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I was all about eating processed food, fast food, dairy, meat, and supplements for the first 21 years of my life I decided to make a change. I was athletic and had a low body fat % but my skin was terrible and I lacked energy and somehow had high blood pressure. My research ended up leading me to veganism with the…

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.

I hope you're joking about palatable sources of protein. Palatable is all personal though what you grew up eating is normally what you will like. If you grew up on a farm and ate a ton of meat then you will believe it is great. But IMO people can look at eating meat in this way Meat: eww dead rotting carcus flesh and blood…

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

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

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,…

lol that's only good if you would like to speed up disease and death. Basically that's promoting an eating disorder.

I gained muscle mass and lost fat while going on a 60-30-10 Carb:Fat:protein plant based diet. Even our mother's milk is only like 7% protein meaning the fitness industry has fed us BS that protein is the most important macronutrient and we need 40% plus or our muscles won't recover from working out. Don't believe in the…

One can lose weight just eating at a caloric deficit with no exercise. Exercising speeds up the process and can build muscle if you incoorporate weight training. HIT in between sets will boost results and on days of no resistance training try sprints as it can burn up to 200 calories for just 2.5 minutes of sprinting.…

I take advantage of terra organics an online food delivery website and others before this one where I would bulk order things like organic bananas, sweet potatoes, white rice, and lentils. These were high calories and nutrient dense at the same time and for bulk orders they were next to nothing. 32 0z of rice on avg was…

My favorite non-vegan channel is Kinobody. I simply find replacements for meat and dairy and have researched and implemented many of his teachings. It's made my life more enjoyable and building muscle while cutting fat fun. He's not really a body builder as he maintains a body fat % of 7-8% with no supplements, no PEDs and…

I agree 100%, I have yet to find a single certified nutritionist recommend a raw fruit diet. Being skinny doesn't always mean an individual is healthy as they seem to imply in their videos.

None of these people are nutritionist or certified in anything for people to take their advice. I watch mainly for entertainment. Vegan gains is the most entertaining and does reference many of his findings but he's a kid that lives with his mom that lives off trolling others for views and money.

I'm not sure if the initial youtube suggestions were an honest opinion or a joke but I will stick with John Venus. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheQuestForFitness

I have a similar story that's in detail in my profile description in where I nearly died and lost a significant amount of weight from a variety of factors and then after I was restored to my normal weight I became depressed from not being able to do the things I used to after getting osteoporosis (not even 30 yet). I binge…

I would say increase your fiber, and nutrient dense foods like veggies to increase your volume and perhaps utilize sprints or HIT training so you can consume more calories while still losing weight.

I don't normally agree with Dr. Oz but a whole foods diet will help a person actually lose more weight over a period of time than a person who consumes many calories from processed foods even with equal amount of caloric consumption.

I stick with a 60-25-15 ratio of carb-fat-protein. I've gone from 200 to 175lbs in 2 months while decreasing my body fat % by 7% and increasing my muscle mass % by 5%. I also incorporate intermittent fasting and ensure my caloric deficit is at least 250-500 calories per day. But I never go under my BMR since you will start…

No, all calories are not the same. Over time if you're consuming more processed foods, dairy, meat then that will add more weight than if you consume a whole foods and mostly plant based diet high in antioxidants, and nutrients.

1600 wow, that's one meal for me. I could never go that low.

If you're using an online BMR calculator because it's different with every person despite putting in your age, weight, height, and activity level. At one point I would consume 10K cal a day and not gain a pound. I stayed at 145 lbs at 5'11" through high school and majority of college. It wasn't until continuous heavy…

What are you using to measure your body fat%? The most accurate way is to have a dexa scan done and after that is a bioelectrical scale.

I was at 8% at 24 years old but worked out 6 days a week for 45-55 minutes each workout and played basketball every other day. However my diet was terrible relying on meal replacement shakes, and fastfood as 40% of my daily calories. So genetics and age play a significant factor as well.

I'm the same height and 7% body fat is my long term goal as well. If you haven't tried already you could include intermittent fasting, lifting heavy with compound exercises, plyometrics in between sets, rest pause sets, hill sprints on off days, and reverse pyramid training. what I've found works the best for me is…

Why is it not "quite achievable/sustainable in a healthy way?"

I've seen girls with eating disorders exercising and eating under 1k cal per day. I believed you mentioned you did well on 1500 cal so I would stick to that and maybe more on harder workout days.

Whole food organic Vegan checking in. I started in 2010 with the speech from Gary Yourofsky. This led to me watching countless documentries and reading many books and studies from Earthlings, to Forks over knives, to vegucated, to the China Study, to the blue zones, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4 Best…

Out of the 3 macronutrients, protein should be the lowest. A healthy ratio of 60% carbs 25 % fat and 15% protein is sufficient. All the protein hype is just marketing to get people to consume their supplements. You can get sufficient protein from whole foods. Now, if you just simply don't have the time to make something…

I would recommend kinobody as a youtube fitness guru. He's helped thousands of people and it shows in their before and after videos he posts. After watching many of his videos he believes in compound lifts like Bench, pullups, incline press, and dips. Then for legs he mainly does single leg workouts like pistol squats,…

Current body fat % is 30.5% short term goal is 20% Summer goal is 10% Long term goal and maintain 7-8%