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"JC Der Koenig" <jcderkoenig@ibm.com> wrote in message
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> "Steven C (Doktersteve)" <real_doktersteve@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "JC Der Koenig" <jcderkoenig@ibm.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Look at your BMI. At 5'6" and 190, you are over 30, which is
> > > > categorized as obese.
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> > >
> > > And if he is at 12% bodyfat? Still obese?
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> > > Idiot.
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> > Like I said, I do not have a ton of excess flab, and alot of it is
muscle.
> > so I don't put alot into what a persons BMI index is unless they are
> really
> > noticeably fat.
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> > I don't have a double chin, and my arms, legs, and neck look slim. the
> > weight I want to loose is around my stomach and sides, to give you an
> idea.
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> >
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> I'm the one that wrote that you're probably NOT obese. Low carbing (not
> neccessarily Atkins) is a proven winner in dropping bodyfat% if you engage
> in a consistent exercise program. Lifting heavy things would be preferred
> over cardio stuff. If you feel that you must do cardio, look into HIIT.
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Sorry, I didn't meant to sound combative. I appreciate what you said.
I can work out, do weights. That isn't a problem. I have noticed in the past
that my muscles react very well to a workout, and within a few weeks I see a
difference, the problem was before that I had tried a low fat low calorie
diet, with LOTS of cardio, which left me constantly hungry and needing more
and more cardio to keep up with any sort of weight loss.
I believe that muscle burns fat, and that gaining a reasonable amount of
well toned muscle will eventually speed up metabolism to a certain degree (I
am not being unrealistic though, I have a medium paced metabolism), and that
in time I can kick some of this fat off.

I have a question.
In the first phase of Atkins, you are stuck at less than 30 grams of carbs a
day.
A low carb diet is what the Suzanne sommers diet is based around, and I hear
it really works, so how many carbs is "low carb".
Obviously you want to cut out the empty carbs like glucose-fructose and
white sugars, and replace them with complete complex sugars, but how many
carbs do you cut out?

Thanks for the reply to this thread btw. you are being helpful, while so
many are just being goofy.