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Oh, I didn't process the "no seafood" thing. Ignore the first then :pensive:

Diet-wise, fish and avocado. Exercise-wise, 30 minutes of light-moderate cardio every day (brisk walk). Supplement-wise, fish oil, ashwaghanda and pantethine.

You should be able to look in the mirror and tell if you are putting on fat or muscle. To me, your second pic looks lower body fat than the first. There are several factors that will influence your weight on a temporary basis when weight training. Especially for the first few weeks while your body is adapting to resistance…

And it was 3800 in 2000. That is INSANE! That's what I eat when I am bulking and trying to gain ~1 lb/week. It is literally torturous to eat that much food.

Interestingly, this is actually one question where the answer actually is "genetics." Some people lose weight more efficiently on a low-fat diet, and some on a low-carb diet (rs1801282 is the relevant SNP). Without getting your genes sequenced, trial and error is the only way to figure out which is better for you.…

Only real difference is level of leanness and size of ab muscles. With decent muscular development, most guys will have a visible but slightly soft at the bottom 6-pack at 12% BF, and clear separation all the way to the bottom around 10%. Abdominal vascularity varies a lot more, but probably around 8%. That is all just an…

There's a simple reason these studies are often contradictory or inconclusive. There is a single nucleotide pair (rs1801282) that determines whether you more efficiently lose weight on a low carb or low fat diet. If you have the low-carb variant, keto will work better for you, and if not then a low-fat diet will work…

So one person might need a 500 calorie deficit and another might need 700. Seems rather ludicrous to chalk it up to "genetics" when there are a ton of factors (stress/sleep) that play a much larger role than any genes we have identified to date. Any interestingly, in studies where food intake is strictly controlled, most…

There's really no reason she couldn't do a pound a week down to 125. At that age/height she might need to go below 1200 calories, and that is ok. There is no magical calorie number that applies to everyone regardless of height/weight/age. There is a ton of medical data showing that weight loss is safe down to much lower…

TL;DR: For people who are already a health weight, 1 lb/week is probably the ideal rate of weight loss. For overweight, 2 lbs/week. Morbidly obese, consult your doctor. I've tried pretty much everything related to weight loss, from ice baths to water fasts to cyclical ketogenic diets, etc. At this point I can drop pretty…

Ignoring diet/exercise, thermal environment is likely the most important, followed closely by gut microbiome. We spent a long time believing that brown adipose tissue was something that was only active in babies, but it turns out that this is untrue. In normal, healthy adults in countries with cold weather, BAT is active…

Genetics don't let you violate the laws of physics, contrary to popular belief.

If you don't respect yourself enough to want to be healthy, I don't see how you can expect your partner to respect you. Replace "food/lifestyle" with "drugs" or "alcohol" and consider how it would sound. Just because food is considered a societally acceptable addiction doesn't make it any better. "I really want to quit…

72-hour water fast is the only "cleanse" with any real scientific validation AFAIK. Dramatically increases autophagy, particularly of older/weaker cells, and produces an enormous increase in GH levels for a period of days after reintroducing food.

I have obviously not been following this closely enough :)

They want to hear something other than "eat healthy and exercise." Like "I added an extra 2 tubs of ice cream per day to ramp up my metabolism and stopped working out entirely and watch more TV" would probably be the ideal answer. Like Ronnie Coleman said... everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but no one wants to lift no…

He probably is gaining weight. 2 weeks in to a ketogenic diet I'd expect a guy at his weight to have lost at least 3-4 pounds of water weight due to glyogen depletion, plus maybe another pound of food weight (due to the lower ash/fiber content of a ketogenic diet). We'll see what happens when he starts eating carbs again.…

Self control is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. Certainly there are limits, but you'll notice a HUGE disparity in levels of self control between individuals that seems to coincide suspiciously with how frequently they apply self-control in their lives. Just my 2c.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4161/cc.9.22.13954 http://www.aging-us.com/article/100114/text http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/124/124ra27.short TL;DR: Fasting for 48+ hours prior to chemotherapy protects healthy cells from chemo side effects and sensitizes cancer cells to chemo. This could also be leveraged to…

Very hard to gain muscle. If you are having trouble hitting your calorie targets you can always add oil/peanut butter/butter (not a big fan of this, but probably necessary if you want to bulk on a ketogenic diet). One cup of olive oil has 2000 calories FWIW. Personally, I don't know of anyone who has gotten good results…

IMO it doesn't have anything to do with keto or carbs or anything. Ketogenic diets _tend_ to produce better appetite control at a given caloric intake (especially if you are loading up on non-starchy veggies). I am eating ~3400 cals/day right now, and am pretty sure I would die if I tried to do that on a low-carb diet. I…

Just realized I wrote 0-cal instead of 0-carb... doubt anyone would gain weight on a 0-cal diet, lol. Yeah, I had the same experience. There are also a couple of genes that determine ease of fat mobilization, making someone people see better results with low-fat diets, and others with low-carb. Personally, I have the…

This has been pretty well established scientifically already. Even on a 0-cal diet you can still store fat (via the acylation stimulating protein pathway), and will still produce insulin (via the same pathway). I would expect that there would in fact be a higher proportion of fat:muscle gain on a low carb caloric surplus…

Definitely not denying your claims, but EPOC is only a fraction of the additional caloric expenditure you see post-workout with heavy resistance training (recovery and muscle synthesis make up the majority). Anecdotally, when I go from a relaxed (3x45 minute weight workouts a week) routine to a bulking routing (6x2 hour…

So I think I am a little late to the party, but wanted to chime in on this. It is impossible to accurately calculate caloric expenditure from resistance training, as we still don't understand post-exercise energy expenditure. It is estimated that for every calorie you burn with heavy resistance training it takes 4-5…

EC works quite well and is pretty mild in terms of side-effect profile if you are in good health and use it responsibly. Yohimbine can help with stubborn fat, but I find the sides to be unbearable. Someone else mentioned DNP, which is in a whole other category (that category being 'borderline suicidal' IMO... if you are…

There's actually a SNP that determines whether an individual will lose weight faster on a low-carb vs. low-fat diet, and the magnitude is quite significant. So you can't just make a blanket statement regarding which is superior, as genetics play a major role. To speculate, I would expect that there would be an edge for low…

Interesting thread! Answer to OP: An active person can safely consume 50g of Fructose per day, which appears to be the limiting factor in sugar consumption (i.e. you could eat 500g of glucose per day without ill effect assuming adequate nutrition on an isocaloric diet). Re: "Sugar makes me hungry." Two points. 1) I think…

That's really not how science works. The thing that many people don't seem to understand is that saying that the obese population are less intelligent than the fit population is not the same as saying that individual obese people are less intelligent than individual fit people, and is definitely not the same as saying that…

If your goal is maximum strength, then do them on separate days. If you need to lose weight, then it doesn't really matter, either order will produce less results in terms of cardiovascular and muscular fitness, but not enough so that you won't benefit more from doing both than you would from either individually.