Showing posts with label weight. Show all posts
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Fitness & Exercise • If you want to shed weight...
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by Owen58 » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:39 pm Eat more of fruits and vegetables, avoid junk foods and drink plenty of water. Join a gym, and if you can't, perform simple exercises like running for just about thirty minutes. Most importantly, stick to a healthy routine without giving up.Owen58 Posts: 10Joined: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:53 pm
by Owen58 » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:39 pm Eat more of fruits and vegetables, avoid junk foods and drink plenty of water. Join a gym, and if you can't, perform simple exercises like running for just about thirty minutes. Most importantly, stick to a healthy routine without giving up.Owen58 Posts: 10Joined: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:53 pmReturn to Fitness & Exercise
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
No weight loss and even more sore and less motivated after 60 day Bikram challenge
Hi Becky
You are such a good friend! 
Let me see if we can get the ball rolling.
You have given me some clues straight away in your post.
>> 1. Your friend is doing Bikram yoga every day and has done so for the past 2 months. He hasn’t had a break.
>> 2. Without a break your friend’s body is tired and lacking ANY chance of recovery. He really needs to take a few days off and do no yoga.
>> 3. You mention he has pain, is sore, achy has stiff joints. This is OH SO TYPICAL for 2 reasons.
a) the first reason for the pain? He needs to LISTEN to his body and rest. Yoga is really about being present with what’s going on. Pushing past whatever barrier he’s up against is really counter-productive. Every BODY needs time to regenerate tissues and take time to rest. Yes, some people do practise for days and months at a time. But the forced schedule does not allow for your friend’s very common scenario.
b) the second reason? It is highly likely, given what you describe that (despite how wonderful an environment it is to practise) your friend may not be using the best yoga techniques to support the opening up, the pain-free, wonderfully challenging yoga poses he is doing. To work hard and to be challenged is the goal. The goal is NEVER, ever to struggle. Your friend is struggling.
So Becky, the scenario is very typical - unfortunately. There are actually a lot of threads on the forum that talk about people unable to lose weight. It could be a nutritional change. It could be salt intake (sea salt of course) and it could be water habits.
But it also has something to do with the way he’s doing his poses. I can guarantee that.
Would you be willing to ask your friend to come to the forum? I have too many questions that would make this process unwieldy! You being the 3rd wheel and all. 
In the meantime, if your friend is continuing to go to yoga, he really MUST start ONLY going as far into any pose as he can with EXCELLENT alignment.
There are resources I can point him to to make his practice satisfying and fun and pain-free again. But I really think I need to talk with him (write 
) directly.
Thanks for the good background
Namaste
Gabrielle 
Just Started and GAINED weight So upset
Hello Everyone
This thread is being dealt with via other channels at the moment. I will copy and paste our conversations (if Jwan gives permission) at a later date.
FYI: The story so far: Jwan needs to balance an enormous water intake with some electrolytes which are missing from the diet. Salt loss is particularly high in first weeks of practice.
Namaste
Gabrielle
Real weight loss
Well, I have lost well over a hundred pounds since starting Bikram yoga, going from morbidly obese to just a little overweight. I’m not where I want to be yet, but I’m close.
As to my diet, in the beginning I just ate what I wanted to, as I always had. That is, I wasn’t on a weight loss diet. The weight just started to fall off. But soon an odd thing started to happen. I wasn’t consciously eating better, I just found myself unconsciously making better food decisions. I never did “diet” and I lost most of that weight without it. Then about six months ago, after reading “The China Study” and watching “Forks Over Knives,” I decided to take a Whole Foods Plant Based approach to eating. I’m not fanatical about it—I still have my sushi once a week—but for the most part, I eat very differently now, very healthily. (And I should mention Gabrielle Raiz’s books on smoothies and salads have been extremely helpful.)
That’s my story. Does that help?
bikram yoga or hot yoga - weight loss
Hi Jessica
I agree with Kristin. Plus, the yoga works on your system holistically rather than through just simple exercise. In that way your body’s systems (hormonal, digestive, and so on) optimise in function. One doesn’t simply lose more and more weight, especially if one’s body is functioning well. While you will need to eat well you will feel great, and on top of that, you will develop a greater sensitivity to what you need, when and how to eat… which is all part of the increased mindful awareness that comes with a regular and frequent practice of yoga!
Hope that helps you step closer to beginning and sustaining your practice.
Research will help you find lots of opinion. Lots of it will be negative and lots positive. The only way to find out .... 
Namaste
Gabrielle 
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