office. I haven't been to a proper medical facility in awhile actually.

Gitanos said:

Working_Designs said:

Yeah, but there's still too much fat on my stomach, and no matter how much training for my abs I do, I can't see my abs because they're still hidden by the stomach fat.

midnightblade said:

yup... you can do all of the ab exercise you want but if you still have massive fat layers over them you'll never see them. Have to do some consistent cardio exercise to lose those fat layers. You do cardio and weight training as well you lose weight even faster ..

Noboru said:

When you're doing weight training, you're balancing the loss out or even gain weight. Also, loosing 15-20lbs (6.8-9.1kg) is kind of too much imho for 5' 8" (1.73m) and 135lbs (61.2kg). One or two kilos less might still be acceptable, but with that much, he would be already on the underweight side.

Gitanos said:
I'm 1.73m and 59kg and I'm not on the underweight side, my BMI is 19.something.

Amarae said:

Yet all you'll when you look at me is the outline of my bones... Though, since I've started going to the gym and working at my current job (Which I mentioned in that other thread), I have gained some muscle while improving my diet quite a bit. It's been months, so there's definitely been time for improvement. In fact I haven't weight myself in a long time either.

Edit: ... I still weigh 100lbs.. Which is weird because I have a noticeable amount of muscle over the last time I weighed myself and it's crazy to think I could have weighed less than this...

Tachycardic said:


2% body fat is impossible for a female. It's borderline believable for a guy, but females need at least 8% body fat to even live. Assuming your profile isn't lying...

Lime_ said:
Nop, i got lucky and have an awesome metabolism^^

kleysss said:


Good for you! Even if I starve myself I always get heavy, heavier than I should be -.- fck metabolism

DesuMaiden said:
The only reason you should be self-conscious about your own weight is IF you are either too fat or too skinny.

Revelry said:
I'm going to do intermittent fasting from now on so I don't have to worry about my weight...

Tim_ said:

Those guys are extremely annoying, but they may be on to something.



Study led by Fred Turek finds that eating at irregular times influences weight gain

"A Northwestern University study has found that eating at irregular times -- the equivalent of the middle of the night for humans, when the body wants to sleep -- influences weight gain. The regulation of energy by the body's circadian rhythms may play a significant role."

"'How or why a person gains weight is very complicated, but it clearly is not just calories in and calories out,' said Fred Turek, professor of neurobiology and physiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology. 'We think some factors are under circadian control. Better timing of meals, which would require a change in behavior, could be a critical element in slowing the ever-increasing incidence of obesity.'"

"Simply modifying the time of feeding alone can greatly affect body weight, the researchers found. Mice that were fed a high-fat diet during normal sleeping hours gained significantly more weight (a 48 percent weight increase over their baseline) than mice eating the same type and amount of food during naturally wakeful hours (a 20 percent increase over their baseline). There was no statistical difference between the two groups regarding caloric intake or the amount of activity."

- it's better to eat regularly and slowly when you're a bit hungry at conditioned times than to force yourself to fast until your body thinks that the next time you're taking food intake it should gain some weight as a counter measure against the conditioned "starving", which basically explains why most of the dietings have the yo-yo effect.

Noboru said:
^
Wow, seems like I was right:

Revelry said:

So the body would gain some weight even though the calorie intake is the same?
lmao

Tachycardic said:


That's because your metabolism slows down when you starve yourself. Once you start eating normally again you'll gain more weight than you normally would.