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Canine Blues Arooo posted:A co-worker of mine who was morbidly obese and had been for years was told by a doctor that he basically had a couple years to live unless he made radical changes. And radical changes he made. He went from playing WoW and watching Netflix to running literal marathons in the course of about 14 months. The transformation was un-loving-believable and he is first among people who I hold up as amazing success stories in the world of weight loss. That said, he did say that he doesn't know if he'd be capable of keeping it off without running. Running is now his thing, and when people ask him how to lose weight like he did, he insists that making running a hobby is a great way to start. I'm not even that overweight (around 30% body fat) but one thing that really worked for me was, instead of counting calories, looking at the numbers on my weight and fat percentage, I started looking at my lifting and running PRs. It really worked for me when I started thinking "wouldn't it be nice if I could squat twice my body weight/run a marathon" instead of "wouldn't it be nice if my belly was a few inches smaller". I feel good and know I'm healthy since I'm moving towards these goals, regardless of appearance and that eventually comes as a consequence. I really wish we could push healthy behavior more than appearance. I'm trying to find this article where a "fativist" was trying to be the fattest person to finish a marathon before the cutoff time and she was having a really, really hard time training for the marathon and staying fat enough to prove her point. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and know the outcome?
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Nov 23, 2015 19:57
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Gaining muscle mass is immensely more important than losing fat in an aesthetical sense. Compare people who lost tons of weight to people who kept more or less kept their weight by increasing muscle mass while doing exercise. Former looks like a cancer patient, latter looks like victory.
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Nov 24, 2015 16:55
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Ddraig posted:Well, obviously. When people say they want to "lose weight" they don't usually mean they want to lose all that pesky muscle and replace it all with fat because they'll be more cuddly. I'm trying to figure out what this post has to do with what I just said.
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Nov 24, 2015 17:29
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Maybe you should rephrase it to lovely food addiction. What's hard for most obese people isn't to stop eating, but stop eating the awful stuff that at the same time has 2k calories and makes you crave for more.
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Nov 24, 2015 18:37
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