Bad habit

Leannek3036
Leannek3036 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
So after having my baby I decided to do a high protein no carb diet where I would eat one very few calorie meal a day and just eat at weekend normal I have been doing this a good year now and I'm now finding I'm putting weight on and harder to lose ... please some advice on how to get out of this Rutt I have got myself in

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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    If you want to have "One Meal A Day" Monday through Friday with high protein and no carb, you can.
    If you want to eat normally on weekends, you can.
    If you want to lose weight, you have to do both of those inside a calorie deficit.
    Log all your food in the food diary accurately and honestly.
  • MikeEsko
    MikeEsko Posts: 81 Member
    You may be slowing your metabolism down. Essentially the body is looking for energy but cant get it except for energy stores whuch is what you want. At the same time it is also saying, idk when i am going ti get fed again. So instead of using the extra fat as energy, it is slowing the amount of energy it needs, reducing leptin, and making it store more weekend food. If you want to cobtinue with your plan, I would think about carb cycling on wednesdays to help spike your leptin and jump start fat loss.

    Personally though, i would rather eat more balanced throughout the week at a cal defecit. It is not only more satiating but better for you.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    That would be the "highly skeptical" use of the Woo button.

    What is the voluntary mechanism by which the brain chooses to either reduce or increase leptin? If 'the body' is going to get a bounty of weekend food and then decide to act as if it's still in a famine, it would have to be something detectable in the cerebral cortex. It doesn't happen that way.

    When the body is fed, it act like it's fed and tries to keep blood sugar levels stable. There's a lot of metabolic processes happening in the body, but none of them are predicting the future of meal timing.
  • MikeEsko
    MikeEsko Posts: 81 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    That would be the "highly skeptical" use of the Woo button.

    What is the voluntary mechanism by which the brain chooses to either reduce or increase leptin? If 'the body' is going to get a bounty of weekend food and then decide to act as if it's still in a famine, it would have to be something detectable in the cerebral cortex. It doesn't happen that way.

    When the body is fed, it act like it's fed and tries to keep blood sugar levels stable. There's a lot of metabolic processes happening in the body, but none of them are predicting the future of meal timing.

    Always understood it as body understanding patterns can manupulate hormone levels. Are you saying that in tgis 5 day period of one verry low cal meal a day, there is no way that the body could be producing less leplin, especially on a no carb meal plan?
  • timsla
    timsla Posts: 174 Member
    There is no difference in metabolicbrate between a high carb and low carb diet if protein amount remains constant. If you're eating yourself into starvation mode your body's metabolism will slow down drastically. Mike is on the money for this one
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