Calories / weight lifting / kettle bells
Originally posted to deafferret on 2013-03-28.
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15:14 < jhannah> http://deafferret.tumblr.com/tagged/paleo
15:15 < foo> jhannah: food alone *will* do it
15:19 < jhannah> foo: uh... dunno what I'm doing wrong then
15:20 < jhannah> pretty sure I'm 90% paleo on my intake
15:20 < jhannah> err... 80% for sure
15:20 < jhannah> by volume
15:21 < jhannah> does one bite-size snickers destroy 2 days of salad? :)
15:21 < foo> no
15:22 < foo> you might have to do a couple of things, based on how sedentary you are/want to be
15:22 < foo> 1) figure out how many calories you ought to have, 2) figure out how many calories you ARE having, 3) make sure there's a deficit, and 4) #3 is easier is you avoid carbs and load up on fat and protein.
15:23 < foo> s/easier is/easier if/
15:23 < foo> check your diet for hidden sources of sugars/carbs/starches.
15:23 < jhannah> huh. well i'm south of 2000 cals when I track on loseit.com
15:23 < jhannah> i only track calories in spurts
15:24 < jhannah> but my diet is pretty simple, steady, boring
15:24 < jhannah> so i don't eat way different when loseit'ing or not
15:25 < foo> <2k @ >300#? and you're not dropping weight like crazy?
15:26 < jhannah> nope. weird, huh?
15:26 < foo> yeha
15:26 < jhannah> i am a big barrel chested dude, and my gut is WAY smaller than it was
15:26 < jhannah> my belt size dropped a lot
15:27 < foo> so if you really want to crank up the exercise, i'd recommend weightlifting. specifically big, compound barbell stuff - squat, bench, deadlift.
15:27 < jhannah> err... not "a lot" i guess
15:27 * jhannah was thinking lots of kettle bells :)
15:27 < foo> well, your belt size dropped 45 lbs worth.
15:27 < foo> that's probably what, 3-4 belt holes?
15:27 < jhannah> ya
15:28 < foo> you could do kettlebells, but that's less like weightlifting and more like high intensity interval cardio. with some weighty stuff thrown in. depending on how heavy your
15:29 < foo> heavy compound wightlifting sets off a hormonal cascade that primes your body for shuttling nutrients into your muscles.
15:29 < foo> i'm less sure kettlebells will do that.
15:30 < foo> ^^^ broscience at its best