Plateau advice?

Thank you 4theking! I'm going to try this a see how my body responds.

One more question, if you don't mind? Should we focus on macronutrients while eating the added calories? Like keeping fat lower, protein where it is (1g per lbm in my case), and just upping carbs a lot? Or is leptin all about calories and not necessarily what kind of calories?

Thanks again!

Great question, it's all about the carbs. Carbs control leptin and the conversion of the thyroid hormone t4 to t3. Keep protein levels the same or a bit less than a normal day and consume lots of carbs.

Weeeeeee! "Guilt free" buttermilk pancakes for my afternoon snack ... here I come! :laugh:

Thank you 4theking! I'm going to try this a see how my body responds.

One more question, if you don't mind? Should we focus on macronutrients while eating the added calories? Like keeping fat lower, protein where it is (1g per lbm in my case), and just upping carbs a lot? Or is leptin all about calories and not necessarily what kind of calories?

Thanks again!

Great question, it's all about the carbs. Carbs control leptin and the conversion of the thyroid hormone t4 to t3. Keep protein levels the same or a bit less than a normal day and consume lots of carbs.

And that also might explain why a blood workup when I got pregnant with my 2nd child discovered a slight underactive thyroid. I had never had thyroid issues in my life, but had been on a lower carb diet prior to conceiving. Interesting! Thanks!

Love this.

I did something similar while doing the "Slow Carb" diet. That worked for awhile, but I think I was consuming too many calories in general (you can eat as much as you want of the approved foods, basically protein, legumes and veggies). And, on my "dieter's gone wild" day I would go NUTS! Seriously, on some binge days I must have eaten/drank over 5,000 calories.

I am going to try this--keeping my calories on all other days within my 1,300-1,500 range. I'll still be netting below my MFP allotted calories with exercise on those days. Then, I'll eat 2,400 or so calories once a week and won't eat back any exercise calories (my BMR is 1,180).

Does that sound about right? Looking at my food diary, would you recommend any other changes?

Love this.

I did something similar while doing the "Slow Carb" diet. That worked for awhile, but I think I was consuming too many calories in general (you can eat as much as you want of the approved foods, basically protein, legumes and veggies). And, on my "dieter's gone wild" day I would go NUTS! Seriously, on some binge days I must have eaten/drank over 5,000 calories.

I am going to try this--keeping my calories on all other days within my 1,300-1,500 range. I'll still be netting below my MFP allotted calories with exercise on those days. Then, I'll eat 2,400 or so calories once a week and won't eat back any exercise calories (my BMR is 1,180).

Does that sound about right? Looking at my food diary, would you recommend any other changes?

I would stay closer to bmr on your non spike days. I think you would be better off hitting 1200 and then spiking a bit higher if you would like, say 2600.