CrunchGear

Oooh. While I don’t believe I’ve gained any (or lost any) weight in the last seven years, the Tanita InnerScan sounds like a great tool for those in athletics looking for brownie points (pun? you be the judge). The last thing I ate - a bag of Doritos (Ranchero flavor) - apparently netted me 140 calories.

That’s brilliant. They need to couple this with cell phone technology and built in scanners so everyone can scan their food, and then decide not to eat for fear of being a lard ball. Then the world will collapse because everyone is starving themselves to death.

What now CrunchGear? Oh the huge manatee….

Actually Josh, Calorieking.com is NOT free… it’s 45$/year. I run the only free and anonymous health monitoring system on the net… lots of new stuff coming shortly to myfoodcount.com btw - don’t bother reviewing it yet ;-)

The problem with scales is that they are not used correctly by most people, they need calibration - also, you should be doing body measurements as well to get an accurate assessment of where you are growing and how… only then do you have the knowledge required to achieve your “goal body”.

Jon

It is free to search the database. The charge is if you join the club.

No problem Josh… wish I could tell you more but don’t want to give a heads up to the wrong people ;-)

Jon

I need this service to figure where I’m going wrong in my diet. I’m 19, six feet tall, and yet weigh only 145 pounds. Everything I do to gain weight (go to the gym, drink tons of milk, eat full meals 3 times a day) just seems to result in a larger… exit strategy - and no weight gain.

If the creators are looking for a great way to monetize the service, why not have an optional cell phone lookup. You could text your meal choice to the site and get a reply giving you the juicy stats about the meal.

Oh, and that scale reminds me of this miraculous device I got to use a few weeks ago. It looks a bit like a treadmill without the treads; you step on it and put your hands on the handlebars, and in about 10 seconds it gives you everything you want to know about your body: your weight, your body mass, your heart rate, your fat percentage, and how much you have to eat to get to certain weight levels. Does anyone know the device I’m talking about?

(sorry for hijacking this thread - but a bro needs help)

Hi That Canadian… it takes TIME to gain weight… we probably have the same genetics… I was about your weight at your age… then got up to 195 about 2 years ago… now I am back down to 160 (!)… long story short… once you know your body, you can make it grow or shrink (within reason) at will… just takes time. Right now, after a very long time being a fitness nut, I am in the middle of 6 months completely off weight training to allow my body to fully regenerate, I usually hover around the 180 mark without a ber belly - seems like a long time but the body doesn’t recover from over 15 years of damage overnight. Although I would love to be a bodybuilder at 250lbs, I am not willing to do so at my health.

If you want to gain weight:
1) start a HIT program (if you go to a gym, the trainer will know exactly what this is… if they know anything about fitness)
2) eat a small meal every 2-3 hours… yes… every 2-3 hours
3) drop the milk… replace it with WATER and a protein shake (you can get those at my site btw if your in the usa)
4) limit cardio
5) anything that isn’t a WHOLE FOOD, don’t touch it… that means any sort of junk food… your body needs clean energy to burn and build… not wasting resources processing junk into crap ;-)

Expect to gain about 1-2 pounds a month (yes, a month)… don’t even think of taking roids at your weight and age. Period. Expect to hit many tapers as well… you are fighting your own genetics for every ounce of new muscle. I would advise you to go for a medical checkup before you do anything though… just to make sure your body is able to take the HIT. READ about fitness - I have a very large library at my site as well to get you going.

Gaining weight is difficult with a fast metabolism… but the advantage is you look great without having to watch your diet too much as your muscle mass goes up. I look much larger at 180 in a t-shirt then people 20lbs bigger then me.

Jon

Wow, thanks for the in depth reply
I just printed that out and hung it above my computer - I’ll definately try these things out over the new year.
BTW editors: just for that I think Jon should get the camera :)

Just take it slow That Canadian… the slower the gains, the easier they are to keep (within reason)… but at your age (I am 30 now), you should grow like a weed with all that extra testosterone running through you… but don’t give up… fitness is a LIFE LONG goals… the goalposts will get farther and farther as you progress though… just keep at it. Remember, the chicks dig a lean hard body… if nothing else motivates you… this should! ;-)

One more piece of advice… it may take up to 2 months before you notice ANY changes even when you are doing everything 100% right… your body will go through a phase of transformation as the you loose fat and gain muscle (depending on diet)… so just keep doing it… you will then notice subtle changes. Everybody goes through this. The dream body you want is 85% diet and 15% exercise… without a good diet… you will go nowhere no matter what you do. Start slow… if you jump into heavy weights right off the bat, you are setting yourself up for a world of pain and possibly injury… progress slowly up the weight scale as muscles adapt faster to new stress then ligaments.

Jon

That Canadian that sucks for you. I’m guessing that you have a high metabolism. Lets hope that there’s no zombie invasion in the near future. Because if there is and we run out of food you will be the first to die. Sorry.

Ahh, but you’re forgetting the flip-side, Alex.
A high metabolism means that I’ll be the last person to be eaten by the zombies, becuase there’s much less of me and I can move faster :P

nigga

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