The Fat Loss TroubleshootThis is your place to troubleshoot your fat loss problems from nutrition to training. This section is led by Leigh Peele, author of "The Fat Loss Troubleshoot," the ultimate fat loss manual. If your results have slowed or stalled this is the place to come for advice for all your fat loss needs.
Leigh, the calorie deficit thing works. I'm finally making progress with the scale and the way my clothes fit. But I still have some questions.
1. I haven't purchased your e-books but since I am having success with your site and this one, I feel that is probably my next logical choice. My goal is to definately tweek this WOE.
2. I purchased a hrm for part of the tweeking process. It has helped me with goal setting. I purchased the Polar FT40 but now think I should have gone the extra step and $$$ for the FT80 that comes with strength training and a computerized training program. Thoughts?
3. I'm 5'3, 47 y.o. and 138 lbs. My goal is to get to 125 or 130. Not too far to go but thighs and butt are areas that need most work but I know it will come. Having read that I'm an Endomorph...should I focus on working out like one? I guess I get confused on all the training sessions on the web...currently I use an old one from my old pt that is a pre-exhaust program. Will the OPT that comes in your package offer me solutions...?
fyi...I recently did a Foundations Crossfit program...fun but it really seemed like it was geared to active military (I live by two AFB's in FL) so I didn't feel that I would fit in a class situation.
Tidbit: I recently read Dave Draper's Your Body Revival...Good read...
Finally I feel I have focus on my nutrition but totally confused on training...any guidance/thoughts would be appreciated...
or would the general thought of the training be...just do one?
1. I haven't purchased your e-books but since I am having success with your site and this one, I feel that is probably my next logical choice. My goal is to definately tweek this WOE.
Obviously buying my products tweeks woes in an instant
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2. I purchased a hrm for part of the tweeking process. It has helped me with goal setting. I purchased the Polar FT40 but now think I should have gone the extra step and $$$ for the FT80 that comes with strength training and a computerized training program. Thoughts?
I have to be honest, I am a total geek and love this stuff but that is me. IMO nothing wrong with having more data, just don't let that data corrupt the use of standard and easy principles of fat loss and common sense.
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3. I'm 5'3, 47 y.o. and 138 lbs. My goal is to get to 125 or 130. Not too far to go but thighs and butt are areas that need most work but I know it will come. Having read that I'm an Endomorph...should I focus on working out like one? I guess I get confused on all the training sessions on the web...currently I use an old one from my old pt that is a pre-exhaust program. Will the OPT that comes in your package offer me solutions...?
I have a love/hate relationship with Somatyping. At the end of the day rather than body type I ask these questions...
-What kind of training makes you most hungry?
-What kind of training fatigues you the most?
-What kind of training have you had success with in the past?
Remember fat loss is/should be a short stint. Not that training during it doesn't matter, it does, but the primary goal should be to maintain LBM and strength to the best you can, focus on recovery, and do only what you have to do while getting the fat off.
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Finally I feel I have focus on my nutrition but totally confused on training...any guidance/thoughts would be appreciated...
When it comes to training for your body, and I say this often so hate to sounds rhetorical to those that listen to me, you must pick a body goal/performance goal before ever looking at a program. So the quesiton is...
I haven't purchased Leigh's books either (I'm hoping to get them from Santa) but I wanted to weigh in (ha pun intended) & encourage you to listen to Leigh's podcasts. They are free in the itunes store. I've been listening & getting so much out of them. They're a great place to start until Santa brings my copies of her books (I want them all).
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The truth is you can always run faster....sometimes the truth hurts!
I want to be tight. Not interested in competing. Just want to look good and feel good. I had been at 140 so long I thought it would never budge but this program has given me light at the end of the tunnel. Finally, the scale/myotape is starting to move. Actually, I was the one that needed to move...
Thanks for responding to my questions...you really do rock!!!
Jersey Girl, thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that tonite. What part of Jersey are you from...I used to live in S. Jersey (Vineland area) but moved to NW Florida right before Ivan...Anyway, how bout them Phillies!
Yes--Fat Loss Trouble Shoot and Metabolic Repair Manual. You can buy them separately or together. FLTS is the basics and MRM goes into much more detail about certain things. It's written more for people who have wrecked their metabolism from years of undereating and/or overtraining among other things. I didn't really need MRM, but I bought both and enjoyed both. MRM goes into more detail about some of the hormones, etc., and their role in weight loss and healthy metabolic functioning.
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"Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it?"
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...
So I still don't understand... even after reading the FLTS and MRM...
If "it all happens in the kitchen" ... and
If "to lose weight, eat less and move more"
then why won't
1400 calories lose more weight than eating 1400 calories, and
1200 calories lose more weight than eating 1400 calories, and
1100 calories lose more weight that 1200 calories
... exercise and NEAT being the same for all 3 options
I think because, while a deficit is good for losing, too much of a deficit throws your body into freak-out mode. The threshold for that can be at different places depending on the person and on other variables (exercise/activity level, etc.).
That's just a guess, though. I'm sure someone more knowledgable like Leigh will come along to answer you, though.
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"Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it?"
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...
I think because, while a deficit is good for losing, too much of a deficit throws your body into freak-out mode. The threshold for that can be at different places depending on the person and on other variables (exercise/activity level, etc.).
That's just a guess, though. I'm sure someone more knowledgable like Leigh will come along to answer you, though.
... Like what if I had 3 weeks of 1375 cal and 1 week of 1100 cal as a pattern: could that speed up results?
Making progress...but have some questions...
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