Any CAG's vegetarians? Any advice for a newbie?

Yea what Dmaul said earlier .... 30 min of exercise a day is nothing!!! Im currently deployed to Afghanistan ... & I dismount alot during my missions ... with all my gear , weapon & ammo walking or more like climbing about 4 - 7 clicks a mission is a fantastic workout!!! But there are days I hit the gym when not on mission & I do weight training then. Your diet has to be sensible ... the chow halls have a pretty good selection but then when were out 4 - 5 days & all i have is a MRE hell thats fine. I will say this ... if you were a vegan & doing my job there is NO way you would make it .. LOL
 
In regards to those studies, there's no doubt that sedentary lifestyles are unhealthy. But that's just life today. Desk jobs are the norm and there aren't many decent paying, physical labor jobs anymore.

However, that doesn't mean that exercise isn't an important part of a healthy lifestyle. What it means is that people with sedentary jobs have to really go the extra mile to make sure they get enough exercise in their free time. 30 minutes a day of light to moderate intensity exercise isn't going to make much difference if they're sitting on their asses the other 15.5 or so hours they're awake each day.

Got to up the length and intensity of exercise, eat a healthy diet and all the other stuff I mentioned above to stay in good health if you're stuck at a desk all day.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']No, it's totally right. If you're doing nothing but sitting on your ass and stuffing your face all day, doing 30 minutes of excercise a day isn't going to do anything. Especially since for a lot of people that 30 minutes is very low intensity exercise like going for a walk.

If one's going to truly get healthy, it takes living a fully healthy lifestyle. Doing more like 60+ minutes of moderate to high intensity exercise at least 4 or 5 times a week. Proper diet--both in amount of calories and watching what you eat to get those calories (whole grains, lean proteins, plenty of fruit and veggies, avoid sugar etc.) Getting enough sleep. Not abusing alcohol, drugs or tobacco. Keeping stress low.

30 minutes of exercise on it's own is going to do very little if the rest of a person's lifestyle is unhealthy.[/QUOTE]

I agree with that but the original post just said a sedentary lifestyle (which I consider myself to be sitting at a desk for 10-12 hours a day even though I exercise like a mofo). Obviously if you eat like shit, drink and smoke then 30 minutes walking to and from the 7-11 to get a chilidog isn't going to do much in the long run.

I think 30 minutes on the treadmill every day and not overeating would go a very long way to improving health though without being super-serious about diet and exercise... maybe.
 
Well, the not over eating part is key as 20-30 minutes on the treadmill is probably only going to burn 200-300 calories. Probably less for a lot of people since many just walk on them.

Most people who are overweight are easily eating 1,000+ calories more than they need much of the time and you just can't offset that with exercise.
 
yeah - food and diet is definitely the hardest part about being healthy. Getting to the gym or going for a run is easy. 1,000 extra calories a day is a lot. How many are in a pound? 3,500? That's a pace of gaining 2 lbs. per week! I drink water exclusively - that is a good way to start cutting calories (and it is easy because water is delicious).
 
Yeah, switching to all or mostly water is a great start. A lot of extra calories people get without thinking about are from beverages. Soda, alcohol, juices, smoothies, cappuccinos etc. all add up to a lot of useless calories.

Portion size is huge as well. Most people should be eating around 2,000-2,500 calories a day and many restaurant meals are well over 1,000 calories.
 
I think the estimate is that of you cut 100 calories a day, you'll lose 15lb a year. Maybe it was 10lbs a year, since it comes out to 3650 kcal.

IANAD, but I remember reading that 2000 kcal is more than most people need, which it's why so many people are overweight. You have to be somewhat active to need 2000 kcal a day. And 2,500 is probably too much for most people who don't exercise like professional athletes. If you need 2000 kcal, and eat 2500 kcal, that's like 50-75 extra pounds a year, roughly.
 
That kind of estimate is BS as it depends how many excess calories your eating currently.

If you want to lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories than you burn each day. The 2,000-2,500 calorie a day estimate is based on that being what the average person burns a day (thus what they need to eat to maintain bodyweight). In practice, everyone has different metabolisms, different levels of physical activity so the actual number of calories needed to stay at he same weight varies from person to person of course.

In any case, if someone is eating say 500 calories too much a day, just dropping 100 calories won't cause them to lose any weight. They'd just simply gain weight a little slower since they'd then be eating 400 calories too many instead of 500. Too lose weight you have create a calorie deficit where you're burning more calories than you're consuming a day through proper diet and exercise.

And it also matters what the calories are. For example, the body more readily converts fats and simple carbohydrates into body fat than it does complex carbohydrates and lean proteins.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']And it also matters what the calories are. For example, the body more readily converts fats and simple carbohydrates into body fat than it does complex carbohydrates and lean proteins.[/QUOTE]

I know. Personally, I don't think our bodies metabolizes most alcohol, so I find those 64 calorie lite beers ridiculous. I mean, alcoholics would be some of the largest people, and that's not really the case.
 
A lot of alcoholics I've known tend to drink a lot but not eat all that much. So their overall calorie intake is not that high so they stay thin (other than often having a beer gut). i.e. feel shitty in the morning so skip breakfast. Start drinking in the evening and don't eat much of a dinner. Lots of nights of ending up puking up most of dinner etc.

The people I know that both eat and drink a lot tend to be pretty big, especially around the mid section.

But I've not read any studies specifically on that, so that's just purely anecdotal observations.
 
[quote name='elessar123']I know. Personally, I don't think our bodies metabolizes most alcohol, so I find those 64 calorie lite beers ridiculous. I mean, alcoholics would be some of the largest people, and that's not really the case.[/QUOTE]

Um beer belly?
 
[quote name='62t']Um beer belly?[/QUOTE]

Beer belly is mostly attributed to the greasy foods people eat when they drink. Think Taco Bell.
 
I'd always heard the beer gut was more from stretching out the stomach by putting so much liquid into it at one time. Think of how many beers you can pound in an evening, and how impossible it would be to drink that much water or soda over the same time frame.

Again, no idea if that's scientifically correct or not! Always seemed reasonable given how many big beer drinkers have big guts and little fat elsewhere. Unlike regular obese folks that also have fat asses, arms, legs etc. :D

From a quick google, it does appear that's just a myth though, and we don't really know why some people seem to just put on abdominal fat and others put on fat everywhere.
 
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