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I am sure your suggestions would have been great and very useful if I had asked questions like: I feel burned out and lethargic what should I do? I feel just fine. I can't handle the hunger anymore what should I do? I am not in general hungry. I just can't get the scale to budge what should I do? Except I am still making…

I think I was missing your more important point that the sagging skin improves when the fat stops pulling it. Sorry.

Well maybe so but it would have taken an age to get where I am. Took 10 months as it was. I already know my thyroid hormones have down regulated. I feel the cold now in my hands and I never had this problem. This will reverse. Apart from waiting 10 months is has actually been very easy for me to do. Quite pleasurable in…

Mmmm. My BMI is normal. Bottom of normal BMI has me at 129lbs. No way. Too much. I got to beleive I should stop way before this.

This isn't really helping me getting a criteria for starting to eat more so I can make progress in the gym.

I think any diet with a calorie deficit has a period were you feel really tired. So a month or two in I just wanted to sleep for a week or two. Came out of it.

Thanks everybody for your thoughts. So maybe not as strange as I thought it was. The downside to the way I am is I will often continue to eat the same things for a long time then eventually try something different as an experiment and then wish I had tried it earlier. I am resistant to trying new stuff for a time because I…

Mmmm. You should look more closely. I have a meal called ballast. This is were I will often put foods before I eat them and leave the last things I eat to hit my macros. I love nuts so I am eating 4-5oz of those a day typically as a ballast item. That's actually a huge portion of my calories for the day.

This isn't true. In my first week using MFP my weight dropped by 7lbs and I started to see I was often in ketosis. I was consuming some 130g of carbs / day with 38g of that fiber. That would not even be classified as a low carb diet. In order to enter ketosis the determining factor would be depletion of liver glycogen. So…

I think you are over complicating this. Your body has certain calorie needs to survive and do the activity you do. You eat food with a certain calorie content and your body can burn this or store this. Your body is real good at extracting energy from protein, fat or carbs. It tends to burn the stuff it can store less of.…

If the protein needs to be cooked (say raw chicken breast) I stick it in a Pyrex bowl and cook it in the microwave for a minute or minute and a half. If the protein is already cooked I skip that part (cooked roast beef slices for example). Then I put on top of the protein 3oz of onions and 3oz of frozen green beans and 5oz…

Now you are saying that you loose more weight on a diet with high carbs to a diet with the same calories that's high fat. I don't think the science supports that either. The science suggests that with similar calories in and out you get similar weight loss. Of course there are all kinds of strange things that get reported…

OK. My original point was that fat metabolism changed under low carb and took time to do so. I added the problem of the reverse process (starvation diabetes) as an interesting aside. Since I slip in and out of ketosis quite frequently I like to think I do still have the enzymes etc to process carbs. Blood sugar is great…

How did you measure how much free fatty acids your quads are using vs ketones vs glucose? I wouldn't know what mine are using and this is the adaptation we are talking about :-).

I highly recommend Lyle's book. I was riveted for a few days as I read these sections on adaptation. I personally do not follow a low carb diet. Last time I checked I was ingesting ~150g of carbs a day. I eat at least 38g of fiber though so net lets say 100g / day. I do find I am in ketosis as measured from urine ketones…

In his write up though Lyle talks about the second week of a ketogenic diet were tissues start to use free fatty acids. I agree that 'learn' is a crappy way to describe it but adaptation does occur and it takes quite a long time if we are measuring it in weeks. I think in peoples zeal to press woo or refute they miss the…

I said nothing about the storage of fat. I said it takes time for some tissues to start being able to use free fatty acids directly. Lyle suggests it's more of a problem for people with impaired glucose processing to begin with. That doesn't sound like high performance athletes. My 'can't store glycogen' was a bit over the…

It's in his book 'The ketogenic diet'. This from his piece talking about reintroduction of carbohydrates. 'Early ketogenic diet literature mentions a condition called ‘alloxan’ or ‘starvation diabetes’, referring to an initial insulin resistance when carbohydrates are reintroduced to the diet following carbohydrate…

Can you point me to a source for this? I would like to read it. I know also that the recommendations are lower fiber intakes for older people. Even though I am older (53) I ignore that.

I think it's important not to forget the fiber. 38g for a man I think 26g for a woman. I believe I have had the success I have had in part because of the fiber intake. So I track 3 macros Protein, Fat and Fiber. Fiber is of course a carb.

Actually your body does have to learn how to burn fat. When you first enter ketosis your muscles are not primed to burn them directly and use ketones. Many tissues take a few days to adjust to burning free fatty acids directly. It's expected that it's missing enzymes that must be produced to allow this. Now the funny thing…

I thought cloudy urine was a sign of consumption of excess phosphates. Typically from drinking a lot of coke. It's not a problem.

There is an article on MFP someplace explaining that the calorie offsets in MFP from devices are converted to a number for the whole day. So they assume what is going to happen for the rest of the day and adjust it as time goes by. So the number will be bigger than what you burned in exercise since they are assuming you…

If you have any India grocery stores near you (we have a lot here in the pacific northwest) you can just buy them in bags. Mine is labelled 'Chana Dalia'. I like these but I should look for some with added flavor. Nowhere near as good as peanuts (for me anyway).

I have this problem. In fact before I started using MFP I couldn't really buy peanuts because whatever I purchased I would eat in a small number of days. Just constantly eating a handful. For some reason MFP helped me get that under control and also I feel that eating them every day (well a nut every day since I like other…

I think I have seen this in the stores. I didn't give it another thought as I don't eat peanut butter. I do like it mind you just not as much as peanuts. I should get some and try it. Thanks for that.

My diary is public. I like to look at other people food diary to pick up ideas of things I might like to eat. You also might pick up on strategies you might try.

I track protein, fat and fiber as minimums. I think it's the reason for my success in fact (down 70lbs in 6 months). I eat stuff I like but try to chose options that at least hit some of these macros. So lots of veggies to hit fiber and protein, beans to hit protein and fiber and nuts to hit the fat. I also eat meat…

Yes. Seated. I will test standing. I picked this for flavor rather than wanting low sodium. I am currently hooked on this mixture of cooked and raw veg. I take say 5-8oz of mushrooms, 3oz onion, 6oz tomatoes and sometimes 3oz green beans (everything chopped up). Lot's of Mrs Dash and a bit of MSG (I wasn't using this till…

I have been checking my BP as per my doctors instructions. I have never seen anything but normal values. My values are better than pre-weight loss though. I am to contact them for changes if I drop below some reading they gave me. I am on Lisinopril/HCTZ for BP. I have had high BP all my life including times when my weight…