Lose Weight Exercises : Firm Abs, Trimmer Body & Increased Metabolism

Okay, so, as of Saturday I started this really healthy dieting and exercise regime. I’m not fat, I’m around 50 kg (which is around 110lbs), but I’d like to lose my stomach fat and get it nicely toned. So far I’ve been doing well, eating good food, drinking lots of water and going on the treadmill and doing stomach crunches, and I’m happy. The thing is, this Saturday I’m meeting up with a bunch of friends over a Chinese dinner. I looove Chinese food, but I also know it’s really rich and full of calories. I was telling my Mother I’d eat dinner before I go and just drink water or Diet Lemonade or something as they’re eating dinner. But she said it would make the others feel uncomfortable. My Dad sees no problem with it on the other hand, but it got me thinking, would that be constituted as rude? Do you have to eat when you’re meeting up with friends over dinner? I just don’t want to ruin the pattern I’m on or mess up my metabolism. I’m not losing sleep over it or anything, I’m just curious.

okay so i am dieting right now and trying to exercise a lot because i really want to tone up..especially my legs and stomach..does anyone know some relaly good things to do?

on mwf i run for 30 minutes..but dont have access to a gym at the moment..so don’t really do anything on the other days which is bad i knoww..

so help pleasee?
i have been playing soccer since i was 4
im not playing in college though because it takes up way to much time. i still have soccer legs..but they are bulky.

I had a very real-feeling dream that I was pregnant and I was just far enough along that I could feel the hardness of my tummy but it wasn’t that big yet. I was standing in my mother’s kitchen and she was telling me how riding exercise bikes when you’re pregnant is good for you. I was touching my stomach and smiling, feeling excited about having a baby. Then the dream flashed to me playing with an infant.

I actually don’t know how I feel about the whole baby thing. I know it’s not physically possible for me to be pregnant… and my mother and I do NOT get along.

28 y/o male here from So Cal.
So a couple days ago i’m on the beach cooling off…lots of beaches here in san diego..lots of people too…feeling good and relaxed, when suddenly I find myself in shadow. The sun had been eclipsed by a mammoth of a woman so large I could feel her gravitational pull. Anyway she implodes into the sand like a fleshy grenade right next to me. After my eyes had a chance to adjust I took her all in and my god, I wish I hadn’t. Her three hundred pounds was punctuated only by a thong swimsuit so small it looked like it was made out of fishing line….running up her crack like a garden hose stretched out along the bottom of the grand canyon. I know the threads that held that thing together had to have been sown on the planet Krypton. Anyway, She had brought her own trough with her-a hefty bag filled with goodies and started to inhale twinkies, funions, one coke after another ( diet of course ) and little cans of vienna sausages. Diet did I say? Why do they bother? Drinking diet soda when you’re large enough to send e mails to your own anatomy is rediculous. Its like putting gas into a car you’ve already wrecked.
She only glanced at me once and I swear she was picturing me wrapped in bacon and served with dry wine. I felt like one of those poor wildebeasts you see always being stalked by lions on the Sarengetti.
WTF is wrong with people? Does she actually think this is attractive? To protect my Higher brain functions I went blind and am only now recovering my sight. What about my rights? What if blinded and half crazed I ran into moving traffic? I’m sure she has a nice cozy barn someplace with soft hay layed down to nap on-why go to the beach and impose an undigested stomach on the rest of us? I’d have said something but truth be told I was afraid of her.
I’m not a bigot or egotistcal. I’m just making the case that despite the constitutional rights every person is entitled to-there’s still a difference between being right and doing the right thing. I know the fat and unattractive have rights too, but for christ sake be appropriate and exercise those rights in suitable places….the praries of Nebraska for example with the rest of the buffalo. They could graze, sleep all day, and not have to worry since they outlawed poaching a hundred years ago. Seriously, come on people. The woman couldn’t even see her own hoofs, or feet or whatever. This isn’t right. Suppose she went in the water? How the hell would the lifeguard save her if there was a problem? It’s like raising the titantic. She needs a blacksmith, not a lifeguard. I guess i just don’t get it.

