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What are your lifts?
Do you mean what I recommend? For absolute beginners, Starting Strength or Stronglifts is great. In the book I recommend something similar, but a bit more custom for muscle building. Basically, stick to the big four (deadlifts, squats, bench press and overhead press), throw in some accessory work for lagging bodyparts and problem areas. It'll do wonders. For more advanced people, same as above, but with more volume a…
Seeing as this usually turns into a low-carb diet thread, here is a great post about the common nutritional misconceptions of most modern diets and links to the accompanying scientific papers: http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-...
This makes it sound like I could eat greasy pizza all the time and it would be healthy.
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> They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet. I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat. I lost 15 kilos in body weight accompanied by a 5% reduction in body fat (-> gained muscle). So at least on a personal level, I can really not confirm this. An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has lin…
Are you also exercising more than before the diet? If so, it's an uneven comparison.
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> They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet. I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat. I lost 15 kilos in body weight accompanied by a 5% reduction in body fat (-> gained muscle). So at least on a personal level, I can really not confirm this. An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has lin…
When you eat low-carb, your body depletes your glycogen stores (if you go as far as keto, you're emptying the glycogen and switching your metabolism to run on ketones). Every gram of glycogen is stored with 3-4g water. When one goes low-carb (especially coming from a high-carb diet) they will loose a LOT of weight quickly, but most of this is water weight, not body fat.
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You're still making it way too complicated. If I put 10 gallons into my tank every day, but use 11 gallons daily.. I'm "using up" gas. That's all that matters. Of course, there are many, many, many tweaks to be made, but for the majority of people, who need to lose a massive amount of weight, if they eat less calories than they use, they will lose weight. End.
I've lost a massive amount of weight (170 pounds). It isn't that easy. If it was that easy, I would never have had to go to the lengths I went to in order to lose it and what I have to do to maintain that loss. What the basic calorie-in-calorie-out equation doesn't take into account is that it is a biological imperative to eat . That means you have to find the way to balance those calories that overcomes that. Some p…
On a side note, I'd love to hear what sort of issues you have with maintaining?
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> They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet. I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat. I lost 15 kilos in body weight accompanied by a 5% reduction in body fat (-> gained muscle). So at least on a personal level, I can really not confirm this. An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has lin…
>I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat. So, judging by guessing. That is not how you judge. Measure your food and see how many calories you actually consume. It is fewer. >An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has links to the matching double blind studies Which confirm that the people who successfully lose weight on low carb diets do so by cal…
"Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:
- Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).
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- Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies "
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Do you mean what I recommend? For absolute beginners, Starting Strength or Stronglifts is great. In the book I recommend something similar, but a bit more custom for muscle building. Basically, stick to the big four (deadlifts, squats, bench press and overhead press), throw in some accessory work for lagging bodyparts and problem areas. It'll do wonders. For more advanced people, same as above, but with more volume a…
I think he wanted stats.
I've been able to low bar squat 300# at 175lbs bodyweight and full snatch 130# at approximately 145lbs bodyweight at various times in my life, fyi. Nothing to write home about obviously
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This is incorrect, and there are many examples to prove it. For example, alleles conferring lactose tolerance increased to high frequencies in Europe just a few thousand years after animal husbandry was invented. Similarly, recent increases in the number of copies of the gene for salivary amylase, which digests starch, are related to agriculture. Basically, the response to the change of the environment of a species d…
Whilst I'm sure that is true, it certainly won't be true for the entire human population. I strongly suspect that my excellent reaction to low carb diets is because I haven't evolved the ability to consume them as well as other humans. Clues include oral allergy to birch pollen and my 'output' when I eat dairy and grains is less than optimal. I don't believe low carb works for everyone. It doesn't work for my wife. B…
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> The output you get from the engine varies depending on what is put in it. Of course, that's why you have to constantly Analyze how much fuel your body is burning, and reduce the rate accordingly. > The type and amount of "calories in" affect your energy level (calories out) and hunger level (ability to limit your caloric intake). Indeed, though again, that doesn't impact the basic statement: If you eat less energy…
Myth: For a long time people have claimed that calories in just needs to be below calories out. Recent studies have confirmed that not all calories affect us the same way when it comes to weight gain and loss. http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/23/study-the-best-and-wor... Put a stop to this myth. The type of food actually matters!
I don't even care if the keep drinking coke and eating fries, as long as they cut their calorie intake somewhat, down to below what they are using, they will lose weight. Period.
Losing weight at that point is the most important thing.
Once they've done that for a while, their body adapts and they'll have to cut more calories, as an ongoing process. In years, they will have lost a lot of weight, and they will have to cut things like Coke and fries, but that's years down the road.
For now, they need to eat less calories. Fullstop.
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Easy to say, but as always, the devil is in the details. I can say to make money "buy low, sell high" but of course it is not that simple. Dieting has all sorts of psychological and physical factors that vastly complicated the picture.
> I can say to make money "buy low, sell high" but of course it is not that simple. It is exactly that simple , it's just not easy . > Dieting has all sorts of psychological and physical factors that vastly complicated the picture. They make the task more difficult , they don't make the task more complicated . I'm not saying that eating less calories than you burn is easy for people with weight issues, but it is a ve…
Something can only be seen as difficult if you have a clear view of the task at hand. Chopping wood or solving equations might be difficult. Something is complicated when the mind needs many different tactics to solve a problem. Solving equations and the understanding and acting upon multiple feedback loops is difficult.
People suffering from weight problems often cannot comprehend their whole problem. Understanding the products that are eaten will focus on perception, therefor clarifying over time the big picture. It's like asking a gambler to calculate the odds of every bet he makes. Soon, the math becomes more important than the winning, thus freeing the sufferer from the emotions that are attached to food.
Another way of seeing the complications involved with food problems is by understanding that most of the food we eat nowadays is processed. For example, we tend to eat the carbs but not the fibers. This unbalances millions of years of natural evolution and allows for exorbitant high levels of insulin without feeling saturated. Counter-acting these processes that happen partly inside and partly outside our mind is a complicated process that takes years or decades of someones life.