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For a non-bodybuilder athlete? That seems pretty low...

Can anyone quote that for me cause I can't see the numbers

What's the magic body fat % for a woman to get optimal results on a bulk? Like for the OP, y'all said he should cut to under 15% first to get better results when he bulks. What about for women?

Checking out the keto gains as recommended

I'm taking a few days break from working out and I think even with limiting carbs and logging just to give my body a break. I want to feel good going into a more intense workout routine. Also taking some iron although I'm skeptical it's related to that

My maintenance cals are more like 1850. I'll just be doing different surpluses on my bulk. Not every day logged is accurate. I definitely didn't eat more than 100-200 cals under my goal on any of those days.

If you're like me and drink an insane amount of water before, during and after workouts (are you guys drinking enough water?) then you might have to pause and go potty during a workout. Not a crime. And despite "planning," if you gotta go you gotta go. I've never run into a problem at my apartment gym with getting my…

Not a bad idea

Plus I can still calculate the percentages or whatever I want myself :)

Yeah, I figured that's basically what I'd have to do. Write out a plan for training and non-training days and just keep those handy when logging until I've got it down pat.

My pet peeve is when people leave weights out everywhere...I walk in and there are Dumbbells in all these random spots (on a treadmill -seriously?). Sometimes I leave them but sometimes they interfere with my own workout so I have to move them and put them back. The one that ticks me off the worst is guys leaving heavy…

I'm confused. I clicked on the Fung link and listened to the first 5 min. It seems to be all praise and research in favor of the low carb diet. Does he go on to conclude later that LC sucks??

I eat enough other coconut products to get the benefit of coconut that coconut milk seems kinda useless and expensive to me. I drink milk mainly for the protein - coconut milk has none. So I drink either dairy milk or, now that I'm in a caloric deficit phase and want fewer carbs, I drink unsweetened organic soy milk. Very…

Try it if you want to. People around here don't look favorably on those things so they're not really helpful. Go for a product that's got really good reviews and sales.

I've noticed myself being hungry and craving more carbs on days I've had donuts or sweets or generally consuming multiple carb-heavy foods since going to a <100 g carbs per day diet. I don't know what all it has to do with insulin/blood sugar as quoted above but I'm suspicious that it does. I seem to not crave the carbs,…

Ditto

OP, I'm glad you've found some positives regarding the supplement and are willing to try it out. Keep it up.

Lower your carbs to 100 g, up your fats to 64 g and protein to 133 g.

Yeah it seems to be 100 g or lower. That's exactly what I'm doing and while I eat more meat, I also eat fats...my typical diet includes Greek yogurt, turkey, chicken, beef, soy milk, cottage cheese, nuts, protein shakes and bars, very dark chocolate (85%), sugar free/artificially sweetened stuff, bacon, eggs, tuna salad,…

Is it like that for skinny people who get strong and buff? One day will I look at my bulging pecs, arms and 6 pack and see a wimpy skinny girl? :'( Is it that you look at yourself and still think you have too much weight left to lose, or that you're sad that you were fat...or you're sad you're not fat anymore?

...is this a real question?

Same here. I'm not afraid of organic unsweetened soy milk. A couple cups a day should be ok for most healthy people...despite what they say about estrogen. I have a hard time believing a little soy milk is gonna do that to you.

Wow that's a lot of nuts and diet soda lol...but diet soda doesn't have carbs? You didn't have to cut it out completely?

Goat what do you mean you're still not thrilled with your body? You look awesome

Where do you live...?

Lol, what?

Also, almond and cashew milk have 0 or 1 g of protein so if you care about protein those are worthless. Soy is just a gram or less of protein so almost equal to dairy.

Depends on your goals. Since going low carb I've switched to organic unsweetened soy over non fat dairy because the soy is 1/3 the carbs. It's 4-5 g of fat per cup as opposed to the non fat milk. So for me soy is perfect right now. Will go to 2% dairy or something when I start to bulk for muscle building. Sounds like…

Thanks I'm gonna check out that link

Personally, if I were really worried about my iron intake, which I have been because I've been anemic before-my iron levels were very low-I would scarf down that red meat and vitamin C like a champ (along with supplementation). I was very anemic in 2009 but took supplements for at least half a year to get iron back up.…