let me get this straight.. women have to:
shave their legs
trim/shave "down there"
do their eyebrows
wear makeup
style their hair
exercise to stay thin
keep their breasts firm and perky
keep a flat stomach
do kegels so we are "tight"
keep away cellulite
have a tan
wear perfume
shave our armpits
pluck any "unwanted" hair
have flawless skin
wear uncomfortable clothing
go through periods
be clean at all times
always look our "best"
And much more!

and guys can be:
overweight
have poor hygiene
don’t have to brush their hair
can wear the same shirt twice
dont have to shave anything (execpt Maybe their face)
dont have the wear makeup
eat what they want anytime they want
wear what they want and what is comfortable like jeans and a tshirt can be sloppy because it is "cute"
can have floppy d***s and hanging balls
have man boobs
have acne
they dont Have to wear cologne (most dont even wear deodorant)
and dont have to do Anything ever!

this f***ing pisses me off and im tired of having to live by society’s standards! i know the guys will say something smartass, but seriously.. this is rediculous! Any girls out there that dont care and do what they want? Do you still have a boyfriend and people tell you you are hott??
thats my point: guys can do all of it too.. if they CHOOSE to, but they dont HAVE to. and you tell me i dont HAVE to do all of it.. but guess what, if i dont shave my legs, for example, for 10 months, then wear a bikini in public, i Know someone will make a rude comment. guys dont have to hear crap no matter what decision they make.
just think of it this way, a guy can wake up for school, not shower, throw on a shirt and jeans, and leave.

a girl has to wake up, shower, shave her legs, do her hair and nails and makeup, pick out an outfit (that matches), and put on perfume, before she can even consider stepping out of the door.

"Wise temperance of the stomach is a door to all the virtues. Restrain the stomach, and you will enter Paradise. But if you please and pamper your stomach, you will hurl yourself over the precipice of bodily impurity, into the fire of wrath and fury."

Doesnt this exercise one, if not 4 (gluttony, greed, sloth, envy)of the 7 sins? Are they looked down upon w/ the rest of the people practicing sin?
Fine,aside from the small percentage w/ a medical issue. Plain ole un factored obesity is still overwhelming in the US.
And i, personally, dont think much either way on obese people, as i think religion is a crock. I just just wondering the religious’ view.
nineteenth-century Russian Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov. And no its not from the bible, its a zelots opinion derived from his teachings. Even worse.
Nick, not your place to judge others? Seriously?

And again, i am not discriminating or judging. Technically, the list of sins are. I was just asking christians opinion on the matter. Is it the overweight people being so testy or just the people that pick and choose who’s a sinner worthy of being turned against and who isnt?

The spiritual care involves the acts of worship. The problem is that Iman cannot be translated into belief, nor Salaat into prayer, Nor Wadu into washing hand, face and feet nor; Sawm into fasting nor Sakat into charity nor Haii into pilgrimage to Mecca. T’hey are entitles in themselves.

A. Iman:The belief in God is the first and foremost important need for spiritual stability. Belief in God includes belief in his aU attributes, his angels, his books, the day of judgement, the heaven and hell and belief that – all good and bad is within his reach. Imam Rumi has called faith being superior to prayers. In illness, according to Imam Ghazai, the awareness of God increases and man becomes closer to God by realizing his own weakness. Without true belief, neither our prayer, nor charity, nor fasting nor pilgrimage will be accepted. The essence of belief is to rid ourselves of all false Gods around us, or within us, and to worship no one except God alone.

B.Salat: There are three health aspects of Salat
I. Wadu: Washing all the exposed areas of the body, hand, feet, face, mouth, nostrils etc. 5 times a day is a healthy preventive procedure. Hand washing is being emphasized more and more in hospitals now in order to prevent spread of germs. However non-Muslims did not know that hand- washing is so important – it has been ordered in Qu’ran (5:7) 1400 years ago. And for complete cleanliness bathing is advised (4:43)

2. Recitation of Quran: Has a healing effect on body, mind and heart. These healing effects are due to the effect of sound (Echo) and the meaning. The letter Alif resounds unto the Echoes to heart and the letter YA resounds unto Echoes to the pineal gland in the brain.

