Something else to think about---stop listening to your friends for advice about YOUR body! Nobody knows how your body works better than you do. If you have no idea where to start, perhaps you could speak to a professional; a doctor or a nutritionist may be able to shed some light on your specific needs. Your friends have different genes, they may forget to mention that the reason they lost so much weight on the "insert fad diet here," was because they also worked out five days a week and gave up alcohol for six months. You just never know how well something will work for you until you start listening to your own body.
The same goes for fitness routines. I don't really like to run but I know it helps take the weight off faster than any other exercise I've tried. When my back gets strong enough, I'll have to get back into running to help get this weight off. For now, I know it's important for me to workout in my target heart rate zone for fat burning or cardio, if I want to see results on the scale. For my body, the elliptical machine (minus the arms for now) gets me there fast and I have no problem (with my back) maintaining a consistent heart rate. I enjoy interval training to help break up the 45 minute work out and when I see my recovery heart rate in between sprints, I get excited knowing my fitness level is still quite good considering the two-month hiatus due to back surgery.
Q: What is recovery heart rate?
A: This is the heart rate that our body will decrease to after an exercise session. For example, you exercise for a 1/2 hour at 155. Two minutes after you stop exercising, your heart rate decreases to 95. The 95 would be your recovery heart rate. It is used to evaluate your fitness level after exercise. It is good to set a two minute time frame and see how many beats you recover in that time frame. Compare this recover heart rate between exercise sessions.
The following information is courtesy of Huffingtonpost.com:
The health recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water a day is "thoroughly debunked nonsense," a doctor wrote this week in a commentary in the British Medical Journal.
Many health departments and organizations tout the need to drink that much water every day, but there is no high-quality scientific evidence to support the recommendation, wrote Dr. Margaret McCartney, a general practitioner based in Scotland.
The health recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water a day is "thoroughly debunked nonsense," a doctor wrote this week in a commentary in the British Medical Journal.
Many health departments and organizations tout the need to drink that much water every day, but there is no high-quality scientific evidence to support the recommendation, wrote Dr. Margaret McCartney, a general practitioner based in Scotland.
Some organizations backed by bottled-water makers-- such as Hydration for Health, created by the makers of Volvic and Evian -- say that it's important to drink 1.5 to 2 liters (about 6 to 8 cups) of water a day, and that being even mildly dehydrated plays a role in disease development, McCartney wrote.
However, no such claims have ever been confirmed in studies, she said, and drinking too much water can actually be dangerous by causing low blood sodium levels (a condition called hyponatraemia) and exposing people to pollutants in the water.
"People still think that we're all going to die or our kidneys will shrivel up if we don't drink eight cups of water a day," McCartney told Postmedia News. "From what I can see, there's never been any evidence in the medical literature about it."
From The Guardian: Drinking extra water is said to reduce urinary tract infections, improve skin tone, help with weight loss (fill up with water first), reduce headaches and fatigue, eliminate constipation and improve concentration. There's no robust evidence for any of this. The kidneys are wonderful things (that don't need flushing with lots of water) and will make concentrated urine to save water.
Not all doctors are on board with McCartney's commentary. The commentary wasn't peer-reviewed, one doctor from King's College London pointed out, and it's especially important for the very young and the very old to be appropriately hydrated, particularly by drinking water, the Los Angeles Timesreported.
The Mayo Clinic acknowledges that most doctors recommend drinking eight to nine cups of water a day, but said that people need to drink as much water as is necessary to replace water that is lost throughout the day.
In addition, drinking enough to produce about 6.3 cups of clear or slightly yellow urine a day means your fluid intake is probably sufficient, the Mayo Clinic said.
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