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Is eating more food harder than eating less food. No, not for me. Maybe if someone lost their weight following a fad/crash diet and never relearned their eating habits, then they could have issues maintaining.

A scale is just a tool. If someone's being neurotic about the number on the scale, it's a psychological problem, not a problem with the tool itself. Also, give it away or something, don't toss it in the trash. :|

I'm not saying recomp doesn't work. It does, and I did it for half a year when starting out. But whether it's actually time efficient compared to a lean gaining / cutting cycle is debatable. You said you've been training for 40 years. You're probably at or very close to your genetic potential for muscle growth... in which…

Add 300 kcal to your maintenance TDEE and train harder. I doubt your maintenance is actually 1000 kcal. Are you still trying to lose weight?

Yes. It restores sanity as well as normalizes hormone levels. The lower your body fat % the more important diet breaks and refeeds become.

Pause squats (where you pause at the bottom for a moment before rising out of the hole) tend to be easier on my knees than standard squats where you use the stretch reflex to 'bounce' out of the hole.

Thanks for correction. I meant specifically pertaining to weight loss, the idea that the trainee needs to keep his/her heart rate within a specific zone in order to lose weight is a myth.

Dietdoctor and authoritynutrition are both horribly biased websites. I always cringe when people link to them... it's unfortunate that they typically end up near the top of Google search results and is the first place people go for (mis)information on keto diets.

OP did say he was 230 lb. 10+ lb of water weight loss within a few days of very low carb dieting can be expected at that bodyweight. Either way, you're correct in that the calorie deficit determines fat loss. Being afraid of carbs and buying useless "carb-imitation" products like carbquik is pointless IMO. If you want a…

19 pounds in 3.5 weeks, guaranteed most of that is water weight and not true fat loss since the OP is clearly on a low carb diet.

There isn't much point arguing about high carb, moderate carb, low carb diets or whatever when it's pretty clear the OP's issue is not tracking properly. Ignoring the calorie content of fruit is a nice way to blow a calorie deficit, not to mention not using a food scale. That's really all there is to it.

* Nutrient timing is not relevant towards rate of weight loss. With that said, during a weight loss phase, it's suggested to eat some protein within 2 hours (before or after) the workout. However, nutrient timing matters little in the grand scheme of things. * Fat burning zones is meaningless. * Total calories is what…

If you are eating less carbs than you used to, you may need to increase your sodium / magnesium / potassium intake. Sodium especially if you feel light-headed when standing up. This is especially true if on a ketogenic or ultra low carb diet.

Follow a program rather than just working out random exercises in the gym and spinning your wheels. Fullbody programs... look up Greyskull linear progression, Stronglifts 5x5, Starting Strength, etc.

I am guessing that the OP meant the ratio of macros, not absolute amounts.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23679146 LBM gain was the same in both groups. However, the group with a much larger surplus ended up getting a lot more fat. In other words, having a huge surplus does not mean faster muscle gains. Stick with a smallish surplus for leaner gains... within reason of course... doing only…

Eat more fruit and vegetables. Broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, all very high in fiber. Cook on a cast iron skillet, iron problem solved.

Track your bodyweight daily for two weeks, as well as your calorie intake. From that information you can calculate your true TDEE, rather than relying on online calculators, which just give ballpark figures. If you train and eat at maintenance calories, you can lose body fat and gain muscle (called a recomposition). But…

Baseline recommendations from Eric Helms for natural bodybuilders below. i.e., keeping maximum amount of lean mass while dieting down (since the goal is to lose fat, not muscle). * 1.1 - 1.4 g protein per pound of bodyweight (however, available research shows very little advantage of consuming above ~0.8g protein / lb) *…

I start from 1 and count up. Doing it the other way doesn't make sense for AMRAP sets.

If you are measuring by volume (e.g., using cups or tbsp instead of food scale), this can be a huge cause of inaccuracy for solid foods. Another thing is, since MFP uses a user-entered food nutrition data, try and verify what you're entering actually matches the nutritional label on the packaging. There's a lot of crappy…

'Ruin your metabolism' is a stretch. Extreme calorie deficits such as fasting will reduce your RMR, yes. Temporary and reversible change though.

Not counting correctly. Use a food scale if you haven't already. OR your maintenance is actually 1200 kcal / day, which is doubtful unless you're already tiny. Calories determine fat loss, not carb count.

If you already know how to diet properly, and don't have a history of blood pressure / heart issues, I don't see what's wrong with taking certain appetite suppressants, such as EC (which is only unsafe if overdosed stupidly... like any drug). Obviously there are other, actually illegal, drugs as well, which have higher…

Why are you asking about gear on the MFP forums? Do you really think this is the best place to get information on that topic...

More meals does not equal faster weight loss. Some people are less hungry when they have multiple smaller meals. Others (looking at the intermittent fasting crowd) are less hungry when they have fewer but larger meals. Experiment.

I did keto for 3 months. Then reintroduced carbs. My rate of fat loss was the same, obviously there was the initial weight spike in water weight / glycogen. Lyle Mcdonald, the author of The Ketogenic Diet, even says Keto has no inherent advantage for fat loss. However, if you are insulin resistant, you will probably fare…

According to Lyle Mcdonald, who knows his stuff, BCAA is useless if you consume protein around your workouts. They're useful if you are working out in a fasted state - even then to an arguable degree.

Like others have said, electrolytes. Whenever I don't eat enough potassium (e.g. when I was on a very low carb diet) I tend to get those in the middle of the night.

Did some googling and ended up here. This is exactly how I've lost almost all my weight (215 to 165 lb in 5 months). I would weigh myself daily, and there'd be no changes for a week (sometimes two weeks) at a time. Then one day I'd do my morning weigh-in and suddenly I'm 1.5-2 lb lighter. The most drastic one has been a…