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Hhhmmm I can see that on the US Subway page but the UK one doesn't display it. Might be different in shop. TBH I'm happy to just buy the sub, stuff salad in it and dump it on a plate, discarding the sub.

I don't worry too much about that. Most recent studies have shown, pretty much like saturated fat, that the whole salt hypothesis is rather weak. Even if salt shouldn't be over consumed the recommended intakes are very likely to be much lower than they actually need to be. I've been overweight my whole life and always had…

Calories: 2550 I'm set at Fat 55% (155g), Protein 25% (160g), Carbs 20% (125g) My fat I see as a minimum figure though and my carb a maximum figure. In fact I've been 15% or lower on my carbs for the last 5 days. :-)

If its being logged as 0 carbs and 10 fibre then not really as they've already deducted it. Technically it's 10 carb, 10 fibre but they've already quoted it as net carbs. To deduct it would be doing it twice. Milled flax seed is good too. Lots of fat and protein, nearly all carbs are fibre. Hardly tastes of anything so…

All natural fats are healthy. Don't listen to the Saturated Fat propaganda!

Low carb and 800 calories?? I hope they aren't meant to exercise too because I don't think I'd have the energy to move!

^^^^ THIS

Well I'd take 18 Olympic Gold medals and a crap metabolism over a better one any day!

Tell that to Michael Phelps, his 10,000+ calorie a day diet and his 18 Gold Olympic medals!

I think one of the key gains from losing weight slowly is that you retrain yourself. You learn what you can and can't get away with. So hopefully when you get to your ideal weight you can stop obsessing about calories because its mostly built in. You know how to eat well 90% of the time and that indulging every now and…

On the crisp front, something I didn't know until watching my calories was that multipack bags are smaller than single packs off the shelf. SO if you're eating single packs you can drop some calories by buying a multipack.

Thanks for the welcome and sites. And oh trust me, I've been telling people. Watched the Fathead doc on Youtube yesterday (Great viewing) and instantly made the link my status on Facebook to share with everyone.

So far on EM2WL I've put on 0.75 to 1 lb a week on reset eating @ TDEE, which I have no problem with, body adjusting yadda yadda. Last week I lowered my TDEE by 300 cals after reassessing BMR using scoobys accurate calculator and using the Katch-McArdle formula , which takes BF% into consideration, rather than the…

For anyone that has a spare couple of hours and is interested. Very revealing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs

I just wanted to add that checking back on my diary I was previously eating over 300g carbs daily easy, sometimes even 400g+. So 150g is a significant drop.

Day 5 of my revised macros today. Im doing 25 protein/20 carbs/55 fat. As my TDEE is so high (start cut after next week) 20% still allows me 150g of carbs. So far doing ok, can't say I've noticed much difference energy wise either positive or negative, which I'd say is a good thing as I thought I might feel a bit sluggish…

I don't want to sound critical of the group but I've been thinking a little bit that maybe the names not quite right. There always seems to be a huge focus on the fact that the number on the scales isn't everything, and even Kiki admitted she gained some weight and never lost it. It's Eat More 2 Weigh Less in name, but in…

Sounds like a success story to me. Most people that want to lose weight don't REALLY want to lose weight. They want to feel better about themselves. Feel better and look better. Your clothes are fitting better, you're exercising in a way you enjoy and you can eat and feel happy about it without having to count everything…

I wouldn't say vegs ARE carbs as such. They contain carbs but most of them you are talking 6-7 g per 100g, opposed to carb dense foods like bread, pasta, rice etc. They also carry the benefit of many nutrients and vitamins that often the carb dense foods lack.

There's nothing cheese can't be added to without improving it. Milk is another one I used to use to bump the figures up too. Plenty of protein and doesn't fill you like solids will.

Scoobys " Worlds most accurate" calculator gives option of Katch-McArdle formula which includes bf%. May be more accurate if bf% is anything upwards of maybe 25% or so. Harris-Benedict was formulated using lean males, so test subjects with around 15% bf.

For fat: Cheese, bacon, butter, mayo , all full fat versions. Find me a reputable study in the last 10 years or so that can solidly link fat to heart disease, raised cholesterol etc. Even saturated fat! I've read people who drastically increased their fat intake and dropped their cholesterol by over half!

I usually get to Thursday/Friday and then plan the whole of the next week from Sunday-Saturday. Helps keep me good and also helps food waste.

Very true and agreed. This is why I added that in the original post that I'm not claiming it to be a solution for everyone. Very much aimed at people who believe they fit the endomorph model or have been subject to very high carb diets for many years. I know I was brought up with a days food being toast/cereal for…

Fantastic! Congratulations! Certainly helps take focus away from those nasty scales.

First of all, well done on coming here. I know the idea of a possible initial weight gain is scary but I look at it this way. If you're driving along, take a wrong turning and end up at a dead end , you have to reverse to get back to where you can take the right way. Any gain is your body reversing damage until you can…

Like someone said above, if you are regularly dropping below BMR after exercise you may want to reassess your activity level setting. Either that or you may be using too larger cut on your TDEE.

I'd imagine most of that is oats. You'd need to eat a lot of veg to go busting out on them. As far as insulin is concerned a carb is a carb. It all needs insulin to break it down. Only exception is that the carb total also counts fibre. Fibre is indigestible by the body and therefore doesn't raise blood glucose. I've seen…

You might want to use the calculator on the site named the worlds most accurate calculator, if you know your BF%. From what I've read the standard Harris-Benedict method for BMR is a bit dated and limited. It was formed being tested on lean young males. The accurate version has the option to use Katch-McArdle. This method…

Well the endo/meso/ecto idea certainly isn't a fad. It was created in the 1940s by a guy called William Sheldon. (BAZINGA!) I remember learning it at school.