Wife is getting fat. What to do?

Super Jay Five wrote: Some things you can try are: TEN MINUTES of EASY Yoga, Tai Chi, etc. everyday. Or walk or ride a bike for 20 minutes everyday. Or sex for 15 minutes everyday! Simple and easy. Choose an easy activity people want to do and DO IT everyday. Not rocket science.

Sorry, bud. Nobody's going to lose significant weight doing yoga- as beneficial as it may be for your body. Your other suggestions, outside of riding a bike, also won't precipitate weight loss.

The OP's wife needs to WANT to participate in high intensity exercise for her general health & well being- NOT for the purpose of losing weight. Couple regular exercise with a better diet (natural, unprocessed foods) will result in increased energy levels and a positive mindset to fuel her continued efforts on this front.

HOORAY!!!

She agreed to start running again but only on a treadmill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfny72iLXHE

Kill her.

Women are tricky!

red wine wrote:

Super Jay Five wrote: Some things you can try are: TEN MINUTES of EASY Yoga, Tai Chi, etc. everyday. Or walk or ride a bike for 20 minutes everyday. Or sex for 15 minutes everyday! Simple and easy. Choose an easy activity people want to do and DO IT everyday. Not rocket science.

Sorry, bud. Nobody's going to lose significant weight doing yoga- as beneficial as it may be for your body. Your other suggestions, outside of riding a bike, also won't precipitate weight loss.

The OP's wife needs to WANT to participate in high intensity exercise for her general health & well being- NOT for the purpose of losing weight. Couple regular exercise with a better diet (natural, unprocessed foods) will result in increased energy levels and a positive mindset to fuel her continued efforts on this front.

My point is that out of shape people should START with an EASY plan because almost ZERO overweight people WANT to do intense exercise or eat natural unproccessed food. They just will not do it and THAT is the problem. So as I say START with ONE super easy step. Lets say Yoga ten minutes per day. That is it! As you say that may not lose weight at all but it does do something, it gets people to START EXERCISING. So EVERYDAY no matter what they do Yoga for ten minutes! There are NO EXCUSES because ANYONE can do Yoga for ten minutes (you can do Yoga in bed). Lets say they do Yoga ten minutes per day for THREE MONTHS. It becomes such a habit that people begin to enjoy it and see a little benefit. So then you recommend another form of exercise like walking or biking. Of course you start slow there too and only do fifteen or twenty minutes of that. Then people are doing ten minutes of Yoga then twenty minutes of walking EVERYDAY. Just keep adding on in small incriments. The is the INCH by INCH method of Success! As long as you keep doing it and adding on more things to do, it CANNOT FAIL!

Was that re-post supposed to be for me? Now you're a coach who clearly doesn't know my level. First you give the okay for a plan that is too much. Then you give a plan that clearly was below what I was capable of. You don't know what you're doing.

Iwantthelittleforkbecausei... wrote:

Was that re-post supposed to be for me? Now you're a coach who clearly doesn't know my level. First you give the okay for a plan that is too much. Then you give a plan that clearly was below what I was capable of. You don't know what you're doing.

I was replying to "Red Wine" and I am not a coach, I am a philosopher,lol. The "inch by inch method to success" is a simple easy fail safe way to achieve ANY goal! You simply break any goal to SMALL easily achieved steps. Take it slow and easy never over extend yourself and you can do ANYTHING.

In the past year, the guys I trusted have broken my heart, career, and legs. I want nothing to do with any of you

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes.. My gf is obsessive about exercise, she works out HARD 6-7 days a week for over an hr in the gym..weights, cardio etc AND she is pretty good about her diet..but you would NEVER think she works as hard as she does.

But I have never seen anyone who should less results than she does in the gym. Shes not fat by any means, but her body just does not look like the is a gym rat. Shes really frustrated by it. I couldnt care less, shes hot and has some curves.

