JakeBrownVB Member

so thats almost 6 months of not losing weight even though you are calorie counting, so you are definitly eating at maintenance. How stressed are you with this new child? could be a factor however as you havent changed in 6 months it must also be the accuracy of your counting or your goals. You lost 100 lbs in the past so…

most holiday weight gains are just 90% water weight. I went on holiday a month back and ate/drank probably around 8000 calories each day minimum, gained 4 lbs at th end. Did I panic? nope I knew I would loose it and it was mostly water weight. What happened: dropped the 4 pounds in 48 hours of being back from holiday.

give yourself a goal of gaining 0.5 pound a week and work heavily on muscle work, gaining muscle is the best goal you can set once you have reached your goal weight. You will stay lean but gradually tone up and nothing looks better than a women with muscle mass. So as far as goal setting, it would be preferable if you…

how many refeeds have you done in those 4 months?

hmm that is a good question actually, I dont actually know where in the body excess water is retained. Good question

its really not complicated at all, just eat 500 calories less than your maintenance. what specific details are you struggling with ?

you dont have to burn any calories through exercise necesarily, just ensure that your deficit is being reached. wether you do that with eating or exercise is up to you. at your weight 1900 calories is a very low amount of calories, I should imagine your maintenance is over 3000 calories. However it is perfectly fine to…

Take this with a pinch of salt, meal timings and frequencies have little bearing on your weight loss. In fact I did IF for a month and I stopped loosing weight for a month! it works for some but not for all. This will not help you if you still have little muscle mass and have to drop to an unhealthy weight just to see abs.

depends on the condition of your LBM, if you have dieted in a fairly crash course way with little weight training along the way, you may have to get ridiculously stick thin until you see them abs due to your lack of muscle. Only thing you can do is ensure you tone up with heavy lifting and make sure you are in a healthy…

Well made point, Ill have a look :D

Cardio CANNOT make you loose weight. Only a calorie deficit. You can do cardio until you are blue in the face, but cardio is not what causes you to loose weight. Cardio can only AID the achievement of a calorie deficit but it is wrong to then go and say that cardio makes you loose weight. "A cause of a cause is never the…

did i say "weight" loss? that is why I said FAT loss, I took into account the higher retention of water through more sodium and therefore was careful to say FAT loss and not WEIGHT loss. The FAT loss will be exactly the same on either diets as both are 1500 calories.

ahhh +1

Very well made/expanded points, interested about ur point on starvation mode as I read the reduction in metabolism was more around40%

I never said people with ED's were either of those things, I said the person posting about child abuse was an idiot for saying such things on a thread about dieting. People with ED's are neither ignorant nor idiots and misconstrooding a conversation from yesterday and selecting certain points to portray a new message is…

ye if you are 0 yes' you said no to every question :D

You are doing it now sir/madam. Please keep your posts relevant to the topic at hand. Many thanks

having an excellent and insightful conversation about some topics, I would like to continue having it. I invite you warmly to join but would discourage you from an attempt to derail the topic as you did yesterday alongside a young man who felt it appropriate to turn a thread discussing dieting into a thread about child…

I agree with you post in the sense that eating 10 minutes before bed could go on to leading to weight loss because it could effect that INDIVIDUAL PERSONS rest. However it is then lack of sleep causing weight loss and not the eating, "the cause of a cause does not make it the cause" :D what if someone allergic to peanuts…

it would be really interesting to know if your cholesterol drops after dropping sat fats from your diet! I am lucky not to suffer from cholestorol but I did go through a phase of wondering wether my bacon sandwhiches were gonna do me harm.

A calorie is just a calorie and the "quality" of that calorie has no effect on how much weight you gain or lose. Other factors would play on how you look but it would not be the calorie, such as: your energy levels, which in turn COULD reduce your exhertion in the gym and therefore your appearance or your muscle gains.…

excellent! which points do you feel were flat our wrong?

good question, saturated fats play a minor roll in high colesterol, numerous factors that I know of for cholestorol are smoking, alchol, high LDL levels in overweight people. Looking at the link posted earlier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascular_disease_controversy it seems that the debate here is…

very good! I got to be the first to admit that a lot of my questions are too colourful a question to be answered in a black or white yes or no and some of them come down to simply termanoligy. Certainly interesting to see some response though.. thanks for posting!

ahh interesting. I read an article, cant remember the source a while ago. It stated that heart disease and saturated fat had no link and the whole myth had been completely debunked. Interesting to find it is still an open ended debate!

do you not agree more that it is the calorie deficit making you lose weight and not the cardio? cardio is just a helping cause but it is not the driving fractor. Many things can help a cause, but it does not make the thing the cause itself. For example music might help chickens lay eggs, would that mean that eggs are then…

haha thats what I was aiming for :D. how did you do?

BREAKDOWN OF THE QUESTIONS: 1. There is no such thing as clean or dirty foods, a calorie is a calorie and you will loose weight regardless of the quality/type of your foods you eat if you are in a deficit. Individuals have gone as far as to eat nothing but poptarts or mcdonalds to prove you can still lose weight on these…

was a really amazing read, crazy how it can really sneak up on you isnt it?

I remember the convincing yourself you carry it well thoughts!!