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Originally Posted by aaronjw
I know this post is old but I have to say....
Gotta be the worst advice I've ever read.
Cardio on empty stomach first thing in the AM = ok.
Weight training on an empty stomach = trip to hospital from falling down and smacking your head due to low blood sugar levels.
If someone is working out with weights, doing 30-45 mins of cardio daily and they are not losing weight there is only one place to look: diet. Generally, eating too much BUT not eating enough can also stall/prevent weight loss.
Its really not all that complicated to lose weight. For men, getting to that 10-12% BF range is easy. Its going beyond that where it becomes difficult. For women, it is a little more difficult given your hormone fluctuations and the fact that your baseline calories are so low to begin with but it is more than doable.
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Great point! When you eat is important, but not in terms of fat loss so much as being able to maintain your energy throughout your workout.
For those who think that not eating before/after a workout will make you burn more fat, look at it this way: through your day to day activity, you're going to burn a specific amount of calories a day. On average, I personally burn 2223 calories a day. Now, if I eat 2223 calories, I'm going to burn the ones I eat, and if I do rely on stored fat throughout part of the day, I'm just going to store the energy left over as fat at the end of the day - so I'm right back where I started. But, if I only eat 2000 calories a day, then my body will have to find the other 200 calories somewhere else - meaning stored fat. And there you have it, plain and simple. It doesn't matter so much when you eat in terms of fat loss. It matters how much you eat. 'Cause at the end of the day, you're going to burn off a certain amount of energy regardless of when you eat.
(By the way, if you want to know exaclty how many calories you personally burn each day, don't rely on calculators - it varies from person to person. Here's how you do it: weigh yourself at the same time each day for 3 days straight to determine your true weight. Then, write down every calorie you take in over the next two-three weeks - every single calorie. At the end of those two-three weeks, weigh yourself again at the same time of day for three days straight to get your true ending weight. Now, add all the calories you have consumed over the course of your 2-3 weeks. If you gained weight over the trial, add 3500 calories to your total for every lb gained. If you lost weight, subtract 3500 calories for every lb lost. Take this total and divide by the total number of days during your trial. The end result will be the average number of calories you burn each day. )