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I'm going to give you a little tip here, looking at your diary for a week. You're sodium is off the charts high on some days. this is going to drastically affect your day to day weight. While this may not bother your weight loss in the long term (usually), eating things that high in sodium will trigger water retention and…

Old old school

I can't speak to someone bashing your choice. But I can speak to the dangers of weight loss surgery (or any surgery for that matter). It's not a choice to be taken lightly. In many cases there are other choices you can make. One would think that weight loss surgery is the best and/or fastest way to massive weight loss, but…

+1 As a Personal Trainer myself, I can tell you that there is minimal (if any) nutrition training needed for most programs to become a trainer (it depends on who you are certified through). Get their nutrition related credentials before you follow any meal plans. Any good trainer will tell you straight up that they are NOT…

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I'm tired just thinking about that.

Now that I think about it. I played 1 year of college Football before switching to Rugby, and there was 1 exercise we did that was probably worse than anything else I ever did, just because it completely and utterly drained you after doing only ten, 1 minute sets. They were monkey rolls, brutal.…

yep, I did these also in high school. I ran the 600 and 1000 in winter track (indoor). Although "sprinting" 1600 meters is kind of a misnomer since you can't really sprint a mile, more like ALMOST sprint for the 1600 (and probably the 800).

That first one was what we called 4 corners (see my original). Not surprising. It's a very good way to increase your endurance quickly.

I get that JoRocka, and I agree, duplicating the kind of workout I did in rugby probably won't happen, even the mens club workouts I used to do in my late 20's were less intense. But that doesn't mean we can't post em, even if we can't still do them (without drastically reducing the rate of intensity), I don't expect…

It is what it is, that guy probably goes that same time routinely because there is nobody else there at that time and wasn't expecting to have to wait. His loss, don't let it bother you. You have every right to be there and finish your sets as long as you aren't wasting time. If he really wanted in, he could have asked to…

my advice would simply be to take it slow, don't try to create a huge deficit, use exercise to create a moderate deficit, and be patient.

Ugh, no he didn't! Seriously with the below 80% stuff? I am fine with trainers giving out advice on food types as long as they either have (at a bare minimum) taken and passed nutrition certifications, and/or they at least preface it by saying that they are not a nutrition expert, and if someone really wants to tweak their…

maybe something to back this up? What is BS about it? Are you saying that no matter what someone eats, as long as they have the right amount of calories, they will maintain their health? If that's what you are saying, then I'd respectfully ask that you bring that statement to a registered dietitian and see what they say…

adding to the point about processed vs complex carbs, a side effect of the processing is the reduction/removal of many of the beneficial micro-nutrients and fiber that we need day to day. With grains for example, vitamins, minerals, and fiber are all contained (in much higher quantity) in the husk and germ of grains, these…

I'm not really in the camp of a calorie is a calorie from a functional (weight loss) standpoint. Fast burning calories, like table sugar or bleached white flour will be processed and inserted into the blood extremely fast, faster than we can effectively utilize it which will increase insulin and eventually, over the long…

All good debate folks thanks. I'm hoping to stay on track here. While the individual talking points of energy usage are important, lets all remember we're talking about functional calorie deficits not theoretical burn rates. By that I mean, while it's important to know how some of the individual processes work as a…

there's multiple reasons why a calorie isn't just a calorie. Putting aside alcohol, which is a whole different kettle of fish (in a super bad way), different types of macronutrients are processed differently, protein for instance can be used by the body as either a building block for lean mass or as energy in the form of…

That's not how I'm interpreting it. If you read the discussion, they clearly (in the second paragraph) state that they observed a real metabolic adaptation even after TDEE was adjusted for the lower metabolic rates of reduced FFM and FM. here's the quote from the part I am talking about: "Now for the first time, we…

In many of the studies that I posted, you will see that there is a drop in the RMR after about 72 hours (after an initial minor increase in energy which is postulated to be because of the energy needed to convert fat stores), which continues throughout the starvation period and underfeeding periods (depending on which…

from your stat's there's no way to predict muscle growth, unless you tested LBM as an absolute number instead of via percentage you can't make any kind of deduction as you're missing the correct variable to do so. I.E. LBM includes bone and connective tissue as well as muscle mass, exercise (almost any type) will increase…

further reading on what happens to fat in the human body under various conditions and in various states http://www.ajcn.org/content/61/3/486.full.pdf+html?sid=13ed3002-6c8d-4b9b-9c50-eaea1d5b38a8 http://www.ajcn.org/content/73/3/523.full.pdf+html?sid=0a679b54-6b93-4a1c-8ce1-88b3f0402baf…

in response to a request for sources please keep in mind this post is an anthology of topics so for this part I'll just list sources that touch on the starvation mode concept because that's what many people are focusing on. Please note that it wasn't the point of my post, my post was to get people thinking about fat loss…

I've done quite a bit of research into IF (Intermittent Fasting) and have even tried the method for about 2 months a couple of years ago. There are definitely some benefits to it, and yes, I feel it's a viable alternative. There are some drawbacks to it though, you must be very strict in your calorie consumption, which…

the process is known as Glycogen phosphorylase and as far as I know there is minimal differentiation. But someone better than me at enzymatic breakdowns and cellular biochemistry may be required to answer that with more certainty.

Not to speak for him but I think he means the FFA's are burned directly in that particular statement. glycogen is essentially a chain of glucose molecules.

I think maybe there was some confusion in my explanation of fat metabolism. The confusion is probably 2 fold first from my trying to keep it as simple as possible and leaving out a step, basically I didn't talk about the conversion to triglycerides before I talk about the cleaving of glycerol and FFA's. And second not…

This is kinda true. I say that because when muscle is in a resting state, there's a balance between glycogen and FFA usage depending on serum glucose levels in the body, low serum levels means more glycogen usage. I can't speak to whether that's the reason why the body converts energy into FFA's, I've never read any…

well, it's a good question, and again, not an easy answer. everyone is different, which is why I'm so big on the "tweak, test, analyze,retweak, repeat" method. Remember what I wrote about the body making up for a small amount of deficit with fat stores, depending on your individual genetics, how fat is stored in your…

I can find no fault in your argument. I agree with everything you said there.