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Getting rid of stubborn fat

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  • _PatientZer0_
    _PatientZer0_ Posts: 1 Member
    Erik Tee is right, I've gone ketogenic for the past 6.5 weeks and only lost weight in my stubborn spots. I've mainly been losing fat in my love handles, while sparing lean muscle mass. The science behind this is right. I'm sticking to it, the results are proof enough for me.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    The recent thread "Lyle McDonald nails it" about female body fat was a real eye opener for me. Alot of good information.
  • ErikTee
    ErikTee Posts: 11 Member
    Lost another half inch. Measured around the naval. Started at 38, now down to 37". 6'1 185#'s
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    The recent thread "Lyle McDonald nails it" about female body fat was a real eye opener for me. Alot of good information.

    Do you have a link for the article?
  • DrifterBear
    DrifterBear Posts: 265 Member
    I feel like some of this is just due to perception. I've seen my stomach go down, but am 'seeing' the loss more in my face and chest. Is it proven that certain areas reduce at different rates in different people? It would be interesting to measure the amount of fat in areas of someone's body. And track not just the total % loss, but the % loss in those areas. If people actually lost belly fat last (or some other place), their whole body would be looking like ideal weight, but they'd have this obese belly. I feel like there are differences between where fat is stored between men and women, and in general person to person, and it takes more time to feel like the larger fat stores are 'gone.' I'd suspect loss is fairly even across the body and proportional to the starting point. It would be natural to focus on the 'problem areas' and feel like they're not getting better.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    bioklutz wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    The recent thread "Lyle McDonald nails it" about female body fat was a real eye opener for me. Alot of good information.

    Do you have a link for the article?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6846ZTBu08k
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    tagging to follow ....

    My own observation is that as one gets lower and lower body fat your body's natural "defense mechanism" kicks in and says "we are getting low on body fat here, and we need to preserve it for emergency times" couple that with slowed metabolism plus lower calorie deficits to get to a lower body fat and you can see where the problem comes in....I can get to about 12% body fat, but anything lower than that I have an issue with ...

    arditarose wrote: »
    bioklutz wrote: »
    snowflake954 wrote: »
    The recent thread "Lyle McDonald nails it" about female body fat was a real eye opener for me. Alot of good information.

    Do you have a link for the article?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6846ZTBu08k

    @ndj1979 I have always suspected that something like this happens. I finally had time to listen to the interview with Lyle and one of the things he talks about your body fighting back. You might find it interesting - despite it being more about women. Thanks for the link @arditarose!
  • pfreeme
    pfreeme Posts: 42 Member
    stevencloser wrote: »
    ErikTee wrote: »
    #lchf

    Low Carb High Fat

    I have always struggled with my belly and handles as my hardest fat to get rid of. A good diet would always leave me feeling like I was making progress but he tape measure would always tell me otherwise. I figured out my issue was carbs. Instead of just going crazy and giving them up altogether, I started lchf. In 20 days I've lost 5 pounds. Not great weight loss by any stretch but I see the definition in my shoulders and I can see my abs starting to show more and more. I measured my waist at 38" at the start and 2 weeks later is was 37.5".

    My diet consists of salted almonds, lots of eggs, cottage cheese, bacon, butter, 70-80% fat chopped meat, braised beef, pot roast, chicken, protein powder, natural peanut butter, milk, fish, yogurt and all sorts of cream sauces on top. I do still eat carbs in the form of vegetables.

    It is helping me and I really feel I am leaning out.

    It's a highly debated lifestyle of eating but it is incredibly easy. Who doesn't enjoy slamming down a pound of bacon and 6 eggs fried in butter?

    Btw, I had my blood work done and honest to God my cholesterol came down. Good Cholesterol is UP.

    The thought is that you prevent your body from burning glucose for energy and having it burn fat instead. Many marathon runners are starting to give up carb loading for big runs because they crash and burn. Check out the article on it in runners world and good luck to each of you.

    http://www.runnersworld.com/diet/can-eating-more-fat-make-you-a-better-runner?cid=soc_runnersworld_TWITTER_Runner’s World__Nutrition_MarathonTraining

    Anyone who enjoys still having calories left after breakfast.

  • pfreeme
    pfreeme Posts: 42 Member
    Ive known many people who do high protein high fat and they do lose quickly but they also had very oily skin breakouts and bad breath.
    Im transitioning vegan which is 99%a moral choice but my body feels better on a 70-80%veg 20% grains /nuts tofu beans that sorta thing. Clean. No matter how fit toned leaned I am I have always had the thigh/saddlebags goin on. Cycling helps it better than anything but even in my beast shape when low wheight/bmi still had some xtra there.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    pfreeme wrote: »
    Ive known many people who do high protein high fat and they do lose quickly but they also had very oily skin breakouts and bad breath.
    Im transitioning vegan which is 99%a moral choice but my body feels better on a 70-80%veg 20% grains /nuts tofu beans that sorta thing. Clean. No matter how fit toned leaned I am I have always had the thigh/saddlebags goin on. Cycling helps it better than anything but even in my beast shape when low wheight/bmi still had some xtra there.

    This is just full of confirmation bias.
    Tofu isn't any "cleaner" than ... well anything.

    https://youtu.be/6svdsikwKXo
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
    pfreeme wrote: »
    Ive known many people who do high protein high fat and they do lose quickly but they also had very oily skin breakouts and bad breath.
    Im transitioning vegan which is 99%a moral choice but my body feels better on a 70-80%veg 20% grains /nuts tofu beans that sorta thing. Clean. No matter how fit toned leaned I am I have always had the thigh/saddlebags goin on. Cycling helps it better than anything but even in my beast shape when low wheight/bmi still had some xtra there.

    This is just full of confirmation bias.
    Tofu isn't any "cleaner" than ... well anything.

    https://youtu.be/6svdsikwKXo

    Wow, there are a lot of steps in the making tofu. Who'da thunk?
  • lizzelspark
    lizzelspark Posts: 178 Member
    Thank you for whoever posted that video of Lyle McDonald now I have a idea what's going on with my body

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