How does calories make us gain/lose weight?

                                       

        3500 calories = 1 pound [of fat] gained

       

  Likewise, 3500 burned calories = 1 pound of weight loss.

  

This applies no matter who, what, when, where, how....or why!

If I ate 3500 calories today and 3500 more calories tomorrow...

and did nothing at all to burn calories, then I will have gained 2 pounds of fat (If 3500 calories = 1 pound, then 7000 calories = 2 pounds). 

Whether the pound(s) gained are fat pounds or muscle pounds depends on the food that was eaten from the start (i.e. nutritious food or non nutritious food).

On the flip side...

3500 burned calories = 1 pound of weight loss. 7000 burned calories = 2 pounds of weight loss. Basically, follow the theory that when that 3500 calories settle, then a pound is gained. 

What stops calories from settling? 

Use of calories as energy stops calories from settling/accumulating to that 3500 = 1 pound mark. Things that burn calories (use energy) are:

walking   running    thinking    talking    working out    sports   reading   playing

and many many more things similar

How Stomach Fat can Trigger Back Pains

  *The Update 12/1/13*

   Lets first look at our tummy (stomach). No matter how big or small it is, it grows in one circle. The only part that we normally see as it grows, is the front part of that circle (your belly). The back part of the circle grows and pushes outward on our spine.

      That's why sometimes when we stand too long our lower back began to hurt. This is from a combination of pressure from the tummy pushing on the spine and the lower back muscles being too weak to withstand all the standing. 

As we stand, our body is balancing itself from tipping over and that means that our lower back is constantly playing an integral part in that balancing act (like you are trying to balance a pencil on a saucer or something---the center of your finger (in this case your lower back) is doing the constant work.

Let's get to the lower back.   

The lower back has some of your body's strongest muscles. Normally, the bigger ones are strong and can withstand stuff. The lower back muscles (the one just above your cheeks), however, just sits there and are super weak if you do not, or have not ever done lower back workouts. All of the other muscles are connected to that muscle by your ligaments and things. The other bigger back muscles are strong even without working out. The strong other back muscles (using your ligaments and stuff), pull that poor lower back muscle in any direction it suddenly wishes and the weakling back muscle "tries" to stay ready.

 HOWEVER..

A sudden movement, jerk, reach downward, or even a "bump" into your body and a permanent back injury could take place. 

Most of the time the poor lower muscle is just pulled out of whack and heals. However, a lot of time it is pulled all-the-way out and BAM! Back injury for life. :(

To prevent most lower back injuries you MUST MUST MUST work that poor little back muscle at least two times per week. 

Do This..

Make a muscle with your arm and look at the muscle. Now stretch your arm back out. Now make the muscle again. Now stretch it back out. 

See how your arm muscle formed when you made a muscle and then went back down after that?    Now this is how we work that poor little lower back muscle to get it stronger than never before. Then when the big muscles, or sudden movements, tug and pull on it it can just sit still and go with the flow STRONGLY. 

How to Make the Lower Back Muscles Stronger... 

1.) Stand up

2.) Picture your lower back and focus on that area.

3.) Lean back and tighten your lower back only (just like when you make a muscle with your arm)
 

4.) hold it tight for two seconds

5.) now stand back straight up

(the workout above if a half of a dead lift in weight-lifting terms)

Each time you do steps 1-5, it counts as one rep

Do 3 sets of 10 to 20 reps three times each week and watch all lower back problems go ways!

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Do You Have my Back? *Obesity and Back Pains*

*ROUGH DRAFT* -displays how emails turn into blogpost.

Dear Julia,

Hey loooove! 

     I'm back from lunch and the fish was some T-R-A-S-H! lol harder than a rock too (some thanksgiving lol). But love, let me finish before I go back out to work. 

On the back issue... 

Look at your lower back muscles like this---well first, look at our tummy (stomach). No matter how big or small it is, it grows in one circle. The only part that we normally see as it grows into that circle is the front part of the circle. The back part of the circle grows and pushes outward on our spine.

      That's why sometimes when we stand too long our lower back hurts because of the pressure from the tummy pushing the spine and the lower back muscle being too weak to withstand all the standing. 

**(you know as we stand or even sit) our body (unbeknownst to us) is balancing itself from tipping over and that means that our lower back is constantly playing an integral part in that balancing act (like you are trying to balance a pencil on a saucer or something---the center of your finger (in this case your lower back) is doing the constant work.**

Let's get to the lower back.   

The lower back has some of your body's strongest muscles. Normally, the bigger ones are strong and can withstand stuff. However, the lower back muscle, the one just above your cheeks and under the skin, sits there. All of the other muscles are connected to that muscle by your ligaments and things. Now if you do not, or have not ever done lower back workouts then that one muscle is super weak. The other bigger back muscles are strong even without working out. They get even stronger when you work them out. The strong other back muscles (using your ligaments and stuff) pull that poor lower back muscle in any direction it suddenly wishes because it is the unworked weakling. *** The weakling back muscle "tries" to stay ready because it is always being just "pulled" every which way. It "tries" to stay on point. Guess what sneaks up on it though? 

A sudden movement, jerk, reach downward, or even a "bump" into your body and a permanent back injury could take place. 

Most of the time the poor lower muscle is just pulled out of whack and heals. However, a lot of time it is pulled all-the-way out and BAM! 

Back injury for life.

 To prevent lower back injuries you MUST work that poor little back muscle at least two times per week. Make a muscle with your arm and look at the muscle. Now stretch your arm back out. Now make the muscle again. Now stretch it back out. See how your arm muscle formed when you made a muscle and the n went back down after that?    Now this is how we work that poor little weak lower back muscle to get it stronger than never so when the big muscles or sudden movements tug and pull on it it cab just sit still and go with the flow STRONGLY).

1-stand up

2-picture your lower back

3-focus on your lower back

4-there is a muscle there

5-lean back and tighten your lower back only (just like when you make a muscle with your arm)

6-hold it tight for two seconds

7-now stand back straight up

each time you do that one time that counts as one rep

do 3 sets of 10 to 20 reps 3 times each week and watch all lower back problems go ways

you can even stretch lower back (general) injuries this same way

(the workout above if a half of a dead lift in weight-lifting terms)

hey,
when you get a chance just print this part on a sep e-mail and send it to me so I can forward it to Tah and not have to type it over. I cannot forward this one because it has our other e-mails at the bottom. You can cut n paste it love. tty in a few. Oh, I will do the e-mail about the kids when I get in at 3, kay love?