Intermittent fasting hasn't been proven to be any more effective than proper diet or exercise, and comes with its own set of problems and risks. Yeah, it works, but so does exercising more or eating less.
Gervassen's advice is very very bad.
Eating only peanuts is mindbogglingly terrible nutrition and doing 25000 pushups a day, especially one-handed pushups, will permanently damage your arm joints if you somehow manage to avoid collapsing from exhaustion first. Even at 1 pushup per second, that's about 7 hours a day of nothing but pushups.
Obviously, I didn't say either of those. I said peanuts were a good base food for cheap nutrition, and that meat should be substituted in as funds allowed. I said he shouldn't do 500 sets of 50 pushups, so you're arguing against what I said he shouldn't do. I feel your embarassment, and I forgive you.
I'm sorry, let me quote you. Because you were saying eat nothing but peanuts and meat for one meal a day... While saying only eat one meal a day. Lookie:
As for not eating regularly and starvation mode... by natural inclination, I only eat one large lunch each day, unless invited to dinner with colleagues. Three plates of greasy Jingjiang Rousi in one sitting. I'm rail-thin at an age where the rest of you will be tubbies when you reach it. Starvation mode is an American excuse for being Flabby MacFlabberson and eating more than daily needs, because "starvation" will make them fat.
My recommendation for OP is 300 gram of peanuts for a meal each day, if your budget is low. Peanuts are a great food, good protein, zero insulin response, and dirt cheap. Add meat where funds allow it. It's been a lot time since I needed strategise this concern, but a protein-sparing diet can be done on the cheap, I'm sure.
So don't go badmouthing folks just because they give your words right back to you. If you were misunderstood, clarify.
Sorry, starvation mode does not exist, at least in the timeframe of 48 hours. British sailors had mess once a day, and they would eat pounds of bread and salt-beef at that single mess. That huge empire that the sun itself could not encompass? That Trafalgar? It was accomplished by big strappin' lads that ate one meal a day, and whose physiques would make you look like a melted wax figurine in a naked comparison.
Anecdotal, with a heavy appeal to
false cause. The British weren't successful because they fed their sailors one meal a day, they were successful in spite of that. Need I remind you that scurvy was still a huge problem back then? It wasn't until the 1790's that they actually got around to giving rations that would keep them healthier, and that was long after the Britain was on its decline.
Also, I don't see why you have to keep on attacking my weight, unless you're desperately trying to prove yourself with
ad hominem. Need I remind you that skinny isn't necessarily healthy?
That and I don't really want to look like a sick, starved sailor from the eighteenth century, thanks.
I suggest you get hip to PSMF, or Protein-Sparing Modified Fasts, which is essentially what the OP needs to achieve his stated goals by his deadline. He does not need pedestrian advice from the pages of Cosmo: how to lose 10 lbs and keep it off for a new you! Indstead, he needs to lose 80 pounds in 10 months while sparing muscle mass. It's been done before, but not on advice like yours.
We've discussed reasonable and healthy diet changes, and all you've said is eat nothing but peanuts and maybe some meat. We'd like to keep Draignean alive and healthy here, a major part of which is a balanced diet. You won't be healthy by overloading on proteins, and you'll stay healthier with a balanced diet.
There are a lot of ways to lose weight, and most of them aren't healthy, including what you've been pushing.
I can't figure out why you started in on "muscle turns to fat" myths. I don't know anyone who still believes that. It's like you wanted to bring the conversation into the shallow end of the pool, where you feel confidently authoritative: debunking really old myths.
I started talking about it because it's related to the scarcity mode our bodies go into. You're basically saying that you need to halve your intake while doubling your output. Our bodies don't work like that, and they will react badly. You can't do push ups until your fat all melts away into the muscle beneath - You have to burn the fat while maintaining and growing your muscles. If you fail to maintain a healthy diet that balances fat loss and muscle gain, besides the weight concerns I already addressed, you'd have to deal with hunger, lethargy, depression, and irritability. All while exercising and trying to keep a full time job.
And again, the entirety of your evidence is based on what
you eat on a daily basis.
You may not need that much food with whatever lifestyle you're leading, but I can guarantee that Draignean will if he's going to stay healthy while losing weight and maintaining muscle.
OP has benched over 300 lbs, and his tendons and ligaments are fine with the things suggested. You'll find those exercises touted by established fitness authorities. I recommended some good books, but apparently you know more than published authors in this field.
I don't think you understood me. I never said they were bad exercises. But you shouldn't try and do that kind of stuff if you're not prepared for it, even if you're in decent shape. It's something you work up towards, not something you expect to do on day one.
Also, benching distributes the weight between your two arms and is easier to control and balance than one-handed exercises. You're saying that because each arm could lift 150 pounds in unison, one arm alone could easily balance just under 300 pounds and lift it. Think about that for a second.
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