Re: [fast5] Re: Fast on! Fast off!

Glad it worked for you! I expect part of it is how much you work at it. It's easy to swim and not use many muscles, but when my daughter was in swim class and the coach PUSHED her she did get into shape nicely. I agree it's way less likely to injure you in any case. I'm hoping one of the newer "salt water" pools open up near here.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pamela Bush <livingintheraw@gmail.com> wrote:

I disagree, I didn't start loosing weight until I started swimming.  I've done both.  I've been a runner and am a swimmer. If you do a true workout you will effect more muscles than in weight training.  If you're going to paddle back and forth and hang on the edge after each lap nothing will get done.  I actually swim around 3,000 meters each workout which takes me an hour and ten minutes right now.  That's slow for me.  But I'm just getting myself back into it again after 30 years.  Swimming is actually one of the best ways to get in shape with little chance of injury.  Have you ever taken a look at a swimmers body????

 

Namaste!

Pamela

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I can't speak to soft drinks (it never was a habit of mine), but I do live in a rather cold climate, and it does seem to have an effect on weight. Also, swimming, as an exercise, doesn't appear to promote weight loss like running does. I think your body knows it needs the fat to float!

One thing about cold drinks though ... the countries that drink hot drinks usually drink tea or coffee. The die-hard warm-beverage swiggers are the Asians, and it's mainly tea they swig ... and they are typically thin. Now tea actually is associated with good stuff and supposed to be an appetite suppressant. Hm. And Queen Elizabeth is going strong at 85, likely drinks lots of tea?

So maybe ditch the pop cans and get a good tea pot ...

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:42 AM, thentor <bherring@fast-5.com> wrote:

Sometimes, it can be just one thing that you cut out that makes enough of a difference to matter. Peanut butter is a frequent suspect, because it is tasty, calorie-dense and very easy to gulp in a few hundred extra calories in what seems like a small snack.

In the "study of one" category, another suggestion applies only to those who typically drink most of their beverages cold or on ice, and especially to those who work in an air-conditioned workspace. Drinking cold beverages may signal the brain, (the hypothalamus "set point" controller) that the environment you're in is much colder than it really is, and so the hypothalamus may add to appetite to build or maintain fat reserves to deal with the a cold winter that isn't really there. The experiment would be to avoid cold (particularly iced) beverages for about 4-6 weeks and see if there's any noticeable change.

Why do I think it might matter? Iced drinks are a relatively new fashion as homes acquired freezers and ice makers, then ice dispensers over the last few decades. Iced drinks are much more popular in the USA than in Europe. Obesity follows a similar pattern. In a world where we spend most of our time in air-conditioned/heated comfort, we may be inadvertently signaling our brains that it's freezing cold outside, in which case putting on extra weight to make it through the winter would be a good idea.

If you work outside or exercise to the point of breaking a sweat frequently, your body's probably getting enough messages that it's warm to balance out the cold messages from cold drinks.

Bert


 

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