Shes convinced that the girls who have better bodies are into creatine and she wants to start taking that now. I just feel that genetically she can never have that perfectly toned body she wants. Her arms do not look like she even works out, she has some odd love handles about her hips and a bit of loose flesh on the inside of her knees..not unattractive at all, but they will not go away.

Anyone else know someone like this? Shes clearly OCD about diet and exercise, and I feel sorry for her that she cant get the results she seeks. And frankly I don't think she ever will. Any advise will be passed on tactfully to her.

I'll bet the brothers love her look

I can help.

You can go for a 20 mile out and back run, at the end of the day, you end up where you started.

It's not about how many hours you put in but how SMART you work out.

When I am pressed for time, I work out 3x per week for 30min. That still gets me RIPPED.

The problem is that your girlfriend doesn't lift heavy enough weights and that she wastes time doing cardio.

When women do cardio, they reward themselves afterwards with junkfood (Carbs), while hopelessly overestimating the calories burnt. 750 cal from 1 h on the elliptical? Yeah righ... ;)

Nothing wrong with creatine.

That's ok, you don't want her to look like HULK. She should focus on lower body muscle development, especially around hip dominant exercises (squats, lunges).

Most likely as result of high grain and n-6 fat intake. Drop the grains and reintroduce high amounts of saturated fat and those handles should melt away.

You're welcome and report back.

Before adding any other measure...

CUT OUT SUGAR

cut out GMO foods

If she still runs, that might suffice.

No cookies, patato chips (especially "diet" type) or candy in the house.

No cake, no soda drinks, also not "light" (sweetener).

Grapefruits as a fruit do better than oranges (the acids).

Zero fat diet makes you ungly, but needlessly eating fat doesn't help the rest of the food getting processed properly.

Proteins before bed. If you can find a non-controversial shape of sorts.

Dairy may not be a thing to continue either.

Only top quality bread (guaranteed non GMO organic etc), in modest amounts.

These measures (hard as they are) can almost not not work. Especially if she still runs.

Might want to change the running up to more interval style. Long slow runs can really get a body super efficient at NOT using fat as fuel.

I've seen young mothers who train mid distance to look awesome again quite soon. The high intensity gives the body something to recover from. Calories to be burned when resting, no t just the hour that you're working out.

Did I mention? NO SUGAR.

The good parts:

Chocolate, the 70+ dark kind

Nice potion to try:

- cup

- desert spoon cocoa

- tea spoon turmeric/curcuma/koenjit

- 1/4 tea spoon cayenne pepper (essential with curcuma)

- desert spoon honey (honey is alternative for sugar, or skip)

- hot water.

- stur

Cloxxki wrote:

CUT OUT SUGAR

cut out GMO foods

If she still runs, that might suffice.

No, it doesn't.

I explained it before. Women tend to overeat with after "cardio" workouts.

Cut out sugar is good advise but also CUT OUT ALL GRAINS.

And, for the love of god, stop running.

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

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Were you in a fraternity?

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

Cloxxki wrote:

CUT OUT SUGAR

cut out GMO foods

If she still runs, that might suffice.

No, it doesn't.

I explained it before. Women tend to overeat with after "cardio" workouts.

Cut out sugar is good advise but also CUT OUT ALL GRAINS.

And, for the love of god, stop running.

Congratulations. Everything you say sounds intelligent enough that people without a B.Sc. in human biology or nutrition (I'm guessing you have a B.A. - smart enough for a degree but not a science degree)will want to believe what you say. Every time I read one of your posts I laugh at your pseudo science explanations. BUT, at least you are not sitting on the couch, so good for you. The sooner cross-fitters and runners can learn to appreciate each other for at least being active the better. Nobody cares about your kettle bells any more than you care about my mileage. To each his own.

Cheers.

here's what you do wrote:

delete cookies, history, searches, everything. because if she finds that you did this, she will probably kill you by sitting on you

His wife already deleted all the cookies, hence this thread.