haven't done much but a lot of dancing, and basic body weight exercises. Im still scared of the gym. also my new ultimate safe food is cauliflower, I eat it everyday, i do pan fry it but hey its better than french fries or most of my other safe foods. fiber is great yall. i want to loose weight for my wedding/ elopement.I feel hot, maybe just need to lose another 15 and ill be HOT HOT. only sad thing is im not loosing weight in my boobs so far, so im just sittin at a 45 bust (uhg) with a 35 waist (yay snatched waist) which is just a pain. any transfems want some boob?
hell yeah, glad to see you haven't ditched hexbear and losing weight is dope as hell.
oh yeah, the influx of support, kind comments from people, and action from mods was amazing. i feel so supported, i love yall.
The best weight loss is the kind that you keep off. If you can lose 15 more pounds doing what you're doing, that's great, but even if you just maintain those 15 pounds that are already off, that's still a great victory!
Can I introduce you to our lord and savior, oat milk?
It doesn’t froth quite as well but I like the taste even more.
lol, thank you i can only hope for it safe return (but only to my butt lol)
You could also roast that cauliflower if you don't want to baby sit it in a frying pan
You could also rice that cauliflower and use it for stir fry, aw yea
the roasting is a good idea, much easier. ill try rice cauliflower at some point it just seems odd.
Roasted veggies rock. You can toss them in and just set a timer to check on them/toss them around while you work on another part of the meal.
yeah np I'm glad it went good
how're you seasoning those bad boys btw, because if you don't add at least onion and garlic powder imo you should
oh I always use garlic and onion powder. sometimes i use just that and summac and salt and paprika. often I used buffalo sauce/ hot sauce. i have this herb infused oil thats amazing.
ricing the cauliflower is just a texture thing that makes it more similar to rice for a fried rice type thing but with cauliflower instead of rice
but you need a ricer for it (but you can also use it to rice potatoes and... maybe other things!)
but you need a ricer for it
Weirdly enough, riced cauliflower doesn't need a ricer. If you have a food processor, you can just pulse it with a standard blade until its all rice-y. You can also use the cheese grater attachment, or if you don't have a food processor, the big holes on a box grater also work great.
i mean I guess you don't NEED a ricer but you need a method to rice it with
Oh on the cauliflower tip, roast them in the oven and then toss them with some tahini and chili crisp. It's fuckin awesome.
Whole grains are a life hack, relatively low in calories and very filling
With whole grains it’s a double effect bc not only are you eating something great for you, you replace something terrible for you (white grains)
it's fairly hyperbolic to say white grains are "terrible" for you, it's not like you're chugging castor oil
Dancing is such fun exercise. For a time when I was in university I used to dance before I left for class for a bit to get hyped and it was so energizing and affirming.
its great, it makes me feel so sexy and alive, and it doesn't even feel like exercise.
Congratulations! I'm sad to hear that you're scared of the gym. If not the gym, I have a personal bias against bodyweight exercise and prefer that it's supplemented with some kind of resistance training
Can I ask what you dislike about the gym?
Can I ask what you dislike about the gym?
childhood trauma. i could go into detail but it would be upsetting, just think of that video of dwight howards kid but way way worse. im mostly afraid of exercise machines. brings back bad memories.
would those strechy bands work as resistance training?
You would get some. You'd have to get creative with them in order to see meaningful muscle gain. I know if I hadn't just watched an hour of YouTube, I could have used them for mobility training. I have these stiff shoulders that I mean to stretch out with bands, a towel, or yoga so I stop being prone to neck injury. I would be surprised if you could get a full workout with them. In my eyes they seem good for supplementing another athletic pursuit like a sport or body building.
personal bias against bodyweight exercise
Could I ask what creates this bias? I've been getting into doing basic bodyweight exercises with my partner and it has really helped us actually get moving.
I think it takes longer to get the same results. My understanding of strength and conditioning comes from an orthodoxy about progressive overload. In essence, if you give your body the fuel (enough calories + protein), you lift heavier things, and you rest then you build muscle. I have some references from unscrupulous places where one might typically get bodybuilding information from that show an outsized amount of time spent to get mediocre results.
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This is video of a person who, though he is using resistance, the high volume training did not afford him the progress he wanted [1]. Sure, there are people who are training specifically to do something out of the ordinary with their body (muscle ups, pistol squats, etc.) [2], but for anyone who wants to lose weight or gain weight, I don't think it's the move. I think the exception gets a nice looking body doing calisthenics versus the competent getting a nice looking body doing progressive overload. If I wanted to change my body, I'd do resistance training. If I needed endurance, I would do triathlete stuff. If I needed agility, that's when calisthenic, isometric, and plyometric movements become part of a regimen that probably included the other two. I'd only ever want agility to supplement sports training.
But again, that's explaining my personal bias - not advice. If you're like, "but WDYMP! I want to be a better tennis player!" then you shouldn't follow my lead.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQDo1tNCl8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y7i58Cmt9vo
Dude looks super fit to me. Would love to have that body.
