You can eat whatever you want if you just work out seriously an hour a day. If you do that properly, gaining weight will become the challenge.
An hour of strenuous exercise might burn 800 calories. That can be undone in moments with one milkshake.
How I overcame my addiction to sugar
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#52> When I returned from my trip, my fridge was empty, so I resisted the temptation to buy those products.
This has to be my reality. If I buy treats, no matter how good my intentions are to make them last, they just don't survive in the cupboard more than a couple of days. I have to leave my kitchen mostly empty apart from: diet soda, meat, cheese, yoghurt, peanut butter. Everything else is just too addictive and I keep eating it until it's gone. I do have other stuff, but have to buy it as and when I need it in a quantity that will only last one meal.
One suggestion I can give if you like chocolate is to buy some 90% or 95% chocolate. It's hard to eat more than one piece at a time without your mouth feeling quite dry, and a 100g bar can easily last a week. After a while, if you have anything else, even 80%, it'll taste really sweet. But it only take a bar or two of the really easy to eat sweet variety before you'll be hooked on it again.
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#53It's nefarious! Especially if you have a dopamin deficiency (ADHD, etc.) and you eat so you aren't bored. I can eat 500g of m&ms in one sitting, no problem, and I'm not even overweight or something.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
My biggest problem with Keto is that is that one bad meal and your out. I found it was just such a pain in the as for other as much as it was for me. Every meal at someone elses house I had to make my specific nutritional requirements available to the host, which then puts them out.
Same thing with intermittent fasting. One deviation and the appetite comes back with a vengeance and you have to restart from scratch the process of getting used to fasting (which is the hard part, the appetite is what makes the caveman go out chase the mammoth, it's a strong force). Experimenting with Mounjaro right now + intermittent fasting. So far so good, but only one week into it. I am hoping to use it as a gua…
Not from scratch. It's a setback but you don't go to start line.
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#55I think the author read atomic habits. Even the story about vietnam is in there.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
why would protein kick you out of ketosis, on Keto alot of people, especially athletes load up on as much protein as they can and use fat to get the rest of their calories.
> on Keto alot of people, especially athletes load up on as much protein as they can This only works because athletes tend to have pretty insane protein (and calorie!) demands. If you as a regular, non-athlete person load up on protein (while neglecting to consume sufficient fat), your body will be forced to convert the protein into glucose, and you'll fall right out of ketosis
First of all, it's not a binary process.
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#57You can eat whatever you want if you just work out seriously an hour a day. If you do that properly, gaining weight will become the challenge.
An hour of strenuous exercise might burn 800 calories. That can be undone in moments with one milkshake.
Milkshakes aren't the way to go. On long runs I bring ziplocks stuffed with marshmallows.
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#58To compare it to heroin is a horrible trivialization of something that destroys a person and at time those around the person. I feel that to make this statement in any genuine way, the author should spend 6 months developing a serious addiction to heroin then attempt to get clean. I am blessed I have never done heroin and hopefully I never will. I have gone weeks without sugar and had a craving, some mild headaches a…
Don't get why you get into such criticism, the author did not compare sugar to heroin, he made an example of something indeed more dangerous and even more addicting that had a great benefit from the change of environment and stated he worked for him too.
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#59I cut out sugar for a month recently and my sleep cut in half and my depression really worsened. Really affected my job performance. I didn't think it would last that long or be that bad. It's crazy. I went back to eating bit of sugar and the same night had a great sleep. Not sure what to do now. I find it easy not to eat it but the side effects are very difficult to deal with
I think your body and brain have simply to adapt.
Experiment with gradually more sugar till you find a right balance then get back to cutting in very small steps.
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#60I cut out sugar for a month recently and my sleep cut in half and my depression really worsened. Really affected my job performance. I didn't think it would last that long or be that bad. It's crazy. I went back to eating bit of sugar and the same night had a great sleep. Not sure what to do now. I find it easy not to eat it but the side effects are very difficult to deal with
I think your body and brain have simply to adapt. Experiment with gradually more sugar till you find a right balance then get back to cutting in very small steps.
You may be right. I inadvertently went cold turkey as I was counting calories and sugar is high in calories and substituting for meat/veg was easy.