"O Mankind: There has come to you a direction front your Lord and a healing for the (disease) in your hearts – and for those who believe a guidance and mercy !!"
10:57

"We sent down in the Quran that which is healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss". The movement in Salaat are mild, uniform, and involve all muscles and joints. The caloric output is desired to keep the energy balance."
17:82

C: Zakat (Charity): The word itself means purification and growth. Here it is meant to imply the purification of legitimately earned wealth. Many of our crimes are committed with money or for love of money, and in the love of money one becomes violent in behavior.

And he is violent in his love of wealth:
100:8

In Islam the ownership of wealth belongs to God. We are the disposer of that trust. Therefore, this concept establishes peace at heart and our behavior in the loss of money or unusual gain, In either way, we thank God.

D. Sawm: The Islamic fasting: Islamic fasting is prescribed as way training of our mind, and body in self-restraints.

"O you who believe is prescribed to you, as it was prescribed
to those before you, so that you can learn self-restraint."
2:183

Therefore, during the period of fast one may not only get rid of nibbling food, coffee, smoking but also of anger and excessive sexual passion.
In fact, the fast not only gives rest to stomach but also stabilizes the secretion of harmones which control our behavior.

E. Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca): The morale is Prophet lbrahim’s submission and absolute surrender to God’s will, the opportunity for repentance, and the social and political gathering of the Ummah depecting brotherhood, and equality. However this can be used for programming and testing us for physical endurance, a requirement for all able men and women. The long walks, the heat, the sun, the thirst, the physical exercise, etc. is to remind us of the day of judgement. We should perform Hajj when young and physically well rather than wait for the old age. We should keep ourselves in good shape before and years after the Hajj.http://www.islam-usa.com/im6.html

Okay so tom is going to be my first day to fast, because i coudn’t these past two days, i was on medication
I;m a really healthy person, and in iftar i cant eat much, becaus eit really hurts my stomach, so this is my plan and tell me what i should change
Iftar:
bowl of low calorie low fat healthy soup
after 30 min i start eating (so in between i pray maghrib)
bowl of fresh salad, and good portion of lean meat (e.g 4-6 ounces of skinless grilled chicken)
Night: before i sleep
bowl of low calorie low fat soup and a fruit (e.g a medium fresh apple)
Drink lots of water

Exercise everyday on my elliptical trainer machine and burn 100 calories while im fasting

so is it healthy, what should i do to change it and make it even more healthy???
thank you
ramadan kareem

i find translating websites not reliable.
here it goes.

oh no, look at you, you have gained a lot of weight. how often do you exercise? how frequent do you have a physical? how about your breakfast, what do you eat in the morning? from now on, i recommend you to take your lunch to school, and don’t eat in the cafeteria. also i would like you to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. don’t eat lots of junk food though. do you get sick often? do you get stomach aches? please drink lots of water, and not soft drinks.

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with potluck dinners, offering donuts after church, etc…isn’t this encouraging gluttony?

If someone dies fat, obviously, they did not turn from their sin of gluttony. So, from a literal interpretation of scripture, they are going to hell. Correct?

Proverbs 23:2 even goes so far as to say, "put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony."

II Peter 1:6 says that a Christian must have self-control…an obese person obviously does not exercise self-control

Philippians 3:19 says"…their God is in their stomach…their mind is on earthly things."…they are not of God

And, I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, "your body is a temple of God…honor God with your body

additional reading Proverbs 23:20-21, II Peter 1:5-7, II Timothy 3:1-9…all about your body, self control, etc…

Given that obesity a big problem facing America…and that unrepentant sinners/gluttons go to hell…why don’t you rail against fat people?
And, don’t give me this line that it is a medical condition, that people are born fat….if people are not "born" gay, they cannot be "born" fat….you can’t have it both ways people…..

fat people choose what to put into their mouth…just like gay people do.

So, why don’t churches rail against obesity? Why don’t the faithful picket with signs outside of McDonalds or Dunkin Doughnuts?

Why don’t the altar calls scream at the obese to repent of their sins, like they scream at the other supposed sinners?

why the double standard?