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Caffeine and ephedrine is useful to get to really lean levels. I got stuck at about 10-11% body fat and used eph + caff and a small deficit of around 2000 cals a week to drop down to about 7-8%. Then put on weight when I started working out (in a good way) and now trying to get to 6-7% bf. But it's a slow process; half a…

Don't worry about it at all. Protein won't turn to fat... the only way for this to really happen is if protein is being used for glucose synthesis (58% of protein IIRC can go to glucose) and then via de novo lipogenesis which tbh won't happen unless you're eating 3-400 grams of carbohydrates a day. Eat as much lean meat as…

The muscles and liver can hold roughly 300-400 grams of carbohydrate per day. All your carbohydrate you eat eventually becomes glucose, which gets stored in the muscles. It is possible for carb to be converted into fat (a process called de novo lipogenesis) but it's really rare. Instead, if you eat more carbs you tend to…

When something isn't on here or I'm just interested on what makes up what we eat, I use this: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/list Pop in 'whey' in there and see what you can see. It appears to be trace carb and protein with around 5 grams of sugar per 100 grams. It doesn't list sugar so I'm not sure if that's pure…

Too right!

Thyroid isn't the only thing that controls the hypothalamus - also various different hormones. Get your blood sugar and insulin levels tested as you are probably highly insulin resistant and over-secreting insulin on top of that. You need to stop eating at so low calories every day. Take a 1 week break in your diet and…

Assuming the body has a storage of fat to draw on, which it normally does of around 30000 cals+, during periods of insulin release, the body does two things - burns significantly less muscle and burns significantly less fat. Then it starts storing. It partitions where it is needed. If one is relatively active over a 24…

Sugar specifically, sorry, pretty tired- I should have said something along the lines of, eating around 50 grams of sucrose/fructose/glucose in one solid go (a whole bar of chocolate, pounding full sugar fizzy drinks etc) can overload the liver to the point where it says, sod you carbohydrate, you're being fat now, I can't…

Thanks chap/chapess. Skip to the bottom if you're interested in a general adaptable nutrition plan, here's a little bit on why some things work for some people and some don't for others. // And to the people talking about meal frequency, I do a 14-20 hour fast every day depending on what engagements/priorities/how much…

Well, there's a number of things you should do but bear the following in mind- carbs and protein are 4cal/gram while fat is 9cal/gram. Avoid calorie dense foods like chocolate, butter, bread etc (you want to focus on macronutrients carbohydrate fat and protein when dieting and in general, really). Myfitnesspal seems to…