When do you start to lose the llbs with weights?

Weightlifting, indeed exercise, has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on body fat loss.

Weightlifting, indeed exercise, has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on body fat loss.

the one and only way to lose body fat, is to slash your carbohydrate intake (to about 72 grams carbohydrate per day), and then restrict your caloric intake to a reasonable amount.

If you exercise, you will simply eat a little more, and you'll end up with exactly the same "Calorie difference" that day.

Regarding weightlifting to add muscle. Adding muscle has no connection, whatsoever, to your body fat. You could be "fat as a pig" but develop huge muscles. There is no connection between the two, at all.

To lose body fat: eat a modest caloric deficit. That's it. It's just that simple.

Weightlifting is totally unrelated and has utterly no connection to fat loss.

To lose fat very quickly and easily, slash your carbohydrate intake TODAY, and have a calorie deficit every day! it's very easy, fortunately!

I have recently read two articles about lifting for women and both said to do fewer reps and more sets. I'm doing 6x5s with the most weight I can manage. After 4 weeks of that I'm switching to 4 weeks of 10x5s -- only 5 reps, but 10 sets -- again with as much weight as I can manage. By the time I done with the 10x5s, I should be finished reading NROLFW and ready to start that.

The NROLFW follows a similar theory. They frown at people who use small weights and do high reps. Those exercises do nothing to challenge your muscles, so your muscles are not going to change in response.

Weightlifting, indeed exercise, has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on body fat loss.

the one and only way to lose body fat, is to slash your carbohydrate intake (to about 72 grams carbohydrate per day), and then restrict your caloric intake to a reasonable amount.

If you exercise, you will simply eat a little more, and you'll end up with exactly the same "Calorie difference" that day.

Regarding weightlifting to add muscle. Adding muscle has no connection, whatsoever, to your body fat. You could be "fat as a pig" but develop huge muscles. There is no connection between the two, at all.

To lose body fat: eat a modest caloric deficit. That's it. It's just that simple.

Weightlifting is totally unrelated and has utterly no connection to fat loss.

To lose fat very quickly and easily, slash your carbohydrate intake TODAY, and have a calorie deficit every day! it's very easy, fortunately!

Someone said "Carbohydrates have nothing to do with body fat."....

Body fat is impossibly simple:

(1) When you ingest carbohydrates,

(2) It makes your pancreas generate insulin,

(3) insulin causes glycerides in your blood to form in to triglycerides inside your fat cells

that's just all there is to it.

There is absolutely nothing else.

It is unbelievably simple.

There is no other mechanism - nothing - utterly nothing, else, whatsoever, is involved in body fat. (ie, adipose tissue)

It's just that simple. To repeat,

(1) When you INGEST carbohydrates,

(2) It makes your pancreas GENERATE insulin,

(3) insulin causes glycerides in your blood to FORM in to triglycerides inside your fat cells

("triglycerides inside your fat cells" is "body fat" .. the chubby stuff you feel.)

There is nothing else to it - absolutely nothing else, no other mechanism involved.

there is absolutely, whatsoever, nothing else - at all - involved.

Ingesting carbohydrates, causes you pancreas to create insulin, insulin causes your fat cells to add fat.

End of story.

Someone said "Carbohydrates have nothing to do with body fat."....

Body fat is impossibly simple:

(1) When you ingest carbohydrates,

(2) It makes your pancreas generate insulin,

(3) insulin causes glycerides in your blood to form in to triglycerides inside your fat cells

that's just all there is to it.

There is absolutely nothing else.

It is unbelievably simple.

There is no other mechanism - nothing - utterly nothing, else, whatsoever, is involved in body fat. (ie, adipose tissue)

It's just that simple. To repeat,

(1) When you INGEST carbohydrates,

(2) It makes your pancreas GENERATE insulin,

(3) insulin causes glycerides in your blood to FORM in to triglycerides inside your fat cells

("triglycerides inside your fat cells" is "body fat" .. the chubby stuff you feel.)

There is nothing else to it - absolutely nothing else, no other mechanism involved.

there is absolutely, whatsoever, nothing else - at all - involved.

Ingesting carbohydrates, causes you pancreas to create insulin, insulin causes your fat cells to add fat.

End of story.

So you can't get fat eating surplus of protein and fats? If you can, then the story continues..............:laugh:

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I haven't had a chance to read this entire thread yet, but just want to chime in and mention that it's not a good idea to drastically increase to heavier weight. It should be done in gradual increments over a period of time to avoid injury.

Someone said ... "I eat around twice that many grams of carbs and I'm still losing fat...?"

It's true, you can. But it's incredibly difficult.

I suggest, for merely two weeks, you just set your carbohydrate intake to 72 grams per day - exactly. See what happens.

It is an extremely simple test to try.

The first few days can be little difficult, because most people are hugely addicted to carbohydrates, but it gets much easier. And after as little as a few weeks, your pancreas begins to heal itself. After that. it's a pure breeze - you will have no DESIRE to eat more carbohydrates than that. And body fat will just fall off your body.

The one and ONLY way to know if it's "true or not" if you don't believe the science, is simply try it. It's extremely easy to try, and only takes 2 or 3 weeks!