Since beginning medical school have you lost, maintained, or gained weight? Is there adequate time to workout and stay fit?
4th year will afford you time to workout. I lost a considerable amount of weight and now am less than what I weighed before going into school.
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^^ that's the spirit
10 happy years and counting! You can't be early-20s and speedo/string-bikiniworthy forever, at least not with the amount that I care about being so.
Then I started studying for step 1 and I don't even want to know the amount of weight I've lost. NO GYM TIME FOR ME!
I don't understand why people in healthcare are obese >30bmi. No excuse if you don't have an organic condition causing it. And if you're so muscular that you're over 30bmi, then that's not healthy either.
I don't understand why people in healthcare are obese >30bmi. No excuse if you don't have an organic condition causing it. And if you're so muscular that you're over 30bmi, then that's not healthy either.
I don't understand why people in healthcare are obese >30bmi. No excuse if you don't have an organic condition causing it. And if you're so muscular that you're over 30bmi, then that's not healthy either.
Don't want to derail the thread too much but is that really true regarding being very muscular?
Isn't the point of BMI that its supposed to be an approximation of the amount of body fat a person is carrying? If that's the case then why would there be health risks involved with having a high bmi due to muscle?
To sustain a bmi around 30 with a fat % that is jacked/ripped/swol, you end up putting considerable strain on your kidneys. This happens over time though. Another equally important risk is due to taking in enough cholesterol to make testosterone for the anabolic muscle process-- to achieve the swol effect. Autopsies on US GIs have been showing blocked coronaries at 25yo! Keep in mind that these are at extremes of physique, but even fluctuating up and down puts stress on the kidneys heart and liver over time. This doesn't even include use of supplements. Just because someone looks healthy doesn't mean that they are, and studies have been suggesting that overweight folks who get regular exercise have fewer cardiac events than normal bmi sedentary folks.
I would have gained 10 lbs by now had I not ________ so much so I've stayed the same. Exam stress eating is what kills me everytime
You need to make the time. Healthy body=healthy mind.
I agree with this. Just like the smoking pulmonologist.
Ooh! I love ad-lib games!!!
Is it "slept-around" ?
Ooh, I'm gong to go with "had stress induced vomiting"
Resources? I've done some searches on this topic, and I have yet to find any studies in non-drug using populations.
Lost.
If you do 4 major meals daily and dont eat anything else while studying or whatever. You will lose weight even if you dont do any kind of programmed physical activity.
why?
The way you phrased your advice, like it could work for everyone. It's no secret that women tend to struggle more with their weight, and a lot of that is related to the fact that an ideal BMI for a woman is more like 19 or 20, and a man can easily get away with 24, 25 and look good.
I kind of have to do what works for my mental state to control my weight, and a lot of my friends do completely different things. I didn't mean the comment as boo-hoo us, but I think men don't realize that we a) usually like to be a lot smaller than you guys and b) have to be more conscientious to do that (for me that means eating a lot less).