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Veganism for weight loss

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    I have stuck to eating a vegan whole foods which are organic at 50/50 raw to cooked with maintaining a macro nutrient ratio of 60-30-10 carb-fat-protein. I have went from 34% body fat to 25% body fat and 32% muscle mass to 36% muscle mass and increased my bone density in just 2 months. My staple foods include avocados, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lentils, white rice, bananas, olives, and macadamia nuts. I also combine this with intermittent fasting, HIT training, weight training with compound lifts, reverse pyramid, and hill sprints. I've gone from 193 to 170lbs at 5'11." No supplements just real whole foods and filtered water.

    How was your body fat, muscle mass and bone density measured?

    With a bioelectrical impedance scale. I will be having a DEXA scan this April for an even more accurate measurement of these categories.

    I wouldn't put too much into those readings. Bioimpedance machines are horribly inaccurate. It will be interesting to see what a dexa shows as a comparison.
  • Zmac34
    Zmac34 Posts: 32 Member
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    I have stuck to eating a vegan whole foods which are organic at 50/50 raw to cooked with maintaining a macro nutrient ratio of 60-30-10 carb-fat-protein. I have went from 34% body fat to 25% body fat and 32% muscle mass to 36% muscle mass and increased my bone density in just 2 months. My staple foods include avocados, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lentils, white rice, bananas, olives, and macadamia nuts. I also combine this with intermittent fasting, HIT training, weight training with compound lifts, reverse pyramid, and hill sprints. I've gone from 193 to 170lbs at 5'11." No supplements just real whole foods and filtered water.

    How was your body fat, muscle mass and bone density measured?

    With a bioelectrical impedance scale. I will be having a DEXA scan this April for an even more accurate measurement of these categories.

    I wouldn't put too much into those readings. Bioimpedance machines are horribly inaccurate. It will be interesting to see what a dexa shows as a comparison.

    I wouldn't say they're all horribly inaccurate. I imagine most are within 3-5% error and I found the best one I possibly could at a reasonable price but I would still like to have a DEXA scan just to validate the accuracy to see if it's high or low.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    senecarr wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    I have stuck to eating a vegan whole foods which are organic at 50/50 raw to cooked with maintaining a macro nutrient ratio of 60-30-10 carb-fat-protein. I have went from 34% body fat to 25% body fat and 32% muscle mass to 36% muscle mass and increased my bone density in just 2 months. My staple foods include avocados, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lentils, white rice, bananas, olives, and macadamia nuts. I also combine this with intermittent fasting, HIT training, weight training with compound lifts, reverse pyramid, and hill sprints. I've gone from 193 to 170lbs at 5'11." No supplements just real whole foods and filtered water.

    How was your body fat, muscle mass and bone density measured?

    Given he mentioned bone density, I'd bet DEXA scan. They're good results. I lost a half pound of bone going from 202 to 181.

    Do you have osteoperosis? How did you lose that much bone mass?

    Osteoporosis? I'm in the top 10% to 20% of density for my age, gender, and ethnicity, with those already being the highest density groups (30s white males), and that is after that loss.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    psulemon wrote: »
    Zmac34 wrote: »
    I have stuck to eating a vegan whole foods which are organic at 50/50 raw to cooked with maintaining a macro nutrient ratio of 60-30-10 carb-fat-protein. I have went from 34% body fat to 25% body fat and 32% muscle mass to 36% muscle mass and increased my bone density in just 2 months. My staple foods include avocados, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lentils, white rice, bananas, olives, and macadamia nuts. I also combine this with intermittent fasting, HIT training, weight training with compound lifts, reverse pyramid, and hill sprints. I've gone from 193 to 170lbs at 5'11." No supplements just real whole foods and filtered water.

    How was your body fat, muscle mass and bone density measured?

    With a bioelectrical impedance scale. I will be having a DEXA scan this April for an even more accurate measurement of these categories.

    I wouldn't put too much into those readings. Bioimpedance machines are horribly inaccurate. It will be interesting to see what a dexa shows as a comparison.

    I wouldn't say they're all horribly inaccurate. I imagine most are within 3-5% error and I found the best one I possibly could at a reasonable price but I would still like to have a DEXA scan just to validate the accuracy to see if it's high or low.

    There are a ton of variables and depending on set up, it can range a lot. Even on my scale, i have seen an 8 to 10% body fat difference as compared to calipers.

    http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/index.php/free-content/free-content/volume-1-issue-4-the-pitfalls-of-body-fat-measurement-parts-3-and-4-bod-pod-and-bioelectrical-impedance-bia/the-pitfalls-of-bodyfat-measurement-part-4-bioelectrical-impedance-bia/
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